Eric S Smolen

US Patent:

20130153288, Jun 20, 2013

Filed:

Dec 20, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/331410

Inventors:

James Thomas Jetton - Ann Arbor MI, US
Eric Scott Smolen - Commerce MI, US
Jason Robert Degen - Plymouth MI, US

Assignee:

YAZAKI NORTH AMERICA, INC. - Canton MI

International Classification:

H05K 7/14
H05K 13/04

US Classification:

174535, 29428

Abstract:

A junction box assembly includes a housing member and an electrical component. The housing member has a housing surface and a component receptacle having a pair of opposing sidewalls coupled to the housing surface. Each sidewall has a locking opening disposed therein and each locking opening defines a locking surface. A post is arranged within the component receptacle and extends from the housing surface for a predetermined distance to a post surface. The electrical component is received in the component receptacle and has a component surface adjacent the post surface and a barb received in each locking opening. The post applies a force to the electrical component for retaining the barb against the locking surface.

US Patent:

7361841, Apr 22, 2008

Filed:

Jun 23, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/159716

Inventors:

Eric Scott Smolen - Redford Township MI, US
Takeshi Takahashi - Novi MI, US

Assignee:

Yazaki North America, Inc. - Canton MI

International Classification:

H01B 17/00

US Classification:

174138F, 174135, 174188, 439536, 439521, 429 65

Abstract:

A bussed electrical center (BEC) has a lateral appendage for a positive battery terminal to be used for jump starting purposes. A cover for the terminal is hingedly attached to the lateral appendage of the BEC by way of a relatively rotatable axle and bearing combination as well as facially abutting complemental locking surfaces each having alternatively raised and unraised sectors which interfit in each of two locking positions 180 degrees apart so that the cover can be locked fully open or fully closed.

US Patent:

20170125785, May 4, 2017

Filed:

Oct 28, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/924853

Inventors:

- Dearborn MI, US
Eric Scott Smolen - Commerce Township MI, US

International Classification:

H01M 2/34
H01M 2/10
H01H 69/02
H01H 85/055
H01H 85/165

Abstract:

A fuse assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a housing, a fuse received within a receptacle of the housing and a retention device configured to retain the fuse within the receptacle and cover a conductive surface of the fuse.