Kevin Maurice Wright

US Patent:

6616091, Sep 9, 2003

Filed:

Oct 3, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/970166

Inventors:

William L. Priest - Royal Oak MI
Kevin Wright - Detroit MI
Mark D. Nicholas - Waterford MI

Assignee:

Delphi Technologies, Inc. - Troy MI

International Classification:

B65H 7518

US Classification:

2426021, 242603, 2426132, 49332

Abstract:

An automatic sliding door cable mechanism with a take up guide member ( ) mounted in a drum ( ) for taking up slack of a cable during installation of the cable. A second drum ( ) has an elliptical profile drum helix ( ) for increasing durability of the operating cable for the automatic door.

US Patent:

6669134, Dec 30, 2003

Filed:

Oct 3, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/970167

Inventors:

William L. Priest - Royal Oak MI
Kevin Wright - Detroit MI
Mark D. Nicholas - Waterford MI

Assignee:

Delphi Technologies, Inc. - Troy MI

International Classification:

B65H 7538

US Classification:

2423908, 242407

Abstract:

An automatic sliding door cable mechanism with a take up guide member ( ) mounted in a drum ( ) for taking up slack of a cable during installation of the cable. A second drum ( ) has an elliptical profile drum helix ( ) for increasing durability of the operating cable for the automatic door.

US Patent:

6925757, Aug 9, 2005

Filed:

Apr 25, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/423554

Inventors:

William L. Priest - Royal Oak MI, US
Kevin Wright - Detroit MI, US
Mark D. Nicholas - Waterford MI, US
Theodore J. Lindsay - Utica MI, US

Assignee:

Delphi Technologies, Inc. - Troy MI

International Classification:

E05F011/53

US Classification:

49360, 2423888

Abstract:

A cable drive assembly for opening and closing a sliding vehicle door has first and second drums that are drivingly connected to each other via a tension spring that biases the drums in opposite directions. The drums include a catch that holds the first and second drums in a cocked condition where the spring is tensioned to provide slack in a closed loop cable to facilitate inserting a traveler attached to the cable into a track. The cocked drums are manually rotated in a drum housing in one direction to move the traveler and insert it into the track. After the traveler is inserted, the cocked drums are manually rotated in the opposite direction. This releases the catch so that the tensioned spring takes up the slack in the closed loop cable.

US Patent:

7823330, Nov 2, 2010

Filed:

Feb 13, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/674553

Inventors:

Artur J. Ostrowski - Rochester Hills MI, US
Kevin Wright - Detroit MI, US
Jae-Joung Im - Yongin-si, KR
Daniela L. Kowalski - Shelby Township MI, US

Assignee:

Strattec Power Access LLC - Troy MI

International Classification:

E05F 11/00

US Classification:

49360, 296155

Abstract:

A cable drum assembly for a power drive assembly for a vehicle sliding door, the cable drum assembly comprising: a first drum configured for use as a front drum or a rear drum of the cable drum assembly, the first drum having a first plurality of locating holes; and a second drum configured for use as a front drum or a rear drum of the cable drum assembly, the second drum having a second plurality of locating holes, the first plurality of locating holes have a first pair of locating holes configured to align with a first pair of location holes of the second plurality of locating holes when the first drum is used as a rear drum of the drum assembly and the second drum is used as a front drum of the drum assembly and the second plurality of locating holes have a second pair of locating holes configured to align with a second pair of location holes of the first plurality of locating holes when the first drum is used as a front drum of the drum assembly and the second drum is used as a rear drum of the drum assembly.

US Patent:

8201767, Jun 19, 2012

Filed:

Mar 8, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/719557

Inventors:

Kevin Barry Wright - Senoia GA, US

Assignee:

Harris Waste Management Group, Inc. - Peachtree City GA

International Classification:

B02C 1/00
B02C 19/00
B02C 21/00
B02C 23/00

US Classification:

241262, 241270, 241283, 2412851

Abstract:

A comminuting device for comminuting material. The device has a frame and a shear member having a main blade, the shear member movably coupled to the frame with a shear member slide bearing located at least partially inside the frame. A supporting table is coupled to the frame, the supporting table having a counter blade, the supporting table adapted to support the scrap material. The frame has an opening forming an access way to the shear member slide bearing. The main blade and the counter blade cooperate to chop the scrap material when the shear member is moved from a first position to a second position. The shear member slide bearing is removable from inside the frame through the opening without removal of the shear member from the frame.

US Patent:

20110315025, Dec 29, 2011

Filed:

Jun 24, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/822726

Inventors:

Kevin Barry Wright - Senoia GA, US

Assignee:

Harris Waste Management Group, Inc. - Tyrone GA

International Classification:

B30B 15/00

US Classification:

100 35, 100 99

Abstract:

A recycling machine deflection detection system including a cross head movable within a shear box of a recycling machine, one or more sensor units disposed on the cross head, and a controller connected to the one or more sensor units, the controller being configured to receive deflection signals from the one or more sensor units and determine, from the deflection signals, a shear deflection angle of the cross head due to deformation of the cross head.

US Patent:

58967036, Apr 27, 1999

Filed:

Jun 26, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/105317

Inventors:

Kevin W. Wright - Detroit MI
William L. Priest - Royal Oak MI
David Joseph Chapman - Sterling Heights MI
Howard Warren Kuhlman - Rochester Hills MI
Robert Wayne Baughman - Mt. Clemens MI
Craig R. Blanchard - Royal Oak MI

Assignee:

General Motors Corporation - Detroit MI

International Classification:

E05F 1124

US Classification:

49339

Abstract:

A vehicle power liftgate cable drive has a cable drive housing. An electric motor with a motor housing and an output shaft is secured to the cable drive housing. A clutch pack with a first clutch driven by the output shaft and a second clutch driven by the first clutch, is mounted in the cable drive housing. One of the clutches in the clutch pack is a one way clutch and the other clutch is an electromechanical clutch. A pinion gear is driven by the second clutch. A driven gear is rotatably journaled on a fixed shaft and driven by the pinion gear. The cable drum is attached to the driven gear. A coil spring has one end fixed to the fixed shaft and its other end attached to the cable drum. The fixed shaft is rotated to preload the coil spring in a direction that tends to wind a cable on the cable drum and then the fixed shaft is fastened to the cable drive housing. A cable is attached to the cable drum and to the liftgate.

US Patent:

60923369, Jul 25, 2000

Filed:

Feb 11, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/248618

Inventors:

Kevin Wright - Detroit MI
William L. Priest - Royal Oak MI

Assignee:

Delphi Technologies, Inc. - Troy MI

International Classification:

E05F 1124

US Classification:

49339

Abstract:

A vehicle power liftgate cable drive has a cable drive housing. An electric motor with a motor housing and an output shaft is secured to the cable drive housing. A clutch pack with a first clutch driven by the output shaft and a second clutch driven by the first clutch, is mounted in the cable drive housing. One of the clutches in the clutch pack is a one way clutch and the other clutch is an electromagnetic clutch. A pinion gear is driven by the second clutch. An output gear is rotatably journaled on a fixed shaft and driven by the pinion gear. The cable drum is attached to the output gear. A coil spring has one end fixed to the fixed shaft and its other end attached to the cable drum. The fixed shaft is rotated to preload the coil spring in a direction that tends to wind a cable on the cable drum and then the fixed shaft is fastened to the cable drive housing. A cable is attached to the cable drum and to the liftgate.