Paul C Pellerito

US Patent:

55270816, Jun 18, 1996

Filed:

Mar 24, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/409398

Inventors:

Jeffrey S. Rausch - Royal Oak MI
Joseph Cottone - Sterling Heights MI
Randall C. Querro - Macomb Township MI
Paul C. Pellerito - Metamora MI

Assignee:

Chrysler Corporation - Auburn Hills MI

International Classification:

B60R 1301

US Classification:

296107

Abstract:

A split-installation drainage arrangement for a convertible vehicle topwell assembly adapted for storage of the top in a downwardly folded position. The plastic shell-like topwell includes a floor molded with right and left side water collecting areas each terminating in a drainage recess. A sub-assembly, adapted for transporting water from an associated recess to the exterior of the vehicle, includes a one-piece discharge fitting and a sealing grommet interconnected by a flexible drain tube. The tube has one end attached to an exit spout of the fitting and its other end adapted for insertion in a body panel aperture by means of a snap-in sealing grommet. The sub-assemblies are readily installed in the vehicle body prior to the installation of the topwell. Each fitting has a collar adapted for snap-in mounting in a body support panel oval-shaped aperture. As a result, the frusto-conical shaped drainage recess exterior male taper surface is located in self-aligned spaced relationship with the interior female taper surface of the subjacent frusto-conical shaped fitting obviating assembly line inter-connections between the floor recess and the support panel fitting.

US Patent:

57366896, Apr 7, 1998

Filed:

May 3, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/646741

Inventors:

James E. Van Hout - Auburn Hills MI
Zdzislaw J. Skorupa - Rochester Hills MI
Paul C. Pellerito - Metamora MI
Frank R. Piatt - Troy MI
Thomas D. Mihelich - Troy MI
Richard Kleinhoffer - Macomb Twp. MI

International Classification:

H05K 500

US Classification:

181141

Abstract:

A system for mounting an audio speaker within an automobile door, in which a bridge is mounted on and extends from a door interior support panel, and has an integral platform spaced from the support panel and surrounding a speaker opening. The body of the audio speaker is received within the bridge speaker opening, and mounting flange tabs on the speaker radially project from the speaker body and are releasably secured to the bridge platform. An exterior trim panel has a lip that surrounds a speaker opening in the trim panel. The trim panel lip is removably secured to the platform radially outwardly of the speaker, such that the trim panel and the speaker are removably secured to the platform independently of each other. A grill is removably secured to the trim panel overlying and enclosing the speaker opening in trim panel, and thus covering both the bridge platform and the speaker.