Eric J Neusen

56592795, Aug 19, 1997

Aug 29, 1995

8/521034

David C. Janssen - Whitefish Bay WI
Eric J. Neusen - Brown Deer WI

Strattec Security Corp. - Milwaukee WI

H01F 720

335284

A device and method are provided for magnetizing a control magnet housed in a cylinder of an ignition lock. The cylinder is placed in a cylinder receipt member and orientated therein so that the magnet is aligned in a predetermined position. The control magnet is then saturated with a first saturating magnetic charge. The control magnet is then calibrated to a predetermined magnetic level by one or more calibrating magnetic charges, opposite in polarity to the saturating magnetic charge. The control magnet may then be checked for predetermined magnetic characteristics.

50833626, Jan 28, 1992

Dec 13, 1990

7/626759

James R. Edgar - Milwaukee WI
Eric J. Neusen - Milwaukee WI

Briggs & Stratton Corp. - Wauwatosa WI

B23P 1904
E05B 4900
E05B 1900

29509

A key with a resistor pellet is assembled by mechanically inserting the pellet into a suitable aperture in the key and displacing a portion of the key material into the body of the pellet by compressing the key around the perimeter of the pellet in a swaging process. The pellet is automatically selected from a plurality of pellets having a plurality of distinctive resistance properties. The pellet is tested to determine conformance with a pre-selected resistance property prior to insertion in the key. After insertion and swaging of the pellet in the key, the resistance properties of the pellet are reconfirmed.