Thomas L Booth

6364343, Apr 2, 2002

Jul 21, 2000

09/620258

Gary M Slota - Macomb Township MI
Gerald F Burke - Livonia MI
Thomas C Booth - Roseville MI
Dennis F Stedman - Ortonville MI

DaimlerChrysler Corporation - Auburn Hills MI

B60R 2116

2807282, 2807302

A bracket is provided for assembling an airbag unit and interior vehicle components into a vehicle. The bracket efficiently utilizes the limited interior vehicle space to package all necessary components. To achieve this end, the bracket attaches to a frame member. Within the bracket is a cavity for securely holding an airbag igniter unit. The airbag igniter unit is attached, via a hose, to an airbag. The airbag is partially fit into a recess formed in the bracket. The bracket also maintains a mounting face, to which an interior grab handle can be secured. The bracket allows for the existence of an airbag subassembly which includes, the bracket, an airbag operatively attached to an airbag igniter unit, and an interior grab handle. Such a subassembly will improve overall vehicle assembly efficiency by reducing the amount of steps required in assembly, thus making the assembly process easier.

6779824, Aug 24, 2004

Jun 6, 2003

10/456642

Robert R Lazarevich - Rochester MI
Paul Steffes - Oxford MI
Thomas C Booth - Roseville MI

DaimlerChrysler Corporation - Auburn Hills MI

B60P 1267

296 50, 296 571, 296 376

A cargo tray and table assembly for a motor vehicle having an enclosed rear cargo area including a floor portion and an opening. The assembly includes a main body coupled to a pivot system. The pivot system is further coupled to the rear cargo area of the vehicle. The pivot system is operable to move the main body between a stowed position within the rear cargo area and a use position.

7872470, Jan 18, 2011

May 9, 2007

11/746352

Thomas L. Booth - Birmingham MI, US
Kevin P. O'Connor - Lake Mills WI, US

STRATTEC Power Access LLC - Troy MI

G01B 7/30
G01P 3/44

3242072, 324165, 324173, 32420725

A drive assembly for a vehicle door is provided. The drive assembly includes a motor having a driving member. The drive assembly further includes a housing having a shaft rotatably received therein. The drive assembly further includes an input member being rotatably received upon the shaft. The input member is operatively associated with the driving member. The drive assembly further includes a rotor fixedly secured to the shaft. The drive assembly further includes first and second Hall effect sensor modules mounted to the housing in a facing spaced relationship with respect to the plurality of teeth of the rotor that generate first and second signals, respectively. The first and second signals have a quadrature relationship with respect to one another and indicate a rotational direction of the rotor when the plurality of teeth are rotating past the first and second Hall effect sensor modules.

8008910, Aug 30, 2011

Feb 19, 2008

12/070493

Thomas Lawson Booth - Birmingham MI, US
Howard Warren Kuhlman - Rochester Hills MI, US

Strattec Power Access LLC - Troy MI

G01B 7/30

3242072, 32420725

A power actuator system for a movable vehicle panel such as a lift gate assembly includes a position sensor that detects the pivotal movement of a strut mechanism of the power lift gate assembly relative to the host vehicle. A rotary sensor is coupled directly to an end component of the strut mechanism and provides signals that indicate the total amount of pivotal or rotary movement of the strut mechanism and the lift gate during the opening and closing of the lift gate. The signals provide information to determine the absolute position of the strut and the lift gate for processing in the vehicle's electronic control unit.

46839755, Aug 4, 1987

Sep 30, 1986

6/913531

Thomas L. Booth - Birmingham MI
Edgar H. Schlaps - Washington MI
Ronald J. Wilde - St. Clair Shores MI

General Motors Corporation - Detroit MI

B60R 2504
F05B 4700
H02P 122

180289

A power window control for a motor vehicle provides express or one-touch movement in response to short activations of a control element and traditional power window movement during activation of the control element for longer periods. The control provides for automatic window closing with activation of a power door lock element, as long as the ignition is off unless the ignition key is in the ignition switch and the driver's door is open. This allows single touch vehicle locking but helps prevents the operator from locking himself out of the vehicle with the key still inside. Window movement, once initiated in the open or close direction, is stopped in response to motor stall when the open or closed limit is reached. It is also stopped in the closing direction and reversed to the opening direction in response to a special impediment sensor comprising a flexible tube with an inner reflective surface adjacent the window closing path which directs light from an oscillator controlled light sending element to a light sensing circuit electronically synchronized with the sending element, when an impediment is pushed by the closing window into the tube to collapse it and block the light communication. Circuitry is disclosed for accomplishing the aforementioned features.

48291749, May 9, 1989

Jan 25, 1988

7/148186

Thomas L. Booth - Birmingham MI
Edgar H. Schlaps - Washington MI

General Motors Corporation - Detroit MI

G01V 904

250221

A hollow flexible vinyl or other plastic tube having a shiny inner wall is disposed along a boundary where intrusion detection is desired. A beam of infrared radiation from an LED at one end of the tube is passed through the tube by reflections from the wall to a detector at the other end. The radiation is conducted along curved paths as well as straight paths. An object intruding into the protected space with sufficient force to deform the tube wall attenuates the radiation. A detection circuit senses the attenuation and produces an intrusion signal. The detection circuit includes logic which detects a failure in the radiation source or a light leak in the tube.

56672713, Sep 16, 1997

Mar 15, 1995

8/404848

Thomas C. Booth - Roseville MI

Chrysler Corporation - Auburn Hills MI

B62D 2508

296192

A U-shaped edge attachment clip adapted for securing each outboard end of a plastic panel to an associated vehicle body side panel downwardly offset horizontally disposed flange. Each flange free edge includes a pair of longitudinally spaced cutouts. Each attachment clip, of resilient sheet material, has an elongate, generally U-shaped bifurcated configuration defining an upper contoured leg and a lower planar leg having their proximate ends joined by a bight wall. The upper leg is formed with inner and outer longitudinally spaced pairs of spring tangs matching lower leg underling end tab portions and a center elongated tab portion adapted to grip the flange. The longitudinally spaced upper tangs and lower tab portions define a pair of matching clip upper and lower leg end notches which, when aligned with associated flange cutouts, are adapted to receive panel integral snap-in locking prongs. An integral leaf spring on the clip is adapted to resiliently biases a depending end wall of the plastic panel upwardly upon engagement of the prongs, thereby positioning the plastic panel exterior surface in flush relation with adjacent an portion of the body panel. The clips and their associated panel cutouts allow the plastic panel freedom to thermally expand outboard.