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Brian A. Gorman, Burton, MI US
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| 20100305779 | REMOTE VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM UTILIZING MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - A remote vehicle control system having a base transceiver mounted in a vehicle and a mobile key fob. The base transceiver utilizes an omni-directional antenna to communicate wirelessly with the key fob via the IEEE 802.15.4 communication protocol. Additional antennas are mounted to the vehicle and are also tuned to communicate over the IEEE 802.15.4 bandwidth. The additional antennas have radiation patterns extending outwardly to various sides of the vehicle (e.g., driver, passenger and rear sides). The system provides remote control functions and enables passive keyless entry functions such as unlocking doors or trunk latches by detecting the presence of the key fob proximate to one or more sides of the vehicle based on the ability of the key fob to communicate over IEEE 802.15.4 via the additional antennas. | 12-02-2010 |
David Gorman, Royal Oak, MI US
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| 20090206618 | ENERGY ABSORBER WITH SIDEWALL STABILIZER RIBS - A vehicle bumper system includes an elongated reinforcement beam for mounting to a vehicle frame and an energy absorber abutting a front surface of the reinforcement beam. The energy absorber includes longitudinally-elongated hollow crush lobes configured to crush and absorb energy upon a vehicle crash, the crush lobes including interconnected top, bottom, side and front walls. At least one opposing pair of the walls, such as the top and bottom walls, are elongated parallel a length of the beam to define enlarged areas that are generally unsupported, but the one pair of walls further include a plurality of spaced external ribs extending perpendicular to the length for stabilizing the enlarged areas. | 08-20-2009 |
David B. Gorman, Midland, MI US
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| 20090292079 | Process for brominating butadiene/vinyl aromatic copolymers - Butadiene copolymers are brominated in solution using bromine as the brominating agent. The bromination is conducted in the presence of an excess of an aliphatic alcohol, relative to the amount of bromine that is used. The bromination proceeds rapidly at mild conditions, and is selective in that only aliphatic carbon-carbon double bonds are brominated, and unwanted bromination at tertiary carbon atoms is largely or completely avoided. The resulting brominated polymers are characterized in having very good thermal stability. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100004402 | Process for brominating butadiene/vinyl aromatic copolymers - Butadiene copolymers are brominated using certain quaternary ammonium tribromides as the brominating agent. The bromination process proceeds easily under mild conditions, and produces a brominated product that has excellent thermal stability. | 01-07-2010 |
David Bruce Gorman, Midland, MI US
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| 20090118427 | PARTIAL SOLVENT STRIPPING PROCESS FOR RECOVERING BROMINATED BUTADIENE POLYMERS FROM SOLUTION - Brominated butadiene polymers are recovered from a bromination reaction solution by partially stripping the solvent to form a concentrated solution or slurry, and then recovering the brominated butadiene polymer from the concentrated solution or slurry. The process allows for a simplified, effective an economical recovery of the brominated butadiene polymer. Brominated butadiene polymers recovered in this manner are often very thermally stable. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20110021715 | PROCESS FOR BROMINATING BUTADIENE COPOLYMERS BY THE ADDITION OF WATER OR CERTAIN SOLVENTS - Butadiene copolymers are brominated using certain quaternary ammonium tribromides as the brominating agent. The bromination process proceeds easily under mild conditions, and produces a brominated product that has excellent thermal stability. A quaternary ammonium monobromide salt is produced as a reaction by-product. A solvent for the monobromide salt is added to the reaction after 25-90% bromination of the aliphatic carbon-carbon double bonds. This provides for significantly shorter reaction times while providing a product with few impurities. | 01-27-2011 |
David J. Gorman, Royal Oak, MI US
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| 20100194081 | INFLATABLE RESTRAINT SYSTEM WITH DEPLOYMENT TRAJECTORY CONTROLLER - An inflatable restraint system for selectively restraining an occupant of a motorized vehicle is presented herein. The inflatable restraint system includes a bladder having forward and rearward panel portions. The bladder is attached to the vehicle instrument panel, and configured to transition from a non-expanded state, in which the rearward panel portion is substantially flush with respect to the instrument panel, to an expanded state, in which the rearward panel portion is extended into the passenger compartment distal from the instrument panel. An inflation device is operatively coupled to the bladder, and configured to selectively transition the bladder from the non-expanded state to the expanded state. One or more trajectory control arms are attached at one end to the bladder, and a second end to the vehicle. The trajectory control arms are configured to redirect the bladder along an upward, arcuate path when transitioning to the expanded state. | 08-05-2010 |
James V. Gorman, Holly, MI US
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| 20110084511 | AUTOMOTIVE FORWARD STORAGE BIN DISAPPEARING TRAY - An automobile storage system is disclosed. The system includes a base, a pair of opposed side walls, and an end wall. The system further includes an adjustable divider tray with a first segment and a second segment. The first segment is pivotally connected to the end wall or one of the side walls along a first hinge axis, and the first segment is pivotally connected to the second segment along a second hinge axis. The hinge axes are parallel. The tray has a closed position in which the tray divides the interior into a first compartment and a second compartment, the first compartment is accessible, and the divider tray is disposed between the access opening and the second compartment. The tray is movable away from the closed position to an open position in which the interior of the system functions as a unitary compartment. | 04-14-2011 |
Michael J. Gorman, Pinckney, MI US
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| 20080242211 | HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY WITH A PULLING VENTILATOR IN A FUEL CELL VEHICLE - A method and apparatus are disclosed for a vehicle, the apparatus having a pulling ventilator, wherein the ventilator minimizes a temperature in a housing while minimizing a noise level in a passenger compartment of the vehicle. | 10-02-2008 |