Ford Motor Company Limited

Duane M Grider

Charles L Henritzy

Theodore W Daykin

Jacque C Warnars

A housing and a pressure seal structure for use with a thick film circuit having a pressure sensor and terminals includes a base plate below the thick film circuit, a top housing above the thick film circuit covering the pressure sensor and an intermediate rubber ring between the housing and the thick film circuit. A coupling force is applied between the base plate and the top housing to draw the two together and apply a sealing force to the rubber ring and establish a pressure seal at the rubber ring.

Thick film circuit housing assembly design

Method for making thick film circuit housing assembly design

A thick film integrated circuit having a terminal with a plurality of parallel legs each having an angled foot portion for connection to the thick film circuit board. An elongated tie bar extends perpendicular to the legs and connects the legs to each other for stabilization. The tie bar has sufficient mass and is positioned sufficiently far from the foot so that heat can be applied to the foot to solder it to the thick film substrate. The legs are positioned in a guide bar with tapered sides to provide a self-centering feature when the terminal is coupled to a connector.

Method of coupling a terminal to a thick film circuit board

A method of assembling an electrical pin connector utilizing a molded carrier element to support and hermetically seal a number of preoriented and spacially disposed electrical pin connectors prior to inserting the carrier into a correspondingly shaped aperture of a shell housing and bonding the carrier to the shell housing to provide a hermetic seal thereto.

Method of assembling an improved electrical connector

An air atomizing throttle body is formed with a single point fuel injector located above the inlet to the throttle body induction passage, the throttle body having an inverted cup-shaped sleeve valve, the lower edges of which cooperate with a stationary conical valve seat projecting radially into the induction passage to define a variable area flow path, and including idle speed air vents to equalize pressures on opposite sides of the sleeve valve to minimize the force needed to move the valve by a pressure operated bellows incorporated into the valve, the valve members forming a labryinthian type air/fuel flow path for the shearing of the fuel globules to atomize the same.

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Eagan, MN, United States of America

Duane M Grider