Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

White Consolidated Industries, Inc.

Robert W Smith

Bruce L Stone

Francis Nile Smith

Paul E Kronenberger

Juan M Capo

Gerald Lee Elson

Gregory J Cenzer

James A Watson

Michael A Jones

Elisabeth B Nevitt

Nancy M Simioni

Douglas C Heighton

Michael H Bates

A vehicle seat includes a seat bottom and a seatback operatively coupled to the seat bottom. The seatback includes a substantially rigid polymeric substrate and an outer layer covering the polymeric substrate.

Vehicle seat

A foldable motor vehicle seat including a horizontal seat cushion and a vertical seat back joined at a horizontal hinge for pivotal movement of the seat cushion from a horizontal position to a vertical position folded against the seat back. The seat back is connected to a side wall of a body of the motor vehicle for pivotal movement about a vertical axis between a seating position in a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal centerline of the motor vehicle and a cargo position in a plane parallel to the longitudinal centerline. With the seat cushion folded vertically against the seat back and the seat back in its cargo position, the floor of the motor vehicle under the seat is exposed for cargo. With the seat cushion horizontal and the seat back in its seating position, a passenger may sit on the foldable seat. A strut pivotally supported on the seat cushion has a raised position against a side of the seat cushion and a lowered position when the seat cushion is horizontal defining a vertical brace between the seat cushion and the floor. A latch releasably secures the strut to the floor of the motor vehicle.

Seat for motor vehicle

A spring fastener for supporting circuit components or the like to a mounting surface. The fastener consists of a length of resilient wire bent into a pair of arms extending from both sides of a U-shaped base so as to be substantially normal thereto. Lower arm sections are disposed in spaced diverging relation in a common plane while upper arm sections extend in converging relation crossing each other in scissors-like fashion adjacent their midportion. The arms terminate in retainer legs spaced to receive the component with the legs located in a plane substantially parallel to the plane of the U-shaped base. The crossed upper sections change angularity by scissors-like movement to urge the component into retaining engagement with the support panel to compensate for variations in dimensions of the component.

Self-adjusting spring retainer

A domestic refrigerator control arrangement for automatically defrosting the cabinet with a minimum of cycle time while obviating the buildup of frost within the cold air conduits. A defrost heater is located at the frontal area of the evaporator coils and the defrost thermostat on the rearward edge of the cross fins coil assembly in the air stream of the air circulating fan sensing the temperature of the air exiting the evaporator. The fan is wired in series with the defrost thermostat and operates upon the energization of the defrost heater, while being deenergized upon the opening of the defrost thermostat contacts at the end of the defrost period. The fan remains in its off position until the defrost thermostat recloses, insuring that moisture-laden air is not distributed throughout the refrigerator.

Cooling coil and air distribution system defrost means

An airflow moisture control for use with a refrigerator food storage hydrator drawer cover and guide that enables the user to vary the amount of moisture therein by adjustable side vents. The manual control includes a damper and integral hinge pin with cooperating flexible arcuate fingers extending through the vents having surfaces thereon for engaging the edge portions of their associated vents so as to impart positioned stability for selectively rotating the damper in any one of a plurality of angularly related positions. The dampers are interchangeable for hingedly engaging the cover for either left or right side operation.

Hydrator drawer cover with adjustable moisture control damper

An ice maker control circuit for use with an ice maker of the type including an inclined refrigerated plate associated with means energized during an ice making cycle of operation to cause water to be continually circulated across the inclined plate as refrigerant is directed with respect thereto and wherein ice slabs built up on the plate are periodically released therefrom and directed to a cutting grid for separation into a plurality of cubes of ice; the control circuit including a bin ice accumulation switch responsive to a maximum build up of ice therein to terminate machine operation and an ice slab thickness control switch to selectively control circuit means for terminating the circulation of water over the plate and for initiating a hot gas defrost cycle of operation; the circuit further including a time delay thermal relay responsive to the bin ice accumulation switch sensing a maximum level of bin ice and operative to maintain an ice making cycle of operation until the ice slab reaches a desired thickness and thereafter conditioning a hot gas defrost solenoid to dislodge the slab from the refrigerated plate onto the grid so as to maintain the clarity of the ice slab; the thermal relay including means to maintain the hot gas defrost cycle for a time delay period followed by machine shut off.

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Troy, MI, United States of America

Robert W Smith