Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Thomas Barrowman

Donald S Bartlett

Gerald C Rieck

Theodore J Beaulieu

Abdulhadi K Abu-Akeel

Michael J Noblett

A tool for simultaneously measuring the gap and flushness between two adjacent panels includes a pair of probes for engaging the panel edges and adjacent surfaces, one probe being slideable in one direction to adjust to the panel gap and the other probe being slideable at right angles to the other to adjust to different flushness values. The probes are equipped with electrical position transducers to give readings on gap and flushness. The probes can be slid along a gap to obtain a rapid succession of data points. One embodiment has rollers for probe contact surfaces to aid in sliding the tool along the panels.

Gap and flushness measuring tool

A positioning device for selectively maintaining a vehicle closure member in an opened position and a closed position and including four pivotally interconnected link members which work in pairs for locking the closure member in the opened and closed positions.

Positioning device for vehicle closure member

A guide device for the supply lines that lead to the work tool at the work end of a multi-axis manipulator's boom. The guide device includes a slidable block positioned to the rear of the wrist assembly of the boom and connected by a flexible cable to the work tool for controlling bending of the supply lines so as to minimize twisting thereof as the work tool is moved about a pair of intersecting axes.

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Warren, MI, United States of America

Thomas Barrowman