Delphi Technologies, Inc.

Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Vickey E Reed

John H Bakker

John George Kountz

William George Flask

Joseph Albert Svette, Jr

Ronald A Puhl

David Glen Siegfried

George Raymond Herlinger

James E Bankston

Anne F Monroe

A control rod adapted to be bundled with a plurality of telecommunication cables to prevent the cables from being bent beyond a predetermined radius. The control rod includes a plurality of flexible control rod sections releasably connected together end-to-end by socket members and male members respectively provided on the ends of adjacent control rod sections. Each control rod section includes a plurality of beads connected together end-to-end by webs of material formed integrally with the adjacent beads.

Radius control rod

A flat cable connection system includes a flat cable module having a power input segment and drop connectors that provides a low profile configuration; the drop connectors include a spring component, a non-spliced flat cable end portion and a connector body that serves to capture the flat cable end portion and to provide an electrical connection to an electrical accessory of the type associated with a headliner of a vehicle.

Flat cable drop connection system

A removable connector edge clip has a support plate, a first arm integrally attached to the first end of the support plate by a first bight and a second arm integrally attached to the second end of the support plate by a second bight. The first arm confronts a lower surface of the support plate in generally parallel fashion to form a panel edge clamp at the first end of the clip. The support plate has a first spring blade inclined downwardly toward the first arm and the first bight for biasingly engaging a panel edge inserted into the panel edge clamp. The first arm has a barb for retaining the panel edge inserted into the panel edge clamp. The second arm confronts an upper surface of the support plate in generally parallel fashion to form a connector attachment at the second end of the clip. The connector attachment includes a second spring blade inclined downwardly toward the second bight and the support plate and a detent tang inclined upwardly toward the second bight and away from the second arm. The support plate has an anti tangle tongue inclined upwardly toward the second bight and the second arm.

Removable connector edge clip

An edge clip which uses precoated sheet metal stock, is stamped in a high speed progressive die, and has a robustly configured triangularly shaped body. A solid blank of the sheet stock is die cut into a patterned blank including a base, a projection forward of the base, and first and second wings located at either side of the base. Each of the first and second wings has an outboard member and an inboard member, wherein the outboard member includes a barb. A pointed flange projects from the rear edge of the patterned blank at each of the first and second wings. The projection is stamped to form a standard attachment appendage, and the first and second wings are folded, wherein a spring arm is formed at an apex thereof and provided by an overlap of the outboard members. A tab of the outboard member of the second wing secures the overlap of the outboard members. The folding also provides first and second rails, wherein each is radiused to provide a basal corner of the triangular configuration. Each of the first and second rails project in parallel with the overlapped spring arm, are separated therefrom, respectively, by radiused first and second upper slots, and are separated from the platform, respectively, by first and second lower slots. Finally, each of the pointed flanges are folded into mutual abutment rearwardly of the first and second upper slots, in spaced relation to the base.

Edge clip

A bilaterally split retainer pin which is structurally robust, having a head easily insertable into an aperture yet highly resistant to backing out through the aperture. The bilaterally split retainer pin includes a post base having a periphery and a pair of legs integrally connected thereto which are mutually separated by a bilateral slot. Each of the legs is composed of a post segment integrally connected with the post base and a head integrally connected with the respective post segment. Each head is characterized by a tapered surface and an abutment surface, wherein a barb radially projects outwardly relative to the periphery a radial length defined by an abutment surface. The tapered surface includes the barb and converges radially toward a respective tip. Each leg has a transverse cut originating at the post base and extending to the tip, wherein the transverse cut slopes from the periphery toward a midsection of the bilaterally split pin. The transverse cut is located at diametrically opposite sides of each of the legs in transverse relation to the slot. Each head is characterized by a flat opposite, and parallel, to the slot, whereby the barb of each respective leg is located diametrically opposite its respective transverse cut. When the bilaterally split retainer pin is pressed through an aperture about the size of the perimeter, the barbs engage the aperture wall and cause the legs to laterally flex parallel to the slot, allowing the heads to pass through the aperture. Upon passage through the aperture, the legs freely flex laterally back to their original configuration, and the abutment surfaces now serve to prevent the head from backing out through the aperture.

Bilaterally split retaining pin

A capillary action preventor (CAP) for separating water and other liquids from a bundle of wires has a body and a cover of plastic construction that are attached to each other by a flexible plastic hinge. The body is generally bulb shaped and has an open channel at each longitudinal end that is reduced in height and width in comparison to a midsection of the body. Each channel has a pair of flexible cantilevered fingers at the top for holding a portion of a bundle of electrical wires that passes through the CAP. The body includes a comb-like structure comprising a plurality of laterally spaced, relatively stiff, vertical fingers at its midsection for separating the electrical wires. The electrical wires are supported on a plurality of narrow transverse baffles that define a sump area between the channels for the collection of water and other liquids dripping from the electrical wires. The sump area includes a drain tube. The cover is generally dome shaped and has an open arch at each longitudinal end that is reduced in height and width in comparison to a midsection of the cover. The arches mate with the channels when the cover is closed and the cover includes a plurality of transverse ribs that keep the electrical wires in the spaces between the vertical fingers of the body when the cover is closed. The CAP includes a latch to keep the cover in a closed position and external ribs for use in taping the CAP shut.

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Beaver Falls, PA, United States of America

Vickey E Reed