Todd Edwin Gross, 60211 Aqueduct Dr, Walled Lake, MI 48390

5071172, Dec 10, 1991

Jan 9, 1990

7/462521

Todd A. Gross - Dearborn Heights MI

Ford Motor Company - Dearborn MI

F16L 3900

2851371

A fluid direction tube insertion assembly for simultaneously inserting two or more fluid direction tubes into an automobile engine body or part thereof. The fluid direction tube insertion assembly includes at least two thermoplastic fluid direction tubes which preferably have a coefficient of thermal expansion about the same as the automobile engine body or part thereof into which they are to be inserted and a flexible bracket which is sufficiently flexible that it may be flexed during insertion of the fluid direction tubes into corresponding receiving bores in the engine body to provide proper alignment/orientation of the fluid direction tubes with the corresponding receiving bore. The fluid direction tube insertion assembly may be either a one-piece molded one or may be of separately molded fluid direction tubes and a separately molded flexible bracket which are subsequently joined.

5064223, Nov 12, 1991

Oct 6, 1989

7/418426

Todd A. Gross - Dearborn Heights MI

Ford Motor Company - Dearborn MI

F16L 3500

285 93

An improved throttle modulator assembly and a thermoplastic fluid direction tube for insertion into a throttle modulator assembly are disclosed. The thermoplastic fluid direction tube is annular and hollow and is made from a thermoplastic material having a coefficient of thermal expansion about the same as the throttle modulator body. Further, an annular press ring and at least one associated press wing extending axially therefrom are located along the longitudinal dimension of the end tube portion of the thermoplastic tube.

5177866, Jan 12, 1993

Aug 30, 1991

7/753274

Michael D. Bennett - Westland MI
Todd A. Gross - Dearborn Heights MI
Thomas D. Wernholm - Northville MI

Ford Motor Company - Dearborn MI

B23P 1700

29890127

A method of integrating a valve system with a to be molded component part, such as a throttle valve assembly and a throttle body or air horn, consisting of: first, assembling or manufacturing the throttle valve assembly; second, coating or completely lining the valve assembly with a meltable core material; third, placing the lined valve assembly in place in a die of the throttle body or air horn to be molded; fourth, removing the molded throttle body with valve assembly integral therewith; and finally, heating the meltable core material between the throttle valve assembly and air horn to melt it and remove it therefrom to provide the desired clearance space between, permitting relative rotation between the two.