Alan G Storck

US Patent:

6443608, Sep 3, 2002

Filed:

Dec 14, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/735579

Inventors:

Alan G Storck - Wixom MI
Drew D Mosser - Farmington Hills MI
Ross J Parpart - Troy MI

Assignee:

General Motors Corporation - Detroit MI

International Classification:

F21V 1902

US Classification:

362523, 362289, 362428

Abstract:

An integrated lamp and fascia system for a vehicle comprises a lamp having a lamp housing. A vehicle fascia includes a fascia pocket defined by two side walls, a bottom wall, and a rear wall, in which the lamp housing is disposed. The rear wall has a fixed portion, a flanged portion, and a cross car hinge seam about which the flanged portion flexes. The lamp housing is mounted to the flanged portion. An adjustment means includes an adjustment clip mounted to the fixed portion of the rear wall to provide a vertical extension thereto, and an adjustment screw accessible from a forward surface of the lamp housing and extending through an upper region of the lamp housing and through the adjustment clip. Turning the screw either moves the upper region of the lamp housing closer to or further from the pocket rear wall by rotating the lamp housing about the hinge seam to adjust vertical aim of the lamp.

US Patent:

51817675, Jan 26, 1993

Filed:

Nov 1, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/785868

Inventors:

Richard D. Hudgins - Falbrook CA
Lawrence R. Sounart - Sterling Heights MI
Alan G. Storck - Union Lake MI

Assignee:

Thompson International, Inc. - Troy MI

International Classification:

B60B 712

US Classification:

301 3737

Abstract:

A retention arrangement for a vehicular wheel cover utilizes protruding ends of the vehicle's lug studs which are received in open-bottomed wells formed in a wheel cover. Retainer nuts engage the protruding lug studs in the wells to secure the wheel cover to the wheel. Each well includes a plurality of protrusions which cooperate with the retainer nut to capture the retainer nut in the well, even when the wheel cover is not secured to the vehicular wheel.