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Dennis C. Eckhardt — 7 Patents

General Motors: 7 patents #2,267 of 18,328Top 15%
DEDelco Electronics: 1 patents #370 of 908Top 45%
Saginaw, MI: #76 of 671 inventorsTop 15%
Michigan: #13,705 of 86,293 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Dennis C. Eckhardt has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at General Motors. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in September 1998. Dennis C. Eckhardt ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Dennis C. Eckhardt in Saginaw, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 1998Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1992.peak 21980: 1 patents19801987: 1 patents19871992: 2 patents19921993: 1 patents19931996: 1 patents19961998: 1 patents1998

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5802949 Closed center power steering gear Alan Davis, Randy Scott Miller 1998-09-08
5491632 Rotary encoder with neutral position Andrzej M. Pawlak, William C. Lin, David W. Graber, Scott E. Weiss, Maged Radamis +2 more 1996-02-13
5184297 Method of calibrating power steering for uniform vehicle-to-vehicle steering effort David W. Graber, Andrzej M. Pawlak, Bryan L. Faist 1993-02-02
5119898 Electromagnetic control apparatus for varying the driver steering effort of a hydraulic power steering system David W. Graber, Andrzej M. Pawlak, Bryan L. Faist 1992-06-09
5086862 Apparatus for stabilizing power steering for temperature effects David W. Graber, Andrzej M. Pawlak 1992-02-11
4711224 Check valve in auxiliary vacuum system 1987-12-08
4217811 Lash compensator for power steering gear Donald L. Dzioba 1980-08-19 $3,807,000