STEVEN CRAIG PETERSON
Pilots at Gln Wilding Ln, Minneapolis, MN

6225006, May 1, 2001

Jul 15, 1999

9/354071

William H. Kump - St. Paul MN
Steven R. Peterson - Minneapolis MN

GNB Technologies, Inc. - Mendota Heights MN

H01M 224, H01M 642

429225

A method of making lead-acid batteries uses a container standardized for a twelve-volt battery and dual flag straps in the inner cells so that batteries with voltages of two, four, six, or twelve can be preselected as desired, the more preferred embodiments having one terminal cell with either two terminal bases or dual flags so as to minimize the assembly equipment required.

6372382, Apr 16, 2002

Aug 21, 1999

09/373330

Steven R. Peterson - Minneapolis MN

GNB Technologies, Inc. - Alpharetta GA

H01M 202

429179, 429176, 429177, 429149, 429 57, 429160

A lead-acid battery, which achieves a low profile while allowing grids of relative maximum height to be used, comprises a container having the terminal cells located adjacent the front of the battery so as to allow ready access to the battery when located in racks or the like in service, and a cover, preferably a two-piece cover, containing the terminals, interior surfaces of the cover and top surfaces of the container being sloped upwardly in a rearward direction from the front of the battery, thereby allowing the use of relatively tall grids.

6428927, Aug 6, 2002

Dec 2, 1999

09/453118

William H. Kump - St. Paul MN
Steven R. Peterson - Minneapolis MN

GNB Technologies, Inc. - Lombard IL

H01M 210

429187, 296231

A battery including a rope handle which engages a handle bracket on a conventional battery container. The rope handle includes a grip and a rope, the proximal end of the rope being molded into, or otherwise secured to, the grip and a cylindrical plug molded on the distal end of the rope. The grip includes a retaining recess comprising a counterbore presenting a bearing surface, and lateral slot between the upper and lower surfaces of the grip and extending radially from the counterbore to present a substantially keyhole-shaped opening. In assembly, the distal end of the rope is advanced laterally through the slot portion of the keyhole-shaped opening until the counterbore is positioned subjacent the plug. The plug is then moved downward into the counterbore. To hide the rope ends in the preferred embodiment, a cover can be snapped in place over the top of the grip.

6022638, Feb 8, 2000

May 20, 1997

8/859131

Anthony R. Horton - Minneapolis MN
Steven R. Peterson - Minneapolis MN
Richard M. Sahli - Cottage Grove MN
William H. Kump - West St. Paul MN

GNB Technologies, Inc. - Mendota Heights MN

H01M00210

429187

An electric storage battery, preferably a lead-acid battery, such as used for starting, lighting and ignition of an automobile or the like, includes a handle attached to the cover of the battery through a pin-and-button structure which is attached to the battery by insertion into an insertion aperture and is then moved into an assembly position where the handle can be rotated from a rest position adjacent the side of the cover to an upright, service position for carrying the battery.

5985482, Nov 16, 1999

Apr 28, 1998

9/067833

Anthony Horton - Minneapolis MN
John Miller - Mendota Heights MN
William H. Kump - West St. Paul MN
Steven Peterson - Minneapolis MN

GNB Technologies, Inc. - Mendota Heights MN

H01M 210

429 97

A unitarily molded, snap-on heat shield for a standard automotive battery container having handle brackets extending from opposing side walls of the container, the heat shield having wedge-shaped coupling protrusions extending inwardly from cantilevered flaps in the heat shield side walls, the wedge-shaped protrusions riding along the handle brackets to cantilever the flaps away for the container side wall as the shield in moved downward over the container, the flaps snapping back inward toward the battery container as the protrusions pass the handle bracket to couple the heat shield to the battery container.