Patents Represented by Attorney Steven D. Hemminger

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  • Method and apparatus for evacuating and sealing containers
    Patent number: 7490452
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for creating a vacuum-sealed package comprising the placement of the item to be vacuum packed in a container; sealing the container, placing a portion of the container in contact with a sealable chamber; sealing the chamber, creating holes in the container, evacuating the desired amount of air from the container and creating a seal between the interior of the container and the holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Unovo, Inc.
    Inventors: Ehsan Alipour, Clinton Neal Slone, William Gregory Tammen, Thomas King, Michael Strasser, Benjamin Toru Mino
  • Mooring system
    Patent number: 5044829
    Abstract: A mooring system comprising a multiple degree of freedom coupler interconnecting a floatation section and an anchoring section of a dock system. The system also comprises a drawbridge section, a gangway section and a shoreline mooring section. The multiple degree of freedom coupler prevents hanging-up of the floatation sections which is an expensive, frequently occurring problem experienced by virtually every free floating anchor/sleeve dock system currently in existence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Inventor: Paul W. Hemminger
  • Mooring system
    Patent number: 4990029
    Abstract: A mooring system comprising a multiple degree of freedom coupler interconnecting a floatation section and an anchoring section of a dock system. The system also comprises a drawbridge section, a gangway section and a shoreline mooring section. The multiple degree of freedom coupler prevents hanging-up of the floatation sections which is an expensive, frequently occurring problem experienced by virtually every free floating anchor/sleeve dock system currently in existence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Inventor: Paul W. Hemminger
  • Fixed disk drive
    Patent number: 4920434
    Abstract: A higher performance, higher capacity, low cost fixed (Winchester) disk drive avoids the need of a servo surface and servo channel for head positioning by use of a mass balanced rotary actuator, a polyphase optical head position transducer coupled closely to the actuator and head position correction information sampled from the data surface by the data head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: Quantum Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Brown, Donald V. Daniels, Joel N. Harrison