Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Steven J. Wietrzny
  • Patent number: 6529785
    Abstract: The method and system for an industrial control system network jog control of the present invention provides responsive jogging of a machine for a consistent, fixed duration that minimizes the effects of network and processor delays. A jog message is input at a human machine interface by an operator directly observing the operation the machine. The jog message includes an address indicator corresponding to a network location of the controlled equipment and a jog duration period. The jog message is sent along the network directly to an output device attached to the controlled equipment. A jog pulse is then transmitted for the proper duration by the output device. Clock circuitry within the output device is used to limit the jog pulse to the jog pulse duration period of the jog message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas M. Keeley
  • Patent number: 6351115
    Abstract: A low profile shunt has an electrically insulated substrate with opposing electrical terminals joined to a sensing device by two electrically conductive layers. The conductive layers are laminated on each side of a shunt layer extending between the terminals. An insulating tape insulates the copper foil conductive and shunt layers from each other between the terminals. The sensing element is a measuring resistor having a resistive value many times greater than that of the shunt layer such that relatively low current measurements may by made at the sensing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: Reliance Electric Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: John M. Kasunich
  • Patent number: 6324057
    Abstract: A compact programmable logic controller provides a floating mounting of circuit cards carried by opposed terminal blocks of the industrial controller the latter only which are directly mounted to the housing. Positioning of the cards between opposed connector blocks prevents torsion on the cards resulting from unbalanced forces on the terminal blocks and provides an extremely rigid structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael S. Baran, Shawn D. Cloran
  • Patent number: D572804
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Kohler Co.
    Inventors: Mike Y. Daikubara, Mark A. Johnson, Jennifer L. Wenzel, Jody L. Uecke, Steven J. Wietrzny
  • Patent number: D575848
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Kohler Co.
    Inventor: Laura K. Kirar