Patents by Inventor Charles M. Thomas
Charles M. Thomas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20190134388Abstract: A transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation device includes a housing having a bottom portion and a top portion, the top portion including a curved palm-rest surface shaped to conform generally to the shape of a human palm of a human hand when the human hand is partially opened, a first switch arranged on the top portion of the housing, the first switch being positioned to align in facing contact with a first finger of the human hand when the human hand is grasping the device, the first switch being operable by generally downward vertical movement of the first finger of the human hand, and an electrode operative to emit a signal responsive to an activation of the first switch, the electrode arranged on the bottom portion of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2017Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: Charles M. Thomas, D. Keith Hagy, Michael W. Treas, Jeffrey J. Chu, Mike Ewaschuk, Josh Page, Dave Eypper
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Patent number: 9764133Abstract: A TENS apparatus includes a portable TENS device having a housing with a lower surface and a pair of integral electrodes that are incorporated into the lower surface of the housing. The portable TENS device includes a pulse driver that is located within the housing and adapted to generate a program of pulse waveforms for TENS therapy without a carrier wave, and a wireless transceiver component that is operatively connected to the pulse driver. The TENS apparatus includes a remote controller that is provided for communicating with the wireless transceiver component of the portable TENS device by means of a wireless communication signal in order to allow for wireless activation and control of the pulse driver of the portable TENS device.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Modular Therapeutx, LLCInventors: Charles M. Thomas, D. Keith Hagy, Donald Kay Riker, Nathan Anderson Pollock, Brad Peter Ryan, Lee Anthony Rodezno, Troy Christiaan Nyssen
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Publication number: 20160151193Abstract: A cervical traction device includes a base assembly having a sled frame and a sled assembly that is adapted to move along the sled frame. The cervical traction device includes a left halter support that is attached to the sled assembly and a right halter support that is attached to the sled assembly. A head halter is adapted to be removably attached to the left halter support and the right halter support. The head halter includes a suspension strap for supporting the patient's neck. A linear actuator is attached between the base assembly and the sled assembly and adapted to move the sled assembly along the sled frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2016Publication date: June 2, 2016Applicant: Hollywog, LLCInventors: Charles M. Thomas, D. Keith Hagy, Thu-Ha Thi Duncan, John S. Marshall, Guy T. Hill
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Publication number: 20160015549Abstract: A cervical traction device includes a base assembly having a sled frame and a sled assembly that is adapted to move along the sled frame. The device includes a plurality of unique head support cushions. The sled assembly includes a recess that is adapted to removably receive each of the plurality of head support cushions. The device also includes a shoulder support cushion and a halter assembly having a head halter that is adapted to be removably attached to the head of the patient. A linear actuator is attached between the base assembly and the sled assembly and adapted to move the sled assembly along the sled frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicant: Hollywog, LLCInventors: Charles M. Thomas, D. Keith Hagy, Thu-Ha Thi Duncan, John S. Marshall, Guy T. Hill, Herbert Allen Hughes, Christopher Shawn Hughes, Anita Hawkins
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Publication number: 20150174402Abstract: A TENS apparatus includes a portable TENS device having a housing with a lower surface and a pair of integral electrodes that are incorporated into the lower surface of the housing. The portable TENS device includes a pulse driver that is located within the housing and adapted to generate a program of pulse waveforms for TENS therapy without a carrier wave, and a wireless transceiver component that is operatively connected to the pulse driver. The TENS apparatus includes a remote controller that is provided for communicating with the wireless transceiver component of the portable TENS device by means of a wireless communication signal in order to allow for wireless activation and control of the pulse driver of the portable TENS device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2015Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: Modular Therapeutx, LLCInventors: Charles M. Thomas, D. Keith Hagy, Donald Kay Riker, Nathan Anderson Pollock, Brad Peter Ryan, Lee Anthony Rodezno, Troy Christiaan Nyssen
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Patent number: 8972016Abstract: A TENS apparatus includes a portable TENS device having a housing with a lower surface, a pair of integral electrodes that are incorporated in the lower surface of the housing, and a pulse driver that is located within the housing and adapted to generate a program of pulse waveforms, each of which is an asymmetrical biphasic square waveform.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Modular Therapeutx, LLCInventors: Charles M. Thomas, D. Keith Hagy, Donald Kay Riker, Nathan Anderson Pollock, Brad Peter Ryan, Lee Anthony Rodezno, Troy Christiaan Nyssen
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Publication number: 20140194946Abstract: A TENS apparatus includes a portable TENS device having a housing with a lower surface, a pair of integral electrodes that are incorporated in the lower surface of the housing, and a pulse driver that is located within the housing and adapted to generate a program of pulse waveforms, each of which is an asymmetrical biphasic square waveform.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2013Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: MODULAR THERAPEUTX, LLCInventors: Charles M. Thomas, D. Keith Hagy, Donald Kay Riker, Nathan Anderson Pollock, Brad Peter Ryan, Lee Anthony Rodezno, Troy Christiaan Nyssen
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Patent number: 7946905Abstract: Disclosed in the present application is a sharpening apparatus and method for sharpening a cutting bit. The apparatus comprises a sharpening member and a laser for accurately positioning the cutting bit surface to be sharpened with respect to the sharpening member. The apparatus and method are particularly useful for sharpening a router or shaper bit.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2008Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Inventor: Charles M Thomas
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Publication number: 20100251143Abstract: A method for creating and editing a website comprising providing an extensible website manager application that allows non-technical users to create and edit websites using website components, providing a developer registry of themes, layouts and blocks created by developers, installing the extensible website manager application on a computer storage medium, utilizing a web service as an interface between the extensible website manager application and a client application, allowing the user to add content to a webpage by dragging and dropping content onto the webpage, allowing the user to edit content on a webpage using a toolset that is physically located on the webpage itself and displaying the webpage to the user in real time during creation and/or editing of the webpage exactly as it will be displayed to end users after it is published. The present invention also encompasses a system and computer program similar to the method described above.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2009Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: The Ransom Group, Inc.Inventors: Charles M. Thomas, Tim Ransom
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Patent number: 7628406Abstract: This patent discloses a hand truck to transport horse related equipment. The hand truck may include a framework having a frame, frame support bars, a handle bar, hooks, a tote mount, a saddle rack positioned below the tote mount, an auxiliary mount, and a cooler mount positioned below the saddle rack. The hand truck further may include a plate attached to the framework and wheels attached to the framework.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2007Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Inventors: Charles M. Thomas, Lynda D. Thomas
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Publication number: 20090124170Abstract: Disclosed in the present application is a sharpening apparatus and method for sharpening a cutting bit. The apparatus comprises a sharpening member and a laser for accurately positioning the cutting bit surface to be sharpened with respect to the sharpening member. The apparatus and method are particularly useful for sharpening a router or shaper bit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Inventor: Charles M. Thomas
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Patent number: 7510458Abstract: An apparatus 40 for sharpening a router or shaper bit 12 of the type having a flat cutting face 18. The apparatus 40 includes a chuck 64 holding the cutting bit 12. A grinding wheel 108 has a flat grinding face 110 and a grinding wheel shaft 116 on which the grinding wheel 108 rotates. A chuck support supports the chuck 64 and positions it so that the bit cutting face 18 is in a plane parallel to and in front of the flat face 110 of the grinding wheel 108. A side adjustment plate 46 has an index dial by which the side adjustment plate 46 is moved incrementally, in small amounts, to move the cutting face 18 of bit 12 into and against the grinding wheel face 110 during the grinding process. A carriage plate 44 permits moving the bit 12 back and forth in a plane perpendicular to the grinding wheel shaft. A laser 314 directs a beam onto a mirror 318 affixed to the bit cutting face 28.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2005Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Inventor: Charles M. Thomas
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Patent number: 4787433Abstract: A manually operated hydraulic pump having been modified to break the circumferential bead of a pneumatic tire from a wheel rim, the hydraulic pump including a pump unit and a horizontally disposed cylinder having an internal piston rod, the pump unit being provided with a pivotal actuator wherein pivoting the actuator upwardly and downwardly urges the piston rod outwardly from the cylinder; the cylinder being provided with threads on its end being threadedly received in a barrel, the barrel including a wedge for inserting between the wheel rim and the sidewall of the tire, a locking member for securing the pump onto the wheel rim, the wedge comprising a stationary horseshoe-shaped plate surrounding a ram which is affixed to the end of the piston rod; whereby urging the piston rod outwardly from the cylinder presses the ram into the tire thereby breaking its bead.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1986Date of Patent: November 29, 1988Inventor: Charles M. Thomas
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Patent number: D701610Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2012Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Modular Therapeutx, LLCInventors: Charles M. Thomas, D. Keith Hagy, Donald Kay Riker, Nathan Anderson Pollock, Brad Peter Ryan, Lee Anthony Rodezno, Troy Christiaan Nyssen
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Patent number: D704848Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2012Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Modular Therapeutx, LLCInventors: Charles M. Thomas, D. Keith Hagy, Donald Kay Riker, Nathan Anderson Pollock, Brad Peter Ryan, Lee Anthony Rodezno, Troy Christiaan Nyssen
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Patent number: D712052Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Modular Therapeutx, LLCInventors: Charles M. Thomas, D. Keith Hagy, Donald Kay Riker, Nathan Anderson Pollock, Brad Peter Ryan, Lee Anthony Rodezno, Troy Christiaan Nyssen
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Patent number: D716958Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Modular Therapeutx, LLCInventors: Charles M. Thomas, D. Keith Hagy, Donald Kay Riker, Nathan Anderson Pollock, Brad Peter Ryan, Lee Anthony Rodezno, Troy Christiaan Nyssen
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Patent number: D757948Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Hollywog, LLCInventors: Charles M. Thomas, D. Keith Hagy, Thu-Ha Thi Duncan, John S. Marshall
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Patent number: D863572Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: HOLLYWOGInventors: Charles M. Thomas, D. Keith Hagy, Michael W. Treas, Jeffrey J. Chu, Mike Ewaschuk, Josh Page, Dave Eypper