Patents by Inventor Clive F. Kittel

Clive F. Kittel 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).

  • Method and apparatus for monitoring a series of products
    Patent number: 5304927
    Abstract: Monitoring a series of products of the kind in which the presence of foreign bodies in the product being monitored is detected by the characteristic magnetic field phase difference each material exhibits. The signal generated by a satisfactory product having no foreign body in it is used as the datum for judging whether the next subsequent product is free from a foreign body or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Assignee: Cintex Limited
    Inventors: Neil E. Thomas, Clive F. Kittel, Robert M. Averill, Christopher Marcus, Ian W. D. Cox