Patents by Inventor Dennis A. Kaiser

Dennis A. Kaiser 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).

  • Publication number: 20210171136
    Abstract: A device for moving trailers (the device) enables anyone to easily maneuver and guide and park precisely in a specific location a trailer such as camper, utility, boat, horse or any other type of a tow behind a vehicle trailer without being attached to a vehicle. The device allows anyone to drive a parked trailer from its parked location to the towing vehicle with precise alignment to the ball hitch of the towing vehicle. The device is self-powered for the purpose of lifting and or lowering the trailer hitch on or off the hitch ball of the towing vehicle and a hydraulic pump and reservoir and a pair hydraulic motors for the forward and reverse movement and the left and right steering. The device is controlled with a wireless hand held remote through a Bluetooth operation system and or a phone application, which can be downloaded onto your smart phone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventor: Dennis Kaiser
  • Patent number: 5251153
    Abstract: A programmed irrigation controller automatically computes durations for, schedules, and controls split irrigation cycles at up to eight watering stations. The controller is manually entered with high-level information regarding soil type, terrain, and irrigation system watering head type, and also with a total irrigation time, for each station. The maximum "on" time duration for each individual split irrigation cycle, and a minimum "off" time duration, are determined from the high-level information input by table lookup. The controller computes the number of irrigation cycles at each station as its total irrigation time divided by its maximum "on" time duration. The controller schedules composite irrigation cycles for all stations so that no station overwaters within a single irrigation cycle or upon successive irrigation cycles that are too closely time proximate. Exclusionary time-of-day intervals that specify when no watering will occur can be inserted within the schedules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Solatrol, Inc.
    Inventors: Wyn Y. Nielsen, Steven C. Carlin, Dennis A. Kaiser
  • Patent number: 5187797
    Abstract: A user interface, typically to an irrigation controller, prompts user responses by asking questions. The questions are hierarchally organized, preferably in a hierarchal tree having approximately three to six questions on each hierarchal level between root and leaves. All command and data input may be done with only an "OK" pushbutton switch, and with an additional ".uparw.", or ".dwnarw." pushbuttom switches. Each "OK" user response affirms the premise of a currently-displayed question, and advances the questioning to a related branch upon a next hierarchal level. The ".uparw." pushbutton is used to advance the questioning in a first direction. An optimal ".dwnarw.", or down arrow,pushbutton switch advances the presentation of successive questions in a second direction. An optional "HELP" switch invokes context-sensitive help messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1993
    Assignee: Solatrol, Inc.
    Inventors: Wyn Y. Nielsen, Steven C. Carlin, Dennis A. Kaiser
  • Patent number: 5124942
    Abstract: A user interface, typically to an irrigation controller, prompts user responses by continuously autoscrolling questions. The questions are hierarchally organized, preferably in a hierarchal tree having approximately three to six questions on each hierarchal level between root and leaves. All command and data input may be done with only an OK/YES pushbutton switch, switches. Each OK/YES user response affirms the premise fo a currently-displayed question, and advances the autoscrolled questioning to a related branch upon a next hierarchal level. The NO pushbutton is never required to advance the questioning which is always autoscrolled, but instead serves, while depressed, to accelerate the autoscrolling of successive questions. A HELP response invokes context-sensitive help messages. A STOP response causes reversion in the hierarchy of questioning toward the root level, but does not stop the autoscrolling of questions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1992
    Assignee: Solatrol, Inc.
    Inventors: Wyn Y. Nielsen, Steven C. Carlin, Dennis A. Kaiser
  • Patent number: 3992803
    Abstract: An enclosed passageway which provides a housing that is open at one end and has a back closure wall on which is mounted a trap mechanism that is capable of being both set and baited from outside the enclosed housing without handling the trap mechanism itself, and which is disposable or capable of having the entrapped and killed animal displaced therefrom without personal contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1976
    Inventor: Robert Dennis Kaiser