Patents by Inventor Francois Mizzi

Francois Mizzi 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).

  • Patent number: 4990725
    Abstract: The device locates the position x of the point of connection of one of the electric conductors (2) of unknown ohmic values, connected to unknown separate points of a collecting resistor (R.sub.1) of unknown but constant ohmic value per unit length, to which a standard resistor (R.sub.e) is also connected whose ohmic value is a known optimal multiple (k) of that of R.sub.1. The superposition of two such devices, separated by small rods of elongated form, may serve to create a dependable and inexpensive opaque or transparent panel allowing the locating of the position (x, y) of the one of its points as soon as a slight pressure is exerted on this point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Aid 3 Group Ltd.
    Inventor: Francois Mizzi
  • Patent number: 4723195
    Abstract: The assembly comprises a casing and a PC-Board in sheet form arranged therein, having a comb-spring and projecting freely into a recess of the wall of the casing. The lower face of the PC-board is furnished with a set of conductive pathways leading to microchips to be connected to an independent electric system by bending the PC-board sheet so as to make contact with a second set of homologous conductive pathways belonging to said system. This bending is obtained by displacing a shoe pushing a cylindrical bar freely engaged in a slot of the wall of the casing in communication with the recess, the bar lying on the structure formed by the combining and the PC-board sheet.The electrical contact between both sets of conductive pathways can be interrupted by moving the shoe axially in a first direction corresponding to the bending of the PC-board sheet; a motion of the shoe in a second opposite direction re-establishes the electrical contact conditions of both sets of pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1988
    Assignee: RDI Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Francois Mizzi, Jean-Jacques Grimaud
  • Patent number: 4620062
    Abstract: The device consists of two superimposed substrates (1 and 5) each carrying a grid of orthogonal conductive tracks (2 and so forth) facing each other from grid to grid and kept at a distance from each other by spacing rods (4). The tracks of each grid are attached to linear resistances (R.sub.AX and R.sub.AY) designed to be simultaneously connected, one to a direct-current reference potential and the other to a potential sensor, and conversely. This sensor can thus receive analog signals which are characteristic of the position of any point on the substrate (5) which is formed by a soft membrane, on which substrate a pressure is exerted which puts at least one track (6) of the grid associated with this substrate (5) into contact with one track (2) belonging to the grid associated with the other substrate (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Assignee: RDI Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Francois Mizzi, Jean-Louis Bellon