Patents by Inventor Gary D. Balon

Gary D. Balon 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).

  • Docking connector unit
    Patent number: 5411416
    Abstract: A docking connector unit for connecting portable personal computers to various peripheral input/output (I/O) devices such as keyboard, monitor, printer, modem and mouse, comprises, in a first mode, two docking unit assemblies, one of which connects to the I/O ports of a computer, and comprises matching I/O ports and one component of a two-component consolidated electrical connector; the other of which comprises the other component of a two-component consolidated electrical connector, and I/O ports which duplicate the I/O ports of the computer. In a second mode, the first docking unit assembly is in effect permanently installed in the computer, so that the I/O ports of the computer are consolidated as one component of a two-component consolidated electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Gary D. Balon, Ira J. Wells
  • Connector with wire guiding fixture
    Patent number: 5267874
    Abstract: A wire organizer (16) comprises, signal wire receiving passages (22), fingers (19) receiving electrical contacts (9) of an electrical connector assembly (6), and each of the passages (22) that receives a signal wire (2) superposes the signal wire (2) over one of the contacts (9) for joined connection of the signal wire (2) to the contact (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1993
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Keith S. Koegel, Reuben E. Ney, William E. Zelko, Charles A. Miller, Mark A. Wojcicki, Gary D. Balon
  • Wire feeding means
    Patent number: 4135378
    Abstract: Feeding apparatus for feeding material for a predetermined distance past a predetermined point on a feed-path comprises a pair of feed rollers, one of which is coupled to a stepping motor. A sensing means in the form of a light beam is provided on the feeding path at the predetermined point and when the material being fed intersects and interrupts this light beam, a control means for the stepping motor commences to count pulses transmitted to the motor. After a number of pulses have been counted which causes the motor to feed the material precisely to the predetermined location, the motor is stopped. The control means also has means for actuating a further apparatus (such as a crimping press) which performs an operation on the material. This control means is effective to delay energization of the crimping press is the press is not in a state of readiness for performing the crimping operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: Gary D. Balon