Patents by Inventor Gary E. Lang

Gary E. Lang 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: 5363524
    Abstract: A pillow adjustable to maximize comfortable support of the cervical area of the neck and head includes a cover comprising upper and lower fabric cover panels forming therebetween an interior space filled with a flowable filler material such as buckwheat hulls. Internally protruding snap fasteners in vertically aligned locations on inner facing sides of the upper and lower cover panels are fastenable and unfastenable by application of external pressing or pulling forces applied to the cover panels, thereby forming or unforming subdivisions of the interior space of the pillow into which filler material may be externally manipulated into or out of. In the preferred embodiment, a rectangular array of fasteners offset to one long side of a rectangular pillow allows narrow or wide tubular neck support sections to be formed by subdivisions within the pillow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Makura Corporation
    Inventor: Gary E. Lang
  • Patent number: 4470195
    Abstract: A jumper cable is formed from conventional ribbon cable having partial conductors embedded in insulating material, either by laminating insulated or uninsulated conductors between plastic films, by extruding a plastic film around insulated or uninsulated conductors, or by bonding insulated conductors together, and subsequently separating the resulting individual insulated conductors at spaced intervals, forming a jumper of increased flexibility and reformability for use in confined spaces, without the need for subsequent removal of any part of the ribbon cable. The ribbon cable is preferably formed in sections, each section containing an oblique section of separated conductors, and separated by an oblique stripped area of uninsulated conductors, adjacent insulated cable sections being offset from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1984
    Assignee: Allied Corporation
    Inventor: Gary E. Lang
  • Patent number: 4406915
    Abstract: A jumper cable is formed from conventional ribbon cable having parallel conductors embedded in insulating material, either by laminating insulated or uninsulated conductors between plastic films, by extruding a plastic film around insulated or uninsulated conductors, or by bonding insulated conductors together, and subsequently separating the resulting individual insulated conductors at spaced intervals, forming a jumper of increased flexibility and reformability for use in confined spaces, without the need for subsequent removal of any part of the ribbon cable. The ribbon cable is preferably formed in sections, each section containing an oblique section of separated conductors, and separated by an oblique stripped area of uninsulated conductors, adjacent insulated cable sections being offset from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1983
    Assignee: Allied Corporation
    Inventor: Gary E. Lang
  • Patent number: 4165559
    Abstract: This invention relates to a re-formable multi-conductor flat, or ribbon, cable, which comprises a plurality of spaced insulated conductors, aligned in a predetermined, laterally spaced, pattern along a single sheet or film of plastic, the single sheet of plastic being only intermittently bonded to the laterally spaced conductors. The intermittent bonding pattern preferably utilized is one that results in transverse, peelably bonded, areas extending across the width of the entire cable alternating with transverse unbonded areas which also extend across the width of the entire cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1979
    Assignee: Eltra Corporation
    Inventors: Roger J. Lang, Gary E. Lang
  • Patent number: 4113335
    Abstract: This invention relates to a re-formable multiconductor flat, or ribbon, cable, which comprises a plurality of spaced insulated conductors, aligned in a predetermined, laterally spaced, pattern along a single sheet or film of plastic, the single sheet of plastic being only intermittently bonded to the laterally spaced conductors. The intermittent bonding pattern preferably utilized is one that results in transverse, peelably bonded, areas extending across the width of the entire cable alternating with transverse unbonded areas which also extend across the width of the entire cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Eltra Corporation
    Inventors: Roger J. Lang, Gary E. Lang