Patents by Inventor Phillip D. Baker

Phillip D. Baker 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: 6055823
    Abstract: A refreshment center having a modular construction and including a mini door and a frame is described. The mini door is fabricated and assembled separate from the frame, and the mini door includes a hinge system and a trigger. The mini door provides quick and convenient access to the refreshment center by being simple and easy to open and close. The frame, in an exemplary embodiment, is a one piece plastic molded part which serves as the main structural member of the assembly. The frame includes first and second spaced apart planar members, and further includes a keeper slot and a keeper for being inserted within the slot. The keeper extends from the slot and at least partially through a keeper slot in the door trim. The frame further includes a switch cavity for housing at least a portion of a switch assembly. A switch bracket is provided to be secured over the switch cavity and is engaged to the frame by a screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Phillip D. Baker, Gordon Turner Walker, Dennis Paul Matz, Gerald Lee Mitchell, Joseph Murphy Miller, Charles William Nelson, Bruce Lloyd Ruark, Jerry Clyde Martin, Michael Joseph McCauley, John Joseph Domagala, Duane Jubenville, Michael Stephen Csernik, Mark Walter Steiner
  • Patent number: 5579778
    Abstract: A method and device for indirect, quantitative estimation of cardiac output utilizing invasive, indirect techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Phillip D. Baker, Joseph Orr, Dwayne R. Westenskow, Royce W. Johnson
  • Patent number: 5437503
    Abstract: A modular storage drawer assembly includes a molded drawer having bottom, side and rear walls and a front wall which is only partly as high as the side walls. A molded front module includes a rectangular frame. The drawer and frame include mating projections and openings to attach the frame to the drawer. The frame has a central opening and a panel is positioned over the opening. The frame and panel have interfitting edges and the panel includes a rib which protects the junction between the edges. The panel includes ventilation openings and a slide control member is mounted to selectively expose or close the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Phillip D. Baker, Claude L. Blake
  • Patent number: 5366284
    Abstract: A refrigerator storage drawer system includes a drawer having side walls with upper ledges terminating in downwardly projecting lips. Spaced apart support structures support the lips for sliding movement of the drawer. Each support includes a pair of slide type support bearings spaced apart along the support. The bearings on one side of the drawer closely interfit with the drawer to provide smooth, non-binding operation of the drawer. The bearings on the other side of the drawer provide wide slide bearing surfaces which accommodate tolerance build-up in the system. An additional bearing is positioned on the support structure above the drawer ledge, forward of the rear one of the support bearings and engages the drawer ledge if the drawer tends to tilt downwardly as it is pulled out of the refrigerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1994
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Phillip D. Baker, John T. Ulmer, Claude L. Blake
  • Patent number: 5339818
    Abstract: A method and device for indirect, quantitative estimation of blood pressure attributes and similar variable physiological parameters utilizing indirect techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Phillip D. Baker, Joseph A. Orr, Dwayne R. Westenskow, Timothy P. Egbert
  • Patent number: 5230342
    Abstract: There is disclosed herein a method of obtaining certain information about the blood pressure of a given patient by means of a particular blood pressure technique, specifically by means of oscillometry, in which the pressurizable pressure transducing bladder located adjacent and cooperating with a particular artery of the patient, is used in combination with means for pressurizing the bladder in a controlled way in order to provide the desired information. The particular artery used is the patient's supraorbital artery which is readily accessible in a specific area just above the eyebrow of substantially all patients. There is also disclosed herein a blood pressure transducing bladder assembly which is specifically designed to easily access the supraorbital artery of substantially all patients using the eyebrow and nose of each patient as a frame of reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Assignee: Baxter International Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Bobo, Jr., Dwayne R. Westenskow, Phillip D. Baker
  • Patent number: D325026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Co. Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Murphy, C. James Mack, Phillip D. Baker, James D. Norris