Patents by Inventor Robert Bopp

Robert Bopp 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: 7792284
    Abstract: The shell of an electronic handheld device is adapted for easy and repeated—even frequent—assembly with and disassembly from the electronics, and the shell is washable, preferably in a dishwasher. Preferably, the shell comprises a plurality of parts that can be easily and repeatedly assembled and disassembled by hand without use of tools. For example, the parts of a telephone handset shell are made to be easily snapped together around, and unsnapped from, the handset's electronics, thereby enabling the shells of the handsets of telephones to be washed to have this function performed by unskilled personnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Aggus, Robert Bopp, Warren Brown, Linda Derechailo, Rich Jaccard, Steve Mak, Robert Randall, Charles Truax, Greg Boothe
  • Patent number: 6748791
    Abstract: A damage detection device is used to detect damage in bonded and laminated composite structures. A tap hammer or tap coin containing an acceleration sensor is connected to a circuit that can measure the width of an impact signal and then display the result. The result correlates to local stiffness of a structure. A method of determining the desired signal width and the method of using the damage detection device, includes tapping a known good region and then tapping a suspect region. Readings from the two areas are used to determine whether the suspect region is within an acceptable range. The circuit determines the desired signal width by measuring from the time the impact signal exceeds a threshold to the time it falls below the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Gary E. Georgeson, Jeffrey M. Hansen, Jeffrey R. Kollgaard, Scott W. Lea, J. Robert Bopp