Patents by Inventor Robert C. Wingrove

Robert C. Wingrove 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: 6421885
    Abstract: An assembly for use in a portable device casing to allow solderless electrical contact members to be used in cooperation with a power supply and components designed to be powered by the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Rehabilicare, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles T. Mowers, Robert C. Wingrove
  • Patent number: 6064911
    Abstract: An electrotherapy device which provides neuromuscular and high voltage pulsed galvanic physiological stimulation and includes a common cabling assembly and a common electrode assembly for simultaneously accommodating the neuromuscular and high voltage pulsed galvanic stimulation modes, whereby neuromuscular and pulsed galvanic stimulation may be provided to a patient simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Rehabilicare, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert C. Wingrove
  • Patent number: 5800458
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compliance monitor for use in a stimulator unit used in various devices to provide electrotherapy. The compliance monitor comprises a current sensing element, a controller, and a timer. The current sensing element is electrically connected to the controller, and the timer is operably connected to the controller. The current sensing element is located in the stimulator unit to monitor the current supplied through an output channel of the stimulator unit. When the current sensing element senses that current is supplied to through the output channel, the current sensing element outputs a signal to the controller. The controller upon receiving such a signal enables the timer to be started. When a stimulator unit provides a pulsating current, the controller has the capability to not stop the timer when the pulsating current is on a low cycle, during which period no current is being supplied to the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Rehabilicare, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert C. Wingrove
  • Patent number: 5540735
    Abstract: A stimulation apparatus is used for treatment of flexing portions of the human body by electrical stimulation. The apparatus has positioning means for firmly holding the flexing portion of the human body. There are two or more stimulation output contacts mounted in the positioning means in predetermined locations relative to each other and the area to be treated with stimulation. A stimulator is electrically connected to the output contacts for introducing electrical stimulation at the output contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Rehabilicare, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert C. Wingrove
  • Patent number: 4309913
    Abstract: A serial release mechanism, a serial release method, and a discharge monitor including the mechanism, which mechanism includes first and subsequent actuators slidable in a frame between working and withdrawn positions, springs urging the subsequent actuators into their working positions, latch tabs carried by the subsequent actuators and triggers resiliently pivoted to the frame for releasably retaining the subsequent actuators in their withdrawn positions, a shaft of noncircular cross section and a plurality of saddles for releasing the triggers of the subsequent actuators and having operating fingers and being rotatable with the shaft and slidable therealong between first positions in which they are aligned with the triggers and second positions in which they are not so aligned, saddle springs resiliently urging the saddles along the shaft into their second positions, and shifter springs carried by the actuators and the frame, and effective when any actuator is in working position to displace the succeeding
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1982
    Assignee: Medical Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: George F. Schwoboda, Robert C. Wingrove
  • Patent number: 4206767
    Abstract: A drainage monitor including a collector and a control unit. The collector has a lower, storage section made up of elongated parallel vertical chambers, a liquid manifold section above the chambers with a plurality of taps aligned with the chambers, and collapsible conduits connecting the taps with the chambers. The control unit includes an arrangement for supporting the collector, chamber valving apparatus aligned with the conduits and operable to compress them so as to prevent liquid flow, releasable solenoid-and-latch apparatus for preventing operation of the valving apparatus, and electrical timing circuitry for releasing the releasable apparatus in a predetermined sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1980
    Assignee: Medical Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert C. Wingrove
  • Patent number: 4181121
    Abstract: A serial release mechanism, and a discharge monitor including the mechanism, which mechanism includes first and subsequent actuators slidable in a frame between working and withdrawn positions, springs urging the subsequent actuators into their working positions, latch tabs carried by the subsequent actuators and triggers resiliently pivoted to the frame for releasably retaining the subsequent actuators in their withdrawn positions, a shaft of noncircular cross section and a plurality of saddles for releasing the triggers of the subsequent actuators and having operating fingers and being rotatable with the shaft and slidable therealong between first positions in which they are aligned with the triggers and second positions in which they are not so aligned, saddle springs resiliently urging the saddles along the shaft into their second positions, and shifter springs carried by the actuators and the frame, and effective when any actuator is in working position to displace the succeeding saddle into its first po
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1980
    Assignee: Medical Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: George F. Schwoboda, Robert C. Wingrove