Patents by Inventor Robert Egger
Robert Egger 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).
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Publication number: 20200179154Abstract: A head support includes a chin member, a chest member, a multi-position connection, and a strap. The chin member includes a chin engagement surface. The chest member includes a chest engagement surface. The multi-position connection is located between the chest member and the chin member, and is adapted to maintain an angle between the chest member and the chin member in a collapsed angle of a collapsed configuration and in a plurality of expanded angles greater than the collapsed angle. The multi-position connection includes an angle adjustment actuator adapted to permit the angle between the chest member and the chin member to be changed or maintained. The strap is configured to extend from first and second sides of the chest support and around the user's neck or head when the chest member is engaged with the user's chest.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: James Stafford, Roger Minkow, Robert Egger, Piet Van Der Velde
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Patent number: 8132824Abstract: A bicycle having a wheel (e.g., a rear wheel) and a frame supported by the wheel. The frame includes a wheel support and a stay extending from the wheel support. A stay protector resiliently engages the stay and comprises a body member including a resilient material adapted to resiliently engage the stay, and a guard member positioned on (e.g., protruding beyond) an outer surface of the body member (e.g., on a top portion and/or bottom portion of the body member). Preferably, the stay includes a molded image on a central portion that is not covered by the guard member. In one embodiment, the guard member comprises a material that has a different hardness than the resilient material of the body member. For example, the guard member can comprise a material that is harder than the resilient material of the body member.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2010Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.Inventors: Brandon Dale Sloan, Joseph Edward Buckley, F. Robert Egger
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Publication number: 20100320722Abstract: A bicycle having a wheel (e.g., a rear wheel) and a frame supported by the wheel. The frame includes a wheel support and a stay extending from the wheel support. A stay protector resiliently engages the stay and comprises a body member including a resilient material adapted to resiliently engage the stay, and a guard member positioned on (e.g., protruding beyond) an outer surface of the body member (e.g., on a top portion and/or bottom portion of the body member). Preferably, the stay includes a molded image on a central portion that is not covered by the guard member. In one embodiment, the guard member comprises a material that has a different hardness than the resilient material of the body member. For example, the guard member can comprise a material that is harder than the resilient material of the body member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS, INC.Inventors: Brandon Dale Sloan, Joseph Edward Buckley, F. Robert Egger
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Patent number: 7793963Abstract: A bicycle having a wheel and a frame supported by the wheel. The frame includes a wheel support and a stay extending from the wheel support. A stay protector resiliently engages the stay. In one embodiment, the stay includes a tubular-shaped member having an exterior surface, and the stay protector is contoured to substantially match the exterior surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2008Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.Inventors: Brandon Dale Sloan, Joseph Edward Buckley, F. Robert Egger
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Publication number: 20090295120Abstract: A bicycle having a wheel and a frame supported by the wheel. The frame includes a wheel support and a stay extending from the wheel support. A stay protector resiliently engages the stay. In one embodiment, the stay comprises a tubular-shaped member having an exterior surface, and the stay protector is contoured to substantially match the exterior surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2008Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS, INC.Inventors: Brandon Dale Sloan, Joseph Edward Buckley, F. Robert Egger
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Publication number: 20070149714Abstract: Provided is a composition comprising a fluorocarbon polymer, a radical initiator, and a first curing co-agent. The first curing co-agent comprises at least one silicon-containing group selected from a hydrocarbyl silane and a hydrocarbyl silazane. Furthermore, the first curing co-agent is substantially free of siloxane groups and comprises at least one polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated group. Also provided are the reaction product of these compositions and a method of making an elastomer comprising curing these compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2005Publication date: June 28, 2007Inventors: Eric Adair, Peter Bissinger, Steven Corveleyn, Robert Eggers, Kai Lochhaas, Werner Grootaert
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Publication number: 20060242228Abstract: A client-server network environment is temporarily transformed into a grid computing environment through the deployment of a network-booted grid operating system to each of a plurality of network clients. Each participating client operates in the client-server mode under a local operating system. At an appropriate time, a server transmits to each client a thin-client boot image (a dynamically built customized image or an image obtained from a store of predefined boot images) along with a grid application for which the thin-client has been optimized for peak performance. Each client re-boots using the thin-client image, thereby entering the grid mode and allowing substantially all of its computing resources to be dedicated to executing the grid application. At a later time, the server directs that each client terminate the grid application and re-boot in its respective local operating system, reverting again to the client-server mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2005Publication date: October 26, 2006Applicant: International Business Machines (IBM) CorporationInventors: Robert Eggers, Darren Douglas
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Patent number: 6901165Abstract: The method enables automatic triggering of pattern recognition tasks. A histogram of the frequency distribution of the gray-scale values of the image is determined periodically and repeatedly from the available image information. The characteristics of the histogram are determined, and the characteristics are used as the basis for establishing whether a relevant pattern is present. If the relevant pattern is found to be present, the pattern recognition process is initiated.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2000Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Robert Egger, Ernst Haselsteiner, Kurt Heschgl, Gerd Hribernig, Wolfgang Marius, Arno Raunegger, Claudia Windisch
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Publication number: 20050039565Abstract: An ergonomic handgrip with medical benefits for improving the design of handgrips such that they reduce fatigue and offer other features that are of real medical benefit to the user. Our invention reduces this to practice with an ergonomic handgrip that offers motorcycle riders improved control over the steering/throttle mechanism, and that mitigates ulnar neuropathy, including related numbness. In addition, it allows the rider additional hand leverage on the throttle, thereby reducing the pressure required to operate it. This invention can be applied to a broad range of products, improving handgrips in fields such as recreation, machine operation and, as in the motorcycle handgrip, transportation. The inventive device includes novel features that are not found in the prior art. The first component is an outward protrusion of the rear portion of the grip, that is positioned towards the portion of the palm that lies under the fourth and fifth (ring and pinkie) fingers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2004Publication date: February 24, 2005Inventors: Roger Minkow, Andrew Farquharson, Robert Egger
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Patent number: 6425142Abstract: An improved retention mechanism for a bicycle helmet is provided. A helmet including a retention mechanism comprises a shell for protecting a head of a person and a fit system elastically coupled to the shell. The fit system comprises a bowl designed to fit an occipital region of the person's head and a hinge for coupling the fit system to the shell, the hinge permitting the fit system to move. The fit system further including a spring element for positioning the bowl against the occipital region of the person's head, to stabilize the helmet against the person's head.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2001Date of Patent: July 30, 2002Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.Inventors: Steve Sasaki, Kurt Workman, F. Robert Egger
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Publication number: 20010022005Abstract: An improved retention mechanism for a bicycle helmet is provided. A helmet including a retention mechanism comprises a shell for protecting a head of a person and a fit system elastically coupled to the shell. The fit system comprises a bowl designed to fit an occipital region of the person's head and a hinge for coupling the fit system to the shell, the hinge permitting the fit system to move. The fit system further including a spring element for positioning the bowl against the occipital region of the person's head, to stabilize the helmet against the person's head.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2001Publication date: September 20, 2001Inventors: Steven Sasaki, Kurt Workman, F. Robert Egger
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Patent number: 6226802Abstract: An improved retention mechanism for a bicycle helmet is provided. A helmet including a retention mechanism comprises a shell for protecting a head of a person and a fit system elastically coupled to the shell. The fit system comprises a bowl designed to fit an occipital region of the person's head and a hinge for coupling the fit system to the shell, the hinge permitting the fit system to move. The fit system further including a spring element for positioning the bowl against the occipital region of the person's head, to stabilize the helmet against the person's head.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2000Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.Inventors: Steve Sasaki, Kurt Workman, F. Robert Egger
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Patent number: 6105176Abstract: A bicycle helmet includes a helmet body having a plurality of vents, including a front vent that is wider than high. Also, a bicycle helmet includes a helmet body having a plurality of vents, including at least one rear exit port opening outward onto a surface that is below the most rearward margin of the helmet body. Preferred helmets include both such a front vent and a pair of such rear exit ports, and preferred helmets include at least one and more preferably two lengthwise interior channels that may conduct air rearwardly within the helmet over the head of the wearer from the front vent or to the rear exit port or ports, or both from the anterior vent and to the rear exit port or ports. Methods for fabricating a helmet according to the invention include forming the helmet body of two separate parts and affixing the two formed parts together.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1998Date of Patent: August 22, 2000Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.Inventor: F. Robert Egger
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Patent number: D446031Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2000Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.Inventors: Roger Minkow, Lance J. Bohlen, F. Robert Egger
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Patent number: D526092Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2004Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Inventors: Robert Egger, Matthew A. Rhoades
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Patent number: D463676Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2000Date of Patent: October 1, 2002Assignee: Specialized Bycicle Components, Inc.Inventors: Roger Minkow, Lance J. Bohlen, F. Robert Egger
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Patent number: D429907Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1999Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.Inventors: Roger Minkow, Lance J. Bohlen, F. Robert Egger
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Patent number: D430413Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1999Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.Inventors: Roger Minkow, Lance J. Bohlen, F. Robert Egger
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Patent number: D430744Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1999Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.Inventors: Roger Minkow, Lance J. Bohlen, F. Robert Egger
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Patent number: D430745Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1999Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.Inventors: Roger Minkow, Lance J. Bohlen, F. Robert Egger