Patents by Inventor Robert R. Goodrich
Robert R. Goodrich 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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Patent number: 7510439Abstract: A jack assembly for use with a modular electrical plug includes a jack housing. The jack housing includes an electrically non-conductive substrate metalized with a metal shield layer. The jack housing defines a socket adapted to receive the plug. At least one electrical contact is positioned in the socket to engage the plug when the plug is inserted in the socket. An electrically conductive jumper member including a drain wire connector may be mounted on the jack housing. The drain wire connector includes a pair of connector tabs defining a slot therebetween to receive and hold the drain wire.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2007Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North CarolinaInventors: W. Andrew Gordon, Michael Walter Canning, Robert R. Goodrich
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Publication number: 20070287332Abstract: A jack assembly for use with a modular electrical plug includes a jack housing. The jack housing includes an electrically non-conductive substrate metallized with a metal shield layer. The jack housing defines a socket adapted to receive the plug. At least one electrical contact is positioned in the socket to engage the plug when the plug is inserted in the socket. An electrically conductive jumper member including a drain wire connector may be mounted on the jack housing. The drain wire connector includes a pair of connector tabs defining a slot therebetween to receive and hold the drain wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2007Publication date: December 13, 2007Inventors: W. Andrew Gordon, Michael Walter Canning, Robert R. Goodrich
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Patent number: 7249974Abstract: A jack assembly for use with a modular electrical plug includes a jack housing. The jack housing includes an electrically non-conductive substrate metallized with a metal shield layer. The jack housing defines a socket adapted to receive the plug. At least one electrical contact is positioned in the socket to engage the plug when the plug is inserted in the socket. An electrically conductive jumper member including a drain wire connector may be mounted on the jack housing. The drain wire connector includes a pair of connector tabs defining a slot therebetween to receive and hold the drain wire.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2006Date of Patent: July 31, 2007Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North CarolinaInventors: W. Andrew Gordon, Michael Walter Canning, Robert R. Goodrich
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Patent number: 7083472Abstract: A jack assembly for use with a modular electrical plug includes a jack housing. The jack housing includes an electrically non-conductive substrate metallized with a metal shield layer. The jack housing defines a socket adapted to receive the plug. At least one electrical contact is positioned in the socket to engage the plug when the plug is inserted in the socket. An electrically conductive jumper member including a drain wire connector may be mounted on the jack housing. The drain wire connector includes a pair of connector tabs defining a slot therebetween to receive and hold the drain wire.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2005Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: CommScope Solutions Properties, LLCInventors: W. Andrew Gordon, Michael Walter Canning, Robert R. Goodrich
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Patent number: 6663436Abstract: In accordance with the invention, there is provided a telecommunication jack that is free of cross-over sections, has cross-talk characteristics that approach Category 6 levels, and avoids the use of spring contact wires supported in a cantilevered fashion. This is achieved in a preferred implementation by spring terminal contact wires that are arch shaped. Each spring wire has a first leg having an end, a second leg having an end and an apex portion located between the first and second legs where the ends of the legs are supported on a wire board and each end makes electrical contact with separate conductive pads. When utilized in an operating circuit, one end and leg of a spring terminal contact wire is coupled to a conductive pad on the wire board that is in a current carrying signal path, and the other end and leg of that spring terminal contact wire is coupled to a different conductive pad on the wire board adapted for connection to a cross-talk compensating component.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2002Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Avaya Technology Corp.Inventors: Jamie R. Arnett, Robert R. Goodrich, David L. Reed, Paul J. Straub
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Patent number: 6547604Abstract: A communication jack connector includes a wiring board having a front region, and a number of contact wires for engaging and making electrical connections with corresponding terminals of a conforming plug connector. The contact wires have free ends formed to be deflected resiliently in a direction toward the front region of the wiring board when engaging the plug connector. At least one clearance opening is formed in the wiring board at a location where the free end of a corresponding contact wire would otherwise contact an upper surface of the board when deflected by the plug connector. The clearance opening is dimensioned so that part of the free end of the contact wire deflects into the opening a certain distance from the upper surface of wiring board while the contact wire maintains sufficient resilient force to connect electrically with the corresponding terminal of the plug connector.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2002Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Avaya Technology Corp.Inventors: Jaime R. Arnett, Robert R. Goodrich, Paul J. Straub, Jr., Ronald L. Wild
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Publication number: 20020160662Abstract: A communication jack connector includes a wiring board having a front region, and a number of contact wires for engaging and making electrical connections with corresponding terminals of a conforming plug connector. The contact wires have free ends formed to be deflected resiliently in a direction toward the front region of the wiring board when engaging the plug connector. At least one clearance opening is formed in the wiring board at a location where the free end of a corresponding contact wire would otherwise contact an upper surface of the board when deflected by the plug connector. The clearance opening is dimensioned so that part of the free end of the contact wire deflects into the opening a certain distance from the upper surface of wiring board while the contact wire maintains sufficient resilient force to connect electrically with the corresponding terminal of the plug connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2002Publication date: October 31, 2002Applicant: Avaya Technology Corp.Inventors: Jaime R. Arnett, Robert R. Goodrich, Paul J. Straub, Ronald L. Wild
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Patent number: 5088587Abstract: A coin chute includes a coin entrance, clear-out apparatus, coin processing apparatus, a return chute and a coin ejector. The clear-out apparatus is positioned between the coin entrance and the coin processing apparatus. It comprises a cavity for trapping unwanted material stuffed into the coin entrance and a pair of sidewalls (inner and outer) that move in response to the operation of the coin ejector. A deflector plate, positioned within the cavity, assists in trapping the unwanted material. The outer sidewall permits trapped material to fall into the return chute while the inner sidewall pushes this material into the return chute. The coin ejector includes an actuator that is operatively connected to the sidewalls of the clear-out apparatus by a helical spring whose restorative force is sufficient to urge material trapped within the cavity into the return chute, but not sufficient to damage the coin ejector when excessive force is applied to the actuator.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1990Date of Patent: February 18, 1992Assignee: AT&T Bell LaboratoriesInventors: Robert R. Goodrich, James D. York
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Patent number: 4699443Abstract: The invention relates to a modular jack for telephone equipment. The jack has a pair of switch contact springs which are activated only when a plug of a specific shape is inserted into the jack.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1986Date of Patent: October 13, 1987Assignees: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Information Systems Inc., AT&T Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert R. Goodrich, Edmund N. Sepe
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Patent number: 4451948Abstract: A tool for stripping insulation from coaxial or multiple conductor cables is disclosed. The tool consists of a support assembly (1) with an integrally connected spring (5) which swivels between an up and down position. The support assembly (1) contains a channel (2) which runs along its length where the spring (5) rests in its down position. A semicircular slot (4) receives the insulated cable. Embedded within support assembly (1) is a knife blade (7), a portion of which is exposed in the slot (4). The knife blade penetrates the insulation when the spring (5) is in its down position causing an incision through the insulation. A ring is placed at one end of the tool in which the user can insert a finger and thereby twirl the tool around to effect relative rotation of the tool and cable to cut through the cable over its entire circumference.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1982Date of Patent: June 5, 1984Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, IncorporatedInventors: Robert R. Goodrich, Charles L. Krumreich, Robert J. O'Connor
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Patent number: 4246079Abstract: A process for reducing the sulfur concentration in a fluid, such as a hydrocarbon gas stream is disclosed. The process comprises contacting the fluid with an aqueous alkali metal hydroxide solution and subsequently contacting the resulting liquid effluent with carbon dioxide to form an aqueous alkali metal carbonate salt solution and a volatile sulfur compound. The aqueous alkali metal carbonate salt solution is passed into an electrolytic cell wherein the alkali metal salt is converted to alkali metal hydroxide.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1979Date of Patent: January 20, 1981Assignee: Exxon Research & Engineering Co.Inventors: Robert R. Goodrich, Robert G. Kunz, Sydney Lipton, Keith Owen
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Patent number: 3948770Abstract: Mixtures of finely dispersed oil droplets in sea water which are often present in oil tanker compartments may be effectively separated by a chemical flocculating agent comprising a dry powdered mixture of an anionic polyelectrolyte and a sodium or calcium montmorillonite clay.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1975Date of Patent: April 6, 1976Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Robert R. Goodrich, Edward R. Corino
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Patent number: D402983Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1997Date of Patent: December 22, 1998Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ronald L. Wild, Robert R. Goodrich, Ray G. Jackson