Patents by Inventor Timothy Branton Hunt

Timothy Branton Hunt 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).

  • Torque limiting closure assembly
    Patent number: 10315024
    Abstract: A closure assembly includes torque limit capabilities facilitating the attachment thereof to a medical connector with sufficient tightness to establish a flow stopping or sealing relation with the medical connector. A housing includes a stop member fixed on the interior thereof and rotatable there with into interruptive engagement with a movement restrictor connected to and movable with a closure cap which includes a flow restrictor. Application of a tightening force to the housing will cause rotation of the stop member into interruptive engagement with the movement restrictor and connected flow restrictor causing forced rotation of the flow restrictor onto attachment with the medical connector, while establishing a predetermined tightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Inventors: Patick Vitello, Jonathan Vitello, Timothy Branton Hunt