Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Bruce A. Jagger
  • Patent number: 8286402
    Abstract: A system of interlocking building blocks includes one or more building blocks having a generally right triangular planform, a generally rectangular elevation form, and a periphery generally defined by respective generally rectangular side panels. Each building block has alternating male and female fastener elements arrayed generally around the periphery. The male fastener elements on opposed edges of the same generally rectangular side panel are offset generally diagonally from one another. Each male fastener element is aligned generally normally with a female fastener element on an opposed edge of the same generally rectangular side panel. The building blocks may be formed by folding single flat sheets, and may be made from cardboard, plastic, metal or other conventional materials. Each building block may be coated or filled with structurally reinforcing or insulative material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Inventor: Gregg Fleishman
  • Patent number: 8201867
    Abstract: An omni-positional hoist ring assembly including a bushing element that includes a sleeve with an axial length, a proximal end and a distal end. A load bearing flange is radially disposed about the proximal end of the sleeve. The sleeve has an internal thread extending at least part way of the axial length of the sleeve. A mounting screw element has a major axis, a head, and a shank disposed generally co-axially around the major axis. The shank includes a threaded shank portion and a bearing portion. The bearing portion is a generally cylindrical axially extending portion of the shank that has a diameter approximately equal to the minor diameter of the thread in the threaded shank portion. A thrust washer element is provided between the head and the distal end of the sleeve. A body element receives the in-turned opposed ends of the legs of a lifting loop element in sockets. The lifting loop is free to pivot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: MJT Holdings LLC
    Inventor: John Thomeczek
  • Patent number: 8171950
    Abstract: A compressed gas regulator of a piston type is disclosed in which a regulator is configured with an input valve situated entirely inside a compressed air canister, which regulator is then attached to a paintball gun, marker or other device for providing discrete charges of gas at a predetermined pressure to the attached device. The overall size and weight of the regulator are minimized, which allows increased capabilities to the user. A regulator overpressurization port vents behind a conventional safety gauge for safety purposes. Fill, gage, and canister overpressurization rupture ports are interconnected with a fill channel that extends from the canister to the ports without intersecting or interfering with the regulating components within the regulator. The input valve seat face is surrounded by a shallow generally conical surface within an input plenum. The shallow generally conical surface extends at approximately 5 to 15 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: YSN Imports, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Colby, Sam Newman, Stanley Gabrel
  • Patent number: 8113734
    Abstract: An eyebolt assembly is provided in which a skirt member is reinforced by radially projecting diametrically extending ribs. A fixed lifting eye projects from one side of the skirt, and a mounting stud projects from the opposite side. The mounting stud is double threaded with one thread being adapted to mate with a threaded bore in the body of the eyebolt assembly, and the other thread being matched to a threaded bore in a load. The same eyebolt body can be employed with a plurality of different mounting studs, which simplifies inventorying eyebolt assemblies to meet all of the different threaded bores that may occur in different loads. Only the mounting studs need to be threaded to match the loads. The skirts are provided with striking faces so that they can be tightened and loosened by striking them with a hammer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: MJT Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Tony J. Alba, Phil Stranahan
  • Patent number: 7968352
    Abstract: The invention describes a method of achieving superconductivity in Group IV semiconductors via the addition of doubly charged impurity atoms to the crystal lattice. The doubly charged impurities function as composite bosons in the semiconductor. Increasing the density of the composite bosons to a level where their wavefunctions overlap, results in the formation of a Bose condensate. The concentration of the doubly charged impurity atoms in the host lattice and the binding energy of the impurities are important factors in determining whether a Bose condensate will form. Doubly charged impurities must be present in the semiconductor at a concentration at which they exhibit overlapping wavefunctions, but still exist within the crystal lattice as bosons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Inventor: William G. Wise
  • Patent number: 7787240
    Abstract: An wearable assembly wherein a display system is incorporated into an article of clothing, such as a video jacket or vest. The display system includes at least an output device, a mass storage device, and an input device. The output device includes at least a display device with a substantially rigid display screen. The mass storage device is in content providing relationship to the output device. The input device includes operator accessible controls controllingly associated with the output and mass storage devices. An electrical power source is in electrical power supplying relationship to at least the display system. A carrying harness supports at least the display screen on a torso of a person wearing the article of clothing. The display screen is supported by the carrying harness so that the display screen is generally weight bearingly independent of the article of clothing. A pad is positioned between the carrier's torso and the display screen in motion stabilizing relationship with the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Inventor: Dudley Swain
  • Patent number: 7784760
    Abstract: A motorcycle turntable includes an elongated ramp assembly pivotally supported for slidable rotation about an approximate mid-point. The elongated ramp assembly includes an outer low friction skid plate attached to its reverse side generally adjacent each of its opposed outer ends. The weight of a conventional motorcycle is sufficient to cause the elongated ramp assembly to flex so that its ends bend downwardly towards the floor. As the elongated ramp assembly with its drooping ends is rotated about its midpoint on a pedestal-bearing assembly, the low friction skid plates skid across the floor. Most of the weight is born by the pedestal-bearing assembly, which includes at least one low friction plate. The thickness of the skid plates and the flexibility of the structure are such as to allow the ends to droop into light contact with the floor. This permits slidable rotation to be accomplished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Inventor: Jerry Ramsey
  • Patent number: 7783519
    Abstract: An eyebolt inventory control method in which a plurality of eyebolt bodies are provided. The eyebolt bodies all have about the same nominal dimensions and they include a skirt member that is reinforced by radially projecting diametrically extending ribs. The skirts are provided with striking faces so that they can be tightened and loosened by striking them with a hammer. A fixed lifting eye projects from one side of the skirt, and a mounting stud projects from the opposite side. The mounting stud is double threaded with one thread being adapted to mate with a threaded bore in the body of the eyebolt assembly, and the other thread being matched to a threaded bore in a load. The same eyebolt body can be employed with a plurality of different mounting studs, which simplifies inventorying eyebolt assemblies to meet all of the different threaded bores that may occur in different loads. Only the mounting studs need to bear threads that match the threads in the loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: MJT Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Tony J. Alba, Phil Stranahan
  • Patent number: 7780745
    Abstract: This invention is a method of fabricating a conformal lithium polymer battery comprising the steps of: selecting a slab of lithium polymer battery material of a desired height, containing a desired number of cells; freezing the slab; vertically cutting the slab to a desired shape; attaching a lead to each anode conductor; and attaching a lead to a each cathode conductor. The slab may contain one or many cells. The leads may be made of multistranded, metallic wire, metallic ribbon, low melting point alloy, self-healing metal, and litz wire. Attachment is accomplished so as to minimize tension on the leads. The cut slab may need to be deburred after cutting and before attaching leads. Preferably, burr formation is prevented by recessing the edge of the anodic or cathodic half cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Inventor: Martin S. Silverman
  • Patent number: 7748407
    Abstract: A compressed gas regulator of a piston type is disclosed in which a regulator is configured with an input valve situated entirely inside a compressed air canister, which regulator is then attached to a paintball gun, marker or other device for providing discrete charges of gas at a predetermined pressure to the attached device. The overall size and weight of the regulator are minimized, which allows increased capabilities to the user. A regulator overpressurization port vents behind a conventional safety gauge for safety purposes. Fill, gage, and canister overpressurization rupture ports are interconnected with a fill channel that extends from the canister to the ports without intersecting or interfering with the regulating components within the regulator. The input valve seat face is surrounded by a shallow generally conical surface within an input plenum. The shallow generally conical surface extends at approximately 5 to 15 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: YSN Imports, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Colby
  • Patent number: 7719300
    Abstract: Reliability of results of a test such as a wafer burn-in test is raised. The present invention is a method for testing a plurality of semiconductor devices in a semiconductor wafer held in a cartridge. Each of the semiconductor devices has electrodes and the cartridge has a lower cartridge portion provided with a chuck holding the semiconductor wafer thereon, and an upper cartridge portion provided with a probe assembly having probes capable of contacting said electrodes. After constituting the cartridge and before placing the cartridge in the thermostatic chamber, a contact check to determine whether or not electrical contact between the electrodes of the semiconductor devices in the cartridge and the probes of the probe assembly is appropriate is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventors: Kenichi Washio, Katsuo Yasuta, Umenori Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 7708487
    Abstract: A binder spine with a generally rectangular back panel that has a width and a length. The back panel is bounded by generally opposed longitudinal edges. The opposed longitudinal edges are joined through living hinges to adjacent side panels. The binder spine is foldable along the living hinges between an open generally flat configuration and a generally closed configuration. At least one post member is located on one of the side panels, and at least one socket member is located on the other side panel. The socket and post members are aligned with one another and include generally cylindrical mating walls. The post and socket members are spaced apart in the open configuration by a distance. The socket and post members are positioned to retainingly interengage one another in the closed configuration to hold the binder spine in that closed configuration. The socket in the socket member receives the post member in a snap fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Inventor: Ellis H. Leibman
  • Patent number: 7705558
    Abstract: A secondary button cell battery that is particularly suited for use in hearing aid appliances, and an associated charging station. Recharging is accomplished without direct conductive connection between the source of the energy and either the battery or its appliance. Radio frequency energy is harvested in an enclosed chamber in a charging station and applied to the recharging of the button cell. Such energy is harvested by the use of one or more energy harvesting diodes connected in parallel with the battery. Multiple diodes connected in parallel or serial may be used to adjust charging current or voltage or both. Charge control is provided by directly or indirectly detecting the level of charge on the cell. Where the associated appliance is a hearing aid, the charge level detection may be accomplished acoustically by determining the characteristics of the sound emitted by the hearing aid, and charging is accomplished with the cell within the hearing aid appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Denovo Research, LLC
    Inventor: Martin S. Silverman
  • Patent number: 7695331
    Abstract: A low cost crimpable and sealable contact assembly including a contact member and a tubular sleeve member. The contact member is capable of being manually continuity crimped to a tip of an electrically conductive core of an electrically insulated wire. The tubular sleeve member is then deformed to hermetically seal it to the insulation on the wire, and the contact member. The hermetic seal protects the core from corrosion. This hermetic seal is particularly important where the core comprises aluminum. Separating the crimping and sealing into separate operations permits them to be performed manually. The sleeve member may be comprised of polymeric material, or it may be metallic. The metallic embodiments may be mechanically or electromagnetically deformed. The polymeric sleeve members may, in addition, be heat shrunk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Tri-Star Technology
    Inventor: Alex Kerner
  • Patent number: 7686148
    Abstract: A clutch spring kit that is particularly suited to replacing a standard motorcycle pressure plate in a diaphragm spring biased clutch assembly. The clutch assembly is activated by centrifugal force acting on spherical deflection elements. A plurality of pocket elements are generally arranged in an annular array formed in the spring side of a clutch pressure plate. The pocket elements are generally disposed radially inwardly of and adjacent to an upstanding lip element on the first side of the pressure plate. The pocket elements include ramps that extend within the pocket elements generally outwardly toward the lip element and angularly upwardly towards the spring side. A spherical deflection element, such as a ball bearing, is received in each of the pocket elements for generally radial movement along the ramp. A diaphragm spring, the periphery of which is confined by the lip element, is in spring biasing association with the first side of the pressure plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Inventor: Steven Yetzke
  • Patent number: 7681622
    Abstract: A heterogeneous body having ceramic rich cermet regions in a more ductile metal matrix. The heterogeneous bodies are formed by thermal spray operations on metal substrates. The thermal spray operations apply heat to a cermet powder and project it onto a solid substrate. The cermet powder is composed of complex composite particles in which a ceramic-metallic core particle is coated with a matrix precursor. The cermet regions are generally comprised of complex ceramic-metallic composites that correspond approximately to the core particles. The cermet regions are approximately lenticular shaped with an average width that is at least approximately twice the average thickness. The cermet regions are imbedded within the matrix phase and generally isolated from one another. They have obverse and reverse surfaces. The matrix phase is formed from the matrix precursor coating on the core particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Inventor: Andrew J. Sherman
  • Patent number: 7665141
    Abstract: A method of authenticating a copy of a multi-page document, which includes digitizing a said multi-page document to generate one or more digitized files that together comprise a digitized transcript. A mark that is unique to the preparer of the document, such as a signature, is prepared and digitized. The preparer of the document is allowed to deposit the digitized transcript on an online repository. The operator of the online repository immediately establishes a verification process for the deposited digitized transcript. This verification process includes associating the digitized preparer mark with the deposited digitized transcript, and freezing the transcript, by encrypting it and deriving a checksum. The verification process also include associating a repository mark with the transcript. The operator of the online repository defines, under the direction of at least the preparer of the document, security rights to limit or otherwise control access to the deposited digitized transcript.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Inventor: Ghada Young
  • Patent number: 7662014
    Abstract: A joint system for joining polyhedric facet elements together. Polyhedrons have a plurality of facets. The polyhedric facet elements have facet planes that are generally congruent with the facets of the polyhedrons in which they are found. Various facet elements occupy angular relationships such that they can be joined in rigid stable joints by means of key elements where the planes of the key elements extend generally perpendicular to the planes of each of the facet elements. The joint system is suitable for inter-polyhedron joint systems where the joints include four joint elements, three of which are in the respective polyhedrons that are to be joined, and the fourth is a key element perpendicularly disposed between the other three joint elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Inventor: Gregg R. Fleishman
  • Patent number: 7635515
    Abstract: A heterogeneous body having ceramic rich cermet regions in a more ductile metal matrix. The heterogeneous bodies are formed by thermal spray operations on metal substrates. The thermal spray operations apply heat to a cermet powder and project it onto a solid substrate. The cermet powder is composed of complex composite particles in which a complex ceramic-metallic core particle is coated with a matrix precursor. The cermet regions are generally comprised of complex ceramic-metallic composites that correspond approximately to the core particles. The cermet regions are approximately lenticular shaped with an average width that is at least approximately twice the average thickness. The cermet regions are imbedded within the matrix phase and generally isolated from one another. They have obverse and reverse surfaces. The matrix phase is formed from the matrix precursor coating on the core particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Powdermet, Inc
    Inventor: Andrew J. Sherman
  • Patent number: 7586316
    Abstract: A mounting apparatus that does not compromise the strength of a probe board. The apparatus comprises a probe board spaced from a support member by a spacer. A fixed portion with a female screw hole is mounted on one surface of the probe board. A male screw member is threaded into the screw hole for the purpose of tightening the support member to the probe board at a fixed distance defined by the length of the spacer. The probe board has a support plate. Pluralities of conductive paths penetrate the support plate. A wiring plate wherein wiring paths are connected to corresponding conductive paths, and whose one surface is fixed to the support plate. The other surface is provided with probes corresponding to the wiring paths. The fixed portion includes a female screw member at an area where no conductive paths are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventors: Shinji Kuniyoshi, Hidehiro Kiyofuji, Yuji Miyagi, Kiyotoshi Miura