Patents Represented by Attorney H. P. Terry

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  • Adaptive autopilot
    Patent number: 4692868
    Abstract: An adaptive autopilot for Marine Vessles which seeks to obtain minimum combined hull and rudder drag while maintaining heading control by providing optimum rudder activity through a series of iterative steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1987
    Assignee: Sperry Corporation
    Inventors: Charles R. Wesner, John F. Yancey, Albert L. Coleman
  • Keyboard switch
    Patent number: 4652704
    Abstract: An improved multiple circuit keypad switch of the type in which a rigid key having a shorting puck on its underside is supported over exposed traces of a printed circuit card by a flexible membrane so that the puck shorts designated exposed traces to close all circuits when the key is depressed, the improvement arising from the layout of the exposed traces in which individual circuits are arranged in concentric rings and the shorting puck contains shorting elements arranged in corresponding concentric rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Assignee: Sperry Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald K. Franklin