Patents Represented by Law Firm Jacobson and Johnson
  • Vibration isolation system for dagger mounted equipment
    Patent number: 7261274
    Abstract: A vibration isolation mount, a vibration isolation system and a method of resiliently mounting a device, and particularly a device that is mounted in a cramped space with the vibration isolation mount including a dagger plate having an elastomer secured thereto to permit a resilient mounting of the dagger plate on a device and a dagger pin for mounting on the support housing for blind engagement with the dagger pin with the dagger pin forming a snug but non-interference fit with a sidewall of an alignment hole in the dagger plate. The method also includes the mounting of a device by resiliently securing a dagger plate to a device and then positioning the device on a dagger pin by moving the device along an axis parallel to the axis of the dagger pin and then securing a further portion of the device to a support housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Richard D. Vatsaas, Wayne E. Eiden, Clarie C. Engelhart, Marie Guion, legal representative, Robert D. Guion, deceased
  • Optical router
    Patent number: 7251393
    Abstract: Optical routers or optical interconnection devices that include an optical coupling method and optical coupling apparatus wherein a plurality of layers that contain optical devices that require optical coupling can be optically coupled by inserting optical coupling elements therein to transfer a light signal from one location on one layer to another location on a different layer. The optical coupling elements can include various light directing members such as reflectors, beam splitters/combiners or other components that can act on a light signal to modify, or control the light signal in a desired manner. In addition, an optical coupling elements can be transparent to the light signal so as not affect the direction or the integrity of the light signal as it passes through the optical coupling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Rick C. Stevens, Kevin J. Thorson
  • Shock and vibration isolation station with quadral support
    Patent number: 7246785
    Abstract: A shock isolated operator station wherein a set of quadral elastomer mounts provide substantial static support as well as isolate equipment supported thereon from shock and vibrations forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Robert James Monson, Julia A. Neuman, Wesley E. Revely
  • Modular assault course
    Patent number: 7246471
    Abstract: A panel for field erecting an assault course with the panel supporting a bullet retaining member on at least one face with the panel erectable on a base member and securable to similar or identical panels to form an assault course and a method for field erecting of the assault course comprising the laying of a base member on top of a terrain surface and then erecting a walled enclosure around the perimeter by positioning the panels on top of the base and then securing the panels to each other and to the base member with fasteners to form the assault course.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Inventors: Fred Riermann, Jonathan Riermann
  • Enhanced gravity casting
    Patent number: 7246650
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for enhanced gravity casting wherein a portion of the mold is maintained in pressure contact with molten metal as it solidifies to allow the mold surface to follow the contraction of the solidifying metal. A further feature of the invention is the use of an air clearance between mold parts that is sufficient to allow air to escape but insufficient to allow molten metal to flow therepast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Water Gremlin Company
    Inventor: Norman E. Peterson
  • User friendly dispensers
    Patent number: 7238280
    Abstract: A user friendly system that permits an unskilled person to quickly add dispersant material to a fluid system with the user friendly system utilizing operator evident dispersant carriers such as drawers, hangars or insertable cartridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: King Technology
    Inventor: Joseph A. King
  • Box extender
    Patent number: 7235739
    Abstract: A junction box extension method and apparatus for creating additional space proximate an existing junction box without having to remove the existing junction box. The junction box extension has an open box with a lip on one side and a rim on the other, a flange for holding the box proximate the existing junction box where the lip of the open box protrudes beyond the wall, and a cover to provide a finished appearance as the junction box extension engages the junction box to provide additional useable space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Inventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., Michael Belgeri, James C. Keeven, William Hiner
  • Display frame
    Patent number: 7231733
    Abstract: A display device made of transparent flexibly resilient plastic having a pair of nestable members forming a weather resistant framed area for holding flat planar display material such as a photograph or memorabilia or advertising material or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Inventor: Larry Regelin
  • Faceplate
    Patent number: 7226268
    Abstract: A faceplate having a set of skid steer receiver attachment points to permit an all-purpose agricultural tractor with a three-point hitch or front end loader to operably connect to off-the-shelf skid steer attachments so that the agricultural tractor can utilize off-the-shelf skid steer attachments with the faceplate containing a cylindrical housing to permit rotation of a tool mounted therein without removing the tool from the faceplate and one embodiment including a notched chain bar having notches extending generally normal to the hitch faceplate and a further embodiment including a universal tractor mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Inventors: John Gustafson, Michael Schumacher
  • Open face electrical connector
    Patent number: 7223132
    Abstract: An open-face electrical wire connector for forming an electrical connection to a wire connector lug wherein the wire connector lug, which is free of any sealant can be brought into engagement with another portion of a housing, which carries a sealant, to cause the sealant to flow around the wire connector lug and the electrical connection therein for on-the-go formation of a sealant covered electrical connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Inventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., Michael Belgeri, James Keeven, William Hiner
  • Console display mounting system
    Patent number: 7213800
    Abstract: A shock mount to support the static weight of a housing while at the same time effectively attenuating shock or vibration imparted to the housing with the shock mount having a shock isolator for supporting the weight of the display and a bezel extending around the display with the bezel comprising a second shock an d vibration isolator that coacts with the first shock set of shock isolators to further attenuate shock and vibration forces to the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Robert James Monson, Julia Ann Neuman
  • Optical coupled system
    Patent number: 7186032
    Abstract: An interface system and a method of making an interface assembly or connection between a first device having a number of optical leads and a second device having a number of optical leads. In the preferred process one forms an optical fabric assembly having a number of free or unattached optical leads without any coupler attached thereto. To transfer a signal from the free or unattached optical leads one forms an optical coupler by connecting one end of an optical lead to a connector. The other end of the optical lead is maintained in a free or unattached condition. One can then test the optical coupler to determine if the connections is properly formed so that a signal can pass into the optical lead through the connector or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Inventors: Rick C. Stevens, Kevin J. Thorson
  • Direct bury connector
    Patent number: 7170005
    Abstract: A direct bury twist-on wire connector for securing an electrical connection having a tube with an integral twist-on wire connector graspable from outside the tube while the inside of the tube and the inside of the twist-on wire connector carry a sealant therein and a cap secureable to an open end of the tube to inhibit strain on the wires to thereby provide a ready-to-bury connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Inventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., Michael Belgeri, James C. Keeven
  • Dual filter
    Patent number: 7168574
    Abstract: A dual filter apparatus and a process of making a dual filter apparatus that minimizes disruption to the normal flow pattern through the filter apparatus by forming a porous medium suitable to carry a fluid activator and placing an activator proximate the porous filter medium for in situ fluid treatment and removal of debris from the fluid by screening action of the porous filter medium that entraps debris thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: King Technology
    Inventor: Joseph A. King
  • Enhanced torque resistant battery part
    Patent number: 7163764
    Abstract: An embedded fastener having enhanced torque resistance and a method of making an embedded fastener with enhanced torque resistance comprising interposing a layer between the lead battery part and the fastener. In one embodiment an electrically conducting layer of a lead adhereable layer is applied to the exterior surface of a fastener. Next, one places the fastener with the layer of lead adhereable material in a mold and injects molten lead into mold and allows the molten lead to solidify around the layer of lead adhereable material on the fastener to thereby secure the solidified lead to the layer of lead adhereable material on the fastener to provide a battery part having a fastener therein with enhanced torque resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Inventor: Robert W. Ratte
  • User coupled workspace shock isolation system
    Patent number: 7152842
    Abstract: A shock-isolation system having a platform for supporting an operator station and a console which can both be fixedly secured to the platform in a relative non-displacement mode with the platform supported by a shock mount that simultaneously isolates the platform including an operator, the operator station and the console as a unitary component from high “g” shock to thereby minimize injury to an operator due to impact with either the operator station, the console or the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Monson, Allen L. Arndt, Samuel A. Runge
  • Activity enhanced dispensers
    Patent number: 7147770
    Abstract: A liquid treatment method and system with the liquid treatment system having a container for holding a liquid treatment material therein with the liquid treatment device effectively positionable in various transitional regions in the liquid system to provide for an enhanced dispersant rate in response to increased activity in the body of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: King Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph A. King
  • Post-packaging optical coupling
    Patent number: 7136554
    Abstract: An optical coupling and a method of making an optical coupling where the alignment of the optical beam between two optical ports is completed after the optical coupling is assembled or packaged for shipment through the repositioning of a collecting mirror which is interposed to intercept an optical beam from an optical beam transmitter and then reflect the optical beam onto an optical beam receptor without an operator having to move or align either the optical beam transmitter or the optical beam receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: Rick C. Stevens
  • Dispenser housing
    Patent number: D540906
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: King Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Leonard P. Hardwick
  • Salt generator control station
    Patent number: D546773
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: King Technology
    Inventor: Leonard P. Hardwick