Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Kevin L. Wildenstein
  • Single geartooth sensor yielding multiple output pulse trains
    Patent number: 6404188
    Abstract: A magnetic effect sensor system has a target with a first set of regularly spaced tooth/slot transition target features and a second set of different tooth/slot transition target features interspersed within the regularly spaced features. The mix of target features allows a single magnetic effect sensor to output a clocking pulse train for misfire detection and an encoded pulse train for determining absolute mechanical position by utilizing two thresholds on the sensor output waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Honeywell INC
    Inventor: Lamar Floyd Ricks
  • Method for setting electrical characteristics of sensors after assembly
    Patent number: 6276049
    Abstract: A sensor, such as a proximity sensor, having its components sealed within a case, has its sensitivity adjusted with a remotely settable digital potentiometer after assembly of the sensor. The adjustment connection is then destroyed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Honeywell International INC
    Inventors: Frederick W. Hintz, Stephen J. Postma
  • Belt buckle alignment device
    Patent number: 5592718
    Abstract: An alignment device for centering an end of a belt relative to a U-shaped mount of a belt buckle. The inventive device includes a folded web positionable about the U-shaped mount and including upper and lower spacing webs extending between the belt and respectively opposed upper and lower portions of the U-shaped mount to center the belt relative thereto so as to preclude tilting of the belt buckle relative to the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Inventor: Donald C. Mohr