Patents Represented by Attorney Mirick, O'Connell, DeMallie & Lougee
  • Patent number: 7249954
    Abstract: A separable electrical connector for electrically interconnecting an electrical device to a substrate. In one embodiment, the connector includes an adapter board electrically connected to the substrate, the adapter board having electrical contacts on both sides, and a layer of ACE between the electrical device and the adapter board. A mechanical structure is used to apply a compressive force on the ACE through the adapter board and the electrical device. In another embodiment, the connector includes a translator board having electrical contacts on both sides and electrical circuits within to expand the footprint of the fine pitch electrical device to the coarser pitch of the substrate. The connector further includes a layer of ACE between the translator board and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Paricon Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Roger E. Weiss
  • Patent number: 7242583
    Abstract: A system for coupling a heat sink to an electrical device independently of a clamping member that is used to place a coupling force between the electrical device and a substrate to which the electrical device is to be electrically connected. The system includes a clamping member adapted to push the electrical device against the substrate, to assist in electrical connection between the electrical device and the substrate, the clamping member defining a through-hole leading to the electrical device. There is also a heat-conducting member in the clamping member through-hole and adapted to thermally contact the electrical device to conduct heat away from the electrical device. A heat sink is in thermal contact with the heat-conducting member, to dissipate heat from the electrical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Paricon Technologies, Corporation
    Inventors: Glenn M. Amber, Roger E. Weiss
  • Patent number: 7234475
    Abstract: A dental flosser is moveable between a stored, non-use position where the flosser is substantially planar, and an engaged or in-use position where a portion of the flosser is angled relative to the handle to aid in reaching back teeth. The dental flosser preferably includes a holder (which may be a U-shaped holder) that is movable between the non-use and in-use position; a handle; a living hinge between the holder and the handle, and a locking arm designed to secure the holder in the in-use position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Lordan Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Song Jun Ding, Steven A. Slabine
  • Patent number: 7235656
    Abstract: Orally active benzodiazepine derivatives and their salts are disclosed. These compounds and their salts have anxiolytic and anticonvulsant activity with reduced sedative/hypnotic/muscle relaxant/ataxic effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Cook, Qi Huang, Xiaohui He, Xioayan Li, Jianming Yu, Dongmei Han
  • Patent number: 7223226
    Abstract: Needles and methods of plugging a needle having a tip opening with an inside diameter and a needle tip length, wherein the methods generally comprise the steps of, providing a plug material having a predetermined viscosity; providing a delivery device for introducing the plug material into the needle tip opening, wherein the delivery device comprises a delivery tube having a delivery diameter that is equal to or less than the inner diameter of the needle tip opening; introducing at least a portion of the heated plug material into the needle tip opening via the delivery tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Nuclear Consultants Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony Biscotti
  • Patent number: 7223105
    Abstract: A separable electrical connector for separably, electrically interconnecting the conductors of one multi-conductor cable to the conductors of a second electrical device that may be an electrical device such as a chip, or a second multi-conductor cable, or a flexible or rigid printed circuit board. The connector includes a layer of anisotropic conductive elastomer (ACE) in electrical contact with the conductors of the cable and the conductors of the second electrical device. A clamp or another type of mechanical device compresses the ACE, to provide electrical signal paths between the conductors of the cable and the second electrical device, through the ACE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Paricon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Roger E. Weiss, David M. Barnum
  • Patent number: 7217126
    Abstract: A hand-held dental mirror carrying a sharpening stone for a dental instrument such as a curette, comprising a shaft supporting a mirror, a hand grip coupled to the shaft, and a sharpening stone coupled to the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Inventors: Corey Sommers, Mimi Sommers, Randal B. Chinnock, Jeffrey S. Melanson
  • Patent number: 7207278
    Abstract: An assembly for selectively lifting a computer monitor, and particularly a flat screen computer monitor, from a storage position below the top of a desk or table, to a use position above the top in which the monitor is visible to the user. The assembly includes a stationary member including a linear slide mechanism, a vertically slideable support member sized and dimensioned to receive a computer display monitor and coupled to the linear slide mechanism. The vertically slideable support member is coupled to an electrically-driven positioning device. When the user desires to lift the monitor onto the top of the desk, the user pushes a switch, which enables the positioning device to drive the vertically slideable support member upward along the linear slide, through an aperture in the desk, until the computer monitor rests on or just above the desktop. Monitor retraction to the stored position is accomplished by the push of another switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Wright Line, LLC
    Inventors: Richard M. Latino, Edward Mello
  • Patent number: 7192186
    Abstract: A multimeter with non-contact temperature measurement capability. The multimeter is contained in a housing, and has outputs relating to measured electrical parameters. There is also an output display contained in the housing, for displaying results to a user. A non-contact optically-based temperature sensing device is coupled to the housing, and has an output related to sensed temperature. Circuitry contained in the housing processes both the multimeter outputs and the temperature sensing device output, and transmits the processed output to the output display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Extech Instruments Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald W. Blakeley, III
  • Patent number: 7187442
    Abstract: A variably-polarizing optical probe assembly. The assembly includes an optical probe having one or more optical light delivery channels that emit incident light from the sample end of the probe toward a sample being investigated, and one or more optical light-receiving channels that receive incident light from the sample. A variably-polarizing substrate assembly is coupled to the sample end of the probe. The substrate assembly includes an optically transmitting substrate and one or more discrete polarizer areas on a face of the substrate, each such polarizer area defining a polarization orientation, with the polarizer areas together defining one or more different polarization orientations. The substrate assembly is arranged relative to the probe such that one polarizer area covers at least one light delivery channel and one polarizer area covers at least one light-receiving channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Optimum Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Randal B. Chinnock, Jeffrey S. Melanson
  • Patent number: 7182034
    Abstract: The docking system of the invention comprises: at least one docking unit having an axis to which at least two boats may be docked offshore; at least one buoyant members coupled to docking unit; and at least one anchoring member adapted to anchor the platform to a substrate; wherein the docking unit is adapted to directionally adjust to changes in prevailing wind and water flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Inventor: William H. Brine
  • Patent number: 7168316
    Abstract: A humidity meter with non-contact temperature measurement capability, including a humidity meter contained at least partially in a housing and having outputs relating to measured humidity parameters including humidity and ambient temperature, an output display contained in the housing, for displaying measurements to a user, a non-contact optically-based temperature sensing device coupled to the housing, having an output related to sensed temperature, and circuitry contained in the housing for processing both the humidity meter outputs and the temperature sensing device output, and transmitting the processed output to the output display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Extech Instruments Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald W. Blakeley, III
  • Patent number: 7163336
    Abstract: A handheld instrument that accomplishes infrared (IR) temperature measurement and non-contact electrical current measurement. The instrument has a case, a current-sensing device coupled to the case and operable to be placed around a conductor, for generating an output signal based on the current flowing through the conductor, and an IR detector carried by the case, for sensing IR energy emitted from a surface being measured along a sensing axis that extends from the case, and generating an IR output signal. Sensed IR energy is converted to a temperature value, and the output signal from the current-sensing device is converted to at least a measured current value. There is a display device in the case, for displaying instrument measurements to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Extech Instruments Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald W Blakeley, III
  • Patent number: 7157106
    Abstract: Topical analgesics, generally comprising calendula oil and cornmint oil, and methods of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Inventor: Roger S. Salmonson
  • Patent number: 7138963
    Abstract: The invention is a method for displaying otherwise unseen objects and other data using augmented reality (the mixing of real view with computer generated imagery). The method uses a motorized camera mount that can report the position of a camera on that mount back to a computer. With knowledge of where the camera is looking, and the size of its field of view, the computer can precisely overlay computer-generated imagery onto the video image produced by the camera. The method may be used to present to a user such items as existing weather conditions, hazards, or other data, and presents this information to the user by combining the computer generated images with the user's real environment. These images are presented in such a way as to display relevant location and properties of the object to the system user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: MetaMersion, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew W. Hobgood, John Franklin Ebersole, Jr., John Franklin Ebersole
  • Patent number: D534746
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Jaco, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfred P. Rossini, Louis F. Genatossio
  • Patent number: D535509
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Jaco, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfred P. Rossini, Louis F. Genatossio
  • Patent number: D536151
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Jaco, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfred P. Rossini, Louis F. Genatossio
  • Patent number: D539794
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Jaco, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfred P. Rossini, Louis F. Genatossio
  • Patent number: D544270
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Fitness Equipment Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventor: Michael J. Savage