Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Rines and Rines
  • METHOD OF AND SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING MAINTENANCE VEHICLE AND SERVICE PERSONNEL TRACKING INFORMATION WITH THE REMOTE MONITORING OF THE LOCATION, STATUS, UTILIZATION AND CONDITION OF WIDELY GEOGRAPHICALLY DISPERSED FLEETS OF VEHICULAR CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AND THE LIKE TO BE MAINTAINED, AND PROVIDING AND DISPLAYING TOGETHER BOTH CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE VEHICLE INFORMATION
    Patent number: 6651001
    Abstract: An integrated monitoring system for integrating and displaying the location of widely dispersed construction vehicle equipments at their respective sites together with the present location and recent track of respective maintenance vehicles for servicing the equipments, through the use of satellite positioning, wireless data communication and Internet facilities for determining such locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Micrologics, Inc.
    Inventor: Sheldon Apsell
  • Construction set for building structures
    Patent number: 6641453
    Abstract: A novel construction set particularly useful for children safely to assemble and use two-and three-dimensional structures of a wide range of sizes and shapes with flexible foam-like tubes or rods detachable to male or female elements carried by foam-like connectors, and preferably of hexaoctahedral or spherical contour, and with such novel geometric design also useful with other construction materials for other uses as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Academy of Applied Science
    Inventors: Raymond Morales, Richard Sheron Sherin, Princess Izevbua Uerenikhosen Imoukhuede, Damien Burke, Maribel Gomez, Desiree Lin Ramirez, Antonio Castaneda
  • METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR REAL-TIME CONTINUAL NANOMETER SCALE POSITION MEASUREMENT BY BEAM PROBING AS BY LASER BEAMS AND THE LIKE OF ATOMIC AND OTHER UNDULATING SURFACES SUCH AS GRATINGS OR THE LIKE RELATIVELY MOVING WITH RESPECT TO THE PROBING BEAMS
    Patent number: 6639686
    Abstract: An improved method of and apparatus for real-time continual nanometer scale position measurement by beam probing as by laser beams and the like, both fixed and oscillating or scanning, over an atomic and other undulating surface such as gratings or the like, relatively moving with respect to the probing beams; and providing, where desired, increased detection speeds, improved positioning sensing response, freedom from or relaxed requirements of strict control on probing oscillation amplitude, and multi-dimensional position measurement with focused beam probes and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Nanowave, Inc.
    Inventor: Tetsuo Ohara
  • Optical-electrical MEMS devices and method
    Patent number: 6633426
    Abstract: A novel optical-electrical MEMS device overlaid or covered with an optically transmissive substrate held spaced in inverted preferably flip-chip bonded fashion to the device, with transparent electrodes provided in the substrate for generating an upper mirror-actuating field to supplemental the customary lower mirror-well field, enabling complementary operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Vernon Shrauger, Bart Romanowicz, Matt Laudon, Charles Hsu
  • Method of and apparatus for optical imaging inspection of multi-material objects and the like
    Patent number: 6603877
    Abstract: A novel method all of and apparatus for categorizing different material regions of an object-to-be inspected, by optical scanning of the object to produce a pixel image thereof, discriminating different pixel regions of the image corresponding to possibly different materials on the basis of color, and texture brightness measurements of the pixel regions and assigning preliminary likelihoods to such discrimination through with ambiguities; and comparing the measurements of the pixel regions with their local neighborhood surroundings in the image to assist in resolving said ambiguities and determining the material categorizations of the pixel regions with a high likelihood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Beltronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Bishop
  • Method of and cassette structure for burn-in and life testing of multiple LEDs and the like
    Patent number: 6597195
    Abstract: A novel cassette structure technique for enabling simultaneous burn-in of pluralities of LEDs plugged into the cassettes, and then, with the cassettes mounted within a light integrating sphere system, separately measuring the spectral flux emitted by each successive individual LED plugged into the cassette to determine optical and electrical characteristics of each LED separately from the others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Labsphere, Inc.
    Inventors: David N. Beaudry, Christopher N. Durell, James F. Kulacz
  • Method of molding multi-layer polymer plastic articles with control of relative shifting of the core layer
    Patent number: 6596213
    Abstract: A novel technique for molding multi-layer polymer plastic articles having inner, outer and interior or core layers by controlling relative volumetric flow rates of the inner and outer layers to enable relative shifting of the position of the core, and also the relative thickness of the inner and outer layers in the molded articles; and with leading, and, where desired, trailing ends of the interior layer flow into the mold cavity substantially positioned on the zero gradient of the velocity profile of the flowing polymer streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Kortec, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Swenson
  • Critically aligned optical MEMS dies for large packaged substrate arrays and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 6558976
    Abstract: A novel array of optically and electrically interacting optical MEMS dies physically and electrically integrally attached upon an optically transmissive preferably (transparent) printed circuit substrate that is monolithically formed with one or more optical components, such as lenses, for providing fixed optical path alignment and interaction therebetween, and with provision for the integration also of active optical components such as lasers and photodiodes and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Vernon Shrauger
  • Method of and apparatus for fluid sealing, while electrically contacting, wet-processed workpieces
    Patent number: 6540899
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for fluid sealing the underside of a workpiece, such as a semiconductor wafer and the like, during wet-processing such as electrodeposition and the like, employing an elastomeric encased ring of flexible fingers against which the periphery of the workpiece underside is forced to deflect the fingers downwardly and engage a peripheral sealing bead against the underside periphery of the workpiece; and where electrical contact with the workpiece is desired, resiliently engaging electrical contact tips protruding through peripheral openings in the elastomeric covering within the sealing ring, with the underside periphery of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: All Wet Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Arthur Keigler
  • Fluid dispenser particularly adapted for hand-held operation
    Patent number: 6540113
    Abstract: An improved electric motor-operated, preferably hand-held, fluid dispenser, using in-line longitudinal drive racks and fluid cartridge containers dispensed by the racks, the driving (and retraction) being controlled through the use of a flat (pancake) coil spring, and the cartridge containers being mountable in an adjustable cartridge holder for accommodating different-shaped rear cartridge mounting flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Dispensing Technologies International Corporation
    Inventor: Ivan Gardos
  • Critically aligned optical MEMS dies for large packaged substrate arrays and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 6531767
    Abstract: A novel array of optically and electrically interacting optical MEMS dies physically and electrically integrally attached upon an optically transmissive preferably (transparent) printed circuit substrate that is monolithically formed with one or more optical components, such as lenses, for providing fixed optical path alignment and interaction therebetween, and with provision for the integration also of active optical components such as lasers and photodiodes and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Analog Devices Inc.
    Inventor: Vernon Shrauger
  • Storage and dispensing container for viscous fluids, paints and the like, and method of minimizing dripping
    Patent number: 6530500
    Abstract: An improved container for storing, dispensing and handling viscous and semi-viscous fluids such as paint and the like, having novel spout and other design features that enable substantially dripless dispensing and improved handling and storage
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: Michael H. Bravo, Craig M. Rowles, John P. Sullivan, David Markham, Mark W. Scott, Chris Van Buiten, Gregory J. Mascoli, Robert Slack, Corinna Lee
  • Method of transmitting and receiving data, system and receiver therefor
    Patent number: 6522698
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data, wherein a narrow band data signal is transmitted at an unknown frequency within a known range of frequencies and received, and, at the receiver, the range of frequencies is divided into plural frequency bands each of width less than the uncertainty in the transmission frequency of the data signal, with the presence of said data signal detected in at least one of said frequency bands and thereupon demodulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Inventors: Clive Russell Irving, David John Spreadbury, Colin Richard Smithers, Timothy Charles Mace
  • METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR EXPANDING THE DIGITAL BIT RATE POTENTIAL FOR COMMUNICATION ADDED TO LORAN-C RADIO NAVIGATION PULSE TRAINS AND THE LIKE, WITHOUT AFFECTING THE NAVIGATION CAPABILITY AND INTEGRITY THEREOF
    Patent number: 6452547
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for increasing the potential digital bit data rate potential for communication-to-be-added to Loran-C radio-frequency pulse navigation transmitters and the like without affecting the navigation capability and integrity of the system, involving frequency-sweeping the pulse carrier frequency between critical lower and upper limits with respect to the pulse carrier frequency during the parts of each pulse following the initial part used for navigation timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Megapulse Inc.
    Inventor: Paul R. Johannessen
  • APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF AUTOMATIC OPTICAL INSPECTION OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT BOARDS, WAFERS AND THE LIKE FOR DEFECTS, USING SKELETAL REFERENCE INSPECTION AND SEPARATELY PROGRAMMABLE ALIGNMENT TOLERANCE AND DETECTION PARAMETERS
    Patent number: 6427024
    Abstract: A novel wafer or circuit board automatic scanning optical inspection system and technique using the reference comparison principle for finding defects in scanned sample images, that enables a new degree of universality in finding all defects including very small single pixel conductor breaks and shorts and defects of irregular shapes, and together with simultaneous design rule processing, through the use of processed skeletal reference images and with separately programmable alignment tolerance and detection parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: Beltronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Bishop
  • Method of improving and optimizing the hydrogen permeability of a palladium-copper membrane and novel membranes manufactured thereby
    Patent number: 6372363
    Abstract: Novel heat treatment techniques for improving and optimizing the hydrogen permeability of thin palladium-copper alloy foil membranes and, in particular, Pd/40%Cu alloy membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Walter Juda Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Krueger
  • Animated light diffracting, prismatic refracting, and/or holographic surface papers, board and other substrates and low-cost pattern transfer method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 6358442
    Abstract: A low-cost method of making unique and printable holographic papers and the like with the aid of radiation-curable coatings and flexible embossed or engraved flexible web film masters, and as a single, non-laminated sheet; and novel improved diffraction-refraction and holographic high-gloss surface papers, boards and the like, clear, metallized, pigmented or tinted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Metallized Products, Inc.
    Inventors: William Delaney, Richard Hovasse
  • METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION, DEPLOYING AND OPERATING SUBMERSIBLE AND REFLOATABLE UNDERWATER TUBULAR PLATFORM STRUCTURES AND THE LIKE, AS FOR UNDERWATER ILLUMINATION AND TARGET DETECTION, AND IMPROVED UNDERWATER PLATFORM STRUCTURES THEREFOR
    Patent number: 6352389
    Abstract: A novel automatically submersible and refloatable underwater tubular pipe platform geometric structure adapted for deployment in underwater target monitoring systems and the like, wherein the floating upon the surface of the water enables flooding of the pipe structure and its submergence, and the introduction of compressed air drives the water out of the pipe platform structure to enable its automatic re-floating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: Academy of Applied Science
    Inventors: Justice C. Rines, Alexander H. Slocum
  • Process for the preparation of technetium-99m diethylene triamine penta-acetic acid diester
    Patent number: 6334995
    Abstract: A technetium-99m radiolabelled diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid diester kit and process for its preparation for the diagnosis of renal disorders wherein technetium-99m diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid dimethyl ester has Rf value=zero in silica gel/acetone TLC system and Rf value=1 in silica gel/acetonitrile water (1:1) TLC system and technicium-99m diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid dimethyl ester movement is of the order of half of the distance as compared to the standard compound, Technicium-99m dithelene triamine pentaacetic acid, on conducing paper electrophresis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research
    Inventors: Mita Chatterjee, Karabi Sen, Some Nath Banerjee
  • Eyeglass frame
    Patent number: 6302539
    Abstract: An eyeglass frame includes a lens frame with two opposite end portions, each having a top wall formed with a bow retaining hole, a bottom wall formed with a bow mounting hole, and an insert slot defined by the top and bottom walls. The bow mounting hole has a first hole portion aligned with the bow retaining hole, a second hole portion offset from the bow retaining hole, and a restricted intermediate hole portion intercommunicating the first and second hole portions. Each of the bows has one end formed with a mounting shaft which has a retaining protrusion and a mounting protrusion opposite to the retaining protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Inventor: Ming-Hsiang Tsai