Patents Assigned to Alpha Enterprises
  • Patent number: 6041922
    Abstract: A plastic case suitable for housing a DVD disk manufactured by assembling a sandwich of heat-sealable members and heat-sealing them together to permanently seal the parts together. The manufacture utilizes vacuum forming of a rigid plastic sheets rather than injection molding to form the critical part of the case that functions to hold the disk on a center hub and that allows release of the disk by pushing down on the center hub. The center hub comprises three projections surrounding and each connected by a valley region to a center button-shaped member. Each projection at its outer edge comprises a detent region projecting above a recessed region beneath which functions to hold the disk in its mounted position above the level of the surrounding sheet surface. The recessed regions terminate below the disk in common, annular surface regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Alpha Enterprises
    Inventor: Kurt Kollinek
  • Patent number: D389646
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Alpha Enterprises
    Inventors: James K. Sankey, Craig Sauders, Jesse P. Carlson, Jeffrey M. Kalman