Patents Assigned to Core Brands, LLC
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Patent number: 10847967Abstract: A surge protector for providing electricity to an electronic device. The surge protector including a housing defining a module slot and including a module connector positioned within the module slot and a module insertable into the module slot and including at least one connector port and a housing connector. The housing connector can be operably connectable to the module connector when the module is inserted into the module slot. The cable can be connected to the module and housing such that the module can be positioned at a location remote from the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Core Brands, LLCInventors: Steven H. Newell, Gerald B. Hoopes
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Patent number: 10250030Abstract: A surge protector for providing electricity to an electronic device. The surge protector including a housing defining a module slot and including a module connector positioned within the module slot and a module insertable into the module slot and including at least one connector port and a housing connector. The housing connector can be operably connectable to the module connector when the module is inserted into the module slot. The cable can be connected to the module and housing such that the module can be positioned at a location remote from the housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Core Brands, LLCInventors: Steven H. Newell, Gerald B. Hoopes
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Patent number: 10154338Abstract: In an example, a loudspeaker system includes a low frequency first transducer and an array of high frequency transducers overlapping a front face of the low frequency transducer. In an example, the transducer array has an arcuate profile, and an axis of the array is non-coaxial with a central axis of the first transducer.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Core Brands, LLCInventors: Michael L. Strange, Doug S. Wright, Vance Dickason
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Patent number: 9860630Abstract: A loudspeaker damping assembly can mechanically damp or isolate a loudspeaker transducer from a mounting surface. The damping assembly can include a loudspeaker housing or frame that receives a loudspeaker transducer, and a flexible, deformable, or conformable flange damper extending outward from an edge of the loudspeaker housing. The flange damper can be positioned against a loudspeaker wall or ceiling mounting surface. The damping assembly optionally includes a clamp damper opposite the flange damper, or a peripheral edge damper at an outer perimeter edge of the loudspeaker housing. In an example, a loudspeaker system includes a low frequency first transducer and an array of high frequency transducers overlapping a front face of the low frequency transducer. In an example, the transducer array has an arcuate profile, and an axis of the array is non-coaxial with a central axis of the first transducer.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: CORE BRANDS, LLCInventors: Michael L. Strange, Doug S. Wright, Vance Dickason
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Patent number: 9837813Abstract: A surge protector for providing electricity to an electronic device. The surge protector including a housing defining a module slot and including a module connector positioned within the module slot and a module insertable into the module slot and including at least one connector port and a housing connector. The housing connector can be operably connectable to the module connector when the module is inserted into the module slot. The cable can be connected to the module and housing such that the module can be positioned at a location remote from the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Core Brands, LLCInventors: Steven H. Newell, Gerald B. Hoopes
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Patent number: 9167326Abstract: A modular sound component system can be configured to be located at least partially behind a wall surface, wherein the wall surface is supported by multiple vertical studs. The modular system can include a rail system that is in contact with the wall surface and at least one sound reproduction module coupled to the rail system. The sound reproduction module can include a body that can be disposed on a stud-side of the wall surface, and the module can include an attachment feature that is slidably coupleable to the rail system. In an example, the sound reproduction module can include a loudspeaker assembly, an amplifier assembly, or other device. Multiple modules can be slidably coupled to the rail system, such as on different sides of a wall stud. A wired communication link can couple the multiple modules, such as across a wall surface-side of the wall stud.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Core Brands, LLCInventors: James M. Hardiman, Michael L. Strange, Doug S. Wright
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Publication number: 20140233778Abstract: A modular sound component system can be configured to be located at least partially behind a wall surface, wherein the wall surface is supported by multiple vertical studs. The modular system can include a rail system that is in contact with the wall surface and at least one sound reproduction module coupled to the rail system. The sound reproduction module can include a body that can be disposed on a stud-side of the wall surface, and the module can include an attachment feature that is slidably coupleable to the rail system. In an example, the sound reproduction module can include a loudspeaker assembly, an amplifier assembly, or other device. Multiple modules can be slidably coupled to the rail system, such as on different sides of a wall stud. A wired communication link can couple the multiple modules, such as across a wall surface-side of the wall stud.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2013Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Core Brands, LLCInventors: James M. Hardiman, Michael L. Strange, Doug S. Wright
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Patent number: 8422692Abstract: Speaker control systems are implemented using a variety of systems and methods. In one such system, an audio signal is distributed to at least one speaker selected from a set of speakers. The system includes a set of audio-distribution circuits for distributing the audio signal to the set of speakers. Logic circuitry is used to automatically determine an impedance-based parameter for use in distributing the audio signal to the at least one selected speaker based at least partly on a load-tolerance parameter for an audio source and on an impedance of the at least one selected speaker. The logic circuitry controls distribution of the audio signal to the selected speakers based at least partly on the impedance-based parameter. One or more of the set of audio-distribution circuits are used by the logic circuitry to distribute the audio signal to the at least one selected speaker.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2007Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Core Brands, LLCInventors: Timothy W. Dygert, James Suchora, Jason Dunaway, Robert P. Farinelli, Jr.