Patents Assigned to Headwaters, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11958060
    Abstract: A portable rechargeable personal ionic air purifier energizing a personal airspace and cleaning particulate pollutants therefrom provides removable attachment of ion emitter and housing subassemblies by magnetic attraction, provides an electrically grounded conductive member external to the housing that releasably clips a lanyard or article of clothing, includes a decorative surround and provides an external ground plate for use with a desktop mount, armband or other accessory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Headwaters Inc
    Inventors: Rudy A. Vandenbelt, Philippe J. Genereux, Adam T. Clarke
  • Patent number: 11464938
    Abstract: An eye mask for use to wake up and/or to go to sleep provides ease of cleaning or replacement without damaging electrical or optical components; different user selectable sunrise and sunset illumination modes respectively having blue-shifted and red-shifted spectra simulating natural sunrises and sunsets to assimilate the sleep/wake cycle to the natural rhythms of day and night; sunset and/or sunrise illumination modes that oscillate with fixed period or sequentially changing periods that correspond to brainwave frequencies that respectively facilitate going to sleep and/or waking and synergistically co-operate with corresponding sunset or sunrise light fields to help the user to fall into restful sleep or to awake refreshed and alert; and audio tone programming of illumination mode and treatment time and/or duration of therapy by a remote tone control generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Headwaters, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe J Genereux, Rudy A Vandenbelt, Troy G Anderson, Adam T Clarke
  • Patent number: 11420012
    Abstract: An eye mask for use to wake up and/or to go to sleep provides ease of cleaning or replacement without damaging electrical or optical components; different user selectable sunrise and sunset illumination modes respectively having blue-shifted and red-shifted spectra simulating natural sunrises and sunsets to assimilate the sleep/wake cycle to the natural rhythms of day and night; sunset and/or sunrise illumination modes that oscillate with fixed period or sequentially changing periods that correspond to brainwave frequencies that respectively facilitate going to sleep and/or waking and synergistically co-operate with corresponding sunset or sunrise light fields to help the user to fall into restful sleep or to awake refreshed and alert; and audio tone programming of illumination mode and treatment time and/or duration of therapy by a remote tone control generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Headwaters, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe J Genereux, Rudy A Vandenbelt, Troy G Anderson, Adam T Clarke
  • Patent number: 11040354
    Abstract: A portable rechargeable personal ionic air purifier energizing a personal airspace and cleaning particulate pollutants therefrom provides removable attachment of ion emitter and housing subassemblies by magnetic attraction, provides an electrically grounded conductive member external to the housing that releasably clips a lanyard or article of clothing, includes a decorative surround and provides an external ground plate for use with a desktop mount, armband or other accessory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Headwaters Inc
    Inventors: Rudy A. Vandenbelt, Philippe J. Genereux, Adam T. Clarke
  • Patent number: 9737895
    Abstract: A portable rechargeable personal ionic air purifier energizing a personal airspace and cleaning particulate pollutants therefrom in a manner that poses little or no personal shock risk and that minimizes battery drain to maximize battery life includes ionization means and ionization actuation means cooperative to provide ion bursts at regular intervals to energize and to clean particulates from the personal airspace. The ionization means includes an ion emitter and the ionization activation means includes means for providing a pulse train of predetermined frequency and duty cycle. The ion emitter may be removably mounted to a portable housing and/or to a facemask or other objects in the personal airspace via an elongated flexible cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Headwaters Inc
    Inventors: Philippe J. Genereux, Rudy A. Vandenbelt, Troy G. Anderson
  • Patent number: 9694154
    Abstract: A sound machine having a pseudo random white noise generator provides white noise sound therapy of selectable tone/texture, bandwidth and/or peak frequency to those suffering from tinnitus or others seeking noise-masking or sleep or relaxation. The sound machine having a pseudo random white noise generator includes a user input interface having a tone/texture user input control, a band pass user input control and a peak select user input control. The tone/texture user input control selects the tone/texture of the white noise sound generated, the bandpass user input control the bandpass of the white noise sound generated and the peak select user input control provides the ability to select frequency peaks of the white noise sound generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Headwaters Inc
    Inventors: Philippe J. Genereux, Rudy A. Vandenbelt
  • Publication number: 20140275741
    Abstract: System and method of all-night sleep management integrates the sleep cycle into the wake cycle with the result that the individual's sense of wholeness and overall well-being is promoted and improved day-in-day-out. In different embodiments, the system and method of all-night sleep management provides audio that a media player plays without potentially disruptive transitions to help people to manage tinittus or help babies or others to fall and stay asleep or to prevent failing to fall asleep or to prevent waking up of otherwise sensitive sleepers and provides an audio, video or other signal that an audio, video or other media player plays incorporating pacing, binaural beats, waveform manipulation, brainwave entrainment, light frequency, amplitude and color modulation or other techniques to draw people from the awake state, through one or more initial, staged intermediate sleep stages and back into the awake state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: HEADWATERS, INC.
    Inventors: RUDY A. VANDENBELT, TROY G. ANDERSON, PHILIPPE J. GENEREUX
  • Publication number: 20140249359
    Abstract: A sound machine having a pseudo random white noise generator provides white noise sound therapy of selectable tone/texture, bandwidth and/or peak frequency to those suffering from tinnitus or others seeking noise-masking or sleep or relaxation. The sound machine having a pseudo random white noise generator includes a user input interface having a tone/texture user input control, a band pass user input control and a peak select user input control. The tone/texture user input control selects the tone/texture of the white noise sound generated, the bandpass user input control the bandpass of the white noise sound generated and the peak select user input control provides the ability to select frequency peaks of the white noise sound generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: HEADWATERS, INC.
    Inventors: PHILIPPE J. GENEREUX, RUDY A. VANDENBELT
  • Patent number: 7244290
    Abstract: An electrostatic room air cleaner includes a housing having a given profile and a plurality of electrostatic precipitation collector units arrayed in the housing with a common fan to circulate room air through the plurality of electrostatic precipitation collector units simultaneously. A total clean air delivery rate is delivered that is determined as the arithmetic sum of the clean air delivery rates of the plurality of electrostatic precipitation collector units arrayed in the housing of given profile. The greater the number of units arrayed, the smaller may be their size, and the easier they are to handle, maintain and replace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Headwaters, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy A. Vandenbelt, Charles M. Lanning, Ross L. Cowie
  • Patent number: 7215526
    Abstract: The invention is directed towards an efficient and ozone free ion generator in which the ion emitter is open to the surrounding space while the collector is provided by electrical ground remote and away from the ion emitter. In the case of a household generator, the ground is the electrical ground of the house. In the case of a car generator, the ground is the car frame. A safety circuit is arranged to turn the high voltage off if a hand or other body member (or pet) comes near or touches the exposed emitter to prevent electrical shock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Headwaters, Inc.
    Inventors: Joannou Constantinos, Rudy A. Vandenbelt, Ross L. Cowie, Charles R. Lanning
  • Patent number: D548316
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Headwaters, Inc.
    Inventors: Ross L. Cowie, Rudy A. Vandenbelt
  • Patent number: D906504
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Headwater, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy A. Vandenbelt, David Harris