Patents Assigned to Montecito Research
  • Patent number: 7686390
    Abstract: A motion simulation chair incorporates a base providing elevated attachment points for a number of support cables. A seat support is carried within the base and engages a seat for an occupant at a top end. The seat support has companion attachment points for the support cables at a bottom end. A control system incorporates a forward vertical control element constrained for three axis motion about a control point. A horizontal control element displaced upward from the control point and extending rearward from the forward vertical control element, engages the seat support. A control stick operated by the user imparts motion to the forward vertical control element about the control point. Moving the horizontal control element alters the suspension angles of the cables providing a corresponding tilt of the seat support and seat for realistic simulation of motion resulting from inputs to a computer game by the control stick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Montecito Research
    Inventor: Warren E. Dennis
  • Publication number: 20090115232
    Abstract: A motion simulation chair incorporates a base providing elevated attachment points for a number of support cables. A seat support is carried within the base and engages a seat for an occupant at a top end. The seat support has companion attachment points for the support cables at a bottom end. A control system incorporates a forward vertical control element constrained for three axis motion about a control point. A horizontal control element displaced upward from the control point and extending rearward from the forward vertical control element, engages the seat support. A control stick operated by the user imparts motion to the forward vertical control element about the control point. Moving the horizontal control element alters the suspension angles of the cables providing a corresponding tilt of the seat support and seat for realistic simulation of motion resulting from inputs to a computer game by the control stick.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: MONTECITO RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventor: Warren E. Dennis
  • Publication number: 20070107288
    Abstract: A frame for insertion of a photograph having a folded structural element with a first portion incorporating a backing and a second portion connected to the first portion having two spaced lateral elements folded onto and rising from the backing. The first portion and second portion cooperatively form an aperture perpendicular to the spaced lateral elements for receiving a photograph to be held between the spaced lateral elements. A face structural element overlays the two spaced lateral elements and is spaced from the backing thereby to engage and support the photograph opposite the backing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: MONTECITO RESEARCH
    Inventor: Warren Dennis
  • Publication number: 20050223611
    Abstract: A picture frame assembly enables the user to hang picture frames with any desired orientation. When many frames are to be hung, a mounting track having a raised rail is affixed to a wall. A support disc member has fixed and spring biased teeth to grip the rail at a desired location. Mounting means on picture frames cooperate with an arcuate mounting surface on the support disc for mounting the frames with a desired orientation. A support disk may also be mounted directly on the wall. Side bars may be employed as frame side extenders to adjust the outer configuration of a frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Applicant: Montecito Research
    Inventor: Warren Dennis