Patents Assigned to Screening Systems, Inc.
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Patent number: 6530279Abstract: A first circuit board includes a first plurality of holes to receive an electronic module and to provide an electrical circuit environment to test the electronic module. A second circuit board includes a second plurality of holes cooperatively arranged with the first plurality of holes. The second circuit board is slidably coupled to the first circuit board and slides between an insertion position in which the first and second pluralities of holes are aligned to receive the electronic module and a holding position in which the first and second pluralities of holes are offset to hold the electronic module. A biasing member urges the second circuit board toward the holding position.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2002Date of Patent: March 11, 2003Assignee: Screening Systems, Inc.Inventor: Robert H. Weinmann, Jr.
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Patent number: 5637812Abstract: A testing apparatus which has a test chamber located within a chamber frame. The apparatus includes a computer controlled ergonomic system which can vary the temperature of the test chamber. Within the test chamber is an adjustable ceiling that can be moved to vary the volume of the chamber. Extending around the outer edge of the ceiling is an inflatable seal which seals the chamber when the ceiling is moved to a new position. The ceiling and walls have a plurality of adjustable vents that direct fluid flow into the chamber. The doors of the apparatus are each constructed from an inner wall that is coupled to an outer wall by a plurality of floating joints. The floating joints allow the inner wall to contract or expand relative to the outer wall without creating a corresponding stress on the outer wall or the joints.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1994Date of Patent: June 10, 1997Assignee: Screening Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter D. Baker, Robert H. Weinmann, Jr., Robert Mercado, Christopher W. Nesselroad, Lucy A. Baker, Gilbert J. Bastien
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Patent number: 5551169Abstract: The temperature of air to heat or cool a product (16, 18) is maintained constant at levels which respectively are substantially higher or lower than the goal temperatures at which the respective products are to be stressed. Controllers (68, 70)having temperature/time profiles (72, 74) control the velocity of this higher or lower temperature air, as supplied by closed loops (20, 22) from high and low temperature sources (24, 26) to the products in their environmental stress chambers (12, 14), or bypassed through bypass conduits (50, 52) to maintain or change the temperatures of the products. High and low temperature sources (24, 26) and the product stress chambers (12, 14) may be interconnected by a cross-over arrangement of branches (80, 82, 84 and 86) to economize energy for heating or cooling the air, and to enable both environmental chambers (12, 14) to be interchangeably used for stress heating or cooling and, thus, to avoid movement of a product for the same purpose.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 1994Date of Patent: September 3, 1996Assignee: Screening Systems, Inc.Inventor: Robert H. Weinmann, Jr.
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Patent number: 5535637Abstract: A testing apparatus which has a test chamber located within a chamber frame. The apparatus includes a computer controlled ergonomic system which can vary the temperature of the test chamber. Within the test chamber is an adjustable ceiling that can be moved to vary the volume of the chamber. Extending around the outer edge of the ceiling is an inflatable seal which seals the chamber when the ceiling is moved to a new position. The ceiling and walls have a plurality of adjustable vents that direct fluid flow into the chamber. The doors of the apparatus are each constructed from an inner wall that is coupled to an outer wall by a plurality of floating joints. The floating joints allow the inner wall to contract or expand relative to the outer wall without creating a corresponding stress on the outer wall or the joints.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1995Date of Patent: July 16, 1996Assignee: Screening Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter D. Baker, Robert H. Weinmann, Jr., Robert Mercado, Christopher W. Nesselroad, Lucy A. Baker, Gilbert J. Bastien
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Patent number: 5522273Abstract: A testing apparatus which has a test chamber located within a chamber frame. The apparatus includes a computer controlled ergonomic system which can vary the temperature of the test chamber. Within the test chamber is an adjustable ceiling that can be moved to vary the volume of the chamber. Extending around the outer edge of the ceiling is an inflatable seal which seals the chamber when the ceiling is moved to a new position. The ceiling and walls have a plurality of adjustable vents that direct fluid flow into the chamber. The doors of the apparatus are each constructed from an inner wall that is coupled to an outer wall by a plurality of floating joints. The floating joints allow the inner wall to contract or expand relative to the outer wall without creating a corresponding stress on the outer wall or the joints.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1995Date of Patent: June 4, 1996Assignee: Screening Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter D. Baker, Robert H. Weinmann, Jr., Robert Mercado, Christopher W. Nesselroad, Lucy A. Baker, Gilbert J. Bastien
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Patent number: 5513538Abstract: A testing apparatus which has a test chamber located within a chamber frame. The apparatus includes a computer controlled ergonomic system which can vary the temperature of the test chamber. Within the test chamber is an adjustable ceiling that can be moved to vary the volume of the chamber. Extending around the outer edge of the ceiling is an inflatable seal which seals the chamber when the ceiling is moved to a new position. The ceiling and walls have a plurality of adjustable vents that direct fluid flow into the chamber. The doors of the apparatus are each constructed from an inner wall that is coupled to an outer wall by a plurality of floating joints. The floating joints allow the inner wall to contract or expand relative to the outer wall without creating a corresponding stress on the outer wall or the joints.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1995Date of Patent: May 7, 1996Assignee: Screening Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter D. Baker, Robert H. Weinmann, Jr., Robert Mercado, Christopher W. Nesselroad, Lucy A. Baker, Gilbert J. Bastien
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Patent number: 5511434Abstract: A testing apparatus which has a test chamber located within a chamber frame. The apparatus includes a computer controlled ergonomic system which can vary the temperature of the test chamber. Within the test chamber is an adjustable ceiling that can be moved to vary the volume of the chamber. Extending around the outer edge of the ceiling is an inflatable seal which seals the chamber when the ceiling is moved to a new position. The ceiling and walls have a plurality of adjustable vents that direct fluid flow into the chamber. The doors of the apparatus are each constructed from an inner wall that is coupled to an outer wall by a plurality of floating joints. The floating joints allow the inner wall to contract or expand relative to the outer wall without creating a corresponding stress on the outer wall or the joints.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1995Date of Patent: April 30, 1996Assignee: Screening Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter D. Baker, Robert H. Weinmann, Jr., Robert Mercado, Christopher W. Nesselroad, Lucy A. Baker, Gilbert J. Bastien
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Patent number: 5435533Abstract: A mounting fixture for a vibration table which can compensate for work pieces that have different dimensions. The fixture includes a support block which has an elongated slot that allows the fixture to be adapted for work pieces of different lengths and widths, and a pair of clamping blocks which have corresponding chuck and groove features that can compensate for different work piece thicknesses.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1993Date of Patent: July 25, 1995Assignee: Screening Systems, Inc.Inventor: Robert H. Weinmann, Jr.
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Patent number: 5238652Abstract: An analytical test device for competition assay for particular non-protein antigens, such as antigens representing drugs of abuse, is disclosed. The analytical test device is a test kit housing having an opening for introduction of a body fluid sample and a flow path for the body fluid sample. A supply of microscopic colored latex particles is adjacent to the opening along the flow path. A chromatographic membrane support is within the test kit housing for exposing the colored latex particles to the body fluid sample. When non-protein antigens are not present in the body fluid specimen, the colored latex particles accumulate at a predetermined site on the chromatographic membrane by complexing of antibodies on the colored latex particles to a drug conjugate probe on the membrane support to leave a visually perceptible colored mark of the same color as the colored latex particles.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1990Date of Patent: August 24, 1993Assignee: Drug Screening Systems, Inc.Inventors: Ming Sun, Francis R. Pfeiffer