Abstract: An air treatment device having electrodes supported by a housing and a voltage generator operatively coupled to the electrodes. The air treatment device includes at least one sensor operatively coupled to the voltage generator for sensing a condition and providing signals used for adjusting the voltage generated by the voltage generator.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 25, 2004
Date of Patent:
July 29, 2008
Assignee:
Sharper Image Corp.
Inventors:
Charles E. Taylor, Andrew J. Parker, Shek Fai Lau
Abstract: An air conditioner device includes a first electrode array and a second electrode array. A mechanism, that cleans the electrode(s) in a first electrode array, includes a length of flexible insulating material that projects from a base of the second electrode array towards the first electrode array. As a user moves the second electrode array up or down within the conditioner housing, the electrode(s) in the first array are frictionally cleaned.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 14, 2003
Date of Patent:
July 29, 2008
Assignee:
Sharper Image Corp
Inventors:
Shek Fai Lau, Jimmy Luther Lee, Andrew J. Parker
Abstract: A device with speakers can include a cable unit with a connection plug connectable to a portable media unit. The cable can provide an audio signal from the portable media unit to a speaker of the device. The cable be attached to the portable media unit. A removable module for housing the plug and cable is also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 20, 2005
Date of Patent:
July 15, 2008
Assignee:
Sharper Image Corp.
Inventors:
Richard J. Thalheimer, Edward C. McKinney, Tristan M. Christianson, Andrew J. Parker
Abstract: A computer game system uses an infrared sensor which produces an infrared light to produce pulse of infrared light. Optics focus reflections from the infrared light pulse from different portions of the environment to different detectors in a 2D array of detectors. The detectors produce indications of the distance of the closest objects. The indications can be used by a processor to determine each action. The determined action can be used as input to a computer game. The infrared sensor can also be used with a musical keyboard system.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 2, 2004
Date of Patent:
June 3, 2008
Assignee:
Sharper Image Corp.
Inventors:
Andrew J. Parker, Charles E. Taylor, Patricia I. Brenner
Abstract: A preferably self-contained food conservator system includes a vacuum compartment appropriate for storing baked goods, in which a negative pressure of about 10" Hg in maintained, preferably at about 60% relative humidity. The environment of the compartment preferably is feed-back-controlled by a microprocessor control. The microprocessor preferably can control vacuum, relative humidity, temperature, the amount of ozone introduced into the compartment to retard bacterial growth, as well as outgassing time cycles. A pushbutton type menu allows a user to input data used to control the microprocessor, and permit optimization of the compartment environment for the particular foodstuffs presently being stored.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 1, 1998
Date of Patent:
September 7, 1999
Assignee:
Sharper Image Corp.
Inventors:
Edward C. McKinney, Charles E. Taylor, Richard J. Thalheimer