Patents Examined by David R. Schuster
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Patent number: 4665544Abstract: A home control system includes a pair or plural pairs of home information transmission path (referred to as home bus); information outlets provided at the home bus which serve as connection nodes for appliances; and a plurality of room monitor controllers (hereinafter referred to as RMC) each having a built-in interface unit which has a control function element peculiar to respective rooms and carries out communication control between the information outlets and the appliances.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 1985Date of Patent: May 12, 1987Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiyuki Honda, Mitsunobu Esaki, Yoshiji Minagawa, Kazuho Uemura, Masahiro Inoue
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Patent number: 4661976Abstract: An automatic telephone dialer device comprising, in combination:an electronic telephone book with a plurality of pages, each with a capability for having listed thereon a plurality of entries in a column and line array;random access memory means for storing at predetermined locations encoded data corresponding to each said entry;microprocessor means for cooperative functional relationship with said memory means by receiving encoded data for locating in a predetermined location of said memory means, by providing an address accumulator for predetermining locations within said memory means, and by retrieving by random access the encoded data from the predetermined locations;one or more signal generators for providing, in response to encoded data received from the microprocessor means, a chain of signals to telephone lines;a plurality of page sensors transmitting a signal representing the page being viewed;a plurality of column and line actuators, each operable to a condition representing the column and line seleType: GrantFiled: April 21, 1986Date of Patent: April 28, 1987Assignee: MFB Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Maxim F. Basch
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Patent number: 4658098Abstract: Call-associated series of information-processing requests, accepted in decentralized switching facilities, are composed of initial switch identifiers which arrive first and of successor switch identifiers arrive following thereupon and are transmitted to a central switch mechanism from the switching facilities which are present in a greater plurality. A measuring device which continuously determines the loadability of a switching circuit periodically and continuously adjust the comparison standard of a counter, which only counts the initial switch identifiers in successfully following time intervals, perceives a pending overload situation for the switching circuit on the basis thereof and, in order to avoid the same, transmits non-acceptance data to the switching facilities in which, a portion of the received occupations are subjected to non-acceptance in accordance with accordingly stored non-acceptance rates.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1986Date of Patent: April 14, 1987Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Gerhard Wegmann
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Patent number: 4658418Abstract: A multiple telephone jack slide assembly includes a jack support member for supporting a multitude of telephone jacks upon a telephone interchange wiring panel. The jack support member has a longitudinal channel formed by a slotted opening for slidingly receiving grooved telephone jacks, the grooves engaging edge portions of the slotted opening. The jack support member is fastened either directly to the wiring panel by fasteners or is secured within a conventional terminal board mounting bracket. One or more retaining members are secured to the jack support to inhibit further sliding movement of the telephone jacks after the same are inserted in the channel through an open end thereof. The support member may also support a conventional punch down terminal board adjacent the plurality of telephone jacks.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1986Date of Patent: April 14, 1987Assignee: Armor Metals, Inc.Inventor: E. Walter Rodgers
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Patent number: 4656657Abstract: There is disclosed a telephone monitoring system which system is coupled to the tip and ring lines associated with a telephone subset and which system is operative to provide output data indicative of the date and time a call is initiated, the telephone number and area code of a place called, the total minutes and seconds of the call placed, the time and day a call is started and discontinued as well as the time and date of all incoming calls. The system further includes separate timing interval apparatus to notify a user that a predetermined time period has elapsed during a telephone conversation. The system includes apparatus for monitoring the status of the subset in an off-hook and on-hook condition and to initiate various timing cycles when the subset is off-hook including a called number storage register for storing information indicative of a call to be placed by the subset during normal operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1985Date of Patent: April 7, 1987Inventor: Richard Hunsicker
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Patent number: 4654868Abstract: A time independent data transmission system which allows a computer to access a selected one of a plurality of data devices at a location remote from the computer at any time via a non-dedicated telephone line is disclosed. The system is coupled to a telephone instrument, the plurality of data devices and the telephone transmission line and normally connects a data set coupled to the data devices to the telephone transmission line. The telephone instrument is normally disconnected. A counting circuit senses the number of ring bursts in a ringing signal from a caller and a central computer is programmed to transmit a ringing signal having only one ring burst. When only one ring burst is sensed, the data set remains connected to the telephone transmission line and the data set dials up the central computer when the ringing signal terminates. The data set comprises a decoder circuit which receives a coded signal from the central computer designating which of the data devices is to be accessed.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1985Date of Patent: March 31, 1987Inventor: Edwin F. Shelley
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Patent number: 4650932Abstract: In a key telephone system, when it is impossible to set at a time the entire operation data stored in a memory device of a key station unit by using a key of a specific key telephone set among a plurality of key telephone sets connected to the key station unit, the entire data of respective operation items are divided into a plurality of data sets and then the setting of the data of respective data sets are independently set. The division of the data of respective operation items is made corresponding to the output state of a hook switch, for example.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1985Date of Patent: March 17, 1987Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Isaku Komuro, Yoshikazu Sano
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Patent number: 4649234Abstract: A circuit arrangement for telecommunications exchange systems, particularly telepone exchange systems, comprising information processing sequential logic systems and traffic measuring devices, is provided for handling processing requests. Processing requests are marked by a sequential logic systems as partially acceptable and input into a waiting list formed as a FIFO buffer. Processing requests marked not acceptable are input into a FIFO-LIFO memory which ejects a processing request in a FIFO mode when it is full and when the waiting list is at least partially filled and marks them as not acceptable, but marks processing requests as acceptable and outputs the same to the waiting list in the LIFO mode when the waiting list is empty or nearly empty.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1985Date of Patent: March 10, 1987Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Herbert Jans
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Patent number: 4649236Abstract: A modular, high density cross-connect frame specifically adapted for central office application and forming a centralized distributing frame intended for patch and cross-connect circuits for digital equipment. The frame is dual sided, with the patching and testing administration entirely on one side confined to an area readily manually and visually accessible to service personnel, with cross-connect administration confined to the opposite side.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1985Date of Patent: March 10, 1987Assignee: Porta Systems Corp.Inventors: Paul V. De Luca, Albert Atun, Michael Shatzkin
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Patent number: 4647721Abstract: A telephone activated power controller comprised of an electrical power inlet and a number of power outlets for supplying power to the devices of a computer or other system. A detection circuit detects telephone rings and off-hook conditions and powers up the system. A remote control circuit allows the computer to keep the power on after hang-up or manual power-off. A status sensor circuit tells the computer if the device has been turned on manually or remotely. An inhibit circuit prevents the device from responding to a telephone ring or off-hook condition if it is engaged. The controller also has a surge protection circuit to prevent large voltages or current from reaching the power outlets.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1985Date of Patent: March 3, 1987Assignee: Dynatech Computer Power, Inc.Inventors: Vincent A. Busam, James C. Bell, Wayne T. Holcombe
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Patent number: 4644103Abstract: In activating a unit for monitoring a remote instrumentality, a tone-responsive circuit operates in accordance with an established duty cycle wherein, for a major portion of each cycle, current is drawn from the telephone lines servicing the system at a rate which is within the range permitted by prevailing telephone regulations, to charge a capacitor over time, and wherein, for a minor portion of each cycle, the charge stored by the capacitor is used to briefly operate a tone detection circuit which is capable of determining whether or not the remote instrumentality is being interrogated. If no such tones are detected, the circuit continues its periodic operation as previously described. If tones indicating a desired interrogation are detected, the tone-responsive circuit activates the monitoring unit which is used to poll the instrumentality.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1985Date of Patent: February 17, 1987Assignee: Base Ten Systems, Inc.Inventor: Yechiel Rosenfeld
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Patent number: 4644104Abstract: The present invention is directed towards a security system for a multi-unit facility such as a hotel wherein access to each unit or room is accomplished through a door structure or like closure which incorporates a separate locking assembly. The locking facility is of the keyless entry type wherein a preset code is fed into an electronically controlled lock through a plurality of finger operated switches (fingerboard) for authorized entry. Each of the actuating facilities associated with each closure is capable of having a stored preset code changed through operation of a microprocessor. Telephone lines interconnect the activating and locking facilities associated with each room to a central control facility, for example, in the office of a hotel.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1986Date of Patent: February 17, 1987Inventor: William Middlemiss
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Patent number: 4641337Abstract: A key telephone system comprising a main equipment and a plurality of key telephones connected to the main equipment and comprising elements for operatively connecting another similar key telephone system. The main equipment in the key telephone system comprises a system call transmitting interface and a system call receiving interface which are connected through connecting lines to a system call receiving interface and a system call transmitting interface in a main equipment of another similar key telephone system, respectively. Each key telephone in both systems comprises an additional key for selecting the system call transmitting interface of its own main equipment. By use of the additional key in one key telephone, a speech path can be established between the one key telephone and another key telephone in another key telephone system through both main equipments and the connecting line.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 1986Date of Patent: February 3, 1987Assignees: Nitsuko Limited, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Jouji Tanaka, Tetunobu Watanabe, Yoshiji Tanimoto, Minoru Okumura
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Patent number: 4639555Abstract: A method and device for reducing the cost and out of service time in repairing defective wire pairs in telephone networks. The device comprises a cable having metal prongs on each end which correspond to the receptacles on the protector block which is located on the vertical component of the central office distributing frame. The device is used to connect the receptacles on the protector block that are connected to a new functioning pair of field wires to the receptacles on the protector block of the office wires of the nonfunctioning old pair of wires. Thus, restoring service to a customer through a new wire pair until permanent wiring can be installed on the horizontal component of the central office distributing frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1985Date of Patent: January 27, 1987Assignee: Southwestern Bell Telephone CompanyInventor: Ronald N. Bone
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Patent number: 4638122Abstract: A telephone circuit which may be monolithically integrated, for generating control signals for displaying the telephone charges to a telephone user, is coupled to a AC voltage signal generator having a predetermined amplitude and frequency which are constant over time. The circuit includes a voltage generator for generating voltage signals which are spaced over time and have a trapezoidal pulse waveshape. A multiplier circuit calculates the product of the signals supplied by the two generators and supplies a signal which is sent to the speech circuit of the subscriber's line and is added to the speech (i.e.--conversation) signals. The circuit also includes a circuit for receiving an image signal of the overall signal adapted to the telephone line; a high-pass filter for eliminating the speech signal components from the image signal; a rectifier circuit for rectifying the filtered signal and a comparator for comparing the rectified signal with a reference signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1985Date of Patent: January 20, 1987Assignee: SGS-ATES Componenti Elettronici SpAInventors: Marco Siligoni, Ferdinando Lari, Vanni Saviotti, Vittorio Comino
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Patent number: 4633043Abstract: Apparatus disposed at location of a key telephone system and associated with the system to produce a substitute signal and a substitute alarm in the presence of a ringing voltage when the system is deactuated. The apparatus comprises: an electrically powered lamp for displaying the substitute signal when a first voltage is applied thereto; an electrically powered device for sounding the substitute alarm when a second voltage is supplied thereto; a second source; and a circuit arrangement coupled to the first and second sources, the line, the lamp and the device. The arrangement, when the system is deactuated in the presence of the ringing voltage, produces the first and second voltages and applies same to the lamp and device respectively to cause the substitute signal to be displayed and the substitute alarm to be sounded.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1986Date of Patent: December 30, 1986Assignee: GTE Service CorporationInventor: Robert L. Yount
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Patent number: 4603981Abstract: A device for regulating or respectively limiting the temperature provided an electric heating element in cooking apparatus. At least one temperature sensor is provided for regulating or respectively limiting the temperature, the sensor having a rod of high thermal expansion which is disposed in a tube of low thermal expansion, the tube being held between holding elements. A support member adjoins each end of the tube and surrounds the rod. The holding elements are alongside each of the support members. The support member has a coefficient of thermal expansion .alpha..sub.1 which is smaller than a coefficient of thermal expansion .alpha..sub.2 of the adjoining holding element and larger than the coefficient of thermal expansion .alpha..sub.3 of the tube.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 1984Date of Patent: August 5, 1986Assignee: Electrovac, Fabrikation elektronischer Spezialartikel Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventor: Karl Lieberth
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Patent number: 4602870Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining the presence or absence of a pour point depressant additive in hydrocarbon liquids includes cooling a sample of the liquid at a predetermined cooling rate from a temperature substantially above the cloud point temperature of the sample liquid to a temperature substantially below the cloud point temperature of the sample liquid. The points on the cooling rate curve for the sample at which a deflection of the curve begins and ends is determined and the time interval between the beginning and ending points of the cooling rate curve is computed. This computed time interval between the beginning and ending points is compared to a reference time interval such that if the reference time interval is less than or greater than the computed time interval between the beginning and ending points on the cooling curve, the presence or absence, respectively, of a pour point depressant additive in the sample is determined.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 1984Date of Patent: July 29, 1986Assignee: Citgo Petroleum CorporationInventor: Jon D. Rummel
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Patent number: 4601587Abstract: A freezing point method and device (10) are disclosed. The method and device pertain to an inflection point technique for determining the freezing points of mixtures. In both the method and device (10), the mixture is cooled to a point below its anticipated freezing point and then warmed at a substantially linear rate. During the warming process, the rate of increase of temperature of the mixture is monitored by, for example, thermocouple (28) with the thermocouple output signal being amplified and differentiated by a differentiator (42). The rate of increase of temperature data are analyzed and a peak rate of increase of temperature is identified. In the preferred device (10) a computer (22) is utilized to analyze the rate of increase of temperature data following the warming process. Once the maximum rate of increase of temperature is identified, the corresponding temperature of the mixture is located and earmarked as being substantially equal to the freezing point of the mixture.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1983Date of Patent: July 22, 1986Assignee: Midwest Research InstituteInventor: Balakrishnan Mathiprakasam
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Patent number: 4594891Abstract: A filling level measuring probe detects the filling level in a container by suppression of an oscillator by contact with a filling material. The oscillator consists of a hollow body 16, which can be connected through a shaft 14 and a screw-in part 12 with a container wall 10 and is set in oscillation with oscillations in the radial direction over a crosspiece 20 mounted in hollow body 16 by means of an electromechanical transducer 26 which is mounted on crosspiece 20. The oscillations are converted by a second electromechanical transducer 28 into an electric signal, of which the amplitude is changed with suppression of the oscillations as a result of contact of the hollow body 16 with the filling material.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1983Date of Patent: June 17, 1986Assignee: VEGA Grieshaber GmbH & Co.Inventors: Karl Benz, Gerhard Huber