Patents by Inventor Carlos M. Pinho

Carlos M. Pinho has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20110012377
    Abstract: A security seal includes a locking element and a locking body configured to receive an end of the locking element therein to secure the security seal at an object. The locking body may include a deformable wall that deforms responsive to a sufficient pressure applied to the wall of the locking body. A disk element may be disposed in the locking body and movable along a tapered channel to clamp against the locking element to limit retraction of the locking element. The tapered channel may have an arcuate surface along which the disk element moves to provide a progressively increasing bite angle and clamping force at the locking element. The disk element may have a knurled surface with a circumferential groove established circumferentially around the disk element, with the circumferential groove offset from a center line of the disk element and toward a respective end of the disk element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: BRAMMALL, INC.
    Inventors: Barry B. Simes, Paul A. Littrell, Ni Zhen Rong, Richard C. Dreisbach, Robert F. Debrody, Carlos M. Pinho
  • Publication number: 20100043507
    Abstract: A lock apparatus for a utility service enclosure with a cover mountable over a sidewall includes an attachment member having a pair of spaced legs and aligned apertures formed in the legs. A fastener is extensible through the aperture in the one leg disposed interiorly of the enclosure when the attachment member is mounted over the sidewall of the enclosure and deforms the sidewall into engagement with the aperture in the other leg. A flange extending from the attachment member interengages a body having a lip overlaying the cover to inhibit removal of the cover from the enclosure. A lock is engageble with the body and the flange to lock the body to the attachment member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: EKSTROM INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Richard C. Dreisbach, Robert F. Debrody, Carlos M. Pinho
  • Patent number: 6390519
    Abstract: A housing has a rotor receiving chamber with filament receiving bores lying in a plane normal to the rotor axis of rotation, a rotor being rotatably received in the chamber. The rotor and housing have complementary locking shoulders for axially locking the rotor in the chamber. The rotor has a pair of filament receiving bores aligned with the housing filament receiving bores. The rotor has an annular rib in the plane of the bores defining upper and lower rotor sections. The locking shoulders are in the lower section of the rotor and are located between the plane and the closed end of the chamber, at which end the rotor and housing have a complementary ratchet and pawl mechanism for allowing only one way rotation of the rotor relative to the housing for securing the filament to the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: E. J. Brooks Company
    Inventors: Richard C. Dreisbach, Carlos M. Pinho
  • Patent number: 6345847
    Abstract: A seal and lock mechanism employs a cable and a mechanism for securing a free end of the cable to the seal by a wedging action within a tapered housing bore employing wedging means such as balls and the like. The wedging action is enhanced by roughening the surface of the wedging means or otherwise improving their resistance to displacement with respect to the surface of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: E.J. Brooks Company
    Inventors: Richard C. Dreisbach, Carlos M. Pinho, Terrence Brammall, Craig B. Hamilton