Patents by Inventor Charles Herman

Charles Herman 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).

  • Patent number: 5698821
    Abstract: A cable assembly for efficiently connecting together SCSI devices and multi-channel adapters. The cable assembly includes a plurality of cables clamped together by a pass-thru bulkhead assembly, so that the cables can pass through the bulkhead of a cabinet to a multi-channel adapter mounted inside the cabinet. The cables electrically connect to the multi-channel adapter using low profile connectors to maximize the number of connectors that can couple to the adapter and to minimize the amount of clearance required between adapters in the cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Steven Charles Herman
  • Patent number: 4750634
    Abstract: A gas priming device combining a resilient bellows in combination with an open cap having an inwardly directed annular flange. The lowermost repeating bellows unit is enclosed and encircled by the inwardly directed annular flange of the cap, so that when the cap is secured to a gas supply conduit, the lowermost repeating bellows unit is squeezed between the upper end surface of the conduit and the inwardly directed annular flange, to form a sealing gasket for the priming device. Priming is effected by covering the hole disposed on the upper end of the bellows and compressing the bellows in the direction of fuel feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1988
    Inventor: Charles Herman
  • Patent number: 4527112
    Abstract: A control circuit for a vehicle electrical system which is operative when the vehicle engine is running but the vehicle is not in motion to sense vehicle storage battery voltage and, when that voltage is below a predetermined threshold, to enable an electrically controllable device to open somewhat the engine throttle raising engine speed and increasing the output of an engine driven electrical source. The control circuit finds particular utility in emergency vehicles such as ambulances and the like where that vehicle may remain at an emergency site for an extended period of time with the engine idling and with numerous electrical demands on the vehicle electrical system to increase the engine speed when those electrical demands have sufficiently exceeded the output of an engine driven alternator with the engine running at idle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Inventor: Charles A. Herman
  • Patent number: 4242915
    Abstract: An extensometer anchor for use in a mine borehole. The anchor has an anchor body that, when in an operative mode, is placed in the borehole. Extending at least partially around the outer surface of the body are one or more grooves whose major plane is generally perpendicular to the length of the borehole. Seated within each groove is a compressible resilient anchor member, like a ring, which remains loaded by a retaining device, such as a cotter pin, extending through it. Upon being pulled from outside of the borehole, the retaining device unloads the compressed anchor which then moves to expand outwardly in the borehole and firmly anchor the anchor body and attached extensometer within the mine borehole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1981
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Interior
    Inventor: Charles Herman, III