Patents by Inventor Christopher L. Crawford
Christopher L. Crawford 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).
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Patent number: 8616360Abstract: A lockable, removable cassette is described. In an implementation, the cassette includes a plastic shell and a currency access door. The cassette may also include a flexible handle and/or an integrated grip. In addition, the cassette may include at least one of an aperture and a transparent window positioned to reveal the contents of the cassette. In an implementation, the cassette includes a stacking mechanism which may include a drive means having non-circular drive gears.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: MEI, Inc.Inventors: Alfred F. Bergeron, Robert Clauser, Christopher L. Crawford, David C. Deaville, Michael D. Nunn, Jeffrey T. Thawley, Kenneth B. Wood, Stephen R. Watrous
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Patent number: 7789214Abstract: A lockable, removable cassette is described. In an implementation, the cassette includes a plastic shell and a currency access door. The cassette may also include a flexible handle and/or an integrated grip. In addition, the cassette may include at least one of an aperture and a transparent window positioned to reveal the contents of the cassette. In an implementation, the cassette includes a stacking mechanism which may include a drive means having non-circular drive gears.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2004Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: MEI, Inc.Inventors: Alfred F. Bergeron, Robert Clauser, Christopher L. Crawford, David C. Deaville, Michael D. Nunn, Jeffrey T. Thawley, Kenneth B. Wood, Stephen R. Watrous
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Publication number: 20100156036Abstract: A lockable, removable cassette is described. In an implementation, the cassette includes a plastic shell and a currency access door. The cassette may also include a flexible handle and/or an integrated grip. In addition, the cassette may include at least one of an aperture and a transparent window positioned to reveal the contents of the cassette. In an implementation, the cassette includes a stacking mechanism which may include a drive means having non-circular drive gears.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2010Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: MEI, Inc.Inventors: Alfred F. Bergeron, Robert Clauser, Christopher L. Crawford, David C. Deaville, Michael D. Nunn, Jeffrey T. Thawley, Kenneth B. Wood, Stephen R. Watrous
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Patent number: 7481308Abstract: A lockable, removable cassette is described. In an implementation, the cassette includes a plastic shell and a currency access door. The cassette may also include a flexible handle and/or an integrated grip. In addition, the cassette may include at least one of an aperture and a transparent window positioned to reveal the contents of the cassette. In an implementation, the cassette includes a stacking mechanism which may include a drive means having non-circular drive gears.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2004Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Mei, Inc.Inventors: Alfred F. Bergeron, Robert Clauser, Christopher L. Crawford, David C. Deaville, Michael D. Nunn, Jeffrey T. Thawley, Kenneth B. Wood, Stephen R. Watrous
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Publication number: 20040233983Abstract: A security system. The security system comprises N surveillance nodes, where N is greater than or equal to 17 and is an integer. Each surveillance node providing a video source of a scene of a location of the surveillance node. The security system comprises a monitoring node having a display in communication with the N surveillance nodes. The security system comprises a controller which simultaneously continuously shows on the display a live scene of the surveillance node when a predetermined event occurs at the surveillance node, and a recorded scene of the node for a predetermined time which spans before, during and after the predetermined event, the controller in communication with the monitoring node and the N surveillance nodes. Alternatively, N is greater than or equal to 2 and is an integer, and the security system comprises an ATM network through which the N surveillance nodes, the monitoring node and the controller communicate. A method for maintaining security.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2003Publication date: November 25, 2004Applicant: Marconi Communications, Inc.Inventors: Christopher L. Crawford, Cesar M. Guzman, Patrick T. McNeeley, Hector L. Robles, Ivor Petrie
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Publication number: 20040213620Abstract: A lockable, removable cassette is described. In an implementation, the cassette includes a plastic shell and a currency access door. The cassette may also include a flexible handle and/or an integrated grip. In addition, the cassette may include at least one of an aperture and a transparent window positioned to reveal the contents of the cassette. In an implementation, the cassette includes a stacking mechanism which may include a drive means having non-circular drive gears.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2004Publication date: October 28, 2004Applicant: Mars Incorporated, a Delaware corporationInventors: Alfred F. Bergeron, Robert Clauser, Christopher L. Crawford, David C. Deaville, Michael D. Nunn, Jeffrey T. Thawley, Kenneth B. Wood, Stephen R. Watrous
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Publication number: 20040155102Abstract: A lockable, removable cassette is described. In an implementation, the cassette includes a plastic shell and a currency access door. The cassette may also include a flexible handle and/or an integrated grip. In addition, the cassette may include at least one of an aperture and a transparent window positioned to reveal the contents of the cassette. In an implementation, the cassette includes a stacking mechanism which may include a drive means having non-circular drive gears.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2004Publication date: August 12, 2004Applicant: Mars Incorporated, a Delaware corporationInventors: Alfred F. Bergeron, Robert Clauser, Christopher L. Crawford, David C. Deaville, Michael D. Nunn, Jeffrey T. Thawley, Kenneth B. Wood, Stephen R. Watrous
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Patent number: 6712352Abstract: A lockable, removable cassette is described. In an implementation, the cassette includes a plastic shell and a currency access door. The cassette may also include a flexible handle and/or an integrated grip. In addition, the cassette may include at least one of an aperture and a transparent window positioned to reveal the contents of the cassette. In an implementation, the cassette includes a stacking mechanism which may include a drive means having non-circular drive gears.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2001Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Mars IncorporatedInventors: Alfred F. Bergeron, Robert Clauser, Christopher L. Crawford, David C. Deaville, Michael D. Nunn, Jeffrey T. Thawley, Kenneth B. Wood, Stephen R. Watrous
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Publication number: 20020056960Abstract: A lockable, removable cassette is described. In an implementation, the cassette includes a plastic shell and a currency access door. The cassette may also include a flexible handle and/or an integrated grip. In addition, the cassette may include at least one of an aperture and a transparent window positioned to reveal the contents of the cassette. In an implementation, the cassette includes a stacking mechanism which may include a drive means having non-circular drive gears.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2001Publication date: May 16, 2002Inventors: Alfred F. Bergeron, Robert Clauser, Christopher L. Crawford, David C. Deaville, Michael D. Nunn, Jeffrey T. Thawley, Kenneth B. Wood, Stephen R. Watrous
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Patent number: 6094290Abstract: A light-reactive thermal window is disclosed having external and internal panes. The external pane is composed of photochromic glass, while the internal pane is composed of clear glass. The panes are separated by a space having a uniform thickness. Each of the panes has a peripheral edge, with a spacer located between the peripheral edges of the external and internal panes. A sealant seals the peripheral edges of the external and internal panes. The window may include a frame securing together the spacer, the sealant, and the peripheral edges of the panes. Also disclosed is a method of preventing glare on a screen while minimizing climate control costs by installing a light-reactive thermal window near the screen.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1999Date of Patent: July 25, 2000Inventors: Christopher L. Crawford, Cheryl Lynn Crawford
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Patent number: 4652930Abstract: A television camera includes a front bracket to which the pickup lens is secured. A pickup tube and yoke assembly including a yoke holder are slidably attached to the bracket in a mating circular cylindrical cavity. The tube is back focussed along the lens optical axis by a camming mechanism coupled between the bracket and the yoke holder. The yoke holder has a flange attached to the camming mechanism, the flange having a plurality of alignment slots for angularly positioning the pickup tube relative to the pickup lens.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1984Date of Patent: March 24, 1987Assignee: RCA CorporationInventor: Christopher L. Crawford
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Patent number: 4643493Abstract: A plastic television chassis adapted for use in combination with a cathode-ray tube within an enclosure includes a base having integral snap-together parts disposed at opposite ends thereof. A pair of side frames are attached, respectively, to the opposite ends of the base in a substantially orthogonal orientation. Each side frame has integral snap-together parts disposed adjacent a first edge thereof for mating with the snap-together parts of the base, and also has integral slidable-groove parts disposed along a second edge thereof adjacent the first edge. A panel is attached to the side frames by integral slidable-groove parts disposed along opposite sides thereof for mating, respectively, with the slidable-groove parts of the side frames.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1985Date of Patent: February 17, 1987Assignee: RCA CorporationInventors: Richard J. Sides, Sr., Christopher L. Crawford, Raymond J. Nunweiler, Jr., David L. Muth, George P. Hope
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Patent number: 4491378Abstract: A zero insertion force dual-in-line plug and socket assembly comprising a socket housing having spaced rows of finger-proof terminal-receiving compartments and a dual-in-line plug supported by an insulating carrier with barriers extending between and beyond respective plug leads defining a finger-proof enclosure. The dual-in-line plug assembly is receivably as a free fit between the compartment rows and the socket assembly includes a closure member having a series of cams which urge the terminals into engagement with the plug leads on movement to a closed condition. The terminals include sinuous intermediate portions to provide desired flexural characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1983Date of Patent: January 1, 1985Assignee: AMP IncorporatedInventor: Christopher L. Crawford
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Patent number: 4455058Abstract: An electrical connector housing for flat cable comprising first and second members movable between mutually adjacent and remote positions corresponding to closed and open conditions of the housing respectively. Latching means comprise a latch bar and a release bar supported for deflection adjacent an end of one member and extending spaced apart in side-by-side relation interconnected by a plurality of transverse struts to defining an eye. A catch means on the other member is receivable in the eye in latching engagement with the latching bar in the closed condition of the connector housing, movement of the release bar in the direction of the latch bar deflecting the latch bar, thereby to disengage the catch means from the latch bar.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1982Date of Patent: June 19, 1984Assignee: AMP IncorporatedInventors: Donald R. Harner, Robert C. Kaley, Christopher L. Crawford
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Patent number: 4426125Abstract: The invention is a hinged electrical connector for terminating conductors of flat cable, using finger pressure to close the hinged parts of the connector over the cable.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1981Date of Patent: January 17, 1984Assignee: AMP IncorporatedInventor: Christopher L. Crawford
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Patent number: D482056Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2002Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: Mars IncorporatedInventors: Alfred F. Bergeron, Robert J. Clauser, Christopher L. Crawford, David C. Deaville, Charles Richard Lewis, Jr., Michael D. Nunn, John D. Snider, Jeffrey T. Thawley, Raymond M. Walker, William H. Wurz
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Patent number: D483057Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2002Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: Mars IncorporatedInventors: Alfred F. Bergeron, Robert J. Clauser, Christopher L. Crawford, David C. Deaville, Charles Richard Lewis, Jr., Michael D. Nunn, John D. Snider, Jeffrey T. Thawley, Raymond M. Walker, William H. Wurz
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Patent number: D490101Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2003Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: Mars IncorporatedInventors: Alfred F. Bergeron, Robert J. Clauser, Christopher L. Crawford, David C. Deaville, Charles Richard Lewis, Jr., Michael D. Nunn, John D. Snider, Jeffrey T. Thawley, Raymond M. Walker, William H. Wurz
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Patent number: D490839Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2003Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: Mars IncorporatedInventors: Alfred F. Bergeron, Robert J. Clauser, Christopher L. Crawford, David C. Deaville, Charles Richard Lewis, Jr., Michael D. Nunn, John D. Snider, Jeffrey T. Thawley, Raymond M. Walker, William H. Wurz
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Patent number: D339327Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1991Date of Patent: September 14, 1993Assignee: Cardinal Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christopher L. Crawford, Joel Carpenter, Duncan McArdle