Patents by Inventor Claude E. Cybulski
Claude E. Cybulski 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: 7540681Abstract: Systems and methods for applying or dispensing fluids such as surgical prep solution. The applicator includes a distributor element and a container of surgical prep solution. The distributor element includes a projecting element that separates at least two orifices in the distributor element to provide uniform distribution of the surgical prep solution.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2004Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Claude E. Cybulski, Eric R. Cybulski, Brook F. Duerr, Kent E. Lageson, Steven E. Turch
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Patent number: 7377710Abstract: Systems and methods for applying or dispensing surgical prep solution. The applicator system includes a spreader element and a container of surgical prep solution. The spreader element includes a body with an orifice covered by a pad. The orifice is in fluid communication with a passage through an elongated stem connected to the body. The container may be collapsible with only limited recovery. The spreader element may include a receptacle for receiving the container.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2006Date of Patent: May 27, 2008Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CoInventors: Nicholas R. Baumann, Matthew T. Scholz, Robert P. Zaspel, Kent W. Lageson, Claude E. Cybulski
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Patent number: 7090422Abstract: The present invention describes systems and methods for applying or dispensing surgical prep solution. The applicator system includes a spreader element and a container of surgical prep solution. The spreader element includes a body with an orifice covered by a pad. The orifice is in fluid communication with a passage through an elongated stem connected to the body. The container may be collapsible with only limited recovery. The spreader element may include a receptacle for receiving the container.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2003Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Nicholas R. Baumann, Matthew T. Scholz, Robert P. Zaspel, Kent E. Lageson, Claude E. Cybulski
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Publication number: 20040114988Abstract: Systems and methods for applying or dispensing surgical prep solution are disclosed. The applicator system includes a spreader element and a container of surgical prep solution. The spreader element includes a body with an orifice covered by a pad. The orifice is in fluid communication with a passage through an elongated stem connected to the body. The container may be collapsible with only limited recovery. The spreader element may include a receptacle for receiving the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Nicholas R. Baumann, Matthew T. Scholz, Robert P. Zaspel, Kent E. Lageson, Claude E. Cybulski
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Patent number: 6672784Abstract: Systems and methods for applying or dispensing surgical prep solution. The applicator system includes a spreader element and a container of surgical prep solution. The spreader element includes a body with an orifice covered by a pad. The orifice is in fluid communication with a passage through an elongated stem connected to the body. The container may be collapsible with only limited recovery. The spreader element may include a receptacle for receiving the container.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2002Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Nicholas R. Baumann, Matthew T. Scholz, Robert P. Zaspel, Kent E. Lageson, Claude E. Cybulski
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Publication number: 20030086747Abstract: Systems and methods for applying or dispensing surgical prep solution are disclosed. The applicator system includes a spreader element and a container of surgical prep solution. The spreader element includes a body with an orifice covered by a pad. The orifice is in fluid communication with a passage through an elongated stem connected to the body. The container may be collapsible with only limited recovery. The spreader element may include a receptacle for receiving the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2002Publication date: May 8, 2003Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company Office of Intellectual Property CounselInventors: Nicholas R. Baumann, Matthew T. Scholz, Robert P. Zaspel, Kent E. Lageson, Claude E. Cybulski
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Patent number: 6422778Abstract: Systems and methods for applying or dispensing surgical prep solution. The applicator system includes a spreader element and a container of surgical prep solution. The spreader element includes a body with an orifice covered by a pad. The orifice is in fluid communication with a passage through an elongated stem connected to the body. The container may be collapsible with only limited recovery. The spreader element may include a receptacle for receiving the container.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2001Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Nicholas R. Baumann, Matthew T. Scholz, Robert P. Zaspel, Kent E. Lageson, Claude E. Cybulski
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Patent number: 5910006Abstract: An assembly for use in mounting a lid on a kiln body. An anchor member is mounted on a side surface of the kiln body defined by a metal outer layer of the body, which anchor member has a horizontal pivot pin fixed adjacent its upper end. Spaced hinge portions are attached to the periphery of the lid and have surfaces defining through openings receiving and being pivotable about the pivot pin, including generally vertically extending surfaces that afford vertical movement of the lid relative to the pivot pin to accommodate vertical expansion of a ceramic lining in the kiln during heating of the kiln. The assembly also includes a force transfer structure including (1) a pivot portion pivotably mounted on the pivot pin and projecting from the pivot pin along the periphery of the lid and above the upper surface of the lid, and (2) a transverse portion attached to an upper part of the pivot portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1997Date of Patent: June 8, 1999Assignees: Michael D. Conroy, Jay A. JohnsonInventors: Michael D. Conroy, Jay A. Johnson, Claude E. Cybulski, Eric R. Cybulski
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Patent number: 5850192Abstract: An underground vehicle sensing system extends below a vehicle travel surface to detect the presence of a vehicle. A conduit extends substantially horizontally underground from an access hole placed at the side of the vehicle travel surface. A plurality of sensors are spaced apart in the conduit to detect localized changes in the magnetic field. A plurality of sections house the probes and wiring to orient and position the probes. Sections detachably clip together to form a lightweight support structure and may be added one by one through the access hole. Lightweight extension members are utilized in some configurations between the support sections for positioning and supporting the probes.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1996Date of Patent: December 15, 1998Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Frederick J. Turk, Claude E. Cybulski, Earl B. Hoekman
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Patent number: 4744530Abstract: Door-latching mechanism for a molded plastic cartridge includes a plastic arm projecting from a wall of the cartridge and acting as a cantilevered spring. At the free end of the arm are a door-locking pawl which locks the door when the spring is at rest and unlocks the door when the spring is flexed. When the cartridge is a VHS or Betamax videocassette, upon inserting it into a recorder, a finger of the recorder depresses the arm and with it the door-locking pawl, thus unlocking the pawl and allowing the door to be opened. The arm may either be integral with the cartridge or molded as a separate plastic piece to be attached to the cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1986Date of Patent: May 17, 1988Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Claude E. Cybulski, Gregory H. Johnson
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Patent number: 4607303Abstract: Cassette recorder has a spring member which fits into a depression in the rear edgewall of a cassette to sense whether the cassette is properly positioned for recording. The depression preferably is a conical receptacle, and the spring member has a rounded pawl which fits into the receptacle. The spring member also forces the cassette forwardly against a pair of positioning pins which have inclined faces to force the front of the cassette against the base plate of the recorder thereby positively positioning the cassette in place, and means connected to the spring member enable recording only when the member is fully seated into the depression.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1983Date of Patent: August 19, 1986Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Claude E. Cybulski
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Patent number: 4564871Abstract: Recording tape cassette has pivotable spring means including a record-lockout tab which blocks an opening when the spring means is cocked. When placed on a cassette deck, a fixed tang on the deck releases the cocking, allowing the spring means and its record-lockout tab to pivot to a retracted position, thus unblocking the opening. Thereafter, a feeler on the deck can enter that opening to disable the record function.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1983Date of Patent: January 14, 1986Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Claude E. Cybulski
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Patent number: 4564156Abstract: Videocassette tape spool including a wear button piece which is formed as a separate, small piece and which projects beyond one of the flanges of the tape spool. The wear button piece is molded of a highly abrasion-resistant polymer and is mounted to the hub of the spool by means of a cylindrical stud projecting from the hub and a hexagonal blind bore formed within the wear button piece which accepts the stud in an interference fit.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1984Date of Patent: January 14, 1986Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Claude E. Cybulski
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Patent number: D458367Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2001Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Robert P. Zaspel, Matthew T. Scholz, Kent E. Lageson, Claude E. Cybulski, Nicholas R. Baumann, Ellen M. Anderson-Manz
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Patent number: D569669Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2007Date of Patent: May 27, 2008Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Marcia C. Nichols, Claude E. Cybulski, Eric R. Cybulski, Shaelyn D. Benson, Arthur V. Lang
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Patent number: D376589Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1994Date of Patent: December 17, 1996Assignee: Imation Corp.Inventors: Claude E. Cybulski, James J. Evanoff, Arthur V. Lang, Vern E. Radewald, Dean E. Sitz, Matthew J. Schaenzer