Patents by Inventor Dirk Van Zalen

Dirk Van Zalen 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: 20070022918
    Abstract: A laptop port includes a well through an aperture in a work surface with various power or data connections in the well and a door with opposing front and back edges. The door hinging between a closed position in which the door is coplanar with the work surface and conceals the well and the connections, and an open position in which the door is in an over-center location and the well and connections are revealed. The pivot is spaced from the back edge and remains closer to the back edge than to the front edge, defining a door tail between the back edge and the pivot. The door is self supporting in the over-center open location, not requiring further mechanisms to hold the door in the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Timothy Sweet, Dirk Van Zalen, Ralph Byma, Jeffrey Pulver