Patents by Inventor Donald Dennis

Donald Dennis 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: 10423755
    Abstract: Motor control centers are designed and configured by a series of interface screens that are served to a configuration computer. The system configuration may be based on a default configuration, and customization is made based upon user selection or input of data via the interface screens. The particular screens presented and the type and detail of data presented may be adapted so that more or less is available based upon a security access model. The system may be fully integrated with various other systems, such as enterprise resource planning tools. The system may be online, such that the interface, data, offerings, options and so forth may be easily adapted and updated, and design and configuration may be made by different parties at different locations with a minimum of specialized configuration computer programming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shane Dean Cleasby, Elizabeth Walmsley Schrock, Steven Louis Fischer, Ken Sriri Rangsy, Donald Dennis Skarda
  • Publication number: 20150032432
    Abstract: Motor control centers are designed and configured by a series of interface screens that are served to a configuration computer. The system configuration may be based on a default configuration, and customization is made based upon user selection or input of data via the interface screens. The particular screens presented and the type and detail of data presented may be adapted so that more or less is available based upon a security access model. The system may be fully integrated with various other systems, such as enterprise resource planning tools. The system may be online, such that the interface, data, offerings, options and so forth may be easily adapted and updated, and design and configuration may be made by different parties at different locations with a minimum of specialized configuration computer programming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Shane Dean Cleasby, Elizabeth Walmsley Schrock, Steven Louis Fischer, Ken Sriri Rangsy, Donald Dennis Skarda
  • Publication number: 20050238587
    Abstract: The method for suppressing mold consists of extract from a citrus seed, citrus skin, or other botanical mold suppressant, with the preferable suppressant being made of grapefruit seed extract combined with propylene glycol. The mold suppressant has been formulated to provide for air borne administration, preferably by using a fogging machine, such as a glycol fogger, which may be of the type generally used to apply insecticides, or for special effects in which a “fog” machine is used by entertainers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Inventors: Donald Dennis, Walter Hayhurst
  • Patent number: 6082604
    Abstract: A fastening tool having an alignment device that prevents the tool from firing unless the tool is properly aligned with respect to the object to be fastened. The tool includes a housing and a driver mounted in the housing and moveable with respect to the housing, the driver having a driving surface for engaging a fastener such as a staple. A magazine assembly and nosepiece are associated with the housing for positioning and aligning the fastener in the path of the driver so that when actuated, the driver strikes the fastener and forcibly ejects it from the magazine into the substrate on which the object to be fastened is to be secured. The magazine can be removably secured to the housing. A nose piece assembly having a semi-circular bottom cut-out is secured to the housing and includes a mechanism for ensuring that the object to be fastened is properly aligned in the cut-out before the driver can be actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Acme Staple Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald Dennis
  • Patent number: 5931364
    Abstract: A fastening tool having an alignment device that prevents the tool from firing unless the tool is properly aligned with respect to the object to be fastened. The tool includes a housing and a driver mounted in the housing and moveable with respect to the housing, the driver having a driving surface for engaging a fastener such as a staple. A magazine assembly and nosepiece are associated with the housing for positioning and aligning the fastener in the path of the driver so that when actuated, the driver strikes the fastener and forcibly ejects it from the magazine into the substrate on which the object to be fastened is to be secured. The magazine can be removably secured to the housing. A nose piece assembly having a semi-circular bottom cut-out is secured to the housing and includes structure for ensuring that the object to be fastened is properly aligned in the cut-out before the driver can be actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Acme Staple Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald Dennis
  • Patent number: 4020346
    Abstract: Security inspection apparatus designed for the safe, efficient and rapid inspection of products to detect the presence of objectionable X-ray detectable items. The apparatus comprises a source of continuous X-rays of sufficiently low intensity that conventional photographic film is insensitive thereto, a fluoroscopic screen, a television camera adapted to transmit electrical impulses which provide a visual picture of the images on the fluoroscopic screen to a television monitor and means for intensifying the electrical impulses transmitted by the camera so that the image on the monitor is clearly visible. The apparatus also comprises means for continuously moving products such as baggage between the X-ray source and the screen at a uniform speed within a shielded compartment so that a continuously changing visual picture of the contents of the baggage is displayed on the monitor, providing a three-dimensional picture of each detectable item in the baggage and an indication of its relative location therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Inventor: Donald A. Dennis