Patents by Inventor Erik Leonard

Erik Leonard 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: 20110314723
    Abstract: A saltwater fishing assembly includes a body resembling a forage fish. The body includes a quick connect device that is swivelable relative to a fishing line and is reelable to a fishing rod tip. A quick connection subassembly is connectable to the quick connect device of the body and includes a hook and is releasable with a hooked fish. Methods of using the fishing assembly are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Ross Langdon Taylor, Michael Charles Liverance, Erik Leonard Olson
  • Publication number: 20100198356
    Abstract: A hip prosthesis has an oblong plate with at one head end a mounting pin provided with a hinge ball, and at the opposite head end a fastening pin for fastening the hip prosthesis in a shaft of a bone. A first part of the plate extends on a first side of the mounting pin. The mounting pin forms an angle ? smaller than 90 degrees with the first part of the plate and the tangent to the fastening pin at the location of the connection between the fastening pin and the first part of the plate forms an angle ? greater than 90 degrees with the first part of the plate. In order to insert the hip prosthesis into a bone in a simple manner, the fastening pin includes a curved shape from the plate onwards in a direction to the first part of the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventor: Erik Leonard Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20080023579
    Abstract: A modular reel assembly for winding, dispensing, transporting, or storing hose, cord, or cable, is provided. Such a reel comprises of a pair of substantially similar polymeric support endplates and a pair of substantially similar polymeric spool endplates. The substantially similar support endplates are connected by at least one support endplate connecting member defining a predetermined support assembly width. The substantially similar spool endplates are connected by at least one spool endplate connecting member defining a predetermined spool assembly width. The modular reel assembly can thus be adjusted to particular discrete spool assembly and support assembly widths through appropriately selected interchangeable spool endplate and support endplate connecting members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: Alemite LLC
    Inventors: Erik Leonard, William P. Sumner
  • Publication number: 20020107520
    Abstract: This invention relates to a fastening element for an orthesis pr prosthesis, in particular a hip prosthesis, comprising a supporting element and an at least largely hollow pin extending from the supporting element, while the fixing means are provided for fixing the fastening element in a position in which the hollow pin extends at least largely into a bone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2001
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Inventor: Erik Leonard Hoffman
  • Patent number: 5776354
    Abstract: A method for the use of a porous, preferably dimensionally stable, particulate material in a packed filter bed for separating a disperse liquid phase from a gas and/or separating a disperse liquid phase from a liquid, with the average size of the particles being in the range of from 0.1 to 10 mm and the internal surface area of the material being such that, after it has been filled with the disperse liquid phase to be separated and placed, as a packed bed, at a distance of from R to r from the center in a centrifuge rotating at an angular velocity w, for which it holds that0<w.sup.2 (R.sup.2 -r.sup.2).ltoreq.20 (rad/s).sup.2 m.sup.2,wherein w stands for the angular velocity (in rad/s) and R and r represent the largest and the smallest radius (in m), respectively, of the material in the centrifuge, at least 1% of the liquid will have been separated after 5 minutes, while at least 10% of the liquid will have been separated after 60 minutes is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel NV
    Inventors: Abele Broer van der Meer, Elwin Schomaker, Johannes Bos, Erik Leonard Middelhoek
  • Patent number: 5750030
    Abstract: It is proposed to use a synthetic granulate or powder with a particle size of 0.1 to 10 mm as packing material for the removal of liquid, gaseous and/or dissolved constituents from a process stream, which packing material is made up of a porous, preferably dimensionally stable polymer having an overall porosity of 50 to 95% by volume, which when used as an extracting medium has pores of a diameter of 0.01 to 50 .mu.m, with an extracting liquid immobilised therein, or when used as a coalescence medium has a cellular body/window structure with the diameter of more than 50% by volume of the bodies being in the range of 100 to 700 .mu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Akzo Nobelnv
    Inventors: Elwin Schomaker, Johannes Bos, Erik Leonard Middelhoek
  • Patent number: 5738791
    Abstract: A method for the making and use of a porous, preferably dimensionally stable, hydrophobic polymer for the extraction of metal ions from an aqueous solution, with the polymer being in the form of a regenerative granulate or powder having an average particle diameter of from 0.1 to 10 mm and pores of from 0.1 to 50 .mu.m, which is obtained by the dissolving of a polymer, with heating, at a temperature above the upper critical demixing temperature Tc in a complexing agent containing hydrophobic liquid, followed by lowering of the temperature, resulting in a porous polymer filled with the hydrophobic liquid, and the mechanical diminution of the solidified mass is disclosed. Favorable results have been attained using polypropylene as the hydrophobic polymer, bis(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl)thio acid as the complexing agent, and with a mixture of dibenzyl toluene and/or polypropylene glycol ether being part of the hydrophobic liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel NV
    Inventors: Elwin Schomaker, Abele Broer van der Meer, Johannes Bos, Erik Leonard Middelhoek