Patents by Inventor Eugenia Kamentser
Eugenia Kamentser 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: 11794099Abstract: A universal controller having a housing is provided. The housing includes a first curved segment and a second curved segment, the first curved segment located on a first side of the housing and the second curved segment located on an opposite, second side of the housing, the first curved segment and the second curved segment symmetrical in shape and begin from a front surface of the housing and end at a rear surface of the housing enabling a user to grip a first side wall at a rear side of the housing and a second side wall at the rear side of the housing; and a cavity created at a bottom segment of the housing, the bottom segment coupled to a bottom support structure for receiving a first battery and a second battery to provide power to a plurality of electronic components of the universal controller.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Bokam Engineering Inc.Inventors: Boris Kamentser, Eugenia Kamentser
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Patent number: 8502776Abstract: A joystick controller in two-dimensional and one-dimensional versions. The 2-D version employs a unitary sensor surface structure having eight surface-mounted or deposited strain gauges configured as two full bridges or four surface-mounted or deposited strain gauges configured as two half bridges, one for the X direction and one for the Y direction. This unique strain gauge layout design permits a new level of mechanical simplicity not heretofore available in joystick controllers. There are essentially no moving parts to wear out. An elongated post or lever is, in the preferred embodiment, mechanically coupled to the sensor surface structure by a pair of co-axial robust coil springs to provide a psychologically appealing physical motion of the lever during activation of the joystick controller. In the 1-D version, a rotatable cam element is positioned between parallel elongated leaf springs. The cam element is positioned at one end of the springs.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2007Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Bokam Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Boris Kamentser, Eugenia Kamentser
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Publication number: 20130069874Abstract: A computer controller configured to meet the environmental and physical requirements that are encountered in gaming or by military personnel. The controller provides a display, cursor movement control devices and a plurality of switches, joysticks and the like for responding to display-generated functions such as icons for selecting programs. This embodiment is hard wired to the remaining components of a full computer system. Such components would normally be contained in the same housing or be carried by a user in a backpack or mounted on waistbelts or other body-supported wearables. In another embodiment, an attachable version of the controller is used to transform an existing portable computer such as a tablet or the like. The controller is configured to be attached to the portable computer to provide trigger switches, joysticks, push buttons and the like for a more rugged or gaming configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Inventors: Boris Kamentser, Eugenia Kamentser
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Publication number: 20130044056Abstract: A computer mouse controller that employs a joystick-style cursor control mechanism. This cursor control mechanism employs a plurality of strain transducers affixed to a substrate to which a vertical mechanical post is attached. The upper free end of the post may be mechanically coupled to a shell shaped as a body of revolution such as a hemispheric-shaped shell. The mechanical coupling between the post and the ball-shaped shell may be a hard unyielding attachment or an intermediate compliant device such as a spring or rubber-like member to permit some limited movement of the ball-shaped shell relative to the post. The strain transducers are preferably arranged and connected in a bridge or half bridge configuration in two orthogonal axes. The application of a horizontally directed force to the free end of the post, imparts strain (tension or compression) to the transducers in the bridge depending upon the direction, thereby altering the impedance of the transducers along respective axes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2011Publication date: February 21, 2013Inventors: Boris Kamentser, Eugenia Kamentser
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Patent number: 7707902Abstract: A bearing rotor thrust sensor assembly is provided for being secured to a bearing housing having a plurality of fingers extending between a pair of opposite portions of the housing. The assembly includes a first anchor member including a first cleat and configured to couple to a first housing portion of the pair of opposite housing portions, a second anchor member including a second cleat and configured to couple to a second of the pair of opposite housing portions, and a head sensor bracket positioned at least partially between the first and second anchor members. The head sensor bracket includes a load cell including a bridge circuit for producing a signal representative of forces on said cell.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2008Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Frederic Gardner Haaser, Boris Kamentser, Francisco Zul, Eugenia Kamentser
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Publication number: 20080307898Abstract: A bearing rotor thrust sensor assembly is provided for being secured to a bearing housing having a plurality of fingers extending between a pair of opposite portions of the housing. The assembly includes a first anchor member including a first cleat and configured to couple to a first housing portion of the pair of opposite housing portions, a second anchor member including a second cleat and configured to couple to a second of the pair of opposite housing portions, and a head sensor bracket positioned at least partially between the first and second anchor members. The head sensor bracket includes a load cell including a bridge circuit for producing a signal representative of forces on said cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2008Publication date: December 18, 2008Inventors: Frederic Gardner Haaser, Boris Kamentser, Francisco Zul, Eugenia Kamentser
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Publication number: 20080288093Abstract: A joystick controller in two-dimensional and one-dimensional versions. The 2-D version employs a unitary sensor surface structure having eight surface-mounted or deposited strain gauges configured as two full bridges or four surface-mounted or deposited strain gauges configured as two half bridges, one for the X direction and one for the Y direction. This unique strain gauge layout design permits a new level of mechanical simplicity not heretofore available in joystick controllers. There are essentially no moving parts to wear out. An elongated post or lever is, in the preferred embodiment, mechanically coupled to the sensor surface structure by a pair of co-axial robust coil springs to provide a psychologically appealing physical motion of the lever during activation of the joystick controller. In the 1-D version, a rotatable cam element is positioned between parallel elongated leaf springs. The cam element is positioned at one end of the springs.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2007Publication date: November 20, 2008Inventors: Boris Kamentser, Eugenia Kamentser
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Patent number: 7430926Abstract: A bearing rotor thrust sensor assembly is provided for being secured to a bearing housing having a plurality of fingers extending between a pair of opposite portions of the housing. The assembly includes a first anchor member including a first cleat and configured to couple to a first housing portion of the pair of opposite housing portions, a second anchor member including a second cleat and configured to couple to a second of the pair of opposite housing portions, and a head sensor bracket positioned at least partially between the first and second anchor members. The head sensor bracket includes a load cell including a bridge circuit for producing a signal representative of forces on said cell.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2006Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Frederic Gardner Haaser, Boris Kamentser, Francisco Zul, Eugenia Kamentser
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Publication number: 20070186687Abstract: A bearing rotor thrust sensor assembly is provided for being secured to a bearing housing having a plurality of fingers extending between a pair of opposite portions of the housing. The assembly includes a first anchor member including a first cleat and configured to couple to a first housing portion of the pair of opposite housing portions, a second anchor member including a second cleat and configured to couple to a second of the pair of opposite housing portions, and a head sensor bracket positioned at least partially between the first and second anchor members. The head sensor bracket includes a load cell including a bridge circuit for producing a signal representative of forces on said cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2006Publication date: August 16, 2007Inventors: Frederic Haaser, Boris Kamentser, Francisco Zul, Eugenia Kamentser
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Patent number: 6504703Abstract: A capacitive transducer apparatus converts mechanical force to electrical signal parameters by change of spacing between plates of a plurality of capacitors. The apparatus has two mechanical components. The first component includes an articulating member such as a post surrounded by a first capacitive plate. Means are provided for causing the articulating member to articulate responsive to user manipulation thereof, and thereafter, to return to a quiescent position. The second component includes a second capacitive plate made up of a plurality of printed metalized members disposed about the articulating member substantially parallel to the first capacitive plate. A circuit is provided for detecting respective signals from a plurality of capacitors formed by the plates, the respective signals varying in value depending on articulation of the articulating member which alters the capacitance of the respective capacitors depending on the direction and magnitude of an applied force.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1997Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: Bokam EngineeringInventors: Boris Kamentser, Eugenia Kamentser
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Patent number: 6250863Abstract: A washer having a plurality of strain gauges, at least one of which is positioned on a portion of the washer subjected to axial force and at least one of which is positioned on a portion of the washer not subjected to axial force. In a preferred embodiment, each such washer portion has two strain gauges and the total of four strain gauges are connected into a common bridge circuit. In the preferred embodiment the portion of the washer not subjected to axial force is a wedge partially cut into the washer structure and shortened axially to form a gap between the wedge and a surface abutting the washer. In this manner, axial force applied to the washer is not applied to the wedge. The resulting strain gauge configuration provides an electrical signal indication of axial stress that is high resolution and temperature insensitive.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2000Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Inventors: Boris Kamentser, Eugenia Kamentser
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Patent number: 6201555Abstract: A shaft encoder providing a pulsed output signal with rotation of a shaft, the number of pulses being dependent upon a shaft-mounted gear and its number of teeth. In a preferred embodiment, a piezo film element is mounted in intimate contact with a spring element, the latter being positioned to engage the teeth of the gear. When the shaft rotates, the gear rotates as well. The gear teeth cause the spring element to be displaced and then return to a nominal position for each tooth. Accordingly, given a sufficient number of regularly spaced teeth around the gear, a relatively high resolution pulsed signal is generated as the shaft rotates. The piezo film element generates electrical pulses due to the mechanical displacement of the spring element to which the film is in contact. Thus, no electrical power source is required to generate the pulses. Moreover, because of the simplicity of the invention, size scaling is readily available.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1998Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Bokam EngineeringInventors: Boris Kamentser, Eugenia Kamentser
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Patent number: 5872320Abstract: An improved force transducer which may, for example, be used as a joystick control for computer display control. Co-planar strain gauges are configured for response to forces applied in each of three orthogonal directions. A post and underlying ceramic substrate, the latter having the strain gauges mounted thereon, are mounted to a printed circuit board by means of a conductive epoxy or solder in a gap between the substrate and the circuit board. A retainer may be used to limit the extent of post displacement in X and Y directions to prevent damage to the assembly from forces which would otherwise exceed the physical limits thereof. In a preferred embodiment, the post and underlying substrate are implemented as a unitary ceramic body. In another embodiment, ballast or trim resistors for balancing the output of the transducer, are located under the post. In yet another embodiment the metal paths or traces which connect to the strain gauges, follow a unique arrangement to avoid crossing over each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1996Date of Patent: February 16, 1999Assignee: Bokam EngineeringInventors: Boris Kamentser, Eugenia Kamentser
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Patent number: 5835977Abstract: An improved force transducer which may, for example, be used as a joystick control for computer display control. Co-planar strain gauges are configured for response to forces applied in each of three orthogonal directions. A post and underlying ceramic substrate, the latter having the strain gauges mounted thereon, are mounted to a printed circuit board by means of a conductive epoxy or solder in a gap between the substrate and the circuit board. A retainer may be used to limit the extent of post displacement in X and Y directions to prevent damage to the assembly from forces which would otherwise exceed the physical limits thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1996Date of Patent: November 10, 1998Inventors: Boris Kamentser, Eugenia Kamentser
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Patent number: 5811694Abstract: A force transducer having a post connected to an underlying substrate having a plurality of strain gauges, is protected from otherwise damaging static electric discharge current using a grounding guard. The guard is preferably a flat conductive member having an aperture for receiving the post and a tab for connection to electrical ground. The guard surrounds the post and overlays the substrate to channel such current away from delicate strain gauges and other electronics. In the preferred embodiment the aperture is formed by bending up a plurality of flaps cut into the guard and bent up to receive the post in press-fit engagement.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1997Date of Patent: September 22, 1998Assignees: Bokam Engineering, Bourns, Inc.Inventors: Boris Kamentser, Eugenia Kamentser, Michael C. Scofield