Patents by Inventor Gary Douglas Porta

Gary Douglas Porta 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: 6010362
    Abstract: A board mount for an electrical transformer is provided by a unitary body having a wire termination section and a boardlock. The body is mountable to a transformer bobbin with an end of a transformer wire being terminated in the wire termination section and with the boardlock extending externally of the bobbin. The transformer can be electrically and mechanically mated with a circuit board by inserting the boardlock into a hole in the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Swain Caviness, Gary Douglas Porta
  • Patent number: 4118103
    Abstract: A double-ended electrical connecting device for connecting two wires to each other is generally U-shaped and comprises a web and sidewalls. The sidewalls are reversely bent inwardly towards each other and towards the web so that a double thickness of metal is provided in the upper portions of the sidewalls which are remote from the web. A wire-receiving opening is provided in the web and this opening merges with wire-receiving slots extending partially along the sidewalls. Additional wire-receiving slots extend inwardly from the upper free edges of the sidewalls through portions of the double thicknesses of metal. One wire is moved laterally of its axis and into each of the slots electrically to connect both wires to the connecting device and to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1978
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: James Albert Leidy, Gary Douglas Porta