Patents by Inventor Gene Schneider

Gene Schneider 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: 11680359
    Abstract: A drawer-style laundry treating appliance includes a cabinet defining an interior and having an open face. A drawer body is slidably received within the cabinet for movement through the open face between a closed position wherein the drawer body is received within the interior and an opened position wherein the drawer body is at least partially withdrawn from the interior. A tub is located within the interior, carried by the drawer body, and has a tub opening accessible when the drawer body is in the opened position, the tub further at least partially defining a treating chamber accessible through the tub opening. A tub cover selectively closes the tub opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth L. McConnell, Kevin Gene Schneider
  • Patent number: 11664676
    Abstract: Emergency power control systems enable Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) devices to be powered by primary and emergency power sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Giovanni Frezza, Ashish Patankar, Anthony Mackey, Vince Chavez, Gene Schneider
  • Publication number: 20220029453
    Abstract: Emergency power control systems enable Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) devices to be powered by primary and emergency power sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Giovanni FREZZA, Ashish PATANKAR, Anthony MACKEY, Vince CHAVEZ, Gene SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20210180239
    Abstract: A drawer-style laundry treating appliance includes a cabinet defining an interior and having an open face. A drawer body is slidably received within the cabinet for movement through the open face between a closed position wherein the drawer body is received within the interior and an opened position wherein the drawer body is at least partially withdrawn from the interior. A tub is located within the interior, carried by the drawer body, and has a tub opening accessible when the drawer body is in the opened position, the tub further at least partially defining a treating chamber accessible through the tub opening. A tub cover selectively closes the tub opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: KENNETH L. MCCONNELL, KEVIN GENE SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20200014159
    Abstract: An improved patch panel assembly includes a frame and faceplate that mate with a housing, and the housing defines a plurality of individual communication ports. The housing is mounted to the patch panel frame and includes jack openings that accommodate data jacks and circuit board openings that accommodate mating blades of circuit boards. The two sets of openings are separated on the housing by an intervening spacing and interposer terminal sets are provided to electrically interconnect the jacks with circuits on the circuit boards. The patch panel housings may be formed in discrete groupings so that, if desired, the patch panels may have ports that are grouped together by bandwidth, storage capability and the like. Inasmuch as the housings are mounted to the patch panel frames, the jacks and the circuit boards can be easily and individually replaced, repaired or upgraded with similar components without requiring disassembly of the patch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Elliot A. Baines, Gene Schneider, Bjarne Frederiksen, Philip Rivers, Augusto Panella
  • Patent number: 10418764
    Abstract: An improved patch panel assembly includes a frame and faceplate that mate with a housing, and the housing defines a plurality of individual communication ports. The housing is mounted to the patch panel frame and includes jack openings that accommodate data jacks and circuit board openings that accommodate mating blades of circuit boards. The two sets of openings are separated on the housing by an intervening spacing and interposer terminal sets are provided to electrically interconnect the jacks with circuits on the circuit boards. The patch panel housings may be formed in discrete groupings so that, if desired, the patch panels may have ports that are grouped together by bandwidth, storage capability and the like. Inasmuch as the housings are mounted to the patch panel frames, the jacks and the circuit boards can be easily and individually replaced, repaired or upgraded with similar components without requiring disassembly of the patch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Elliot A. Baines, Gene Schneider, Bjarne Frederiksen, Philip Rivers, Augusto Panella
  • Publication number: 20170229825
    Abstract: An improved patch panel assembly includes a frame and faceplate that mate with a housing, and the housing defines a plurality of individual communication ports. The housing is mounted to the patch panel frame and includes jack openings that accommodate data jacks and circuit board openings that accommodate mating blades of circuit boards. The two sets of openings are separated on the housing by an intervening spacing and interposer terminal sets are provided to electrically interconnect the jacks with circuits on the circuit boards. The patch panel housings may be formed in discrete groupings so that, if desired, the patch panels may have ports that are grouped together by bandwidth, storage capability and the like. Inasmuch as the housings are mounted to the patch panel frames, the jacks and the circuit boards can be easily and individually replaced, repaired or upgraded with similar components without requiring disassembly of the patch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Elliot A. Baines, Gene Schneider, Bjarne Frederiksen, Philip Rivers, Augusto Panella
  • Publication number: 20020146216
    Abstract: A ferrule includes a body, a first cover, and a second cover. The body includes a first row of optical fiber receiving V-grooves, a second row of optical fiber receiving V-grooves, and a third row of optical fiber receiving apertures. Each aperture of the third row of optical fiber receiving apertures accommodates a respective optical fiber. The first cover is mounted to the body adjacent the first row of optical fiber receiving V-grooves. Each V-groove of the first row of optical fiber receiving V-grooves accommodates a respective optical fiber which is aligned therein by the first cover. The second cover is mounted to the body adjacent the second row of optical fiber receiving V-grooves. Each V-groove of the second row of optical fiber receiving V-grooves accommodates a respective optical fiber which is aligned therein by the second cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventors: Philip W. Schofield, Gene Schneider
  • Patent number: 6250556
    Abstract: An inventory control device and method to check in and track vehicles being repaired using a pad of a plurality of sequentially numbered stacked bendable sheets made of a tear resistant material removably adhered to one another with re-usable adhesive strips, each sheet scored to removably separate into at least three parts: a numbered control tag with edges containing the adhesive strip along at least one edge to removably attach to an article, and having an inventory number on both sides of the control tag, which is sufficiently large to be viewed from a distance; a customer claim check having corresponding numbering to the control tag, and a key tag having corresponding numbering to the control tag with ends of sufficient length and width to pass through an opening in an article and wrap about the article, the tag defining a longitudinal groove through which one end of the tag may loop through the groove and form a clove hitch knot about the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Inventor: Frank Gene Schneider
  • Patent number: 6105403
    Abstract: A lid seal for an automatic vertical axis washer. The lid seal includes rigid and flexible components and generally attaches to a flange of the lid along at least a portion of a lid periphery. When the lid is closed, the lid seal engages the washer housing to eliminate or greatly reduce operational noise and wash fluid spray from escaping through gaps between the lid and the washer housing. In addition, the lid seal acts to improve lid closure sound quality. In doing so, the user is provided with a simple and low cost method to reduce noise and wash fluid spray nuisances associated with the operation of an automatic vertical axis washer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: James Phillips Carow, Jr., Kevin Gene Schneider