Patents by Inventor Geoffrey W. Bickel

Geoffrey W. Bickel 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).

  • Digital dasher boards for sports arenas
    Patent number: 6698121
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for integrating an illuminated sign system with a dasher board in a hockey rink. The illuminated sign system includes an outer frame with an impact resistant transparent sheet secured to a front surface of the outer frame. The sign system includes a display panel member having a white front surface and a plurality of apertures therein. The display panel member includes a circuit board assembly having a plurality of LED trios positioned proximate the rear surface of the display panel member so that LED trios register and protrude through a corresponding aperture in the display panel member. The illuminated sign system includes a power supply and a controller for controlling the power supplied to specific LEDs in each of the LED trios. In addition, the controller controls the intensity emitted by the LEDs to thereby manipulate the color contrast with the white front surface of the display panel member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Young Electric Sign Co.
    Inventors: Rodney D. Wardle, Todd M. Stih, John Williams, Kenneth Roostee, Graham Beland, Blake Gover, Todd W. Orme, Geoffrey W. Bickel, Laurence Kiyoshi Ishida
  • Digital dasher boards for sports arenas
    Publication number: 20020162256
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for integrating an illuminated sign system with a dasher board in a hockey rink. The illuminated sign system includes an outer frame with an impact resistant transparent sheet secured to a front surface of the outer frame. The sign system includes a display panel member having a white front surface and a plurality of apertures therein. The display panel member includes a circuit board assembly having a plurality of LED trios positioned proximate the rear surface of the display panel member so that LED trios register and protrude through a corresponding aperture in the display panel member. The illuminated sign system includes a power supply and a controller for controlling the power supplied to specific LEDs in each of the LED trios. In addition, the controller controls the intensity emitted by the LEDs to thereby manipulate the color contrast with the white front surface of the display panel member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Inventors: Rodney D. Wardle, Todd M. Stih, John Williams, Kenneth Roostee, Graham Beland, Blake Gover, Todd W. Orme, Geoffrey W. Bickel, Laurence Kiyoshi Ishida