Patents by Inventor Gregory C. Janice

Gregory C. Janice 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: 9194548
    Abstract: In a lighting apparatus comprising a light source housing is pivoted on a clip that can attach alternatively to a head strap adapter or to an adapter secured to a night vision goggle mounting plate. The clip includes a horizontal member having a bracket on the light source housing is rotatable, a pair of spaced, upwardly extending, tabs, and a vertical member extending upward from a location between the tabs. The upwardly extending tabs enter slots on the bottom of the adapter or mounting base, and a rib on the top of the adapter or mounting base is received by a snap fit in a downwardly facing slot on a horizontal part at the upper end of the vertical member of the clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Princeton Tectonics, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory C. Janice
  • Publication number: 20150176781
    Abstract: In a lighting apparatus comprising a light source housing is pivoted on a clip that can attach alternatively to a head strap adapter or to an adapter secured to a night vision goggle mounting plate. The clip includes a horizontal member having a bracket on the light source housing is rotatable, a pair of spaced, upwardly extending, tabs, and a vertical member extending upward from a location between the tabs. The upwardly extending tabs enter slots on the bottom of the adapter or mounting base, and a rib on the top of the adapter or mounting base is received by a snap fit in a downwardly facing slot on a horizontal part at the upper end of the vertical member of the clip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventor: Gregory C. Janice
  • Patent number: 8992039
    Abstract: In a lighting apparatus comprising a light source housing is pivoted on a clip that can attach alternatively to a head strap adapter or to an adapter secured to a night vision goggle mounting plate. The clip includes a horizontal member having a bracket on the light source housing is rotatable, a pair of spaced, upwardly extending, tabs, and a vertical member extending upward from a location between the tabs. The upwardly extending tabs enter slots on the bottom of the adapter or mounting base, and a rib on the top of the adapter or mounting base is received by a snap fit in a downwardly facing slot on a horizontal part at the upper end of the vertical member of the clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Princeton Tectonics
    Inventor: Gregory C. Janice
  • Patent number: 8657459
    Abstract: A low profile lighting apparatus is characterized by a battery housing, a rail-engaging plate connected to the housing by a pair of arms, and a recessed activating push-button located between the arms and adjacent the rail-engaging plate. A flexible resilient tab, also recessed between the arms, secures the apparatus to a rail. A lock-out switch is built into a plug for closing an end of the housing. The plug has three discrete rotational positions, one for attachment, a second for activation of an illumination source, and a third for preventing accidental activation of the illumination source by requiring simultaneous axial pressure and rotation. Instead of the plug, a hinged door having a sliding latch part can be utilized. The sliding latch part includes a pair of resilient legs that cooperate with surfaces inside the door to urge the latch part toward a latching condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Princeton Tectonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory C. Janice, Michael Aaskov, Kyle Walters
  • Publication number: 20120182724
    Abstract: A low profile lighting apparatus is characterized by a battery housing, a rail-engaging plate connected to the housing by a pair of arms, and a recessed activating push-button located between the arms and adjacent the rail-engaging plate. A flexible resilient tab, also recessed between the arms, secures the apparatus to a rail. A lock-out switch is built into a plug for closing an end of the housing. The plug has three discrete rotational positions, one for attachment, a second for activation of an illumination source, and a third for preventing accidental activation of the illumination source by requiring simultaneous axial pressure and rotation. Instead of the plug, a hinged door having a sliding latch part can be utilized. The sliding latch part includes a pair of resilient legs that cooperate with surfaces inside the door to urge the latch part toward a latching condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: PRINCETON TECTONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory C. Janice, Michael Aaskov, Kyle Walters
  • Publication number: 20120057331
    Abstract: In a lighting apparatus comprising a light source housing is pivoted on a clip that can attach alternatively to a head strap adapter or to an adapter secured to a night vision goggle mounting plate. The clip includes a horizontal member having a bracket on the light source housing is rotatable, a pair of spaced, upwardly extending, tabs, and a vertical member extending upward from a location between the tabs. The upwardly extending tabs enter slots on the bottom of the adapter or mounting base, and a rib on the top of the adapter or mounting base is received by a snap fit in a downwardly facing slot on a horizontal part at the upper end of the vertical member of the clip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: PRINCETON TECTONICS, INC
    Inventor: Gregory C. Janice
  • Publication number: 20110188236
    Abstract: In an adjustable light, a mounting base is formed with a pair of arcuate slots for receiving hooks protruding from a light module. For attachment of the light module to the base, the hooks enter open ends of the respective slots, and the light module is rotated to engage the hooks with the slots. A sheet of spring metal with two series of protrusions is sandwiched between a rear part of the base and a front part in which the slots are formed. The protrusions are exposed through the slots, and a space is provided behind the protrusions, allowing them to move resiliently when engaged by the hooks as the light module is rotated so that the light module can be retained in any selected one of a plurality of angular positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: PRINCETON TECTONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Cleatis A. Eichelberger, Gregory C. Janice
  • Patent number: 4753164
    Abstract: An adjustable pocket printing platen is disclosed for use with the printing platen of a prior art type of silk screen printing machine. The adjustable pocket printing platen includes a frame having a pair of spaced, transverse rails having end flanges positioned to bottomly underly the marginal edges of the machine platen. Thumb screws extend through the bottom flanges to lock the pocket printing platen to the machine platen in any longitudinally adjusted position. A small platen transversely rides along the transverse rails and is sized to receive and support the pocket of a garment thereupon. Set screws extend through marginal edges of the small platen to lock the platen to the transverse rails in any desired transversely adjusted position. The top surface of the small platen extends above the top surface of the machine platen to receive the printing screen when it is lowered to apply a screened design to a garment pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1988
    Inventors: David W. Barnes, Gregory C. Janice
  • Patent number: D470615
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Princeton Tectonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory C. Janice, Ken E. Urion
  • Patent number: D653798
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Princeton Tectonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory C. Janice, Michael Aaskov, Kyle Walters