Patents by Inventor James W. Heaton

James W. Heaton 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: 6662431
    Abstract: An electronic surface mount package provides a one piece construction package (with an open bottom) with one or more terminal pins molded into the package. Each of the pins have a notched post upon which a wire is wound which is from a toroid transformer carried within the package. Each of the posts are notched so their respective wires are separate from one another so as to prevent arcing. The case is opened at the bottom which prevents harm from expansion or cracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Halo Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Lu, Jeffrey Heaton, James W. Heaton, Peter Loh Hang Pao, Robert Loke Hang Lam, Tsang Kei Sun
  • Patent number: 6344785
    Abstract: An electronic surface mount package provides a one piece construction package (with an open bottom) with one or more terminal pins molded into the package. Each of the pins have a notched post upon which a wire is wound which is from a toroid transformer carried within the package. Each of the posts are notched so their respective wires are separate from one another so as to prevent arcing. The case is opened at the bottom which prevents harm from expansion or cracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2002
    Assignee: Halo Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Lu, Jeffrey Heaton, James W. Heaton, Peter Loh Hang Pao, Robert Loke Hang Lam, Tsang Kei Sun
  • Patent number: 6320489
    Abstract: The electronic surface mount package according to the present invention includes a one piece construction package having end walls, a side wall and an open bottom; a plurality of toroid transformers carried within the package by a soft silicone material wherein the toroid transformers each have wires wrapped thereon; a plurality of terminal pins molded within and extending from the bottom of the package wherein each of the pins extend through a bottom portion of the side wall and have a notched post upon which the wires from said transformers are wrapped and soldered thereon, respectively; and wherein the end walls have a first height H1 to form a standoff or safe guard between the foot seating plane of the package and the terminal pins; and wherein the outer portion of the side wall extends between the end walls such that the side wall has a second height H2 which is less than said first height H1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Halo Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Lu, Jeffrey Heaton, James W. Heaton, Peter Loh Hang Pao, Robert Loke Hang Lam, Tsang Kei Sun
  • Patent number: 6297721
    Abstract: An electronic surface mount package provides a one piece construction package (with an open bottom) with one or more terminal pins molded into the package. Each of the pins have a notched post upon which a wire is wound which is from a toroid transformer carried within the package. Each of the posts are notched so their respective wires are separate from one another so as to prevent arcing. The case is opened at the bottom which prevents harm from expansion or cracking. A reinforcement beam is located laterally across the bottom of the package to provide mechanical strength for the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Halo Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Lu, Jeffrey Heaton, James W. Heaton, Tsang Kei Sun, Peter Loh Hang Pao, Robert Loke Hang Lam
  • Patent number: 6297720
    Abstract: An electronic surface mount package provides a one piece construction package (with an open bottom) with one or more terminal pins molded into the package. Each of the pins have a notched post upon which a wire is wound which is from a toroid transformer carried within the package. Each of the posts are notched so their respective wires are separate from one another so as to prevent arcing. The case is opened at the bottom which prevents harm from expansion or cracking. A reinforcement beam is located laterally across the bottom of the package to provide mechanical strength for the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Halo Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Lu, Jeffrey Heaton, James W. Heaton, Tsang Kei Sun, Peter Loh Hang Pao, Robert Loke Hang Lam
  • Patent number: 6171151
    Abstract: An isolation module for an RJ-45 modular jack provides isolation and noise control and reduction for the RJ-45 modular jack. The RJ-45 modular jack includes a front surface having an opening for receiving a corresponding modular plug. The RJ-45 modular jack further includes a plurality of electrical fingers arranged in a spring bias fashion within the opening in the front surface for making electrical contact with a modular plug. The RJ-45 modular jack includes a series of sockets or slots along the back surface of said modular jack such that the electrical fingers extend to the back side of the modular jack and terminate in a reverse bent fashion to form a socket or clip portion within a respective socket or slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Halo Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Lu, Jeffrey Heaton, James W. Heaton, Peter Loh Hung Pao, Robert Loke Hang Lam, Tsang Kei Sun
  • Patent number: 5656985
    Abstract: An electronic surface mount package provides a one piece construction package (with an open bottom) with one or more terminal pins molded into the package. Each of the pins have a notched post upon which a wire is wound which is from a toroid transformer carried within the package. Each of the posts are notched so their respective wires are separate from one another so as to prevent arcing. The case is opened at the bottom which prevents harm from expansion or cracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: Halo Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Lu, Jeffrey Heaton, James W. Heaton, Peter Loh Hong Pao, Robert Lake Hang Lam, Tsang Kei Sun
  • Patent number: 4747735
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved toolholder for releasably mounting on a tool support member. The toolholder is provided with a forward end for receiving a tool and a shank extending from the forward end for being releasably received in a bore of a tool support member. The shank has a first section for interference fitting with the bore of the tool support member when a rearwardly facing face on the toolholder is in abutment with a forwardly facing surface on the tool support member. The shank has a second section, rearwardly of its first section, for expansible abutment with the bore of the tool support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1988
    Assignees: Kennametal Inc., Krupp Widia GmbH
    Inventors: Robert A. Erickson, Rainer von Haas, Norbert Reiter, Hans W. Tack, James W. Heaton
  • Patent number: 4197771
    Abstract: A quick change device for mounting a tool in a support member such as a turret. The tool has a shank with radially outwardly movable balls therein and the mounting device includes a sleeve receivable on the shank and adapted for mounting in a bore in the support member. The shank includes an actuator ball causing the aforementioned balls to move radially outwardly and engage a shoulder at the end of the sleeve to pull the tool into a predetermined axial position and lock the tool in the aforementioned position while cooperating elements of key means in the tool in the support member prevent rotation of the tool in the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1980
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Heaton, Donald W. Warren, Albert B. Albrecht
  • Patent number: 4018112
    Abstract: A machine tool having an indexable turret in which the turret has a plurality of stations for supporting tools and with the tools in the stations being presented individually to workpiece operating position in a respective indexed position of the turret during a work cycle. At least two of the stations of the turret are provided with identical tools, forming a group, and on each work cycle one of the pair of stations is bypassed thereby providing a reserve tool which can be made effective without interrupting the work cycle of the machine. Advantageously, most of the tools carried by the turret are provided in groups so that substantially a complete set of reserve tools is provided. Each tool can be used for a certain number of work cycles, or the machine can be provided with adaptive, or tool sensing, controls which sense the dulling or breaking of a tool, or workpieces taken from the machine can be periodically guaged to determine when a particular tool has worn down to the allowable limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1977
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Heaton, Donald W. Warren, Albert B. Albrecht
  • Patent number: 3996651
    Abstract: A tool holder having an insert receiving pocket, the pocket having bottom wall and side wall means with an improved arrangement for providing quick indexing or complete changing of an indexable insert. The improved arrangement comprises a pin element with a conical head on one end for engagement with a cutting insert and cooperating elements of a threaded spring tension connection between the other end of the pin and the tool holder. The insert and pin element are detachably fastened together as one unit, and when the insert is in the pocket with the pin clamped to the holder, the unit is held securely in position for cutting engagement with a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1976
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Heaton, Kenneth L. Neibauer