Patents by Inventor Jeffrey W. Hegemier

Jeffrey W. Hegemier 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).

  • Media independent modular communication repeater system
    Patent number: 6628703
    Abstract: An improve modular communication repeater system is adapted for use with a wide variety of media types in an industrial control system to repeat communication port onto various media at multiple communication ports in the industrial control system. A modular communication repeater system is provided. The system includes at least one communication repeater adapter device coupled with a plurality of repeater communication modules. A single repeater adapter connector is provided on one side of the repeater adapter. Each of the plurality of repeater communication modules is provided with an input connector on one side and an output connector on the other side. The repeater adapter device includes an internal communication repeater circuit adapted to receive communication data on a one of first and second sets of repeater adapter contacts and broadcast the communication data onto the other one of the first and second sets of repeater adapter contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey W. Hegemier, Michael A. Bush
  • Media independent modular communication repeater system
    Patent number: 6289042
    Abstract: A modular communication repeater system is provided. The system includes at least one communication repeater adapter device coupled with a plurality of repeater communication modules. A single repeater adapter connector is provided on one side of the repeater adapter. Each of the plurality of repeater communication modules is provided with an input connector on one side and an output connector on the other side. The repeater adapter device includes an internal communication repeater circuit adapted to receive communication data on a one of first and second sets of repeater adapter contacts and broadcast the communication data onto the other one of the first and second sets of repeater adapter contacts. Each of the repeater communication modules includes a cascading backplane interconnecting the first sets of electrical contacts in an input connector to the second sets of electrical contacts in an output connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey W. Hegemier, Michael A. Bush