Patents by Inventor Joseph Jenkins
Joseph Jenkins 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).
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Patent number: 9073535Abstract: A utility vehicle is provided that includes first and second pairs of wheels, a controller, and a potentiometer. The first pair of wheels is propelled by an internal combustion engine. The second pair of wheels is propelled by a battery-operated motor. The motor drives a transaxle that drives the second pair of wheels. The controller controls operation of the motor. The potentiometer is configured to be manually activated to propel the utility vehicle, and is coupled to the controller to send a signal to the controller to rotate the motor. The potentiometer is also configured to activate fuel flow into the internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: American Sportworks LLCInventors: Philip Joseph Jenkins, Jr., Joshua Robert Turner, Bradley Michael Roberts, Jonathan Melven Kemp, Shawn Joseph Arnone
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Publication number: 20120259493Abstract: A utility vehicle is provided that includes first and second pairs of wheels, a controller, and a potentiometer. The first pair of wheels is propelled by an internal combustion engine. The second pair of wheels is propelled by a battery-operated motor. The motor drives a transaxle that drives the second pair of wheels. The controller controls operation of the motor. The potentiometer is configured to be manually activated to propel the utility vehicle, and is coupled to the controller to send a signal to the controller to rotate the motor. The potentiometer is also configured to activate fuel flow into the internal combustion engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: AMERICAN SPORTWORKS LLCInventors: Philip Joseph Jenkins, JR., Joshua Robert Turner, Bradley Michael Roberts, Johnathan Melven Kemp, Shawn Joseph Arnone
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Publication number: 20070293869Abstract: An acetabular instrument has a handle portion having one or more solid nonflexible drive shaft elements therethrough. The shaft elements are connected by a U-joint at one of both ends to form a flexible curved drive shaft. One end of a solid shaft element is connected to a knob so that rotation of the knob drives the flexible shaft. The flexible shaft is housed within a hollow curved body preferably made of stainless steel. One end of the curved body it is connected to the handle portion and at the other end to an acetabular cup or acetabular reamer holder. The reamer holder is rotatably driven by the flexible drive shaft. The knob may be made so that it may receive blows from a mallet allowing the instrument to be used as an impactor. The drive shaft may be used to actuate a locking mechanism within the cup or reamer holder which connects the reamer cup to the instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2006Publication date: December 20, 2007Applicant: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.Inventors: John Conte, Joseph Jenkins
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Publication number: 20060207687Abstract: Systems for orienting strands and/or other types of particles are provided. The systems may have tabs which extend from orienting disks and/or collars and/or spacers which may be disposed on shafts. The tabs may prevent accumulation of strands between disks utilized within an orienting system. For example, the tabs may contact strands and/or other particles and guide or force the particles to be moved past the disks toward successive disks, or onto a screen or conveyor line.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2005Publication date: September 21, 2006Inventors: Mark Churchland, David McKenney, Joseph Jenkins, Dylan Gates, Paul Chambers
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Publication number: 20060066385Abstract: A switching circuit (20) comprising first and second switch terminals (2,3) and a switch (21). The switch (21) comprises a first bipolar transistor (22), having a collector connected to the first switch terminal (2) and an emitter connected to the second switch terminal (3), and a second bipolar transistor (23), having an emitter connected to the first switch terminal (2) and a collector connected to the second switch terminal (3). The switch (21) can be turned on by supply of a control current to the base of either the first or the second bipolar transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2005Publication date: March 30, 2006Inventors: Alan Dodd, Joseph Jenkins, Anthony Sullivan
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Publication number: 20050284038Abstract: A modular frame connection is formed by abutting a front camming surface of a front camming end of a front fastening plate against a rear camming surface of a rear camming end of a rear fastening plate while a front pierced end of the front fastening plate and rear pierced end of the rear fastening plate are separated, inserting the front and rear camming ends between a front and rear flanges of a post or beam, rotating the front pierced end toward the rear pierced end until a front finger surface of the front camming end is disposed insertably between a front lip of the front flange and a web of the post or beam and abutably to the front flange and a front abutment surface substantially orthogonal to the front fastening plate is disposed abutably to the web, rotating the rear pierced end toward the front pierced end until a rear finger surface of the rear camming end is disposed insertably between a rear lip of the rear flange and the web of the post or beam and abutably to the rear flange and a rear abutmenType: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2004Publication date: December 29, 2005Inventor: Joseph Jenkins
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Publication number: 20050126356Abstract: An optical system mounted on a cutter that has a base and a housing supporting a blade. In one embodiment, the optical system may projects first and second indicator lines on the base. The optical system may also include a mechanism selectively operable to adjust the first and second lines to indicate the width of the blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2005Publication date: June 16, 2005Inventors: Jaime Garcia, Joseph Jenkins, Jeffrey Weston
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Publication number: 20050027589Abstract: A system and method is provided for electronically managing a cleaning organization and services rendered to clients. According to the present invention, an electronic comment relating to a cleaning area serviced by a cleaning person within the cleaning organization is captured from a client. The electronic comment is stored in a cleaning management database as part of a historical cleaning record. The comment is also sent to a manager of the cleaning organization, and the comment is classified as part of a data group file with similar comments. The comment is communicated to a supervisor responsible for the cleaning area, and then the supervisor provides a notification obtained from the cleaning management database to the cleaning person.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2003Publication date: February 3, 2005Inventors: Michael Jenkins, Joseph Jenkins, Marcelo Melo, Aaron Hawkins
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Publication number: 20030037388Abstract: A turf maintenance machine and method of use thereof, said turf maintenance machine for traversing a turf surface having debris elements and turf fill material disposed thereupon, the machine including a main sweeper brush for engaging the debris elements and the turf fill material and transferring the debris elements and the turf fill material toward a debris hopper, and further including a filter device for receiving the transferred debris elements and the turf fill material, and for separating the debris elements from the turf fill material, wherein the debris elements are captured by the machine for subsequent disposal and the turf fill material is returned to the turf surface as the machine traverses the turf surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2001Publication date: February 27, 2003Inventors: Daniel John Feyma, James Joseph Jenkins, Larry James Juliot
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Patent number: 6360709Abstract: A piston and cylinder assembly according to the invention includes a cylinder block having a cylinder defined by a cylinder bore wall, a cylinder head connected to the cylinder block, and a piston for reciprocating in the cylinder relative the cylinder head. A combustion chamber for an air/fuel mixture has a volume formed by the cylinder bore wall, cylinder head, and the piston, and is divided into an intake side and an exhaust side by a longitudinal center axis of the piston. A spark plug is mounted in the cylinder head and extends into the combustion chamber to ignite the air/fuel mixture therein. A crown of the piston has a raised peak offset from the longitudinal center axis for providing a homogeneous air/fuel mixture in the combustion chamber near the spark plug.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1999Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: DaimlerChrysler CorporationInventors: Dennis A Soltis, Kenneth P DeGroot, Joseph Jenkins, Philip S Keller, Bruce H Teague, Jeffrey W Anderson
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Patent number: 5745033Abstract: A vehicular remote distress signal including a vehicle with an alarm. Also included is a receiver situated within the vehicle and coupled to the alarm. The receiver is adapted to actuate the alarm upon the receipt of a distress signal. Finally, a portable transmitter is adapted to transmit a distress signal upon the instantaneous actuation thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 1996Date of Patent: April 28, 1998Inventors: Joseph Jenkins, Jr., Karla M. Jenkins