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).

  • Patent number: 9073535
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: American Sportworks LLC
    Inventors: Philip Joseph Jenkins, Jr., Joshua Robert Turner, Bradley Michael Roberts, Jonathan Melven Kemp, Shawn Joseph Arnone
  • Publication number: 20120259493
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: AMERICAN SPORTWORKS LLC
    Inventors: Philip Joseph Jenkins, JR., Joshua Robert Turner, Bradley Michael Roberts, Johnathan Melven Kemp, Shawn Joseph Arnone
  • Publication number: 20070293869
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventors: John Conte, Joseph Jenkins
  • Publication number: 20060207687
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Mark Churchland, David McKenney, Joseph Jenkins, Dylan Gates, Paul Chambers
  • Publication number: 20060066385
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Inventors: Alan Dodd, Joseph Jenkins, Anthony Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20050284038
    Abstract: 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 abutmen
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventor: Joseph Jenkins
  • Publication number: 20050126356
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Jaime Garcia, Joseph Jenkins, Jeffrey Weston
  • Publication number: 20050027589
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2003
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Jenkins, Joseph Jenkins, Marcelo Melo, Aaron Hawkins
  • Publication number: 20030037388
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventors: Daniel John Feyma, James Joseph Jenkins, Larry James Juliot
  • Patent number: 6360709
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis A Soltis, Kenneth P DeGroot, Joseph Jenkins, Philip S Keller, Bruce H Teague, Jeffrey W Anderson
  • Patent number: 5745033
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Inventors: Joseph Jenkins, Jr., Karla M. Jenkins