Patents by Inventor Karl M. Hink

Karl M. Hink 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: 5041187
    Abstract: An oximeter sensory assembly (40) includes a thin elongated flexible sheet-like strip (42) having an integral end portion (44) flexibly wrapping at least partially around a human body part (26), a plurality of electrical conductors (46-50) on the strip, and light emitting and receiving electrical components (28a, 30a) mounted on the strip on the end portion and electrically connected to the conductors. Flexible conductive encompassing shielding layers (62, 66) are also provided, together with outer insulating layers (61, 67). Connection adapter structure (94) is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Assignee: Thor Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Karl M. Hink, Mark H. Polczynski
  • Patent number: 4964408
    Abstract: An oximeter sensor assembly (40) includes a thin elongated flexible sheet-like strip (42) having an integral end portion (44) flexibly wrapping at least partially around a human body part (26), a plurality of electrical conductors (46-50) on the strip, and light emitting and receiving electrical components (28a, 30a) mounted on the strip on the end portion and electrically connected to the conductors. Flexible conductive encompassing shielding layers (62, 66) are also provided, together with outer insulating layers (61, 67). Connection adapter structure (94) is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: Thor Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Karl M. Hink, Mark H. Polczynski
  • Patent number: 4926100
    Abstract: A variable speed eddy current electric motor includes a zero-torque regulating circuit that senses and responds to the current flowing through an eddy current motor field coil. As the magnitude of the field coil's current is changed by the eddy current motor's speed control circuit, the operating method of the zero-torque regulating circuit supplies varying amounts of current to flow through the field coil in a direction opposite to that of the current applied thereto by the speed control circuit. Thus, when the eddy current motor's speed control circuit no longer causes any current to flow through the field coil, the current supplied to the field coil by the zero-torque regulating circuit produces a magnetic filed that removes all torque from the eddy current motor's output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1990
    Assignee: A. O. Smith Corporation
    Inventors: Karl M. Hink, Joseph R. Pottebaum, Jerome J. Reichard, Bruce C. Wagner, Douglas B. Weber, Theodore O. Wiesendanger