Patents by Inventor Larry L. Jeffery

Larry L. Jeffery 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).

  • External modular bay for housing I/O devices
    Patent number: 6134612
    Abstract: An external flexible bay system includes an external flexible bay, a modular battery pack and a modular disk drive. The external flexible bay is adapted to receive either the modular battery pack or the modular disk drive to facilitate use of such devices with a portable PC. The external flexible bay includes a parallel port which enables an external I/O device, such as a printer, to be connected thereto. The external flexible bay contains circuitry to automatically sense whether a printer is connected and to determine whether a modular battery pack or modular disk drive has been inserted therein. In order to ensure proper configuration, the external flexible bay includes a mode switch for selecting between a floppy mode and a printer mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Larry D. Bailey, Rodman S. Brahman, Peter A. Ojeda, William C. Hallowell, Larry L. Jeffery, Upal Sengupta, Norman D. Stobert, Robert R. Turnbull, Russell S. Uithoven, John P. Wagner, Bruce Wang