Patents by Inventor Lewis Frank

Lewis Frank 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: 6584421
    Abstract: An instrument of process calibrator includes a housing, a traceable, controllable calibration source in the housing, the calibration source including memory for storing identifying information about the calibration source, a data connector coupled to the calibration source, a removable hand held computer preferably a PDA, attached to the housing, and connected to the data connector, the computer including user input means for receiving a control input user for controlling the calibration source, and output means, preferably graphical output means for displaying the identifying information and calibration results to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Fluke Corporation
    Inventors: Ron Clarridge, Lewis Frank, Bill Gustafson, Mike Pantano, Tim Tetreault, Ken Vandewater, Xu-Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 6571188
    Abstract: An instrument or process calibrator includes a housing, a traceable, controllable calibration source in the housing, the calibration source including memory for storing identifying information about the calibration source, a data connector coupled to the calibration source, a removable hand held computer preferably a PDA, attached to the housing, and connected to the data connector, the computer including user input means for receiving a control input user for controlling the calibration source, and output means, preferably graphical output means for displaying the identifying information and calibration results to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Fluke Corporation
    Inventors: Ron Clarridge, Lewis Frank, Bill Gustafson, Mike Pantano, Tim Tetreault, Ken Vandewater, Xu-Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 4114093
    Abstract: The present invention provides method and apparatus for testing a network, such as a printed circuit board, to check whether it conforms to its design as to having a plurality of network nodes and a predetermined node-connection pattern defining a division of the network nodes into a plurality of groups. In a conforming network, each network node is connected in common to all other network nodes in its group, and is isolated from the network nodes in each other group. In accordance with the invention, one of the network nodes is selected to serve initially as a present FROM node. There is thereafter selected repeatedly, from the network nodes that have not previously served as a present FROM node, a network node to serve temporarily as a present FROM node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Everett/Charles, Inc.
    Inventor: Lewis Frank Long
  • Patent number: 3948593
    Abstract: A cooking system includes a frypot comprising heat transfer walls which are spaced to facilitate cleaning of the frypot. Each heat transfer wall comprises a lower vertically extending portion and an upper outwardly curved portion shaped to cause wastes to flow to the bottom of the frypot. A plurality of burners are provided for maintaining combustion in zones adjacent to the vertically extending portions of the heat transfer walls. This causes heated products of combustion to flow upwardly along the vertically extending and outwardly extending portions of the heat transfer walls, whereby heat transfer is effected through the walls to cooking oil in the frypot. Each burner comprises two or more orifices for discharging mutually interacting gas jets and a target for deflecting the gas jets and entrained air toward the heat transfer walls and for reflecting heat into the combustion zone and through the heat transfer walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1976
    Assignee: Frymaster Corporation
    Inventors: Lewis Frank Moore, George McNair Price
  • Patent number: 3938948
    Abstract: A cooking system includes a frypot comprising heat transfer walls which are spaced to facilitate cleaning of the frypot. Each heat transfer wall comprises a lower vertically extending portion and an upper outwardly curved portion shaped to cause wastes to flow to the bottom of the frypot. A plurality of burners are provided for maintaining combustion in zones adjacent to the vertically extending portions of the heat transfer walls. This causes heated products of combustion to flow upwardly along the vertically extending and outwardly extending portions of the heat transfer walls, whereby heat transfer is effected through the walls to cooking oil in the frypot. Each burner comprises two or more orifices for discharging mutually interacting gas jets and a target for deflecting the gas jets and entrained air toward the heat transfer walls and for reflecting heat into the combustion zone and through the heat transfer walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1974
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1976
    Assignee: The Frymaster Corporation
    Inventors: Lewis Frank Moore, George McNair Price