Patents by Inventor Marcelo Monteiro

Marcelo Monteiro 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).

  • Publication number: 20050005649
    Abstract: Improvements introduced to clothes and drying machines, according to which the application of the innovative circumscribed ring-motor (1) is established, and now also the flat ring-motor (6) and its respective variations, in mini washing machines and mini-clothes dryers. The circumscribed ring-motor (1) and the flat ring-motor (6) properly encapsulated and protected from contact with water, considerably substitute various normal mechanical components necessary for the movement of the tub (20) and washing such as belts, pulleys, gears and gearbox.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventor: Marcelo Monteiro
  • Patent number: 6427494
    Abstract: Improvements introduced in washing machines which allow that the tilting of the two-way washing chamber is carried out mechanically by a set of linked gears or electrically carried out by using three electrical motors, one motor to carry out the 360° turn around an “X” axis, and the two other motors to carry out the 360° turn around a “Y” axis, in this case, the second and third motors are supported on an arc which sustains the washing chamber, fixed at the height of the middle point of the aforesaid chamber; another way to carrying out the tilting of the washing chamber consists in providing two motors, one motor to carry out the 360° turn around an “X” axis, and another motor to carry out the 360° turn around a “Y” axis, using, in this case, the very surface of the washing chamber so as to fix on it a constituent part of the second motor; the two-way washing chamber presents a spherical format and one or more caps can be removed from it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Inventor: Marcelo Monteiro