Patents by Inventor Michael Conti
Michael Conti 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).
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Publication number: 20240072342Abstract: A battery component includes a header body and a frame secured to the header body. The frame includes an electromagnetic shield portion. The electromagnetic shield portion defines at least one electrical connection port. The electrical connection port is configured to receive an electrically conductive object. The electromagnetic shield portion is configured to dissipate electromagnetic radiation from the electrically conductive object.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Ryan Scott Gray, Alexander Robert Rink, Michael Barr, Nathaniel Conti, Nicholas Patino, Nicholas Braeseker
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Publication number: 20150253847Abstract: A method for capturing finger motions and interpreting the captured finger motions into commands for a mobile computing device can comprise receiving, from a first finger mounted sensor, a first sensed finger position of a first finger relative to a second finger. The method can also comprise converting, with a processing unit, the first sensed finger position to a data packet communicable to the mobile computing device. Further, the method can comprise transmitting the data packet to the mobile computing device, wherein the data packet causes the mobile computing device to execute a command.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: Benjamin G. Harris, Michael Conti, Eric J. Ely
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Patent number: 8632322Abstract: A plunger pump including an airtight bellows surrounding a portion of a drive shaft to protect the drive shaft and associated seals and/or bearings from harmful fluids that are being pumped. No counter-pressure fluid exists inside the bellows, other than air, and the bellows is sufficiently rigid to withstand the pressure of the pumped fluid without collapsing. The interior of the bellows is in fluid communication with the atmosphere, negating the need for a reservoir to accommodate varying quantities of counter-pressure fluid as the pump operates.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2006Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand CompanyInventors: Michael Conti, Kerry G. Vonalt, Jana Able
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Publication number: 20100196168Abstract: A prime mover includes a shaft assembly that is supported for reciprocal movement between first and second ends of a stroke, and that includes first and second portions having a first material, and a third portion in between the first and second portions, having a second material, different from the first material. A single inductive proximity sensor makes a first indication when proximate the first material, and makes a second indication, when proximate the second material. A portion of the sensor is proximate the first portion when the shaft is at the first end of the stroke, the same portion of the same sensor is proximate the second portion when the shaft is at the second end of the stroke, and the same portion of the same sensor is proximate the third portion the entire time the shaft is in between the first and second ends of the stroke.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2009Publication date: August 5, 2010Inventors: Nicholas Kozumplik, Michael Conti, Lloyd Irvin Towne
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Publication number: 20070221651Abstract: A cooking vessel assembly having a cooking vessel and a lid. A shape-conforming element mounts to one of the lid and vessel to retarded heat or steam from migrating from the vessel between the lid and vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2006Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventors: J. Kristina, Michael Conti
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Publication number: 20070178000Abstract: A plunger pump including an airtight bellows surrounding a portion of a drive shaft to protect the drive shaft and associated seals and/or bearings from harmful fluids that are being pumped. No counter-pressure fluid exists inside the bellows, other than air, and the bellows is sufficiently rigid to withstand the pressure of the pumped fluid without collapsing. The interior of the bellows is in fluid communication with the atmosphere, negating the need for a reservoir to accommodate varying quantities of counter-pressure fluid as the pump operates.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2006Publication date: August 2, 2007Applicant: Ingersoll-Rand CompanyInventors: Stephen Able, Jana Able, Michael Conti, Kerry Vonalt
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Patent number: 7234702Abstract: The present invention relates to a game table with a plurality of player stations with an integral lighting system. The game table, for example, a poker table, includes a light window adjacent all of the player stations. An illumination device is fixedly disposed beneath the light window. With such a configuration, lighting is provided from beneath the table, which minimizes shadows during television taping.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2004Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: WPT Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Steven Roy Lipscomb, John Michael Conti, James Joseph Cuomo
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Patent number: 6722256Abstract: A reduced icing valve for an gas-driven motor and a reciprocating double diaphragm pump is provided having a shiftable valve for alternatively supplying a motive gas through first and second supply ports to opposed first and second power pistons in opposed motive gas chambers, respectively, and for effecting alternating exhaust of the chambers. The shiftable valve is provided with an insert that deflects, away from the shiftable valve, air entering from each of the bypass valves until the bypass valves are fully actuated by the exhaust gas from the motive gas chambers. The shiftable valve is further provided with bypass valves independent of and intermediate the shiftable valve and each of the first and second motive gas chambers for bypassing the shiftable valve by exhaust gas from the motive gas chambers. The bypass valves are further actuated in an opposing direction by a supply source of motive gas to the chambers.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2002Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand CompanyInventors: Charles O. Roberts, Michael Conti, Nicholas Kozumplik, Jr., Gordon M. Schroeder
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Publication number: 20040070149Abstract: The present invention relates to a game table with a plurality of player stations with an integral lighting system. The game table, for example, a poker table, includes a light window adjacent all of the player stations. An illumination device is fixedly disposed beneath the light window. With such a configuration, lighting is provided from beneath the table, which minimizes shadows during television taping.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Inventors: Steven Roy Lipscomb, John Michael Conti, James Joseph Cuomo
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Publication number: 20040050242Abstract: A reduced icing valve for an gas-driven motor and a reciprocating double diaphragm pump is provided having a shiftable valve for alternatively supplying a motive gas through first and second supply ports to opposed first and second power pistons in opposed motive gas chambers, respectively, and for effecting alternating exhaust of the chambers. The shiftable valve is provided with an insert that deflects, away from the shiftable valve, air entering from each of the bypass valves until the bypass valves are fully actuated by the exhaust gas from the motive gas chambers. The shiftable valve is further provided with bypass valves independent of and intermediate the shiftable valve and each of the first and second motive gas chambers for bypassing the shiftable valve by exhaust gas from the motive gas chambers. The bypass valves are further actuated in an opposing direction by a supply source of motive gas to the chambers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2002Publication date: March 18, 2004Applicant: Ingersoll-Rand CompanyInventors: Charles O. Roberts, Michael Conti, Nicholas Kozumplik, Gordon M. Schroeder
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Patent number: 5848615Abstract: A check valve cartridge for a fluid pump, the check valve cartridge including: a valve seat; a flap valve member seated on the valve seat, the flap member having a first portion movable toward and away from the valve seat; a bumper seated on the flap member, said bumper member for biasing the first portion of the flap valve member toward the valve seat. The check valve cartridge also including a stop member located on the bumper, between the stop member and the flap member; and fastening means for joining the base, flap member, bumper, and stop member to form the integral valve cartridge. The check valve cartridge is seated in a recess formed in the pump housing and is located between the pump housing and a flow manifold.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1996Date of Patent: December 15, 1998Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand CompanyInventors: Michael Conti, Lawrence W. White, William R. Tate, Stephen D. Able
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Patent number: 5848878Abstract: A fluid pump with an improved manifold including a pump housing; an inlet manifold flow connected to the pump housing, the inlet manifold including an inlet manifold body, having a first end, a second end and an inlet manifold flow opening between the ends; and a discharge manifold flow connected to the pump housing at a location away from the inlet manifold, the discharge manifold including a discharge manifold body having a first end and a second end and a discharge manifold flow opening located between the ends, the discharge and inlet manifold flow openings each including a threaded portion and a flange for making either a threaded connection or flange connection with a flow conduit.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1996Date of Patent: December 15, 1998Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand CompanyInventors: Michael Conti, James Timothy Carr
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Patent number: 5711658Abstract: A diaphragm pump including a pump housing having a first housing side and a second housing side; a first unitary manifold flow connected to the first housing side; a second unitary manifold flow connected to the second housing side. The first and second unitary manifolds are adapted to be flow connected to either the first or second housing sides. The diaphragm pump also includes a pump inlet manifold and a pump discharge manifold. The pump inlet and discharge manifolds each have a first end, a second end, a first flow port at one of the ends and a second flow port located along the manifold between the two manifold ends. Both of said manifolds are adapted to be flow connected to the first and second unitary manifolds.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1996Date of Patent: January 27, 1998Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand CompanyInventors: Michael Conti, Gerald M. Distel
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Patent number: D388796Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1996Date of Patent: January 6, 1998Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand CompanyInventors: Michael Conti, Gerald M. Distel
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Patent number: D388797Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1996Date of Patent: January 6, 1998Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand CompanyInventors: Michael Conti, Gerald M. Distel
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Patent number: D853782Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Michael Conti, John W. McConnell, Mansour Ourasanah