Patents by Inventor Michael Eugene Grice

Michael Eugene Grice 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: 7428366
    Abstract: An optical fiber termination apparatus includes a housing defining an optical fiber receiving chamber and having a connector adaptor receiving opening. A connector adaptor is positioned in the connector adaptor receiving opening. The connector adaptor has a connector opening therein extending from outside the housing to the optical fiber receiving chamber. The connector opening is configured to mate with a connector of a predetermined connector type. Methods of terminating optical fiber using optical fiber termination apparatus are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Julian Mullaney, Roy Keller Thompson, William Alan Carrico, Michael Eugene Grice
  • Patent number: 6302723
    Abstract: Insulation displacing connectors extend upwardly from a base of the terminal block into connector chambers of driver modules movable relative to the base between upper and lower positions. Passageways within the modules direct service wires moved through the passageways into the connector chambers and into entrance openings underlying upper edge portions of the insulation displacing connectors within the chambers. Movement of the module from its upper position to its lower position drives the service wires downwardly from the entrance openings of the connectors into and through slots underlying the entrance openings, to establish electrical contact with the service wires and the connectors and, in the case of larger diameter wires, to impale the service wires upon impaling elements resisting pullout of the wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Matthew Baum, Michael Eugene Grice, Thomas M. Wilson, James A. Pinyan, Stephen Elliott Wald, Roy Thompson
  • Patent number: 6093050
    Abstract: Insulation displacing connectors of an "inverted" type extend upwardly from a base of the terminal block into connector chambers of driver modules movable relative to the base between upper and lower positions. Passageways within the modules direct service wires moved through the passageways into the connector chambers and into entrance openings underlying upper edge portions of the insulation displacing connectors within the chambers. Movement of the module from its upper position to its lower position drives the service wires downwardly from the entrance openings of the connectors into and through slots underlying the entrance openings, to establish electrical contact with the service wires and the connectors and, in the case of larger diameter wires, to impale the service wires upon impaling elements resisting pullout of the wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Inventors: Thomas Matthew Baum, Michael Eugene Grice, Thomas M. Wilson, James A. Pinyan, Stephen Elliott Wald, Roy Thompson
  • Patent number: 5863215
    Abstract: Insulation displacing connectors of an "inverted" type extend upwardly from a base of the terminal block into connector chambers of driver modules movable relative to the base between upper and lower positions. Passageways within the modules direct service wires moved through the passageways into the connector chambers and into entrance openings underlying upper edge portions of the insulation displacing connectors within the chambers. Movement of the module from its upper position to its lower position drives the service wires downwardly from the entrance openings of the connectors into and through slots underlying the entrance openings, to establish electrical contact with the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Raychem Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Arthur Marie-Louise Debbaut, William Joseph Curry, Kimberley Ann Jessup, Julian Sean Mullaney, Michael Eugene Grice