Patents by Inventor Michael Hoopes

Michael Hoopes 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: 20070102897
    Abstract: A jaw for a fifth wheel hitch assembly includes a jaw body having a stepped bearing surface. A jaw assembly for a fifth wheel hitch assembly includes a jaw body, a control handle and a connecting link where the connecting link is pivotally connected to the control handle on the jaw body. A fifth wheel hitch assembly includes a base assembly for mounting to a towing vehicle, a head assembly carried on the base assembly and a jaw assembly carried on the head assembly. That jaw assembly includes a jaw body having a stepped bearing surface for engaging a king pin of a trailer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Hoopes, Richard McCoy, Thomas Lindenman, Anthony Roberts
  • Publication number: 20050259373
    Abstract: A circuit and device protects connected equipment from a broad range of unsafe conditions of over-voltage and under-voltage by disconnecting the line voltage before surge protection components, generally MOVs, are damaged from sustained surges. However, nuisance tripping of the protective circuit is avoiding by discriminating surges that are properly handled by the MOVs and components in the load or protective device. Further, the devise are protected from sustained high voltage line conditions, which would ordinarily result in repeated cycling between the on and off states as the line voltages fluctuates slightly at or about the trip threshold, as the circuit has a deliberate hysteresis such that the turn on voltage is about 10 to 20 V lower than the shut off threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Inventor: Michael Hoopes
  • Patent number: D474134
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Reese Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob S. Belinky, Michael Hoopes, Thomas J. Rudasics, Richard W. McCoy