Patents by Inventor Michael Mateescu

Michael Mateescu 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: 20060291213
    Abstract: A lighting fixture having a color-changing mechanism, such as a color wheel, for cycling through a plurality of colors, such as by rotating, at a first speed and a second speed. The second speed is faster than the first speed. A position pulse device, such as a position sensor, generates a reference position pulse when the color-changing mechanism is at a predetermined color or position. A circuit periodically generates a master pulse. A control device causes the color-changing mechanism to cycle through the colors at the second speed when the reference position pulse is generated after the master pulse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: PENTAIR WATER POOL AND SPA, INC.
    Inventors: MICHAEL MATEESCU, KEVIN POTUCEK, ROBERT BACHMAN
  • Publication number: 20050276044
    Abstract: An underwater lighting fixture adapted for installation in a wall of a swimming pool. The lighting fixture includes a housing having an interior cavity and a transparent cover. A color-changing electric light assembly is provided in the interior cavity. The light assembly emits a plurality of different colors of light through the transparent cover and cycles through the plurality of different colors of light to sequentially emit each of the plurality of different colors of light. An electrical conductor extends through the housing into the interior cavity for delivering power to the color-changing electric light assembly. A synchronization circuit responds to a timed interruption in the power for synchronizing the color-changing electric light assembly with a color-changing electric light assembly of another underwater lighting fixture connected to the same power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Applicant: Pentair Pool Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Mateescu, Kevin Potucek, Robert Bachman
  • Publication number: 20050168970
    Abstract: An underwater lighting fixture adapted for installation in a wall of a swimming pool. The lighting fixture includes a housing having an interior cavity and a transparent cover. A color changing electric light assembly is provided in the interior cavity. The light assembly emits a plurality of different colors of light through the transparent cover and cycles through the plurality of different colors of light to sequentially emit each of the plurality of different colors of light. An electrical conductor extends through the housing into the interior cavity for delivering power to the color changing electric light assembly. A synchronization circuit responds to a timed interruption in the power for synchronizing the color changing electric light assembly with a color changing electric light assembly of another underwater lighting fixture connected to the same power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Applicant: Pentair Pool Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Mateescu, Kevin Potucek, Robert Bachman