Patents by Inventor Norman J. Frame

Norman J. Frame 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).

  • Transparent capacitance membrane switch
    Patent number: 4431882
    Abstract: A more transparent capacitance membrane switch in which capacitance elements are offset from their associated switch locations so as to be out of the transparent field of view through the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1984
    Assignee: W. H. Brady Co.
    Inventor: Norman J. Frame
  • Membrane switch
    Patent number: 4415781
    Abstract: A membrane switch in which switch activation produces a change in the combined resistance and capacitance across leads of the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: W. H. Brady Co.
    Inventors: Norman J. Frame, James P. Walber, Jan M. Janick
  • RC Array
    Patent number: 4412209
    Abstract: A switch assembly with a different combination of resistance and capacitance associated with each of a plurality of switches and with as few as two leads connecting the plurality of switches to external circuitry. The external circuitry detects switch activation by sensing combined resistance and capacitance across the switch leads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1983
    Assignee: W. H. Brady Co.
    Inventors: Norman J. Frame, James P. Walber, Jan M. Janick
  • Switching contact
    Patent number: 4405849
    Abstract: A flexible multilayered membrane switch having electrically conducting contacts comprising Ti.sub.2-x N or Ta.sub.2-x N, to reduce oxidation of the surfaces of the contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1983
    Assignee: W. H. Brady Co.
    Inventor: Norman J. Frame
  • Capacitance switch arrangement
    Patent number: 4400758
    Abstract: A capacitance-type membrane switch in which ordinarily spaced-apart contacts are positioned other than directly over an associated capacitance spacing element with an inner insulating layer and outer conductive portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1983
    Assignee: W. H. Brady Co.
    Inventor: Norman J. Frame
  • Electroluminescent display
    Patent number: 4376145
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display device is provided in which electroluminescent portions are defined by first laying down a layer of electroluminescent host material and thereafter doping this layer in selected portions with an electroluminescent activator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1983
    Assignee: W. H. Brady Co.
    Inventor: Norman J. Frame
  • Capacitance switch
    Patent number: 4373124
    Abstract: A capacitance-type switch in which an integral capacitance spacer layer element extends over and is severally movable toward and away from separate contact elements of separate switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1983
    Assignee: W. H. Brady Co.
    Inventor: Norman J. Frame
  • Capacitance switch
    Patent number: 4373122
    Abstract: A capacitance switch in which a capacitance spacing element is bent around an end of a spacer centrally relieved for strain relief.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1983
    Assignee: W. H. Brady Co.
    Inventor: Norman J. Frame
  • Electroluminescent display including semiconductor convertible to insulator
    Patent number: 4369393
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display which includes a thin film layer of a material which, if undue current passes through a portion of it, that portion is converted from a semiconductor into an insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1983
    Assignee: W. H. Brady Co.
    Inventor: Norman J. Frame
  • Capacitance switch
    Patent number: 4367385
    Abstract: A capacitance-type membrane switch is provided in which it is practical to seal the switch against dust and fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1983
    Assignee: W. H. Brady Co.
    Inventor: Norman J. Frame
  • Ultraviolet light generation
    Patent number: 4274028
    Abstract: Apparatus for generating ultraviolet light of high intensity without production of heat, including an anode cathodoluminescent layer composed of a phosphor luminescent in the ultraviolet spectrum, a cold cathode electron emitting layer separated by an evacuated region from the cathodoluminescent layer, and a direct current electric field generated between cathode and anode across the evacuated region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: W. H. Brady Company
    Inventor: Norman J. Frame
  • Thin panel display
    Patent number: 4266223
    Abstract: A multilayer display device with thin-film transistor circuits for sequentially switching a common brightness control signal to a plurality of individual display elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1981
    Assignee: W. H. Brady Co.
    Inventor: Norman J. Frame