Patents by Inventor Patrick Cavallo

Patrick Cavallo 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: 6233239
    Abstract: A package for communication equipment has a housing fitted with a locking mechanism and electrical/communication power supply and distribution, and includes UP, DOWN, RIGHT, LEFT faces for assembly with other housings. The locking mechanism includes a rotatable axle penetrating the housing and having a first end located outside of the housing and a second end located inside of the housing. A camming hook having a distal end is mounted on the rotatable axle inside the housing to rotate with the axle and locks into position when rotated in a first direction, to bring a movable electrical contact to make resilient electrical contact with a stationary live contact. When the rotatable axle is rotated in a direction opposite to the first direction, the mechanism becomes unlocked and breaks the electrical connection at the movable electrical contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Cisco Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Alain Benayoun, Jean-Francois Le Pennec, Patrick Michel, Patrick Cavallo
  • Patent number: 6026089
    Abstract: A package for a communication equipment fitted with mechanical locking mechanism and electrical and communication connectivity for allowing power supply distribution as well as communication at least at four distinctive faces (UP, DOWN, RIGHT, LEFT). Each communicating face is fitted with optical transmission and reception devices allowing digital communication between adjacent apparatuses. Each package comprises two faces having each one protrusion at one surface that is intended to enter into a groove machined at a corresponding surface of the next adjacent package in said structure. Each protrusion comprises a locking mechanism for power supply that comprises a camming hook (2200) having a distal end which forceably engages a locking aperture (2210) when pivoted. The hook is pivotally coupled to an axel (2101) extending respectfully through an elongated aperture (2301) formed at one end of a lever arm (2300), and an elongated aperture (2302) of the hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alain Benayoun, Jean-Francois Le Pennec, Patrick Michel, Patrick Cavallo