Patents by Inventor R. Kenneth Price

R. Kenneth Price 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: 6459287
    Abstract: An attachable/detachable probe point for use with an electrical measurement probe includes a base having a aperture formed therein that extends through the base. An electrically conductive probing contact having at least a partially threaded body member and a pointed contact member is disposed in the aperture with a portion of the body member extending from the top surface of the base and the pointed contact member extendable from a first position within the aperture to a second protruding position outside the aperture at the bottom surface of the base. A compliant adhesive material formed on the bottom surface of the base for securing the attachable/detachable probe point to probing contact point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark W. Nightingale, David W. Simmen, Phillip D. Applebee, R. Kenneth Price
  • Patent number: 6404215
    Abstract: A variable spacing probe tip adapter for a differential measurement probe has a measurement probe head with first and second probe tips extending from the probe head. Ribs and grooves formed in the probe head that extend radially from around each of the probe tips. Each of first and second first probing tips have an electrically conductive shaft that has a bore formed in one end for engaging the probe tips of the measurement probe. Each shaft has ribs and grooves formed therein that extend radially from the bore for engaging the corresponding grooves and ribs in the probe head. The other end of the conductive shaft tapers to a probing point with and a portion of the shaft toward the tapered end of the shaft being angled such that the probing tips. The conductive shafts are rotatable on measurement probe tips and locked into position by the engagement of the ribs and grooves in the probe head and the probing tips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark W. Nightingale, R. Kenneth Price, William Q. Law
  • Patent number: 6337571
    Abstract: An ultra high frequency current probe is fabricated in the form of a surface mount device, designed to be a part of the circuit providing the current being observed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek Maddala, R. Kenneth Price, Shawn C. Murphy, Albert S. Crane
  • Publication number: 20010001536
    Abstract: An ultra high frequency current probe is fabricated in the form of a surface mount device, designed to be a part of the circuit providing the current being observed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 1998
    Publication date: May 24, 2001
    Inventors: VIVEK MADDALA, R. KENNETH PRICE, SHAWN C. MURPHY, ALBERT S. CRANE