Patents by Inventor Regina L. Tipton

Regina L. Tipton 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: 6086414
    Abstract: A multimedia outlet housing or module possessing a capacity for the connection and containment of a variety of electrical and electronic media. The modular multimedia outlet housing includes selectively installable connector brackets adapted to contain a plurality of fiber/UTP connections, and wherein the housing incorporates fiber storage facilities and plastic surface raceway compatibility for a multiplicity of the most diverse applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Regina L. Tipton, Priscilla L. Seagle
  • Patent number: 5594206
    Abstract: A switch cover plate assembly includes label covers each having an elongated main portion and a pair of opposite ends and a switch faceplate for mounting the label covers. The faceplate has a flat main panel, switch holes therethrough adapted to receive switch actuators, mounting holes therethrough adapted to receive therethrough fasteners to mount the faceplate to a switch box, and label cover mounting recesses and a pair of slots defined at opposite ends of each of the mounting recesses. Each mounting recess and pair of mounting slots are adapted to receive and mount one of the label covers. Each label cover is adapted to seat within one mounting recess and to be slidably insertable into and removable from the mounting slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Daniel E. Klas, John M. Gentry, Regina L. Tipton, Richard H. Dwyer
  • Patent number: 5431586
    Abstract: An electrical connector has a modular nose or modular noses. The modular nose can be interlocked with the housing or can be interlocked with other noses and the housing or only with other noses. The interlocking is provided by projections extending laterally from opposite sides of the nose. These projections engage correspondingly shaped notches in adjacent noses or in adjacent portions of housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Daniel E. Klas, Regina L. Tipton