Patents by Inventor Robert D. Leventhal

Robert D. Leventhal 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: 9369559
    Abstract: A speaker system connects to a Smartphone by utilizing Bluetooth for amplifying the sound quality from the Smartphone. In the case of the Bluetooth speaker system, the Smartphone or other device transmits to the speaker system which uses its built-in amplifier and speaker for playback. This allows the user to enjoy much better sound quality than what's produced by tiny built-in speakers on the Smartphone. The speaker system is portable and also functions as a cradle to secure the Smartphone thereto. The speaker system can be a hands free device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Inventor: Robert D. Leventhal
  • Patent number: 8216291
    Abstract: A therapeutic apparatus for providing therapeutic benefits to an immersed body part due to contact with a heated or unheated homogenous medium. The therapeutic apparatus includes at least two vibration generators for generating two waveforms at two distinct areas of the vibratory vessel, where the two waveforms are converging on each other and combined together to create a constructive and destructive pulse waveform having a larger constructive amplitude than the amplitude of the original wave and a smaller destructive amplitude than the amplitude of the original wave for providing a constructive and destructive pulse wave massaging effect to the body part of the user immersed within the homogenous medium contained within the vibratory vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Inventors: Robert D. Leventhal, Paul B. Thomas
  • Patent number: 6666743
    Abstract: A hollow rotatable member preferably made from a clear plastic material and a hollow cover are attached to each other in a spinning top. A ring is disposed within the top on the cover at a position of the top's substantially maximum diameter to provide stability and inertia to the top during the top's rotation, thereby significantly increasing the top's spinning time. A cap fits tightly on the upper portion of the rotatable member. A strap having teeth defining a rack gear extends through an aperture in the cap and engages a pinion gear in the aperture. When the strap is pulled from the aperture, the pinion gear rotates and causes the top to spin. Because of the tight fit between the top and the cap, the top can be thrown outwardly and downwardly toward a support surface and can be spinning as it reaches the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Sport Fun, Inc.
    Inventors: Carrie L. Polare, Daniel T. Hoffman, Paul B. Thomas, Robert D. Leventhal
  • Patent number: 6632188
    Abstract: An air foot massaging apparatus for massaging and stimulating tired feet, and thereby creating beneficial physiological effects throughout the body and including a pair of boot shaped structures for adapting to the user's feet or a unitary fluid-tight container for retaining fluid therein and adapting to a user's feet. Each boot shaped structure has a plurality of interior compressible and expandable air nodes which engage with the user's foot, a compressor to inflate or deflate the compressible and expandable air nodes for providing an effective massaging pattern to massage the user's feet, a vibration motor for providing a vibrational massage to further provide an effective massaging pattern to massage the user's feet, and a control mechanism for controlling the inflating and deflating of the plurality of compressible and expandable air nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: D2RM Corp.
    Inventors: Paul B. Thomas, Robert D. Leventhal
  • Publication number: 20030077977
    Abstract: A hollow rotatable member preferably made from a clear plastic material and a hollow cover are attached to each other in a spinning top. A ring is disposed within the top on the cover at a position of the top's substantially maximum diameter to provide stability and inertia to the top during the top's rotation, thereby significantly increasing the top's spinning time. A cap fits tightly on the upper portion of the rotatable member. A strap having teeth defining a rack gear extends through an aperture in the cap and engages a pinion gear in the aperture. When the strap is pulled from the aperture, the pinion gear rotates and causes the top to spin. Because of the tight fit between the top and the cap, the top can be thrown outwardly and downwardly toward a support surface and can be spinning as it reaches the support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventors: Carrie L. Polare, Daniel T. Hoffman, Paul B. Thomas, Robert D. Leventhal
  • Patent number: 6551450
    Abstract: An air and sonic massaging apparatus for providing an improved massaging effect with opposing lower air nodes beneath the upper air nodes in order to provide the user with greater displacement when patterned inflation and deflation of the device occurs. The apparatus includes an air device and a sonic device which is located underneath the air device. The air and sonic massaging apparatus inhibits turning forces and sideway motions, and keeps the motion more linear and at a higher consistent force. The apparatus has separate air flow circuits that provide alternating or conjoined patterns of inflation and deflation on a single device. The sonic device includes a sonic transducer that creates acoustic waves generated by a rigid transmission plate through movement by the translation of significant solid mass. The sonic device provides high magnitudes of acoustic energy to the directly coupled air device or directly coupled to the user's body air cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: D2RM Corp.
    Inventors: Paul B. Thomas, Robert D. Leventhal
  • Patent number: 6547911
    Abstract: A method of forming and sealing a fluid or air structure which includes a plurality of opposing fluid nodes and a plurality of fluid channels which are respectively and integrally connected to the plurality of opposing fluid nodes, where the opposing fluid nodes form an upper matrix surface and a lower matrix surface that are both supportive and pliable with minimal surface tension and can be used in many applications, such as seating devices, sleeping devices, massage and therapeutic devices, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: D2RM Corp.
    Inventors: Paul B. Thomas, Robert D. Leventhal
  • Patent number: 6546579
    Abstract: A conforming air and foam support device for providing support to a body or a body part of an individual, where the conforming shape of the support device suspends the foam in order to cradle the body or the body part of the individual sitting or resting on the support device. The support device has an air bladder structure with at least one central opening and at least two foam slab members being slightly longer and wider than the air bladder structure. The air bladder structure is sandwiched between the at least two slab members, where the two foam slab members are bonded to the air bladder structure in the deflated condition as well to each other at the central opening to form the conforming air and foam support device. Once the air bladder structure is inflated, the upper foam slab member forms at least one concave surface while the lower foam slab member forms at least one convex surface at the central portions in order to cradle the body or the body part of an individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: D2RM Corp.
    Inventors: Robert D. Leventhal, Paul B. Thomas
  • Patent number: 6440092
    Abstract: A harmonic vibration massage device for generating harmonic vibrations and including a transmitting plate and at least two vibration generators mounted underneath the transmitting plate. The transmitting plate has a plurality of protruding fingertips thereto. The at least two vibration generators generate two distinct vibrations at two distinct areas on the transmitting plate, where the two distinct vibrations are coupled together to produce harmonic vibrations such that the harmonic vibrations are transmitted to and through the transmitting plate which in turn is transmitted to and through the plurality of fingertips and the body part positioned on the massage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: D2RM Corp.
    Inventors: Robert D. Leventhal, Paul B. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20020091344
    Abstract: An air foot massaging apparatus for massaging and stimulating tired feet, and thereby creating beneficial physiological effects throughout the body and including a pair of boot shaped structures for adapting to the user's feet or a unitary fluid-tight container for retaining fluid therein and adapting to a user's feet. Each boot shaped structure has a plurality of interior compressible and expandable air nodes which engage with the user's foot, a compressor to inflate or deflate the compressible and expandable air nodes for providing an effective massaging pattern to massage the user's feet, a vibration motor for providing a vibrational massage to further provide an effective massaging pattern to massage the user's feet, and a control mechanism for controlling the inflating and deflating of the plurality of compressible and expandable air nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Inventors: Paul B. Thomas, Robert D. Leventhal
  • Publication number: 20020020486
    Abstract: A method of forming and sealing a fluid or air structure which includes a plurality of opposing fluid nodes and a plurality of fluid channels which are respectively and integrally connected to the plurality of opposing fluid nodes, where the opposing fluid nodes form an upper matrix surface and a lower matrix surface that are both supportive and pliable with minimal surface tension and can be used in many applications, such as seating devices, sleeping devices, massage and therapeutic devices, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Paul B. Thomas, Robert D. Leventhal
  • Publication number: 20010004678
    Abstract: A vibration massage device is used for generating vibrations to a transmitting plate which in turn generates vibrations to a plurality of protruding fingertips and the body part positioned on the fingertips for providing an improved massaging effect on the body part. The vibration massage device is further used in conjunction with a fluid filled bladder, where the fluid filled bladder is positioned on top or underneath the transmitting plate for creating increased pressure from the protruding fingertips against the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Robert D. Leventhal, Paul B. Thomas
  • Patent number: 6200403
    Abstract: A method for forming and sealing an air structure which includes a plurality of air glands and a plurality of air ducts which are respectively and integrally connected to the plurality of air glands, where the air glands form a matrix surface that is both supportive and pliable with minimal surface tension and can be used with many applications, such as seating devices, sleeping devices, massage and therapeutic devices, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: D2RM Corp.
    Inventors: Paul B. Thomas, Robert D. Leventhal
  • Patent number: 5836900
    Abstract: A massaging apparatus includes a foam pad having top and bottom profiles and a composite volume VC of foam; and a vibrator coupled to the foam pad for vibrating the pad. The pad is formed including a first foam phase defining the bottom profile and having a first phase volume V1 being not less than approximately 50 percent of the volume VC, and a second foam phase defining at least a portion of the top profile and having a second phase volume V2 being a pin member projecting from proximate the side surface, through the solid portion of the threaded insert, and engaging the first structural member on opposite sides of the cavity, the pin member securing the threaded insert in the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: JB Research, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert D. Leventhal
  • Patent number: 5836027
    Abstract: An integrated matrix bedding system includes an air/foam mattress matrix assembly which comprises an airtight structure assembled within a restraining member. The airtight structure has a base with a plurality of compressible and expandable members extending upwardly from the base and arranged in a matrix arrangement. A plurality of connecting tubes are connected to the base and interconnected to two adjacent compressible and expandable members for distributing air between the plurality of compressible and expandable members. The restraining member has a plurality of interior cavities arranged in a matrix arrangement which corresponds and aligns with the compressible and expandable members. The plurality of compressible and expandable members are respectively inserted within the interior cavities of the restraining member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Inventors: Robert D. Leventhal, Paul B. Thomas
  • Patent number: D389584
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Inventors: Robert D. Leventhal, Paul B. Thomas, Guadalupe Martinez
  • Patent number: D389585
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Inventors: Robert D. Leventhal, Paul B. Thomas, Guadalupe Martinez
  • Patent number: D394559
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Inventor: Robert D. Leventhal
  • Patent number: D402149
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Inventor: Robert D. Leventhal
  • Patent number: D434842
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: D2RM Corp.
    Inventors: Paul B. Thomas, Robert D. Leventhal