Patents by Inventor Robert Farinelli

Robert Farinelli 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: 5761320
    Abstract: A signal distribution and communication arrangement includes an electronic processor-based master control unit which controls the broadcast of different types of signals through speakers located in various zones. The system includes a telephone interfaced with a door speaker controller to allow communication between the telephone and a door speaker. A page may now be broadcast over selected speakers and zones selectively muted to allow private communication when the page is answered. Also included is a doorbell interface circuit that responds to a doorbell source. The doorbell source may be activated by any one of a plurality of doorbell switches. An additional aspect of the present invention includes grouping zones together so that all source selection works concurrently, and each subzone in the group retains independent volume control, bass and treble. Further, a new sub-set of zone programming allows the installer to label a zone as any alpha-numeric seven-digit name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Elan Home Systems, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Robert Farinelli, Thomas Patrick Carrin
  • Patent number: 5666428
    Abstract: A signal distribution and communication arrangement includes an electronic processor-based master control unit which controls the broadcast of different types of signals through speakers located in various zones. The system includes a telephone interfaced with a door speaker controller to allow communication between the telephone and a door speaker. A page may be broadcast over the speakers and subsequently muted to allow private communication when the page is answered. Also included is a doorbell interface circuit that responds to a doorbell source. The doorbell source may be activated by any one of a plurality of doorbell switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Elan Home Systems, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Robert Farinelli, Thomas Patrick Carrin, H. Richard McCollister, Jason K. Dunaway
  • Patent number: 5440644
    Abstract: A signal distribution and communication arrangement includes an electronic processor-based master control unit which controls the broadcast of different types of signals through speakers located in various zones. The system includes a telephone interfaced with a door speaker controller to allow communication between the telephone and a door speaker. A page may now be broadcast over selected speakers and zones selectively muted to allow private communication when the page is answered. Also included is a doorbell interface circuit that responds to a doorbell source. The doorbell source may be activated by any one of a plurality of doorbell switches. An additional aspect of the present invention includes grouping zones together so that all source selection works concurrently, and each subzone in the group retains independent volume control, bass and treble. Further, a new sub-set of zone programming allows the installer to label a zone as any alpha-numeric seven-digit name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Assignee: Square D Company
    Inventors: Robert Farinelli, Thomas P. Carrin
  • Patent number: 5363434
    Abstract: A signal distribution and communication arrangement controls the broadcast of different types of signals through speakers located in various zones. The system includes a telephone interfaced with a door speaker controller to allow communication between the telephone and a door speaker. A page may be broadcast over the speakers and subsequently muted to allow private communication when the page is answered. Also included is a doorbell interface circuit that responds to a doorbell source. The doorbell source may be activated by any one of a plurality of doorbell switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Square D Company
    Inventors: Robert Farinelli, Bruce B. Stevenson, Bill R. Unseld
  • Patent number: 3975608
    Abstract: A workpiece-supporting table of an electro erosion machining equipment is provided with a mechanism for subjecting the workpiece to a circling motion of continuously variable radius during operation from zero to a maximum value. The same tool electrode can be used, without withdrawal from the work, for coarse machining at first and fine machining under circling movement immediately thereafter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1976
    Assignee: A.G. fur industrielle Elektronik AGIE Losone b. Locarno
    Inventors: Werner Ullmann, Bernd Schumacher, Robert Farinelli, Arnold Zimmerman, Paul Fricker, Michel Durin