Patents by Inventor Robert J. Applegate

Robert J. Applegate 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).

  • Publication number: 20110037602
    Abstract: A tilt protection apparatus applied to electric energy generating installations, where possibility of tilting or tipping over exists. In certain installations of electric energy generating facilities, the means of energy production, such as but not limited to solar photovoltaic panels, must be mounted on support system that can be susceptible to mechanical failure due to impact, wind induced vibration, ground vibration or ground displacement. In the event of the structural tilt, the apparatus detects such condition and disconnects the means of energy generation minimizing possibility of exposure to dangerous levels of electric potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Inventors: Wojciech Marek Chrosny, Michael Charles Overturf, Robert J. Applegate, Richard G. Stine, William D. Taylor
  • Patent number: 4245646
    Abstract: A nuclear cardiology system for use with a scintillation camera for evaluating cardiac function by real time measurement of the variation of radiation from the heart of a patient to whom is administered a radioactive tracer. The camera provides data describing the location of individual counts representing radiation events coming from the patient. The system segregates, in real time, counts corresponding to radiation from an electronically defined region of interest describing an investigated part of the heart, such as the left ventricle. Synchronized by the patient's electrocardiogram, time gated memory circuitry divides each heartbeat into a series of subintervals, and stores indications of the respective amounts of radiation events emanating from the region of interest during each of the subintervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1981
    Assignee: Picker Corporation
    Inventors: Basil N. Ionnou, Donald S. Kearns, Robert J. Applegate, Richard M. Sano, Edward K. Prokop