Patents by Inventor Robert Lynn Bendorf

Robert Lynn Bendorf 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: 20160315414
    Abstract: A connector module includes a housing assembly defined by an upper shell and a lower shell that mate and define an interior chamber therebetween. A cable segment of the upper shell includes an upper sealing rib extending into the interior chamber from an inner surface of the upper shell, and the cable segment of the lower shell includes a lower sealing rib extending into the interior chamber from an inner surface of the lower shell. The upper and lower sealing ribs rib each including two blades and a slot defined between the two blades configured to receive a cable therein. When the upper and lower shells are mated, a front side of the upper sealing rib abuts a rear side of the lower sealing rib to seal the interior chamber between the cable in the slots and the inner surfaces of the upper and lower shells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: George Richard Defibaugh, Robert Lynn Bendorf, Maurizio Mercurio, Ricardo Lee Koller, Fieldon Nathan Daubert
  • Patent number: 6123580
    Abstract: A board lock (50) includes a body (52) having a connector engaging portion (54) and can tilevered beams (56) extending from opposite transverse edges thereof. The inner edges (62) of the beams (56) define a slot (64) therebetween that extends into an enlarged aperture (66) in the center of the body (52). Each of the outer edges (58) of the beams (56) include a protrusion (60) and further include a latching portion (68) at the leading end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Lynn Bendorf, Dirk Ronald Dixon, Robert Thomas Hirsbrunner