Patents by Inventor Rodney B. Larkin

Rodney B. Larkin 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: 7055533
    Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing misted cleaning or disinfecting solution at one or more atomizing discharge ports for cleaning suction conduits, such as HVE conduits. The apparatus includes a venturi valve to extract concentrated cleaning/disinfectant fluid from a storage container. The concentrated fluid is mixed with a pressurized venturi-operating fluid, typically water, before being suctioned through an atomizing discharge port and entering the conduit to be cleaned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Inventor: Rodney B. Larkin
  • Publication number: 20040112407
    Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing misted cleaning or disinfecting solution at one or more atomizing discharge ports for cleaning suction conduits, such as HVE conduits. The apparatus includes a venturi valve to extract concentrated cleaning/disinfectant fluid from a storage container. The concentrated fluid is mixed with a pressurized venturi-operating fluid, typically water, before being suctioned through an atomizing discharge port and entering the conduit to be cleaned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventor: Rodney B. Larkin
  • Patent number: 4592896
    Abstract: A temperature sensor/pressure relief valve has a sensing end positioned within the pressure chamber of a sterilizer and an exhaust end positioned outside the pressure chamber. The temperature sensor is cooperatively adapted to a terminal apparatus at the sensing end to form a pressure relief valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1986
    Assignee: MDT Biologic Company
    Inventors: Robert R. Runnells, Peter A. Haak, Rodney B. Larkin, Keith Vandervelden
  • Patent number: 4447399
    Abstract: A combination unsaturated chemical vapor sterilization system and a steam sterilization system utilizing the same sterilizing chamber. It includes a pressure chamber in communication with a source of sterilizing chemicals and water, transport means to selectively deliver sterilizing chemicals or water into the chamber, a heating element to heat the interior of the chamber, and a microprocessor control panel operably associated with the heating element and transport means to control the sterilant composition, the temperature and the pressure within the chamber at any given time in accordance with a preselected setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1984
    Assignee: MDT Chemical Company
    Inventors: Robert R. Runnells, Peter A. Haak, Rodney B. Larkin, C. Keith Vandervelden