Patents by Inventor Roger B. Trimble

Roger B. Trimble 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: 4977502
    Abstract: A bus farebox that conducts transit fare transactions accepts magnetically-encoded farecards, currency bills or tickets, or coins or tokens tendered for fare. Fare processing is conducted on the basis of a selected one of a set of fare tables electrically stored in the farebox. The farebox has provision for accumulating audit information based upon a plurality of fare transactions. The accumulated audit data and a cashbox are released from the farebox in response to commands received by the farebox from a communication system located at a bus terminal station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Inventors: Joseph R. Baker, Wesley A. Golland, Paul A. Mullens, Roger B. Trimble, Charles W. Giebelhausen
  • Patent number: 4877179
    Abstract: A fare box has two separate chambers connected together by a connecting opening, with a fare receiving module in one of the chambers for receiving deposited fares and transporting them to the connecting opening, and a cashbox in the other chamber for receiving fares deposited in the connecting opening. A locking device is associated with the fare receiving module for releasably retaining it in the first chamber, and a security shutter in the housing is moveable between a first position blocking the connecting opening and a second position in which the opening is unblocked. The security shutter and locking device are linked together so that the connecting opening is blocked whenever the fare receiving module is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: Cubic Western Data Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph R. Baker, Wesley A. Golland, Paul A. Mullens, Roger B. Trimble
  • Patent number: D296908
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Cubic Western Data
    Inventor: Roger B. Trimble