Patents by Inventor Ronald E. Davis
Ronald E. Davis 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).
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Publication number: 20120042469Abstract: A cleaning attachment assembly for a floor care apparatus includes a main body defining a suction conduit having an inlet and an outlet. A cleaning attachment mounting structure is carried on the main body. Either of two different cleaning attachments may be mounted to the main body by means of the cleaning attachment mounting structure. A retractable cover is received over the main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2010Publication date: February 23, 2012Inventors: Ronald E. Davis, Anthony E. Spiggle
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Patent number: 7921510Abstract: A motor enclosure for a vacuum cleaner includes a body having both a motor receiver for receiving a motor and a filter receiver for receiving a filter.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2009Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Jeffrey T. Roney, Ronald E. Davis
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Patent number: 7752707Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a housing, a suction generator carried by the housing, a bag compartment and a bag cage. The bag compartment is defined by a bag compartment wall including an airflow inlet and an airflow outlet. The bag cage is received in the bag compartment. The bag cage defines a bag cavity that hold a filter bag in a position spaced from the bag compartment wall so as to maintain a clear airflow passage. The bag cage includes a bag caddy having a bag holder.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2006Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: R. Michael Mayes, Ronald E. Davis, Kerry L. Dever
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Patent number: 7735187Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a housing, a suction generator carried by the housing, a bag compartment and a bag cage. The bag compartment is defined by a bag compartment wall including an airflow inlet and an airflow outlet. The bag cage is received in the bag compartment. The bag cage defines a bag cavity that hold a filter bag in a position spaced from the bag compartment wall so as to maintain a clear airflow passage. The bag cage includes a bag caddy having a bag holder.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2009Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: R. Michael Mayes, Ronald E. Davis, Kerry L. Dever
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Patent number: 7676884Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a housing, a suction generator carried by the housing, a bag compartment and a bag cage. The bag compartment is defined by a bag compartment wall including an airflow inlet and an airflow outlet. The bag cage is received in the bag compartment. The bag cage defines a bag cavity that hold a filter bag in a position spaced from the bag compartment wall so as to maintain a clear airflow passage.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2005Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: R. Michael Mayes, Ronald E. Davis, Kerry L. Dever, J. Erik Hitzelberger
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Publication number: 20090293222Abstract: A motor enclosure for a vacuum cleaner includes a body having both a motor receiver for receiving a motor and a filter receiver for receiving a filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Inventors: Jeffrey T. Roney, Ronald E. Davis
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Patent number: 7614113Abstract: A motor enclosure for a vacuum cleaner includes a body having both a motor receiver for receiving a motor and a filter receiver for receiving a filter.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2004Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Jeffrey T. Roney, Ronald E. Davis
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Publication number: 20090265881Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a housing, a suction generator carried by the housing, a bag compartment and a bag cage. The bag compartment is defined by a bag compartment wall including an airflow inlet and an airflow outlet. The bag cage is received in the bag compartment. The bag cage defines a bag cavity that hold a filter bag in a position spaced from the bag compartment wall so as to maintain a clear airflow passage. The bag cage includes a bag caddy having a bag holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Inventors: R. Michael Mayes, Ronald E. Davis, Kerry L. Dever
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Publication number: 20090183337Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a housing having a nozzle assembly and a canister assembly. A suction inlet is carried on the housing. A dirt collection vessel is carried on the housing. A suction generator is carried on the housing. In addition, the vacuum cleaner includes a motor exhaust assembly. The motor exhaust assembly includes a motor enclosure having a first cavity receiving at least a portion of the suction generator and a filter element received over the motor enclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2009Publication date: July 23, 2009Inventor: Ronald E. Davis
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Publication number: 20090126146Abstract: A floor care appliance includes a nozzle assembly having a suction inlet, a canister assembly, a dirt collection vessel carried on the canister assembly, a suction generator carried on the canister assembly and a wand assembly connecting the nozzle assembly with the canister assembly. The wand assembly includes an inlet connected to the nozzle assembly, an outlet connected to the canister assembly and a conduit defining an air path between the inlet and the outlet. A heat sink carried on the wand assembly is provided in communication with the air path in the conduit. An electronic control is connected to the heat sink.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2008Publication date: May 21, 2009Inventors: Chad D. Overvaag, John A. Cloud, III, Ronald E. Davis, Jason Bowden, Kerry L. Dever
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Patent number: 7468083Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a housing having a filter bag cavity. A suction generator and a bag mount are both carried on the housing. Additionally, the vacuum cleaner includes a bag caddy that is displaceable between an operating position connected to the bag mount and a bag disposal position disconnected from the bag mount.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2004Date of Patent: December 23, 2008Assignee: Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Ronald E. Davis, James T. Crouch, Chad D. Overvaag
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Publication number: 20070289088Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a housing, a suction generator carried by the housing, a bag compartment and a bag cage. The bag compartment is defined by a bag compartment wall including an airflow inlet and an airflow outlet. The bag cage is received in the bag compartment. The bag cage defines a bag cavity that hold a filter bag in a position spaced from the bag compartment wall so as to maintain a clear airflow passage. The bag cage includes a bag caddy having a bag holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2006Publication date: December 20, 2007Inventors: R. Michael Mayes, Ronald E. Davis, Kerry L. Dever
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Patent number: 5231982Abstract: In a gas mask, a flexible nosecup is used to prevent humid air that is exhaled from contacting the eye pieces of the mask. The nosecup is equipped with a one-way valve to allow fresh air into the nosecup. The conventional rigid valve body attached to the nosecup is replaced with a valve body molded integrally with the material of the nosecup and a valving element with a concave disk, having its rim seated on the annular valve seat of the valve body. The concave valving element accommodates any flexing of the valve body without losing the seal.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1991Date of Patent: August 3, 1993Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in right of CanadaInventors: Brian H. Harrison, Ronald E. Davis
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Patent number: 4938945Abstract: Anhydrous ferric fluoride of 99.0% purity or greater, based upon F.sup.- analysis is afforded, as well as a process for its manufacture using anhydrous FeCl.sub.3 and liquid anhydrous HF, reacted in the substantial absence of O.sub.2, H.sub.2 O, or an oxidizing agent.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1988Date of Patent: July 3, 1990Assignee: Pennwalt CorporationInventors: Tariq Mahmood, Charles B. Lindahl, Ronald E. Davis
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Patent number: 4915099Abstract: A speech transmitter for use in gas masks and the like comprises a body member having a central, circular recess in one end thereof and a marginal rim surrounding the recess, a cover member having a complementary central, circular recess in one end thereof and a marginal rim surrounding the recess, the cover member marginal rim being lockingly engageable with the body member marginal rim so as to form an unitary assembly in which the body recess and the cover recess are in coaxially aligned, face-to-face relation and define a membrane chamber, the marginal rims having mating surfaces adapted to secure and radially tension a membrane therebetween; and a membrane having a marginal edge interposed between the mating surfaces and a main body portion disposed within the membrane chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1988Date of Patent: April 10, 1990Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of National DefenceInventor: Ronald E. Davis
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Patent number: 4626122Abstract: A system for connecting an annular, rigid component to an opening in a flexible sheet material is disclosed. The system includes a boss molded around the opening in the sheet material and a groove around the component, sized to accommodate the boss. An annular keeper engages the boss circumferentially under hoop stress and compresses the boss against the component. A ledge on the component engages the keeper to retain it in operating position. In preferred embodiments, installation is assisted with a tapered face leading to the ledge, to produce elastic deformation of the keeper to the extent that it will pass over the boss and then snap back once past the ledge.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1985Date of Patent: December 2, 1986Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada represented by Minister of National DefenceInventors: Brian Harrison, Ronald E. Davis