Patents by Inventor S. Eugene Benge
S. Eugene Benge 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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Patent number: 5494550Abstract: An improvement in a method for the manufacture of electronic surveillance tags by providing a continuous web of electrically insulative material, applying to opposed surfaces of the electrically insulative material web a succession of first and second electrically conductive coils and applying to the succession of first electrically conductive coils a normally electrically insulative deactivation structure extending across the first coil succession and convertible to be electrically conductive, the improvement comprising the step of providing an electrostatic charge drain in electrically conductive relation with each of the first electrically conductive coils substantially throughout the manufacture of the tags. The new step may be practiced by providing an elongate electrically conductive member across the succession of first electrically conductive coils in electrical continuity therewith.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 1993Date of Patent: February 27, 1996Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics CorporationInventor: S. Eugene Benge
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Patent number: 5006856Abstract: A deactivatable tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and method of making such a tag. The tag includes a resonant circuit and a provision for promoting the permanent deactivation of the tag. The solution according to the present invention has been to render the deactivator more difficult to operate. A higher level of excess energy is applied to the resonant circuit before the breakdown material breaks down. This higher level of energy in the resonant circuit is applied to the improved deactivator and operates the deactivator much more completely. This arrangement promotes permanent deactivation of the resonant circuit to prevent the resonant circuit from becoming active again or "coming back to life" as time passes. The deactivator adjacent the resonant circuit can include a vacuum metalized conductive coating.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1989Date of Patent: April 9, 1991Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.Inventors: S. Eugene Benge, Robert L. Froning
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Patent number: 4954814Abstract: This invention relates to a deactivatable tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and comprised of planar conductive material cut into a pair of inverse, first and second spiral conductors wrapped about each other and positioned for capacitance and inductive coupling. The invention also relates to method of making tags wherein conductors are cut from a planar web of conductive material in a continuous process in a manner that the cutting results in the formation of two spiral conductors without accompanying waste of conductive material, and thereafter positioning the conductors to provide resonant circuits. The conductors of each pair are connected by welding to provide a reliable circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1989Date of Patent: September 4, 1990Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.Inventor: S. Eugene Benge
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Patent number: 4910499Abstract: This invention relates to a deactivatable tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and comprised of planar conductive material cut into a pair of inverse, first and second spiral conductors wrapped about each other and positioned for capacitive and inductive coupling. The invention also relates to method of making tags wherein conductors are cut from a planar web of conductive material in a continuous process in a manner that the cutting results in the formation of two spiral conductors without accompanying waste of conductive material, and thereafter positioning the conductors to provide resonant circuits. The conductors of each pair are connected by welding to provide a reliable circuit. A film of electrostatic-charge-draining material on a web of deactivatable tags prevents their premature deactivation.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1989Date of Patent: March 20, 1990Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.Inventors: S. Eugene Benge, Robert L. Froning
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Patent number: 4846922Abstract: This invention relates to a deactivatable tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and comprised of planar conductive material cut into a pair of inverse, first and second spiral conductors wrapped about each other and positioned for capacitive and inductive coupling. The invention also relates to method of making tags wherein conductors are cut from a planar web of conductive material in a continuous process in a manner that the cutting results in the formation of two spiral conductors without accompanying waste of conductive material, and thereafter positioning the conductors to provide resonant circuits. The conductors of each pair are connected by welding to provide a reliable circuit. A film of electrostatic-charge-draining material on a web of deactivatable tags prevents their premature deactivation.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 1987Date of Patent: July 11, 1989Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.Inventors: S. Eugene Benge, Robert L. Froning
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Patent number: 4843404Abstract: This invention relates to a tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and comprises of planar conductive material cut into a pair of inverse, first and second spiral conductors wrapped about each other and positioned for capacitive and inductive coupling. The invention also relates to method of making tags wherein conductors are cut from a planar web of conductive material in a continuous process in a manner that the cutting results in the formation of two spiral conductors without accompanying waste of conductive material, and thereafter positioning the conductors to provide resonant circuits.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 1987Date of Patent: June 27, 1989Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.Inventors: S. Eugene Benge, Robert L. Froning
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Patent number: 4818312Abstract: This invention relates to a deactivatable tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and comprised of planar conductive material cut into a pair of inverse, first and second spiral conductors wrapped about each other and positioned for capacitive and inductive coupling. The invention also relates to method of making tage wherein conductors are cut from a planar web of conductive material in a continuous process in a manner that the cutting results in the formation of two spiral conductors without accompanying waste of conductive material, and thereafter positioning the conductors to provide resonant circuits. The conductors of each pair are connected by welding to provide a reliable circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1987Date of Patent: April 4, 1989Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.Inventor: S. Eugene Benge
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Patent number: 4802944Abstract: This invention relates to a deactivatable tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and comprised of planar conductive material cut into a pair of inverse, first and second spiral conductors wrapped about each other and positioned for capacitive and inductive coupling. The invention also relates to method of making tags wherein conductors are cut from a planar web of conductive material in a continuous process in a manner that the cutting results in the formation of two spiral conductors without accompanying waste of conductive material, and thereafter positioning the conductors to provide resonant circuits.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1988Date of Patent: February 7, 1989Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.Inventor: S. Eugene Benge
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Patent number: 4778552Abstract: This invention relates to a deactivatable tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and comprised of planar conductive material cut into a pair of inverse, first and second spiral conductors wrapped about each other and positioned for capacitive and inductive coupling. The invention also relates to method of making tags wherein conductors are cut from a planar web of conductive material in a continuous process in a manner that the cutting results in the formation of two spiral conductors without accompanying waste of conductive material, and thereafter positioning the conductors to provide resonant circuits.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1987Date of Patent: October 18, 1988Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.Inventors: S. Eugene Benge, Warren J. Pape, Richard S. Vuketich
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Patent number: 4717438Abstract: This invention relates to a tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and comprised of planar conductive material cut into a pair of inverse, first and second spiral conductors wrapped about each other and positioned for capacitive and inductive coupling. The invention also relates to method of making tags wherein conductors are cut from a planar web of conductive material in a continuous process in a manner that the cutting results in the formation of two spiral conductors without accompanying waste of conductive material, and thereafter positioning the conductors to provide resonant circuits.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1986Date of Patent: January 5, 1988Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.Inventors: S. Eugene Benge, Robert L. Froning