Patents by Inventor Sam Shifron

Sam Shifron 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: 11940106
    Abstract: A low-profile modular lighting device with flexible installation mounting options includes a lower housing, a circuit board supported by the lower housing and having electronic devices mounted thereto, and a plurality of upper housings each configured to releasably couple to the lower housing. The electronic devices of the circuit board extend within the space defined by an interior surface and upper edge of the lower housing and within the space defined by an interior surface and lower edge of each of the plurality of upper housings when coupled to the lower housing. Each of the plurality of upper housings provide a different mounting configuration for the modular lighting device. The modular lighting device may include one or more of a motion sensor, a light sensor, and a wireless transceiver for communication with a wireless lighting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: RAB Lighting Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Lawrence Oliver, Sam Shifron, Cameron Nielsen, Glen Oross
  • Publication number: 20240068630
    Abstract: A low-profile modular lighting device with flexible installation mounting options includes a lower housing, a circuit board supported by the lower housing and having electronic devices mounted thereto, and a plurality of upper housings each configured to releasably couple to the lower housing. The electronic devices of the circuit board extend within the space defined by an interior surface and upper edge of the lower housing and within the space defined by an interior surface and lower edge of each of the plurality of upper housings when coupled to the lower housing. Each of the plurality of upper housings provide a different mounting configuration for the modular lighting device. The modular lighting device may include one or more of a motion sensor, a light sensor, and a wireless transceiver for communication with a wireless lighting system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Jason Lawrence Oliver, Sam Shifron, Cameron Nielsen, Glen Oross
  • Patent number: 11641983
    Abstract: A travel case for a bar of soap is provided. In various embodiments, the travel case permits accelerated drying of the bar of soap and prolongs the life of the soap. The travel case is designed to maintain the bar of soap in a fixed horizontal and vertical position during transport. The travel case includes a lid and a base with a walled receiving portion. The receiving portion is configured to receive a bar of soap that is attached to a soap support and hold the soap support such that the bar of soap is prevented from contacting the surface of the soap case. A method of reversibly securing a bar of soap within a soap case while maintaining the soap in a fixed horizontal and vertical position is also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventors: James Gould, Sam Shifron
  • Publication number: 20200100625
    Abstract: A travel case for a bar of soap is provided. In various embodiments, the travel case permits accelerated drying of the bar of soap and prolongs the life of the soap. The travel case is designed to maintain the bar of soap in a fixed horizontal and vertical position during transport. The travel case includes a lid and a base with a walled receiving portion. The receiving portion is configured to receive a bar of soap that is attached to a soap support and hold the soap support such that the bar of soap is prevented from contacting the surface of the soap case. A method of reversibly securing a bar of soap within a soap case while maintaining the soap in a fixed horizontal and vertical position is also provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: James Gould, Sam Shifron
  • Patent number: 9782044
    Abstract: Spa side panels are trapezoidally-shaped and mounted in respective grooves defined by adjacent tapered corner pieces and their mounting brackets to accommodate differences in coefficients of expansion of the respective parts and prevent structural damage. Angled force transfer members are configured to mate with swept back side surfaces of a spa base pan to achieve a pedestal appearance, and the bottom surface of the base pan is constructed to reduce heat transfer to the spa support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Watkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Zeljko Dragovic, Sam Shifron
  • Patent number: 9750376
    Abstract: Spa side panels are trapezoidally-shaped and mounted in respective grooves defined by adjacent tapered corner pieces and their mounting brackets to accommodate differences in coefficients of expansion of the respective parts and prevent structural damage. Angled force transfer members are configured to mate with swept back side surfaces of a spa base pan to achieve a pedestal appearance, and the bottom surface of the base pan is constructed to reduce heat transfer to the spa support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Watkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Zeljko Dragovic, Sam Shifron
  • Patent number: 9743808
    Abstract: Spa side panels are trapezoidally-shaped and mounted in respective grooves defined by adjacent tapered corner pieces and their mounting brackets to accommodate differences in coefficients of expansion of the respective parts and prevent structural damage. Angled force transfer members are configured to mate with swept back side surfaces of a spa base pan to achieve a pedestal appearance, and the bottom surface of the base pan is constructed to reduce heat transfer to the spa support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Watkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Zeljko Dragovic, Sam Shifron
  • Patent number: 9572459
    Abstract: Spa side panels are trapezoidally-shaped and mounted in respective grooves defined by adjacent tapered corner pieces and their mounting brackets to accommodate differences in coefficients of expansion of the respective parts and prevent structural damage. Angled force transfer members are configured to mate with swept back side surfaces of a spa base pan to achieve a pedestal appearance, and the bottom surface of the base pan is constructed to reduce heat transfer to the spa support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Watkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Zeljko Dragovic, Sam Shifron
  • Publication number: 20170000689
    Abstract: Spa side panels are trapezoidally-shaped and mounted in respective grooves defined by adjacent tapered corner pieces and their mounting brackets to accommodate differences in coefficients of expansion of the respective parts and prevent structural damage. Angled force transfer members are configured to mate with swept back side surfaces of a spa base pan to achieve a pedestal appearance, and the bottom surface of the base pan is constructed to reduce heat transfer to the spa support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: Watkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Zeljko Dragovic, Sam Shifron
  • Publication number: 20160374895
    Abstract: Spa side panels are trapezoidally-shaped and mounted in respective grooves defined by adjacent tapered corner pieces and their mounting brackets to accommodate differences in coefficients of expansion of the respective parts and prevent structural damage. Angled force transfer members are configured to mate with swept back side surfaces of a spa base pan to achieve a pedestal appearance, and the bottom surface of the base pan is constructed to reduce heat transfer to the spa support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Watkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Zeljko Dragovic, Sam Shifron
  • Publication number: 20160374896
    Abstract: Spa side panels are trapezoidally-shaped and mounted in respective grooves defined by adjacent tapered corner pieces and their mounting brackets to accommodate differences in coefficients of expansion of the respective parts and prevent structural damage. Angled force transfer members are configured to mate with swept back side surfaces of a spa base pan to achieve a pedestal appearance, and the bottom surface of the base pan is constructed to reduce heat transfer to the spa support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Watkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Zeljko Dragovic, Sam Shifron
  • Publication number: 20150196167
    Abstract: Spa side panels are trapezoidally-shaped and mounted in respective grooves defined by adjacent tapered corner pieces and their mounting brackets to accommodate differences in coefficients of expansion of the respective parts and prevent structural damage. Angled force transfer members are configured to mate with swept back side surfaces of a spa base pan to achieve a pedestal appearance, and the bottom surface of the base pan is constructed to reduce heat transfer to the spa support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: Watkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Zeljko Dragovic, Sam Shifron
  • Publication number: 20150121684
    Abstract: A self contained breathing apparatus electronics system that provides a method for maximizing battery life, estimating remaining battery life and condition, insuring reliable communications between modules, maintaining reliable real-time clock (RTC), minimizing piezo interference, minimizing effects of RFI and EMI on pressure measurement, retaining consistency in the motion detection circuitry due to sensitivity to temperature changes, and providing a thermal imaging camera in cooperation with either a HUD or POD mounted inside a SCBA facemask.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: HUDstar Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Tommi Lennart Kuutti, Jeffrey Acton Barnitz, Clayton Joseph Emery, Eugene Victor Horanoff, Sam Shifron
  • Patent number: 7565178
    Abstract: A portable wireless handset with enhanced acoustic functions is disclosed having a chamber gasket that has an opening sized to receive a speaker. When inserted into the opening, the speaker seals to the chamber gasket. The chamber gasket also seals to a support surface, so that a sealed acoustic chamber is created. The keypad has an opening in the user interface area for receiving a speaker, and a navigation input key may be positioned over the speaker. In this way, the speaker shares an area with the navigation key, and projects sounds through vents in the navigation key. With the speaker sealed to the keypad, and the keypad sealed to a printed circuit board, a sealed acoustic chamber is formed. Acoustic energy emitted from the back of the speaker is received into the sealed chamber, thereby improving the sound quality for sound projected from the front of the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Kyocera Wireless Corp.
    Inventors: Sidney Sitachitt, Sam Shifron, James D. Brownlie, Gregory L. Williams
  • Patent number: 7541771
    Abstract: An exemplary battery pack comprises a battery cell having a first terminal and a second terminal disposed on a first end of the battery cell. A support member is attached to the first end of the battery cell, and a first L-shaped contact is connected to the first terminal via a protection circuit module. The protection circuit module is configured to disconnect the first terminal from the L-shaped contact upon a disconnect event. A second L-shaped contact connected to the second terminal, and a top cover encloses the first end of the battery cell, the support member and the protection circuit module. The first and second L-shaped contacts are exposed through corresponding apertures in the top cover, and a label including a body section and first, second, third and fourth flap sections is wrapped around the battery cell such that at least one of the flap sections secures the top cover to the battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Kyocera Wireless Corp.
    Inventors: Frederick A. Leavitt, Sam Shifron, Joseph Zueck
  • Publication number: 20080231520
    Abstract: A modem card is configured to provide communication between a computer and a communications system. The modem card includes a case holding electronics. A corner extends along a top side of the case. An antenna body is connected to the case such that the antenna body bends around the corner of the case. An antenna is positioned in the antenna body such that the antenna bends around the corner of the case. The antenna is in electrical communication with the electronics in the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventors: Joseph ZUECK, Jorge Fabrega-Sanchez, Kotaro Matsuo, Sam Shifron