Patents by Inventor Stephen D. Schultz

Stephen D. Schultz 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).

  • End of cycle detector and method for microwave clothes dryer
    Patent number: 6401357
    Abstract: End of cycle detector and method for a microwave clothes dryer. The temperature of fabric in the dryer is monitored, an increase in the monitored temperature is detected when substantially all moisture has been removed from the fabric, and operation of the dryer is controlled in response to the increase in temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Smith, John F. Gerling, Stephen D. Schultz
  • Clothes drying apparatus and method with improved tumbling action
    Patent number: 6401362
    Abstract: Tumble drying apparatus and method in which fabric articles are placed in a horizontally disposed cylindrical basket with a stringer which extends across the basket along an arcuate path that passes near the axis, and the basket is rotated about its axis with the stringer causing the fabric articles to tumble through the central portion of the basket in a loosely packed manner as they fall from one side of the basket toward the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen D. Schultz, John F. Gerling
  • Compact microwave clothes dryer and method
    Patent number: 6393725
    Abstract: Compact microwave clothes dryer and method in which the dryer is small enough to be placed on a countertop, and air is circulated past microwave generator and power supply components to the drying chamber to transfer heat from the components to clothes in the chamber to supplement the microwave drying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Smith, John F. Gerling, Stephen D. Schultz