Patents by Inventor Stephen Zamprelli

Stephen Zamprelli 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: 7259385
    Abstract: An erasure assembly for imaging plates comprised of a cover member and a base member, the cover member in the form of an inverted rectangular tray having a plurality of light sources and reflective sources mounted therein behind a diffuser glass member, the base member, complimentary with the cover member having a support area for the placement of imaging plates on their non-reactive surface, their photo-stimulable surface facing upwardly, the cover member closed upon the base member and there being a control means to activate the light sources for a time sufficient to erase the retained images on the photo-stimulable surface of the image plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Air Techniques, Inc.
    Inventors: Edgar Alzner, Stephen Zamprelli, Eddy Paultre, Walter Gross
  • Publication number: 20060284125
    Abstract: An erasure assembly for imaging plates comprised of a cover member and a base member, the cover member in the form of an inverted rectangular tray having a plurality of light sources and reflective sources mounted therein behind a diffuser glass member, the base member, complimentary with the cover member having a support area for the placement of imaging plates on their non-reactive surface, their photo-stimulable surface facing upwardly, the cover member closed upon the base member and there being a control means to activate the light sources for a time sufficient to erase the retained images on the photo-stimulable surface of the image plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: Edgar Alzner, Stephen Zamprelli, Eddy Paultre, Walter Gross
  • Patent number: 7061003
    Abstract: An erasure assembly for imaging plates comprised of a cover member and a base member, the cover member in the form of an inverted rectangular tray having a plurality of light sources and reflective sources mounted therein behind a diffuser glass member, the base member, complimentary with the cover member having a support area for the placement of imaging plates on their non-reactive surface, their photo-stimulable surface facing upwardly, the cover member closed upon the base member and there being a control means to activate the light sources for a time sufficient to erase the retained images on the photo-stimulable surface of the image plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Air Techniques, Inc.
    Inventors: Edgar Alzner, Stephen Zamprelli, Eddy Paultre, Walter Gross
  • Patent number: 7053396
    Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus and process having positioning surface for a reusable storage film having information projected image-wise therein wherein the image-wise containing storage film is advanced by a transportation assembly through an information retrieval or interrogation assembly and thence introduced into a restoration collection chamber including a source of light at an energy level sufficient to remove residual image information thereby restoring the storage film to a condition of reuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Air Techniques, Inc.
    Inventors: Edgar Alzner, Frederick R. Fischer, Stephen Zamprelli
  • Publication number: 20050040353
    Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus and process having positioning surface for a reusable storage film having information projected image-wise therein wherein the image-wise containing storage film is advanced by a transportation assembly through an information retrieval or interrogation assembly and thence introduced into a restoration collection chamber including a source of light at an energy level sufficient to remove residual image information thereby restoring the storage film to a condition of reuse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2004
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventors: Edgar Alzner, Frederick Fischer, Stephen Zamprelli
  • Publication number: 20040149941
    Abstract: An erasure assembly for imaging plates comprised of a cover member and a base member, the cover member in the form of an inverted rectangular tray having a plurality of light sources and reflective sources mounted therein behind a diffuser glass member, the base member, complimentary with the cover member having a support area for the placement of imaging plates on their non-reactive surface, their photo-stimulable surface facing upwardly, the cover member closed upon the base member and there being a control means to activate the light sources for a time sufficient to erase the retained images on the photo-stimulable surface of the image plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Edgar Alzner, Stephen Zamprelli, Eddy Paultre, Walter Gross
  • Patent number: 6762430
    Abstract: An imaging plate guide formed in different configurations corresponding to the various intraoral dental plate sizes, which in turn correspond to the dental intraoral film sizes commonly referred to as sizes 0 through 4, the imaging plate guides dedicated to intraoral imaging providing for guides for each plate size so that a desired array of feed width guides can be positioned on the scanner for scanning the intraoral plates and which scan extraoral imaging plates as well. The embodiment of the imaging plate guides provides not only for interchangeability with respect to the intraoral plate size, but also allows for the feeding of extraoral imaging plates without the need to remove the intraoral plate guides. The size 4 is not specifically described, but is analogous to the other sizes as would be obvious to one skilled in the art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Air Techniques, Inc.
    Inventors: Edgar Alzner, Stephen Zamprelli, Tom Lloyd, Walter Gross
  • Publication number: 20030128814
    Abstract: An imaging plate guide formed in different configurations corresponding to the various intraoral dental plate sizes, which in turn correspond to the dental intraoral film sizes commonly referred to as sizes 0 through 4, the imaging plate guides dedicated to intraoral imaging providing for guides for each plate size so that a desired array of feed width guides can be positioned on the scanner for scanning the intraoral plates and which scan extraoral imaging plates as well. The embodiment of the imaging plate guides provides not only for interchangeability with respect to the intraoral plate size, but also allows for the feeding of extraoral imaging plates without the need to remove the intraoral plate guides. The size 4 is not specifically described, but is analogous to the other sizes as would be obvious to one skilled in the art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Edgar Alzner, Stephen Zamprelli, Tom Lloyd, Walter Gross