Patents by Inventor Steven Ericson

Steven Ericson 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: 6536146
    Abstract: An assembly for displaying pictures, photographs, painting, drawings and similar articles which includes a frame supporting the article so as to be concavely oriented along a central vertical axis toward a front of the frame housing and wherein a compound lens system is mounted forwardly of the article having a first picture glass surface having a plurality of non-uniform distortions provided therein which function as a plurality of miniature lenses and wherein an opposite surface of the compound lens system includes a magnification lens oriented on a line extending transversely to the central vertical axis such that images viewed through the frame are given the illusion of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Inventor: Steven Ericson
  • Publication number: 20020174580
    Abstract: An assembly for displaying pictures, photographs, painting, drawings and similar articles which includes a frame including means for supporting the article so as to be concavely oriented along a central vertical axis toward a front of the frame housing and wherein a compound lens system is mounted forwardly of the article having a first picture glass surface having a plurality of non-uniform distortions provided therein which function as a plurality of miniature lenses and wherein an opposite surface of the compound lens system includes a magnification lens oriented on a line extending transversely to the central vertical axis such that images viewed through the frame are given the illusion of movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2001
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventor: Steven Ericson
  • Patent number: 4688987
    Abstract: A centrifugal pump having a split impeller which is directly mounted to an existing drive shaft and which is enclosed within a housing which is mounted in surrounding, spaced and non-contacting relationship with respect to the impeller and drive shaft so as to form annular fluid inlet openings between the housing and drive shaft through which fluids are directed by the impeller to an outlet from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1987
    Inventors: Wallace W. Ericson, Steven Ericson