Patents by Inventor Thomas J. Restis

Thomas J. Restis 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: 10254010
    Abstract: An electronic module housing having a rounded stylized dog-bone-type shape and an equatorial partial light bar. The shape provides a view of parts of the light bar from many locations. The controller circuitry can detect a malfunction among one or more of a plurality of current-drawing components by detecting that the total cumulative current drawing by all the components falls outside a predetermined nominal range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Durex International Corp
    Inventors: James H. Kreisel, Jason S. Smith, Casey C. Clausen, Randall C. Nelson, Thomas J. Restis
  • Publication number: 20170294104
    Abstract: An electronic module housing having a rounded stylized dog-bone-type shape and an equatorial partial light bar. The shape provides a view of parts of the light bar from many locations. The controller circuitry can detect a malfunction among one or more of a plurality of current-drawing components by detecting that the total cumulative current drawing by all the components falls outside a predetermined nominal range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: DUREX INTERNATIONAL CORP.
    Inventors: James H. Kreisel, Jason S. Smith, Casey C. Clausen, Randall C. Nelson, Thomas J. Restis
  • Patent number: 9715813
    Abstract: An electronic module housing having a rounded stylized dog-bone-type shape and an equatorial partial light bar. The shape provides a view of parts of the light bar from many locations. The controller circuitry can detect a malfunction among one or more of a plurality of current-drawing components by detecting that the total cumulative current drawing by all the components falls outside a predetermined nominal range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Durex International Corp
    Inventors: James H. Kreisel, Jason S. Smith, Casey C. Clausen, Randall C. Nelson, Thomas J. Restis
  • Patent number: 9578689
    Abstract: A semi-flexible laminar silicone foam rubber-base heater for high temperature gas supply and exhaust lines used in microelectronic semiconductor fabrication uses superimposed adhesively bonded layers of an etched foil heater element containing layer, a high-to-low heat thermal transition layer, a thermal fuse laden silicone foam rubber insulation layer and a durable wrapping layer. The system can provide for the combined use of highly controllable etched foil heater elements, clean silicone foam rubber insulation, and inexpensive mechanical thermal fuses safely in a high heat gas supply and exhaust line environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: DUREX INTERNATIONAL CORP.
    Inventors: Jason S. Smith, Casey C. Clausen, James H. Kreisel, Thomas J. Restis
  • Patent number: 9300124
    Abstract: A moisture-sealing and thermally-isolating miniature implement for terminating a mineral-insulated and metal-sheathed cable and connecting it to a power source, includes a hollow contact prong protruding from one axial end of a metallic heat-sink barrel penetrated from an opposite end by the steel sheath of a heating element cable. The heating element contacts a nickel or nickel clad iron pin that penetrates the prong and is welded to its most distal extremity. The sheath is welded to the proximal end of the barrel by a hermetic brazed joint, and the distal end of the barrel is hermetically plugged around the prong by a metalized alumina ceramic seal. The copper pin is connected to the end of the heating element within the sheath and mineral insulation. The barrel is machined to have a series of deep peripheral grooves that act as thermal conductivity reducing chokes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Durex International Corp
    Inventor: Thomas J. Restis
  • Publication number: 20140202764
    Abstract: A moisture-sealing and thermally-isolating miniature implement for terminating a mineral-insulated and metal-sheathed cable and connecting it to a power source, includes a hollow contact prong protruding from one axial end of a metallic heat-sink barrel penetrated from an opposite end by the steel sheath of a heating element cable. The heating element contacts a nickel or nickel clad iron pin that penetrates the prong and is welded to its most distal extremity. The sheath is welded to the proximal end of the barrel by a hermetic brazed joint, and the distal end of the barrel is hermetically plugged around the prong by a metalized alumina ceramic seal. The copper pin is connected to the end of the heating element within the sheath and mineral insulation. The barrel is machined to have a series of deep peripheral grooves that act as thermal conductivity reducing chokes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventor: Thomas J. Restis
  • Publication number: 20140029925
    Abstract: A semi-flexible laminar silicone foam rubber-base heater for high temperature gas supply and exhaust lines used in microelectronic semiconductor fabrication uses superimposed adhesively bonded layers of an etched foil heater element containing layer, a high-to-low heat thermal transition layer, a thermal fuse laden silicone foam rubber insulation layer and a durable wrapping layer. The system can provide for the combined use of highly controllable etched foil heater elements, clean silicone foam rubber insulation, and inexpensive mechanical thermal fuses safely in a high heat gas supply and exhaust line environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: Jason S. Smith, Casey C. Clausen, James H. Kreisel, Thomas J. Restis
  • Patent number: D756826
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Durex International Corp.
    Inventors: Jason S. Smith, Casey C. Clausen, James H. Kreisel, Randall C. Nelson, Thomas J. Restis