Patents by Inventor Thomas Kennedy

Thomas Kennedy 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: 5435642
    Abstract: The present invention is a combination cooler-seat-gear and food storage and transporting device. It includes a main housing having a closed bottom, sidewalls, a top and a front. The housing has inner walls and outer walls and has heat insulation therebetween. It includes an open front with at least one hinged door thereon, and it contains a plurality of horizontal drawer supports with a plurality of drawers slidably located within the housing. There is a seat located on the top of the housing, as well as handles for manually carrying same. The handles may be built in or may be adjustable straps. In one preferred embodiment, the housing further includes an external shelf which is movable relative to the housing so as to have a first position which is a rest position, and to have a second position which is an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: T.A.K. Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas A. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 5435643
    Abstract: The present invention is a combination portable cooler and side-by-side seat-gear, equipment and food storage and transporting device. It includes a main housing having a closed bottom, sidewalls, a top and a front. The housing has inner walls and outer walls and has heat insulation therebetween. It includes an open front with at least one hinged door thereon, and it contains a plurality of horizontal drawer supports with a plurality of drawers slidably located within the housing. There is a seat located on the top of the housing, as well as handles for manually carrying same or straps for use as a backpack. In addition, located side-by-side and permanently attached thereto, either integrally or otherwise, is a top-opening cooler. It may optionally include an external shelf which is movable relative to the housing so as to have a first position which is a rest position, and to have a second position which is an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: T.A.K. Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas A. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 5098097
    Abstract: An improved American football comprising an inflatable, one piece bladder formed in a generally elliptical shape and fabricated of an elastomeric material; four panels secured together over the bladder, each panel being of a similar, generally oval shape with inturned edges secured together by stitching to form four seams; an essentially inextensible liner formed of four liner components, each liner component being of a similar, generally oval shape with inturned edges secured together and to an associated panel by stitching to form four seams, the liner components being located between the panels and the bladder, an opening formed centrally along a part of one seam at a location where the panels and liner components are not stitched; lacing located along the opening to couple the inturned edges in place of the stitching; closure means comprising two patches and a tongue located between the bladder and liner components, the patches being stitched to the liner components, the patches being stitched to the line
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Lisco, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Kennedy, Joseph F. Baltronis, II
  • Patent number: 4087745
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a device and method for measuring carrier mlity and density in thin-film semiconductor materials such as those used in thin-film circuitry, particularly in high-frequency microwave devices. The device includes a microwave system in combination with a variable magnetic field in which the material to be measured is positioned at an E-field maximum in a shorted section of waveguide, which shorted section is in the magnetic field. The magnetic-field dependence of the reflected power is then monitored. The carrier mobility is derived from the value of the magnetic field at the point at which the microwave power reflected from the material falls to one-half of the reflected microwave power when the magnetic field value is zero. The electron density may be determined from the change in amplitude of the signal between zero magnetic field and high fields by proper calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Thomas A. Kennedy, Jr., Bruce D. McCombe