Tripod Or Unipod Patents (Class D16/244)
  • Patent number: 7986369
    Abstract: A lower portion has a lower end and an upper end. The lower end is enlarged for positioning on a floor. An upper portion is movable to any of a plurality of positions. The interior end of the upper portion is coupled to the upper end of the lower portion. Electrical components are coupled to one of the portions. A web camera is operatively coupled to the exterior end of the upper portion. An electrical cable supplies power and data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Inventor: David Anthony Burns
  • Patent number: 6164843
    Abstract: The tripod includes a spider for the articulation of the legs and a support mounted in the spider with a first seat coaxial with the principal axis of the tripod and a second seat with an axis substantially perpendicular to the first seat so that a column of the tripod can be housed alternatively and removably either in the first seat or in the second seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Lino Manfrotto & Co., S.p.A.
    Inventor: Gilberto Battocchio
  • Patent number: D505442
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Murray, Aldo Balatti, Robert D. Watters
  • Patent number: D506219
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Ultimate Support Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald H. Eason
  • Patent number: D508938
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Murray, Aldo Balatti, Robert D. Watters
  • Patent number: D509014
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Inventor: Joseph N. Bonneville
  • Patent number: D445123
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Inventor: Wei Hong Shen
  • Patent number: D509527
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Murray, Aldo Balatti, Robert D. Watters
  • Patent number: D450339
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Ultimate Support Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald H. Eason
  • Patent number: D532436
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: One Source Network, Inc.
    Inventors: James J. Kruse, David Breymeier
  • Patent number: D533207
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Inventors: Warren Kennedy, Conrad Lemelin
  • Patent number: D533578
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Oka
  • Patent number: D470165
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Inventor: Thomas K. M. Peterson
  • Patent number: D552660
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: EML Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Wade Lee
  • Patent number: D600737
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Gitzo S.A.
    Inventor: Hem Sudhana
  • Patent number: D607036
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Tocad America, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Darrow
  • Patent number: D607037
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Inventor: Lihwa Lee
  • Patent number: D607917
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Tocad America, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Darrow
  • Patent number: D620491
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cheng-Shiun Wu
  • Patent number: D632720
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Inventor: John Christopher Barker
  • Patent number: D386510
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Inventor: Thomas K. M. Peterson
  • Patent number: D387082
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1997
    Inventor: Chester F. Christensen
  • Patent number: D656175
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Gary Fong, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary Fong
  • Patent number: D415805
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Inventor: James Wygonik
  • Patent number: D664181
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, Inc.
    Inventors: Ariel Braunstein, Gregory R. Cerny, William Webb, Spencer James Nugent
  • Patent number: D664182
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ariel Braunstein, Gregory R. Cerny, William Webb, Spencer James Nugent
  • Patent number: D420757
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
    Inventor: Dale E. Peterson
  • Patent number: D421447
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Ultimate Support Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald H. Eason, Kenneth W. House, Douglas A Kempel, Tillman F. Taylor, Jr., Robin R. Slaton, Jonathan P. Workman
  • Patent number: D670752
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Inventor: Eddie Barber
  • Patent number: D673204
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JunWon Bae, Jongchan Kwon
  • Patent number: D435365
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Ultimate Support Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald H. Eason, Douglas A Kempel, Robin R. Slaton
  • Patent number: D678387
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Inventors: John Stump, Michael Daoud
  • Patent number: D693665
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Inventor: Jonathon B. Brown
  • Patent number: D704246
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Inventor: James K Chun
  • Patent number: D706333
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Inventor: James K. Chun
  • Patent number: D706855
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Toshio Horiki
  • Patent number: D707283
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Shenzhen AEE Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xianzhi Zhang
  • Patent number: D717360
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Inventor: James K Chun
  • Patent number: D717361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Yutaka Nikaido
  • Patent number: D718365
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Geun Kim, Haruo Hayashi
  • Patent number: D719604
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Technikos Sports Corporation
    Inventor: Gregory V. Palmer
  • Patent number: D719859
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tobias Koeniger, Christoph Schindler
  • Patent number: D720384
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Inventor: Erik Holmen
  • Patent number: D723091
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Daymen US, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric C. Hale
  • Patent number: D739456
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: LINO MANFROTTO & CO SPA
    Inventor: Francesca Poli
  • Patent number: D741397
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: KENU, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth Y. Minn, David E. Yao, Leonard John Duran
  • Patent number: D742950
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Inventor: Renaud Supiot
  • Patent number: D754780
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Industrial Revolution, Inc.
    Inventors: Graeme Esarey, Stephen Padden, Lee Rawls
  • Patent number: D765649
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: CYBER POWER SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Chung-Ta Huang
  • Patent number: D765650
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: CYBER POWER SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Chung-Ta Huang