Jeffrey W Thompson

US Patent:

6484365, Nov 26, 2002

Filed:

Dec 31, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/476970

Inventors:

Jeffrey S. Thompson - Dallas TX 75234

International Classification:

A47B 110

US Classification:

24 312, 24546, 224312, 24823181

Abstract:

A visor clip of unitary construction is presented along with a method for manufacture. The visor clip includes an engagement portion that frictionally engages with an engagement target, which may be a sun visor in an automobile. A payload portion is designed to receive and frictionally couple to a payload, where the payload may include a number of small objects such as toothpicks. The payload portion includes a number of extended portions on one or more of the surfaces that define the payload portion. The inclusion of the extended portions provides a number of force application points that enhance the frictional engagement of the payload.

US Patent:

20030126722, Jul 10, 2003

Filed:

Nov 18, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/298467

Inventors:

Jeffrey Thompson - Dallas TX, US

International Classification:

A44B021/00

US Classification:

024/003120, 024/545000

Abstract:

A visor clip of unitary construction is presented along with a method for manufacture. The visor clip includes an engagement portion that frictionally engages with an engagement target, which may be a sun visor in an automobile. A payload portion is designed to receive and frictionally couple to a payload, where the payload may include a number of small objects such as toothpicks. The payload portion includes a number of extended portions on one or more of the surfaces that define the payload portion. The inclusion of the extended portions provides a number of force application points that enhance the frictional engagement of the payload.

US Patent:

20150108002, Apr 23, 2015

Filed:

Dec 16, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/572472

Inventors:

- Van Nuys CA, US
Adam L. Cohen - Dallas TX, US
Willa M. Larsen - Colorado Springs CO, US
Richard Chen - Woodland Hills CA, US
Ananda H. Kumar - Fremont CA, US
Ezekiel J.J. Kruglick - San Diego CA, US
Vacit Arat - La Canada Flintridge CA, US
Gang Zhang - Monterey Park CA, US
Michael S. Lockard - Lake Elizabeth CA, US
Christopher A. Bang - Northridge CA, US
Jeffrey A. Thompson - Los Angeles CA, US

International Classification:

C25D 5/02
C25D 7/00

US Classification:

205122

Abstract:

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the formation of microprobe tips elements having a variety of configurations. In some embodiments tips are formed from the same building material as the probes themselves, while in other embodiments the tips may be formed from a different material and/or may include a coating material. In some embodiments, the tips are formed before the main portions of the probes and the tips are formed in proximity to or in contact with a temporary substrate. Probe tip patterning may occur in a variety of different ways, including, for example, via molding in patterned holes that have been isotropically or anisotropically etched silicon, via molding in voids formed in exposed photoresist, via molding in voids in a sacrificial material that have formed as a result of the sacrificial material mushrooming over carefully sized and located regions of dielectric material, via isotropic etching of the tip material around carefully sized and placed etching shields, via hot pressing, and the like.