Joseph P Conlan

US Patent:

7019213, Mar 28, 2006

Filed:

Sep 13, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/940604

Inventors:

Patrick Stephen McNutt - Carnation WA, US
Joseph Patrick Conlan - Chehalis WA, US
Edwardo Solis - Everett WA, US

Assignee:

Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. - Little Neck NY

International Classification:

H02G 3/04

US Classification:

174 681, 174 683, 174101, 174 97, 248 49

Abstract:

A raceway assembly according to the present invention is used in conjunction with a conventional equipment rack to route cables between and otherwise to or from equipment stored in the rack. Guide members project from a trough portion of the raceway and position cables routed through spaces between the guide members. Versions of the guide members have elastic edging providing soft surfaces to reduce cable wear and otherwise protect cables from potential damage and lessening of life span. Some of the edging is formed as a substantial portion of the thickness of the guide member to provide enhanced cushioning of the cables. Versions of the guide members can include a core portion of a rigid or pliable material. Those guide members with a pliable core can be readily bent to provide enhanced support and positioning of cables being held by the guide members.

US Patent:

7417188, Aug 26, 2008

Filed:

Sep 13, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/940599

Inventors:

Patrick Stephen McNutt - Carnation WA, US
Joseph Patrick Conlan - Chehalis WA, US
Edwardo Solis - Everett WA, US

Assignee:

Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. - Little Neck NY

International Classification:

H02G 3/04

US Classification:

174 681, 174 683, 174101, 174 97, 385134, 385135

Abstract:

A raceway assembly according to the present invention is used in conjunction with a conventional equipment rack to route cables between and otherwise to or from equipment stored in the rack. Guide members project from a trough portion of the raceway and position cables routed through spaces between the guide members. Versions of the guide members have elastic edging providing soft surfaces to reduce cable wear and otherwise protect cables from potential damage and lessening of life span. Some of the edging is formed as a substantial portion of the thickness of the guide member to provide enhanced cushioning of the cables. Versions of the guide members can include a core portion of a rigid or pliable material. Those guide members with a pliable core can be readily bent to provide enhanced support and positioning of cables being held by the guide members.

US Patent:

60171588, Jan 25, 2000

Filed:

Sep 8, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/149271

Inventors:

Joseph P. Conlan - Renton WA

Assignee:

Tally Printer Corporation - Kent WA

International Classification:

B41J 3114

US Classification:

400197

Abstract:

An improved apparatus for reinking a ribbon of a printer ribbon cartridge provides a selected reinking pattern across the width of the ribbon. A porous member in contact with a source of ink has a height equal to a distance between a first edge of the ribbon and a distal edge of a double strike zone of the ribbon. The porous member is in contact with a transfer roller, which in turn is in contact with the ribbon. The ribbon moves through the printer cartridge along a path of a Mobius loop. As the ribbon passes the transfer roller for the first time, ink is provided to a single strike zone and to the double strike zone of the ribbon. As the ribbon passes the transfer roller for the second time, the ribbon is reversed given the pattern of the Mobius loop, and ink is provided again to the double strike zone, as well as to the other single strike zone. Twice as much ink is therefore applied to the double strike zone as to each of the single strike zones. More than twice as much ink is provided to the double strike zone by further providing slots circumferentially around the transfer roller in a selected pattern.