Richard Lee Harding

US Patent:

8355887, Jan 15, 2013

Filed:

Apr 26, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/767690

Inventors:

Richard Harding - Cedar Park TX, US
John B. Foreman - Edmonds WA, US

Assignee:

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation - San Jose CA

International Classification:

G01B 5/14

US Classification:

702158

Abstract:

A device may include a plurality of sensors substantially coplanar with one another in a sensor plane, each sensor generating a sense value that varies according to a physical distance between the sensor and an object without contacting the object; and control circuits that generates at least first position values, second position values and third position values in response to the sensor values, the first and second position values identifying a position in a space adjacent to the sensor plane.

US Patent:

46154574, Oct 7, 1986

Filed:

Sep 16, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/776521

Inventors:

Richard D. Harding - Merrifield VA

International Classification:

A47G 1922
B65D 5700

US Classification:

220 902

Abstract:

A flexible plastic removable lid apparatus for a disposable glass or cup having a horizontally disposed circular member constructed of a semi-rigid flexible plastic material. The edges of the circular member have an annular downwardly depending flange attached thereto for extending over the edge of such glass or cup. An upper tubular connector is connected to the central top portion of the circular member and a lower short tubular connector member is connected to the bottom central portion of the circular member. These two tubular connector members are in fluid communication with each other. A first upper straw is glued in an arcuate position to the top of the circular member and this upper straw can be removed and placed on the upper connector member to produce an upper straw section. Similarly a lower straw member is glued to the bottom of the circular member and it can be removed therefrom when necessary to frictionally and sealingly fit on the lower tubular connector member to thereby produce a combination lid and straw which extends into the liquid within the cup and extends upwardly so that a person can suck the liquid out through the straw. Arrangement of the upper straw as it is glued to the top of the circular member form is in a smaller arc while the position of the straw is formed in a larger arc on the lower straw.