Thomas P Maxwell

US Patent:

20010045036, Nov 29, 2001

Filed:

Feb 7, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/779042

Inventors:

John Maxwell - Garden Grove CA, US
Thomas Maxwell - Garden Grove CA, US

International Classification:

G09F021/04

US Classification:

040/593000

Abstract:

A product is disclosed to assist a vehicle owner and user in properly keeping track of the amount of miles driven in a particular vehicle. The goal of the product is to ensure that regular oil changes will occur approximately every 3,000 miles, which is the usual recommended interval that oil changes occur for most vehicles. The product is a multipage notepad which is preferably one inch tall by one and one-half inches wide, and which can be fastened to an automobile dashboard by means of a mounted Velcro tab, with an accompanying Velcro tab mounted onto the dashboard. The product is designed to provide a user with the ability to perform a quick mathematical calculation in order to determine whether it is presently time to perform an oil change.

US Patent:

20110086255, Apr 14, 2011

Filed:

Oct 13, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/903878

Inventors:

Thomas P. Maxwell - Beaverton OR, US
Eric Petterson - Beaverton OR, US

Assignee:

Micro Power Electronics, Inc. - Beaverton OR

International Classification:

H01M 2/10
B23P 11/00
H01R 43/02
G01R 31/28

US Classification:

429 96, 429 99, 29428, 29878, 29593

Abstract:

Battery packs having electrically insulating material between conductive surfaces of electrical components are described herein. In some embodiments, a battery pack includes a battery cell with a first conductive surface, an electrically conductive member with a second conductive surface, and electrically insulating material positioned between the first and second conductive surfaces. The electrically insulating material has at least one passage that enables the first and second conductive surfaces to be electrically connected. For example, the passage in the electrically insulating material may be formed by, during, or as a result of a process in which the first and second conductive surfaces are attached, such as by a welding process that both ablates a portion of the electrically insulating material to form the through passage and that physically joins the first and second conductive surfaces, thereby creating an electrical connection therebetween.

US Patent:

49896067, Feb 5, 1991

Filed:

Aug 8, 1988

Appl. No.:

7/229617

Inventors:

John L. Gehrich - Laguna Beach CA
Thomas P. Maxwell - Santa Ana CA
Thomas G. Hacker - Anaheim CA

Assignee:

Minnesota Mining and Manufactoring Company - St. Paul MN

International Classification:

A61B 500

US Classification:

128637

Abstract:

An assembly useful in conjunction with a signal transmission means for the measurement of a compositional parameter of the blood of a patient is disclosed. This assembly comprises a housing adapted and sized to be located outside the body of a patient and having a fluid flow passage therethrough into which blood from the patient is passed from a hollow tube, the fluid flow passage being defined by a wall which is substantially impermeable to blood, the housing being adapted to be removeably secured to a signal transmission system such that the housing is capable of being removed from the signal transmission system without disrupting the fluid flow passage; and a sensing element located in the housing in or near the fluid flow passage for providing a signal directly to the signal transmission system in response to a compositional parameter of blood located in the fluid flow passage.

US Patent:

52847756, Feb 8, 1994

Filed:

Sep 21, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/949771

Inventors:

Masao Yafuso - El Toro CA
Mark Z. Holody - Irvine CA
Thomas P. Maxwell - Santa Ana CA
Thomas G. Hacker - Anaheim CA

Assignee:

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company - St. Paul MN

International Classification:

G01N 3350

US Classification:

436 68

Abstract:

Sensing composition precursors and sensing compositions, useful in sensing the concentration of a gas, e. g. , carbon dioxide, in a medium, e. g. , blood, are disclosed. In one embodiment, the sensing composition precursor comprises a dispersed aqueous liquid including a sensing component dissolved therein, a polymer precursor, and a hydrophilic dispersing agent selected from hydroxyalkyl celluloses and mixtures thereof in an amount effective to facilitate maintaining the dispersed aqueous liquid.

US Patent:

D3267180, Jun 2, 1992

Filed:

Dec 26, 1989

Appl. No.:

7/456261

Inventors:

Thomas P. Maxwell - Santa Ana CA
Charles M. Kienholz - San Dimas CA
Thomas G. Hacker - Anaheim CA

Assignee:

Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Co. - St. Paul MN

US Classification:

D24169

US Patent:

43836909, May 17, 1983

Filed:

Jul 17, 1981

Appl. No.:

6/284177

Inventors:

Thomas J. Maxwell - Canton MI

International Classification:

A63B 6936
A63B 5304

US Classification:

273164

Abstract:

A golf club includes a club head having two body members and a hosel. Each of the two body members has a planar striking face, and the two faces determine an angle of 90. degree. Each of the two body members also has a bath surface which is grooved to reduce weight. The hosel joins the body members near the vertex of the 90. degree. angle. A club shaft is inserted into the hosel. Indicia are formed on the upper surfaces of each of the body members which are parallel to a bisector of the 90. degree. degree cycle to aid in aligning the club with the golf ball and the cup into which the ball is to be putted. Tuned resonators are mounted on each of the body members opposite the point on each striking face where the striking faces are tangent to a golf ball touching both faces. The resonators produce audible sounds, which are a function of how the club head strikes a golf ball.

US Patent:

50572784, Oct 15, 1991

Filed:

Apr 26, 1990

Appl. No.:

7/514704

Inventors:

Thomas P. Maxwell - Santa Ana CA
Thomas G. Hacker - Anaheim CA

Assignee:

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company - St. Paul MN

International Classification:

G01N 2100

US Classification:

422 81

Abstract:

An endless path calibration system comprising a sensor cassette having a flow-through passage and at least one sensor to be calibrated, a chamber coupled to the sensor cassette to define an endless path and a sterile calibration liquid in the endless path. A gas injection passage for injecting gas into the sterile calibration liquid and a gas vent leading from the endless path to the exterior of the endless path. A check valve allows gas to escape from the endless path and substantially prevents gas and liquid from entering the endless path through the gas vent.

US Patent:

51750163, Dec 29, 1992

Filed:

Mar 20, 1990

Appl. No.:

7/496560

Inventors:

Masao Yafuso - El Toro CA
Mark Z. Holody - Irvine CA
Thomas P. Maxwell - Santa Ana CA
Thomas G. Hacker - Anaheim CA

Assignee:

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company - St. Paul MN

International Classification:

G01N 100
B05D 136

US Classification:

427 2

Abstract:

A method for making a sensing element, and an assembled sensing element, useful in sensing the concentration of a gas, e. g. , carbon dioxide, in a medium, e. g. blood, are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises placing a quantity of a sensing composition precursor between and in contact with a transparent, gas impermeable solid disc and an opaque, gas permeable film, the sensing composition precursor comprises a sensing component, a polymer precursor and a cross-linking agent; and forming a gas sensing composition from this quantity of sensing composition precursor.