David C Gallant

US Patent:

7327239, Feb 5, 2008

Filed:

Aug 5, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/197967

Inventors:

David Gallant - Newfield ME, US
Randy Oliver - Limerick ME, US

Assignee:

InVision Systems, LLC - Portland ME

International Classification:

B60Q 1/00

US Classification:

340438, 340984, 340441, 116 37, 345 7, 345 8, 359630

Abstract:

A heads-up speed sensing display and control system for apprising an operator of the risk of operating a vehicle at various speeds has a risk indicator display with a plurality of illuminable elements, such as three different colored LEDs, illuminable in a plurality of patterns, each of the plurality of patterns having a predetermined correlation to vehicle speed, such as green for safe, yellow for caution and red for hazardous. A speed sensor, such as a Hall-effect device is coupled to a driven element of the vehicle, like a speedometer cable, and causes the speed sensor to generate a signal indicative of vehicle speed. A control unit receives the speed signal and selects an illumination pattern to indicate the risk of operation at the speed the vehicle is then traveling. The display may be wired or wireless and be attached to a windshield, face guard or helmet. The display system may be customizable to the operator and the environmental conditions and may be coordinated with a signage system using the same risk indicator conventions.

US Patent:

7598849, Oct 6, 2009

Filed:

Oct 31, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/931152

Inventors:

David Gallant - Newfield ME, US
Randy Oliver - Limerick ME, US

International Classification:

B60Q 1/00

US Classification:

340441, 340438, 340984, 116 37, 116 38, 116 57, 345 7, 345 8, 359630

Abstract:

A heads-up speed sensing display and control system for apprising an operator of the risk of operating a vehicle at various speeds has a risk indicator display with a plurality of illuminable elements, such as three different colored LEDs, illuminable in a plurality of patterns, each of the plurality of patterns having a predetermined correlation to vehicle speed, such as green for safe, yellow for caution and red for hazardous. A speed sensor, such as a Hall-effect device is coupled to a driven element of the vehicle, like a speedometer cable, and causes the speed sensor to generate a signal indicative of vehicle speed. A control unit receives the speed signal and selects an illumination pattern to indicate the risk of operation at the speed the vehicle is then traveling. The display may be wired or wireless and be attached to a windshield, face guard or helmet. The display system may be customizable to the operator and the environmental conditions and may be coordinated with a signage system using the same risk indicator conventions.

US Patent:

8544766, Oct 1, 2013

Filed:

Jun 11, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/814005

Inventors:

William Webster - Portland ME, US
David Gallant - Newfield ME, US

Assignee:

Novia Products LLC - Portland ME

International Classification:

A24F 25/00

US Classification:

239 34, 239 35, 239 36, 239 37, 239 50, 239 57

Abstract:

An ambient environment modification mechanism such as a scent dispenser (which could also act as a filter) which may comprise a piston and a piston cylinder, receiving the piston, and forming a piston cylinder chamber volume when the piston is moved from an inserted position in the piston cylinder to a withdrawn position in the piston cylinder. The piston may have a hollow interior receiving an ambient air modification material holder, such as a cartridge, containing ambient air modification material. The hollow interior may be in fluid communication with the piston cylinder chamber volume at a first end of the hollow interior. A ventilation opening may be in fluid communication with the hollow interior at a second end of the hollow interior. A piston cylinder chamber volume forming mechanism, such as spring may move the piston relative to the piston cylinder from the inserted position to the withdrawn position.

US Patent:

20130206861, Aug 15, 2013

Filed:

Mar 15, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/836151

Inventors:

NOVIA PRODUCTS, LLC - , US
David Gallant - Portland ME, US

Assignee:

NOVIA PRODUCTS, LLC - Portland ME

International Classification:

A61L 9/12

US Classification:

239 34

Abstract:

An ambient environment modification mechanism such as a scent dispenser (which could also act as a filter), which may comprise a piston and a piston cylinder, receiving the piston, and forming a piston cylinder chamber volume when the piston is moved from an inserted position in the piston cylinder to a withdrawn position in the piston cylinder. The piston may have a hollow interior receiving an ambient air modification material holder, such as a cartridge, containing ambient air modification material. The hollow interior may be in fluid communication with the piston cylinder chamber volume at a first end of the hollow interior. A ventilation opening may be in fluid communication with the hollow interior at a second end of the hollow interior. A piston cylinder chamber volume forming mechanism, such as spring may move the piston relative to the piston cylinder from the inserted position to the withdrawn position.

US Patent:

51956675, Mar 23, 1993

Filed:

Oct 16, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/778339

Inventors:

David Gallant - Newfield ME

International Classification:

A45F 500

US Classification:

224197

Abstract:

A device for suspending T-shaped tools from a belt, toolbox, wall, or other mount, comprising a flat attachment material and a rotating holder body which secures the tool while allowing the tool to be inserted and removed from different angles. In order to ensure that the holder body stays in a useful position, its swing is limited by two stops which act as brakes and are affixed so as to protrude perpendicularly from the attachment material. The invention is designed so that after the tool is inserted into the holder, the head of the tool remains secured by the cantilevering action of a spring-loaded clip against a dead-lock arm extending downwards from the holder body. The opposite end of the tool rests on an L-shaped extending at right angles from the attachment material. The tool is removed by the natural motion of grasping the handle and swinging upwards. This results in the tool being held in an immediately usable manner as it is withdrawn from the holder.

US Patent:

60927755, Jul 25, 2000

Filed:

Sep 8, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/925127

Inventors:

David Gallant - Portland ME

International Classification:

A47K 108

US Classification:

2483112

Abstract:

A beverage cup holder can be adjustably positioned alongside a front seat of an automotive vehicle, to hold a beverage container in an accessible position near a person seated on the front seat. The beverage cup holder comprises a cup-gripper mechanism for stabilizing various size cups in the holder.

US Patent:

20190336637, Nov 7, 2019

Filed:

May 1, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/401043

Inventors:

- Portland ME, US
Randy M. Oliver - Limerick ME, US
David Gallant - Newfield ME, US

Assignee:

NOVIA PRODUCTS, LLC - Portland ME

International Classification:

A61L 9/12

Abstract:

A scent absorber/dispenser is disclosed. The scent dispenser/absorber has a housing having a base and a cover that cooperate to form an interior chamber of the housing. The dispenser can take the form of an individual dispenser/absorber housing, or a dual dispenser absorber made of two housings are arranged in piggyback (i.e., back-to-back) fashion. The interior chamber of each scent dispenser/absorber is configured to receive scent means adapted to perform either a scent-absorbing function or a scent-emitting function. To use the scent dispenser/absorber, the cover of one or more housings can be moved away from its respective base to expose diffusion ports in a sidewall of the base, thereby permitting desirable scents to flow from the corresponding scent means of the one or more housings to the surrounding environment, or undesirable odors in the surrounding environment to flow into the aforesaid scent means.

US Patent:

20190125916, May 2, 2019

Filed:

Nov 1, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/178554

Inventors:

William Webster - Portland ME, US
Randy M. Oliver - Limerick ME, US
David Gallant - Newfield ME, US

International Classification:

A61L 9/12

Abstract:

A scent dispenser/absorber includes a pair of cylindrical housing members arranged coaxially about a common longitudinal axis such that the inner housing member is rotatably received in an interior chamber of the outer housing member. Each housing member has a peripheral sidewall provided with a set of radially extending apertures. A scent cartridge is removably disposed within an interior chamber of the inner housing member to absorb undesirable odors, or to emit desirable scents. By manually controlling the relative rotational positions of the housing members, a user can align or misalign the two sets of apertures, thereby enabling or disabling the transfer of scents or odors between the scent cartridge and the surrounding environment.