Brian W Foley

US Patent:

7122751, Oct 17, 2006

Filed:

Jun 29, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/879439

Inventors:

Ladd Anderson - Salt Lake City UT, US
Matthew L. Anderson - Salt Lake City UT, US
Tyson C. Anderson - Salt Lake City UT, US
Enoch J. Blatnick - Salt Lake City UT, US
Brian J. Foley - Salt Lake City UT, US

Assignee:

Cobalt Flux - Salt Lake City UT

International Classification:

H01H 35/36

US Classification:

200 85R, 200 5 A, 482 38, 463 4

Abstract:

A platform of the type holding a plurality of normally-open electric switches in position for activation of a selected individual switch by application of a force in a direction normal to a surface of the switch by a portion of a human body. An exemplary platform according to the invention forms a dance platform on which a user steps to activate switches in accordance with instructions viewed on a video display device. A joining structure may by used to hold two platforms in a side-by-side competition arrangement. A security vault may be affixed to structure associated with platform to resist theft of a commercially available game controller adapted to operate the video display and to receive switch input from a platform. Certain aspects of the invention include one or more, typically inert, practice platforms structured to represent the user interface surface of an activatable platform. A method for using a system of active and inert platforms is also disclosed.

US Patent:

20020054747, May 9, 2002

Filed:

Sep 24, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/960482

Inventors:

Brian Foley - Towson MD, US

Assignee:

Dorsal Networks, Inc.

International Classification:

G02B006/00

US Classification:

385/134000

Abstract:

An equipment rack includes a subrack mounted in a first direction and one or more circuit cards, each circuit card being mounted in the subrack in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction and in parallel with each other circuit card mounted in the subrack. Each circuit card includes one or more ports coupled to a respective optical fiber traveling in the second direction. The equipment rack also includes a fiber handling track mounted in the first direction. The fiber handling track includes one or more radius control bosses, the number of radius control bosses equaling or exceeding the number of circuit cards mounted in the subrack. Each of the radius control bosses is adapted to receive an optical fiber coupled to a respective one of the one or more circuit cards and divert the received optical fiber from the second direction to the first direction. The fiber handling track also includes a bell flare located at one end of the fiber handling track, the bell flare adapted to receive the optical fibers diverted by the one or more radius control bosses and divert the received optical fibers from the first direction to a third direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction.