Dave I Schonbach

US Patent:

55906486, Jan 7, 1997

Filed:

Apr 7, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/224444

Inventors:

Andrew Mitchell - Wilmington DE
Joseph L. Lardear - Newark DE
Dave I. Schonbach - Hockessin DE

Assignee:

Tremont Medical - Aston PA

International Classification:

A61B 500
A61M 500

US Classification:

128630

Abstract:

A personal health care system utilizing a unitary command center having a computer for receiving, storing, processing, and transmitting information, and a plurality of interfacing ports. Each interfacing port is adapted to accept a plurality of different patient monitoring sensor modules, a plurality of different accessory modules, and a plurality of different therapy-providing modules. An accepted module is electrically interconnected to the data processor for sending and receiving information therebetween. The data processor includes means for providing operating instructions to the sensor modules, accessory modules, and therapy-providing modules. Each sensor module senses and provides information on a condition of a patient and each therapy-providing module provides a therapy to the patient. The data processor monitors the information provided by the sensor modules and controls provision of the therapy to the patient.

US Patent:

50362623, Jul 30, 1991

Filed:

Sep 13, 1989

Appl. No.:

7/406653

Inventors:

Dave I. Schonbach - Hockessin DE

Assignee:

E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company - Wilmington DE

International Classification:

H02K 4103

US Classification:

318 38

Abstract:

Methods for rapidly determining the discrete control information to independently propel a plurality of carriages with a synchronous linear motor divided into zones for control are useful for a steady state or a transition operation for a linear motor control system. The methods include the steps of representing the data describing the motion profile for each carriage in terms of memory address ticks versus linear motor primary teeth; determining the arrangement of data in a zone controller memory by performing a modulo operation on the profile motion data for each zone; developing the overall motion profiles for steady state operation by defining and combining individual segments of motion curves using a variety of predetermined continuous analog relationships stored in a computer; and determining the data for the many intermediate transition curves between steady states by proportionately distributing data points for each intermediate transition curved between steady state data points, the proportion determined by a weighting function.