Richard H Levine

US Patent:

6634669, Oct 21, 2003

Filed:

Jul 2, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/897536

Inventors:

Richard W. Levine - Chappaqua NY

Assignee:

Vehicle Safety Systems, Inc. - Valhalla NY

International Classification:

B60N 206

US Classification:

280735, 296 681, 701 49, 74512

Abstract:

A vehicle safety device includes a seat mounted within a passenger compartment of the vehicle, in which the seat is movably connected to a vehicle frame by a seat position adjusting mechanism that allows the seat to move along an axis between a forward-most position and a rearward-most position. An air-bag is mounted within the passenger compartment in front of the forward-most position of the seat, with the forward-most position of the seat defined as a position of the seat in which a distance between a passenger seated in the seat and the air-bag is equal to a minimum safe clearance. In addition, an exemplary method of maintaining a minimum safe clearance between an air-bag mounted in a vehicle and a vehicle passenger includes the steps of preventing motion of a seat toward the air-bag beyond a forward-most position, in which, when in the forward-most position, a passenger seated in the seat is separated from the air-bag by a predetermined minimum safe clearance, and providing a position adjusting mechanism for at least one vehicle control pedal to allow a passenger seated in the seat to adjust a distance between the seat and the at least one pedal by moving the at least one pedal toward and away from the seat. An automatic seat positioning system, which takes into account both seat to air-bag distance and eye height, may be used to optimally and automatically position a passenger to maximize safety and comfort.

US Patent:

6820895, Nov 23, 2004

Filed:

Mar 14, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/098327

Inventors:

Richard Levine - Chappaqua NY

Assignee:

Vehicle Safety Systems, Inc. - Elmsford NY

International Classification:

B60N 206

US Classification:

280735, 296 681, 701 49, 74512

Abstract:

A vehicle air-bag apparatus for use with a first air-bag and a first seat mounted within a passenger compartment of a vehicle, the apparatus including a first seat position adjusting mechanism to movably connect the first seat with respect to the vehicle, and to allow the first seat to move relative to the first air-bag along a first axis between a forward-most position and a rearward-most position, in which the forward-most position is a position of the first seat in which a distance between a passenger seated in the first seat and the first air-bag is equal to a minimum clearance distance, displacement of the first seat away from the forward-most position increasing the distance between the first seat and the first air-bag, and the first air-bag is fixedly positioned with respect to one of a steering wheel assembly for a driver and a dashboard arrangement for a passenger other than the driver, in which the minimum clearance distance is the distance between a reference line of a seat-back of the first seat less a predetermined protrusion of an occupant. The predetermined protrusion of the occupant is one of a fixed distance, and an actual occupant protrusion. The actual occupant protrusion is determinable based on an extracted seat belt length.

US Patent:

6916040, Jul 12, 2005

Filed:

Aug 25, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/648550

Inventors:

Richard W. Levine - Chappaqua NY, US

Assignee:

Vehicle Safety Systems, Inc. - Elmsford NY

International Classification:

B60N002/06
B60R021/00
G05G001/14

US Classification:

280735, 296 681, 701 49, 74512

Abstract:

A vehicle safety device includes a seat mounted within a passenger compartment of the vehicle, in which the seat is movably connected to a vehicle frame by a seat position adjusting mechanism that allows the seat to move along an axis between a forward-most position and a rearward-most position. An air-bag is mounted within the passenger compartment in front of the forward-most position of the seat, with the forward-most position of the seat defined as a position of the seat in which a distance between a passenger seated in the seat and the air-bag is equal to a minimum safe clearance. In addition, an exemplary method of maintaining a minimum safe clearance between an air-bag mounted in a vehicle and a vehicle passenger includes the steps of preventing motion of a seat toward the air-bag beyond a forward-most position, in which, when in the forward-most position, a passenger seated in the seat is separated from the air-bag by a predetermined minimum safe clearance, and providing a position adjusting mechanism for at least one vehicle control pedal to allow a passenger seated in the seat to adjust a distance between the seat and the at least one pedal by moving the at least one pedal toward and away from the seat. An automatic seat positioning system, which takes into account both seat to air-bag distance and eye height and automatically, may be used to optimally and automatically position a passenger to maximize safety and comfort.

US Patent:

7364186, Apr 29, 2008

Filed:

Jul 19, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/490358

Inventors:

Richard W. Levine - Chappaqua NY, US

Assignee:

Vehicle Safety Systems, Inc. - Valhalla NY

International Classification:

B60R 21/16

US Classification:

280731, 74512, 74513, 180271, 180274, 180282, 280735, 296 681, 701 45, 701 49

Abstract:

A vehicle safety device includes a seat mounted within a passenger compartment of the vehicle, in which the seat is movably connected to a vehicle frame by a seat position adjusting mechanism that allows the seat to move along an axis between a forward-most position and a rearward-most position. An air-bag is mounted within the passenger compartment in front of the forward-most position of the seat, with the forward-most position of the seat defined as a position of the seat in which a distance between a passenger seated in the seat and the air-bag is equal to a minimum safe clearance. In addition, an exemplary method of maintaining a minimum safe clearance between an air-bag mounted in a vehicle and a vehicle passenger includes the steps of preventing motion of a seat toward the air-bag beyond a forward-most position, in which, when in the forward-most position, a passenger seated in the seat is separated from the air-bag by a predetermined minimum safe clearance, and providing a position adjusting mechanism for at least one vehicle control pedal to allow a passenger seated in the seat to adjust a distance between the seat and the at least one pedal by moving the at least one pedal toward and away from the seat. An automatic seat positioning system, which takes into account both seat to air-bag distance and eye height and automatically, may be used to optimally and automatically position a passenger to maximize safety and comfort.

US Patent:

7703801, Apr 27, 2010

Filed:

Mar 14, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/075818

Inventors:

Richard W. Levine - Chappaqua NY, US

Assignee:

Vehicle Safety Systems, Inc. - Valhalla NY

International Classification:

B60R 21/16

US Classification:

280731, 280735, 180271, 180274, 180282, 296 681, 701 45, 701 49, 74512, 74513, 74514

Abstract:

A vehicle safety device includes a seat mounted within a passenger compartment of a vehicle and a seat position adjusting mechanism that allows the seat to move along an axis between a forward-most position and a rearward-most position. An air-bag is mounted within the passenger compartment in front of the forward-most position. In the forward-most position a distance between a passenger seated in the seat and the air-bag is equal to a minimum safe clearance. A method of maintaining a minimum safe clearance between an air-bag mounted in a vehicle and a vehicle passenger includes preventing motion of a seat toward the air-bag beyond a forward-most position, and providing a position adjusting mechanism for at least one vehicle control pedal to allow a passenger to adjust a distance between the seat and the at least one pedal seat positioning system may be used to position a passenger.

US Patent:

20030151245, Aug 14, 2003

Filed:

Dec 31, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/335178

Inventors:

Richard Levine - New York NY, US
Barbara Stark - Forest Hills NY, US
Cindy Pakula - New York NY, US

International Classification:

G09F001/00

US Classification:

283/056000

Abstract:

An advertising apparatus and method utilizing a sheet of pre-cut removable and repositionable page marking stickers insertable into a magazine or other publication. The individual page markers can selectively include advertisements printed on the bottom surfaces of the markers, which include adhesive, as well as on the sheet surfaces underlying the page markers. Advertisements printed on the underside of a page marker (including under the adhesive) and on the associated portion of underlying sheet may directly or indirectly relate to or correspond to one another, and are exposed when the marker is peeled from the underlying sheet to mark a page of interest in the magazine for later reference. The advertisement on the marker is highly visible when the marker is used to mark a page. The advertisement on the exposed underlying sheet is visible whenever that page is open.

US Patent:

20050218633, Oct 6, 2005

Filed:

May 10, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/126854

Inventors:

Richard Levine - Chappaqua NY, US

International Classification:

B60R021/22

US Classification:

280730100

Abstract:

A vehicle safety device includes a seat mounted within a passenger compartment of the vehicle, in which the seat is movably connected to a vehicle frame by a seat position adjusting mechanism that allows the seat to move along an axis between a forward-most position and a rearward-most position. An air-bag is mounted within the passenger compartment in front of the forward-most position of the seat, with the forward-most position of the seat defined as a position of the seat in which a distance between a passenger seated in the seat and the air-bag is equal to a minimum safe clearance. In addition, an exemplary method of maintaining a minimum safe clearance between an air-bag mounted in a vehicle and a vehicle passenger includes the steps of preventing motion of a seat toward the air-bag beyond a forward-most position, in which, when in the forward-most position, a passenger seated in the seat is separated from the air-bag by a predetermined minimum safe clearance, and providing a position adjusting mechanism for at least one vehicle control pedal to allow a passenger seated in the seat to adjust a distance between the seat and the at least one pedal by moving the at least one pedal toward and away from the seat. An automatic seat positioning system, which takes into account both seat to air-bag distance and eye height and automatically, may be used to optimally and automatically position a passenger to maximize safety and comfort.

US Patent:

45518106, Nov 5, 1985

Filed:

Sep 28, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/536648

Inventors:

Richard W. Levine - Dobbs Ferry NY

Assignee:

Construction Technology, Inc. - Elmsford NY

International Classification:

G06F 1546

US Classification:

364475

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for partially automatically designing a conduit network and automatically producing patterns for cutting out the sides of conduit sections from laminar material. The CAD-CAM system eliminates the detailing of fittings and other components of a heating and ventilating system, pattern type and dimensional data being fed directly, i. e. , without human intervention, from a memory in a CAD system to a CAM pattern generating and fabricating system. The patterns for the closed sides of the conduit network are developed from mathematical relationships specifying the geometry of basic pattern types. The patterns so developed are computed for optimum positioning with other developed patterns, most preferably with alignment of similarly shaped edges for sheet material optimization, and preferably with adjacent grouping of the patterns for each end product to facilitate location and assembly and, most preferably, in such a manner that each grouping can be severed from the sheet material with a single cut to facilitate use of sheet or coil stock shearing machinery.