Richard B Mckinstry

US Patent:

39529681, Apr 27, 1976

Filed:

Apr 10, 1974

Appl. No.:

5/459816

Inventors:

Richard Bruce McKinstry - Northboro MA
Joseph Charles Godbout - Acton MA

Assignee:

Data General Corporation - Southboro MA

International Classification:

G11B 1558
G11B 2312

US Classification:

242182

Abstract:

A digital magnetic tape transport incorporates a pair of adjacent vacuum storage columns each with oppositely disposed closed and open ends, a magnetic head assembly defining a generally linear tape threading path along one side of the vacuum storage columns and substantially parallel to the vacuum columns lengthwise direction, a pair of tape storage reels mounted at a second side of the vacuum storage columns positioned along a line substantially parallel with the linear tape threading path, whereby a rear closed end of the vacuum column adjacent to a storage reel is tapered at an angle substantially tangent to the adjacent storage reel, allowing for: elimination of an idler roller; an improved take-up path, and; for easier manual threading of the tape. A similar tapered configuration is provided at the rear end of the second vacuum column also eliminating the necessity of an idler roller. The arrangement decreases the total number of idler rollers necessary for the overall tape path to in turn decrease the frictional contact of the tape encountered.

US Patent:

20200344121, Oct 29, 2020

Filed:

Jun 5, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/893951

Inventors:

- Foxborough MA, US
Mark V. BERTOLINA - Quincy MA, US
Brooks Stevens READ - Concord MA, US
Bruce Henry THOMPSON - New Orleans LA, US
Richard Bruce MCKINSTRY - Northborough MA, US
Richard Allan CHANEY - Nashua NH, US

Assignee:

Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. - Foxborough MA

International Classification:

H04L 12/24
H04L 29/08
H04L 12/28
H04L 9/32
H04L 29/06

Abstract:

A wireless sensor preferably has a case which is intrinsically safe and has no exposed parts which can become not intrinsically safe due to the passage of time or through contact with chemicals typically encountered in a location where the wireless sensor is used. It preferably has no integral visual display other than lights, and it preferably includes at least one signal light. The sensor preferably includes a wireless transceiver for allowing remote read and remote control of the sensor. The sensor preferably includes piezoelectric pressure detectors for allowing a user to locally interact with the sensor by pressing on the case. Data can be automatically harvested from the sensors by a portable electronic data-retrieving device which is usually geographically remote from the sensors when the portable electronic data-retrieving device and the sensors are in range of a wireless system which allows them to communicate when they are geographically proximate each other.

Address:

340 Howard St, Northborough, MA 01532

Phone:

(508)3939772

VIN:

1J4RR5GT3BC526337

Make:

JEEP

Model:

GRAND CHEROKEE

Year:

2011