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Omni Signal, Inc.

Cmc Technologies, Inc.

Claude A Hamrick

Werner K Schimmeyer

Edward M Buckley

Jerry O Hamrick

Robert J Husmann

David M Barton

K Michael Schmidt

Donald G Shu

David P Rhoades

Norbert J Stein

Christopher S Paul

Television power, antenna and data coupling apparatus including the substitution of a coaxial cable or metal clad fiberoptics cable for the standard grounded wire of a typical power cord, with the ground prong being configured to form the male component of a coaxial jack connector. Similarly, at least one of the ground plug receptacles of a dual or other multiple socket wall connector is modified to form a female coaxial connector for receiving the male component of the jack connector. The outer conductor of the coaxial jack connector and the outer conductor of the female receptacle connector are used to provide the standard ground connection for the plug and receptacle. The inner metal and/or glass fiber conductors form the principal signal paths. Since the female component of the receptacle is of the same internal diameter as the standard ground pin receptacle, the plugging of a standard three-prong plug into the modified receptacle provides power to the plug in the identical manner of the non-video/data receptacle.

Method and apparatus for simultaneously connecting data/signal

Miniature light-activated lamp control apparatus and the like, including a thin disk-shaped switching unit positionable within a light bulb socket and a thin light conductor having one end attached thereto, the light conductor being extendable through the gap between the electrically conductive inner wall of the socket and the electrically conductive outer surface of the bulb base disposed in the socket, and terminating at the opposite end in a lens for gathering ambient or other light. The switching unit has a first contact on one side for engagement with the socket center terminal, and a second contact on an opposing side for engagement with the center terminal of a light bulb. The unit includes a thin circuit board having control circuitry mounted thereon, such circuitry being positioned to occupy available space between the conical bulb base and the circuit board. Also mounted on the circuit board and in light communication with the light conductor is a photodetector electrically coupled to the control circuitry. The control circuitry receives operating power from the lamp through the first contact and is responsive to light communicated through the light conductor to turn the power to the second contact OFF and ON. The circuitry also has provision for gradually applying the power to the bulb (slow start) to extend bulb life, and has a hysteresis response to the incoming light intensity so as to eliminate turn-ON and turn-OFF flicker.

Miniature light-activated lamp control apparatus and the like

Shock absorbing sheet material including a sheet of resilient material having a plurality of surface deformations configured to form bubble-like chambers of a first relatively large volume communicatively interconnected through small passageways to similar surface deformations forming relatively smaller chambers. The larger chambers are intended to extend substantially farther out of the sheet mid-plane than are the smaller chambers, such that, in response to the application of a compressive force to the sheet, the applying member will first engage the larger bubbles causing them to resiliently deform and, in so doing, cause a displaced volume of fluid contained therein to flow through the passageways and enter the smaller chambers causing them to distend outwardly to be engaged by the compression force-applying member, at which time both large and small chambers resiliently resist the compressive forces.

Shock absorbing sheet material

A two piece tennis racket comprising a strung, oval shaped head and a detachable handle unit which includes a grip forming portion and a head attachment portion which is preferably collapsible into or about the grip portion to accommodate compact stowage. The head and attachment portion are adapted to include suitable fastening means for allowing speedy connection and disconnection of the handle unit to the head.

Tennis racket with separable head and handle assembly

An alarm actuating sensor device for use in a picket barrier intrusion detection and location system including a generally t-shaped rocker element for rigid attachment to the upper end of a picket and for disposition within the upper longitudinally extending rail providing support for the picket, an elongated rocker spring pivotally engaged at its mid-point by a pin passed through the end of the picket and including downwardly turned end legs for engaging the lower wall of the rail and for exerting a biasing force on the picket pending to resist downward translation thereof, and a length of dual conductor 'tape switch' the longitudinal axis of which extends generally along the longitudinal axis of the rail and passes between the rocker element and the rocker spring, whereby downward forces applied to the picket, or lateral forces tending to bend to the picket, cause the tape switch to be pinched between at least one extremity of the rocker spring and a portion of the rocker element thereby creating an electrical short at the pinch point which emulates the closing of a switch that can be sensed by suitable electrical or electronic apparatus coupled to the conductors forming the tape switch. A modified embodiment includes a lever arm pivotally attached to the rocker element and having one end connectable to a finial plate and a second end for pinching the tape switch in the event a finial is deflected.

Sensor device for picket barrier intrusion detection and location system

Electromechanically actuated bifolding closure apparatus including a vertical support post; a pair of generally C-shaped frame members disposed in facing relationship and pivotally joined together at their distal extremities such that in a closed disposition the two C-shaped members lie in a single plane and form a rectangularly configured super-structure, and in an opened disposition lie in different, spaced apart parallel planes rotated either 90 degrees relative to or parallel to the closed plane; hinge apparatus pivotally connecting one of said C-shaped units to the vertical post; a motive power source carried by one of the C-shaped members at a position proximate the support post; a gear drive mechanism associated with the hinging apparatus at the post and at the pivotal connection of at least one set of the distal ends of the C-shaped members; and a mechanical drive linkage coupling the motive power source to each of the gear mechanisms, such that when the motor caused the associated drive linkage to be rotated in one direction, the structure is rotated from a closed position to an open position, and when the motor causes the drive linkage to be rotated in the other direction, the structure is rotated from the open position to the closed position.

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Los Gatos, CA, United States of America

Claude A Hamrick