Biolase Technology, Inc.

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Richard S Becker

Martin W Harrison

Tom Gill

A fiber detector apparatus includes a hub having one or more electrical contacts. The hub is configured to be placed against a connector, which is disposed on an electromagnetic energy source, such that electrical continuity is established between the electrical contacts of the hub and electrical contacts on a connector plate of the electromagnetic energy source. The number and positions of the electrical contacts correlate with the presence and characteristics of one or more fibers extending through the hub toward the electromagnetic energy source. A data storage microcircuit may also be provided within the hub to store identification information about the fibers being used. Knowing the physical characteristics of the fibers being used in a particular procedure can permit a user of the apparatus to improve the effectiveness of a procedure using the electromagnetic energy.

Fiber detector apparatus and related methods

A gun lock utilizes an internal combination wheel which is advanced by the pressing of combination buttons which urge a combination wheel toward an unlock position. The unlocking of the gun lock enables a spring loaded rachet to be springingly urged quickly out of engagement with a main housing of the gun lock to enable the gun to be readily fired. The combination is set by the orientation and radial positioning of a series of angled blocks supported by the combination wheel. The combination setting for each advanced position of the wheel is based upon the combination wheel's position resulting from the prior movement in executing the previous combination number.

Secure, quick release safety gun lock

The tag circuit system uses resonant circuit technology in conjunction with an insulative substrate and conductive ink or metal conductor to permit the tag to be sewn into the clothing, protecting the circuit elements, yet providing a trace on a portion of the tag which can be clipped from the main portion of the tag to change the operation of the tag. The tag can be configured to resonate at a first frequency outside the frequency of detection, be clipped to resonate at the frequency of detection, and there after subjected to an over current condition to cause the circuit to fail to an open circuit condition to thence be disabled; or it may initially resonate at the detection frequency and then be clipped to an open circuit condition to thence be disabled. The circuit components may be formed of conductive ink or stamped from metal sheet enabling the tag to be inexpensive and to make the circuit components less prominent, particularly where the color of ink used matches the color of the dielectric substrate. These tags are inexpensive and tamper proof and may be incorporated into the body of an article to be protected. The tags do not need to be purchased, attached, inventoried, controlled or handled by the retailer and thus reduce selling expense.

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Anaheim, CA, United States of America

Richard S Becker