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Calculator Patents - Calculator Related (not calculators)


U.S. Patent No. Assignee File Date Issue Date Inventor1 Product Title Comments
3946210 Veeder Industries, Inc. March 21, 1975 March 23, 1976 Fleischer (not a calculator) Resettable electronic counter employing a calculator chip Uses National Semiconductor MM5736 calculator chip as event counter
3976867 RCA Corp. December 10, 1975 August 24, 1976 Campbell (not a calculator) Calculator timer with simple base-6 correction Uses National Semiconductor MM5736 calculator chip in timer
4000972 Hemotec, Inc. January 16, 1976 January 4, 1977 Braun (not a calculator) Measuring system for the pharmacological manipulation of the coagulation mechanism in blood and for the elapsed coagulation time Uses MOS Technology Inc. MPS2523-002 calculator chip
4025774 American Hospital Supply Corp. June 16, 1975 May 24, 1977 Johnson (not a calculator) Timing apparatus including electronic calculator circuits Uses National Semiconductor MM5736 calculator chip
4027146 Heath Co. March 23, 1976 May 31, 1977 Gilmore (not a calculator) High speed accurate low frequency counter Uses Texas Instruments TMS0116 calculator chip
4031373 (none) June 1, 1976 June 21, 1977 Beckwith - Velocity computing chronograph Digital chronograph uses Cal-Tex CT5001 chip
4033188 Rischer & Porter Co. May 30, 1975 July 5, 1977 Herzl (not a calculator) Linear vortex-type flowmeter Uses non-specific standard calculator chip
4039805 The Measuregraph Co. March 27, 1975 August 2, 1977 Newell (not a calculator) Apparatus for calculating the price of measured lengths of material Uses Texas Instruments TMS0117 calculator chip
4050295 (none) September 12, 1975 September 27, 1977 Harvey - Digital measuring system for engine fuel performance Fuel consumption measurement device utilizes calculator chip
4068307 David Floyd May 6, 1976 January 10, 1978 Floyd (not a calculator) Mile post location display system Uses Texas Instruments TMS1802 calculator chip
4079237 Unit Process Assemblies, Inc. November 12, 1975 March 14, 1978 Schlesinger (not a calculator) Card controlled beta backscatter thickness measuring instrument Uses General Instruments C-500 calculator chip
4092599 (none) November 26, 1976 May 30, 1978 Yee (not a calculator) Annunciator communication system Uses National Semiconductor MM5736 calculator chip
4097143 Microfilm Service Corp December 13, 1976 June 27, 1978 Buchanan (not a calculator) Step-and-repeat camera Uses National Semiconductor MM5739 or MM5736 calculator chip
4103332 David Floyd June 20, 1977 June 25, 1978 Floyd (not a calculator) Mile post location display system Uses Texas Instruments TMS1802 calculator chip
4130754 Cortex Research Corp. June 16, 1977 December 19, 1978 Fosslien (not a calculator) Particle counting Uses National Semiconductor MM5736 calculator chip
4136955 Kern & Co. AG September 2, 1975 January 30, 1979 Aeschlimann (not a calculator) Apparatus for correcting theodolites Uses National Semiconductor MM5760 and MM5765 calculator chips
4140897 (none) October 25, 1977 February 20, 1979 Guerra (not a calculator) Electronic digital sequential counters Uses Texas Instruments TMS0972 for event counter
4168525 (none) November 29, 1977 September 18, 1979 Russell (not a calculator) Universal timer Uses National Semiconductor MM5736, MM5784, MM5781, or MM5791 calculator chips
4176397 (none) December 23, 1977 November 27, 1979 Crom (not a calculator) Electrical odometer Uses Mostek MK50321 or Rockwell A5901CA calculator chip
4179656 Burlington Industries, Inc. February 6, 1978 December 18, 1979 Wagner - Determination of average speed rotation of a cyclically loaded shaft during periods of up to two minutes duration Electronic tachometer using a CT5002 chip
4180726 (none) February 1, 1978 December 25, 1979 Decrescent - System for measuring characteristics of a object's motion Velocity measurement device uses calculator chip to, for example, predict distance of golf ball flight
4202211 NP Industries, Inc. January 12, 1979 May 13, 1980 Perry - Flow measuring system Uses National Semiconductor MM57109 chip
4217777 NP Industries, Inc. January 12, 1979 August 19, 1980 Newman - Flow measuring system Uses National Semiconductor MM57109 chip
4223182 (none) December 4, 1978 September 16, 1980 Peters - Telephone controlled order entry system Uses CT5001 to buffer and display/print numbers as part of a system that records telephone keypad number entries
4258809 Mangood Corp. July 31, 1974 March 31, 1981 Jones (not a calculator) Apparatus and methods for weighing railroad cars coupled together and in motion Uses Texas Instruments TMS0117 calculator chip
4283712 (none) December 22, 1976 August 11, 1981 Goody (not a calculator) Portable exercise totalizer Uses National Semiconductor MM5736 calculator chip
4314371 (none) August 17, 1979 February 2, 1982 Covington (not a calculator) Digital radio communications system with high noise immunity Uses National Semiconductor MM5777 calculator chip
4435712 RCA Corp. August 13, 1981 March 6, 1984 Kipp - FM-CW radar ranging system with signal drift compensation Can use TMS1017 or TMS1018
4447123 Ensco, Inc. July 29, 1981 May 8, 1984 Page (not a calculator) Fiber optic security system including a fiber optic seal and an electronic verifier Uses National Semiconductor MM5738 and MM5765 calculator chips
4700301 (none) March 6, 1986 October 13, 1987 Dyke (not a calculator) Method of automatically steering agricultural type vehicles Uses National Semiconductor MM57109 chip
4763291 Project Benjamin, Ltd. March 6, 1986 August 9, 1988 Schwaber (not a calculator) Remote display device for a microcomputer Uses National Semiconductor MM5777 calculator chip
4814996 Futures Technology, Ltd. June 10, 1982 March 21, 1989 Wang - Portable energy cost calculation Energy consumption meter utilizes calculator chip
RE33229 C.L.I.C. Electronics International, Inc. March 6, 1986 June 5, 1990 Schwaber (not a calculator) Remote display device for a microcomputer with optical communication Uses National Semiconductor MM5777 calculator chip

Notes:

1 Where multiple inventors, only first inventor's name is listed.


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