Inventor · Boulder, CO, US

Roy B. Carpenter, Jr.

22Patents
11h-index
3Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 5, 1977 → Feb 26, 2010

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5808850A MOV surge arrester Electricity 42 Expired
US5519564A Parallel MOV surge arrester Electricity 41 Expired
US4389695A Equipment for protecting electronic equipment and personnel against inadvertent occurrence of extended or transient high voltages and method Electricity 39 Expired
US5936824A Encapsulated MOV surge arrester for with standing over 100,000 amps of surge per doc Electricity 37 Expired
USD402637S Telephone line surge protection assembly General 35 Expired
US5043527A Dissipation array systems for lightning protection Electricity 30 Expired
US4180698A System and equipment for atmospherics conditioning Electricity 25 Expired
US5073678A Spline ball terminal (SBT) Electricity 22 Expired
US5532897A High-voltage surge eliminator Electricity 20 Expired
US4679114A Method and equipment for lightning protection through electric potential neutralization Electricity 15 Expired
US5699818A Personal safety system Fixed Constructions 11 Expired
US7236341B1 Lightning termination preventer Electricity 10 Expired
US4591779A Regulated a.c. power supply Physics 10 Expired
US7078621B1 Grounding system for floating roofs in flammable storage tanks Electricity 8 Expired
US4861940A Automated moisturized grounding electrode system Electricity 8 Expired
US5932838A Ionization cluster tree having tiers of spline ball ionizers Electricity 8 Expired
US4467390A Lightning protector and filter Electricity 8 Expired
US6515220B1 Moisture collecting grounding electrode Electricity 7 Expired
US4743997A High-voltage systems surge eliminators for transmission lines and distribution station protection Electricity 6 Expired
US7462776B1 Low impedance grounding electrode with universal connections and rapid access cap Electricity 5 Active
USRE42331E1 Low impedance grounding electrode with universal connections and rapid access cap General 4 Active
USD419965S Data line protector assembly General 2 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.