Peter V Visconti Deceased2208 Greene Ave, Flushing, NY 11385

4920637, May 1, 1990

Sep 28, 1989

7/413690

Carl Meyerhoefer - Dix Hills NY
Peter Visconti - Baldwin NY

Porta Systems Corp. - Syosset NY

H01R 4300

29764

A hand-held tool for the convenient attachment and disconnection of conductors to individual insulation displacement terminals on a telephone connector block. The device includes a first member for serially inserting the free end of a conductor into a resiliently expandable slot in the terminal, and severing the end of the wire which projects from the slot at a predetermined length. A second remotely positioned member provides for the engagement of the conductor for removal of an unwanted connection. The last-mentioned member also includes structure for the engagement of a protector module overlying the terminal for purposes of removal of the same to gain access to the conductor.

5008772, Apr 16, 1991

Sep 24, 1990

7/587072

Helmuth Neuwirth - Garden City NY
Carl Meyerhoefer - Dix Hills NY
William V. Carney - Oyster Bay NY
Peter Visconti - Baldwin NY

Porta Systems Corp. - Syosset NY

H02H 322

361119

An improved telephone subscriber circuit protector module providing plural surge voltage and excess current protection elements including so-called sneak current protection. The module includes a three-element gas tube which protects against voltage surges in the range of 200 to 300 volts, and includes fail safe protection relative to the gas tube should the gas tube become non-conductive over its intended range of protection. The fail safe protection is thermally operated under the influence of high current. Secondary air gap protection supplements the operation of the gas tube in the event of gas tube failure, and is operative to ground momentary voltage surges in the area of 1500 volts. Separate sneak current protection employing heat coils are operative in a range below one ampere flow, and an alternate form provides for the opening of the subscriber side of the line rather than the grounding of it. All of the protective elements communicate with a common ground plane forming part of a ground assembly.

4944003, Jul 24, 1990

Sep 28, 1989

7/413689

Carl Meyerhoefer - Dix Hills NY
Helmuth Neuwirth - Garden City NY
Peter Visconti - Baldwin NY

Porta Systems Corp. - Syosset NY

H02H 322

379412

An individual subscriber circuit protector module employing solid state circuitry for protection against momentary voltage surges, and having firmly sensitive heat coil assemblies for protecting against continuous excess current surges. Fail-safe protection is also provided which becomes operative in the event of failure of the heat coil protection.

4980909, Dec 25, 1990

Nov 2, 1989

7/430250

Carl Meyerhoefer - Dix Hills NY
Peter Visconti - Baldwin NY
Michael Fasano - Huntington NY

Porta systems Corp. - Syosset NY

H02H 906

379327

An individual telephone subscriber circuit module for use with laminar type connector blocks employing conventional three-element gas tubes of diameter greater than the thickness of an individual lamina. The module houses two gas tubes in side-by-side relation and straddles two adjacent laminae on the block to protect a pair of adjacent circuits.

2016017, Jun 16, 2016

Dec 11, 2014

14/567380

Benedetto Mignano - Wantagh NY, US
Peter J. Visconti - East Setauket NY, US
Attila Tetik - New York NY, US
Fred Katz - Hauppauge NY, US

LSI COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC. - Melville NY

H05B 33/08

This invention is suitable for directly driving from an alternating current (AC) line voltage source an array of LED lamps with a minimal amount of ancillary circuitry. Most of the required circuitry is situated within an integrated circuit, which includes a full wave rectifier, transient protection, a current control transistor, a feedback control loop, and overheating protection. The integrated circuit powers a transistor circuit structured as a constant current source to energize individual groupings of LEDs, as well as larger configurations of LEDs. The invention is useful for various lighting arrangements such as luminaires, bollards, strip lights, task lights, lighting tubes, and other types of applications that use a multitude of LEDs powered directly by AC line voltage without the requirement of a direct current power supply. This invention may further be used with an external phase switching dimmer apparatus.