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Clark L. Oster — 7 Patents

SDSquare D: 7 patents #47 of 756Top 7%
Cedar Rapids, IA: #242 of 1,358 inventorsTop 20%
Iowa: #2,264 of 15,303 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Clark L. Oster has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Square D. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in May 1997. Clark L. Oster ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Clark L. Oster in Cedar Rapids, IA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 1997Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1986.peak 21986: 2 patents19861989: 2 patents19891990: 1 patents19901992: 1 patents19921997: 1 patents1997

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5633483 Current limiting circuit breaker operating mechanism Donald R. Venzke, Eugene W. Wehr 1997-05-27
5111008 Effective arc stack/efficient contact carrier 1992-05-05
4975553 Line terminal and arc stack for a circuit breaker 1990-12-04 $9,426,000
4862131 Trip crossbar translation to prevent bimetal overstressing in a circuit breaker Paul Rustebakke, Daniel R. Schiefen 1989-08-29 $4,832,000
4849589 Contact assembly for a circuit breaker James W. Dickens 1989-07-18 $4,297,000
4618751 Arc extinguishing assembly Eugene W. Wehr, Terence J. Evans 1986-10-21 $6,754,000
4616199 Circuit breaker improvement to prevent setting of trip assembly 1986-10-07 $3,119,000