"Imagine the day when a fifty story mid-rise
will change its glass "skin" façade as the day
progresses, taking into account the landlord's
operational requirements, tenant customization,
the temperature outdoors, and the amount of
sunlight hitting each window - Welcome to the
world of windows controlled by SCSC."
SCSC is pleased to announce the
availability of our
Roadrunner
Automotive Controller. The SCSC
Automotive Controller is a baseline
controller that is easily customized for
specific automotive manufacturers.
Roadrunner
provides the following characteristics,
Small footprint
circuit board controller
Interfaces to
standard automotive control systems
Manual control via dimmers, touch
panels, preset light switches and other
accessories
Automatic control via photocell light
sensor
Automatic mode for seasonal and time of
day settings
Battery backup for power fail operations
Configurable setting for SPD state when
vehicle is turned off
Support for solid state slide switches
Software-based extensible features
Customizable for a
wide-range of projects
SCSC Patent Entering International Stage
To further the
strength the company's international
property rights, its pending patent is
being converted into different languages
as it is being filed in several
country's Patent Offices. Filings in
Japan and Germany are currently under
way and other European countries are
soon to follow. The filings in the local
countries will be following the more
comprehensive set of claims recently
announced by the company (see next
article). The country specific patent
applications, in the native filing
language, will appear on the company's
web site as they are published.
Our pending electronics patent covers
the control of SPD materials as well as
arrays of SPD windows across a variety
of applications.
The patent was filed in the US Patent
Office and the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO). A copy of
the original international filing
published under the Patent Cooperation
Treaty (PCT) appears at the company's
web site. >
SPD Control Systems Corporation has
designed controllers for the automotive,
aerospace and architectural
marketplaces. Aligned with the worlds
largest robotic electronics assembly
house with facilities on five continents
and over 30 countries, the firm is
moving forward with its plans to become
the leader in the delivery of electronic
control products for all SPD
applications. The company is employing
the intellectual property described in
its patent applications in the design of
its networked controller products and is
also licensing second sources on its IP
for industries that require alternate
sources of products.
Stony Brook, New York - September 24,
2007 - Jay Moskowitz, Chairman and
Founder of SPD Control Systems
Corporation (SCSC) announced today the
further strengthening of the company's
Intellectual Property position. On March
8, 2007 the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, published a copy of the
companies pending patent under the name
"Intelligent SPD Control Apparatus
with Scaleable Networking Capabilities
For Window and Multimedia Applications".
It was published on March 15, 2007 by
the World Intellectual Property
Organization
as part of our international patent
filings.
This comprehensive, feature-rich patent
contains some 114 claims with regard to
the operations and methods employed in
the electronic control of SPD materials
in the automotive, aerospace and
architectural industries. Today, the
company extended that patent by filing
158 additional claims (272 total claims)
for additional control properties. The
updated document will be published by
the USPTO and will be available at the
SCSC web site when it is released.
SPD
Control Systems Corporation is
positioning itself as the leading vendor
of control electronics specifically for
the operation of any products that
include Suspended Particle Devices. The
company's management team has a long
history of designing, building, and
supporting very complex voice, data and
wireless products on a worldwide basis.
The company has aligned itself with
high-quality, high volume manufacturing
facilities in many countries, to meet
the upcoming worldwide demand for SPD
products.
"Our patent application is very broad
in nature directed to everything from
the manner of electronically operating
SPD Smart Glass in various ways to
multi-controller networks and
non-traditional applications"
The patent (pending) covers the use of
such controllers in the operation of SPD
windows in cars, airplanes, trains,
boats, and residential / commercial
properties as well as other
environments. With this patent
application, SCSC is further
establishing itself as the leader and
vendor of choice in the delivery of SPD
controllers for every SPD market.
John
Petraglia, CEO of SCSC, presented "SPD
Electronics Overview" at
the Research Frontiers Inc 2007 Annual
Meeting. You can read the paper
online by selecting the following link.
As a result of SCSC Winning 1st place of
50 national winners of this year's
Pitching Across America competition, a
front page magazine article was
published in the FundingPost
Quarterly Venture Guide. The feature
article is titled, SPD
Control Systems - Electronic Controlled
Smart Glass.
SPD
Control Systems Corporation Newsletter
