Generators & Motors--Brakes & Clutches--Actuators--Switches & relays --Electrodes--Transducers & sensors--Motion control & guidance--Computer components--Recorders & printers--Sound--Manufacturing machines & tools--Robots & end effectors--Assembling & connecting--Military devices--Medical devices--Consumer products--Passive electrical components--Magnetic devices--Pneumatic devices--Controls--Automation--Expert Witness

I save money for my electro-mechanical engineering consulting clients by reducing total engineering and manufacturing costs and by creating better and more saleable electro-mechanical products. I have done so for the 50 clients listed below and, with phone, e-mail and fax consults, for many more.

I limit my electro-mechanical engineering consulting practice - and your fees - to diagnostic and conceptual problems in electro-mechanical and mechanical engineering. (I also have many years of hands-on practical design and de-bugging under my belt.) When asked, I help with difficult problems in detail design.

Usually I do brainstorming sessions in electro-mechanical engineering with one or more of your engineering staff either on-line (phone, e-mail, and fax), with large drawings by postal mail, or in visits.

Please look at my track record below and then either telephone me at 619-224-3494 or e-mail me at ljkamm@ljkamm.com.

There is no charge for an exploratory consulting discussion by phone or e-mail. You may then decide to have a full telephone or e-mail consultation. A fee is due only if you decide that I have helped you. Later you may choose to have me visit per the "Suggested Purchase Order Form" below. No charge to students; I like to help.

• Lawrence J. Kamm
• 1515 Chatsworth Blvd.
• San Diego CA 92107
• e-mail:ljkamm@ljkamm.com
• _phone: 619-224-3494
• ___fax: 619-224-3495

Among my designs have been:

ELECTRO-MECHANICAL DEVICES

• Relays
• Transducers
• Actuators
• Motors
• Switches
• Connectors
• Clutches & brakes
• Camera controls
• Packaging systems
• Valves

PNEUMATIC DEVICES

• Transducers
• Actuators
• Robot grippers

SPECIAL MACHINES

• Automatic test and sort machines for electronic components
• Industrial robots and end effectors
• U.S. Post Office mail sorter
• Surgical heart-lung machine
• Automatic assembly machines, consulting on design for automatic assembly
• Remotely controlled pipeline inspection crawler
• Manufacturing tooling

COMPUTER COMPONENTS

• Electro-mechanical terminal
• Combination printer/plotter
• Electro-mechanical memory
• Magnetic core memory
• Disk memory
• Virtual image generators

CONTROLS

• Numerical control systems
• Robot controls, including active and passive homing guidance
• Satellite attitude control device using gravity gradient
• Control circuits

Table of Contents

• Condensed Resume

• Detailed Resume

• Patents

• A Selection of Past Projects

• Past Clients

• Suggested Purchase Order Form

  My books:

  UNDERSTANDING ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, AN INTRODUCTION TO MECHATRONICS.

  REAL-WORLD ENGINEERING

  DESIGNING COST-EFFICIENT MECHANISMS

  I give seminars on "Minimum Constraint Design" as described in this book.

  ADVENTURES OF AN ENTREPRENEUR

  ELECTRO-MECHANICAL INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS

  THE ART OF ENGINEERING DESIGN

  Tutorial web sites:

  MOTORS

  TRANSDUCERS

  SWITCHES

  MINIMUM CONSTRAINT DESIGN

Condensed Resume

My qualifications include:

• B.S. in E.E. from Columbia.
• M.E.E. from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
• Professional Engineer licenses in New York, Maryland, and California.
• Registered Patent Agent.
• Certified Manufacturing Engineer (SME).
• Invention and design of mechanical and electro-mechanical devices of great diversity. These include robots, numerical controls, computer peripherals, space vehicles and components, simulators, a mail sorter memory, a heart-lung machine, automatic test-and-sort and other manufacturing equipment, transducers, switchgear, engine components, and the Decimal Keeper slide rule (now in the Smithsonian and in The Science Museum of Oxford University.)
• 38 issued patents (more pending.)
• 27 technical papers and much trade literature.
• Lectures on engineering practice at three universities.
• Author of SUCCESSFUL ENGINEERING, 1989, McGraw-Hill, reprinted as REAL-WORLD ENGINEERING, 1990, IEEE Press.
• Author of DESIGNING COST EFFICIENT MECHANISMS 1990, McGraw-Hill, reprinted 1993, Society of Automotive Engineers Press.
• Author of UNDERSTANDING ELECTRO-MECANICAL ENGINEERING, 1997, IEEE Press.
• Author of ADVENTURES OF AN ENTREPRENEUR.
• Member of Sigma Xi, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and, when I worked in those fields, of the American Rocket Society (now the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and the Robot Institute.
• Employment as an engineer in both small and large companies.
• Entrepreneur of Numerical Control Corp., Devonics, Inc., Typagraph Corp., MOBOT Corp., and L. J. Kamm Co.
• Lecturer on Minimum Constraint Design to corporate engineering departments.
• Engineering consulting to companies listed below.
• Independent inventor.

• Lawrence Kamm
• 1515 Chatsworth Blvd.
• San Diego CA 92107
• 619-224-3494 phone
• 619-224-3494 fax
• ljkamm@ljkamm.com e-mail

* means in use, sold, or licensed. A few patents have co-inventors, not named here.

• *2,543,694 Helicoid Switch for Signalling System, assigned to Teleregister Corp.
• *2,614,167 Static Electromagnetic Memory, assigned to Teleregister Corp.
• *2,725,440 Co-Axial Relay, assigned to F. A. Scherma Co.
• 2,731,611 Waterproof Electrical Connector
• *2,748,364 Electrical Connectors, licensed to Cinch Mfg. Co.
• *2,792,545 Digital Servomechanism, assigned to Sperry Products, Inc.
• *2,784,359 Digital Curve Generator, assigned to Sperry Products, Inc.
• *2,828,456 Servomechanism, assigned to Sperry Products, Inc.
• *2,840,771 Digital Positioning System, sold to Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool Co.
• *2,843,975 Incremental Feed Mechanism, assigned to Airborne Instrument Laboratory
• 2,881,404 Multiple Electrical Connector
• *2,893,630 Automatic Decimal Point Slide Rule, licensed to Pickett & Eckel, Inc.
• *2,901,089 Mechanical Coding and Sorting Device, assigned to Rabinow Engineering Co.
• *2,961,629 Electrical Connector For Flexible Cable, licensed to Cinch Manufacturing Co.
• *2,938,978 Acceleration Resistant Relay, assigned to Signal Engineering & Mfg. Co.
• *2,748,321 Electrical Assemblies, licensed to Cinch Manufacturing Co.
• *3,002,169 Electrical Interconnection System, assigned to General Dynamics/Convair
• *3,019,403 Low Torque Position Sensor, assigned to Norden Div. United Aircraft
• *3,136,220 Controlled High Energy Actuator, assigned to General Dynamics/Convair
• *3,168,263 Gravity Gradient Satellite Orientation Device, assigned to General Dynamics/Convair
• *3,609,666 Data Terminal System, assigned to Typagraph Corp.
• * D218,101 Data Terminal (Design Patent), assigned to Typagraph Corp.
• *3,615,136 Stroboscopic Viewing Device, licensed to Minear Corp.
• *3,425,132 Measuring And Sensing Device, assigned to General Electric Co.
• *3,215,235 Fluid Actuated Servo Clutch, assigned to Numerical Control Corp. and sub-licensed to others
• *3,297,924 Continuous Path Numerical Control System With Mechanical Interpolation, assigned to Numerical Control Corp.
• *3,347,457 Mechanical Interpolator, assigned to Numerical Control Corp.
• *3,609,666 Data Terminal System, assigned to Typagraph Corp.
• *3,986,612 Random Access Card Storage and Retrieval System, assigned to Cutler Hammer
• *3,998,316 Manufacturing Machine, assigned to Modular Machine Co.
• *4,049,500 Manufacturing Machine, assigned to Modular Machine Co.
• *4,119,161 Automatic Operating System For a Postage Meter, assigned to Orbitran Corp.
• *4,137,432 Limit Switch Assembly For Manufacturing Machine, assigned to Modular Machine Co.
• *4,152,581 System For Operating A Postage Metering Machine Keyboard (Abandoned), assigned to Orbitran Corp.
• *4,295,555 Limit Switch Assembly Manufacturing Machine, assigned to Modular Machine Co.
• *4,331,229 Manufacturing Machine, assigned to Modular Machine Co.
• *4,762,096 Engine Valve Control Mechanism, assigned to Eaton Corp.
• *4,749,063 Brake Clearance Sensing And Control System, assigned to Eaton Corp.
• *4,945,269 Reciprocating Electric Motor, assigned to SAIC
• Pending Magazine For Medical Scalpels,
• Pending Demining Machine For Anti-Personnel Mines,
• Pending Demining Machine For Anti-Vehicle Mines,

• Aquaria
• Baker Oil Tools
• Colby Instruments
• Cipher Data Products
• Cinch Manufacturing
• Copley Press
• Control Data
• Convair
• Cordis
• Courtesy International
• Cubic
• Cubic Industrial
• Cutler Hammer
• Cyclomatic
• DatagraphiX
• Digital Development
• Dioptrix
• Dove Candy
• Doric Scientific
• Eaton, R&D Laboratories
• Elta
• Esterline Electronics
• Gamma Scientific
• Gaumard Scientific
• General Atomic
• Gremlin Industries
• Hull Electronics
• Hydro-Products
• IMCO
• IRT
• J.T. Automation
• Livermore National Laboratory
• Lord Manufacturing
• Maxwell Laboratories
• Medical Laboratory Automation
• Minear
• Nikon
• Miscellaneous brief e-mail consults, no charge, not recorded.
• Norris Industries (Vernon Div.)
• OAO Corporation
• Orbitran
• Philco-Ford (Palo Alto Div.)
• Picker
• Pulsar Associates
• RAM
• Reagin & Braunstein, Attorneys
• Rohr Industries
• Science Applications International (SAIC)
• Solitron
• Sperry Products
• Students: Many telephone and e-mail consults, no charge, not recorded.
• Teledyne Electronics
• TELTECH: Very many telphone consults with their referred clients, not individually listed here.
• Transaction Technology
• U.S. Army
• U.S. Navy

After one or more telephone conversations, if you decide to retain me as a consultant, I suggest that you send me a purchase order worded as follows:

Mr. L. J. Kamm

1515 Chatsworth Blvd.

San Diego CA 92107-3724

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Consulting services at $125.00 per hour plus expenses at actual cost. Travel time at $60.00 per hour. -

The work shall be done under the direction of _______ ______. -

Total charges under this purchase order shall not exceed $XXXX.00 without further written authorization.

This order may be terminated at any time without cause.

In accepting this purchase order Kamm agrees to keep confidential both business and technical information designated confidential by the client, including information generated by Kamm for the client, other than information in the public domain not put there by Kamm.

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By_______________________ Title____________________ Date________________

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Accepted. _______________________ Date________________

Lawrence Kamm

"direction of _____ _____" assures that there will be no misunderstanding about the scope of the work.

"shall not exceed" assures your purchasing department that there is a limit to their commitment.

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