Inventions

I am proud of the intelligence and creativity of my family. Here are some of the inventions created by my ancestors and family members.

Abraham Gudmundsen - Goldsmith
Beet Cleaner
Automatic Coupler for Railroad Cars

Austin Gudmundsen - Mechanical Engineer
Beet Cleaner (co-invented with Abraham)
Sorting Device for Laundry
Water Cooling and Conditioning Apparatus
Paste Ejector
Unit Air Conditioner
Engine Air Cooler
Water Softener
Rivet
Device for Furnaces
Metallurgy of Iron
Drinking Water Dispenser
Chain Saw Improvements
Lawn Mower Improvements
Inertia Actuated Safety Brake
Tree Girder
Fuel-air injection system for engines
Window Regulator
Pumping Device
Austin Triangle - measurement device
Piston for rotary engines
Torpedo Defeater
Many more internal combustion engine improvements

After he retired he invented:
A Golf Ball Retriever on the end of the club so you could pluck your ball from the hole

Richard Austin Gudmundsen - Physicist
Method of Making Semi-conductor Devices

Detection system for coherent light beams

Auxiliary emitter transistor

Heat dissipating semiconductor device

Process for making fused junction semiconductor devices

Fused junction silicon semiconductor device

Junction transistor having an improved current gain at high emitter currents

High Power Dissipation Laser Structure

Selectively Tunable Gaseous Laser

Semiconductor translating devices

Source for vapor deposition

Fused junction semiconductor devices and method of making same

Semiconductor transistor device

CCD Driven integrated optical modulator array

Conductor-Insulator-Junction Optical Memory Device

Bleachable Reflectance Output Coupler

Digital-to-analog optical recorder

Solid State Integrating, Image Motion Compensating Imager

After He retired he invented:

Parked Car Internal Temperature Regulator
Internal Water Jet Boat Propulsion System


Lee Gudmundsen - Computer Programmer

Apparatus and method of providing a dual mode card and reader (Credit Card Technology)

Alex Richardson - Computer Programmer (My son, yes I'm proud of him!)

Paper co-authored by Alex when he worked at INEEL

A Structured Approach to the use of near-surface geophysics in long-term monitoring (This experimentation had to do with detecting underground pollution using an array of electrical field measuring devices.)