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Consultant Lawrence Kamm, Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, Expert Witness

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As a consultant and expert witness I analyze personal injury accidents ("accident reconstruction") for causes and responsibilities.

CV Summary

I serve as an expert witness in cases involving electrical injuries or industrial accidents, analyzing their causes and responsibilities, including product liability, and analyzing intellectual property disputes involving patents. I provide analyses, reports, depositions, and court testimony. So far I have successfuly refuted every adversary expert. My testimony has won million dollar cases.

I am a consultant and expert witness applying mechanical, electrical, and electro-mechanical engineering to lawsuits for

Electrical Accidents and Electrical Injuries

(Attorneys: please see "Electrical Accidents: A Lawyer's Tutorial.")

(www.ljkamm.com/eaxdts.htm)

Mechanical Accidents and Injuries

Product Liability

Patents (Infringement, validity)

I work for both plaintiffs and defendants. "I calls 'em as I sees 'em." My testimony has won million dollar cases.

There is no charge for an introductory discussion of your case; telephone me, Lawrence Kamm, at 619-224-3494.

For a list of my expert witness cases and technical papers Click here. (www.ljkamm.com/forensic.htm)

My Formal Education

As a design engineer I have invented and designed mechanical and electro-mechanical devices of great diversity. These included 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 for semi-conductors and other products, transducers, switchgear, engine components, and the Decimal Keeper slide rule (now in the Smithsonian and Oxford Science Museums.) As a consultant I have created new products and product improvements for many clients (See list, below.).

Medical Engineering

I hold 38 issued patents.

As an entrepreneur I created and managed Numerical Control Corporation, Devonics Inc., Typagraph Corporation, and Mobot Corporation.

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BOOKS, PAPERS, LECTURES, ARTICLES

Seven books, 28 technical papers, many essays and tutorials published on the Internet, and much trade literature for my companies. A monthly column in Electronic Design magazine from February 2000 to June 2001. Lectures at three universities and several companies. These writings include:

Books:

Journal articles and columns:

Lectures:

  • Three day courses on successful engineering, University of Wisconsin, Wayne State, and UCSD

  • Seminar on Design Theory, Stanford University

  • "Energy," UCSD

  • "Man-In-Space," UCSD

  • "The Challenger Disaster," UCSD

  • "Successful Engineering," Milwaukee School of Engineering (Designated "Distinguished Lecturer")

    Professional Papers:

    Articles As Web Sites

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    • Lawrence Kamm
    • 1515 Chatsworth Blvd.
    • San Diego CA 92107

    • 619-224-3494 Phone

    • ljkamm@ljkamm.com E-mail

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    PROFESSIONAL FIELDS

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    DEGREES & LICENSES

    • B.S. in E.E. Columbia University

    • M.E.E. Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn

    • Patent law course, Columbia University

    • Professional Engineer Licenses: New York, Maryland, California (Cerificate E 5897)

    • Registered Patent Agent, U.S. Patent Office (Not renewed)

    • Certified Manufacturing Engineer, SME

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    MEMBERSHIPS

    • National Academy of Forensic Engineers

    • San Diego Forensic Consultants Association

    • National Society Of Professional Engineers

    • Sigma Xi

    • Mensa

    • Institute Of Electrical And Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

    • American Society Of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

    • National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

    • American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)

    • Formerly, when I was working in those fields:

      • Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)

      • Robot Institute

      • American Rocket Society (Now AIAA)

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    CV SUMMARY

    Expert witness. For a list of cases, Click here.

    (www.ljkamm.com/forensic.htm)

    Electro-mechanical, pneumatic, medical, and hydraulic device design, including:

    transducers, relays, switches, connectors, electronic packaging systems, oceanographic instruments, medical devices, high power reciprocating electric motor, high frequency electro-hydraulic servo-valve, components for heavy trucks, devices for vibration control, special tools, hysteresis clutch and brake, and Cartesian robots, including active and passive homing guidance and adaptive tooling. Critique, debugging, and failure analysis of existing designs.

    Computer peripherals, including:

    tape transports, disc memory, hard copy text and graphics terminal, airlines reservation terminal, card punch, tape readers, interconnection system for large analog computers, data displays, keyboards, memory devices, analog computer function generators.

    Manufacturing automation, including:

    robots and other machinery for automatic assembly, testing, sorting, fabrication, and material handling; numerical control systems; special tooling; automatic storage and retrieval systems.

    Special machines, including:

    mail sorter, pipeline internal test vehicle, heart & lung machine, remotely controlled oceanographic vehicle, automatic manipulator for artillery shells in a gamma ray inspection system, experimental variable pitch propeller.

    Development of minimum constraint design technology and presentation in the book "Designing Cost Efficient Mechanisms."

    Space vehicles and devices, including:

    A winning satellite proposal, satellite designs, satellite attitude control systems, a manned space vehicle simulator, preliminary design and a working model of a moon surface vehicle with life detection experiments.

    Teaching, including

    a course for government engineers in a new equipment I helped design, an extension course in engineering practice (given in three universities and culminating in the book "Successful Engineering," (republished as "Real-World Engineering,") much teaching inside engineering departments, and technical tutorials to attorneys and juries in some of my cases.

    Marketing and selling much of the above.

    Entrepreneuring And Managing Four Companies:

    Management Consulting

    (usually as an outgrowth of engineering consulting.)

    Much of the above work was done as a consultant.

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    Detailed History of Employment, Including Lists Of Projects

    Outline, 1941 To The Present:

    Details, By Time Periods

    March 1985 - Present

    Self employed as an expert witness in industrial accidents, product liability, electrical injuries and mechanical injuries, and patent infringement. Please see my expert witness cases on the attached list. Cases

    Other engineering and invention projects:

    OTHER CONSULTING ASSIGNMENTS:

    In person, telephone, and E-mail consulting, in a wide variety of fields. Some pro bono consulting to students and inventors. See http://www.ljkamm.com/engineer.htm. The assignments included:

    August 1973 - March 1985

    MOBOT Corp., San Diego, California

    Positions: Entrepreneur, CEO, Chief Engineer, Marketing Manager

    MOBOT was the first purely robotics company to go public (1980). I started it in 1973 as Modular Machine Co., a sole proprietorship funded only by myself. It was acquired by a larger firm in 1985, at which time I left the company.

    MOBOT developed and manufactured large, modular, Cartesian robots. It introduced Cartesian robots to the American market. Through early 1985 over 200 MOBOTS had been sold and annual sales had reached two million dollars per year.

    Under the motto, "Practical Robots For Your Real-World Factory," every sale was for a cost- justified application in a factory, none was for experimental use in a laboratory, which was the principal market for most companies in the robot industry.

    Our largest customer for many years was IBM. Our other customers included GE, Control Data, Kearney & Trecker, Bendix, and other Fortune 500 companies.

    Among the innovations introduced were Cartesian configuration, active and passive homing guidance, novel tooling, fully supported flexible cables, branched configurations, modular design, pneumatic transducers, shielded drive racks, very large sizes (up to 400 feet travel) and minimum constraint design in both robot and tooling.

    May 1973 - 1976

    Consulting Engineer

    (Concurrent with the startup of Modular Machine Co. In 1976 I suspended consulting work when the robot business justified my spending full time at it.)

    Assignments:

    October 1971 - April 1973

    Cutler Hammer, Inc. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Title: Development Consultant

    Duties:

    Development of an assembly automation program for the corporation. Consulting for other divisions.

    Projects:

    Consulting:

    Electromechanical design problems in the A.I.L. Microwave, Information Systems, and Newspaper Equipment Divisions and the Headquarters Engineering Dept. Consulting projects are listed in a previous section.

    April 1970 - October 1971

    Devonics, Inc. San Diego CA

    Position: President and proprietor

    I re-established Devonics and developed and sold drafting and engineering instruments, including my "Decimal Keeper" slide rule (now in the Smithsonian and in the Oxford University Science Museum.) I also performed consulting engineering projects, including:

    October 1968 - April 1970

    Typagraph Corporation, San Diego, California

    Position: Entrepreneur, President, and Chief Engineer

    Typagraph was a California Private Corporation. Our product was a terminal for time-share computers which typed hard copy of both text and graphics on the same paper. The company developed, manufactured, sold,and maintained the terminals and developed and provided software. When I left, sales had reached $3/4 million per year.

    October 1967 - October 1968

    Devonics, Inc., San Diego, California

    Position: President and Proprietor

    Devonics performed design, review, and improvement consulting, and development of proprietary products. The staff consisted of two full time senior engineers and four part time engineers and machinists.

    Projects:

    Proprietary products licensed:

    September 1961 - October 1967

    Numerical Control Corporation, San Diego, California

    Position: Entrepreneur, President, and Chief Engineer

    Numerical Control Corp. was a California Private Corporation until it was acquired in 1966 by a larger company, at which time I became Vice-President and Division Manager. In 1966 sales were $3/4 million. Staff included mechanical and electrical engineers and technicians.

    Products, proprietary and contract development:

    AUTOMATION EQUIPMENT:

    COMPUTER PERIPHERAL DEVICES:

    OTHER ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL DEVICES AND SYSTEMS:

    CONSULTING STUDIES:

    August 1956 - September 1961

    General Dynamics/Convair and Astronautics Divisions, San Diego California

    Title: Design Specialist

    Projects:

    May 1955 - August 1956

    Rabinow Engineering Company, Washington, DC

    Duties:

    Project engineering and general assistance to the owner (consulting with clients, personnel supervision, administration)

    Projects:

    January 1954 - May 1955

    Schatzki Engineering Company, Queens, New York

    Duties:

    Project engineering, personnel supervision, sales. The company was a consulting engineering organization.

    Projects:

    November 1950 - January 1954

    L. J. Kamm Co., New York, New York

    I operated under this name as a consulting engineer, connector manufacturer, and government contractor. Manufacturing was subcontracted.

    Projects:

    Consulting projects:

    April 1950 - November 1950

    Adams Laboratories (Later Executone, Inc.), New York, New York

    Project:

    Mechanical design of the Navy shipboard intercom set. This mechanical design was used by the Navy for many years.

    June 1945 - April 1950

    Teleregister Corporation, New York, New York

    Projects:

    June 1941 - June 1945

    Signal Engineering and Manufacturing Co., New York, New York

    Duties:

    Development engineering, sales engineering, engineering planning assistance, model shop supervision

    Projects:

    September 1941- June 1946 (evenings, while working)

    Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (M.E.E.)

    September 1937-June 1941

    Columbia University (B.S. in E.E.)

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    PATENTS

    * In use, sold, or licensed. Some patents have co-inventors, not named.

    CONSULTING CLIENTS (Engineering Design)

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    • Lawrence Kamm, Expert Witness
    • 1515 Chatsworth Blvd.
    • San Diego CA 92107

    • 619-224-3494 Phone
    • 619-224-3495 FAX

    ljkamm@ljkamm.com E-mail

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