LATINO INVENTORS

Saved thousands of Premature Babies' Lives/ Owner of Several Patents

A  native of Peru and an engineer, Claudio realized that premature babies in Latin America and in the Caribbean were dying at astonishing rates. He created a portable respirator and an incubator that would help save the lives of these babies for an early. This amazing invention regulates temperature and reduces the risk of contamination to BBC were for an earlyA medical device is provided for improving the intensive care of high-risk newborns. The device comprises a tempered air closed circuit enclosing a neonatal capsule and comprising a dome composed of two concentric layers defining an intra-dome space there between, through which tempered air can circulate, to maintain the temperature in the intermediate artificial environment created between the neonatal capsule and the tempered air closed circuit. A continuous ventilation circuit is provided comprising air and oxygen inlet lines and a mixture outlet line, to administer a continuous and regulated air flow of filtered, oxygenated, tempered and humidified air to the newborn child inside the neonatal capsule. A set of doors may be provided through the neonatal capsule and dome, to provide access inside the neonatal capsule.

 His family noted that he was a deeply religious and principled man and a highly regarded member of his secular and religious communities. They said  that he was well-liked and his counsel and opinion was sought after by all those who knew him as he was a problem solver. 

Antonio Eugenio Robinson, born May 1, 1912 in La Vega, Dominican Republic, died on Oct. 29 in Riverdale at the age of 102.      A self-made inventor, he holds multiple U.S. Patents for automotive and commercial products. An avid reader, especially of The New York Times, until his sight failed from the ravages of glaucoma, he also immensely enjoyed classical music.   Mr. Robinson was married to Carmen Ramona Mejia from San Jose de Ocoa, Dominican Republic for 72 years.   His family noted that he was a deeply religious and principled man and a highly regarded member of his secular and religious communities. They said  that he was well-liked and his counsel and opinion was sought after by all those who knew him as he was a problem solver.   Demonstrating unusual mechanical and automotive problem-solving capacity at an early age, Mr. Robinson was a national consultant throughout the Dominican Republic and the U.S., whether the topic was helping troubleshoot an ailing power plant, airplane engine or agricultural processing equipment.     One of his U.S. patents concerned the use of an energy conservation system for an electric vehicle more than 15 years before they were considered for the consumer market.  Mr. Robinson immigrated to New York City in 1950 and sponsored family members and those fleeing Trujillo-era oppression in  the 1950s and 60s, aiding them with temporary housing, finding them employment and helping them to become U.S. citizens.   He was acknowledged by various societies of inventors and received proclamations from the state Assembly.   He is survived by his wife of 72 years, Carmen Robinson, his daughter Eugenia Robinson, granddaughter Liza Robinson, grandson Michael Andre Robinson and sons Peter and Michael Robinson and daughter–in-law Elaine (born Bedard) Robinson. His son Carver died in 1984.    He is also survived by loving friends and family in New York, Connecticut and the Dominican Republic.   A kind, gentle man, he will be greatly missed by all those who had the opportunity to meet him.   

 Riverdale Press, Stories

Publication:

INTELLIGENT SELECTION AND PRESENTATION OF PEOPLE HIGHLIGHTS ON A COMPUTING DEVICE 

Publication number: 20210256080

Patents:

Air intake assembly for an internal combustion engine Patent number: 5662071

Vehicular exhaust pollution reducer Patent number: 5189878

Automatic oxygen generator Patent number: 5117783

Drive train energy Patent number: 5085088 

Supplementary composition for and a method of combustion-burning of gasoline,

 Patent number: 4362130

ochoa_new.jpg (10706 bytes) Note: This section contains transcriptions of newspaper articles that were donated to the Smithsonian Institution (see Source for more details). Many are unattributable and undated. Inventor & Revolutionary Victor Ochoa Victor Ochoa's Biographical Sketch . . .Ochoa was the inventor of the Ochoaplane, made by the International Airship Co. of Paterson, N.J. "His first plane was a glider with folding wings like a bird; the second with an engine was made in 1904," Steve said. Ochoa promoted aviation in general and predicted, "The airship of the future bound on a long journey will rise to the proper height ... And will fly around the earth or half or quarter the way around it, -- regardless of conditions in the atmosphere below."  He invented and sold the patents on the adjustable or clincher wrench, patented the electric brake for street cars which he sold to the American Brake Co. in 1907 in Seattle; invented a fountain pen and sold the patent to Waterman Co. in 1900 and patented a pen and pencil clip for holding them in the pocket. He sold that patent to the Americna Pen and Pencil Co. in 1907.  Ochoa, whose middle name was Leaton, was born in 1850 in Ojinaga, Mexico, of Spanish and Scotch ancestry. Ben Leaton was Ochoa's grandfather. He was a captain in the Federal Army and settled on the Ochoa's family property. He remodeled an old Spanish mission into a fort and when the government took it over, it was named Fort Leaton. It is located about three miles east of Presidio and five miles west of Presidio is the village of Ochoa Ville.  Ochoa's father was Juan Ochoa, who had a large lumber mill in Fort Davis and a large stand of timber in the mountains. He and 20 of his men were ambushed by the Apaches. Victor Ochoa and his brother, Estevan, were boys and were traveling with Juan when the ambush occurred.  At the time Mr. Ochoa sought to overthrow the rule of Mexico's chief executive, his family was possessed of considerable landed estate in Chihuahua. Much of this had been seized in the early nineties. Of great note were the activities of the regular soldiery uprising that was started by Mr. Ochoa. He picked a band of several hundred men about him and started a revolt that stirred the entire Republic. During one of his marches he was caught in the mountain fastnesses by Diaz's soldiers and hemmed in on all sides. He saw his men put up a gallant fight, but outnumbered, they fell one by one until Mr. Ochoa alone survived. Through a ruse he managed to obtain the uniform of one of the regular soldiers and while on the retreat was espied and shot at in the belief that he was a deserter. Then started a chase which led through the mountain fastnesses, through treacherous ravines and gullies. It was a long traverse over three hundred miles, but the plucky Ochoa, finally managed to obtain some aid and eluded his pursuers. He went to Texas where he remained in exile for a long time while President Diaz's men were hunting for him spurred on by the big reward.  The Mexican government offered $50,000 in gold as reward for Ochoa. He went to Fort Stockton to avoid bounty hunters but finally gave himself up to Fox, head of the Texas Rangers.  He was brought back to El Paso, tried and sent to the Federal prison in New York. However, once in New York, his friend Teddy Roosevelt worked for a reduced and finally, suspended sentence.  Many years later, he went into partnership with two men who offered to help him enlarge his gold mine production. Ochoa fell ill and the two men took his gold and horses, leaving him to die at El tambora, Sinoloa, Mexico. After he recovered, he returned to El Paso.  "I think it was about 1936," Steve Ochoa said. "He was walking down the street with the chief of police, when he saw the men. They drew first, but Ochoa, who was unarmed, grabbed the chief's gun and shot both. The chief took him to the judge.  "The judge agreed Ochoa had cause to fire, but inasmuch as the men were from influential families, he was advised to go back to Mexico."  Ochoa had married Amanda Cole, granddaughter of Thomas Cole, the American painter, whose most famous painting is The Last of the Mohicans. Ochoa returned to Sinaloa, Mexico, after the 1936 shooting and it is believed he died there in 1945. Estevan Ochoa's son, Victor Ochoa, is the sheriff in Fort Hancock.     

He obtained authorization to make the first publicly announced color broadcast in Mexico, 

on February 8, 1963

Guillermo's was the first patent in the world for color TV. NASA used the mechanism as recently as 1979 to transmit images from Jupiter. González Camarena built by hand all the equipment used for Mexico’s and Latin America’s first television station, XE1-GC. He also championed tele-education for medical school, as well as the use of TVs for transmitting educational shows to Mexicans in remote, school-less locations. A similar program was used last year when millions of Mexican students switched to remote learning. While very few households have tech devices or internet connections, over 93% have a TV.