Patents by Inventor Alan Weeks
Alan Weeks has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11553825Abstract: A floor treatment device may include a body portion comprising one or more pumps, one or more spray outlets, and one or more reservoir receptacles configured to receive one or more reservoirs. The one or more pumps are operable to be activated and direct liquids to the spray outlets. The device may include swappable heads, each comprising a body connector configured to mate with a head connector of the body portion. In an embodiment, the head connector may include a sensor system and a controller communicatively connected to the sensor system. When one of swappable heads is connected to the body portion, the sensor system is configured to detect the identity of the swappable heads connected, and the controller is configured to selectively activate, based on the identity of the swappable heads, at least one of the one or more pumps.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLCInventors: Paul Grandstrand, Alan Weeks, Jason Boyd Thorne, Thomas David Reid Ford, Claudia Joann Richardson
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Publication number: 20190220940Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable media for visual schedule building are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Alan Weeks, Sean Weeks
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Publication number: 20190216286Abstract: A floor treatment device may include a body portion comprising one or more pumps, one or more spray outlets, and one or more reservoir receptacles configured to receive one or more reservoirs. The one or more pumps are operable to be activated and direct liquids to the spray outlets. The device may include swappable heads, each comprising a body connector configured to mate with a head connector of the body portion. In an embodiment, the head connector may include a sensor system and a controller communicatively connected to the sensor system. When one of swappable heads is connected to the body portion, the sensor system is configured to detect the identity of the swappable heads connected, and the controller is configured to selectively activate, based on the identity of the swappable heads, at least one of the one or more pumps.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Paul GRANDSTRAND, Alan WEEKS, Jason Boyd THORNE, Thomas David Reid FORD, Claudia Joann RICHARDSON
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Patent number: 9817010Abstract: A clinical diagnostic sample analyzer for analyzing a sample of a patient is disclosed. The analyzer includes a telescoping closed-tube sampling assembly with a sample probe concentrically housed within a piercing probe and a venting mechanism. The closed-tube sampling assembly is used for aspirating a sample from a sample tube for analysis by a clinical diagnostic sample analyzer.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Instrumentation Laboratory CompanyInventors: Matthew Blouin, Gregory Murphy, Diana Mackenzie, Alan Weeks, Daniel Kobrenski
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Publication number: 20170127903Abstract: A floor treatment device may include a body portion comprising one or more pumps, one or more spray outlets, and one or more reservoir receptacles configured to receive one or more reservoirs. The one or more pumps are operable to be activated and direct liquids to the spray outlets. The device may include swappable heads, each comprising a body connector configured to mate with a head connector of the body portion. In an embodiment, the head connector may include a sensor system and a controller communicatively connected to the sensor system. When one of swappable heads is connected to the body portion, the sensor system is configured to detect the identity of the swappable heads connected, and the controller is configured to selectively activate, based on the identity of the swappable heads, at least one of the one or more pumps.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: Paul Grandstrand, Alan Weeks, Jason Boyd Thorne, Thomas David Reid Ford, Claudia Joann Richardson
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Publication number: 20140330610Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable media for visual schedule building are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2013Publication date: November 6, 2014Inventors: Alan Weeks, Sean Weeks
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Publication number: 20140302610Abstract: A clinical diagnostic sample analyzer for analyzing a sample of a patient is disclosed. The analyzer includes a telescoping closed-tube sampling assembly with a sample probe concentrically housed within a piercing probe and a venting mechanism. The closed-tube sampling assembly is used for aspirating a sample from a sample tube for analysis by a clinical diagnostic sample analyzer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Inventors: Matthew Blouin, Gregory Murphy, Diana Mackenzie, Alan Weeks, Daniel Kobrenski
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Patent number: 8758702Abstract: A clinical diagnostic sample analyzer for analyzing a sample of a patient is disclosed. The analyzer includes a telescoping closed-tube sampling assembly with a sample probe concentrically housed within a piercing probe and a venting mechanism. The closed-tube sampling assembly is used for aspirating a sample from a sample tube for analysis by a clinical diagnostic sample analyzer.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2006Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Instrumentation Laboratory CompanyInventors: Matthew Blouin, Gregory Murphy, Diana Mackenzie, Alan Weeks, Daniel Kobrenski
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Publication number: 20140102583Abstract: An ice vending machine automatically provides ice to a customer based upon a request from the consumer for the ice. In some embodiments, the ice vending machine includes an ice bagging system. In some embodiments, the bagging system operates without the use of a counterweight. In some embodiments, the ice vending machine includes a view window to view the ice being bagged. In some embodiments, the ice vending machine is an ice and liquid water vending machine that automatically provides ice or liquid water to a customer based on a request from the customer for the ice or liquid water. In some embodiments, the ice and liquid water vending machine includes an ultraviolet light flushing assembly. In some embodiments, the ice and liquid water vending machine includes a chill tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: ICE HOUSE AMERICA, LLCInventors: Ernest Chip Venet, III, Steven Alan Weeks, Daniel LaDon Dunn, Troy Doom
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Publication number: 20140102582Abstract: An ice vending machine automatically provides ice to a customer based upon a request from the consumer for the ice. In some embodiments, the ice vending machine includes an ice bagging system. In some embodiments, the bagging system operates without the use of a counterweight. In some embodiments, the ice vending machine includes a view window to view the ice being bagged. In some embodiments, the ice vending machine is an ice and liquid water vending machine that automatically provides ice or liquid water to a customer based on a request from the customer for the ice or liquid water. In some embodiments, the ice and liquid water vending machine includes an ultraviolet light flushing assembly. In some embodiments, the ice and liquid water vending machine includes a chill tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: ICE HOUSE AMERICA, LLCInventors: Ernest Chip Venet, III, Steven Alan Weeks, Daniel LaDon Dunn, Troy Doom
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Publication number: 20120247066Abstract: An ice vending apparatus adapted to remove moisture from ice pieces during dispensing, which apparatus includes a ramp having a lower lip and being adapted to transfer a quantity of ice pieces from a holding vessel to a container; and a channel having an upwardly facing opening that is in operative association with the ramp and arranged so that moisture is adapted to flow around the lower lip of the ramp into the channel while excluding the ice pieces so as to separate at least a portion of the moisture from the ice pieces as the ice pieces are transferred to the container. Methods of providing ice pieces, particularly with reduction of associated moisture to a consumer, are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2011Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: Ice House America, LLCInventors: Daniel LaDon Dunn, Danny Leroy Dunn, Thomas Benjamin James, Jerry Paul James, John Willis Edwards, JR., Ernest Chip Venet, III, Steven Alan Weeks, Kevin Thomas Coppack
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Publication number: 20060263250Abstract: A clinical diagnostic sample analyzer for analyzing a sample of a patient is disclosed. The analyzer includes a telescoping closed-tube sampling assembly with a sample probe concentrically housed within a piercing probe and a venting mechanism. The closed-tube sampling assembly is used for aspirating a sample from a sample tube for analysis by a clinical diagnostic sample analyzer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2006Publication date: November 23, 2006Inventors: Matthew Blouin, Gregory Murphy, Diana Mackenzie, Alan Weeks, Daniel Kobrenski
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Publication number: 20050196284Abstract: A vacuum system comprises, as an integral assembly, a vacuum pump with drive motor, a purge valve, a roughing valve and an electronic control module. A cryogenic vacuum pump and a turbomolecular vacuum pump are disclosed. The control module has a programmed processor for controlling the motor and valves and is user programmable for establishing specific control sequences. The integral electronic control module is removable from the assembly and is connected to the other devices through a common connector assembly. In the turbomolecular pump system proper introduction of a purge gas through the purge valve is detected by detecting the current load on the pump drive or by detecting foreline pressure. To test the purge gas status, the purge valve may be closed and then opened as drive current or pressure is monitored. After power failure, the controller will continue normal drive of the turbomolecular pump so long as the speed of the pump has remained above a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2005Publication date: September 8, 2005Applicant: Helix Technology CorporationInventors: Peter Gaudet, Robert Lepofsky, Alan Weeks, Gerald Fortier, Stephen Matte, Martin Stein, Steven Rosner
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Patent number: 6464219Abstract: A vacuum roller includes a roller having transverse holes and surface holes, in which each of the surface holes intersects with at least one of the transverse holes. A cap mates to a portion of the roller where the transverse holes are exposed. The cap has a cavity that aligns to at least one of the transverse holes and remains substantially stationary during rotation of the roller. A vacuum device evacuates the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2000Date of Patent: October 15, 2002Assignee: ECRM, Inc.Inventors: Chang J. Yee, Alan Weeks
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Patent number: 5146124Abstract: A linear drive motor of a cryogenic refrigerator, where a reciprocating armature is coupled to a piston which alternately compresses and expands a gaseous fluid in a thermodynamic cycle. The piston has a clearance seal and is attached at one end to a flexible coupling to reduce cross-bearing loads exerted by the piston along the clearance seal. A displacer assembly of the cryogenic refrigerator employs a displacer piston that reciprocates along a clearance seal. The displacer piston is coupled to the displacer cylinder and/or the armature of a displacer drive motor by a flexible coupling that reduces radial forces exerted by the displacer piston on the clearance seal.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1991Date of Patent: September 8, 1992Assignee: Helix Technology CorporationInventors: Graham Higham, Niels Young, Alan Weeks, Steven A. Michaud, William Sand