Patents by Inventor Douglas Hall

Douglas Hall 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).

  • Publication number: 20050067167
    Abstract: Radial penetrator assembly 10 conducts fluid through the passageway in the wall to a wellhead housing 18 and into a port in a tubular hanger 14 positioned within a central bore 19 in the wellhead housing. The flexible tube 22 extends between the passageway in the wellhead housing and the port in the inner member, while sleeve-shaped adapter 30 extends radially from the wellhead housing and has an adapter bore sealed to a radial passageway in the wellhead housing. A radial outer seal 64 seals between the radial outer portion of the adapter 30 and a radially outer portion of the flexible tube 22. The flexibility of the tube permits an inner portion axis with the tube to be offset or slanted with respect to an outer portion axis of the tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Inventors: Douglas Hall, David Herd, Richard Buckenham
  • Patent number: 6821231
    Abstract: A body stretching apparatus for stretching and strengthening muscles in the legs of the user. The body stretching apparatus includes elongate leg support members each having first and second ends and also having top and side walls; and also includes foot support assemblies being attached to the first ends of the elongate leg support members; and further includes handhold members being adjustably fastened to the elongate leg support members; and also includes leg extension assemblies being adjustably fastened to the elongate leg support members and being hingedly attached to one another; and further includes knee support assemblies being fastened to the elongate leg support members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Inventor: Douglas A. Hall
  • Patent number: 6317037
    Abstract: An instrument panel having easy-to-read instruments is disclosed and which in certain embodiments allows for more efficient use of space behind the instrument panel by providing a partially reflective screen in the instrument panel and mounting certain instruments or instrument elements in the brow of the dashboard over and in front of the screen so that images of the instruments or elements in the brow are reflected off the screen. Other instruments or instrument elements may be located behind the screen, and from a viewing location, the instruments or elements combine into an integral display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Atoma International Corp.
    Inventors: Craig A. Ayres, Douglas Hall
  • Patent number: 6141881
    Abstract: An compass having an electronic magnetic field sensor and an analog directional display is disclosed wherein a signal from the field sensor proportional to one component of the earth's magnetic field is alternated in polarity and integrated to produce a triangular waveform the frequency of which is proportional to the strength of that field component and wherein a triangular waveform having a frequency proportional to the second component of the earth's magnetic field is produced in the same manner. These values are used by a microcontroller to control an air-core gauge such that a disk with reference markings attached to the gauge remains positioned with one of the reference markings facing either magnetic or true north. A resistor ladder network is also connected in parallel to the inputs of the integrators and controlled by the microprocessor through a shift register in order keep the integrators out of saturation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Invotronics Manufacturing
    Inventors: Craig A. Ayres, John A. Ayres, Douglas Hall
  • Patent number: 5999912
    Abstract: Dynamic advertising scheduling, display, and tracking for the world wide web. The invention includes at least one template web page that has conventional HTML codes defining the format and content of the web page. Special "ad tags" are used to indicate the characteristics of an ad that can be displayed on a web page at the position of the ad tag. A request to view a page is sent to a server-resident parser. The parser accesses the template for the requested page, parses the conventional HTML codes, and provides such codes to the user. In addition, the parser "expands" each ad tag to standard HTML code that defines the characteristics of an ad. During expansion of ad tags, the parser determines from each ad tag the type of ad that can be inserted at the page position of the ad tag; a bin identifier defining which ads can be associated with the ad tag; a page identifier of the page associated with the ad tag; and various optional flags and codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Inventors: Dennis Wodarz, Donald L. Fairall, Douglas Hall
  • Patent number: 5056950
    Abstract: A connection for establishing a joint between materials having different coefficient of thermal expansion. The connection has a first and second members made from materials that have different coefficient of thermal expansion. The first member has a cylindrical end with a bore therein and a rib located on the peripheral surface of the cylindrical end. The second member has a first diameter section located in the bore of said first member and a second diameter section. A sleeve which surrounds a portion of the cylindrical end of the first member and the second diameter section of the second member has a groove for receiving the rib on the first member. Bolts extend through the sleeve into the second diameter section to establish an external compressive force between the sleeve and the rib to hold the first member and the second member in a fixed relationship and form a unitary structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Allied-Signal Inc
    Inventors: Richard G. Rateick, Jr., Douglas A. Hall