Patents by Inventor Gary Wood
Gary Wood 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: 8359342Abstract: The invention concerns a method for generating at least one index (10) over XML documents (30) in an XML database (40); the method comprising the steps of: a. executing at least one indexing function (20) defined in the XQuery language; each indexing function (20) accepting an XML document (30) as input and returning at least one computed result; and b. storing each of the at least one computed results from the at least one indexing function (20) as a key (11) of the corresponding index (10) and a reference to the input XML document (30) as a value (12) of the index (10).Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2008Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Software AGInventors: Thorsten Fiebig, Gary Woods, Gunther Rademacher
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Publication number: 20120314099Abstract: Compressive imaging apparatus employing multiple modulators in various optical schemes to generate the modulation patterns before the signal is recorded at a detector. The compressive imaging apparatus is equally valid when applying compressive imaging to structured light embodiments where the placement is shifted from the acquisition path between the subject and the detector into the illumination path between the source and the subject to be imaged.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2010Publication date: December 13, 2012Inventors: Kevin F Kelly, Richard G. Baraniuk, Gary Woods, Ting Sun, Matthew Turner
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Patent number: 8307700Abstract: A sensor for sensing the position of a reciprocating free piston in a free piston Stirling machine. The sensor has a disk mounted to an end face of the power piston coaxially with its cylinder and reciprocating with the piston The disk includes a rim around its outer perimeter formed of an electrically conductive material A coil is wound coaxially with the cylinder, spaced outwardly from the outer perimeter of the disk and mounted in fixed position relative to the pressure vessel, preferably on the exterior of the pressure vessel wall.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Sunpower, Inc.Inventors: Ezekiel S. Holliday, James Gary Wood
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Patent number: 8308713Abstract: A medical catheter assembly including a multi-piece connector. In one embodiment, the medical catheter assembly is a PEG implanting assembly comprising a tubular dilator and a silicone feeding tube having an internal bolster at its rear end. The assembly also comprises a multi-piece connector comprising an inner ring, a fitting and an outer ring. The inner ring has an outer diameter greater than the inner diameter of the feeding tube and is coaxially disposed within the feeding tube by a friction-fit. The fitting comprises a front portion, an intermediate portion and a rear portion, the intermediate portion including a shoulder having an outer diameter greater than the inner diameter of the feeding tube. The front portion of the fitting is inserted through the rear end of the dilator and is secured to the dilator by a plurality of barbs.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Changqing Li, Gary Wood, Herbert Alan Sundheimer, Laddvanh Bouphavichith, Patrice A. Weststrate, Laurence D. Brenner
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Publication number: 20120144821Abstract: A free piston Stirling machine including a thermal buffer tube extending from the machine's expansion space and surrounded by its heat rejector and its regenerator, a displacer cylinder extending from the thermal buffer tube to the compression space and surrounded by the heat rejecting heat exchanger, and a displacer that reciprocates within an excursion limit that extends into the regenerator by no more than 20% of the length of the regenerator during normal operation and preferably within excursion limits that are substantially the length of the heat rejector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2011Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: SUNPOWER, INC.Inventor: James Gary Wood
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Publication number: 20110308781Abstract: A conformable, thermally-conductive gel pack is provided having a thermal gel encapsulated by a compliant packaging material formed from a dielectric polymer. The gel pack is adapted for emplacement between opposed heat transfer surfaces in an electronic device. One heat transfer surface can be part of a heat-generating component of the device, while the other heat transfer surface can be part of a heat sink or a circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2009Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: PARKER HANNIFIN CORPORATIONInventors: Eoin O'Riordan, Philip Blazdell, Gary Wood, Michael H. Bunyan, Harish Rutti
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Publication number: 20110203360Abstract: A sensor for sensing the position of a reciprocating free piston in a free piston Stirling machine. The sensor has a disk mounted to an end face of the power piston coaxially with its cylinder and reciprocating with the piston The disk includes a rim around its outer perimeter formed of an electrically conductive material A coil is wound coaxially with the cylinder, spaced outwardly from the outer perimeter of the disk and mounted in fixed position relative to the pressure vessel, preferably on the exterior of the pressure vessel wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2010Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: SUNPOWER, INC.Inventors: Ezekiel S. Holliday, James Gary Wood
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Publication number: 20110101991Abstract: A light-emitting circuit includes a light-emitting transistor and a voltage supply in communication with the light-emitting transistor to bias the light-emitting transistor in a reasonably bright state. A reasonably bright state is a state in which light emission approaches the greatest for a given drain-source current in the light-emitting transistor. In one aspect, the light-emitting circuit is in communication with a device under test and configured so that the light-emitting transistor emits photons in a manner indicative of an operation of the device under test. The light-emitting circuit may be disposed in a first semiconductor layer, and the device under test may be disposed in a second semiconductor layer. Further, the first semiconductor layer may be included in a first die, and the second semiconductor layer may be included in a second die.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2010Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Martin L. Villafana, Michael DiBattista, Gary Woods
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Publication number: 20100299924Abstract: A regenerator having a plurality of involute foils disposed in an annular gap between an inner cylindrical tube and an outer cylindrical tube. The involute shape of the foils provides uniform spacing throughout the entire regenerator and substantial surface area for fluid contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: SUNPOWER, INC.Inventors: David M. Berchowitz, Neill Lane, Todd Cale, James Gary Wood
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Patent number: 7784184Abstract: A regenerator having a plurality of involute foils disposed in an annular gap between an inner cylindrical tube and an outer cylindrical tube. The involute shape of the foils provides uniform spacing throughout the entire regenerator and substantial surface area for fluid contact.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2005Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Sunpower, Inc.Inventors: David M. Berchowitz, Neill Lane, Todd Cale, James Gary Wood
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Patent number: 7744133Abstract: A clamping apparatus for allowing pre-close-out access to the head of a Stirling machine and facilitating subsequent close-out welding of the head. The head is axially separable into removable and fixed portions that engage each other. Each portion has an annular flange extending radially outwardly at its engaging end, and each flange has an annular groove. O-rings are seated in the grooves. A temporary sealing ring surrounds and engages the O-rings. Clamping rings seat against axially opposite sides of the abutting annular flanges. Fasteners draw the rings together, thereby drawing the fixed and removable portions of the head together and securing them against relative axial movement. For close-out of the machine, the clamping rings, temporary sealing ring, and O-rings are removed and the grooved annular flanges serve as weld reliefs for final hermetic close-out welding.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2007Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Sunpower, Inc.Inventors: James Gary Wood, Joseph P. Carroll
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Publication number: 20100131460Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for storing at least one non-XML document (10) in an XML database (1), the method comprising the steps of: a. transforming the at least one non-XML document (10) into at least one XML document (20) by one or more transformation functions, the at least one XML document (20) conforming to a schema comprising references to the one or more transformation functions; and b. storing the at least one XML document (20) in the XML database (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2009Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: SOFTWARE AGInventors: Julius Geppert, Michael Gesmann, Gary Woods
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Publication number: 20100095668Abstract: Multiple free-piston Stirling (FPS) machines are arranged in a group and connected for preventing or minimizing vibration. A first set of identical beta FPS machines are rigidly connected together, arranged in a mechanically co-directional orientation and configured to reciprocate in thermodynamically synchronous reciprocation with each other. The first set has axes of reciprocation intersecting a first point, which may be a point at infinity. The axes of the first FPS machines make the same angle with a central axis of motion and are equi-angularly spaced around the central axis. A second set of beta FPS machines are rigidly connected together and rigidly connected to the first set of machines. The second set of machines are arranged in a mechanically co-directional orientation that is the same as the mechanical orientation of the first set of beta FPS machines.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2009Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: Sunpower, Inc.Inventors: William T. Beale, James Gary Wood
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Publication number: 20100005108Abstract: The invention concerns a method for generating at least one index (10) over XML documents (30) in an XML database (40); the method comprising the steps of: a. executing at least one indexing function (20) defined in the XQuery language; each indexing function (20) accepting an XML document (30) as input and returning at least one computed result; and b. storing each of the at least one computed results from the at least one indexing function (20) as a key (11) of the corresponding index (10) and a reference to the input XML document (30) as a value (12) of the index (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2008Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: SOFTWARE AGInventors: Thorsten Fiebig, Gary Woods, Gunther Rademacher
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Publication number: 20090307932Abstract: A shoe with an outsole having at least one traction zone, the traction zone including a base surface in a first plane, a plurality of ground engaging members in a second plane and a plurality of intersecting grooves defined by a pair of opposing walls and a groove surface located in a third plane. The base surface includes a plurality of spaced apart base surface elements. The plurality of intersecting grooves are positioned adjacent the plurality of base surface segments and the ground engaging members. The first, second and third planes are positioned elevationally in spaced apart arrangement from one another. The ground engaging members project out beyond the first plane while the intersecting grooves are recessed from the first plane toward a shoe upper. Each of the ground engaging members includes side walls and an angled first surface for contacting the ground.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2009Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicant: BROWN SHOE COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Gary E. KIRBY, Daniel M. DOERER, Gary A. WOODS
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Patent number: 7616312Abstract: An apparatus and method for laser probing of a DUT at very high temporal resolution is disclosed. The system includes a CW laser source, a beam optics designed to point two orthogonally polarized beams at the same location on the DUT, optical detectors for detecting the reflected beams, collection electronics, and an oscilloscope. The beam optics defines a common-path polarization differential probing (PDP) optics. The common-path PDP optics divides the laser beam into two beams of orthogonal polarization. Due to the intrinsic asymmetry of a CMOS transistor, the interaction of the beams with the DUT result in different phase modulation in each beam. This difference can be investigated to study the response of the DUT to the stimulus signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2005Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: DCG Systems, Inc.Inventors: Steven Kasapi, Kenneth Wilsher, Gary Woods, William Lo, Radu Ispasoiu, Nagamani Nataraj, Nina Boiadjieva
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Patent number: 7507230Abstract: A medical catheter assembly including a multi-piece connector. In one embodiment, the medical catheter assembly is a PEG implanting assembly comprising a tubular dilator and a silicone feeding tube having an internal bolster at its rear end. The assembly also comprises a multi-piece connector comprising an inner ring, a fitting and an outer ring. The inner ring has an outer diameter greater than the inner diameter of the feeding tube and is coaxially disposed within the feeding tube by a friction-fit. The fitting comprises a front portion, an intermediate portion and a rear portion, the intermediate portion including a shoulder having an outer diameter greater than the inner diameter of the feeding tube. The front portion of the fitting is inserted through the rear end of the dilator and is secured to the dilator by a plurality of barbs.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2003Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Changqing Li, Gary Wood, Herbert Alan Sundheimer, Laddvanh Bouphavichith, Patrice A. Weststrate, Laurence D. Brenner
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Patent number: 7450245Abstract: A system for probing a DUT is provided, the system comprising a tunable or CW laser source, a modulator for modulating the output of the laser source, a beam optics designed to point a probing beam at a designated location on the DUT, optical detector for detecting the reflected beam, and collection and signal processing electronics. The system deciphers perturbations in the reflected beam by detecting beat frequency between operation frequency of the DUT and frequency of the modulation. In an alternative embodiment, the laser is CW and the modulation is applied to the optical detector.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2006Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: DCG Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gary Woods, Steven Kasapi, Kenneth Wilsher
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Publication number: 20080221517Abstract: A syringe configured with a limited maximum usable capacity. The syringe of the invention desirably has a retractable needle to prevent reuse. In the preferred embodiment, a dose-limiting structure includes a stop-ring member on the head of the plunger that abuts a constriction in the housing when the plunger is moved away from the needle to prevent the further rearward movement of the plunger. Preferably, the syringe of the invention is configured such that a user is tactilely signaled when the plunger has reached a position corresponding to a nominal fixed-dose. If the user attempts to force the stop-ring member beyond the constriction, the plunger seal is stripped off or removed from the plunger head and the syringe rendered inoperable. The features of the invention can also be applied to a nonretracting syringe.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2008Publication date: September 11, 2008Inventors: Thomas J. Shaw, Gary Wood, Mark Small
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Publication number: 20080203678Abstract: A clamping apparatus for allowing pre-close-out access to the head of a Stirling machine and facilitating subsequent close-out welding of the head. The head is axially separable into removable and fixed portions, each portion having an end that engages the other. Each portion has an annular flange extending radially outwardly at its engaging end, and each flange has an annular groove. O-rings are seated in the grooves. A temporary sealing ring surrounds and engages the O-rings. Clamping rings, having axially facing end surfaces along their interfacing axial edges, seat against axially opposite sides of the abutting annular flanges. The clamping rings have a plurality of holes spaced annularly around the rings and the holes of one ring are axially aligned with the holes in the other. Fasteners pass through each pair of holes and draw the rings together when tightened, thereby drawing the fixed and removable portions of the head together and securing them against relative axial movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2007Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: Sunpower, Inc.Inventors: James Gary Wood, Joseph P. Carroll