Patents by Inventor Ian Timmins

Ian Timmins 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).

  • APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR A PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA FOR AN AUTONOMOUS ROBOT
    Publication number: 20230061077
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method of operating an autonomous mobile robot having a height of at least one meter. The apparatus, system and method may include a mobile robot body; at least two phased array antennas associated with the mobile body, wherein the phased array antennas enable wireless communication between on-board features of the mobile robot, including at least mobility hardware proximate to a base of the mobile robot body, and off-board sensors related to at least navigation of the mobility hardware; and a processing system communicative with the on-board features and the off-board sensors via intercommunication with the phased antennas, and comprising non-transitory computing code which, when executed by at least one processor associated with the processing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Jabil Inc.
    Inventors: Girish Satish Wable, Ian Timmins, Nathaniel Patrick Richards, Christopher Jones, Raymond Charles Farrell (deceased)
  • Method and system for reducing aggregate impedance discontinuity between expansion connectors
    Patent number: 6978333
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for reducing impedance discontinuities which occur when two expansion connectors are located very close to one another on a bus in an information handling system. An interconnect is situated between the two expansion connectors and exhibits an impedance which is selected to be sufficiently low to compensate for the amount by which the impedance of the expansion bus connectors exceeds the impedance of the expansion bus connected thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ian Timmins, Michael Leins, Stuart Hayes, Robert Bassman
  • Method and system for reducing aggregate impedance discontinuity between expansion connectors
    Publication number: 20050130501
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for reducing impedance discontinuities which occur when two expansion connectors are located very close to one another on a bus in an information handling system. An interconnect is situated between the two expansion connectors and exhibits an impedance which is selected to be sufficiently low to compensate for the amount by which the impedance of the expansion bus connectors exceeds the impedance of the expansion bus connected thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ian Timmins, Michael Leins, Stuart Hayes, Robert Bassman
  • Information handling system including a bus in which impedance discontinuities associated with multiple expansion connectors are reduced
    Patent number: 6868467
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for reducing impedance discontinuities which occur when two expansion connectors are located very close to one another on a bus in an information handling system. An interconnect is situated between the two expansion connectors and exhibits an impedance which is selected to be sufficiently low to compensate for the amount by which the impedance of the expansion bus connectors exceeds the impedance of the expansion bus connected thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ian Timmins, Michael Leins, Stuart Hayes, Robert Bassman
  • INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM INCLUDING A BUS IN WHICH IMPEDANCE DISCONTINUITIES ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIPLE EXPANSION CONNECTORS ARE REDUCED
    Publication number: 20050001649
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for reducing impedance discontinuities which occur when two expansion connectors are located very close to one another on a bus in an information handling system. An interconnect is situated between the two expansion connectors and exhibits an impedance which is selected to be sufficiently low to compensate for the amount by which the impedance of the expansion bus connectors exceeds the impedance of the expansion bus connected thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ian Timmins, Michael Leins, Stuart Hayes, Robert Bassman
  • Electrical connector having a contact array which provides inductive cross talk compensation
    Publication number: 20030190845
    Abstract: An array of electrical conductors, the array including an input zone, a first inductive cross talk compensation zone downstream from the input zone, and a second inductive cross talk compensation zone downstream from the first inductive cross talk compensation zone, the first inductive cross talk compensation zone of the array being configured to induce corrective mutual inductance therein for reducing cross talk caused by undesirable mutual inductance in the input zone of the array, and the second inductive cross talk compensation zone of the array being configured to induce corrective mutual inductance therein for reducing cross talk caused by undesirable mutual inductance in the input zone of the array and caused by undesirable mutual inductance in the first inductive cross talk compensation zone of the array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: Superior Modular Products Incorporated
    Inventors: Sterling A. Vaden, Ian Timmins