Patents by Inventor James F. Swon

James F. Swon 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).

  • Patent number: 5583790
    Abstract: For system providing a storage and feed source of a particular liquid, and providing a conduit flow of one or more lines to one or more outlet valves separately controllable and operateable and concurrently controllable and operateable for simultaneous flow through any one or more combinations of the plurality of outlet valves, a computer mechanism for separately measuring and storing separately time of flow for each separate one of outlet valves and for each of diverse possible combination of concurrent operations of the outlet valves, and for the computer when activated to do so, to cause a repeat flow for any one of stored one of the outlet valves or for any stored combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Inventors: Dongping Lan, Henry Hofer, James F. Swon
  • Patent number: 5540496
    Abstract: A combination of a flow-cell with a rate of flow controllable and set to obtain and maintain a solvent or diluent predetermined low flow pressure from the flow-cell's inlet to the flow-cell's outlet, in which at-least an outlet thereof is alternately raised to a height above the inlet thereof sufficiently relative to mass of individual solute(s) and/or individual bead(s) (or other insoluble mass(es)) as to permit the mass of the individual solute(s) and/or individual bead(s) to move by gravity from a direction of the outlet end toward the inlet end of the flow-cell as part of a mechanism ascertainable of improved dissolving of solute and/or suspension of particles of insoluble matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Inventors: Arnold H. Beckett, James F. Swon, Henry Z. Hofer