Patents by Inventor James Hopkins
James Hopkins 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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Publication number: 20240149001Abstract: Nasal cannula assemblies for providing respiratory therapy to patients are provided. A nasal cannula assembly can include a cannula, an optional manifold which may be removable, a gas supply tube, and a securement mechanism. Securement mechanisms can include headgear straps, cheek pads, or an adhesive nose strip. A nasal cannula assembly can also include a lanyard, lanyard clip, and/or lanyard connector to help support the weight of a main gas delivery conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Jason Allan Klenner, Milanjot Singh Assi, Mark Thomas O'Connor, Callum James Thomas Spence, Caroline Geraldine Hopkins, Neil Gray Duthie, Craig Karl White, Alicia Jerram Hunter Evans, Brent Ian Laing, Sooji Hope Clarkson, Laurence Gulliver
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Publication number: 20240082915Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for repairing compressor blades using hybrid manufacturing. A mounting tool for use in repairing a turbine component includes a slot formed in the mounting tool. The slot is configured to receive the turbine component for securing the turbine component to the mounting tool. The mounting tool includes at least one fastener engageable with the turbine component and capable of retaining the turbine component within the slot; and at least a pair of support bases provided on the mounting tool. Each of the at least a pair of support bases is positioned adjacent a respect edge of the turbine component when the turbine component is retained in the mounting tool. Each of the at least a pair of support bases is configured for additively building a sacrificial support on each of the at least a pair of support bases for enabling repair of the turbine component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: James Whitton, Zachary Oras, Zachary Hopkins
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Patent number: 11926919Abstract: A method of using a masking device to mask a portion of a gas turbine engine component for an electroplating process is provided. The masking device includes a main body having sidewalls, a removeable coverplate having an end plate and one or more locking tabs, a fastener located at least partially within the main body, and a shank engaged with the fastener. The method includes placing the gas turbine engine component through an opening in the main body such that the component is held within the main body by a retention slot. The method includes sliding the one or more locking tabs of the removeable coverplate through the opening in the main body such that the removeable coverplate covers the opening of the main body. The method includes securing the one or more locking tabs in one or more relief slots in the sidewalls of the main body.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Chromalloy Gas Turbine LLCInventors: James Whitton, Zachary Hopkins, Zachary Oras
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Patent number: 11374226Abstract: Corrosion mitigation in a battery may include displacing a first flowable medium with a second flowable medium along a first electrode to interrupt fluid communication of the first flowable medium with the first electrode—thus interrupting operation of the battery—while a second electrode remains in contact with a flowable medium (e.g., one or more of the first flowable medium or another flowable medium, such as a gel). For example, a membrane (e.g., an underwater oleophobic material) may be disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. An oil may displace an aqueous electrolyte on a first side of the membrane toward a metallic electrode while the aqueous form of the electrolyte remains in contact with an air electrode on a second side of the separator membrane disposed toward the air electrode.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Brandon James Hopkins, Douglas P. Hart, Yang Shao-Horn
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Patent number: 11251475Abstract: Corrosion mitigation in a metal-air battery includes displacing an electrolyte within a gap of the metal-air battery with a liquid. The liquid may be substantially nonreactive with the electrolyte, and the anode of the metal-air battery is less reactive with the liquid than with the electrolyte. Upon displacement of the electrolyte from the gap, the liquid may remain in the gap of the metal-air battery to reduce the likelihood of corrosion of the anode and, therefore, reduce the power drain of the battery resulting from such corrosion. To return the metal-air battery to an activated state for generating power, the electrolyte may be moved back into the gap to displace the liquid. A fluid circuit may be in fluid communication with the gap and may displace one of the liquid and the electrolyte in the gap with the other one of the liquid and the electrolyte from the fluid circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Brandon James Hopkins, Douglas P. Hart
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Publication number: 20190326603Abstract: Corrosion mitigation in a battery may include displacing a first flowable medium with a second flowable medium along a first electrode to interrupt fluid communication of the first flowable medium with the first electrode—thus interrupting operation of the battery—while a second electrode remains in contact with a flowable medium (e.g., one or more of the first flowable medium or another flowable medium, such as a gel). For example, a membrane (e.g., an underwater oleophobic material) may be disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. An oil may displace an aqueous electrolyte on a first side of the membrane toward a metallic electrode while the aqueous form of the electrolyte remains in contact with an air electrode on a second side of the separator membrane disposed toward the air electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Brandon James Hopkins, Douglas P. Hart, Yang Shao-Horn
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Publication number: 20190123407Abstract: Corrosion mitigation in a metal-air battery includes displacing an electrolyte within a gap of the metal-air battery with a liquid. The liquid may be substantially nonreactive with the electrolyte, and the anode of the metal-air battery is less reactive with the liquid than with the electrolyte. Upon displacement of the electrolyte from the gap, the liquid may remain in the gap of the metal-air battery to reduce the likelihood of corrosion of the anode and, therefore, reduce the power drain of the battery resulting from such corrosion. To return the metal-air battery to an activated state for generating power, the electrolyte may be moved back into the gap to displace the liquid. A fluid circuit may be in fluid communication with the gap and may displace one of the liquid and the electrolyte in the gap with the other one of the liquid and the electrolyte from the fluid circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2017Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Brandon James Hopkins, Douglas P. Hart
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Patent number: 10230124Abstract: The flow cell includes first and second reservoirs having a selected volume containing a flowable redox electrode. A membrane separates charged and discharged material. An energy-extraction region includes electronically conductive porous current collectors through or adjacent to which the flowable redox electrodes flow and to which charge transfer occurs. Structure is provided for altering orientation of the flow cell whereby gravity induces flow of the flowable redox electrode between the first and second reservoirs to deliver power. By varying the angle of the cell, flow rate and power delivered on discharge or the charge rate on charge may be varied.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Brandon James Hopkins, Alexander H. Slocum, Xinwei Chen, Yet-Ming Chiang, Frank Yongzhen Fan, Ahmed Helal, Zheng Li, Kyle C. Smith, W. Craig Carter
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Publication number: 20170208843Abstract: A method for making a cooked food product comprises blending an uncooked protein source (e.g., chicken) and at least one dehydrated ingredient (e.g., pasta) to form a mixture, and cooking the mixture to form the cooked food product. The mixture is cooked under conditions that cause at least some of the water that is released from the protein source upon cooking to be absorbed into the dehydrated ingredients, so that the dehydrated ingredients become “hydrated” or softened, instead of all of the water being released from the mixture. The cooked food product may be in the form of a nugget and may include a breading composition coated on the exterior surface of the nugget. The absorption of water from the meat into the dehydrated ingredients inhibits moisture from seeping out through the breading, keeping the outer breaded layer relatively crisp.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventor: William James Hopkins, III
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Patent number: 9460410Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide transportation management systems, devices and methods that allow display and management of transportation resources and operations in an integrated manner. Exemplary embodiments may provide, for example, a single dynamic and interactive interface for executing inbound transportation operations (procurement or pickup), outbound transportation operations (delivery or shipment), and operations in which multiple transportation resources are matched to one another.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.Inventors: Blake Hill, Ann Wilson, Nicole Liedka, James A. Hopkins
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Publication number: 20150155585Abstract: Gravity induced flow cell. The flow cell includes first and second reservoirs having a selected volume containing a flowable redox electrode. A membrane separates charged and discharged material. An energy-extraction region includes electronically conductive porous current collectors through or adjacent to which the flowable redox electrodes flow and to which charge transfer occurs. Structure is provided for altering orientation of the flow cell whereby gravity induces flow of the flowable redox electrode between the first and second reservoirs to deliver power. By varying the angle of the cell, flow rate and power delivered on discharge or the charge rate on charge may be varied.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Brandon James Hopkins, Alexander H. Slocum, Xinwei Chen, Yet-Ming Chiang, Frank Yongzhen Fan, Ahmed Helal, Zheng Li, Kyle C. Smith, W. Craig Carter
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Publication number: 20130304639Abstract: A computer based method and system for managing payments from a shipper to one or more carriers is described. A web-based interface portal is accessible by a shipper, one or more carriers and an invoice payment service provider to enable data relevant to various characteristics of a shipment of goods to be uploaded into a database. One or more profiles are created with the data to enable a specified shipment to be rated, to enable a carrier's actual invoice for a specified shipment to be compared with a rated invoice for that specified shipment to identify discrepancies between the rated and actual invoices.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventors: Kimberly Ann Acsay, Jeffrey James Hopkins, Conrad John Pawlowski, II, Karen Marie Reeves, Celeste Elizabeth Sauer
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Publication number: 20130110739Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide transportation management systems, devices and methods that allow display and management of transportation resources and operations in an integrated manner. Exemplary embodiments may provide, for example, a single dynamic and interactive interface for executing inbound transportation operations (procurement or pickup), outbound transportation operations (delivery or shipment), and operations in which multiple transportation resources are matched to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2011Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: WAL-MART STORES, INC.Inventors: Blake Hill, Ann Wilson, Nicole Liedka, James A. Hopkins
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Patent number: 8425125Abstract: A method of terminating a fiber in a connector having a front and rear orientation, a housing, a clamping mechanism in the housing, and a ferrule assembly forward of the clamping mechanism and comprising a holder and a ferrule extending from the holder, the method comprising covering the ferrule with a cap, inserting a fiber into the clamping mechanism from the rear of the connector, and while the cap is on the ferrule, actuating the clamping mechanism to secure the fiber to the connector by urging the cap rearward relative to the clamping mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Michael Lawrence Gurreri, David Donald Erdman, Eric James Hopkins, Douglas Harold Rohde, Joen Verweyen, Daniel Daems
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Publication number: 20110271525Abstract: A method of terminating a fiber in a connector having a front and rear orientation, a housing, a clamping mechanism in the housing, and a ferrule assembly forward of the clamping mechanism and comprising a holder and a ferrule extending from the holder, the method comprising covering the ferrule with a cap, inserting a fiber into the clamping mechanism from the rear of the connector, and while the cap is on the ferrule, actuating the clamping mechanism to secure the fiber to the connector by urging the cap rearward relative to the clamping mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2011Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Michael Lawrence Gurreri, David Donald Erdman, Eric James Hopkins, Douglas Harold Rohde, Koen Verweyen, Daniel Daems
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Patent number: 7988367Abstract: A cap for a field-installable optical connector having a front and rear orientation, a housing, an axially-actuated clamping mechanism in the housing, and a ferrule assembly forward of the clamping mechanism and forwardly biased in the housing, the ferrule assembly comprising a holder and a ferrule extending from the holder, the cap comprising a front end defining a cavity for receiving the ferrule and having an outer surface defining at least part of a front-end geometry, a back end defining an opening through which the ferrule is received and a perimeter around the opening, the perimeter configured to contact the holder when the cap is pushed rearward in the housing, the front and back ends being unitary such that any rearward force on the front end is transferred to the back end and through the perimeter to the holder and a retention portion for contacting the housing to secure the cap to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2008Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Michael Lawrence Gurreri, David Donald Erdman, Eric James Hopkins, Douglas Harold Rohde, Koen Verweyen, Daniel Daems
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Patent number: 7963343Abstract: A Christmas tree fire prevention device preferably includes an air-pressurized reservoir containing fire-retardant agent and a mechanism for automatically discharging the fire-retardant agent. The discharging mechanism may be connected to the reservoir via a flexible hose may also be removably attached to the apex of an existing Christmas tree and camouflaged as a holiday decoration. A mechanism for automatically emitting an alarm signal when the automatic fire-retardant agent discharging mechanism is activated may further be included. The discharging mechanism may include a valve with a metal-alloy plug which has a relatively low melting point. Flame heated air preferably causes the plug to melt and activates the discharging mechanism, which ejects the plug from the valve. The pressurized fire-retardant may then egress through the valve, deflect off a guard located on top of the discharging mechanism, and cover the Christmas tree.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2008Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Inventor: James Hopkins
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Patent number: 7942591Abstract: A connector having a front and back orientation and comprising: (a) a cable having at least a jacket and an optical fiber; (b) a ferrule assembly comprising a rear portion for attachment to said jacket, and a ferrule defining a bore hole for containing said optical fiber; (c) a housing having a front portion configured for mating with a mating structure and a back portion configured for attachment to a boot; (d) a spring biasing said ferrule assembly forward in said housing; and (e) a boot secured to said back portion of said housing and extending rearward around said tight-jacketed cable, said boot having an internal channel large enough to allow axial movement of said ferrule assembly relative to said boot.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2009Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Eric James Hopkins, Robert Carl Briggs, Stephen James Miller
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Publication number: 20100254663Abstract: A connector having a front and back orientation and comprising: (a) a cable having at least a jacket and an optical fiber; (b) a ferrule assembly comprising a rear portion for attachment to said jacket, and a ferrule defining a bore hole for containing said optical fiber; (c) a housing having a front portion configured for mating with a mating structure and a back portion configured for attachment to a boot; (d) a spring biasing said ferrule assembly forward in said housing; and (e) a boot secured to said back portion of said housing and extending rearward around said tight-jacketed cable, said boot having an internal channel large enough to allow axial movement of said ferrule assembly relative to said boot.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2009Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Eric James Hopkins, Robert Carl Briggs, Stephen James Miller
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Patent number: D630558Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2009Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: James Hopkins ClutterbuckInventors: James Hopkins Clutterbuck, Charles Greco