Patents by Inventor Jeffrey B. Burns

Jeffrey B. Burns 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).

  • Polymeric integral net
    Publication number: 20010024710
    Abstract: The present invention provides an integral net having a lattice of polymeric material defined by holes traversing the integral net from one surface to the other. The present invention also provides a method for producing an embossed sheet of polymeric material by first contacting a billet of polymeric material with an embossing tool having a plurality of protrusions whereby the embossing tool impresses indentations into the billet to a given depth. Subsequently, the method involves skiving the embossed billet. By this method, an embossed sheet of the polymeric material is removed from the billet, which embossed sheet can be an integral net.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Inventors: John B. Ronan, David E. Newman, Scott Hopkins, Jeffrey B. Burns
  • Polymeric integral net
    Patent number: 6277464
    Abstract: The present invention provides an integral net having a lattice of polymeric material defined by holes traversing the integral net from one surface to the other. The present invention also provides a method for producing an embossed sheet of polymeric material by first contacting a billet of polymeric material with an embossing tool having a plurality of protrusions whereby the embossing tool impresses indentations into the billet to a given depth. Subsequently, the method involves skiving the embossed billet. By this method, an embossed sheet of the polymeric material is removed from the billet, which embossed sheet can be an integral net.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Pall Corporation
    Inventors: John B. Ronan, David E. Newman, Scott Hopkins, Jeffrey B. Burns
  • Method and system for testing and sorting batteries
    Patent number: 4363407
    Abstract: A method and system for testing and sorting a production run of sheet-like batteries includes: testing each battery to obtain a first value of electrical energy; placing machine readable indicia on each battery corresponding to the first value; retesting each battery after passage of a period of time to obtain a second value of electrical energy; machine reading the indicia and computing the rate of decay of electrical energy for each battery as a function of the difference between said first and second values per unit time; and sorting the batteries in accordance with the computed rate of decay to separate those batteries having an acceptable rate of decay from those batteries having too great a rate of decay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1982
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Sheldon A. Buckler, Jeffrey B. Burns, Alfredo G. Kniazzeh, Paul A. Plasse, David J. Sullivan