Patents by Inventor Joseph Mangan
Joseph Mangan 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: 9140482Abstract: A storage basket is configured to hold multiple product units such as blood bags within the cabinet of a freezer. The storage basket includes first and second spaced-apart sidewalls and a plurality of inclined shelves extending between and coupled to these sidewalls. The inclined shelves include a plurality of air flow apertures that defined storage receptacles for product units as well as additional flow apertures to ensure minimal hindrance of cooling air flow within the freezer. The storage basket also includes handles that enable easy grasping and movement of multiple product units at once into and out of the freezer. As a result, the amount of time needed to cool product units down to a desired temperature with the freezer is reduced and the storage density within the freezer is increased.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLCInventors: Lou Spencer Popovitch, Christopher Enright Bruchs, Dan Joseph Mangan
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Patent number: 9073224Abstract: A foldable box opener is securable to a writing or pointing implement and has a blade mount having a collar attachable to a top portion of the writing implement and a portion adjacent the collar, with the offset portion including an opening extending through the offset portion, a blade including a first blade edge and a second blade edge opposite the first blade edge, and a pin attached to the blade and the collar allowing rotation of the blade about the collar. The blade first edge is tapered to have a smaller thickness than the second edge, with the first edge thickness being sufficiently narrow to cut a cardboard box or packaging tape while being sufficiently wide to prevent a user's skin from being pierced or lacerated.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2012Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Inventor: James Joseph Mangan, IV
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Publication number: 20150091430Abstract: A storage basket is configured to hold multiple product units such as blood bags within the cabinet of a freezer. The storage basket includes first and second spaced-apart sidewalls and a plurality of inclined shelves extending between and coupled to these sidewalls. The inclined shelves include a plurality of air flow apertures that defined storage receptacles for product units as well as additional flow apertures to ensure minimal hindrance of cooling air flow within the freezer. The storage basket also includes handles that enable easy grasping and movement of multiple product units at once into and out of the freezer. As a result, the amount of time needed to cool product units down to a desired temperature with the freezer is reduced and the storage density within the freezer is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: April 2, 2015Applicant: THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC (ASHEVILLE) LLCInventors: Lou Spencer Popovitch, Christopher Enright Bruchs, Dan Joseph Mangan
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Publication number: 20130145622Abstract: A foldable box opener is securable to a writing or pointing implement and has a blade mount having a collar attachable a top portion of the writing implement and a portion adjacent the collar, with the offset portion including an opening extending through the offset portion, a blade including a first blade edge and a second blade edge opposite the first blade edge, and a pin attached to the blade and the collar allowing rotation of the blade about the collar. The blade first edge is tapered to have a smaller thickness than the second edge, with the first edge thickness being sufficiently narrow to cut a cardboard box or packaging tape while being sufficiently wide to prevent a user's skin from being pierced or lacerated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2012Publication date: June 13, 2013Inventor: James Joseph Mangan, IV
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Patent number: 8215129Abstract: A method of manufacturing a microstructured fiber, includes: providing a preform having a plurality of elongate holes; mating at least one, but not all, of the holes with a connector to connect the hole(s) to an external pressure-controller; drawing the preform into the fiber while controlling gas pressure in the hole(s) connected to the pressure-controller.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: NKT Photonics A/SInventors: Philip St. John Russell, Brian Joseph Mangan, Jonathan Cave Knight, Ian Patrick Kilbride, Timothy Adam Birks
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Publication number: 20110121474Abstract: A method of manufacturing a microstructured fibre, includes: providing a preform having a plurality of elongate holes; mating at least one, but not all, of the holes with a connector to connect the hole(s) to an external pressure-controller; drawing the preform into the fibre whilst controlling gas pressure in the hole(s) connected to the pressure-controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2010Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: CRYSTAL FIBRE A/SInventors: Philip St. John RUSSELL, Brian Joseph Mangan, Jonathan Cave Knight, Ian Patrick Kilbride, Timothy Adam Birks
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Patent number: 7366388Abstract: An optical fiber having a cladding region surrounding a core region having an elongate core hole, the inner or outer surface of the core hole having a surface roughness with a spatial period equal to or less than 5 ?m by a spectral power below 0.0017 nm2 ?m?1. A method of making an optical fiber including a cladding region having an arrangement of elongate cladding holes in a matrix material, surrounding an elongate core region having an elongate core hole, the method including the step of increasing the surface tension of the matrix material prior to or during the step of heating and drawing the fiber.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2005Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: Crystal Fibre A/SInventors: John Roberts, Hendrik Sabert, Brian Joseph Mangan, Lance Farr
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Publication number: 20080013110Abstract: The present invention addresses the reformatting of a digital “ready to print” data file into a continuous tone (32 or 24 bit) file whereby discrete values in the tone range are uniquely assigned to specific binary combinations. The purpose for this transform is to facilitate further manipulation of preprocessed data. One application of the present invention is to exist as a critical piece of proofing workflow for a technology that reduces continuous tone data into a binary form representing droplet selection prior to output.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Inventors: Terry Wozniak, Michael Piatt, Joseph Mangan
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Patent number: 7305164Abstract: Novel preforms and methods of making novel preforms are described. The preforms are suitable for being drawn into photonic bandgap optical fibres. In one form, the preform comprises a stack of elongate members having, in transverse cross section, a triangular close-packed arrangement of circular cross section capillaries, which define interstitial regions containing solid rods. The stack is supported around a relatively large capillary, which defines an inner region of the stack. The stack may be adapted by varying the number of rods in any given interstitial region, in order to generate various different configurations of cladding structure, which can be made into optical fibres having surprising operational characteristics, such as a split gap.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2003Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: Crystal Fibre A/SInventors: David Philip Williams, Brian Joseph Mangan, Philip St. John Russell
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Patent number: 7245807Abstract: A photonic optical fiber and method of making the optical fiber. The method includes assembling a plurality of elongate elements to define an elongate void; forming within the void a material contacting at least some of the elements while maintaining the elongate void; and drawing a preform, including the assembly of elongate elements, into an optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2005Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Crystal Fibre A/SInventors: Brian Joseph Mangan, Lance Farr
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Patent number: 7116875Abstract: A holey optical fibre for supporting propagation of light of a wavelength ?,comprises a plurality of cylinders (10) each having a longitudinal axis, the cylinders (10) being separated from each other by regions of a matrix material (20) and having their longitudinal axes substantially parallel to each other. Each cylinder (10) has a diameter, in the plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, that is small enough for the composite material of the ensemble of cylinders and matrix material to be substantially optically homogenous in respect of light of wavelength ?.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2002Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: Crystal Fibre A/SInventors: William John Wadsworth, Brian Joseph Mangan, Timothy Adam Birks, Jonathan Cave Knight, Philip St. John Russell
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Patent number: 7106932Abstract: A method of joining a first optical fiber (110) to a second optical fiber (130) comprises the steps of: (i) providing a preform element (10) comprising material defining a primary elongate cavity (40); (ii) inserting the first optical fiber (110) into the primary cavity (40) to form a preform (125); and (iii) drawing the second optical fiber (130) from the preform (125); wherein, the second optical fiber (130) includes a core region comprising material that has been drawn from the first optical fiber (110).Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2002Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Crystal Fibre A/SInventors: Timothy Adam Birks, Jonathan Cave Knight, Philip St. John Russell, Brian Joseph Mangan
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Patent number: 6990282Abstract: A photonic crystal fiber comprising a bulk material having an arrangement of longitudinal holes, the fiber including a cladding region and a guiding core (280), the cladding region having an effective-refractive-index which varies across the fiber's cross section, wherein, in use, the effective-refractive-index variation causes light propagating in the fiber to have a different transverse profile from the profile that it would have if the cladding region were of a substantially uniform effective refractive index.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2000Date of Patent: January 24, 2006Assignee: Crystal Fibre A/SInventors: Philip St. John Russell, Timothy Adam Birks, Jonathan Cave Knight, Brian Joseph Mangan
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Publication number: 20050248598Abstract: The method for a printing device determines the maximum amount of colorant that is to be deposited on a specific region of print media to form an image with a reduced quantity of visual defects. The method entails inputting at least one colorant value on the specific region of print media. The at least one colorant value indicates a total amount of at least one colorant that is to be applied by the printing device. A colorant limit is derived for each color or combinations thereof according to a text ink limit algorithm and each derived color ink limit is applied to the image to limit the quantity of ink used by the printing device when one of the derived colorant limits is exceeded.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2004Publication date: November 10, 2005Inventors: Michael Piatt, Joseph Mangan
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Patent number: 6944334Abstract: A system and method are proposed for the printing of all possible colors, including all permutations of primary inks used to make processed colors, in equal increments and of a size easily measurable with a device that will convert the colors into standard color coordinates. These colors are categorized and used to determine the ability of the output device to reproduce a source color. Each color printed within the gamut of an output device is identified and correlated to independent color coordinates. The primary color recipe necessary to reproduce a reference color within the gamut of the output device is identified. The magnitude of deviation of out of gamut source colors is determined, and the closest in gamut colors are specified through methods of interpolation and nearest neighbor. Furthermore, the alteration in gamut size can be predicted based upon image manipulation processes associated with the workflow.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2001Date of Patent: September 13, 2005Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Michael J. Piatt, Terry Wozniak, Joseph Mangan
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Patent number: 6853786Abstract: A photonic crystal fiber comprising: a core (20) having a refractive index; and a cladding region (10) at least substantially surrounding the core (20) and comprising a bulk material having a second refractive index that is higher that the first refractive index, the bulk material containing an arrangement of elongate, longitudinal holes that comprise hole material of a third refractive index that is lower than the first refractive index; such that an electromagnetic mode guided in the core (20) has an evanescent wave that becomes more closely confined to the vicinity of the core (20) as the wavelength of the electromagnetic mode is increased over a first range of wavelengths.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2000Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: Crystal Fibre A/CInventors: Phillip St. John Russell, Timothy Adam Birks, Jonathan Cave Knight, Brian Joseph Mangan
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Publication number: 20040175082Abstract: A method of joining a first optical fibre (110) to a second optical fibre (130) comprises the steps of: (i) providing a preform element (10) comprising material defining a primary elongate cavity (40); (ii) inserting the first optical fibre (110) into the primary cavity (40) to form a preform (125); and (iii) drawing the second optical fibre (130) from the preform (125); wherein, the second optical fibre (130) includes a core region comprising material that has been drawn from the first optical fibre (110).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2004Publication date: September 9, 2004Inventors: Timothy Adams Birks, Jonathan Cave Knight, Philip St John Russell, Brian Joseph Mangan
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Publication number: 20040151450Abstract: A holey optical fibre for supporting propagation of light of a wavelength &lgr;,comprises a plurality of cylinders (10) each having a longitudinal axis, the cylinders (10) being separated from each other by regions of a matrix material (20) and having their longitudinal axes substantially parallel to each other. Each cylinder (10) has a diameter, in the plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, that is small enough for the composite material of the ensemble of cylinders and matrix material to be substantially optically homogenous in respect of light of wavelength &lgr;.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2004Publication date: August 5, 2004Inventors: William John Wadsworth, Brian Joseph Mangan, Timothy Adam Birks, Jonathan Cave Knight, Philip St John Russell
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Publication number: 20030077058Abstract: A photonic-crystal fibre comprises a core (20) and a cladding (10) with longitudinal holes. The refractive index of the core is lower than that of the cladding bulk material, e.g. by fluorine doping of the core material. The holes are air-filled cavities extending along the longitudinal direction of the fibre. One property of the fibre is that a guided mode having longer wavelength is more confined in the core than a mode with a shorter wavelength. Such a fibre may have a cut-off wavelength &lgr;c? such that the fibre is unable to guide in its core light of wavelengths shorter than &lgr;c.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2002Publication date: April 24, 2003Inventors: Phillip St. John Russell, Timothy Adam Birks, Jonathan Cave Knight, Brian Joseph Mangan
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Publication number: 20030059185Abstract: A photonic crystal fibre comprising a bulk material having an arrangement of longitudinal holes, the fibre including a cladding region and a guiding core (280), the cladding region having an effective-refractive-index which varies across the fibre's cross section, wherein, in use, the effective-refractive-index variation causes light propagating in the fibre to have a different transverse profile from the profile that it would have if the cladding region were of a substantially uniform effective refractive index.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2002Publication date: March 27, 2003Inventors: Philip St. John Russell, Timothy Adam Birks, Jonathan Cave Knight, Brian Joseph Mangan