Patents by Inventor Nicholas Anderson
Nicholas Anderson 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: 9711709Abstract: Transducer systems with reduced acoustic noise coupling are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a transducer system includes pressure balancing features to prevent a floating portion of the transducer system from contacting a fixed portion of the transducer system, or to reduce the degree to which the floating portion is urged into contact with the fixed portion by process pressure or atmospheric pressure. In some embodiments, a transducer system includes one or more acoustic dampening elements, interruption grooves, annular projections, or dampening washers to reduce acoustic noise coupling between various components of the transducer system or between the transducer system and a flowcell in which the transducer system is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2013Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Toan H. Nguyen, Lei Sui, Nicholas Anderson Hobbs, Liguo Su
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Patent number: 9151651Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining temperature is disclosed. An ultrasonic signal is generated that propagates through a buffer and a portion of the signal is reflected at an interface. A time of flight is measured between generating the ultrasonic signal and detecting the reflected portion. The temperature is determined based on the time of flight of the reflected signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2013Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Lei Sui, Benjamin Edward McDonald, Nicholas Anderson Hobbs
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Publication number: 20150042206Abstract: Transducer systems with reduced acoustic noise coupling are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a transducer system includes pressure balancing features to prevent a floating portion of the transducer system from contacting a fixed portion of the transducer system, or to reduce the degree to which the floating portion is urged into contact with the fixed portion by process pressure or atmospheric pressure. In some embodiments, a transducer system includes one or more acoustic dampening elements, interruption grooves, annular projections, or dampening washers to reduce acoustic noise coupling between various components of the transducer system or between the transducer system and a flowcell in which the transducer system is mounted.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Toan H. Nguyen, Lei Sui, Nicholas Anderson Hobbs, Liguo Su
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Patent number: 8844347Abstract: An insert apparatus for installing a transducer assembly in a sensor port of a flow cell is disclosed. The transducer assembly is installed in the cavity of the insert body without the use of glues or adhesives to bond the transducer assembly to the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Lei Sui, Nicholas Joseph Mollo, Benjamin Edward McDonald, Toan Huu Nguyen, Solomon Feldman, Nicholas Anderson Hobbs, Ganesh Devkar, John Austin True, Mykhaylo Barsukov
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Publication number: 20140198822Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining temperature is disclosed. An ultrasonic signal is generated that propagates through a buffer and a portion of the signal is reflected at an interface. A time of flight is measured between generating the ultrasonic signal and detecting the reflected portion. The temperature is determined based on the time of flight of the reflected signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Lei Sui, Benjamin Edward McDonald, Nicholas Anderson Hobbs
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Patent number: 8733774Abstract: A bicycle comprises a bicycle frame and a rear wheel suspension system that is attached to the frame. The rear wheel suspension system comprises a rear wheel swingarm and a shock absorber that is coupled to the swingarm. A change in vertical wheel travel (?VWT) of the rear wheel is related to a change in the length of the shock absorber (?SL), providing a shock rate (SR). The shock rate (SR) changes throughout the vertical wheel travel of the rear wheel, such that the change in the shock rate dSR/dVWT has a change in sign as the rear wheel travels through its vertical wheel travel. In each case, the rate of change of the shock includes a change in sign, from positive to negative or from negative to positive. In some embodiments, the swingarm may be attached to the frame at a single pivot point or through a linkage system.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2012Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Santa Cruz Bicycles, Inc.Inventors: Joseph E. Graney, Nicholas Anderson
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Patent number: 8641072Abstract: A bicycle comprises a bicycle frame and a rear wheel suspension system that is attached to the frame. The rear wheel suspension system comprises a rear wheel swingarm and a shock absorber that is coupled to the swingarm. A change in vertical wheel travel (?VWT) of the rear wheel is related to a change in the length of the shock absorber (?SL), providing a shock rate (SR). The shock rate (SR) changes throughout the vertical wheel travel of the rear wheel, such that the change in the shock rate dSR/dVWT has a change in sign as the rear wheel travels through its vertical wheel travel. In each case, the rate of change of the shock includes a change in sign, from positive to negative or from negative to positive. In some embodiments, the swingarm may be attached to the frame at a single pivot point or through a linkage system.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2012Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Santa Cruz Bicycles, Inc.Inventors: Joseph E. Graney, Nicholas Anderson
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Patent number: 8584850Abstract: A container for collecting sharps includes an opening adapted to receive sharps in a substantially vertical orientation, and an interior region for storing sharps received through the opening. The container includes a means for reorienting the sharps into an arrangement in which the sharps lie substantially parallel to one another within the interior region of the container. A method for configuring a sharps collection container includes the step of positioning a contoured surface of a guide element beneath an opening of the container to reorient sharps that are deposited through the opening into an arrangement in which the sharps are stored substantially parallel to one another in the container.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2005Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Covidien AGInventors: T. Nicholas Anderson, Tara Riesenburger, John Japuntich, Michael Liscio, Patricia Wright
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Publication number: 20130219707Abstract: An insert apparatus for installing a transducer assembly in a sensor port of a flow cell is disclosed. The transducer assembly is installed in the cavity of the insert body without the use of glues or adhesives to bond the transducer assembly to the cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Lei Sui, Nicholas Joseph Mollo, Benjamin Edward McDonald, Toan Huu Nguyen, Solomon Feldman, Nicholas Anderson Hobbs, Ganesh Devkar, John Austin True, Mykhaylo Barsukov
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Patent number: 8421399Abstract: A power control system for an A.C. induction motor is disclosed, comprising a voltage/current phase difference generator for determining a difference in phase between a voltage applied to the motor and a current drawn by the motor, and for generating a phase difference signal as a function of the determined difference in phase, the voltage/current phase difference generator including an integrator, the integrator receiving the phase difference signal and generating an error signal for controlling an amount of power supplied to the motor as a function of the phase difference signal, the integrator being electrically coupled to a potentiometer, the potentiometer providing a bias signal for at least partially controlling the error signal; and a delay circuit for controlling the bias signal provided by the potentiometer so as to cause full available power to be supplied to the motor for a predetermined amount of time.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2008Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Energy Innovative Products, LLCInventor: Nicholas Anderson
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Publication number: 20130001918Abstract: A bicycle comprises a bicycle frame and a rear wheel suspension system that is attached to the frame. The rear wheel suspension system comprises a rear wheel swingarm and a shock absorber that is coupled to the swingarm. A change in vertical wheel travel (?VWT) of the rear wheel is related to a change in the length of the shock absorber (?SL), providing a shock rate (SR). The shock rate (SR) changes throughout the vertical wheel travel of the rear wheel, such that the change in the shock rate dSR/dVWT has a change in sign as the rear wheel travels through its vertical wheel travel. In each case, the rate of change of the shock includes a change in sign, from positive to negative or from negative to positive. In some embodiments, the swingarm may be attached to the frame at a single pivot point or through a linkage system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: SANTA CRUZ BICYCLES, INC.Inventors: Joseph E. Graney, Nicholas Anderson
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Publication number: 20130001919Abstract: A bicycle comprises a bicycle frame and a rear wheel suspension system that is attached to the frame. The rear wheel suspension system comprises a rear wheel swingarm and a shock absorber that is coupled to the swingarm. A change in vertical wheel travel (?VWT) of the rear wheel is related to a change in the length of the shock absorber (?SL), providing a shock rate (SR). The shock rate (SR) changes throughout the vertical wheel travel of the rear wheel, such that the change in the shock rate dSR/dVWT has a change in sign as the rear wheel travels through its vertical wheel travel. In each case, the rate of change of the shock includes a change in sign, from positive to negative or from negative to positive. In some embodiments, the swingarm may be attached to the frame at a single pivot point or through a linkage system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: SANTA CRUZ BICYCLES, INC.Inventors: Joseph E. Graney, Nicholas Anderson
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Patent number: 8272657Abstract: A bicycle comprises a bicycle frame and a rear wheel suspension system that is attached to the frame. The rear wheel suspension system comprises a rear wheel swingarm and a shock absorber that is coupled to the swingarm. A change in vertical wheel travel (?VWT) of the rear wheel is related to a change in the length of the shock absorber (?SL), providing a shock rate (SR). The shock rate (SR) changes throughout the vertical wheel travel of the rear wheel, such that the change in the shock rate dSR/dVWT has a change in sign as the rear wheel travels through its vertical wheel travel. In each case, the rate of change of the shock includes a change in sign, from positive to negative or from negative to positive. In some embodiments, the swingarm may be attached to the frame at a single pivot point or through a linkage system.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2010Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Santa Cruz Bicycles, Inc.Inventors: Joseph E. Graney, Nicholas Anderson
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Publication number: 20120190589Abstract: Assay cartridges are described that have a detection chamber, preferably having integrated electrodes, and other fluidic components which may include sample chambers, waste chambers, conduits, vents, bubble traps, reagent chambers, dry reagent pill zones and the like. In certain embodiments, these cartridges are adapted to receive and analyze a sample collected on an applicator stick. Also described are kits including such cartridges and a cartridge reader configured to analyze an assay conducted using an assay cartridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: Meso Scale Technologies, LLC.Inventors: Nicholas Anderson, Jeffery Debad, Eli N. Glezer, Sudeep Kumar, Noel Lawrence, Kenneth Page, George Sigal, Sharon West
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Publication number: 20110201099Abstract: Assay cartridges are described that have a detection chamber, preferably having integrated electrodes, and other fluidic components which may include sample chambers, waste chambers, conduits, vents, bubble traps, reagent chambers, dry reagent pill zones and the like. In certain embodiments, these cartridges are adapted to receive and analyze a sample collected on an applicator stick. Also described are kits including such cartridges and a cartridge reader configured to analyze an assay conducted using an assay cartridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2010Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: Meso Scale Technologies, LLC.Inventors: Nicholas Anderson, Jeffery Debad, Eli N. Glezer, Sudeep Kumar, Noel Lawrence, Kenneth Page, George Sigal, Sharon West
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Publication number: 20100102531Abstract: A bicycle comprises a bicycle frame and a rear wheel suspension system that is attached to the frame. The rear wheel suspension system comprises a rear wheel swingarm and a shock absorber that is coupled to the swingarm. A change in vertical wheel travel (?VWT) of the rear wheel is related to a change in the length of the shock absorber (?SL), providing a shock rate (SR). The shock rate (SR) changes throughout the vertical wheel travel of the rear wheel, such that the change in the shock rate dSR/dVWT has a change in sign as the rear wheel travels through its vertical wheel travel. In each case, the rate of change of the shock includes a change in sign, from positive to negative or from negative to positive. In some embodiments, the swingarm may be attached to the frame at a single pivot point or through a linkage system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2010Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: SANTA CRUZ BICYCLES, INC.Inventors: Joseph E. Graney, Nicholas Anderson
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Publication number: 20100102771Abstract: A power control system for an A.C. induction motor is disclosed, comprising a voltage/current phase difference generator for determining a difference in phase between a voltage applied to the motor and a current drawn by the motor, and for generating a phase difference signal as a function of the determined difference in phase, the voltage/current phase difference generator including an integrator, the integrator receiving the phase difference signal and generating an error signal for controlling an amount of power supplied to the motor as a function of the phase difference signal, the integrator being electrically coupled to a potentiometer, the potentiometer providing a bias signal for at least partially controlling the error signal; and a delay circuit for controlling the bias signal provided by the potentiometer so as to cause full available power to be supplied to the motor for a predetermined amount of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Inventor: Nicholas Anderson
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Patent number: 7415083Abstract: Automatic gain control (AGC) and synchronisation acquisition by a communication unit in a wireless communication system, e.g. a Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) system, is described. AGC is performed using a downlink beacon function, for example a power level (Pbeacon) . Amplitude-equalising (limiting) is performed as part of synchronisation acquisition. Separate AGC processes are used for different stages of synchronisation acquisition. One AGC process uses a peak power (P(k)) of a received signal over a frame. Another AGC process uses a peak power (P(k)) of a received signal over only a portion of a frame, the portion comprising an initial synchronisation code. Another AGC process uses measurements of a received signal (P0(k)) taken in a downlink beacon timeslot. These processes tend to provide tolerance to a varying number of codes (M) transmitted on a timeslot-by-timeslot basis and robust initial synchronisation in the presence of strong uplink interference.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2002Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: IpWireless, Inc.Inventor: Nicholas Anderson
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Patent number: 7324783Abstract: A method, arrangement (512) and communication receiver (500) for SNIR estimation of a received signal, by: deriving (512A) an estimation {circumflex over (Z)} of SNIR of the received signal in accordance with the relation Z ^ = [ E ? { ? r ? ( t ) ? } ] 2 E ? { r 2 ? ( t ) } - [ E ? { ? r ? ( t ) ? } ] 2 , where E represents mean value and r(t) represents the level of the received signal; and correcting (512B, 512C) the estimation {circumflex over (Z)} to produce a corrected estimation Z based on the relation Z=?({circumflex over (Z)})×{circumflex over (Z)}, where ?({circumflex over (Z)}) represents a correction factor. The estimation may be corrected by calculating the correction factor, retrieving the correction factor from a predetermined table (512B) or retrieving the corrected estimation from a predetermined table. The correction may be effected by adding to a logarithmic estimation a logarithmic correction factor.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2002Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: IPWireless, Inc.Inventor: Nicholas Anderson
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Publication number: 20080009256Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a controller, in a cellular wireless network for cancellation of interference from neighboring cells. Logic in the controller determines channel quality of a radio channel between a first base station and a UE. Scheduling logic causes the first base station and a second base station to adjust the number of data streams used for communication within a time period, as a function of the channel quality. Other embodiments provide an apparatus for reducing interference in a receiver that receives N data streams. Signal processing logic receives the N data streams, where N-M of the data streams represent interference with respect to M desired data streams, and cancels the N-M data streams so as to receive the M desired data streams. The N data streams may be received from multiple base stations, or multiple UEs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2007Publication date: January 10, 2008Applicant: IPWireless, Inc.Inventor: Nicholas Anderson