Patents by Inventor Peter D. Hancock

Peter D. Hancock 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).

  • Publication number: 20020065708
    Abstract: A method and system for interactive visual analysis of interactions among entities, where entities are individuals or groups, is provided. The preferred method of the present invention includes collecting interaction data, processing the collected interaction data with connectivity and diversity measures, and displaying the processed as well as the raw interaction data to provide interaction analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventors: Hikmet Senay, Peter D. Hancock, Jeffrey S. Saltz
  • Patent number: 4449365
    Abstract: A lift truck hydraulic control system designed to conserve energy includes a pair of separately controlled pumps (21, 22). One pump (21) supplies pressure fluid to a valve (12) for a steering cylinder (11) by way of a high priority port (34) of a priority valve (32) with the low priority flow passing to parallel connected lift and tilt valves (19, 18) which control operation of the lift cylinder (15) and tilt cylinders (16, 17), respectively. The capacity of pump (21) is sufficient to provide proper, effective operation of the steering and tilt functions but is not adequate to provide hydraulic fluid flow for high speed expansion of the lift cylinder (15). The other pump (22) is operated to supply additional pressure fluid flow for high speed lift only when the lift valve (19) is shifted to a raise position. In one embodiment, a low speed lift is obtained by using the output of the pump (21) and a high speed lift is obtained by selectively adding the output of the second pump 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1984
    Assignee: Allis-Chalmers Corporation
    Inventor: Peter D. Hancock