Patents by Inventor Richard C. Larson

Richard C. Larson 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: 20130138511
    Abstract: Methods and systems to schedule delivery of items of content selectively to online users are described. In various embodiments, a method of scheduling delivery of multiple items of content selectively to a plurality of online users is disclosed. The method includes determining expected values relating to each user being online during a given time period, and generating an ordered list of the multiple items of content to be selectively delivered to each of the plurality of online users based on the expected values. Other methods and systems are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: OpenTV, Inc.
    Inventors: Tim Carruthers, Robert Hyland, Richard C. Larson, Robert McCready, John Moran, Nathaniel Thurston
  • Patent number: 5019325
    Abstract: A method for removing and installing a control rod drive from a drive housing mounted in the vessel of a boiling water reactor. The method comprises having a carriage supported by and movable along the service rails normally present in the undervessel cavity, and a cradle pivotally connected to the carriage and having a length substantially less than the length of a control rod drive. The pivot point between the cradle and the carriage is chosen such that the length of the carriage is subsumed within the length of the cradle when the cradle is pivoted into a horizontal position. The pivoting movement is accomplished by means of a hydraulic cylinder connected between the upwardly swinging end of the cradle. The carriage includes a lifting and lowering mechanism formed by the combination of a leadscrew drive and a hydraulic cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Richard C. Larson, Keith R. Spencer, Don P. Alercia, Horst Kwech, Thomas J. Litka, Guy J. Ford
  • Patent number: 4973443
    Abstract: A system for removing and installing a control rod drive from a drive housing mounted in the vessel of a boiling water reactor. The system comprises a carriage supported by and movable along the service rails normally present in the undervessel cavity, and a cradle pivotally connected to the carriage and having a length substantially less than the length of a control rod drive. The pivot point between the cradle and the carriage is chosen such that the length of the carriage is subsumed within the length of the cradle when the cradle is pivoted into a horizontal position. The pivoting movement is accomplished by means of a hydraulic cylinder connected between one end of the carriage, and the upwardly-swinging end of the cradle. The cradle includes a lifting and lowering mechanism formed by the combination of a leadscrew drive and a hydraulic cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1990
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Richard C. Larson, Keith R. Spencer, Don P. Alercia, Horst Kwech, Thomas J. Litka, Guy J. Ford
  • Patent number: 4347922
    Abstract: A grain distributor assembly for a grain elevator which includes a manifold plate having a plurality of discharge openings connected to respective downspouts. A distributor elbow having an inlet at its upper end coaxial with the central axis, and an offset outlet at its lower end, is arranged to discharge into any one of the discharge openings. Mounted below the elbow and swingable with it is a closure disc seated upon the manifold plate and having a single window therein providing passage for the lower end of the elbow. The remainder of the disc seats upon and closes off the inactive, non-registering ones of the discharge openings. A selector is provided for swinging the closure disc and elbow in unison about the central axis for positioning the elbow and window in angular register with a selected one of the discharge openings while maintaining all the other such openings securely covered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: Union Iron Works, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Curry, Richard C. Larson, Merle E. Clewett
  • Patent number: 3952796
    Abstract: An automatic temperature responsive control valve is disclosed for use in combination heating and cooling systems including two concentric valve sleeves each rotating individually in the valve body under the control of respective bimetallic transducers one of which directs work fluid to either a heating heat exchanger or a cooling heat exchanger in accordance with the temperature of work fluid supplied to the valve by either a chiller or a boiler through a solenoid valve controlled by the outside temperature and the other of which provides modulated flow through the heating or cooling means under the control of the spent fluid temperature. The control valve is usable for controlling the temperature of one or more rooms or for similar control of a process vessel so as to provide unique versatility of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1976
    Inventor: Richard C. Larson