Patents by Inventor Richard French
Richard French 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).
-
Patent number: 11180355Abstract: The scissor jack cover may be a protective cover for an individual scissor jack. The individual scissor jack may be coupled to the underside of a vehicle. While residing inside of a cavity within the scissor jack cover, the individual scissor jack may be protected from water, road salt, dirt, and other contaminants which may make the individual scissor jack difficult to operate. The vehicle may employ a plurality of scissor jacks to level and stabilize the vehicle when the vehicle is stationary. Multiple instances of the scissor jack cover may be deployed to protect each of the plurality of scissor jacks dispersed beneath the vehicle. As a non-limiting example, the vehicle may be a toy hauler trailer, a recreational vehicle, a travel trailer, a motor home, or other conveyance.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Inventor: Richard A. French
-
Patent number: 10650143Abstract: A microcontroller with a built-in self-healing function. A programmable memory stores a normal control routine. A processing unit is arranged to execute the normal control routine in order to provide output data on the output line. A danger signal input line which is connected to a logic unit and dedicated to communicating a danger signal to the logic unit. Processor and logic unit state lines are provided between the processing unit and the logic unit for communicating processor state data from the processing unit to the logic unit and communicating logic unit state data from the logic unit to the processing unit. An interrupt line between the logic unit and the processing unit is dedicated to communicating an interrupt signal from the logic unit to the processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations LimitedInventors: Richard French, Viktoriya Degeler, Kevin Jones
-
Publication number: 20180314824Abstract: A microcontroller with a built-in self-healing function. A programmable memory stores a normal control routine. A processing unit is arranged to execute the normal control routine in order to provide output data on the output line. A danger signal input line which is connected to a logic unit and dedicated to communicating a danger signal to the logic unit. Processor and logic unit state lines are provided between the processing unit and the logic unit for communicating processor state data from the processing unit to the logic unit and communicating logic unit state data from the logic unit to the processing unit. An interrupt line between the logic unit and the processing unit is dedicated to communicating an interrupt signal from the logic unit to the processing unit. The logic unit is arranged to communicate the interrupt signal to the processing unit via the interrupt line in response to receipt of the danger signal on the danger signal input line.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Inventors: Richard FRENCH, Viktoriya DEGELER, Kevin JONES
-
Patent number: 8538992Abstract: The methods, systems, and data structures are taught for federating disparate calendaring systems into composite calendaring systems and composite calendars. First and second calendaring systems are bridged to a composite calendaring system using a bridging communication. The composite calendaring system tracks and presents selective information within a composite calendar.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2003Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Novell, Inc.Inventors: Daniel C. Lawyer, Jeffrey Todd Hawkins, Scott Alan Isaacson, Matthew Richard French, James D. Nyland, Stephen R Carter
-
Patent number: 8353687Abstract: A rotary pump (1), which can be operated by an electronically commutated DC motor (56) with an axial gap, with a dry space (54), in which a wound stator (55) is accommodated, and a fluid-fillable pump space (13), in which a permanent magnetic pump impeller (5) is accommodated to rotate, the pump impeller (5) being separated by a split plate (18) from stator (55), which is connected to a return ring (27), to which several poles (15) are connected, and a circuit board (17), and is in heat-conducting contact with it, and includes a heat conducting element (10) from a good heat conducting light metal. The heat conducting element (10) consists essentially of a disk (40) aligned at right angles to the motor shaft or an annular disk with a coaxial tube (39) extending in the direction of the pump impeller in one piece with it, open or closed toward the motor shaft, and that the circuit board (17) is connected to the heat-conducting element (15) on the side facing away from the pump impeller (5).Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Dohler Motor GmbHInventors: Michael John Werson, Colin Richard French
-
Patent number: 8303268Abstract: A rotary pump (1) with a multipart pump housing (4), comprising a suction connector (6) and a pressure connector (7), a pump impeller (5) mounted on a fixed shaft (3), the pump rotor (5) being designed as a permanent magnetic rotor cooperating with an electromagnetic stator. The task of the invention in a rotary pump is to achieve excellent efficiency in a compact design. The rotary pump is also supposed to guarantee high lifetime and improved heat removal. This task is solved according to the invention in that the shaft (3) is firmly connected to a first pump housing (2), referred to as pump head, which includes the suction connector (6) or is connected to it, the shaft (3) forming an axis of symmetry to an inside wall area of pump head (2).Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Bühler Motor GmbHInventors: Michael John Werson, Colin Richard French
-
Publication number: 20100158714Abstract: A rotary pump (1), which can be operated by an electronically commutated DC motor (56) with an axial gap, with a dry space (54), in which a wound stator (55) is accommodated, and a fluid-fillable pump space (13), in which a permanent magnetic pump impeller (5) is accommodated to rotate, the pump impeller (5) being separated by a split plate (18) from stator (55), which is connected to a return ring (27), to which several poles (15) are connected, and a circuit board (17), and is in heat-conducting contact with it, and includes a heat conducting element (10) from a good heat conducting light metal. The heat conducting element (10) consists essentially of a disk (40) aligned at right angles to the motor shaft or an annular disk with a coaxial tube (39) extending in the direction of the pump impeller in one piece with it, open or closed toward the motor shaft, and that the circuit board (17) is connected to the heat-conducting element (15) on the side facing away from the pump impeller (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Michael John Werson, Colin Richard French
-
Publication number: 20100158725Abstract: A rotary pump (1) with a multipart pump housing (4), comprising a suction connector (6) and a pressure connector (7), a pump impeller (5) mounted on a fixed shaft (3), the pump rotor (5) being designed as a permanent magnetic rotor cooperating with an electromagnetic stator. The task of the invention in a rotary pump is to achieve excellent efficiency in a compact design. The rotary pump is also supposed to guarantee high lifetime and improved heat removal. This task is solved according to the invention in that the shaft (3) is firmly connected to a first pump housing (2), referred to as pump head, which includes the suction connector (6) or is connected to it, the shaft (3) forming an axis of symmetry to an inside wall area of pump head (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Michael John Werson, Colin Richard French
-
Publication number: 20090195401Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may include a sensor system and a method used to track the behaviors of targets in an area under surveillance. The invention may include a sensor array located in the area that is capable of sending messages to a user when behavior of a tracked target is determined to be anomalous. In making the determination of anomalous behavior, the sensor system and method may generate and continuously refine a pattern of life model that may examine, for example, the paths a target may take within the sensor array and the end points of the paths taken. The sensor system and method may also incorporate any user defined conditions for anomalous behavior.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2008Publication date: August 6, 2009Inventors: Andrew Maroney, Peter Burke, Richard French
-
Publication number: 20070051285Abstract: A table cover comprising a table top covering portion having a planar unitary body and a perimeter thereabout; and a cinching mechanism attached to the perimeter of the table top covering portion in an expanded state for providing a table cover which molds around a table top upon retraction of the cinching mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2006Publication date: March 8, 2007Inventors: Helaine French, Richard French
-
Patent number: 7107290Abstract: Methods and systems for conveniently and quickly checking-out/checking-in and replicating a document record from/to a server instance of a document database to/from a local replica of the document database are provided. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method for accessing a document record stored in a server document database system from a client system, comprising: receiving user selection of a document record from a replica database in the client system; querying the server document database system for the document record; determining whether the document record is available for check-out from the server document database system; and if the document record is available for check-out, replicating the document record to the replica database in the client system.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2002Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Michael Davis, Ronal Richard French, James Andrew Hoppa, Brian Richard Lepel, Nathan G. Steffenhagen
-
Patent number: 7047234Abstract: Method and apparatus for managing user access to database(s), thereby reducing the time-consuming, repetitive tasks a database administrator must perform to grant user access to one or more databases. Embodiments of the invention also facilitate a database administrator in granting multiple user access of different types to multiple databases. Furthermore, embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for tracking grants of user access for multiple databases. One embodiment provides a method for managing user access to one or more databases, comprising: receiving an access request for one or more users requesting access to one or more databases; retrieving server information for the one or more databases; adding the one or more users to a user group for the database; and generating an access document for each user.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2001Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ronal Richard French, Brian Richard Lepel, Randy Eugenio Oyarzabal, Susan Eileen Skrabanek, Nathan G. Steffenhagen
-
Patent number: 7047239Abstract: Method, article of manufacture and apparatus for communicating between a first system and a second system. One embodiment provides a method for communicating between a first system and a second system each having an associated database, in which at least one of the systems is configured to prevent the other of the two systems from directly accessing its respective database. Interfaces are implemented at each of the system, wherein the interfaces extract data from the respective databases of the respective systems as well as from incoming messages from the other system. In one embodiment, the message contains information about a defect found in an application being developed in the second system. Encoding and decoding techniques may be used by the systems to generate and communicate the messages between one another.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2001Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ronal Richard French, Dennis Robert Hahn, Brian Richard Lepel, Randy Eugenio Oyarzabal, Nathan G. Steffenhagen
-
Publication number: 20030212697Abstract: Methods and systems for conveniently and quickly checking-out/checking-in and replicating a document record from/to a server instance of a document database to/from a local replica of the document database are provided. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method for accessing a document record stored in a server document database system from a client system, comprising: receiving user selection of a document record from a replica database in the client system; querying the server document database system for the document record; determining whether the document record is available for check-out from the server document database system; and if the document record is available for check-out, replicating the document record to the replica database in the client system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2002Publication date: November 13, 2003Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Jeffrey Michael Davis, Ronal Richard French, James Andrew Hoppa, Brian Richard Lepel, Nathan G. Steffenhagen
-
Patent number: 6641476Abstract: A coin (or banknote) dispenser has a plurality of cash stores, a common actuator and a clutch for each store selectively transmitting a driving force to cause dispensing of a currency unit. The clutch has a driving member which is driven by the actuator, a driven member which can move to cause a currency unit to be dispensed from the cash store, a coupling member which can cause a driving force to be transmitted from the driving member to the driven member depending upon whether the coupling member is in an engaged state or a disengaged state, and an electromagnet for moving the coupling member from one of the states to the other state.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2001Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Inventor: Colin Richard French
-
Patent number: 6634785Abstract: A mixer assembly is disclosed having a container with a closed sidewall, a closed bottom and a rim which forms an open top. The container is adapted to contain a product, such as roofing sealant, plaster or the like, to be mixed. A cover overlies the open top while a clamp detachably secures the cover to the container rim. A tubular conduit is attached to the cover so that the opposite ends of the conduit are open to the opposite sides of the cover. A stirrer assembly having a driven shaft and an agitator secured to one end of the shaft is then positioned within the container so that the agitator is solely contained within the container while the shaft extends exteriorly through the conduit and above the cover. A rotary drive, such as a drill, is then secured to the upper end of the shaft to rotatably drive the agitator and mix the product within the container.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2001Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Inventors: Ronald French, Richard French
-
Publication number: 20030120657Abstract: Method, article of manufacture and apparatus for communicating between a first system and a second system. One embodiment provides a method for communicating between a first system and a second system each having an associated database, in which at least one of the systems is configured to prevent the other of the two systems from directly accessing its respective database. Interfaces are implemented at each of the system, wherein the interfaces extract data from the respective databases of the respective systems as well as from incoming messages from the other system. In one embodiment, the message contains information about a defect found in an application being developed in the second system. Encoding and decoding techniques may be used by the systems to generate and communicate the messages between one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2001Publication date: June 26, 2003Inventors: Ronal Richard French, Dennis Robert Hahn, Brian Richard Lepel, Randy Eugenio Oyarzabal, Nathan G. Steffenhagen
-
Publication number: 20030115205Abstract: Method and apparatus for managing user access to database(s), thereby reducing the time-consuming, repetitive tasks a database administrator must perform to grant user access to one or more databases. Embodiments of the invention also facilitate a database administrator in granting multiple user access of different types to multiple databases. Furthermore, embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for tracking grants of user access for multiple databases. One embodiment provides a method for managing user access to one or more databases, comprising: receiving an access request for one or more users requesting access to one or more databases; retrieving server information for the one or more databases; adding the one or more users to a user group for the database; and generating an access document for each user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2001Publication date: June 19, 2003Inventors: Ronal Richard French, Brian Richard Lepel, Randy Eugenio Oyarzabal, Susan Eileen Skrabanek, Nathan G. Steffenhagen
-
Publication number: 20020117798Abstract: A coin (or banknote) dispenser has a plurality of cash stores, a common actuator and a clutch for each store selectively transmitting a driving force to cause dispensing of a currency unit. The clutch has a driving member which is driven by the actuator, a driven member which can move to cause a currency unit to be dispensed from the cash store, a coupling member which can cause a driving force to be transmitted from the driving member to the driven member depending upon whether the coupling member is in an engaged state or a disengaged state, and an electromagnet for moving the coupling member from one of the states to the other state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2001Publication date: August 29, 2002Inventor: Colin Richard French
-
Patent number: D992234Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Inventor: Richard A. French