Patents by Inventor Richard George Smith
Richard George Smith 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: 10818460Abstract: A magnetic module in a circuit interrupting system is configured to generate a blow-on force that pushes a moving contact toward a stationary contact. The magnetic module includes: a coil conductor having an opening through which a moving stem of the moving contact may move, wherein the coil conductor is electrically connected to the moving stem and a first auxiliary conductor, wherein the coil conductor is configured to allow current to flow from the moving stem to the first auxiliary conductor; a plunger attached to an end of the moving stem; and a first magnetic core shaped to fit around a first section of the coil conductor, wherein the first magnetic core is configured, when current flows through the coil conductor to the first auxiliary conductor, to become magnetized, attract the plunger toward the magnetic core, and cause the moving stem of the moving contact to move toward the stationary contact.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: S&C Electric CompanyInventors: Goran Djogo, Richard George Smith, Daniel Hunter Desmond
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Publication number: 20200152408Abstract: A magnetic module in a circuit interrupting system is configured to generate a blow-on force that pushes a moving contact toward a stationary contact. The magnetic module includes: a coil conductor having an opening through which a moving stem of the moving contact may move, wherein the coil conductor is electrically connected to the moving stem and a first auxiliary conductor, wherein the coil conductor is configured to allow current to flow from the moving stem to the first auxiliary conductor; a plunger attached to an end of the moving stem; and a first magnetic core shaped to fit around a first section of the coil conductor, wherein the first magnetic core is configured, when current flows through the coil conductor to the first auxiliary conductor, to become magnetized, attract the plunger toward the magnetic core, and cause the moving stem of the moving contact to move toward the stationary contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: S&C Electric CompanyInventors: Goran Djogo, Richard George Smith, Daniel Hunter Desmond
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Patent number: 10504678Abstract: A remote access pull rig for opening a fuse associated with a power distribution system is provided. The remote access pull rig includes a base adapted to be coupled to the fuse and a first leg coupled to the base. The first leg includes a first clamp. The remote access pull rig also includes a second leg coupled to the base. The first leg and the second leg extend along a longitudinal axis of the remote access pull rig, and the second leg including a second clamp. The remote access pull rig includes an arm coupled to the base. The arm extends along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis and includes a third clamp.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: S&C Electric CompanyInventors: Richard George Smith, Christopher Lettow
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Patent number: 10099899Abstract: A shake-proof hook is provided, which includes a hook end that defines a receptacle. The hook end includes a lead-in portion and a channel spaced apart from the lead-in portion. The shake-proof hook includes a coupling end coupled to the hook end. The coupling end includes a retaining portion and at least one coupling ring. The retaining portion extends along a first axis transverse to a longitudinal axis of the shake-proof hook and the at least one coupling ring extends along a second axis. The second axis is transverse to the longitudinal axis and the second axis is different than the first axis.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: S&C Electric CompanyInventor: Richard George Smith
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Publication number: 20170133187Abstract: A remote access pull rig for opening a fuse associated with a power distribution system is provided. The remote access pull rig includes a base adapted to be coupled to the fuse and a first leg coupled to the base. The first leg includes a first clamp. The remote access pull rig also includes a second leg coupled to the base. The first leg and the second leg extend along a longitudinal axis of the remote access pull rig, and the second leg including a second clamp. The remote access pull rig includes an arm coupled to the base. The arm extends along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis and includes a third clamp.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2016Publication date: May 11, 2017Applicant: S&C Electric CompanyInventors: Richard George SMITH, Christopher LETTOW
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Publication number: 20170129746Abstract: A shake-proof hook is provided, which includes a hook end that defines a receptacle. The hook end includes a lead-in portion and a channel spaced apart from the lead-in portion. The shake-proof hook includes a coupling end coupled to the hook end. The coupling end includes a retaining portion and at least one coupling ring. The retaining portion extends along a first axis transverse to a longitudinal axis of the shake-proof hook and the at least one coupling ring extends along a second axis. The second axis is transverse to the longitudinal axis and the second axis is different than the first axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2016Publication date: May 11, 2017Applicant: S&C Electric CompanyInventor: Richard George SMITH
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Publication number: 20120167705Abstract: A transmission direction control system of a vehicle comprises a transmission circuit having a transmission actuator to activate a corresponding solenoid, and an actuating switch for controlling an electrical flow through the transmission circuit; a control circuit configured to actuate the switch; and a control configured for electrical communication with the transmission actuator and the control circuit to alternately activate the transmission circuit and the control circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2009Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.Inventors: Simon Richard Conway, Richard George Smith, Edwin George Coombs
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Patent number: 6689738Abstract: There is provided an enzymatic oxidation composition and process wherein an oxidisable substance is reacted with (a) a compound having the formula: and (b) molecular oxygen, in the absence of peroxidase. The process is useful in detergent compositions for stain bleaching and/or anti dye-transfer.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Convents, Monique Doornink, Richard George Smith, David William Thornthwaite
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Patent number: 6586384Abstract: A method of delivering a benefit agent to a selected area of a fabric for exerting a predetermined activity, wherein the area is pre-treated with a multi-specific binding molecule which has a high binding affinity to said area through one specificity and is capable of binding to said benefit agent through another specificity, followed by contacting said pre-treated area with said benefit agent, to enhance said pre-determined activity to said area. Preferably, the binding molecule is an antibody or fragment thereof, or a fusion protein comprising a cellulose binding domain and a domain having a high binding affinity to another ligand which is directed to said benefit agent. The method is useful for stain removal, perfume delivery, and treating collars and cuffs for wear.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2000Date of Patent: July 1, 2003Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Sandra Hemmington, Steven Howell, Julie Little, Cornelis Paul Van Der Logt, Neil James Parry, Richard George Smith
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Patent number: 6518231Abstract: The invention relates to catalytically bleaching substrates, especially laundry fabrics, with atmospheric oxygen or air in the presence of an air bleaching facilitator.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2001Date of Patent: February 11, 2003Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Rene Appel, Ronald Hage, Philippus Cornelis van der Hoeven, Joachim Lienke, Richard George Smith
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Publication number: 20020169096Abstract: The invention relates to catalytically bleaching substrates, especially laundry fabrics, with atmospheric oxygen or air in the presence of an air bleaching facilitator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2001Publication date: November 14, 2002Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Rene Appel, Ronald Hage, Philippus Cornelis van der Hoeven, Joachim Lienke, Richard George Smith
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Patent number: 6451752Abstract: A method for bleaching stained fabrics is provided by pretreating the stained fabric, before washing, with a pretreatment composition that comprises a ligand that forms a transition metal complex as bleach catalyst, the complex catalysing bleaching of stains by atmospheric oxygen. The pretreatment composition preferably comprises an iron complex comprising the ligand N,N-bis(pyridin-2-yl-methyl)-1,1-bis(pyridin-2-yl)-1-aminoethane. One or both of the pretreatment composition and the wash liquor are substantially devoid of peroxygen bleach or a peroxy-based or -generating bleach system. The pretreatment provides improved or broader stain profile bleaching.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2000Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Michel Gilbert Delroisse, David Andrew Jones, Richard George Smith, John Francis Wells
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Publication number: 20020119900Abstract: There is provided an enzymatic oxidation composition and process wherein an oxidisable substance is reacted with (a) a compound having the formula: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2001Publication date: August 29, 2002Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Convents, Monique Doornink, Richard George Smith, David William Thornthwaite
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Publication number: 20020016279Abstract: There is provided an enzymatic oxidation composition and process wherein an oxidisable substance is reacted with (a) a peroxidase, (b) a compound which enhances the activity of the peroxidase and (c) molecular oxygen, said composition being essentially free from hydrogen peroxide and compounds capable of generating hydrogen peroxide. The process is useful in detergent compositions for stain bleaching and/or anti dye-transfer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2001Publication date: February 7, 2002Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Convents, Monique Doornink, Monique van der Heiden, Jean Hypolities Koek, Richard George Smith, David William Thornthwaite, Sebastiaan van der Velden, Cornelis Hendrikus de Vries, Nicole Zwets
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Publication number: 20010034314Abstract: There is provided a method of delivering a benefit agent to a selected area of a fabric for exerting a predetermined activity, wherein the area is pre-treated with a multi-specific binding molecule which has a high binding affinity to said area through one specificity and is capable of binding to said benefit agent through another specificity, followed by contacting said pre-treated area with said benefit agent, to enhance said pre-determined activity to said area. Preferably, the binding molecule is an antibody or fragment thereof, or a fusion protein comprising a cellulose binding domain and a domain having a high binding affinity to another ligand which is directed to said benefit agent. The method is useful for stain removal, perfume delivery, and treating collars and cuffs for wear.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2000Publication date: October 25, 2001Inventors: Sandra Hemmington, Steven Howell, Julie Little, Cornelis Paul Van Der Logt, Neil James Parry, Richard George Smith
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Patent number: 6302921Abstract: A method for bleaching stained fabrics is provided by washing a stained fabric in an aqueous wash liquor in the presence of a wash additive that comprises a ligand that forms a transition metal complex as bleach catalyst, the complex catalysing bleaching of stains by atmospheric oxygen. The wash additive preferably comprises an iron complex comprising the ligand N,N-bis(pyridin-2-yl-methyl)-1,1-bis(pyridin-2-yl)-1-aminoethane. One or both of the wash additive and the wash liquor are substantially devoid of peroxygen bleach or a peroxy-based or -generating bleach system. The wash additive provides improved or broader stain profile bleaching.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2000Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Michel Gilbert Delroisse, David Andrew Jones, Richard George Smith, John Francis Wells
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Patent number: 6221831Abstract: A free-flowing built particulate laundry detergent composition comprises: (i) at least 27% by weight of non-soap organic detergent surfactant, (ii) one or more detergency builders, but not more than 7% by weight of alkali metal aluminosilicate, the weight ratio of surfactant to builder being at least 1.2:1.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1998Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: William Derek Emery, Andreas Theodorus Groot, Terry Instone, Seeng Djiang Liem, Kenneth Metcalfe, Richard George Smith, Gilbert Martin Verschelling
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Patent number: 5760595Abstract: A test socket is provided as part of a high temperature electromigration test system to allow the prediction of median time to failure to temperatures in excess of 450.degree. C. of VSLI interconnects.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1996Date of Patent: June 2, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert Daniel Edwards, Du Binh Nguyen, James Joseph Poulin, Hazara Singh Rathore, Richard George Smith
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Patent number: D778145Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: S&C ELECTRIC COMPANYInventor: Richard George Smith
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Patent number: D796941Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: S&C ELECTRIC COMPANYInventor: Richard George Smith