Patents by Inventor Robert Warren Beauchamp

Robert Warren Beauchamp 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).

  • Media storage bin and method of using same
    Patent number: 7007947
    Abstract: A media storage bin including a floor and a pair of spaced apart walls specifically spaced to receive pieces of media and to retain the pieces of media in a stacked condition. A drop control flap is mounted to an individual one of the spaced walls for delaying the fall of a piece of media into the bin. This wall includes a top surface. A platform for supporting a stack of pieces of media is disposed in the bin, between the wall top surface and the floor. A helical spring is disposed between the platform and the floor for maintaining the top of the media stack at a predetermined distance from the wall top surface to provide thereby a constant fall distance between an individual one of the pieces of media and the wall top surface. This is accomplished in a manner whereby the spring rate enables the platform to drop the thickness of one piece of media for each piece of media added to the top of the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP.
    Inventor: Robert Warren Beauchamp
  • Multiple orientation image forming device and carriage for use with same
    Patent number: 6935796
    Abstract: A carriage including a printing component support and a pair of bushings having an inner region with at least three spaced rail contact regions separated by respective non-contact regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Joseph Johnson, Robert Warren Beauchamp
  • Multiple orientation image forming device and carriage for use with same
    Publication number: 20040052566
    Abstract: A carriage including a printing component support and a pair of bushings having an inner region with at least three spaced rail contact regions separated by respective non-contact regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Eric Joseph Johnson, Robert Warren Beauchamp
  • Media storage bin and method of using same
    Publication number: 20040045844
    Abstract: A media storage bin including a floor and a pair of spaced apart walls specifically spaced to receive pieces of media and to retain the pieces of media in a stacked condition. A drop control flap is mounted to an individual one of the spaced walls for delaying the fall of a piece of media into the bin. This wall includes a top surface. A platform for supporting a stack of pieces of media is disposed in the bin, between the wall top surface and the floor. A helical spring is disposed between the platform and the floor for maintaining the top of the media stack at a predetermined distance from the wall top surface to provide thereby a constant fall distance between an individual one of the pieces of media and the wall top surface. This is accomplished in a manner whereby the spring rate enables the platform to drop the thickness of one piece of media for each piece of media added to the top of the stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventor: Robert Warren Beauchamp
  • Multiple orientation image forming device and carriage for use with same
    Patent number: 6682234
    Abstract: A carriage including a printing component support and a pair of bushings having an inner region with at least three spaced rail contact regions separated by respective non-contact regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Joseph Johnson, Robert Warren Beauchamp
  • Media storage bin and method of using same
    Patent number: 6631902
    Abstract: A media storage bin including a floor and a pair of spaced apart walls specifically spaced to receive pieces of media and to retain the pieces of media in a stacked condition. A drop control flap is mounted to an individual one of the spaced walls for delaying the fall of a piece of media into the bin. This wall includes a top surface. A platform for supporting a stack of pieces of media is disposed in the bin, between the wall top surface and the floor. A helical spring is disposed between the platform and the floor for maintaining the top of the media stack at a predetermined distance from the wall top surface to provide thereby a constant fall distance between an individual one of the pieces of media and the wall top surface. This is accomplished in a manner whereby the spring rate enables the platform to drop the thickness of one piece of media for each piece of media added to the top of the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Robert Warren Beauchamp
  • Multiple orientation image forming device and carriage for use with same
    Patent number: 6524021
    Abstract: A carriage including a printing component support and a pair of bushings having an inner region with at least three spaced rail contact regions separated by respective non-contact regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Eric Joseph Johnson, Robert Warren Beauchamp
  • Multiple orientation image forming device and carriage for use with same
    Publication number: 20030016984
    Abstract: A carriage including a printing component support and a pair of bushings having an inner region with at least three spaced rail contact regions separated by respective non-contact regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventors: Eric Joseph Johnson, Robert Warren Beauchamp
  • Multiple orientation image forming device and carriage for use with same
    Publication number: 20020067941
    Abstract: A carriage including a printing component support and a pair of bushings having an inner region with at least three spaced rail contact regions separated by respective non-contact regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Eric Joseph Johnson, Robert Warren Beauchamp