Patents by Inventor Scot Smith
Scot 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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Publication number: 20210048194Abstract: An assisted flare apparatus and method which increase the amount of air which is inducted into each of the flare combustion tip assemblies used in the apparatus by injecting the steam or other assist media used in each tip assembly into an inner conduit of the tip assembly which is configured such that at least a lower portion of the inner conduit is in the form of a venturi flow structure in which a straight venturi flow section is followed by a diverging venturi bell outlet section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Darton J. Zink, Rex K. Isaacs, John Petersen, Scot Smith, Cody Little, Tim Kirk
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Patent number: 9994069Abstract: A method of manufacturing paint roller covers is disclosed in which the paint roller covers are manufactured from a seamless segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric that is placed onto a cylindrical forming tube having a segment of bonding material temporarily secured on its outer surface under the segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric. The cylindrical forming tube is placed on a heated mandrel to apply heat thereto to cause the bonding material to bond to the interior of the segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric. The cylindrical forming tube is removed from the mandrel and cooled, and the segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric becomes secured to the bonding material to produce a semi-rigid paint roller cover segment.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Seamless Technologies, LLCInventors: Daniel L. Sinykin, Randy Smith, Scot Smith
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Publication number: 20150068938Abstract: A method of manufacturing paint roller covers is disclosed in which the paint roller covers are manufactured from a seamless segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric that is placed onto a cylindrical forming tube having a segment of bonding material temporarily secured on its outer surface under the segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric. The cylindrical forming tube is placed on a heated mandrel to apply heat thereto to cause the bonding material to bond to the interior of the segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric. The cylindrical forming tube is removed from the mandrel and cooled, and the segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric becomes secured to the bonding material to produce a semi-rigid paint roller cover segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Daniel L. Sinykin, Randy Smith, Scot Smith
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Patent number: 8882957Abstract: A method of manufacturing paint roller covers is disclosed in which the paint roller covers are manufactured from a seamless segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric that is placed onto a cylindrical forming tube having a segment of bonding material temporarily secured on its outer surface under the segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric. The cylindrical forming tube is placed on a heated mandrel to apply heat thereto to cause the bonding material to bond to the interior of the segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric. The cylindrical forming tube is removed from the mandrel and cooled, and the segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric becomes secured to the bonding material to produce a semi-rigid paint roller cover segment. The semi-rigid paint roller cover segment may be finished into paint roller covers.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Seamless Technologies, LLCInventors: Daniel L. Sinykin, Randy Smith, Scot Smith
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Publication number: 20120138209Abstract: A method of manufacturing paint roller covers is disclosed in which the paint roller covers are manufactured from a seamless segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric that is placed onto a cylindrical forming tube having a segment of bonding material temporarily secured on its outer surface under the segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric. The cylindrical forming tube is placed on a heated mandrel to apply heat thereto to cause the bonding material to bond to the interior of the segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric. The cylindrical forming tube is removed from the mandrel and cooled, and the segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric becomes secured to the bonding material to produce a semi-rigid paint roller cover segment. The semi-rigid paint roller cover segment may be finished into paint roller covers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2011Publication date: June 7, 2012Inventors: Daniel L. Sinykin, Randy Smith, Scot Smith
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Patent number: 7861806Abstract: A shank configuration for rotary drill bits is disclosed for positioning of the shank in relation to a bit body. A tapered surface or feature of the shank may be configured and sized to matingly engage a complementarily shaped surface or feature of the drill bit body and thereby become centered or positioned in relation thereto. A deformable element may be disposed between the shank and bit body. Also, the shank may comprise a material having a carbon equivalent of less than about 0.35%. A multi-pass weld procedure may be employed to affix the shank and bit body to one another wherein welds may be formed so that one weld originates at a circumferential position that differs from the origination circumferential position of its immediately preceding weld by at least about 90°. Further, a stress state may be developed within the multi-pass weld. A method of manufacture is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2009Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Anton F. Zahradnik, Eric C. Sullivan, R. Scot Smith, Daniel E. Ruff, Danielle V. Roberts, Alan J. Massey
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Publication number: 20100012392Abstract: A shank configuration for rotary drill bits is disclosed for positioning of the shank in relation to the bit body. A tapered surface or feature of the shank may be configured and sized to matingly engage a complementarily shaped surface or feature of the drill bit body and thereby become centered or positioned in relation thereto. A deformable element may be disposed between the shank and bit body. Also, the shank may comprise a material having a carbon equivalent of less than about 0.35%. A multi-pass weld procedure may be employed to affix the shank and bit body to one another wherein welds may be formed so that one weld originates at a circumferential position that differs from the origination circumferential position of its immediately preceding weld by at least about 90°. Further, a stress state may be developed within the multi-pass weld. A method of manufacture is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Anton F. Zahradnik, Eric C. Sullivan, R. Scot Smith, Daniel E. Ruff, Danielle V. Roberts, Alan J. Massey
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Patent number: 7600589Abstract: A shank configuration for rotary drill bits, is disclosed for positioning of the shank in relation to the bit body. A tapered surface or feature of the shank may be configured and sized to matingly engage a complementarily shaped surface or feature of the drill bit body and thereby become centered or positioned in relation thereto. A deformable element may be disposed between the shank and bit body. Also, the shank may comprise a material having a carbon equivalent of less than about 0.35%. A multi-pass weld procedure may be employed to affix the shank and bit body to one another wherein welds may be formed so that one weld originates at a circumferential position that differs from the origination circumferential position of its immediately preceding weld by at least about 90%. Further, a stress state may be developed within the multi-pass weld. A method of manufacture is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2007Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Anton F. Zahradnik, Eric C. Sullivan, R. Scot Smith, Daniel E. Ruff, Danielle V. Roberts, Alan J. Massey
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Patent number: 7594454Abstract: A shank configuration for rotary drill bits is disclosed for positioning of the shank in relation to the bit body. A tapered surface or feature of the shank may be configured and sized to matingly engage a complementarily shaped surface or feature of the drill bit body and thereby become centered or positioned in relation thereto. A deformable element may be disposed between the shank and bit body. Also, the shank may comprise a material having a carbon equivalent of less than about 0.35%. A multi-pass weld procedure may be employed to affix the shank and bit body to one another wherein welds may be formed so that one weld originates at a circumferential position that differs from the origination circumferential position of its immediately preceding weld by at least about 90°. Further, a stress state may be developed within the multi-pass weld. A method of manufacture is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2007Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Anton F. Zahradnik, Eric C. Sullivan, R. Scot Smith, Daniel E. Ruff, Danielle V. Roberts, Alan J. Massey
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Patent number: 7472764Abstract: A shank configuration for rotary drill bits is disclosed for positioning of the shank in relation to the bit body. A tapered surface or feature of the shank may be configured and sized to matingly engage a complementarily shaped surface or feature of the drill bit body and thereby become centered or positioned in relation thereto. A deformable element may be disposed between the shank and bit body. Also, the shank may comprise a material having a carbon equivalent of less than about 0.35%. A multi-pass weld procedure may be employed to affix the shank and bit body to one another wherein welds may be formed so that one weld originates at a circumferential position that differs from the origination circumferential position of its immediately preceding weld by at least about 90°. Further, a stress state may be developed within the multi-pass weld. A method of manufacture is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2005Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Anton F. Zahradnik, Eric C. Sullivan, R. Scot Smith, Daniel E. Ruff, Danielle V. Roberts, Alan J. Massey
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Patent number: 7016388Abstract: The present invention provides a modular high repetition rate ultraviolet gas discharge laser light source for a production line machine. The system includes an enclosed and purged beam path for delivery the laser beam to a desired location such as the entrance port of the production line machine. In preferred embodiments, the production line machine is a lithography machine and two separate discharge chambers are provided, one of which is a part of a master oscillator producing a very narrow band seed beam which is amplified in the second discharge chamber. This MOPA system is capable of output pulse energies approximately double the comparable single chamber laser system with greatly improved beam quality. A pulse stretcher more than doubles the output pulse length resulting in a reduction in pulse power (mJ/ns) as compared to prior art laser systems.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2003Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Cymer, Inc.Inventors: Brian Klene, Palash P. Das, Steve Grove, Alexander Ershov, Scot Smith, Xiaojiang Pan, Richard L. Sandstrom
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Publication number: 20050286599Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing with a gas discharge laser an output laser beam comprising output laser light pulses, for delivery as a light source to a utilizing tool is disclosed which may comprise a beam path and a beam homogenizer in the beam path. The beam homogenizer may comprise at least one beam image inverter or spatial rotator, which may comprise a spatial coherency cell position shifter. The homogenizer may comprise a delay path which is longer than, but approximately the same delay as the temporal coherence length of the source beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2004Publication date: December 29, 2005Inventors: Robert Rafac, Scot Smith
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Publication number: 20050271109Abstract: An oscillator-amplifier gas discharge laser system and method is disclosed which may comprise a first laser unit which may comprise a first discharge region which may contain an excimer or molecular fluorine lasing gas medium; a first pair of electrodes defining the first discharge region containing the lasing gas medium, a line narrowing unit for narrowing a spectral bandwidth of output laser light pulse beam pulses produced in said first discharge region; a second laser unit which may comprise a second discharge chamber which may contain an excimer or molecular fluorine lasing gas medium; a second pair of electrodes defining the second discharge region containing the lasing gas medium; a pulse power system providing electrical pulses to the first pair of electrodes and to the second pair of electrodes producing gas discharges in the lasing gas medium between the respective first and second pair of electrodes, and laser parameter control mechanism modifying a selected parameter of a selected laser output ligType: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2005Publication date: December 8, 2005Applicant: Cymer, Inc.Inventors: David Knowles, Daniel Brown, Herve Besaucele, David Myers, Alexander Ershov, William Partlo, Richard Sandstrom, Palash Das, Stuart Anderson, Igor Fomenkov, Richard Ujazdowski, Eckehard Onkels, Richard Ness, Scot Smith, William Hulburd, Jeffrey Oicles
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Publication number: 20050259709Abstract: A laser crystallization apparatus and method are disclosed for selectively melting a film such as amorphous silicon that is deposited on a substrate. The apparatus may comprise an optical system for producing stretched laser pulses for use in melting the film. In still another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, a system and method are provided for stretching a laser pulse. In another aspect, a system is provided for maintaining a divergence of a pulsed laser beam (stretched or non-stretched) at a location along a beam path within a predetermined range. In another aspect, a system may be provided for maintaining the energy density at a film within a predetermined range during an interaction of the film with a shaped line beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2005Publication date: November 24, 2005Applicant: Cymer, Inc.Inventors: Palash Das, Thomas Hofmann, Jesse Davis, Scot Smith, William Partlo
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Publication number: 20050105579Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing a high peak power short pulse duration gas discharge laser output pulse is disclosed which may comprise a pulse stretcher which may comprise a laser output pulse optical delay initiating optic diverting a portion of the output laser pulse into an optical delay having an optical delay path and comprising; a plurality of confocal resonators in series aligned to deliver an output of the optical delay to the laser output pulse optical delay initiating optic. The plurality of confocal resonators comprises four confocal resonators comprising a twelve pass four mirror arrangement. Each of the plurality of confocal resonators may comprise a first concave spherical mirror having a radius of curvature and a second concave spherical mirror having the same radius of curvature and separated by the radius of curvature.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2004Publication date: May 19, 2005Inventors: Scot Smith, Alexander Ershov, Alexei Lukashev
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Publication number: 20040105479Abstract: The present invention provides a modular high repetition rate ultraviolet gas discharge laser light source for a production line machine. The system includes an enclosed and purged beam path for delivery the laser beam to a desired location such as the entrance port of the production line machine. In preferred embodiments, the production line machine is a lithography machine and two separate discharge chambers are provided, one of which is a part of a master oscillator producing a very narrow band seed beam which is amplified in the second discharge chamber. This MOPA system is capable of output pulse energies approximately double the comparable single chamber laser system with greatly improved beam quality. A pulse stretcher more than doubles the output pulse length resulting in a reduction in pulse power (mJ/ns) as compared to prior art laser systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2003Publication date: June 3, 2004Inventors: Brian Klene, Palash P. Das, Steve Grove, Alexander Ershov, Scot Smith, Xiaojiang Pan, Richard L. Sandstrom
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Patent number: 6693939Abstract: The present invention provides a modular high repetition rate ultraviolet gas discharge laser light source for a production line machine. The system includes an enclosed and purged beam path for delivery the laser beam to a desired location such as the entrance port of the production line machine. In preferred embodiments, the production line machine is a lithography machine and two separate discharge chambers are provided, one of which is a part of a master oscillator producing a very narrow band seed beam which is amplified in the second discharge chamber. This MOPA system is capable of output pulse energies approximately double the comparable single chamber laser system with greatly improved beam quality. A pulse stretcher more than doubles the output pulse length resulting in a reduction in pulse power (mJ/ns) as compared to prior art laser systems.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2002Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Cymer, Inc.Inventors: Brian Klene, Palash P. Das, Steve Grove, Alexander Ershov, Scot Smith, Xiaojiang Pan, Richard L. Sandstrom
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Publication number: 20020191654Abstract: The present invention provides a modular high repetition rate ultraviolet gas discharge laser light source for a production line machine. The system includes an enclosed and purged beam path for delivery the laser beam to a desired location such as the entrance port of the production line machine. In preferred embodiments, the production line machine is a lithography machine and two separate discharge chambers are provided, one of which is a part of a master oscillator producing a very narrow band seed beam which is amplified in the second discharge chamber. This MOPA system is capable of output pulse energies approximately double the comparable single chamber laser system with greatly improved beam quality. A pulse stretcher more than doubles the output pulse length resulting in a reduction in pulse power (mJ/ns) as compared to prior art laser systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2002Publication date: December 19, 2002Inventors: Brian Klene, Palash P. Das, Steve Grove, Alexander Ershov, Scot Smith, Xiaojiang Pan, Richard L. Sandstrom