Patents by Inventor Stephen Terence Dunne

Stephen Terence Dunne 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: 6394452
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a three-dimensional noughts and crosses game in which games pieces are placed in attachment means located at the apexes, lines of intersection and upon the generally planer surfaces of a body member, notably a solid or hollow cube, so as to create lines of games pieces which extend in three dimensions across the junction of at least two of the surfaces of the cube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Inventor: Stephen Terence Dunne
  • Patent number: 5911851
    Abstract: A nozzle assembly for use in atomizing and generating sprays from a fluid. The nozzle assembly includes two members joined together. In one of the two members are formed one or more nozzle outlets, one or more fluid inlets, and a plurality of channels that form filter passageways. The nozzle outlets discharge fluid jets that impinge on one another to thereby atomize the fluid. Alternatively, an impact element or a vortex-generating structure can be used in the nozzle outlet to atomize the fluid. Methods are also provided for producing the nozzle assembly by forming the inlets, outlets, and/or channels through electrical or chemical etching or other processes that selectively remove material from at least one face of a nozzle assembly member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Wulf Bachtler, Stephen Terence Dunne, Joachim Eicher, Bernhard Freund, William Barrie Hart, Christoph Lessmoellmann
  • Patent number: 5662271
    Abstract: A metered dose inhaler comprises a piston which is mounted in a cavity within a body, and is urged by a pre-loaded spring into a reduced cross-section pressure chamber. The piston may be loaded by means of an actuating rod having a handle, and may be latched in a loaded position by a latching means. A liquid drug (e.g. in aqueous solution) is contained in a collapsible bag. Metered quantities of the drug are successively presented in the pressure chamber, and then subjected to a sudden and great increase in pressure, to eject the liquid drug through an atomising head, to reduce it to fine atomised spray of small mean particle size--for example less than 30 micrometers. Non-return valves control the flow of liquid through the device. The sudden pressure pulse is caused be releasing the spring loaded piston, upon depressing an actuating button connected by the latching means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Terence Edward Weston, Stephen Terence Dunne