Patents by Inventor William J. Casey
William J. Casey 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: 20160257470Abstract: An applicator package may include a pouch formed from one or more pliable membranes, the pouch comprising a first compartment and a second compartment, the first compartment being separated from the second chamber by a sealing juncture, a material sealed within the first compartment and an applicator having an applicator end in a handle end sealed within the second compartment. The membrane is formed from a material and has a thickness so as to allow the membrane to be manually punctured by the applicator end of the applicator for insertion of the applicator end into contact with the material in the first compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2016Publication date: September 8, 2016Inventors: William J. Casey, John P. Rowe
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Patent number: 9248240Abstract: The present invention provides a device for injection of formulations into a patient. In one embodiment the injection is sub-cutaneous. The device is convenient for injecting viscous formulations that would otherwise clog conventional injection devices, for example formulations containing microspheres, suspensions, and other viscous substances. Generally, the device features a needle for piercing the skin, an internal chamber for holding and transmitting fluid, a plunger for applying pressure to the internal chamber, a switch for triggering withdrawal of the needle, a sheath at least partially encompassing the needle and having a flow path within the sheath, and a spring that expands when the switch is triggered, and which thereby at least partially withdraws the needle from the sheath.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2009Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignees: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, LLCInventors: William J. Casey, Tyler J. Holschlag
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Publication number: 20100094254Abstract: The present invention provides a device for injection of formulations into a patient. In one embodiment the injection is sub-cutaneous. The device is convenient for injecting viscous formulations that would otherwise clog conventional injection devices, for example formulations containing microspheres, suspensions, and other viscous substances. Generally, the device features a needle for piercing the skin, an internal chamber for holding and transmitting fluid, a plunger for applying pressure to the internal chamber, a switch for triggering withdrawal of the needle, a sheath at least partially encompassing the needle and having a flow path within the sheath, and a spring that expands when the switch is triggered, and which thereby at least partially withdraws the needle from the sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.Inventors: William J. Casey, Tyler J. Holschlag
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Patent number: 7661326Abstract: Apparatus for aspirating and dispensing liquid samples in an analytical instrument, e.g., a hematology instrument, includes a liquid-sampling valve that, while operating to segment and position for dispensing one or more precise volumes of a liquid sample that has been aspirated into the valve by a pump, simultaneously enables the apparatus to be operated in an aspirate/dispense (suck-and-spit) mode in which a liquid sample can be selectively driven through the valve in opposite directions by a pump, e.g., a syringe pump.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2006Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Beckman Coulter, Inc.Inventors: William W. Li, William J. Casey, Craig R. Veiner, Carlos R. Gonzalez, Jose M. Cano, Roberto Del Valle, Santiago Galvez
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Patent number: 7647932Abstract: A smoking article, such as a cigarette, includes a lighting end and a mouth end. The lighting end is a longitudinally extending segment comprising smokable material that is intended to be lit and burned, and the resulting smoke generated by the burning of that smokable material is intended to be drawn into the mouth of the smoker through the mouth end of smoking article. A mouth end piece is located at the mouth end of the smoking article, and the mouth end piece allows the smoking article to be placed in the mouth of the smoker to be drawn upon. The smoking article further incorporates an aerosol-generation system that is located between the lighting end segment and the mouth end piece. The aerosol-generation system includes (i) a heat generation segment located adjacent to the lighting end segment, and (ii) an aerosol-generation region located between the heat generation segment and the mouth end piece. The aerosol-generation region incorporates an aerosol-forming material (e.g., glycerin and flavors).Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2005Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Daniel V. Cantrell, William J. Casey, III, Evon L. Crooks, Billy T. Conner, Joanne N. Taylor, Jeffrey A. Willis, Dempsey B. Brewer, Jr., Wayne E. Davis, Jr., James R. Stone
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Publication number: 20080098828Abstract: Apparatus for aspirating and dispensing liquid samples in an analytical instrument, e.g., a hematology instrument, includes a liquid-sampling valve that, while operating to segment and position for dispensing one or more precise volumes of a liquid sample that has been aspirated into the valve by a pump, simultaneously enables the apparatus to be operated in an aspirate/dispense (suck-and-spit) mode in which a liquid sample can be selectively driven through the valve in opposite directions by a pump, e.g., a syringe pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2006Publication date: May 1, 2008Applicant: BECKMAN COULTER, INC.Inventors: William W. Li, William J. Casey, Craig R. Veiner, Carlos R. Gonzalez, Jose M. Cano, Roberto Del Valle, Santiago Galvez
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Patent number: 7271581Abstract: An integrated circuit characterization printed circuit board and method is provided for improving the uniformity of impedance introduced by a test fixture across all of the pins of the integrated circuit device. The printed circuit board includes an array of substantially similar test contacts numbering greater than the pins of the integrated circuit device. The array of test contacts includes an active portion configured for electrically coupling with the corresponding pins on the integrated circuit device and an inactive portion adjacent to the active portion and electrically coupled to a reference signal on the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2003Date of Patent: September 18, 2007Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: William J. Casey, David R. Cuthbert, Olivia I. McGrew
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Patent number: 7213330Abstract: A plurality of electrical interconnections may be formed in an electrical device including a first component having a plurality of contact pads and a second component having a plurality of contact pads. The two components are placed in a confronting spaced relationship such that each contact pad of the first component locationally corresponds to one of the contact pads of the second component. The contact pads of the second component are further arranged such that at least two of the contact pads are laterally offset relative to their locationally corresponding contact pads on the first component with one of the at least two contact pads being offset in a first direction while the other is offset in another direction. A mass of conductive material is disposed between each contact pad of the first component and its corresponding contact pad of the second component.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2004Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: John L. Caldwell, William J. Casey
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Patent number: 7119563Abstract: An integrated circuit characterization printed circuit board and method are provided for improving the uniformity of impedance introduced by a test fixture across all of the pins of an integrated circuit device. The printed circuit board includes an array of substantially similar test contacts numbering greater than the pins of the integrated circuit device. The array of test contacts includes an active portion configured for electrically coupling with the corresponding pins on the integrated circuit device and an inactive portion adjacent to the active portion and electrically coupled to a reference signal on the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2005Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: William J. Casey, David R. Cuthbert, Olivia I. McGrew
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Patent number: 6974330Abstract: A plurality of electrical interconnections may be formed in an electrical device including a first component having a plurality of contact pads and a second component having a plurality of contact pads. The two components are placed in a confronting spaced relationship such that each contact pad of the first component locationally corresponds to one of the contact pads of the second component. The contact pads of the second component are further arranged such that at least two of the contact pads are laterally offset relative to their locationally corresponding contact pads on the first component with one of the at least two contact pads being offset in a first direction while the other is offset in another direction. A mass of conductive material is disposed between each contact pad of the first component and its corresponding contact pad of the second component.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2002Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: John L. Caldwell, William J. Casey
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Patent number: 6924637Abstract: An integrated circuit characterization printed circuit board and method are provided for improving the uniformity of impedance introduced by a test fixture across all of the pins of an integrated circuit device. The printed circuit board includes an array of substantially similar test contacts numbering greater than the pins of the integrated circuit device. The array of test contacts includes an active portion configured for electrically coupling with the corresponding pins on the integrated circuit device and an inactive portion adjacent to the active portion and electrically coupled to a reference signal on the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2004Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: William J. Casey, David R. Cuthbert, Olivia I. McGrew
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Patent number: 6813600Abstract: Audio tracks or other portions of a particular type of audio material to be encoded are analyzed to determine a value of at least one coding-related parameter suitable for providing optimal encoding of the particular type of audio material. When a given portion of the audio material is to be encoded for transmission in a perceptual audio coder of a communication system, the value of the coding-related parameter is identified and then utilized in conjunction with the encoding of the given portion. The determined value of the coding-related parameter may be at least a portion of a psychoacoustic model utilized in encoding the given portion of the particular type of audio material in the perceptual audio coder. As another example, the value of the coding-related parameter may be a setting of an audio processor utilized to process the given portion of the particular type of audio material prior to encoding the given portion in the perceptual audio coder.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2000Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: William J. Casey, III, Nicholas G. Karter, Deepen Sinha
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Publication number: 20040196025Abstract: An integrated circuit characterization printed circuit board and method is provided for improving the uniformity of impedance introduced by a test fixture across all of the pins of the integrated circuit device. The printed circuit board includes an array of substantially similar test contacts numbering greater than the pins of the integrated circuit device. The array of test contacts includes an active portion configured for electrically coupling with the corresponding pins on the integrated circuit device and an inactive portion adjacent to the active portion and electrically coupled to a reference signal on the printed circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2003Publication date: October 7, 2004Inventors: William J. Casey, David R. Cuthbert, Olivia I. McGrew
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Publication number: 20040026107Abstract: A plurality of electrical interconnections may be formed in an electrical device including a first component having a plurality of contact pads and a second component having a plurality of contact pads. The two components are placed in a confronting spaced relationship such that each contact pad of the first component locationally corresponds to one of the contact pads of the second component. The contact pads of the second component are further arranged such that at least two of the contact pads are laterally offset relative to their locationally corresponding contact pads on the first component with one of the at least two contact pads being offset in a first direction while the other is offset in another direction. A mass of conductive material is disposed between each contact pad of the first component and its corresponding contact pad of the second component.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: John L. Caldwell, William J. Casey
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Patent number: 6231047Abstract: A brush seal includes a retainer and a multiplicity of single bristles each bristle having a fixed end and a free sealing end, the fixed ends being individually attached in a continuous arrangement at the same angle to the retainer, the bristles having a uniform pack density throughout the extent of the bristles from the fixed to the sealing end.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1998Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignees: EG&G Engineered Products, Pferd Milwaukee Brush Co., Inc.Inventors: Matthew D. Cunningham, Robert P. Menendez, James A. Henderson, Chih-Yuan Shia, William J. Casey, William W. Smith, Jr.
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Patent number: 6229210Abstract: A device and method for high volume solder sphere alignment and placement including the high volume solder sphere alignment and placement for BGA and CSP packages including a pre-form stencil having a pattern of apertures formed through its cross-section, that corresponds to the pattern of the exposed conductive lands of a circuit requiring sphere alignment and placement. The apertures may be formed having diameters that are approximately 5% larger in diameter than the solder spheres. The method for high volume solder sphere alignment and placement may include the steps of prepping the workpiece, applying a thin layer of flux to the conductive lands. Aligning the pre-form stencil with the part to which the solder balls are to be aligned with and placed upon. Applying the solder spheres through the pattern of apertures onto the conductive lands.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1998Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: MCMS, Inc.Inventor: William J. Casey
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Patent number: 6229218Abstract: An interconnect device for connecting an electronic package, whether it be a single chip or a multi-component device, to a primary substrate requiring the mating of dissimilar solder patterns includes a secondary substrate having a first face and a second face. The first face of the secondary substrate may include a first pattern of conductive lands formed on the first face corresponding to a plurality of conductive leads of an electronic package. The second face of the secondary substrate includes a second pattern of conductive lands corresponding to a plurality of conductive lands formed on the primary substrate. The first pattern of conductive lands formed on the first face is electrically connected to the second pattern of conductive lands formed on the second face via surface and internal conductive paths. Solder ball reflow soldering methods are used to connect the electronic device to the secondary substrate and to connect the secondary substrate to the primary substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1998Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: MCMS, Inc.Inventors: William J. Casey, Andrew J. Heidelberg, Daniel C. Skinner
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Method of utilizing a plasma gas mixture containing argon and CF.sub.4 to clean and coat a conductor
Patent number: 6092714Abstract: A method for cleaning and coating a conductor in a plasma reaction chamber utilizing a plasma gas mixture containing Argon and CF.sub.4 to clean and coat a conductor. The method for cleaning and coating a conductor includes the combination of cleaning processes including, physical reduction and chemical reaction and the formation of a polymerization passivation film formed on oxyfluoro metal compositions (SnO.sub.x F.sub.y) which occur during exposure of a conductor to the process of the invention. The polymerization passivation film is formed as a result of the combination of the degraded carbon Tetrafloride (CF.sub.4) gas and degraded environmental and casual hydrocarbons which are present in the form of a variety of unspecified organic contaminants to form crude polymeric molecules in the high energy environment of the plasma.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1999Date of Patent: July 25, 2000Assignee: MCMS, Inc.Inventor: William J. Casey -
Patent number: 5415186Abstract: Disclosed is a stabilized substrate composition for smoking articles, particularly cigarettes. In general, the stabilized substrate composition comprises an admixture of a binder and an aerosol forming material which plasticizes the binder, together with optional fillers and/or base materials. In the stabilized substrate compositions of the present invention the relative amounts of binder and aerosol former depend particularly on the situation in which the substrate composition is used. In general, the ratio of aerosol former to binder is between about 3:1 and about 40:1. When the stabilized composition is used on a base material such as tobacco cut filler, the ratio of aerosol former to binder should be at least about 15:1, and preferably is from about 25-35:1, with a maximum ratio of about 40:1. If the composition is formed into a cast sheet, the minimum ratio is about 3:1, the preferred ratio is about 8:1, and the maximum ratio is about 10:1.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1993Date of Patent: May 16, 1995Assignee: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: William J. Casey, III, Jeffery S. Gentry, Alvaro Gonzalez-Parra, Aju N. Lekwauwa, Dennis M. Riggs, Gary R. Shelar, Kenneth W. Swicegood, Ronald O. Wagoner, Jeffrey A. Willis, Walter R. D. Young, Jr., Kelly K. Hutchison
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Patent number: 5396911Abstract: Disclosed is a stabilized substrate composition for smoking articles, particularly cigarettes. In general, the stabilized substrate composition comprises an admixture of a binder and an aerosol forming material which plasticizes the binder, together with optional fillers and/or base materials. In the stabilized substrate compositions of the present invention the relative amounts of binder and aerosol former depend particularly on the situation in which the substrate composition is used. In general, the ratio of aerosol former to binder is between about 3:1 and about 40:1. When the stabilized composition is used on a base material such as tobacco cut filler, the ratio of aerosol former to binder should be at least about 15:1, and preferably is from about 25-35:1, with a maximum ratio of about 40:1. If the composition is formed into a cast sheet, the minimum ratio is about 3:1, the preferred ratio is about 8:1, and the maximum ratio is about 10:1.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 1991Date of Patent: March 14, 1995Assignee: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: William J. Casey, III, Jeffery S. Gentry, Alvaro Gonzalez-Parra, Aju N. Lekwauwa, Dennis M. Riggs, Gary R. Shelar, Kenneth W. Swicegood, Ronald O. Wagoner, Jeffrey A. Willis, Walter R. D. Young, Jr.