Patents Represented by Attorney Baker & Hostetler

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  • System for the wireless transmission of information to a mobile appliance of a user of a means of transport
    Patent number: 8285309
    Abstract: A system for wirelessly transmitting information to a mobile appliance of a user of a means of transport. The system can include a first database containing journey-related information and a second database containing a profile for the user. The system can further include a first device configured to identify the mobile appliance of the user when the mobile appliance enters a range of a wireless local area network in the means of transport, a second device configured to select information from the first database based on the profile stored in the second database, and a third device configured to transmit the selected information to the mobile appliance of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Lufthansa Technik AG
    Inventor: Andrew Muirhead
  • Monitoring a computer
    Patent number: 8281175
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of monitoring the operational state of a computer, comprises running on the monitored computer a monitoring program configured to monitor a set of parameters. The set of monitored parameters comprises for example the name(s) of any process(es) running on the computer, together with i) the values of a plurality of metrics indicating the level of activity of the computer, and/or ii) time. The monitored parameters are provided by the monitoring program to another, monitoring, computer; which runs a comparison program which compares the set of monitored parameters with a predetermined model which determines whether or not the monitored computer is in a predetermined operational state defined by the model, and produces an indication of whether or not the monitored computer complies with the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: 1e Limited
    Inventors: Mark Blackburn, Andrew Hawkins
  • Element for a pipe for transporting hot gases and method of fabricating said element
    Patent number: 8276621
    Abstract: The present invention principally relates to a thermal insulation element (200) of cylindrical shape for a fluid transport pipe comprising an envelope (204) of longitudinal axis (X), a thermal insulation arranged in said envelope (204), the envelope (204) comprising a deformable annular zone, comprising a first (212.6) and a second (212.12) cylindrical surface that overlap and are able to slide against each other in the case of movement imposed by thermal loads applied to said pipe insulation element (200). The present invention also relates to a method of fabricating pipes for transporting fluids at high temperature, particularly hot gases, from elements according to the present invention by fitting a male connector of one element into a female connector of the other element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Lionel Cachon, Franck Dechelette, Fabrice Delassalle
  • Dynamic discovery of vehicle communication interface device and method
    Patent number: 8280581
    Abstract: A communications system that includes a vehicular diagnostic tool and a vehicle communication interface (VCI) configured to be connected to a vehicular computing system. In operation, the vehicular diagnostic tool automatically detects the presence of the VCI when the VCI is proximate thereto. Thereafter, the VCI and vehicular diagnostic tool communicate through a wireless connection. Also, a method of communicating using the aforementioned vehicular diagnostic tool and VCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: SPX Corporation
    Inventor: Dennis P. Keane
  • Advanced flushing for workpiece erosion
    Patent number: 8278584
    Abstract: The hand-held electro-discharge device to remove boluses of material from a workpiece. In some implementations a conductive electrode and its supporting ground pin are immersed in a dielectric fluid contained in a hood or cavity near or at the electrode's distal tip an removably sealed to a conductive workpiece. A flushing inlet and outlet in fluid communication with said hood provide a flushing fluid, which may also be a dielectric fluid to remove FOD and cool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Inventors: Kenneth Gold, Mervyn Rudgley, James Legge, Michael Gibbons, Richard Gerlach
  • Tomographic atom probe comprising an electro-optical generator of high-voltage electrical pulses
    Patent number: 8276210
    Abstract: A tomographic atom probe uses electrical pulses applied to an electrode in order to carry out evaporation of the sample being analyzed. In order to produce these electrical pulses, the tomographic atom probe comprises a high-voltage generator connected to an electrode by an electrical connection comprising a chip of semiconductor material. The probe also comprises a light source which can be controlled in order to generate light pulses which are applied to the semiconductor chip. Throughout the illumination, the chip is rendered conductive, which puts the high-voltage generator and the electrode in electrical contact so that a potential step is applied to the latter. The probe also comprises means for applying a voltage step of opposite amplitude to the previous step at the end of a time interval ?t0, so that the electrode finally receives a voltage pulse of duration ?t0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignees: Cameca, CNRS
    Inventors: François Vurpillot, Alain Bostel
  • System and method for accurately recharging an air conditioning system
    Patent number: 8272227
    Abstract: A method of adding refrigerant to an air conditioning system. The method includes measuring a first pressure inside of the air conditioning system and a second pressure inside of a container that holds refrigerant being added to the air conditioning system. The method also includes comparing the difference between the two measured pressures to empirical data in order to determine how long to pulse additional refrigerant into the air conditioning system. In addition, an apparatus configured to add refrigerant to an air conditioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: SPX Corporation
    Inventors: Mark McMasters, William Brown
  • PV module frame, PV module and installation system thereof
    Patent number: 8272189
    Abstract: A PV module frame, includes a module recess, a sidewall vertical to the module recess and a bottom portion vertical to the sidewall. The bottom portion extends from the bottom of the sidewall along the opposite direction of the recess of the module recess. A PV module having the PV module frame and a PV module installation system for installing the PV module onto a support, wherein the bottom portions of the adjacent solar cell assemblies are socket jointed and fixed to at least one installation beam which is fixed to the support. The beneficial effect of the present invention is that: fast installation of a PV module could be realized only by using the improved frame and one installation beam, Which reduces the quantity of the members in an installation system module and makes the installation more efficient, easier and more economical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Wuxi Suntech Power Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Palvin Chan, Wang Yu, Matthew LeDucq, Andrew Beebe, Joseph Benga, Jacob Steele, Johann Niehaus
  • Vehicle communications interface and method of operation thereof
    Patent number: 8275513
    Abstract: A vehicle communication interface (VCI) that allows for a single communications protocol to be used between a software application and a plurality of software drivers that are connected to physical interfaces of the VCI. Also, a method of communicating with a vehicle using a host system such as a personal computer. The method also makes use of a single communications protocol between a software application that processes information received from a vehicle and a plurality of software drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: SPX Corporation
    Inventors: Manokar Chinnadurai, Paul Sontheimer
  • Apparatus to clear oil from the hoses and front end of a recovery recharge machine
    Patent number: 8272228
    Abstract: A refrigerant recovery unit is provided that can recover and recharge refrigerant. The unit is further configured with a pair of service hoses and a refrigerant control circuit operable to receive and transport the refrigerant between the hoses and the storage vessel and to process the refrigerant to substantially remove contaminants from the refrigerant. A fluid connector is provided in fluid communication with the hoses to enable the refrigerant to flow between the hoses and to establish a closed loop through the refrigerant control circuit, and a controller is operatively connected to the refrigerant control circuit and configured to control a flow of the refrigerant through the refrigerant control circuit and through the fluid connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: SPX Corporation
    Inventors: Gary P. Murray, Mark McMasters, William Brown
  • Touch screen for convergence and automation system
    Patent number: 8271881
    Abstract: An automation system operating in a Web Service for Devices environment includes clients and devices, a network comprising a server configured to be connected to the clients and devices with the web services for devices, and a touch screen device coupled to the network and provided a user interface for controlling the devices. The clients and devices are configured with a web services for devices stack protocol to provide automation-based control and communication between the clients and devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Exceptional Innovation, LLC
    Inventors: Seal Moorer, Eric Eichensehr, William K. Virgin, Joesph Lehman
  • Process for polymerising or oligomerising a hydrocarbon
    Patent number: 8268941
    Abstract: A process for polymerizing or oligomerising a hydrocarbon includes feeding at a low level a liquid hydrocarbon reactant into a bulk liquid phase comprising polymeric or oligomeric product admixed with a catalyst. The liquid hydrocarbon reactant is allowed to vaporise to form bubbles rising through the bulk liquid phase and to polymerise or oligomerise to form the polymeric or oligomeric product, with the rising bubbles creating turbulence in the bulk liquid phase, thereby mixing the bulk liquid phase. Gaseous components comprising any unreacted vaporised hydrocarbon reactant and any gaseous product that may have formed are withdrawn from a head space above the bulk liquid phase. Liquid phase from the bulk liquid phase is withdrawn to maintain the bulk liquid phase at a desired level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sasol Technology (Proprietary) Limited
    Inventors: Anton Kleingeld, Craig McGregor, Richard Walsh
  • Processing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 8262005
    Abstract: A processing apparatus and method includes a housing, including: a motor, and a drive shaft rotatable by a motor about a drive axis, including a drive engagement device movable along the drive axis, a bowl, the drive shaft extending into the bowl when the bowl is secured to the housing in a working position, a bowl lid including a chute, a lid shaft including a lid engagement device axially aligned with the drive shaft when the bowl and bowl lid are in the working position, and a pusher including a pusher engagement portion for causing the lid engagement device to move the drive engagement device into the retracted position when the bowl and bowl lid are in the working position, wherein, when the drive engagement device is in the retracted position, the drive shaft is rotatable by the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
    Inventor: Jorge B. Garcia
  • Refrigerant recovery apparatus with variable vacuum time and method
    Patent number: 8261564
    Abstract: A recovery apparatus, system and method, including a compressor to evacuate a gas or liquid from a system during a first phase and a second phase of a recovery process, and a vacuum pump to evacuate the gas or liquid during the second phase. A memory stores one or more correlation relations to determine a predetermined second variable recovery time for the second phase to evacuate the system to a second predetermined level related to a first recovery time to evacuate the vessel or system to a first predetermined level during the first phase, and a processor to determine the second variable recovery time, based on the one or more correlation relations and the first recovery time, and selectively control the compressor and the vacuum pump to evacuate the gas or liquid from the vessel or system to the first and second predetermined levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: SPX Corporation
    Inventors: William Brown, Gary Murray
  • Aerodynamic measurement probe and helicopter equipped with the probe
    Patent number: 8261609
    Abstract: The invention relates to a probe for aerodynamic measurement of an airflow. The probe comprises a plate rotating about an axis, a transmitter for transmitting a sound wave and a receiver responsive to the sound wave, the transmitter and the receiver forming two elements which are integrally connected to the plate and are placed at separate positions on the plate, the probe furthermore comprising means for delivering information representing a time of flight of the sound wave between the two elements and a temporal variation of the information. In the case of using the probe on board a helicopter, the rotating plate is advantageously placed at the centre of the rotor of the helicopter while being integrally connected to it. This type of probe makes it possible to carry out aerodynamic measurements even at low airspeeds of the helicopter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Joel Choisnet, Jacques Mandle
  • Aerodynamic measurement probe of an airstream along a wall
    Patent number: 8261610
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aerodynamic measurement probe of an airstream along a wall. The invention makes it possible notably to determine the attack of an airstream relative to an axial reference tangential to the wall. The invention is particularly useful in the aeronautical field. According to the invention, the probe comprises several emitters that can each emit a sound wave and a receiver sensitive to the different sound waves. Thus, there is forewarning of the receiver error that is common to all the measurements of travel time of a sound wave between one of the emitters and the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Joel Choisnet
    Inventor: Joël Choisnet
  • Method for controlling a servo system
    Patent number: 8258855
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for commanding a system controlled by means of a time-division multi-level command. The invention consists in acquiring two measurements by means of the sensor, each during a period, the two periods being dissymmetrical relative to the division of the command, determining an offset of the control subsystem and a corrected response without offset of the system to the command as a function of the measurements and of the measurement periods. With the aid of these two measurements, the invention makes it possible to eliminate the effect of the offset in the control subsystem of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Sylvain Come, Thierry Ginestet, David Chaillou
  • Method for manufacturing super strong steel body for manufacture of products with complicated shape
    Patent number: 8257516
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing ultra-high strength steel products and, more particularly, to a method of manufacturing ultra-high strength steel products suitable for production of articles having a complicated shape or a high processing depth. The method includes preparing a steel sheet by blanking the steel sheet having hardenability to form a rough shape of a final product, cold-pressing the steel sheet to form a 50˜80% shape of the final product, precisely trimming the cold-formed steel sheet along a contour line corresponding to an outer contour of the final product, and hot-pressing the trimmed product to form the remaining 20˜50% shape of the final product and quenching simultaneous with hot-pressing, after heating the trimmed product to an austenite region of 700° C. or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Hyundai Hysco
    Inventors: Hee Joong Im, Seung Man Nam, Man Been Moon, Sang Muk Na, Sung Namkoong
  • Steering wheel
    Patent number: D666950
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Bomag GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Haubrich, Thomas Klein
  • Power supply unit
    Patent number: D667787
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Intelligent Energy Limited
    Inventors: Joshua Todd Druker, Stephen John Senatore, Scott Andrew Brenneman, Peter Scott Young, Alexander Robert Brown, Henry Kwang-Seop Sim