Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Tuttle
  • Direct injection alcohol engine with boost and spark control
    Patent number: 8028678
    Abstract: Boosted engine operation and spark timing of an engine may be adjusted with alcohol content of the fuel in a direct injection engine. Further, various adjustments may be performed in numerous related systems to account for increased maximum engine torque, such as traction control, transmission shifting, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Robert A. Stein
  • Light collector for an illumination optic
    Patent number: 8029181
    Abstract: A light collector is provided to converge light from a light source down to a range of acceptance angles of an illumination optic, and to couple the converged light into the illumination optic, where the range of acceptance angles of the illumination optic is less than a range of emission angles of the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian Travis, Timothy Large, Neil Emerton, Steven Bathiche, Glen C. Larsen
  • Automatic delivery of game content to a game console
    Patent number: 8029367
    Abstract: Automatic downloading of game content to a game console is provided. A user enables automatic downloading, and thereafter, game content available from a game server is periodically checked to determine if any content matches criteria specified for downloading. If a match is found, and the user has not previously downloaded the content, or a previous version of the content, then the game content is added to a download queue. The content specified in the download queue is transferred to the game console.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Hunter Ostergren, Trisha Eileen Stouffer, Jonathan Todd David, Gregory Joseph Canessa
  • Interval phasing for valve timing
    Patent number: 8025034
    Abstract: A system for communicating information between a valve controller and an engine controller is presented. The system is designed to improve the timing of data transferred between two controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Vince Winstead
  • Torque delivery
    Patent number: 8027778
    Abstract: A system for controlling a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders with electronically actuated valves (EVA) is presented. The system is designed to improve the torque delivery of an EVA engine that operates a portion of cylinders in an HCCI combustion mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Vincent J. Winstead
  • System and method for facilitating homogeneous charge compression ignition
    Patent number: 8025046
    Abstract: A method of transitioning between homogeneous charge compression ignition and spark ignition in a combustion chamber of an engine that is configured for homogeneous charge compression ignition under at least some engine operating conditions and for spark ignition under at least some engine operating conditions, the method comprising heating contents of the combustion chamber with a glow plug prior to transitioning between homogeneous charge compression ignition and spark ignition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Themi Petridis, Lucien Koopmans, Jonas Elfstrand
  • Establishing patient consent on behalf of a third party
    Patent number: 8024273
    Abstract: A database system, which stores electronic medical records, may assign a child-application-identification-code to a healthcare provider via a clinical system intermediary acting on behalf of the healthcare provider. The database system may associate the child-application-identification-code assigned to the healthcare provider with a privacy statement and terms of use associated with the clinical system. The privacy statement and terms of use may be presented to the patient when the patient is prompted by the database system to approve or deny a request by the healthcare provider to access the electronic medical record of the patient stored at the database system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kalpita Deobhakta, Sean Nolan, Hubert Van Hoof, Michael Stokes
  • Magnetic field sensitive sensor
    Patent number: 8022693
    Abstract: A sensor, preferably for magnetic rotary or linear sensor systems which include a scale arranged at a given distance from the sensor. The sensor has at least one magnetic field-sensitive GMR sensor element, which is arranged in a housing. The housing additionally includes at least one magnetic field source each associated to the at least one GMR sensor element. The at least one GMR sensor element is firmly cast into an associated slot in the housing. On at least one side of the slot, a projection protrudes into the interior of the housing, flush with a side wall of the slot, which also includes mounting recesses for accommodating the magnetic field source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Woelke Magnetbandtechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Stefan Meyersweissflog
  • Cylinder charge temperature control for an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 8020525
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for operating an engine with a first cylinder providing a net flow of gases from the intake to the exhaust while combusting; and a second cylinder providing a net flow of gases from the exhaust to the intake. Both the first and second cylinders may carry out combustion during such operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Vincent J. Winstead
  • Tensor linear laplacian discrimination for feature extraction
    Patent number: 8024152
    Abstract: Tensor linear Laplacian discrimination for feature extraction is disclosed. One embodiment comprises generating a contextual distance based sample weight and class weight, calculating a within-class scatter using the at least one sample weight and a between-class scatter for multiple classes of data samples in a sample set using the class weight, performing a mode-k matrix unfolding on scatters and generating at least one orthogonal projection matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Zhouchen Lin, Xiaoou Tang
  • Vehicle seat, especially motor vehicle seat
    Patent number: 8020929
    Abstract: A vehicle seat (1), especially motor vehicle seat, is provided with a base (3) and a main carrier (7), which is collapsible in relation to the base (3), and can be converted from a forward position into a backward position by collapsing the main carrier (7). The vehicle seat (1) has two cushioned carriers (11, 12) with upholstery, which are displaceable in relation to the main carrier (7). The moved first cushioned carrier (11) with its upholstery serves as the seat part and the extended second cushioned carrier (12) with its upholstery serves as the backrest in the forward position. The extended first cushioned carrier (11) with its upholstery serves as the backrest and the moved-in second cushioned carrier (12) with its upholstery serves as the seat part in the backward position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Keiper GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Harth, Mathias Gischke
  • Cooled EGR system for coolant heating during cold engine start
    Patent number: 8020538
    Abstract: Various systems and method for heating an engine in a vehicle during a cold start are described. In one example, thermal efficiency of the engine is improved by heating engine coolant via a high-pressure exhaust gas recirculation (HP-EGR) system. For example, after light-off of an exhaust catalyst, exhaust gas is routed through the HP-EGR system which includes a HP-EGR cooler. Heat from the exhaust gas is then used to warm the engine coolant via the HP-EGR cooler. One or more engine operating parameters are adjusted in response to the HP-EGR entering the engine during the cold start in order to maintain combustion stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gopichandra Surnilla, David Karl Bidner, Daniel Joseph Styles
  • Fuel injection control during start-up
    Patent number: 8020532
    Abstract: A method of operation of an internal combustion engine including an intake valve coupled to a combustion chamber, and a port fuel injector positioned upstream of the intake valve in an intake manifold including a throttle, the port fuel injector fluidly coupled to a fuel rail included in a fuel delivery system housing a fuel at least partially composed of alcohol. The method including, during a start-up operation when the temperature of the engine is below a threshold value and fuel is actively being injected into the intake manifold, adjusting a cone angle of a fuel spray from the port fuel injector, via adjustment of the throttle and/or fuel delivery system, based on the position of the intake valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Karl Bidner, John M. Roth, Mark Peters
  • Self-centering chuck
    Patent number: 8020877
    Abstract: A self-centering chuck is provided for accurately fixing the position of workpieces on tables. The chuck has a basic body with guide grooves, a threaded spindle with right-handed and left-handed external threads and a centrally arranged groove, two slides screwed onto an external thread each with a clamping jaw each in the head area and with sliding blocks in the foot area. The slides are guided axially in the guide grooves and on the threaded spindle. The threaded spindle is centered in a central piece and can be fixed and locked on the basic body and on the central piece by fastening means guided in the groove. The clamping jaws arranged on the head side on the slides have clamping surfaces on both sides and can be used on both sides. The slides can be screwed on both sides onto left-handed and right-handed external threads of the threaded spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Lang Technik GmbH
    Inventor: Günter Lang
  • Electric cartridge type heater
    Patent number: 8022339
    Abstract: The electric cartridge type heater has a continuous central fitting hole (2) for receiving a cylindrical body to be healed in a gap-free manner, an inner metal jacket (1), an outer metal jacket (3) and a healing conductor wound on the circumference of a coil form (8), which is inserted in an annular chamber (4). The coil form has a cylinder wall with holes (10) or ducts (11/1) for receiving ends (12, 13, 15, 16) of the heating wire winding (9). The connecting conductors (18, 19) are led radially to the outside through an opening (20, 20/1) of the outer metal jacket (3) in an axial area which is located away from the two axial ends of the annular chamber (4) and is located between two heating wire windings (9/1, 9/2) or two winding sections (9a, 9b) of the same heating wire winding (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Türk + Hillinger GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Schlipf
  • Flow rate ratio control device
    Patent number: 8019481
    Abstract: A flow ratio controller having: a main channel; branch channels branching from the end of the main channel; control valves respectively provided in the branch channels; a plurality of flow rate meters for measuring the flow rate of the main channel and the flow rate of each of the branch channels; a valve control section for controlling the control valve provided in one branch channel so that the pressure on the upstream side of the control valve is a given target pressure and, only when the upstream-side pressure is near or not less than the target pressure, starting control of the other control valve so that the flow rate ratios of the branch channels are predetermined ratios; and a target pressure setting section for setting the target pressure such that the smaller the flow volume is in the main channel, the lower is the target pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Horiba STEC, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Yamaguchi, Akihiro Matsumoto, Yutaka Yoneda
  • Calibration of an optical touch-sensitive display device
    Patent number: 8018442
    Abstract: Embodiments related to the calibration of an optical touch-sensitive display device are disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment comprises a method of calibrating an image sensor, wherein the method comprises placing a photoluminescent panel over the display surface, and illuminating a target location on the display surface with visible light. Infrared light that is emitted by the panel in response to the illumination of the display surface is received via the image sensor. The received light then is used to calibrate the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nigel Keam, Prafulla Masalkar
  • Apparatus with mixed fuel separator and method of separating a mixed fuel
    Patent number: 8015951
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for extracting components of a mixed fuel into at least one substantially non-polar component and at least one polar fuel component. In one example approach, a volume of a mixed fuel is added to an extractor and a polar solvent is used to extract components of the mixed fuel. The extracted components may be selectively provided to an engine in a ratio based upon engine operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Dearth, Christian T. Goralski, Jr.
  • Engine fuel reformer monitoring
    Patent number: 8015952
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring a fuel reformer which reforms ethanol into a reformate gas comprising H2, CO, and CH4 for fueling an engine are provided. Degradation of the fuel reformer may be indicated based on an amount of ethanol injected into the fuel reformer and an amount of at least one of H2, CO, and CH4 produced by the fuel reformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Mudguard for footwear
    Patent number: D645655
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Keen, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Youngs, Blaine Conrad