Patents Assigned to Design Engineering LLC
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Publication number: 20230404022Abstract: The invention herein pertains to a device and system for controlled mixing of textured material along a linear path by means variable ohmic controls. The device comprising the following components: a dual auger unit wherein two linear augers are held within a single linear casing, each said linear augers having an increased diameter pitch along its length, perforations along the length of said single linear casing, electro-conductive plates attachable to each said perforation. The preferred embodiment of this invention is intended to be used for mixing pasta filata cheese curds to form a singular cheese mass with consistent texture. The device may also be used to mix other types of fluid textured material including food and non-food substances.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Creative Design & Engineering, LLCInventor: Daniel R. LINDGREN
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Patent number: 11249289Abstract: A spectral imager includes a filter array, a pixel array, and a lenslet array therebetween. The filter array includes a plurality of filter regions. The lenslet array includes a plurality of lenslets each configured to form a respective image of the filter array on a respective one of a plurality of regions of the pixel array. The spectral imager may also include a fore-optic lens, the filter array being located between the lenslet array and the fore-optic lens. The spectral imager may also include a fore-optic lens, the filter array being located between the lenslet array and the fore-optic lens. Each of the plurality of filter regions is configured to selectively transmit radiation based on wavelength and/or polarization.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: BODKIN DESIGN AND ENGINEERING LLCInventors: Andrew Bodkin, James T. Daly
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Patent number: 11040794Abstract: A direct gas-fired process air heater assembly that utilizes a premix burner applied to a shrink wrap conveyor oven for uniform dissemination of heated air into the a recirculating air stream of a circulating blower, said air circulating blower directing the heated air into the shrink wrap chamber or tunnel for shrinking polymer film around packaged goods for shipment and/or storage. According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are disclosed of the direct gas-fired packaged process air heater assembly construction features including the application of premix burner technology.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Advanced Design Engineering, LLCInventors: Gary J Potter, Gary J Potter, Jr.
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Publication number: 20190225407Abstract: A water treatment system includes a container body and a container lid. The container body includes a buoyant section and a container mating section. The container lid includes a grasping unit and a lid mating section. The grasping unit grasps a water treatment chemical tablet via compression by a user without the user having direct contact with the water treatment chemical tablet. The lid mating section mates with the container mating section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: Design Engineering LLCInventors: Walter Edwin Balfour, Adam Lee Craft, Zachary Fanning
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Patent number: 10246244Abstract: A container lid with a finger entry section, a thumb entry section, a grasping section, and a mating section. The finger entry section includes a finger opening for receiving at least one finger of a hand. The thumb entry section includes a thumb opening for receiving a thumb of the hand. The grasping section is coupled to the finger entry section and the thumb entry section. The grasping section functions to grasp an item when compressed via the finger entry section and the thumb entry section and collectively prevent the finger(s) and the thumb from making direct contact with the item. The mating section is coupled to the finger entry section, the thumb entry section, and/or the grasping section and functions to mate the container lid with a container body.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Design Engineering LLCInventors: Walter Edwin Balfour, Adam Lee Craft, Zachary Fanning
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Patent number: 10001251Abstract: A portable lantern may include a body that extends from a bottom portion to a top portion, and a light source disposed on or within the body (e.g., within the bottom portion or top portion). The lantern may advantageously include motion detection capabilities included therein. As such, the lantern may further include one or more motion detectors disposed on or within the body. In an embodiment, 3 motion detectors are provided, and the body is generally triangular, with a motion detector positioned at each apex of the generally triangular body. The motion detectors may be operatively coupled to the light source and/or an alarm so that upon detection of motion within the vicinity of the lantern, either the light source illuminates (from an initially dark configuration), the alarm sounds, or both. A plurality of modes of operation may be provided, allowing the user to select a desired mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: MRP DESIGN ENGINEERING, LLCInventor: Matthew R. Plott
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Publication number: 20180087285Abstract: An apparatus comprises a container and an indicator. The container includes a section for containing a consumable resource. The consumable resource includes one or more of a dissolvable solid and a miscible liquid. The indicator physically changes position with respect to the container to indicate the amount of consumption of the consumable resource when the container is in an environment that causes the consumable resource to be consumed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: Design Engineering LLCInventors: Adam Lee Craft, Walter Edwin Balfour, Zachary Fanning
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Publication number: 20180086546Abstract: A container lid with a finger entry section, a thumb entry section, a grasping section, and a mating section. The finger entry section includes a finger opening for receiving at least one finger of a hand. The thumb entry section includes a thumb opening for receiving a thumb of the hand. The grasping section is coupled to the finger entry section and the thumb entry section. The grasping section functions to grasp an item when compressed via the finger entry section and the thumb entry section and collectively prevent the finger(s) and the thumb from making direct contact with the item. The mating section is coupled to the finger entry section, the thumb entry section, and/or the grasping section and functions to mate the container lid with a container body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: Design Engineering LLCInventors: Walter Edwin Balfour, Adam Lee Craft, Zachary Fanning
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Patent number: 9347832Abstract: A birefringent filter includes an EM directing element in optical alignment with a first surface of the birefringent plate. A polarimetric imager includes a birefringent filter including a birefringent plate formed of a birefringent material and an EM directing element in optical alignment with a first surface of the birefringent plate. The imager further includes a detector in optical alignment with a second surface of the birefringent plate. A projection system includes an EM directing element and a birefringent filter. The filter includes (1) a birefringent plate formed of a birefringent material and having a first surface in optical alignment with the emissions source, and (2) an EM directing element in optical alignment with a second surface of the birefringent plate.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Bodkin Design And Engineering LLCInventors: Andrew Bodkin, James T. Daly
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Patent number: 8922783Abstract: A multiband spatial heterodyne spectrometer for determining spectra in first and second wavelength bands has a beamsplitter configured to split incident light and to direct the incident light upon a first and a second diffraction grating. The gratings are configured for Littrow reflection of incident light of the first wavelength band at a first order and Littrow reflection of incident light of the second wavelength band at a second order. Light reflected by the first and the second diffraction grating forms diffraction patterns imaged by an electronic camera. A dispersive device separates the imaged interference patterns onto separate groups of pixel sensors corresponding to the wavelength bands. A processing device receives information from the detector and computes spectra therefrom. The second diffraction grating is split spatially or temporally to provide two different responses, so the system can disambiguate spectra. In embodiments, the spectrometer computes hyperspectral images of a target.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Bodkin Design and Engineering LLCInventor: Andrew Bodkin
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Publication number: 20140085629Abstract: An active hyperpixel array imaging system including a hyperspectral analyzer; an active spatial light modulator dynamically configurable to direct light, from at least a portion of a field of view of the hyperpixel array imaging system, towards the hyperspectral analyzer for capture of a two-dimensional image including spectral information; and imaging optics for forming an intermediate image, of the field of view on the active spatial light modulator. A method for performing spectral analysis of a field of view, the method including forming an intermediate image of the field of view on an active spatial light modulator; directing light from at least a portion of the field of view, using an active spatial light modulator, towards a hyperspectral analyzer; and capturing a hyperspectral image of the portion of the field of view, using the hyperspectral analyzer, the hyperspectral image including spectral information for the portion of the field of view.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: Bodkin Design & Engineering, LLCInventors: Andrew Bodkin, James T. McCann
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Publication number: 20140009757Abstract: A birefringent filter includes an EM directing element in optical alignment with a first surface of the birefringent plate. A polarimetric imager includes a birefringent filter including a birefringent plate formed of a birefringent material and an EM directing element in optical alignment with a first surface of the birefringent plate. The imager further includes a detector in optical alignment with a second surface of the birefringent plate. A projection system includes an EM directing element and a birefringent filter. The filter includes (1) a birefringent plate formed of a birefringent material and having a first surface in optical alignment with the emissions source, and (2) an EM directing element in optical alignment with a second surface of the birefringent plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Applicant: Bodkin Design And Engineering LLCInventors: Andrew Bodkin, James T. Daly
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Patent number: 8451527Abstract: A shutter includes micro-optics having first and second concentrator arrays. A transducer laterally displaces one of the first and second concentrator arrays between transmissive and shuttered modes. In the transmissive mode, the arrays of concentrators are optically aligned to permit electromagnetic energy passing through the first array of concentrators to pass through the second array of concentrators. In the shuttered mode, the electromagnetic radiation is blocked from passing through the second array of concentrators. The concentrators may be compound parabolic concentrators, or lenslets positioned on opposing plates with pinholes printed therethrough. The shutter may increase f-number of radiation passing therethrough, and may be used in a limited f-cone radiation source with shuttering abilities, for example reducing f-cone of radiation output from the radiation source.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Bodkin Design and Engineering LLCInventor: Andrew Bodkin
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Patent number: 8274725Abstract: A shutter includes micro-optics having first and second concentrator arrays. A transducer laterally displaces one of the first and second concentrator arrays between transmissive and shuttered modes. In the transmissive mode, the arrays of concentrators are optically aligned to permit electromagnetic energy passing through the first array of concentrators to pass through the second array of concentrators. In the shuttered mode, the electromagnetic radiation is blocked from passing through the second array of concentrators. The concentrators may be compound parabolic concentrators, or lenslets positioned on opposing plates with pinholes printed therethrough. The shutter may increase f-number of radiation passing therethrough, and may be used in a limited f-cone radiation source with shuttering abilities, for example reducing f-cone of radiation output from the radiation source.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2010Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Bodkin Design and Engineering LLCInventor: Andrew Bodkin
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Patent number: 8233148Abstract: Hyperspectral imaging systems that may be used for imaging objects in three-dimensions with no moving parts are disclosed. A lenslet array and/or a pinhole array may be used to reimage and divide the field of view into multiple channels. The multiple channels are dispersed into multiple spectral signatures and observed on a two-dimensional focal plane array in real time. The entire hyperspectral datacube is collected simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2007Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Bodkin Design & Engineering LLCInventors: Andrew Bodkin, Andrew I. Sheinis, Adam Norton
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Patent number: 8174694Abstract: Hyperspectral imaging system and methods that may be used for imaging objects in three-dimensions are disclosed. A cylindrical lens array and/or a slit array may be used to re-image and divide a field of view into multiple channels. The multiple channels are dispersed into multiple spectral signatures and observed on a two-dimensional focal plane array in real time. The entire hyperspectral data cube is collected simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Bodkin Design and Engineering LLCInventor: Andrew Bodkin
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Patent number: 8154732Abstract: A multiband spatial heterodyne spectrometer for determining spectra in first and second wavelength bands has a beam splitter configured to split incident light and to direct the incident light upon a first and a second diffraction grating. The gratings are configured for Littrow reflection of incident light of the first wavelength band at a first order and Littrow reflection of incident light of the second wavelength band at a second order. Light reflected by the first and the second diffraction grating forms diffraction patterns that are imaged by an electronic camera. A dispersive device such as a prism or diffraction grating separates the imaged interference patterns onto separate rows of pixel sensors corresponding to the wavelength bands. A processing device receives information from the detector and computes spectra therefrom. In embodiments, the spectrometer is configured to compute hyperspectral images of a target.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Bodkin Design and Engineering, LLCInventors: Andrew Bodkin, Andrew I. Sheinis
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Patent number: 7796316Abstract: A shutter includes micro-optics having first and second concentrator arrays. A transducer laterally displaces one of the first and second concentrator arrays between transmissive and shuttered modes. In the transmissive mode, the arrays of concentrators are optically aligned to permit electromagnetic energy passing through the first array of concentrators to pass through the second array of concentrators. In the shuttered mode, the electromagnetic radiation is blocked from passing through the second array of concentrators. The concentrators may be compound parabolic concentrators, or lenslets positioned on opposing plates with pinholes printed therethrough. The shutter may increase f-number of radiation passing therethrough, and may be used in a limited f-cone radiation source with shuttering abilities, for example reducing f-cone of radiation output from the radiation source.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Bodkin Design and Engineering LLCInventor: Andrew Bodkin
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Patent number: 7157802Abstract: An electrical power source is described. The electrical power source derives input power from a compressed gas which is fed into a transducer, generating electrical power. The compressed gas may be delivered to the unit by several means including manual pumps, thermal, chemical, or ammunition based sources, or connection to pressurized canisters. Optional power converting and feedback circuits and pneumatic valves serve to convert the raw output power into useful AC and DC output voltages, and to match the rate of power delivery to the applied electrical load.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Bodkin Design And Engineering LLCInventor: W. Andrew Bodkin
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Patent number: D844871Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: MRP DESIGN ENGINEERING, LLCInventor: Matthew R. Plott