Patents Assigned to Systems, LLC
  • Method and apparatus for stopping and parking a commercial vehicle
    Patent number: 7251549
    Abstract: A receiver capable of receiving a remote vehicle stop request signal is mounted to a commercial vehicle and connected to the vehicle antilock braking ECU by a vehicle communication bus. The receiver may also be capable of transmitting a signal, thereby allowing the desired vehicle to be isolated. Furthermore, a user input device may be mounted to the vehicle that allows manual input of a park signal. When the park signal has been received by the vehicle ECU, the vehicle braking system is employed, thereby preventing the movement of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas J. Weed, Kenneth A. Grolle, Joseph M. Macnamara, Kirit A. Thakkar, Majed M. Hamdan
  • Switch actuation method and mechanism
    Patent number: 7247805
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for actuating a switch that transmits motion from a first component, which moves along a first path, to a system that is attached to the mechanism. The mechanism includes a second component that moves transverse to the first path and a third component having a switch actuating portion, wherein movement of the first component causes the third component to actuate the switch using motion that is generally along the first path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC
    Inventors: Duane R. Johnson, Jeffrey Krause
  • Method and system for performing stateless compression of messages
    Patent number: 7245405
    Abstract: An approach for providing stateless compression is disclosed. A message (such as an HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) GET request message or a Domain Name Service (DNS) message) is received from a host. A stateful compressor is initialized with a prescribed sequence to yield a primed state. The message is input into a stateful compressor, which outputs a compressed message based upon the primed state. The stateless compression scheme has particular applicability to networks with high latency—e.g., a satellite network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Friedman, Douglas Dillon
  • Fiber optic receptacle and plug assembly including alignment sleeve insert
    Patent number: 7244066
    Abstract: A fiber optic receptacle and plug assembly includes a fiber optic receptacle adapted to be mounted within a connector port of a network connection terminal and a fiber optic plug mounted upon an end of a fiber optic cable, wherein the fiber optic receptacle and the fiber optic plug comprise complimentary alignment and keying features that allow the fiber optic receptacle to receive only a fiber optic plug of like ferrule configuration. The fiber optic receptacle includes an alignment sleeve insert operable for receiving and optically connecting at least one receptacle ferrule and at least one opposing plug ferrule. The receptacle is suitable for use in enclosures requiring a minimal receptacle penetration depth, wherein the fiber optic receptacle comprises a shoulder that is secured against an inner wall of the enclosure to provide strain relief against cable-pulling forces of up to about 600 lbs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Corning Cable Systems LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Theuerkorn
  • Acquisition mechanism for a mobile satellite system
    Patent number: 7245930
    Abstract: A method for enabling synchronization of a communications terminal in a wireless communication system, and a corresponding acquisition system of the communications terminal, wherein the method consists of the steps of: receiving a burst at a receiver of the communications terminal, the burst containing a composite waveform including two or more component waveforms, wherein each of the two or more waveforms has a known frequency variation throughout the burst; detecting the presence of the composite waveform; and estimating a frequency offset and a timing offset of the composite waveform as received into the receiver, whereby synchronization is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: T G Vishwanath, Michael Parr, Zhen-Liang Shi, Simha Erlich
  • System And Method For Managing Business Processes
    Publication number: 20070162318
    Abstract: A business process management system includes a computer system is disclosed. The computer system is accessible via a network that manages access by users to documents, enables dynamic generation of a workflow process by a user, executes and monitors the workflow and maintains information about the workflow, and enables integration of a combination of e-mail, advertising copy, instant messaging, and electronic funds transfer functions into the generated workflow process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Kaulkin Information Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Rick Bean, Jim Bean, Jan Levine
  • APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TESTING ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS
    Publication number: 20070159197
    Abstract: A testing apparatus is described with a housing, a power source, a carrier assembly, and a backbone connecting the carrier assembly to the power source. A resource board is disposed on the carrier assembly and is connected thereto, thereby receiving power from the power source through the carrier assembly. The resource board is adapted to perform a test on a device under test and to generate data reflecting results of the test on the device under test. A test pin assembly is disposed at one end of the resource board and is connectable with a loadboard. A controller operatively connects to the power supply, the carrier assembly, and the resource board. The controller is adapted to communicate with the resource board to execute instructions to test the device under test. The controller also receives the result data from the resource board, permitting analysis of the device under test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Telco Testing Systems LLC
    Inventors: Roger Brueckner, Michael Costello, James Hopkins, Rudolph Sterbenz
  • Selection system
    Patent number: 7240784
    Abstract: A selection apparatus for grouping articles in predetermined quantities from a moving stream of articles. The apparatus includes a horizontal rotating plate with three equally spaced arms and a lug assembly attached to an end of each arm. The plate rotates at a repeating velocity pattern enabling a lug assembly to be inserted between articles from the moving stream and a group of selected articles to be separated by a predetermined acceleration of the lug assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: MeadWestvaco Packaging Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Jean-Christophe Bonnain, Lilian Joseph
  • Cross-connect fiber optic cables and associated cross-connect sections
    Patent number: 7242841
    Abstract: A flexible cross-connect apparatus for cross-connecting fiber optic cables includes a transition strength member, at least one cable clamp assembly, at least one fiber storage device, and a cover for protecting the cross-connect apparatus. The cross-connect apparatus is flexible about a preferential bending plane because the transition strength member includes a preferential bending plane for influencing bending. The at least one cable clamp assembly is used for securing one or more cables with the transition strength member at the ends. In one embodiment, a splice carriage is removably attached to the transition strength member for aiding the craftsman to work at a splicing station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Corning Cable Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Jody L. Greenwood, Kenneth D. Temple, Jr., David L. Dean, Jr., Keith H. Lail
  • Carton with dispenser
    Patent number: 7237674
    Abstract: A package includes an article group formed of two or more vertically arranged tiers of similarly dimensioned, cylindrical articles disposed on their sides in a side-by-side parallel fashion, and a carton disposed around the group. The carton includes a top wall, opposed side walls, an end wall and an article dispenser. The side walls are disposed alongside the ends of the articles while the end wall is disposed adjacent to the side wall of an endmost article. The dispenser includes a corner portion of the carton formed from and detachably connected to the top, side and end walls to define an opening upon removal of the corner portion. The opening is shaped to define a recess in the end wall to reveal a part of the endmost article in the lowermost tier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: MeadWestvaco Packaging Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Auclair
  • Polarity maintaining multi-connector optical cable assembly
    Patent number: 7237966
    Abstract: According to certain aspects of the present invention, an optical cable assembly is disclosed having a plurality of optical fibers, each having a first end and a second end. The plurality of optical fibers includes a first group of optical fibers and a second group of optical fibers. A first connector head is attached to the first end of the first group of optical fibers. The first group of optical fibers terminates in an array at a surface disposed on the first connector head. The first connector head includes a first mating structure. A second connector head is attached to the first end of the second group of optical fibers. The second group of optical fibers terminates in an array at a surface disposed on the second connector head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Corning Cable Systems LLC
    Inventors: Eric S. Quinby, Eric J. Leichter
  • Combined fixed volume retention cuff and relief valve
    Publication number: 20070149922
    Abstract: The invention is a system (10, 110) for regulating volume in a retention cuff/balloon (20) in an indwelling catheter; i.e., the combination of fixed-volume inflatable retention cuff mountable on a patient proximal end of an indwelling catheter (14) and relief valve (23, 123) connected to the cuff. The relief valve has ends for selective introduction of fluid to the cuff and for connection to an inflation tube. A valve port (24, 124) permits escape of excess fluid when a maximum cuff volume has been exceeded, and inflation tube (22) connects cuff (20) to the relief valve. The inflation tube has ends in fluid-tight connection to an interior of the cuff, and the relief valve to thereby permit the cuff and valve to be in fluid communication with each other for selective filling of the cuff to insert and safely retain an indwelling catheter in a patient for an extended period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: Bowel Management Systems, LLC
    Inventors: James Schneider, Nick Martino, Raymond Bodicky
  • Geothermal heating and cooling system with solar heating
    Patent number: 7234314
    Abstract: A sealed well direct expansion geothermal heat exchange unit, whose sealed well can be placed in ground and/or in water, consisting of a conventional direct expansion, or other heat pump, system wherein the exterior refrigerant heat exchange lines are placed within an insulated and sealed container, which container is supplied with a circulating heat conductive liquid from and to a sub-surface sealed well encasement, which container liquid may be supplemented with heat from a solar heating system, and which unit's hot refrigerant vapor line may be supplementary cooled by means of condensate water evaporative cooling, as well as a means to provide any direct expansion, and any closed-loop water-source, geothermal heat pump system with an optional solar heating supplement in the heating mode, and with an optional water-cooled vapor line supplement in the cooling mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Earth to Air Systems, LLC
    Inventor: B. Ryland Wiggs
  • Carton with overlapped base panels and blank therefor
    Patent number: 7234591
    Abstract: A carton of the wrap-around type has a pair of overlapped base panels. One of the base panels which carries a locking tab overlies a tongue protruding from the end edge of the other base panel. The protruding tongue is formed with a complementary locking aperture engaged by the locking tab to secure the overlapped panels together. On either side of the locking tab, the said one base panel has a hinged tab protruding from the end edge of that panel. Each of the hinged tabs underlies the end edge of the other base panel, one on each side of the protruding tongue. This ‘over and under’ arrangement presents less of an externally overlapped edge than is the case of a simple complete overlap and thus mitigates against the base panels being skewed or prized apart leading to tearing and/or dislodgement of the locking means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: MeadWestvaco Packaging Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Philippe Le Bras, Philippe Marie
  • Filter cartridge end
    Patent number: D546412
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: EcoWater Systems LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Kennedy, Chaouki Khamis
  • Modular manifold
    Patent number: D546419
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Micad Marine Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Ron Steinberg
  • Air dryer reservoir
    Patent number: D546431
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC
    Inventors: Leonard A. Quinn, Fred W. Hoffman
  • Reverse osmosis cartridge
    Patent number: D547823
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: EcoWater Systems LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Kennedy, Christine Fletcher, Chaouki Khamis
  • Filter system
    Patent number: D547826
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: EcoWater Systems LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Kennedy, Christine Fletcher, Chaouki Khamis
  • Filter system
    Patent number: D547827
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: EcoWater Systems LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Kennedy, Christine Fletcher, Chaouki Khamis