Patents Assigned to Translogic Corporation
  • Patent number: 11148888
    Abstract: Provided herein is a pneumatic carrier having a leak resistant cargo area where first and second mating shells form the carrier. To provide a leak resistant cargo area, the one embodiment of the carrier employs a cantilevered sealing element on a first sealing periphery of the first shell. A free end of the cantilevered sealing element is configured to engage a sloped surface on a second shell. As the shells close, the sealing element slides down the sloped surface to form a seal between the shells. The use of the cantilevered sealing element in conjunction with the sloped surface reduces the compressive force required to form a seal between the shells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventors: Craig Grafmiller, Daniel Serafin
  • Patent number: 10023402
    Abstract: A system and method provides for the identification and monitoring of carriers within a pneumatic carrier system. Each carrier which is to be employed within the system includes an identification device such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip which has stored thereon identification information for the carrier. Positioned throughout the system are communications devices such as antennas and readers which are employed to read and/or write identification information on the chip. When a carrier is put in the system, a destination location can be associated with the particular carrier ID. This associated information is then employed to, among many things, monitor and confirm identity of the carrier as it moves to its destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Gregory Richard Chany, Bennett Charles Hinnen
  • Patent number: 9694992
    Abstract: Provided herein is a pneumatic tube system station having a rotating carriage with multiple carrier ports. The multiple carrier ports allow for receiving multiple carriers and/or staging multiple carries for dispatch. In one arrangement, one or more carriers may be securely maintained within the station while permitting users to continue utilizing the station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Robert Gross, David Warren Parish, Daniel John Serafin
  • Patent number: 9656815
    Abstract: A system and method provides for controlling a pneumatic carrier system based on identification information read from a carrier or a payload of the carrier. Each carrier or payload which is to be employed within the system includes an identification device such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip which has stored thereon information for the carrier or payload. Positioned throughout the system are communications devices such as antennas and readers which are employed to read and/or write identification information on the identification device. Based on reading the identification device at locations within the system, the operation of the system is altered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth Michael Hoganson
  • Patent number: 9650214
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method (i.e., utility) is provided for increasing the resource utilization of a pneumatic tube system (PTS). This utility allows for moving two or more carriers during a single air source cycle. That is, air pressure or vacuum during a single cycle of an air source may be utilized to move multiple carriers and thereby reduce the total number of cycles required to complete two or more transactions. Accordingly, the throughput of the PTS may be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth Michael Hoganson
  • Patent number: 8903543
    Abstract: A system and method provides for the identification and monitoring of carriers within a pneumatic carrier system. Each carrier which is to be employed within the system includes an identification device such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip which has stored thereon identification information for the carrier. Positioned throughout the system are communications devices such as antennas and readers which are employed to read and/or write identification information on the chip. When a carrier is put in the system, a destination location can be associated with the particular carrier ID. This associated information is then employed to, among many things, monitor and confirm identity of the carrier as it moves to its destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Gregory Richard Chany, Bennett Charles Hinnen
  • Publication number: 20140277696
    Abstract: A system and method provides for the identification and monitoring of carriers within a pneumatic carrier system. Each carrier which is to be employed within the system includes an identification device such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip which has stored thereon identification information for the carrier. Positioned throughout the system are communications devices such as antennas and readers which are employed to read and/or write identification information on the chip. When a carrier is put in the system, a destination location can be associated with the particular carrier ID. This associated information is then employed to, among many things, monitor and confirm identity of the carrier as it moves to its destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Translogic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Gregory Richard Chany, Bennett Charles Hinnen
  • Patent number: 8831771
    Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system is presented. The automated storage and retrieval system may have at least two zones that are thermally isolated. The automated storage and retrieval system is operative to store and retrieve items from a plurality of storage locations in the first and second zone. An access member may be provided to selectively maintain and interrupt thermal isolation of the zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventors: Ben Hinnen, Roberto Vecchi, Terry Farnsworth
  • Patent number: 8793014
    Abstract: The presented inventions seek to create a verifiable and closed loop chain-of-custody for a specific transaction in a pneumatic tube transport system while allowing a sender and recipient to perform asynchronous activity. That is, one aspect the presented inventions allows a sender to securely send a carrier to a desired recipient while allowing the desired recipient to receive the secured carrier at a convenient time and/or location without tying up system resources. Another aspect improves the physical barriers between high value payloads and the unintended recipients. This is done in part by introducing randomness into the carrier delivery process such that no member of the general public or facility staff knows the location and/or delivery time of a secured carrier without having access to specific database records indicating the current location and/or delivery status of the secured carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, John Alan Kennedy
  • Patent number: 8644985
    Abstract: A system and method provides for the identification and monitoring of carriers within a pneumatic carrier system. Each carrier which is to be employed within the system includes an identification device such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip which has stored thereon identification information for the carrier. Positioned throughout the system are communications devices such as antennas and readers which are employed to read and/or write identification information on the chip. When a carrier is put in the system, a destination location can be associated with the particular carrier ID. This associated information is then employed to, among many things, monitor and confirm identity of the carrier as it moves to its destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Translogic, Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Gregory Richard Chany, Bennett Charles Hinnen
  • Patent number: 8596932
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for use in controlling a translocation process of a pneumatic tube system in order to reduce the amount of energy transferred from the tube system to a pneumatic carrier and, hence, its contents. Generally, these utilities entail identifying and/or reducing forces applied to a pneumatic carrier traveling through a travel path within a pneumatic tube system. The systems and method disposed herein allow for varying the velocity of a pneumatic carrier as it passes through a travel path of the pneumatic system. Such varying of the velocity allows for reducing the total forces applied to the pneumatic carrier during passage through the system. In one arrangement, the power output of a power source connected to a compressor device is altered to vary the velocity of pneumatic carries in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Daniel R. Gross
  • Patent number: 8491229
    Abstract: Provided herein are pneumatic carriers for use in high speed and/or heavy payload pneumatic carrier transport applications. The carriers incorporate thermally conductive wear bands to remove heat from areas of high friction to areas of low friction and thereby reduce the wear rate of the wear band. In one arrangement, the wear band includes a metallic wire impregnated cloth having metallic wires woven into the matrix of a textile, which forms the wear band. In one embodiment, the wire impregnated within the textile may extend around at least a portion of a carrier such that the wires can transfer heat from a location of high friction (e.g., a bearing surface beneath a carrier) to a location of low friction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventor: Chad David Cornelius
  • Patent number: 8447427
    Abstract: A system and method provides for the identification and monitoring of carriers within a pneumatic carrier system. Each carrier which is to be employed within the system includes an identification device such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip which has stored thereon identification information for the carrier. Positioned throughout the system are communications devices such as antennas and readers which are employed to read and/or write identification information on the chip. When a carrier is put in the system, a destination location can be associated with the particular carrier ID. This associated information is then employed to, among many things, monitor and confirm identity of the carrier as it moves to its destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Gregory Richard Chany, Bennett Charles Hinnen
  • Patent number: 8382401
    Abstract: A braking device and method is provided that is operative to selectively slow and/or stop a pneumatic carrier within a pneumatic carrier system. Generally, the device includes a pneumatic tube that is sized to permit the passage of pneumatic carriers. The pneumatic tube includes at least one braking element that may be disposed into the bore of the pneumatic tube to at least partially impede the passage of a pneumatic carrier through the bore. In one embodiment, the braking element is formed as a variable diameter section of the pneumatic tube that may be selectively constricted to change the diameter of the bore of the pneumatic tube. Such constriction may slow and/or stop the passage of a pneumatic carrier through the bore of the pneumatic tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond Anthony Castro, Chad David Cornelius, Kenneth Michael Hoganson, James Joseph Podracky, Robert Paul Trenconsky
  • Patent number: 8317432
    Abstract: A valve device and method are provided that are operative to selectively divert the flow of air within a pneumatic carrier within a pneumatic carrier system. Generally, the device includes a pneumatic tube that is sized to permit the passage of pneumatic carriers. The pneumatic tube includes at least aperture in a sidewall of the pneumatic tube, an outer sleeve, and an actuator. The actuator acts on the outer sleeve to block and open the aperture to fluid flow in order to divert air in the pneumatic system. In one embodiment, the valve is disposed in a pneumatic system in conjunction with a pneumatic carrier handling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond Anthony Castro, Chad David Cornelius, Kenneth Michael Hoganson, James Joseph Podracky, Robert Paul Trenconsky
  • Patent number: 8113849
    Abstract: The docking system includes a wall-mounted assembly having an extending contact portion which includes a set of power contacts for supplying power to a medication cart via a docking port located on the medication cart when the cart is engaged with the wall-mounted assembly. The contact portion includes a depending hook member which engages a spring-biased locking solenoid in the docking port to lock the cart to the wall-mounted assembly when the cart is moved into contact with the wall-mounted assembly. The cart can be unlocked by a signal to the locking solenoid from the cart or manually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventor: William C. Park, IV
  • Patent number: 7953515
    Abstract: A system and method provides for the identification and monitoring of carriers within a pneumatic carrier system. Each carrier which is to be employed within the system includes an identification device such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip which has stored thereon identification information for the carrier. Positioned throughout the system are communications devices such as antennas and readers which are employed to read and/or write identification information on the chip. When a carrier is put in the system, a destination location can be associated with the particular carrier ID. This associated information is then employed to, among many things, monitor and confirm identity of the carrier as it moves to its destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Gregory Richard Chaney, Bennett Charles Hinnen
  • Patent number: 7950879
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for use in controlling a translocation process of a pneumatic tube system in order to reduce the amount of energy transferred from the tube system to a pneumatic carrier and, hence, its contents. Generally, these utilities entail identifying and/or reducing forces applied to a pneumatic carrier traveling through a travel path within a pneumatic tube system. The systems and method disposed herein allow for varying the velocity of a pneumatic carrier as it passes through a travel path of the pneumatic system. Such varying of the velocity allows for reducing the total forces applied to the pneumatic carrier during passage through the system. In one arrangement, the power output of a power source connected to a compressor device is altered to vary the velocity of pneumatic carries in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Daniel R. Gross
  • Publication number: 20100310344
    Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system is presented. The automated storage and retrieval system may have at least two zones that are thermally isolated. The automated storage and retrieval system is operative to store and retrieve items from a plurality of storage locations in the first and second zone. An access member may be provided to selectively maintain and interrupt thermal isolation of the zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: Translogic Corporation
    Inventors: Ben Hinnen, Roberto Vecchi, Terry Farnsworth
  • Patent number: 7363106
    Abstract: A system and method provides for the identification and monitoring of carriers within a pneumatic carrier system. Each carrier which is to be employed within the system includes an identification device such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip which has stored thereon identification information for the carrier. Positioned throughout the system are communications devices such as antennas and readers which are employed to read and/or write identification information on the chip. When a carrier is put in the system, a destination location can be associated with the particular carrier ID. This associated information is then employed to, among many things, monitor and confirm identity of the carrier as it moves to its destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Translogic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Gregory Richard Chaney, Bennett Charles Hinnen