Patents Assigned to Translogic Corporation
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Patent number: 11148888Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventors: Craig Grafmiller, Daniel Serafin
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Patent number: 10023402Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Gregory Richard Chany, Bennett Charles Hinnen
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Patent number: 9694992Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventors: Daniel Robert Gross, David Warren Parish, Daniel John Serafin
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Patent number: 9656815Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 14, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventor: Kenneth Michael Hoganson
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Patent number: 9650214Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventor: Kenneth Michael Hoganson
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Patent number: 8903543Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Gregory Richard Chany, Bennett Charles Hinnen
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Publication number: 20140277696Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Translogic CorporationInventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Gregory Richard Chany, Bennett Charles Hinnen
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Patent number: 8831771Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventors: Ben Hinnen, Roberto Vecchi, Terry Farnsworth
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Patent number: 8793014Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 7, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, John Alan Kennedy
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Patent number: 8644985Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Translogic, CorporationInventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Gregory Richard Chany, Bennett Charles Hinnen
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Patent number: 8596932Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 26, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Daniel R. Gross
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Patent number: 8491229Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 18, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventor: Chad David Cornelius
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Patent number: 8447427Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 15, 2011Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Gregory Richard Chany, Bennett Charles Hinnen
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Patent number: 8382401Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 7, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventors: Raymond Anthony Castro, Chad David Cornelius, Kenneth Michael Hoganson, James Joseph Podracky, Robert Paul Trenconsky
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Patent number: 8317432Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 7, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventors: Raymond Anthony Castro, Chad David Cornelius, Kenneth Michael Hoganson, James Joseph Podracky, Robert Paul Trenconsky
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Patent number: 8113849Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 24, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventor: William C. Park, IV
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Patent number: 7953515Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 6, 2008Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Gregory Richard Chaney, Bennett Charles Hinnen
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Patent number: 7950879Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Daniel R. Gross
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Publication number: 20100310344Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2009Publication date: December 9, 2010Applicant: Translogic CorporationInventors: Ben Hinnen, Roberto Vecchi, Terry Farnsworth
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Patent number: 7363106Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 17, 2006Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Translogic CorporationInventors: Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Gregory Richard Chaney, Bennett Charles Hinnen