Patents Assigned to Ward, Inc.
  • WIRELESS NETWORK IDENTIFIER WITH ENCRYPTED NETWORK ACCESS INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20170104728
    Abstract: A data acquisition platform in which self-configuring devices communicate with a database through an intermediate wireless access point. The database may store data acquired by and uploaded from self-configuring devices and store information that may be downloaded to self-configuring devices and used to self-configure. In a fleet management embodiment, self-configuring devices include OBD data capture devices installed in a motor vehicle that is part of an entity's vehicle fleet. The platform may support an auto-connect feature in which wireless network access information needed by self-configuring devices to login to a wireless LAN is encrypted and wirelessly broadcasted by the access point. The network identifier may comply with formatting protocol that enables self-configuring devices to recognize encrypted network identifiers. In WiFi embodiments, the network identifier may be an encrypted SSID or an SSID that includes unencrypted and encrypted parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: E.J. Ward, Inc.
    Inventors: David Thayer Girard, Markay Rene Ward, Edward John Kotzur
  • Dual registration control system
    Patent number: 6705222
    Abstract: A rotary printing machine is disclosed comprising a conveyor for conveying sheets of material from an upstream cylinder to a downstream conveyor in which the angular positions of both conveyors are sensed, as well as the linear position of each sheet, and the speed of the conveyor is adjusted to maintain registry of each sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Ward, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald J. Norman, Jack E. Simon
  • Printing machine with improved vacuum transfer
    Patent number: 6591749
    Abstract: A multistage printing machine is disclosed with a vacuum conveyor between stages, and in which supplemental air is provided adjacent at least one printing cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Ward, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Elkis, Mark R. Donovan
  • Method for heat treating by induced current
    Patent number: 4021274
    Abstract: Steel workpieces, such as thread-forming screws and bolts, tapping tools, and the like, are hardened in localized areas to controlled depths of hardening by utilizing loose electromagnetic coupling between the workpiece and the induction coil. The loose coupling reduces the criticality of the positional relationship between the workpiece and coil and also allows unidirectional axial through-feed of headed workpieces. A high degree of symmetry of hardening around each piece and uniformity of hardening from piece to piece at high production speeds is accomplished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1977
    Assignee: Russell, Birdsall & Ward, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald H. Chadwick