Patents by Inventor Alan Ball

Alan Ball has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10112508
    Abstract: A harness booster car seat that is separable into a separately usable backless booster and a backrest booster that may or may not include a harness thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: EVENFLO COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Ralph Pleiman, Alan Ball, Andrew R. Davis
  • Publication number: 20170057384
    Abstract: A harness booster car seat that is separable into a separately usable backless booster and a backrest booster that may or may not include a harness thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Evenflo Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Ralph Pleiman, Alan Ball, Andrew R. Davis
  • Publication number: 20150066529
    Abstract: A workflow management system includes a processor and memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to identify an event received from an external system. The instructions further cause the processor to generate a work item corresponding to the event. The work item has a plurality of attributes. The instructions further cause the processor to assign the work item for distribution based on the attributes, and adjust at least one of a priority or a routing strategy for the work item according to a status of the work item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Robert Lattuca, Sean Coleman, Sandra Judd, Simon Francis, Hayden Grant, Alan Ball, Herbert Willi Artur Ristock
  • Publication number: 20080030219
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a diagnostic circuit is used to test the on-resistance of a transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventor: Alan Ball
  • Patent number: 7325413
    Abstract: An ice cream maker for making ice cream having a vessel, a motor being connected to a dasher in the vessel and a housing for housing the vessel and the motor. The housing has an inlet, an outlet and a valve at the outlet. When said valve is actuated, the ice cream is released from the vessel out of the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Conair Corporation
    Inventor: Alan Ball
  • Publication number: 20070258176
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a protection device is used to protect a circuit. The protection device has a maximum rated power dissipation that is less than a maximum rated power dissipation of the circuit that is being protected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Alan Ball, Stephen Robb
  • Publication number: 20070236158
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an LED control circuit is configured control a current through an LED responsively to a value that is proportional to a control signal for values of the control signal that are less than a threshold value of the control signal and to control the current to a value that is proportional to the threshold value for values of the control signal that are greater than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventors: Alan Ball, Stephen Robb
  • Publication number: 20070159466
    Abstract: A computer can include a high-resolution color display, built-in keypad, wireless LAN connection, hi-fidelity audio system, and a multi-gigabyte disk drive. The screen can be formed in a top face of a computer and a keypad can be a split on opposite sides of the screen. The computer can also have various other controls and features, including function keys, scroll wheel, game D-pad, stylus, and fingerprint reader. Speaker covers for built-in speakers can be provided in the top face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Leonard Kawell, Mary Heinen, Patrick McGowan, Alan Ball
  • Patent number: 7224345
    Abstract: A computers can include a high-resolution color display, built-in keypad, wireless LAN connection, hi-fidelity audio system, and a multi-gigabyte disk drive. The screen can be formed in a top face of a computer and a keypad can be a split on opposite sides of the screen. The computer can also have various other controls and features, including function keys, scroll wheel, game D-pad, stylus, and fingerprint reader. Speaker covers for built-in speakers can be provided in the top face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Pepper Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard M. Kawell, Mary Ellen Heinen, Patrick M. McGowan, Alan Ball
  • Publication number: 20070108991
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a diagnostic circuit is used to test the on-resistance of a transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventor: Alan Ball
  • Publication number: 20070024259
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a current regulator is configured to form a first signal representative of a current flow through a power switch and to use the first signal to determine an off-time of the power switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Alan Ball, David Heminger
  • Publication number: 20070004055
    Abstract: A method and circuit for managing thermal performance of an integrated circuit. Temperature sensing circuits and a plurality of power FETs that are coupled together in parallel are manufactured from a semiconductor substrate. Each temperature sensing circuit monitors the temperature of the portion of the semiconductor substrate near or including a corresponding power FET. When the temperature of the semiconductor substrate near one or more of the power FETs reaches a predetermined value, the corresponding temperature sensing circuit reduces a voltage appearing on the gate of the power FET. The reduced voltage increases the on-resistance of the power FET and channels a portion of its current to others of the plurality of power FETs. The power FET continues operating but with a reduced current flow. When the temperature of the semiconductor substrate falls below the predetermined value, the gate voltage of the power FET is increased to its nominal value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Alan Ball, Stephen Robb
  • Publication number: 20060274557
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an in-rush limiter is configured to control an output voltage to increase at a rate that is independent of the load that is powered by the in-rush limiter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Alan Ball, Stephen Robb
  • Patent number: 7099135
    Abstract: An inrush current limiter circuit (20) includes a detection circuit (30) that produces a control signal (VDRIVE) from a sense current (ISENSE). A power transistor responds to the control signal and has a source (51) coupled to an input node (12) to receive a supply voltage (ground) and a drain (53) for routing a load current (ILOAD) to an output node (45) as a protection signal (VSW). A sense transistor responds to the control signal and has a source scaled to the source of the power transistor and coupled to the input node to route a portion of the load current to the output node as the sense current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, L.L.C
    Inventors: Alan Ball, David Briggs, Suzanne Nee, Stephen Robb
  • Publication number: 20060132222
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a capacitor of a charge pump circuit is referenced to a high side voltage or top voltage rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Stephen Meek, Alan Ball
  • Patent number: D529491
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Pepper Computer
    Inventor: Alan Ball
  • Patent number: D554637
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Pepper Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Ball
  • Patent number: D561758
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Pepper Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Ball
  • Patent number: D586807
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Pepper Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Ball
  • Patent number: D828860
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Inventors: Paul Fenton, Dave Dufour, Gary Streeter, Ben Streeter, Sam Kjellman, Alan Ball