Patents by Inventor Allen Bates
Allen Bates 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).
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Patent number: 10963724Abstract: An absolute position encoder includes a position location medium containing position identifier code words providing absolute position indications, and an optical source, an optical detector, an optics subsystem and a code word decoder. The optics subsystem focuses a source beam onto the position location medium and directs a return beam to the optical detector, detects a focus condition from the return beam, and automatically adjusts focus of the source beam to maintain a predetermined focus condition during operation. The code word decoder responds to the detector signal to detect a code word and generate a decoder output indicative of a corresponding code word value and corresponding detected position.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Novanta CorporationInventor: Allen Bates
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Publication number: 20200311458Abstract: An absolute position encoder includes a position location medium containing position identifier code words providing absolute position indications, and an optical source, an optical detector, an optics subsystem and a code word decoder. The optics subsystem focuses a source beam onto the position location medium and directs a return beam to the optical detector, detects a focus condition from the return beam, and automatically adjusts focus of the source beam to maintain a predetermined focus condition during operation. The code word decoder responds to the detector signal to detect a code word and generate a decoder output indicative of a corresponding code word value and corresponding detected position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventor: Allen Bates
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Publication number: 20180045343Abstract: It has been unexpected found that the fluid resistance of hoses can be greatly enhanced by adding a chlorinated paraffin to a chlorinated polyethylene elastomer or a chlorosulfonated polyethylene elastomer which is used as the tubular inner core layer of the hose. Hoses made using this approach offer the advantage of having improved resistance to modern automotive fluids, provide a longer service life, and better reliability without compromising flexural characteristics or burst strength. Such hoses are comprised of (1) an elastomeric tubular inner core layer defining a lumen, (2) a friction layer, and (3) an elastomeric cover, wherein the elastomeric tubular inner core layer is comprised of (i) a chlorinated elastomer selected from the group consisting of epichlorohydrin, polychloroprene, chlorinated polyethylene and chlorosulfonated polyethylene, (ii) 1 phr to 50 phr of a chlorinated paraffin, and (iii) 30 phr to 120 phr of carbon black.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Thomas George Burrowes, Kenneth Allen Bates
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Patent number: 9812750Abstract: A high frequency band pass filter with a coupled surface mount transition is provided, including a filter substrate, circuit connection elements defining input and an output elements provided on a surface of the filter substrate, electronic filter components provided on the first surface of the filter substrate, and impedance matching structures provided on the first surface of the filter substrate between the electronic filter components and the respective input and output elements. Signal connection structures are provided on an opposed surface of the filter substrate, in locations that positionally correspond to respective positions of the input and output elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Knowles Cazenovia Inc.Inventors: Steven Randall, David Allen Bates
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Publication number: 20170047631Abstract: A high frequency band pass filter with a coupled surface mount transition is provided, including a filter substrate, circuit connection elements defining input and an output elements provided on a surface of the filter substrate, electronic filter components provided on the first surface of the filter substrate, and impedance matching structures provided on the first surface of the filter substrate between the electronic filter components and the respective input and output elements. Signal connection structures are provided on an opposed surface of the filter substrate, in locations that positionally correspond to respective positions of the input and output elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicant: Knowles Cazenovia Inc.Inventors: Steven Randall, David Allen Bates
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Patent number: 9490768Abstract: A high frequency band pass filter with a coupled surface mount transition is provided, including a filter substrate, circuit connection elements defining input and an output elements provided on a surface of the filter substrate, electronic filter components provided on the first surface of the filter substrate, and impedance matching structures provided on the first surface of the filter substrate between the electronic filter components and the respective input and output elements. Signal connection structures are provided on an opposed surface of the filter substrate, in locations that positionally correspond to respective positions of the input and output elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Knowles Cazenovia Inc.Inventors: Steven Randall, David Allen Bates
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Publication number: 20130342287Abstract: A high frequency band pass filter with a coupled surface mount transition is provided, including a filter substrate, circuit connection elements defining input and an output elements provided on a surface of the filter substrate, electronic filter components provided on the first surface of the filter substrate, and impedance matching structures provided on the first surface of the filter substrate between the electronic filter components and the respective input and output elements. Signal connection structures are provided on an opposed surface of the filter substrate, in locations that positionally correspond to respective positions of the input and output elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Inventors: Steven RANDALL, David Allen BATES
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Patent number: 8522847Abstract: The invention relates to a tire having a tread of a cured rubber composition which contains dual silica moieties in a sense of containing both hydrophilic precipitated silica and in situ hydrophobated precipitated silica.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2007Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Paul Harry Sandstrom, Kuo-Chih Hua, Shingo Futamura, Kenneth Allen Bates
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Publication number: 20120090720Abstract: The present invention is based on the unexpected discovery that the fluid resistance of hoses can be greatly enhanced by adding a chlorinated paraffin to a chlorinated polyethylene elastomer or a chlorosulfonated polyethylene elastomer which is used as the tubular inner core layer of the hose. Hoses made using this approach offer the advantage of having improved resistance to modern automotive fluids, including power steering fluid, transmission fluid, and the like, without compromising flexural characteristics or burst strength. Accordingly, the hoses of this invention provide a longer service life and better reliability then hoses made utilizing conventional technology.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: VEYANCE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Thomas George Burrowes, Kenneth Allen Bates
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Patent number: 7956708Abstract: A waveguide-type dielectric filter suitable for wideband filter applications made of a metallized dielectric material is provided. The filter includes two or more mutually coupled resonators disposed in a longitudinal manner. The coupling between adjacent resonators is provided and adjusted by slots or through holes. The dielectric block is covered with metal ground coating with the exception of an uncoated area at the input and output that creates two contact pads on one surface of the dielectric block that are electrically isolated from the metal ground coating. Metallized blind holes are formed on the opposing surface of the dielectric block with respect to the contact pads. These blind holes effectively move the ground plane closer to the contact pad, which, in turn increases the coupling between the input and output resonators and external circuitry, which is essential for building wide bandwidth band pass filters.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2009Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Dielectric Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: David Allen Bates, Mesut Gokten
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Publication number: 20110120606Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire comprising a ground contacting tread, the tread comprising a rubber composition comprising from about 60 to about 90 phr of a functionalized solution polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber having a bound styrene content of at least 36 percent by weight, a vinyl 1,2 content of less than 25 percent by weight, and functionalized with an alkoxysilane group and a thiol group; from about 40 to about 10 phr of a high-cis polybutadiene; and from about 50 to about 150 phr of silica.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Inventors: Nicola Costantini, Georges Marcel Victor Thielen, Frank Schmitz, Maurice Peter Klinkenberg, Kenneth Allen Bates, Fernand Antoine Joseph Fourgon
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Patent number: 7906593Abstract: This invention relates to a precipitated silica reinforced conjugated diene-based elastomer composition containing an alkoxysilane coupled, in-chain functionalized, conjugated diene-based elastomer and to a tire having at least one component thereof. Said in-chain functionalized conjugated diene-based elastomer is a conjugated diene-based elastomer which contains a plurality of at least one of in-chain p- and m-(2-pyrrolidinoethyl) styrene (PES) and m-(2-pyrrolidino-1-methylethyl) alpha-methylstyrene (PAMS) groups.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2005Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Adel Farhan Halasa, Wen-Liang Hsu, Kenneth Allen Bates, David Andrew Benko, Shingo Futamura, Kuo-Chih Hua
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Patent number: 7663454Abstract: A discrete resonator is provided, including a dielectric base having a dielectric constant. A metal contact formed on a major surface of the dielectric base has a predetermined area and is positioned at a predetermined location on the dielectric base to provide a predetermined loaded Q for the resonator. A metal ground coating is formed on the outer surface of the dielectric base with the exception of an isolation region surrounding the metal contact that is free of the metal ground coating. The area of the isolation region is sufficient to prevent significant coupling between the metal contact and the metal ground coating. The dielectric constant of the material used for the base, and the width and length of the dielectric base are each selected such that the resonator resonates at least at one predetermined resonant frequency in the GHz frequency range.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2005Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Dielectric Laboratories, Inc.Inventor: David Allen Bates
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Publication number: 20090231064Abstract: A waveguide-type dielectric filter suitable for wideband filter applications made of a metallized dielectric material is provided. The filter includes two or more mutually coupled resonators disposed in a longitudinal manner. The coupling between adjacent resonators is provided and adjusted by slots or through holes. The dielectric block is covered with metal ground coating with the exception of an uncoated area at the input and output that creates two contact pads on one surface of the dielectric block that are electrically isolated from the metal ground coating. Metallized blind holes are formed on the opposing surface of the dielectric block with respect to the contact pads. These blind holes effectively move the ground plane closer to the contact pad, which, in turn increases the coupling between the input and output resonators and external circuitry, which is essential for building wide bandwidth band pass filters.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: DIELECTRIC LABORATORIES, INC.Inventors: David Allen Bates, Mesut Gokten
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Publication number: 20090203826Abstract: The invention includes a siloxy-imine functionalized rubbery polymer, which exhibits good reinforcing characteristics and filler dispersing effect, a method for making, and a rubber composition including the same. In one embodiment, a process for manufacturing the functionalized rubbery polymer includes polymerizing a conjugated diene monomer using an organolithium compound as an initiator in a hydrocarbon solvent. Next, an active terminal end of the polymer is reacted with a functionalized terminating agent, represented by the general formula: RCH?N(CH2)XSi(OR1)YR23-Y, ??Formula (1) wherein R represents a group consisting of an aryl or substituted aryl having 6 to 18 carbon atoms, or a heterocycle or heteroaryl having 3 to 18 carbon atoms; R1 and R2 each independently represents a group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms selected from an alkyl, a cycloalkyl, an allyl, and or aryl; X is an integer from 1 to 20; and Y is an integer from 1 to 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2008Publication date: August 13, 2009Inventors: Michael Joseph Rachita, Kenneth Allen Bates, Vanessa Marika Riedlinger, Tang Hong Wong
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Publication number: 20090151831Abstract: The invention relates to a tire having a tread of a cured rubber composition which contains dual silica moieties in a sense of containing both hydrophilic precipitated silica and in situ hydrophobated precipitated silica.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2007Publication date: June 18, 2009Inventors: Paul Harry Sandstrom, Kuo-Chih Hua, Shingo Futamura, Kenneth Allen Bates
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Publication number: 20090151830Abstract: The invention relates to a tire having a tread of a cured rubber composition which contains dual silica moieties in a sense of containing both hydrophilic precipitated silica and in situ hydrophobated precipitated silica.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2007Publication date: June 18, 2009Inventors: Paul Harry Sandstrom, Kuo-Chih Hua, Shingo Futamura, Kenneth Allen Bates
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Patent number: 7530378Abstract: The present invention is directed towards speckled tire treads for tires. Specifically, the speckled tire tread includes a primary tread compound that serves as a matrix in which is distributed discrete particles of one or more secondary tread compounds, at least one of the compounds is a different color than the other tread compound(s) so as to be visually distinguishable. For example, the primary tread compound may include carbon black pigment and be black in color while the secondary tread compound can include one or more pigments to provide the particles with non-black color. Thus, the colored particles have a visually distinguishable color from that of the primary tread composition. Additionally, at least a portion of the particles may be situated for viewing on a running surface of the tire tread so that a subject can visually distinguish between the compounds, and such observed compounds may provide a different tire performance characteristic(s).Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2005Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Aaron Scott Puhala, Rachel Rebekah Barnette, Kenneth Allen Bates, Robert Allen Losey, Bruce Raymond Hahn, Tarah Pecora Shpargel, Richard Michael D'Sidocky, Ginger Lee
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Patent number: 7473724Abstract: This invention relates to the preparation of a cis 1,4-polyisoprene rubber-rich rubber composition containing precipitated silica which has been pre-treated with a fatty alcohol and/or epoxidized soybean oil together with an organosilane containing polysulfide coupling agent and to tires having at least one component comprised of such rubber composition.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2005Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Wen-Liang Hsu, Shingo Futamura, Kenneth Allen Bates, Adel Farhan Halasa, Kuo-Chih Hua, Bruce Raymond Hahn
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Patent number: 7449980Abstract: A voltage tunable resonator is provided, including a dielectric base made of a dielectric material having at least one of a voltage dependent dielectric constant and piezoelectric characteristics. A metal contact having a predetermined area is provided on an outer surface of the dielectric base at a predetermined location to provide a predetermined loaded Q for the resonator, and a metal ground coating is provided on the remaining exposed surfaces of the dielectric base, and an isolation region having a sufficient area to prevent significant coupling between the metal contact and the metal ground coating. A control voltage applied between the metal contact and the metal ground coating provides at least one of (i) a variable electric field to control the dielectric constant and a resonant frequency of the resonator and (ii) a piezoelectric response causing a dimensional change in the resonator to control the resonant frequency of the resonator.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2006Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: Dielectric Laboratories, Inc.Inventor: David Allen Bates