Patents by Inventor Barry Dean
Barry Dean 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: 6765766Abstract: A microactuator finely positions a transducing head carried by a slider adjacent a select radial track of disc. A frame of the microactuator includes a motor for altering the position of the slider and a closed bonding tub extending upward from the bottom of the microactuator having a bonding surface to engage the top surface of the slider. The closed bonding tub is formed from the microactuator frame such that there is a tub bottom having a bonding surface, sidewalls and an open sidewall.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2001Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Roger Lee Hipwell, Jr., Peter Crane, Lee Walter, Wayne Allen Bonin, Zine-Eddine Boutaghou, Barry Dean Wissman, Bruce Charlton Polson
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Publication number: 20040092994Abstract: A body fluid sampling device for extracting bodily fluid from an anatomical feature is provided. The device comprises a penetrating member driver for driving a penetrating member to create a wound to extract said bodily fluid; a light source positioned to indicate a point of sampling where said wound will be created, said light source indicating said point of sampling with a beam of light. The light source may be selected from one of the following: an LED, incandescent, fluorescent, or electroluminescent light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2003Publication date: May 13, 2004Applicant: Pelikan Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Barry Dean Briggs, Dominique M. Freeman
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Publication number: 20040049219Abstract: A lancet driver is provided wherein the driver exerts a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and is used on a tissue site. The driver comprises of a drive force generator for advancing the lancet along a path into the tissue site, and a sensor configured to detect lancet position along said path during the lancing cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2002Publication date: March 11, 2004Applicant: Pelikan Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Barry Dean Briggs, Dominique M. Freeman, Don Alden, Jon Hewitt Leonard, Dirk Boecker
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Patent number: 6661617Abstract: A moving-coil magnetic microactuator is formed by using a dual silicon wafer structure and thin film technologies such as deep trench reactive ion etching, reactive ion etching, plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition and metallo-organinc chemical vapor deposition. Several bottom structures are formed from a bottom wafer, each bottom structure having a coil and wires embedded in the surface of the bottom structure. Several top structures are formed from a top wafer, each top structure having a magnet and mechanical stand-offs. The top structures are bonded to the bottom structures so that the magnet is above the embedded coil, separated by an air gap created by the mechanical stand-offs.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2000Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Roger Lee Hipwell, Jr., Lee Walter, Wayne Allen Bonin, Barry Dean Wissman, Zine-Eddine Boutaghou
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Publication number: 20030212424Abstract: A lancet driver is provided wherein the driver exerts a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and is used on a tissue site. The driver comprises of a drive force generator for advancing the lancet and a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle. The driver further includes a human interface on the housing providing at least one output for communicating with the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2002Publication date: November 13, 2003Applicant: Pelikan Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Barry Dean Briggs, Dominique M. Freeman, Don Alden, Jon Hewitt Leonard, Dirk Boecker
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Publication number: 20030083686Abstract: A tissue penetration device and method of using same. The tissue penetration device may optionally include sampling and analyzing functions, which may be integrated. An embodiment provides control of a lancet used for sampling blood. Electric field coils or solenoids may drive the lancet using electromagnetic force. Advancement and retraction of a lancet may be controlled by a feedback loop monitoring the position and velocity of the lancet embodiments of the lancet driver can be configured to follow a predetermined tissue lancing profile. Embodiments of the invention include a lancet and method for using a lancet to maintain the patency of the wound tract once the lancet has cut into the skin.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2002Publication date: May 1, 2003Inventors: Dominique M. Freeman, Dirk Boecker, Don Alden, Barry Dean Briggs, Jon Hewitt Leonard, Ray Freeman, George Gogue
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Patent number: 6540839Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided for uniformly coating a magnet having a plurality of surfaces and includes a reaction chamber having a port for introducing the magnet into the reaction chamber. A heater is also included for heating the reaction chamber. Also, a carrier gas port is in fluid communications with the reaction chamber for introducing a carrier gas into the reaction chamber. In addition, a reactant gas port is in fluid communications with the reaction chamber for introducing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber. When the magnet and the carrier gas are introduced into the reaction chamber, the magnet becomes suspended in the reaction chamber. Also, when the reactant gas is introduced into the reaction chamber, the reactant gas causes all of the plurality of surfaces of the magnet to be uniformly coated.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2001Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Walter Lee, Roger Lee Hipwell, Jr., Wayne Allen Bonin, Barry Dean Wissman, Zine-Eddine Boutaghou, Peter Crane
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Publication number: 20020114269Abstract: A method and system is described for more optimally managing the usage of a wideband space-time multipath channel. The wideband space-time multipath channel is decomposed into a plurality of orthogonal sub-channels, where the orthogonal sub-channels having the best signaling characteristics are used for transmitting one or more signal streams. For purposes of decomposing the wideband space-time multipath channel into a plurality of orthogonal sub-channels, channel estimates are determined for each signal propagation path. A closed-form singular value decomposition of the channel corresponding to each receive antenna before coherent combining is utilized to obtain an orthogonal decomposition of the overall effective space-time channel after coherent combining. By using the overall effective space-time channel after coherent combining rather than before coherent combining, the complexity and correspondingly the resources required for obtaining the orthogonal sub-channels is significantly reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2001Publication date: August 22, 2002Inventors: Eko Nugroho Onggosanusi, Barry Dean Van Veen, Akbar Muhammad Sayeed
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Patent number: 6404776Abstract: A multimedia communication arrangement processes and multiplexes different types of data, including data from an adaptive data rate data source and a nonadaptive data rate data source, to substantially increase data throughput over a communication channel. The rate at which data is collected from the adaptive data rate data source varies based on the available channel bandwidth of the modem. The transmission rate is optionally adjusted in response to a detected error rate. Furthermore, the amount of filtering performed by a video camera on an image before the image is encoded by a codec can be adjusted. In addition, a data recovery terminal optionally selectively adjusts intervals at which received audio data is sampled to potentially reduce latency periods.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1997Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Assignee: 8 × 8, Inc.Inventors: Paul Augustin Voois, Barry Dean Andrews, Truman Joe, Philip Stanley Bednarz
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Publication number: 20010045527Abstract: This invention presents a method and system for etching a silicon substrate. This includes depositing a non-thermally cured photoresist mask on the upper region of a trench in the silicon substrate. A fluorocarbon film is deposited on the silicon substrate, and the silicon substrate is bombarded with ions. As a result, the fluorocarbon film is preferentially removed from the lower region of the trench in the substrate, and the upper region of the trench is substantially protected by the photoresist mask. This invention can include curing the photoresist mask using an electron-beam system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2001Publication date: November 29, 2001Inventors: Barry Dean Wissman, Lee Walter, Roger Lee Hipwell, Barbara Ihlow-Mahrer, Zine-Eddine Boutaghou
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Patent number: 6163595Abstract: An interactive electronic module (IEM) is adapted as a retrofit module for use in modular network equipment to provide real time analysis of trunk line signal performance and to detect trunk line signal faults, the IEM including a faceplate display panel accessible to the network operator for displaying the detected signal faults and for providing operator access to the IEM to command the display of selected trunk line faults.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1999Date of Patent: December 19, 2000Assignee: Nortel Networks LimitedInventors: Janice Maxine Parker, John Radie Moseby, Diana Arden Rupp, Barry Dean Huffman
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Patent number: 6026097Abstract: A multimedia communication system processes and multiplexes different types of data, including data from an adaptive data rate data source and a nonadaptive data rate data source, to substantially increase data throughput over a communication channel. The system includes: a first data source, responsive to a control signal, including a video image processor constructed to capture images and to present the images as a first type of data at a rate determined as a function of the control signal; at least one additional data source generating at least one additional data signal; a data signal processor that determines an available bandwidth factor for the communication channel, generates the control signal in response to this factor, collects the first type of data at a rate that varies in response to the available channel bandwidth of the modem, and collects the at least one additional type of data at at least one established rate.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1997Date of Patent: February 15, 2000Assignee: 8 x 8, Inc.Inventors: Paul Augustine Voois, Barry Dean Andrews, Truman Joe, Philip Stanley Bednarz
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Patent number: 5968035Abstract: An improved dental procedure and apparatus where ultraviolet radiation pulses are used to etch selectively both hard tissue and soft tissue in dental procedures. There exists distinct ablation thresholds for hard and soft tissue which are dependent on the material being ablated for a given wavelength of the ultraviolet radiation. Sufficient differences in ablation threshold exist for enamel, dentin, and carious material, thereby allowing dentists to perform both hard tissue and soft tissue procedures without excess damage to healthy enamel, dentin or other pulp structures.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1998Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Barry Dean Goodman, James Jeffrey Wynne, Hershall William Kaufman, Jason Matthew Jacobs
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Patent number: 5968036Abstract: An improved dental procedure and apparatus where ultraviolet radiation pulses are used to etch selectively both hard tissue and soft tissue in dental procedures. There exists distinct ablation thresholds for hard and soft tissue which are dependent on the material being ablated for a given wavelength of the ultraviolet radiation. Sufficient differences in ablation threshold exist for enamel, dentin, and carious material, thereby allowing dentists to perform both hard tissue and soft tissue procedures without excess damage to healthy enamel, dentin or other pulp structures.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1998Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Barry Dean Goodman, James Jeffrey Wynne, Hershall William Kaufman, Jason Matthew Jacobs
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Patent number: 5957698Abstract: A computer-assisted instruction system used in a method of instructing a group of students broadly includes a suite (12,14,16,18) configured to accommodate the group of students and a computer system (36) for delivery of instruction relating to an instruction curriculum to the suite (12,14,16,18). The suite (12,14,16,18) includes a group assembly area and a plurality of harbors (24). The harbors (24) are each configured to accommodate a pair of the students. The computer system (36) includes a computer (38) positioned at each harbor coupled with a network computer (40). The computers (38) are linked to permit electronic transfer of information between the harbors (24).Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1996Date of Patent: September 28, 1999Assignee: Pitsco, Inc.Inventors: Harvey R. Dean, Barry Dean, Kristine McKechnie, Rhonda D. Kyncl, Philip Holsinger
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Patent number: 5957691Abstract: An improved dental procedure contacts a tooth with a fluoride carrier to produce a fluoride containing layer on the tooth. The tooth is then irradiated with UV radiation in the wavelength range of 100-400 nm. The fluoride carrier is at least 70% transparent to UV radiation, and the radiation is provided with sufficiently low energy to avoid inflicting pain on the patient.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1998Date of Patent: September 28, 1999Inventors: Barry Dean Goodman, James Jeffrey Wynne, Hershall William Kaufman, Jason Matthew Jacobs
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Patent number: 5954712Abstract: An improved dental procedure and apparatus where ultraviolet radiation pulses are used to etch selectively both hard tissue and soft tissue in dental procedures. There exists distinct ablation thresholds for hard and soft tissue which are dependent on the material being ablated for a given wavelength of the ultraviolet radiation. Sufficient differences in ablation threshold exist for enamel, dentin, and carious material, thereby allowing dentists to perform both hard tissue and soft tissue procedures without excess damage of healthy enamel, dentin or other pulp structures.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1998Date of Patent: September 21, 1999Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Barry Dean Goodman, James Jeffrey Wynne, Hershall William Kaufman, Jason Matthew Jacobs
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Patent number: 5897321Abstract: An improved dental procedure and apparatus where ultraviolet radiation pulses are used to etch selectively both hard tissue and soft tissue in dental procedures. There exists distinct ablation thresholds for hard and soft tissue which are dependent on the material being ablated for a given wavelength of the ultraviolet radiation. Sufficient differences in ablation threshold exist for enamel, dentin, and carious material, thereby allowing dentists to perform both hard tissue and soft tissue procedures without excess damage to healthy enamel, dentin or other pulp structures.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1998Date of Patent: April 27, 1999Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Barry Dean Goodman, James Jeffrey Wynne, Hershall William Kaufman, Jason Matthew Jacobs
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Patent number: 5785703Abstract: An improved dental procedure and apparatus where ultraviolet radiation pulses are used to etch selectively both hard tissue and soft tissue in dental procedures. There exists distinct ablation thresholds for hard and soft tissue which are dependent on the material being abated for a given wavelength of the ultraviolet radiation. Sufficient differences in ablation threshold exist for enamel, dentin, and carious material, thereby allowing dentists to perform both hard tissue and soft tissue procedures without excess damage to healthy enamel, dentin or other pulp structures.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 1995Date of Patent: July 28, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Barry Dean Goodman, James Jeffrey Wynne, Hershall William Kaufman, Jason Matthew Jacobs