Patents by Inventor Barry G. Rickett

Barry G. Rickett 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: 5049944
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for applying offset preventing liquid to a fuser roll including an oil impregnated web member adapted to be moved by a motor from a supply core to a take up core; and a control to vary the duty cycle operation of the motor to drive the web member at a relatively constant liner speed at a contact nip, the control including a timer to monitor the cumulative time of operation of the motor and to progressively decrease the duty cycle of the motor in response to the cumulative time of operation wherein the progressively decreased duty cycle of operation compensates for the increasing radius of the web member on the take up core to maintain the relatively constant linear speed at the contact nip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick C. DeBolt, Kenneth R. Rasch, Barry G. Rickett, Mark T. Miller
  • Patent number: 5016171
    Abstract: Customer billing system for electrostatographic reproducing machines in which a replaceable copy cartridge provides a guaranteed number of copies or prints, each cartridge having an integral copy counter which, on reaching a predetermined copy count, is disabled, rendering the cartridge dead and activating an additional copy counting mechanism for counting a limited number of grace copies that can be made using the dead cartridge, after which further operation of the machine is prevented until a new cartridge is installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas P. Connolly, Barry G. Rickett, Robert J. Yax, Roger M. Swanson