Patents by Inventor Brian A. Cole
Brian A. Cole 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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Publication number: 20070137976Abstract: A vehicle having a power unit and a drive train. The drive train is connected to the power unit. The drive train includes a transmission having a shaft and a clutch assembly connected to the transmission. The clutch assembly has a retaining structure and a sleeve. The sleeve is in contact with the retaining structure and the shaft extends through the sleeve. The sleeve includes a body and a ring removably attached to an outer surface of the body. The body has at least one internal substantially cylindrically shaped bearing surface. The body also has an outer surface and a first hardness. The ring has a second hardness different from the first hardness.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2006Publication date: June 21, 2007Inventor: Brian Cole
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Publication number: 20070098937Abstract: The present invention includes an end use article (i.e., an article of manufacture) and a process for making the same, wherein the end use article has a relatively high gloss and exhibits excellent processability over a wide range of processing conditions. The end use article can be formed with glossy polyethylene having an “a” parameter less than or equal to about 0.40, and the glossy polyethylene can be a Metallocene polyethylene. The end use article can have a 60° specular gloss of at least about 40%, or from about 40% to about 80%, or from about 60% to about 80%. The end use article may be pigmented or unpigmented.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2006Publication date: May 3, 2007Inventors: Gregory DeKunder, Eric Maziers, Brian Cole, G. Meredith, Gerhard Guenther, Walter Jagmin
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Patent number: 7197899Abstract: A process includes the steps of disposing a solid core glass rod at a point removed from hot temperature that can cause crystallization in the core glass rod, disposing a solid clad glass rod at a point removed from the core glass rod; softening to the flowing condition the solid clad glass rod, transferring the softened clad glass to a lower point, the softened clad glass having a central void therethrough, heating the softened clad glass above its crystallization temperature, cooling the softened clad glass to a draw temperature, transferring the solid core glass rod into the central void in the softened glad glass, softening to the flowing condition the solid core glass rod with the heat from the softened and cooled clad glass, and drawing the core/clad, glass fiber by allowing the clad and core glasses to flow in the form of a fiber.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2003Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Reza Mossadegh, Brian Cole, Pablo Pureza, Jasbinder Sanghera, Shyam Bayya, Ishwar Aggarwal
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Publication number: 20060230792Abstract: This invention pertains to a hollow core photonic band gap chalcogenide optical glass fiber and to a fabrication method for making the fiber. The fiber, which is 80-1000 microns in outside diameter, is characterized by a solid glass circumferential region and a structured region disposed centrally within the solid region, the structured region includes a hollow core of 1 micron to several hundreds of microns in diameter surrounded by a plurality of parallel hollow capillaries extending parallel to the core, the core being centrally and longitudinally located within the fiber. Ratio of open space to glass in the structured region is 30-99%. The fabrication method includes the steps of providing a mold, placing chalcogenide micro-tubes around the mold, stacking chalcogenide micro-canes around the stacked micro-tubes, fusing the micro-tubes and the micro-canes to form a preform, removing the mold and drawing the preform to obtain the fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2005Publication date: October 19, 2006Inventors: Jasbinder Sanghera, Ishwar Aggarwal, L. Shaw, P. Pureza, Fred Kung, Brian Cole
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Patent number: 6993230Abstract: This invention pertains to a hollow core photonic band gap chalcogenide optical glass fiber and to a fabrication method for making the fiber. The fiber, which is 80-1000 microns in outside diameter, is characterized by a solid glass circumferential region and a structured region disposed centrally within the solid region, the structured region includes a hollow core of 1 micron to several hundreds of microns in diameter surrounded by a plurality of parallel hollow capillaries extending parallel to the core, the core being centrally and longitudinally located within the fiber. Ratio of open space to glass in the structured region is 30-99%. The fabrication method includes the steps of providing a mold, placing chalcogenide micro-tubes around the mold, stacking chalcogenide micro-canes around the stacked micro-tubes, fusing the micro-tubes and the micro-canes to form a preform, removing the mold and drawing the preform to obtain the fiber.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2003Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Jasbinder Sanghera, Ishwar Aggarwal, Leslie B. Shaw, Pablo C. Pureza, Fred Kung, Brian Cole
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Publication number: 20050243407Abstract: A device amplifies light at wavelengths in the vicinity of 1420-1530 nm, using thulium doped silica-based optical fiber. This wavelength band is of interest as it falls in the low-loss optical fiber telecommunications window, and is somewhat shorter in wavelength than the currently standard erbium doped silica fiber amplifier. The device thus extends the band of wavelengths which can be supported for long-distance telecommunications. The additional wavelength band allows the data transmission rate to be substantially increased via wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), with minimal modification to the standard equipment currently used for WDM systems. The host glass is directly compatible with standard silica-based telecommunications fiber. The invention also enables modified silicate based amplifiers and lasers on a variety of alternative transitions. Specifically, an S-band thulium doped fiber amplifier (TDFA) using a true silicate fiber host is described.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2005Publication date: November 3, 2005Inventors: Michael Dennis, Brian Cole
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Patent number: 6924928Abstract: A device amplifies light at wavelengths in the vicinity of 1420-1530 nm, using thulium doped silica-based optical fiber. This wavelength band is of interest as it falls in the low-loss optical fiber telecommunications window, and is somewhat shorter in wavelength than the currently standard erbium doped silica fiber amplifier. The device thus extends the band of wavelengths which can be supported for long-distance telecommunications. The additional wavelength band allows the data transmission rate to be substantially increased via wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), with minimal modification to the standard equipment currently used for WDM systems. The host glass is directly compatible with standard silica-based telecommunications fiber. The invention also enables modified silicate based amplifiers and lasers on a variety of alternative transitions. Specifically, an S-band thulium doped fiber amplifier (TDFA) using a true silicate fiber host is described.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2002Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Michael Dennis, Brian Cole
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Publication number: 20050025965Abstract: This invention pertains to a hollow core photonic band gap chalcogenide optical glass fiber and to a fabrication method for making the fiber. The fiber, which is 80-1000 microns in outside diameter, is characterized by a solid glass circumferential region and a structured region disposed centrally within the solid region, the structured region includes a hollow core of 1 micron to several hundreds of microns in diameter surrounded by a plurality of parallel hollow capillaries extending parallel to the core, the core being centrally and longitudinally located within the fiber. Ratio of open space to glass in the structured region is 30-99%. The fabrication method includes the steps of providing a mold, placing chalcogenide micro-tubes around the mold, stacking chalcogenide micro-canes around the stacked micro-tubes, fusing the micro-tubes and the micro-canes to form a preform, removing the mold and drawing the preform to obtain the fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2003Publication date: February 3, 2005Inventors: Jasbinder Sanghera, Ishwar Aggarwal, L. Shaw, P. Pureza, Fred Kung, Brian Cole
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Patent number: 6746384Abstract: An apparatus for exercising the muscles of the lumbar region of a subject's back includes a seat, a vertical support member to which the back end of the seat is attached so that the centerline extending from the from the front to the back of the seat forms an angle with the vertical member in the range of 65 to 75 degrees and with the front end of the seat being inclined downward to the surface on which the vertical support member stands, a base attached to the bottom end of the vertical support member, a cylindrical roller pad that is rotatably mounted to the vertical support member at a position above the seat, a knob that is adjustably mounted to the vertical support member, and a hand-held weight which the subject grasps and holds near the subject's body while performing the strengthening exercises.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2001Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Maccole Enterprises, L.L.C.Inventors: Brian Cole, Wayne A. MacMasters
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Patent number: 6741566Abstract: An Ethernet, or more generally any packetized network system, remote management device and system operable via Ethernet connections according to non-Ethernet message instructions presented during the active idle signal period, e.g. during the inter-packet gap (IPG), which are separated from the Ethernet signalling before detection. A locally managed device includes a physical layer interface adapted to receive a secondary signal which is encoded to provide a corresponding signal while conforming to the active idle and minimum IPG requirements, and is received by a remote device managed according to the encoded signals provided from the local device during the IPG. Further embodiments provide multiple (serial) nesting of such remote devices along the Ethernet path, with the instructions to and data from the most distant such remote devices forwarded through intermediate remote devices according to the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2000Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: Metrobility Optical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Darrell Furlong, Brian Cole, Gregory Carlson
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Publication number: 20030213267Abstract: This invention pertains to apparatus and process for making core/clad glass fibers. The apparatus includes a central tube or receptacle connected at the top to a pressure controller and terminating in a reduced section; a side tube or receptacle positioned at about the level of the upper portion of the central tube; an outer tube or receptacle disposed around the bottom portion of the central tube terminating in a smaller section which is concentric with and spaced directly below the section of the central tube; a side arm connecting the side tube and the outer tube; and furnaces around the side, outer, and the reduced sections of the central arid the outer tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2003Publication date: November 20, 2003Inventors: Reza Mossadegh, Brian Cole, Pablo Pureza, Jasbinder Sanghera, Shyam Bayya, Ishwar Aggarwal
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Publication number: 20030166440Abstract: An apparatus for exercising the muscles of the lumbar region of a subject's back includes a seat, a vertical support member to which the back end of the seat is attached so that the centerline extending from the from the front to the back of the seat forms an angle with the vertical member in the range of 65 to 75 degrees and with the front end of the seat being inclined downward to the surface on which the vertical support member stands, a base attached to the bottom end of the vertical support member, a cylindrical roller pad that is rotatably mounted to the vertical support member at a position above the seat, a knob that is adjustably mounted to the vertical support member, and a hand-held weight which the subject grasps and holds near the subject's body while performing the strengthening exercises.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2001Publication date: September 4, 2003Applicant: MacCole Enterprises, L.L.C.Inventors: Brian Cole, Wayne A. MacMasters
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Patent number: 6526782Abstract: This invention pertains to apparatus and process for making core/clad glass fibers. The apparatus includes a central tube or receptacle connected at the top to a pressure controller and terminating in a reduced section; a side tube or receptacle positioned at about the level of the upper portion of the central tube; an outer tube or receptacle disposed around the bottom portion of the central tube terminating in a smaller section which is concentric with and spaced directly below the section of the central tube; a side arm connecting the side tube and the outer tube; and furnaces around the side, outer, and the reduced sections of the central and the outer tubes.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2001Date of Patent: March 4, 2003Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Reza Mossadegh, Brian Cole, Pablo Pureza, Jasbinder Sanghera, Shyam Bayya, Ishwar Aggarwal
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Publication number: 20030030892Abstract: A device amplifies light at wavelengths in the vicinity of 1420-1530 nm, using thulium doped silica-based optical fiber. This wavelength band is of interest as it falls in the low-loss optical fiber telecommunications window, and is somewhat shorter in wavelength than the currently standard erbium doped silica fiber amplifier. The device thus extends the band of wavelengths which can be supported for long-distance telecommunications. The additional wavelength band allows the data transmission rate to be substantially increased via wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), with minimal modification to the standard equipment currently used for WDM systems. The host glass is directly compatible with standard silica-based telecommunications fiber. The invention also enables modified silicate based amplifiers and lasers on a variety of alternative transitions. Specifically, an S-band thulium doped fiber amplifier (TDFA) using a true silicate fiber host is described.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2002Publication date: February 13, 2003Inventors: Michael Dennis, Brian Cole
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Publication number: 20020020104Abstract: A method and container is provided for storing live bait in an ice fishing hole. The container includes a perforated bucket arranged to be supported in the ice fishing hole for receiving the live bait therein. An outer bucket is provided for supporting the perforated bucket therein for transport of the bait. An insulated cover is arranged to extend across an open top end of the perforated bucket and the ice fishing hole to prevent the ice fishing hole from freezing over. The cover includes a hanger coupling the perforated bucket thereto such that the perforated bucket is suspended from the cover when the cover is pulled from either the outer bucket or the ice fishing hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2001Publication date: February 21, 2002Inventors: Martin Kolar, Brian Cole
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Patent number: 6128429Abstract: Disclosed herein is a low phonon energy glass and a fiber made therefrom. e glass includes the following components given in mol percent:______________________________________ germanium 0.1-30 arsenic 0-40 X 0.01-20 Y 40-85 ______________________________________wherein X is selected from the group consisting of gallium, indium and mixtures thereof wherein Y is selected from the group consisting of selenium, and mixtures of selenium and up to 50% of sulfur substituted for selenium and the glass also contains 0.001-2 weight percent of a rare earth, based on the weight of said components. The fiber has a minimum loss of less than 5 dB/m.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1997Date of Patent: October 3, 2000Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Brian Cole, Jasbinder Sanghera, Brandon Shaw, Barry Harbison, Ishwar D. Aggarwal
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Patent number: 5973824Abstract: Disclosed herein is an amplification method, an optical glass amplifier, a laser based on the amplifier and an amplification optical communication system, all based on a limited length of a single-mode glass fiber made from glass having phonon energy of less than about 350 cm.sup.-1 and doped with dysprosium. The glass includes 0.1-30 mol % germanium, 0-40 mol % arsenic, 0.01-20 mol % X, 0.01-20 mol % Y, and 0.001-2 weight % dysprosium, wherein X is selected from the group consisting of gallium, indium and mixtures thereof selenium; and wherein Y is selected from the group consisting of selenium, and mixtures of selenium and up to 50% of sulfur. The system includes a coupler, a silica-based signal fiber carrying the optical signal that is to be amplified in communication with said coupling means, a pump light source in communication with the coupler, an amplifier in communication with the coupler at one end and another silica-based fiber joined to the amplifier at its other end.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1997Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Jasbinder Sanghera, Brandon Shaw, Brian Cole, Barry Harbison, Ishwar D. Aggarwal