Patents by Inventor Bruce A. Long

Bruce A. Long 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).

  • Publication number: 20220212883
    Abstract: Robotic assembly systems and methods of assembling products using planar robots. Planar movers cooperate magnetically with stators to pick products provided on an infeed and place them in a pattern on an outfeed system, wherein the movers having a clamp having at least two opposing clamping surfaces whose relative positions are continuously adjustable by a force from an object external to the mover and the stator. Sensors and controllers cooperate to precisely move the movers on the stator, particularly as a group, for the movers to pick respective products at respective picking locations. Some systems permit packaging of multiple products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaodong Lu, Graham Williamson, Kevin Xiao, Alexander Slocum, Peter Tang, Bruce Long
  • Patent number: 10799608
    Abstract: A dielectric assembly for generating ozone includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a dielectric for generating the ozone, and a knob adapted to extend outside of a housing into which the dielectric assembly is to be placed. A system is also provided for sanitizing and deodorizing water, food, surfaces and air including a microbiological reduction filter device having an input connected to a water supply, a venturi injector disposed within a housing and connected to an output of the microbiological reduction filter device which generates ozone and mixes the generated ozone with the water, and an electrode assembly comprising a plurality of electrodes, a dielectric for generating the ozone, and a knob extending outside of the housing. The dielectric in a first embodiment and the entire dielectric assembly in a second embodiment can be removed from the housing and replaced in its entirety by the knob.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: BADGER-VERIPURE, LLC
    Inventor: Ronald Bruce Long
  • Patent number: 10375852
    Abstract: An airflow baffle system has an airflow baffle with a base and an airflow diverter panel. A mounting arm is connected to the base. A magnet connected to the mounting arm is operable to magnetically connect to the top of the equipment cabinet. The mounting arm is selectively pivotal in a horizontal plane relative to the base and fixable in a plurality of angular orientations. A position of the magnet is adjustable along a length of the mounting arm and the magnet is connected to the mounting arm by a flexible connection permitting the magnet to pivot about horizontal axes relative to the mounting arm. The airflow diverter panel is mountable on the base in an angled orientation and a vertical orientation. A unitary or separable riser allows adjustment of a vertical position of the airflow diverter panel with respect to the top of the equipment cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Aquila, Inc.
    Inventors: Clint Veino, Bruce Long, Lars Strong
  • Publication number: 20170173198
    Abstract: A dielectric assembly for generating ozone includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a dielectric for generating the ozone, and a knob adapted to extend outside of a housing into which the dielectric assembly is to be placed. A system is also provided for sanitizing and deodorizing water, food, surfaces and air including a microbiological reduction filter device having an input connected to a water supply, a venturi injector disposed within a housing and connected to an output of the microbiological reduction filter device which generates ozone and mixes the generated ozone with the water, and an electrode assembly comprising a plurality of electrodes, a dielectric for generating the ozone, and a knob extending outside of the housing. The dielectric in a first embodiment and the entire dielectric assembly in a second embodiment can be removed from the housing and replaced in its entirety by the knob.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Veripure, LLC
    Inventor: Ronald Bruce LONG
  • Patent number: 9605459
    Abstract: A door system suitable for installation in data centers to limit airflow to and from aisles between rows of equipment cabinets has a door assembly with a door panel and a plurality of vertically spaced hinge assemblies having powerful permanent magnets manually movable between connected and disconnected positions, enabling the door assembly to be aligned and positioned on the side wall panel of an equipment cabinet and then removably mounted in place by engagement of the magnets. Each magnet can be mounted in a rotatable threaded magnet carriers received in a threaded recesses in the hinge assembly and rotation of the magnet carrier is operable to move the magnet into the connected and disconnected positions. The hinge assemblies also include registration tabs that engage slots in the cabinet for proper alignment and orientation of the door system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Upsite Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Clint Veino, Bruce Long, Lars Strong
  • Patent number: 9585979
    Abstract: A dielectric assembly for generating ozone includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a dielectric for generating the ozone, and a knob adapted to extend outside of a housing into which the dielectric assembly is to be placed. A system is also provided for sanitizing and deodorizing water, food, surfaces and air including a microbiological reduction filter device having an input connected to a water supply, a venturi injector disposed within a housing and connected to an output of the microbiological reduction filter device which generates ozone and mixes the generated ozone with the water, and an electrode assembly comprising a plurality of electrodes, a dielectric for generating the ozone, and a knob extending outside of the housing. The dielectric in a first embodiment and the entire dielectric assembly in a second embodiment can be removed from the housing and replaced in its entirety by the knob.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: VERIPURE, LLC
    Inventor: Ronald Bruce Long
  • Publication number: 20150308172
    Abstract: A door system suitable for installation in data centers to limit airflow to and from aisles between rows of equipment cabinets has a door assembly with a door panel and a plurality of vertically spaced hinge assemblies having powerful permanent magnets manually movable between connected and disconnected positions, enabling the door assembly to be aligned and positioned on the side wall panel of an equipment cabinet and then removably mounted in place by engagement of the magnets. Each magnet can be mounted in a rotatable threaded magnet carriers received in a threaded recesses in the hinge assembly and rotation of the magnet carrier is operable to move the magnet into the connected and disconnected positions. The hinge assemblies also include registration tabs that engage slots in the cabinet for proper alignment and orientation of the door system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Clint Veino, Bruce Long, Lars Strong
  • Publication number: 20150305202
    Abstract: An adjustable airflow barrier system has a roll of flexible sheet air barrier contained in a housing. The air barrier is biased in retracted position and has a range of extended positions. A pull bar is attached to a free edge of the air barrier. A first magnetic mount is coupled to the housing to removably mount the housing to a first support surface, such as a cabinet in a data center. A second magnetic mount is coupled to the pull bar to removably mount the pull bar to a second support surface spaced from the first support surface. The housing is operable to form a substantial air seal with the first support surface, and the pull bar is operable to form a substantial air seal with the second support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Clint Veino, Bruce Long
  • Publication number: 20150296657
    Abstract: An airflow baffle system has an airflow baffle with a base and an airflow diverter panel. A mounting arm is connected to the base. A magnet connected to the mounting arm is operable to magnetically connect to the top of the equipment cabinet. The mounting arm is selectively pivotal in a horizontal plane relative to the base and fixable in a plurality of angular orientations. A position of the magnet is adjustable along a length of the mounting arm and the magnet is connected to the mounting arm by a flexible connection permitting the magnet to pivot about horizontal axes relative to the mounting arm. The airflow diverter panel is mountable on the base in an angled orientation and a vertical orientation. A unitary or separable riser allows adjustment of a vertical position of the airflow diverter panel with respect to the top of the equipment cabinet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Clint Veino, Bruce Long, Lars Strong
  • Publication number: 20150064075
    Abstract: A dielectric assembly for generating ozone includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a dielectric for generating the ozone, and a knob adapted to extend outside of a housing into which the dielectric assembly is to be placed. A system is also provided for sanitizing and deodorizing water, food, surfaces and air including a microbiological reduction filter device having an input connected to a water supply, a venturi injector disposed within a housing and connected to an output of the microbiological reduction filter device which generates ozone and mixes the generated ozone with the water, and an electrode assembly comprising a plurality of electrodes, a dielectric for generating the ozone, and a knob extending outside of the housing. The dielectric in a first embodiment and the entire dielectric assembly in a second embodiment can be removed from the housing and replaced in its entirety by the knob.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Veripure, LLC
    Inventor: Ronald Bruce LONG
  • Publication number: 20120076701
    Abstract: A dielectric assembly for generating ozone includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a dielectric for generating the ozone, and a knob adapted to extend outside of a housing into which the dielectric assembly is to be placed. A system is also provided for sanitizing and deodorizing water, food, surfaces and air including a microbiological reduction filter device having an input connected to a water supply, a venturi injector disposed within a housing and connected to an output of the microbiological reduction filter device which generates ozone and mixes the generated ozone with the water, and an electrode assembly comprising a plurality of electrodes, a dielectric for generating the ozone, and a knob extending outside of the housing. The dielectric in a first embodiment and the entire dielectric assembly in a second embodiment can be removed from the housing and replaced in its entirety by the knob.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventor: Ronald Bruce Long
  • Publication number: 20090202396
    Abstract: A dielectric assembly for generating ozone includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode in operational proximity to the positive electrode, a dielectric in operational proximity to the positive and negative electrodes for generating the ozone, and a knob adapted to extend outside of a housing into which the dielectric assembly is to be placed. A system is also provided for sanitizing and deodorizing water, food, surfaces and air including a microbiological reduction filter device having an input connected to a water supply, a venturi injector disposed within a housing and connected to an output of the microbiological reduction filter device which generates ozone and mixes the generated ozone with the water, and an electrode assembly comprising a plurality of electrodes, a dielectric for generating the ozone, and a knob extending outside of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventor: Ronald Bruce Long
  • Patent number: 7573156
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, an uninterruptible power supply includes UPS circuitry, a power source adapted to couple to the UPS circuitry, a first contact, a second contact, and a third contact. The first contact, the second contact, and the third contact are adapted to couple the UPS circuitry to the power source. In a first stage of connection of the UPS circuitry and the power source, the first contact and the second contact are employed in a first circuit. In a second stage of connection of the UPS circuitry and the power source, the first contact and the third contact are employed in a second circuit, and the second contact and the third contact are employed in a third circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: American Power Conversion Corporation
    Inventors: Namwook Paik, Bruce Long
  • Patent number: 7524466
    Abstract: A dielectric assembly for generating ozone includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode in operational proximity to the positive electrode, a dielectric in operational proximity to the positive and negative electrodes for generating the ozone, and a knob adapted to extend outside of a housing into which the dielectric assembly is to be placed. A system is also provided for sanitizing and deodorizing water, food, surfaces and air including a microbiological reduction filter device having an input connected to a water supply, a venturi injector disposed within a housing and connected to an output of the microbiological reduction filter device which generates ozone and mixes the generated ozone with the water, and an electrode assembly comprising a plurality of electrodes, a dielectric for generating the ozone, and a knob extending outside of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Longmark Industries, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Ronald Bruce Long
  • Publication number: 20070145827
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, an uninterruptible power supply includes UPS circuitry, a power source adapted to couple to the UPS circuitry, a first contact, a second contact, and a third contact. The first contact, the second contact, and the third contact are adapted to couple the UPS circuitry to the power source. In a first stage of connection of the UPS circuitry and the power source, the first contact and the second contact are employed in a first circuit. In a second stage of connection of the UPS circuitry and the power source, the first contact and the third contact are employed in a second circuit, and the second contact and the third contact are employed in a third circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: American Power Conversion Corporation
    Inventors: Namwook Paik, Bruce Long
  • Patent number: 7139936
    Abstract: An apparatus verifies the correctness of a behavioral model of a microcode machine, where the microcode machine is operable in a native state and an emulated state. The apparatus includes means for producing the native state, means for producing the emulated state, and means for comparing the native state and the emulated state. Corresponding to the apparatus, a method verifies the correctness of a processor behavioral model, where the processor operates in a native mode state and an emulated mode state. The method includes determining if a macroinstruction to be executed is a native instruction, and, if the macroinstruction is a native instruction, executing the native instruction, the execution producing the native mode state of the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeremy Petsinger, Kevin David Safford, Karl P. Brummel, Russell C. Brockmann, Bruce A. Long, Patrick Knebel
  • Publication number: 20060111998
    Abstract: A system for and method of variable annuity contract administration is provided. Each variable annuity contract includes a bonus investment credit percentage, withdrawal charge percentages less than or equal to the bonus investment credit percentage in all contract years, and level asset-based compensation to distributors. In accordance with the invention, data relating to variable annuity contracts are stored in a memory means. A processing means is configured to read and manipulate the stored data to administer the variable annuity contracts from issuance to payout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Applicant: The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
    Inventors: Charles Fisher, Bruce Long, Donald Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20040039966
    Abstract: An apparatus verifies the correctness of a behavioral model of a microcode machine, where the microcode machine is operable in a native state and an emulated state. The apparatus includes means for producing the native state, means for producing the emulated state, and means for comparing the native state and the emulated state. Corresponding to the apparatus, a method verifies the correctness of a processor behavioral model, where the processor operates in a native mode state and an emulated mode state. The method includes determining if a macroinstruction to be executed is a native instruction, and, if the macroinstruction is a native instruction, executing the native instruction, the execution producing the native mode state of the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Jeremy Petsinger, Kevin David Safford, Karl P. Brummel, Russell C. Brockmann, Bruce A. Long, Patrick Knebel
  • Patent number: 6625759
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus checks the fine-grain correctness of a microcode machine central processor unit (CPU) behavioral model. Macroinstructions are decomposed into microinstructions and each microinstruction is executed sequentially. A sequence of microinstructions is determined by an emulated microinstruction sequencer, using dynamic execution information, including information from execution of prior microinstructions in the sequence of microinstructions. At the end of execution of each microinstruction, a reference state is compared to a corresponding state of the behavioral model, and any differences are noted. After execution of all microinstructions in the microinstruction sequence, a reference state is compared to a corresponding state of the behavioral model, and any differences are noted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeremy Petsinger, Kevin David Safford, Karl P. Brummel, Russell C. Brockmann, Bruce A. Long, Patrick Knebel
  • Patent number: D542807
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: American Power Conversion Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce Long, Thomas Eagan, Scott Wakefield, Jonathan N. Towle, Benjamin D. Hormance