Patents by Inventor Bruce G. Johnson

Bruce G. Johnson 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: 11789110
    Abstract: Systems and methods for fault detection, exclusion, isolation, and re-configuration of navigation sensors using an abstraction layer are provided. In certain embodiments, a system includes a plurality of sensors that provide redundant sensor measurements, wherein redundancy of the redundant sensor measurements is achieved based on an independence between measurements from different physical sensor units in the plurality of sensors. The system additionally includes a fusion function configured to receive the redundant sensor measurements from each sensor in the plurality of sensors and calculate fused navigation parameters. Further, the system includes an abstraction layer that calculates an estimated state based on the fused navigation parameters, wherein the estimated state comprises safety assessment information for the fused navigation parameters and the fused navigation parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Ahlbrecht, Mats Anders Brenner, Bruce G Johnson, Milos Sotak, Zdenek Kana, James Arthur McDonald
  • Patent number: 11479054
    Abstract: An example system may comprise a media support including a wall and a base and a restraining extension extending in a first direction to constrain print media, when present, to a space below the restraining extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Elliott Downing, Bruce G. Johnson, Robert Yraceburu
  • Patent number: 11474471
    Abstract: A finisher apparatus includes an actuator to control a component of the finisher apparatus to perform a finishing operation on a print medium. A sensor is provided to sense the print medium in a print-medium path in the finisher apparatus. A processor is coupled to the actuator and the sensor. The processor is to execute instructions. The instructions are to actuate the actuator to eject the print medium from the print-medium path in response to a signal from the sensor indicative of a jam of the print medium in the finisher apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bruce G. Johnson, Matthew Douglas Reier, Robert Yraceburu, Elliott Downing, Francisco Javier Gomez Maurer
  • Patent number: 11365079
    Abstract: Example printer finishing apparatus are described herein. An example printer disclosed herein includes an alignment guide, a track to align a sheet relative to the alignment guide, a clamp to move between a raised position and a lowered position relative to the sheet, and a force applicator coupled to the clamp. The force applicator is to cause the sheet to engage the alignment guide when the clamp is in the lowered position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bruce G. Johnson, Robert Yraceburu, Wesley R. Schalk, Luke P. Sosnowski
  • Patent number: 11268551
    Abstract: An example damp can include a first post, a first clamping element rotatably oupled to the first post, a second post separate from the first post, a second clamping lement rotatably coupled to the second post, and a biasing device that couples the first lamping element to the second damping element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bruce G Johnson, Lonny Morgan
  • Publication number: 20220065980
    Abstract: Systems and methods for fault detection, exclusion, isolation, and re-configuration of navigation sensors using an abstraction layer are provided. In certain embodiments, a system includes a plurality of sensors that provide redundant sensor measurements, wherein redundancy of the redundant sensor measurements is achieved based on an independence between measurements from different physical sensor units in the plurality of sensors. The system additionally includes a fusion function configured to receive the redundant sensor measurements from each sensor in the plurality of sensors and calculate fused navigation parameters. Further, the system includes an abstraction layer that calculates an estimated state based on the fused navigation parameters, wherein the estimated state comprises safety assessment information for the fused navigation parameters and the fused navigation parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Ahlbrecht, Mats Anders Brenner, Bruce G Johnson, Milos Sotak, Zdenek Kana, James Arthur McDonald
  • Publication number: 20220032664
    Abstract: An example system may comprise a media support including a wall and a base and a restraining extension extending in a first direction to constrain print media, when present, to a space below the restraining extension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Elliott Downing, Bruce G. Johnson, Robert Yraceburu
  • Patent number: 11176432
    Abstract: A finisher apparatus includes an accumulator to register a print medium of a print job in preparation for a finishing operation, memory to store an attribute of the print job, and a processor coupled to the accumulator and the memory. The processor is to execute instructions. The instructions are to control the accumulator based on the attribute of the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bruce G. Johnson, Matthew Douglas Reier, Elliott Downing, Cristopher Royce Jansson, Robert Yraceburu, Stuart Scofield
  • Publication number: 20210331885
    Abstract: Example printer finishing apparatus are described herein. An example printer disclosed herein includes an alignment guide, a track to align a sheet relative to the alignment guide, a clamp to move between a raised position and a lowered position relative to the sheet, and a force applicator coupled to the clamp. The force applicator is to cause the sheet to engage the alignment guide when the clamp is in the lowered position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Bruce G. Johnson, Robert Yraceburu, Wesley R. Schalk, Luke P. Sosnowski
  • Publication number: 20210246921
    Abstract: An example damp can include a first post, a first clamping element rotatably coupled to the first post, a second post separate from the first post, a second clamping element rotatably coupled to the second post, and a biasing device that couples the first lamping element to the second damping element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Bruce G Johnson, Lonny Morgan
  • Patent number: 11072510
    Abstract: Example described herein relate to a print shoes. For instance, a print shoe can include a body including a first surface, a first arm extending from the first surface and including a first mounting mechanism to couple to a spring, and a second arm extending from the first surface in a position substantially coplanar with the first arm, where the second arm includes a second mounting mechanism to couple to the spring and dispose the first arm a distance away from the second arm when coupled to the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Tom McCue, Lonny Morgan, Catherine Elizabeth Gould, Anthony W Ebersole, Robert Yraceburu, Elliott Downing, Robert Scott Beale, Bruce G Johnson
  • Patent number: 11052684
    Abstract: A media registration system includes a puller clamp, and a puller track to support the puller clamp. The puller track is to open and close the puller clamp with movement of the puller clamp along the puller track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bruce G Johnson, Elliott Downing, Steve O Rasmussen, Al Olson
  • Publication number: 20210122600
    Abstract: Example described herein relate to a print shoes. For instance, a print shoe can include a body including a first surface, a first arm extending from the first surface and including a first mounting mechanism to couple to a spring, and a second arm extending from the first surface in a position substantially coplanar with the first arm, where the second arm includes a second mounting mechanism to couple to the spring and dispose the first arm a distance away from the second arm when coupled to the spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Tom McCue, Lonny Morgan, Catherine Elizabeth Gould, Anthony W Ebersole, Robert Yraceburu, Elliott Downing, Robert Scott Beale, Bruce G Johnson
  • Publication number: 20210110224
    Abstract: A finisher apparatus includes an accumulator to register a print medium of a print job in preparation for a finishing operation, memory to store an attribute of the print job, and a processor coupled to the accumulator and the memory. The processor is to execute instructions. The instructions are to control the accumulator based on the attribute of the print job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Bruce G. Johnson, Matthew Douglas Reier, Elliott Downing, Cristopher Royce Jansson, Robert Yraceburu, Stuart Scofield
  • Publication number: 20210096496
    Abstract: A finisher apparatus includes an actuator to control a component of the finisher apparatus to perform a finishing operation on a print medium. A sensor is provided to sense the print medium in a print-medium path in the finisher apparatus. A processor is coupled to the actuator and the sensor. The processor is to execute instructions. The instructions are to actuate the actuator to eject the print medium from the print-medium path in response to a signal from the sensor indicative of a jam of the print medium in the finisher apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Bruce G. Johnson, Matthew Douglas Reier, Robert Yraceburu
  • Patent number: 10961073
    Abstract: An example system includes an advancement mechanism to drive print media into a stacking region, a movable media guide arrangement and a controller. The movable media guide arrangement includes a pair of opposing media guides to receive opposing edges of a print medium therein and a translation mechanism to move the opposing media guides between at least two positions, the at least two positions including a deployed position and a retracted position. The controller is to actuate the translation mechanism to move the opposing media guides into the deployed position when the advancement mechanism transports a print medium into the stacking region and to actuate the translation mechanism to move the opposing media guides to the retracted position to release the print medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Steve O Rasmussen, Bruce G Johnson, Elliott Downing, Tom McCue, Gene Jones, Todd M Gaasch, Jonathan C Spafford, Anthony W Ebersole
  • Patent number: 10933658
    Abstract: An example system includes a stacking portion having a leading edge portion and a trailing edge portion, the stacking portion being to receive print media transported into the stacking portion in a direction from the trailing edge portion to the leading edge portion; a bar clamp extending longitudinally in the direction of transport of the print media; and a driver arrangement to selectively extend the bar clamp onto the stacking portion and to retract the bar clamp away from the stacking portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Lonny Morgan, Michael Allison, Bruce G Johnson, Robert Yraceburu, Elliott Downing
  • Patent number: 10894683
    Abstract: An example system includes an advancement mechanism to drive print medium into a stacking region, a clamping mechanism, and a controller. The clamping mechanism includes a trailing edge clamping arrangement in a trailing edge portion of the stacking region and at least one downstream clamping arrangement in a downstream portion of the stacking region, the downstream portion being downstream of the trailing edge portion. The controller is to sequentially actuate the trailing edge clamping arrangement and the at least one downstream clamping arrangement when the advancement mechanism transports a print medium into the stacking region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Steve O Rasmussen, Bruce G Johnson, Elliott Downing, Robert Scott Beale, Lonny Morgan
  • Patent number: 10875736
    Abstract: A media tray may include a number of mezzanines to accumulate media as the media is ejected from a printing device and a number of ramps to selectively engage with a leading edge of the media as the media is accumulated based on a plurality of positions of the number of ramps, the number of ramps positionable based on movement of the number of mezzanines. In one example, movement of the number of mezzanines from a first position to a second position may cause the number of ramps to be in a position to selectively engage and disengage with a leading edge of the media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bruce G Johnson, Elliott Downing, Steve O Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20200398594
    Abstract: In one example, a system can include a media pathway to transport a media into a stacking region, a clamp pathway to move a clamp along the clamp pathway, and a registration surface. The registration surface may be positioned between an edge of the media pathway and the clamp pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Matthew REIER, Luke P SOSNOWSKI, Elliott DOWNING, Robert YRACEBURU, Arturo AYAIA, Robert Scott BEALE, Bruce G JOHNSON