Patents by Inventor Chad Williams

Chad Williams 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: 11971026
    Abstract: An improved air compressor is provided. The air compressor includes a cylinder block having a head deck that defines a piston bore for reciprocal movement of a piston therein. The head deck further includes first and second ramped surfaces that slope downward toward the peripheral edge of the piston bore. A valve plate is in direct contact with the upper surface of the head deck, the valve plate having a leaf valve. During an intake stroke of the piston, the leaf valve deflects downward into direct engagement with the first and second ramped surfaces. Because the air compressor lacks a lower gasket between the valve plate and the head deck, the cost and assembly time associated with the lower gasket are eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ZF CV SYSTEMS EUROPE BV
    Inventors: Chad Lemon, Ramesh Pai, Alan Williams
  • Publication number: 20240114942
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally provides compounds that antagonize certain T2R taste receptors, including related uses, methods, and compositions for the reduction of bitter taste and/or the enhancement of sweet taste. In certain aspects, the disclosure provides flavored articles or flavored compositions comprising such compounds, as well as uses of such compounds to reduce the bitter taste and/or enhance the sweet taste of such flavored articles or flavored compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Firmenich Incorporated
    Inventors: Joseph R. Fotsing, Andrew Patron, Guy Servant, Lan Zhang, Mark Williams, Qing Chen, Kenneth Simone, Vincent Darmohusodo, Chad Priest, Melissa S. Wong, Thomas Brady
  • Patent number: 11949189
    Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board and an electrical connector having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. The connector housing has a mating end configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector in a mating direction. The electrical connector has cables terminated to the contacts and extending from a cable end. A connector mount is used to locate the electrical connector relative to the circuit board. A bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board. A biasing member is coupled to the bracket and the mounting feature and is compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, Douglas Edward Shirk, David Allison Trout, Michael Streckewald
  • Publication number: 20240090591
    Abstract: Provided are devices for delivering volatile compound(s) to individuals. The delivery devices can be unpowered devices. The volatile compound(s) can be flavored. Delivery device can comprise engageable components releasably held together by a selectively releasable attachment mechanism. In aspects, the delivery devices further comprise an adjustable airflow control mechanism. In aspects, movement of delivery device components is associated with visual, audible, tactile, or audible and tactile indication of movement or position of device elements. In aspects, element(s) of a delivery device or a device in a system serve as a fidget movement element, being detectably moveable within a short period upon application of a small initiation force easily being returned to a position suitable for repeating the movement. Further provided are methods of using such delivery devices or systems for promoting user sensory experiences or for other beneficial effects, such as reducing habit-related behaviors or sensations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Braeden Pauls, Josiah Pauls, Chad Gothong, Joel Braun, Hannah Loewen, Janai Whelan, Daniel Ogden, Patrick Williams
  • Patent number: 11928624
    Abstract: A worksite management system may include a worksite controller including one or more worksite controller processors configured to receive a signal indicative of a task to be performed by a machine at a worksite, identify a machine for performing the task, and generate a signal indicative of the machine. The worksite management system may also include a mobile device including one or more mobile device processors configured to receive the signal indicative of the machine, display an image representative of the machine, and display a prompt for a person at the worksite to validate availability of the machine to perform the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Gautham Subramanian, Chad T. Brickner, Mark William Whiting
  • Publication number: 20240077908
    Abstract: A dock for a computing device includes: a cradle configured to receive a first edge of the computing device; a body extending from the cradle, the body having: (i) a first mounting surface configured to removably support a first accessory module in a first volume adjacent to the computing device, and (ii) a second mounting surface configured to removably support, independently of the first accessory module, a second accessory module in a second volume disjoint from the first volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Lawrence Allen Stone, David William Reber, Brian D. Ryder, Chad Chaumont, Dennis Barrett
  • Patent number: 11923638
    Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes an electrical connector mounted to a circuit board having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. A connector mount having a bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board proximate to the mating edge. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount to move relative to the circuit board during mating with the mating electrical connector. The connector mount has a biasing member compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount in a confined envelope in at least one floating direction perpendicular to the mating direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, David Allison Trout, Michael Streckewald, Douglas Edward Shirk
  • Patent number: 11924970
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable having an insulator holding a first signal conductor and a second signal conductor and a cable shield surrounding the insulator. Exposed portions of the signal conductors extend forward of an end of the insulator for termination to a circuit card. The cable assembly includes a ground clip coupled to the end of the cable. The ground clip includes a bottom ground rake below the cable and a top ground hood above the cable. The bottom ground rake includes a window that receives the exposed portions of the first and second signal conductors therethrough. The bottom ground rake includes a lower grounding tab electrically connected to a lower portion of the cable shield and the top ground hood includes an upper grounding tab electrically connected to an upper portion of the cable shield. The bottom ground rake is coupled to the circuit card to support the cable relative to the circuit card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, Bruce Allen Champion, John Joseph Consoli
  • Patent number: 11916341
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes wafer assemblies coupled to a housing. Each wafer assembly includes a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, and a ground frame coupled to the wafer body to provide electrical shielding for the leadframe. Each leadframe has signal contacts with mating ends extending from the wafer body for mating with mating signal contacts of a mating electrical connector. The mating ends are twisted 45° to define twisted mating interfaces. Each ground frame has ground shields extending from a ground plate along the mating ends of the signal contacts. The ground shields are twisted 45° relative to the ground plate to define twisted shield zones along the mating ends of the signal contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, Chad William Morgan, David Allison Trout, Jeffrey Byron McClinton
  • Patent number: 11909147
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes a contact holder holding first and second contacts in contact channels terminated to ends of conductors of a cable. The contacts have mating ends forward of the front of the contact holder. The cable connector assembly includes a contact shield coupled to the contact holder having a base and a shroud. The base surrounds a base chamber that receives an end of the cable and the contact holder and provides electrical shielding at first and second interfaces. The shroud surrounds a shroud chamber that receives the mating ends of the first and second contacts to provide electrical shielding along the mating ends of the first and second contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli
  • Patent number: 11904546
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing a wellbore downhole tool, including providing a pre-polymer resin and processing the pre-polymer resin. Processing the pre-polymer resin includes applying directed energy from a directed energy source such that the pre-polymer resin is at least partially polymerized to form a polymer seal of the wellbore downhole tool, the polymer seal having one of more mechanical properties that differ along one or more dimensions of the polymer seal. A downhole tool for use in a wellbore, the downhole tool including a polymer seal. The polymer seal is a continuous single monolithic piece, includes polymer structures having a polymer chain including same types of monomers that are bonded together, and the polymer structures are altered along one or more dimensions of the polymer seal and one of more mechanical properties of the polymer seal differ along a same corresponding one of the or more dimensions of the polymer seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Chad William Glaesman, Anthony Phan
  • Publication number: 20240047910
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable having signal conductors and a cable shield. The cable may have drain wires at sides of the cable. A ground clip is coupled to the end of the cable having a window that receives the exposed portions of the signal conductors therethrough. The ground clip is coupled to the circuit card to support the cable relative to the circuit card. The ground clip includes a lower grounding tab electrically connected to a lower portion of the cable shield and an upper grounding tab electrically connected to an upper portion of the cable shield. The ground clip includes connecting tines electrically connected to sides of the cable shield, such as via the drain wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, Bruce Allen Champion, John Joseph Consoli
  • Publication number: 20240047911
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable having a cable shield surrounding an insulator and first and second signal conductors with exposed portions at the end of the cable coupled to a circuit card. The cable has a drain wire exposed at the end of the cable. The cable assembly includes a ground clip coupled to the end of the cable having a bottom ground rake below the cable and a top ground hood above the cable. The bottom ground rake includes a lower grounding tab electrically connected to a lower portion of the cable shield and the top ground hood includes an upper grounding tab electrically connected to an upper portion of the cable shield. The top ground hood includes a cable connector coupled to the end of the cable. The cable connector pressing the drain wire toward the cable shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Julia Anne Lachman
  • Publication number: 20240047909
    Abstract: A cable connector module includes a circuit card having signal contact pads on an upper surface and signal mating pads on a lower surface configured to be mated with interposer contacts of a socket connector. Signal vias extend directly through the circuit card electrically connecting the signal contact pads and the corresponding signal mating pads in the shortest path possible. The cable connector module includes cable assemblies terminated to the upper surface having a cable and a ground structure coupled to an end of the cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, Bruce Allen Champion, John Joseph Consoli, Hirotate Kadobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240047908
    Abstract: An electronic assembly includes a socket assembly including a cage mounted to a circuit board and a socket connector received in a cavity of the cage. The socket connector includes a substrate holding interposer contacts with compressible upper and lower contact portions. The electronic assembly includes a cable connector module received in the cavity of the cage and coupled to the socket connector. The cable connector module includes a housing coupled to the cage, a circuit card received in the cavity of the housing, and cable assemblies coupled to the circuit card. The circuit card is coupled to the socket connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, Bruce Allen Champion, John Joseph Consoli
  • Publication number: 20240049394
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable having an insulator holding a first signal conductor and a second signal conductor and a cable shield surrounding the insulator. Exposed portions of the signal conductors extend forward of an end of the insulator for termination to a circuit card. The cable assembly includes a ground clip coupled to the end of the cable. The ground clip includes a bottom ground rake below the cable and a top ground hood above the cable. The bottom ground rake includes a window that receives the exposed portions of the first and second signal conductors therethrough. The bottom ground rake includes a lower grounding tab electrically connected to a lower portion of the cable shield and the top ground hood includes an upper grounding tab electrically connected to an upper portion of the cable shield. The bottom ground rake is coupled to the circuit card to support the cable relative to the circuit card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, Bruce Allen Champion, John Joseph Consoli
  • Publication number: 20240047907
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable having signal conductors and a cable shield surrounding an insulator. The cable assembly includes a ground clip coupled to the end of the cable having a support wall supporting the end of the cable. Exposed portions of the signal conductors extend through a window in the support wall. The ground clip includes connecting tines extending from the support wall to interface with upper and lower portions of the cable shield. The ground clip includes a mounting tab configured to be mounted to a circuit card to fix the ground clip relative to the circuit card and electrically connect the ground clip to the circuit card. The ground clip supports the cable such that the cable extends from the support wall in a cable exit direction angled transverse relative to a mounting surface of the circuit card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Bruce Allen Champion, John Joseph Consoli, Chad William Morgan
  • Patent number: 11894629
    Abstract: A socket assembly includes an electrical interconnect having an insulator having apertures. The electrical interconnect includes primary contacts and secondary contacts received in corresponding apertures. The primary contacts include a primary conductive polymer column having upper contact tips and lower contact tips for electrically interconnecting first and second electronic packages. The secondary contacts include a secondary conductive polymer column having upper contact tips and lower contact tips for electrically interconnecting the first and second electronic packages. The contact tips of the secondary conductive polymer columns have a different shape from the shape of the contact tips of the primary conductive polymer columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: TYCO ELECTRONICS JAPAN G.K., TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: John Joseph Consoli, Chad William Morgan, Megan Hoarfrost Beers, Christopher William Blackburn, Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Jennifer Love, Clarence Leon Yu, Shinichi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shirai
  • Publication number: 20240022028
    Abstract: A wafer assembly includes a leadframe having signal contacts and cables with signal conductors terminated to the corresponding signal contacts. Each cable includes a cable shield providing shielding for the signal conductors. The wafer assembly includes a wafer body holding the signal contacts. The wafer assembly includes first and second ground frames coupled to the first and second sides of the wafer body to provide electrical shielding for the leadframe. The ground frames include ground shields providing shielding for mating ends of the corresponding signal contacts. The ground frames includes cable covers coupled to the corresponding cable shields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Streckewald, Justin Dennis Pickel, Julia Anne Lachman, Chad William Morgan
  • Patent number: 11851982
    Abstract: A well tool can include a body and at least one barrier element. The barrier element can include a pyrolytically degradable material that is positionable to block a flow of fluid across the body within a wellbore and to degrade by pyrolysis over time within the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Charles Timothy Smith, Chad William Glaesman