Patents by Inventor Christopher Michael Williams

Christopher Michael 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: 11166575
    Abstract: A feeding bottle assembly having a flexible bottle defining a main chamber having a flexible peripheral and a divider member cooperating with the flexible bottle open top and having an opening extending therethrough. A raised lid attached to the open top retaining the divider member therebetween, the raised lid defining an auxiliary chamber with an having an outlet. An elongate liquid pickup tube having a proximate end passes through and sealingly connected to the divider member opening and extending above the divider member to define an auxiliary chamber, and extending below the divider into the main chamber. A nipple is mounted in a raised lid outlet, so that a liquid placed in the main chamber can be transferred to the auxiliary chamber through the pickup tube by squeezing the flexible bottle peripheral wall. The liquid is subsequently consumed by a user drinking from the nipple through a nipple outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: JOJO2JACK, LLC
    Inventors: Mallory Alyse Richard, Jamie Jo Vernon, Christopher Michael Williams, John E. Nemazi
  • Publication number: 20200297137
    Abstract: A feeding bottle assembly having a flexible bottle defining a main chamber having a flexible peripheral and a divider member cooperating with the flexible bottle open top and having an opening extending therethrough. A raised lid attached to the open top retaining the divider member therebetween, the raised lid defining an auxiliary chamber with an having an outlet. An elongate liquid pickup tube having a proximate end passes through and sealingly connected to the divider member opening and extending above the divider member to define an auxiliary chamber, and extending below the divider into the main chamber. A nipple is mounted in a raised lid outlet, so that a liquid placed in the main chamber can be transferred to the auxiliary chamber through the pickup tube by squeezing the flexible bottle peripheral wall. The liquid is subsequently consumed by a user drinking from the nipple through a nipple outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: JOJO2JACK, LLC.
    Inventors: Mallory Alyse RICHARD, Jamie Jo VERNON, Christopher Michael WILLIAMS, John E. NEMAZI
  • Patent number: 10092749
    Abstract: An AIMD includes a conductive housing, an electrically conductive ferrule with an insulator hermetically sealing the ferrule opening. A conductive pathway is hermetically sealed and disposed through the insulator. A filter capacitor is disposed on a circuit board within the housing and has a dielectric body supporting at least two active and two ground electrode plates interleaved, wherein the at least two active electrode plates are electrically connected to the conductive pathway on the device side, and the at least two ground electrode plates are electrically coupled to either the ferrule and/or the conductive housing. The dielectric body has a dielectric constant less than 1000 and a capacitance of between 10 and 20,000 picofarads. The filter capacitor is configured for EMI filtering of MRI high RF pulsed power by a low ESR, wherein the ESR of the filter capacitor at an MRI RF pulsed frequency or range of frequencies is less than 2.0 ohms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Greatbatch Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert A. Stevenson, Robert Shawn Johnson, Warren S. Dabney, Thomas Marzano, Richard L. Brendel, Christopher Michael Williams, Holly Noelle Moschiano, Keith W. Seitz, John E. Roberts
  • Publication number: 20180008822
    Abstract: An AIMD includes a conductive housing, an electrically conductive ferrule with an insulator hermetically sealing the ferrule opening. A conductive pathway is hermetically sealed and disposed through the insulator. A filter capacitor is disposed on a circuit board within the housing and has a dielectric body supporting at least two active and two ground electrode plates interleaved, wherein the at least two active electrode plates are electrically connected to the conductive pathway on the device side, and the at least two ground electrode plates are electrically coupled to either the ferrule and/or the conductive housing. The dielectric body has a dielectric constant less than 1000 and a capacitance of between 10 and 20,000 picofarads. The filter capacitor is configured for EMI filtering of MRI high RF pulsed power by a low ESR, wherein the ESR of the filter capacitor at an MRI RF pulsed frequency or range of frequencies is less than 2.0 ohms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Robert A. Stevenson, Robert Shawn Johnson, Warren S. Dabney, Thomas Marzano, Richard L. Brendel, Christopher Michael Williams, Holly Noelle Moschiano, Keith W. Seitz, John E. Roberts
  • Patent number: 9764129
    Abstract: An AIMD includes a conductive housing, an electrically conductive ferrule with an insulator hermetically sealing the ferrule opening. A conductive pathway is hermetically sealed and disposed through the insulator. A filter capacitor is disposed on a circuit board within the housing and has a dielectric body supporting at least two active and two ground electrode plates interleaved, wherein the at least two active electrode plates are electrically connected to the conductive pathway on the device side, and the at least two ground electrode plates are electrically coupled to either the ferrule and/or the conductive housing. The dielectric body has a dielectric constant less than 1000 and a capacitance of between 10 and 20,000 picofarads. The filter capacitor is configured for EMI filtering of MRI high RF pulsed power by a low ESR, wherein the ESR of the filter capacitor at an MRI RF pulsed frequency or range of frequencies is less than 2.0 ohms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Greatbatch Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert A. Stevenson, Robert Shawn Johnson, Warren S. Dabney, Thomas Marzano, Richard L. Brendel, Christopher Michael Williams, Holly Noelle Moschiano, Keith W. Seitz, John E. Roberts
  • Patent number: 9757558
    Abstract: An AIMD includes a conductive housing, an electrically conductive ferrule with an insulator hermetically sealing the ferrule opening. A conductive pathway is hermetically sealed and disposed through the insulator. A filter capacitor is disposed within the housing and has a dielectric body supporting at least two active and two ground electrode plates interleaved, wherein the at least two active electrode plates are electrically connected to the conductive pathway on the device side, and the at least two ground electrode plates are electrically coupled to either the ferrule and/or the conductive housing. The dielectric body has a dielectric constant less than 1000 and a capacitance of between 10 and 20,000 picofarads. The filter capacitor is configured for EMI filtering of MRI high RF pulsed power by a low ESR, wherein the ESR of the filter capacitor at an MRI RF pulsed frequency or range of frequencies is less than 2.0 ohms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Greatbatch Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert A. Stevenson, Robert Shawn Johnson, Warren S. Dabney, Thomas Marzano, Richard L. Brendel, Christopher Michael Williams, Holly Noelle Moschiano, Keith W. Seitz, John E. Roberts
  • Patent number: 9750126
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a circuit board having heat generating components thereon. A heat sink with air current generating electric device assembly lies over the circuit board, through which heat from the circuit board and the components thereon is dispersed. The assembly includes a heat sink having a solid central core and a plurality of fins protruding from the core. An air current generating electric device is disposed over the heat sink and having an air intake facing a top of the heat sink and an exhaust opening directed parallel to a plane of the circuit board. An air duct extends from the exhaust opening of the air current generating electric device to exhaust apertures on at least one side wall of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Mickey Jay Hunt, Randy Wayne Craig, Christopher Michael William Proctor
  • Publication number: 20170235035
    Abstract: The invention is an illumination system for a logo (20) on the front of an electronic device (1) such as a set top box. The logo (20) is part of a light pipe (23) and the logo (20) is illuminated by projecting light on the front surface (24) of the light pipe (23). The front surface (24) is textured or tinted to evenly distribute the light to a viewer. The light source (11) for illuminating the logo (20) is positioned at an entrance end of the light pipe (23) as shown in the figure. The shape of the light pipe (23) is substantially uniform throughout the length of the light pipe (23) and the shape is substantially the shape of the logo (20). The light pipe (23) can have a cut away region near the front surface to create localized lighting contrasts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher Michael William PROCTOR, Vincent MALLET
  • Patent number: 9736964
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a cover for one or more heat generating components, with the cover providing at least a combined conductive, convective, and radiant cooling for the heat generating components while maintaining the device within a prescribed temperature range. Conductive cooling is realized by providing thermal coupling between each of two or more depression regions in the cover and one or more heat generating components. Appropriate placement of air inlets and outlets through the cover provides convective cooling of the heat generating components and the thermally coupled depression regions. Heat from the heat generating components thermally coupled to one depression region is effectively isolated from heat generated by other heat generating components thermally coupled to another adjacent depression region at least in part via the air outlets through an interior region between the two adjacent depression regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Christopher Michael William Proctor, Sin Hui Cheah, Girish Naganathan
  • Publication number: 20170218987
    Abstract: The present principles of the embodiments generally relate to an apparatus and a method for bosses such as, for example, screw bosses, serving for multiple purposes. In one exemplary embodiment, a boss comprising a plurality of ribs is mated with a guide comprising a plurality of slots to resist twisting motion of the screw boss when a screw is inserted into the screw boss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher Michael William PROCTOR, Joseph Lee CARPENTER
  • Patent number: 9599775
    Abstract: A light pipe bracket (6) for an electronic device is provided that comprises a planar main body, light pipes (13) each having a proximal end and a distal end in which the light pipe extends from the distal end at the planar main body toward the distal end, and circuit board holding means (7) that support at least a portion of a circuit in the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventors: Christopher Michael William Proctor, Joseph Lee Carpenter
  • Patent number: 9603286
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic device. The electronic device includes a circuit board having heat generating components thereon. The electronic device further includes spring clips or bend tabs. The electronic device also includes a heat sink, disposed over the circuit board, through which heat from the circuit board and the components thereon is released. The heat sink has a generally flat horizontal base and a series of vertically directed fins. The heat sink is secured to at least one of the circuit board and at least one of the components thereon by the spring clips or bend tabs being positioned at a periphery of the horizontal base. The spring clips or bend tabs have distal contact prongs that contact and apply downward force on the horizontal base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventors: Joseph Lee Carpenter, Sin Hui Cheah, Christopher Michael William Proctor
  • Patent number: 9596783
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a circuit board having heat generating components thereon. The electronic device further includes a heat sink with air current generating electric device assembly, disposed over the circuit board, through which heat from the circuit board and the components thereon is released. The heat sink with air current generating electric device assembly includes a heat sink having a solid central core and a plurality of fins protruding from the core. The heat sink with air current generating electric device assembly further includes an air current generating electric device disposed over the heat sink and having an air intake facing a top of the heat sink and an exhaust opening directed parallel to a plane of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: THOMSOM LICENSING
    Inventors: Mickey Jay Hunt, Christopher Michael William Proctor
  • Patent number: 9451717
    Abstract: An electronic device is described including a sliding vertical door, the sliding vertical door having a top, a bottom, and two vertical sides, wherein each of the two vertical sides has a locking latch at a bottom edge of each of the two vertical sides, the locking latch being between two vertical encouraging slots in each of the two vertical sides of the sliding vertical door, and wherein the siding vertical door has a front face, the front face of the sliding vertical door having a door handle positioned at, near or adjacent to the bottom of the sliding vertical door, the door handle being centered horizontally on the sliding vertical door and a sliding door bay, the sliding door bay having a bottom edge, the sliding door bay having side walls, the side walls having grooves therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventors: Christopher Michael William Proctor, Mickey Jay Hunt
  • Publication number: 20160263373
    Abstract: An AIMD includes a conductive housing, an electrically conductive ferrule with an insulator hermetically sealing the ferrule opening. A conductive pathway is hermetically sealed and disposed through the insulator. A filter capacitor is disposed on a circuit board within the housing and has a dielectric body supporting at least two active and two ground electrode plates interleaved, wherein the at least two active electrode plates are electrically connected to the conductive pathway on the device side, and the at least two ground electrode plates are electrically coupled to either the ferrule and/or the conductive housing. The dielectric body has a dielectric constant less than 1000 and a capacitance of between 10 and 20,000 picofarads. The filter capacitor is configured for EMI filtering of MRI high RF pulsed power by a low ESR, wherein the ESR of the filter capacitor at an MRI RF pulsed frequency or range of frequencies is less than 2.0 ohms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Robert A. Stevenson, Robert Shawn Johnson, Warren S. Dabney, Thomas Marzano, Richard L. Brendel, Christopher Michael Williams, Holly Noelle Moschiano, Keith W. Seitz, John E. Roberts
  • Patent number: 9427596
    Abstract: A hermetically sealed filtered feedthrough assembly for an AIMD includes an electrically conductive ferrule with an electrically conductive extension at least partially extending into the ferrule opening. An electrically non-conductive insulator hermetically seals the ferrule opening. An electrically conductive pathway is hermetically sealed and disposed through the insulator between a body fluid and device side. A filter capacitor is located on the device side. A first low impedance electrical coupling is between a first metallization of the filter capacitor and the pathway. A ground conductor is disposed through the filter capacitor in non-conductive relation with the at least one active and ground electrode plates, where the ground conductor is electrically coupled to the extension of the ferrule. An oxide-resistant metal addition is disposed on the device side and electrically couples the ground conductor to the second metallization of the filter capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Greatbatch Ltd.
    Inventors: Jason Woods, Richard L. Brendel, Robert A. Stevenson, Christopher Michael Williams, Robert Naugler, Christine A. Frysz
  • Publication number: 20160044827
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a cover for one or more heat generating components, with the cover providing at least a combined conductive, convective, and radiant cooling for the heat generating components while maintaining the device within a prescribed temperature range. Conductive cooling is realized by providing thermal coupling between each of two or more depression regions in the cover and one or more heat generating components. Appropriate placement of air inlets and outlets through the cover provides convective cooling of the heat generating components and the thermally coupled depression regions. Heat from the heat generating components thermally coupled to one depression region is effectively isolated from heat generated by other heat generating components thermally coupled to another adjacent depression region at least in part via the air outlets through an interior region between the two adjacent depression regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Christopher Michael William PROCTOR, Sin Hui CHEAH, Girish NAGANATHAN
  • Publication number: 20150343224
    Abstract: A hermetically sealed filtered feedthrough assembly for an AIMD includes an electrically conductive ferrule with an electrically conductive extension at least partially extending into the ferrule opening. An electrically non-conductive insulator hermetically seals the ferrule opening. An electrically conductive pathway is hermetically sealed and disposed through the insulator between a body fluid and device side. A filter capacitor is located on the device side. A first low impedance electrical coupling is between a first metallization of the filter capacitor and the pathway. A ground conductor is disposed through the filter capacitor in non-conductive relation with the at least one active and ground electrode plates, where the ground conductor is electrically coupled to the extension of the ferrule. An oxide-resistant metal addition is disposed on the device side and electrically couples the ground conductor to the second metallization of the filter capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Jason Woods, Richard L. Brendel, Robert A. Stevenson, Christopher Michael Williams, Robert Naugler, Christine A. Frysz
  • Publication number: 20150305137
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a circuit board having heat generating components thereon. A heat sink with air current generating electric device assembly lies over the circuit board, through which heat from the circuit board and the components thereon is dispersed. The assembly includes a heat sink having a solid central core and a plurality of fins protruding from the core. An air current generating electric device is disposed over the heat sink and having an air intake facing a top of the heat sink and an exhaust opening directed parallel to a plane of the circuit board. An air duct extends from the exhaust opening of the air current generating electric device to exhaust apertures on at least one side wall of the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Mickey Jay HUNT, Randy Wayne CRAIG, Christopher Michael William PROCTOR
  • Patent number: RE46699
    Abstract: A hermetically sealed filtered feedthrough assembly for an AIMD includes an insulator hermetically sealed to a conductive ferrule or housing. A conductor is hermetically sealed and disposed through the insulator in non-conductive relation to the conductive ferrule or housing between a body fluid side and a device side. A feedthrough capacitor is disposed on the device side. A first low impedance electrical connection is between a first end metallization of the capacitor and the conductor. A second low impedance electrical connection is between a second end metallization of the capacitor and the ferrule or housing. The second low impedance electrical connection includes an oxide-resistant metal addition attached directly to the ferrule or housing and an electrical connection coupling the second end metallization electrically and physically directly to the oxide-resistant metal addition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Greatbatch Ltd.
    Inventors: Jason Woods, Richard L. Brendel, Robert A. Stevenson, Christopher Michael Williams, Robert Naugler, Christine A. Frysz