Patents by Inventor Christopher Webber

Christopher Webber 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: 12224404
    Abstract: A system including an adapter plate, a conveyor, a separator drum, and first and second electrode drums. The conveyor is configured to move the adapter plate continuously and sequentially in a predetermined path between the separator drum to receive a respective separator sheet, the first electrode drum to receive a respective first electrode sheet, the separator drum to receive a respective separator sheet, and the second electrode drum to receive a respective second electrode sheet until a stacked battery cell includes a desired number of respective separator sheets, respective first electrode sheets, and respective second electrode sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hannah Bever, Andrew William Sherman, Paul John Bojanowski, Christopher Webber, Carly Chmura
  • Publication number: 20230253630
    Abstract: A system including an adapter plate, a conveyor, a separator drum, and first and second electrode drums. The conveyor is configured to move the adapter plate continuously and sequentially in a predetermined path between the separator drum to receive a respective separator sheet, the first electrode drum to receive a respective first electrode sheet, the separator drum to receive a respective separator sheet, and the second electrode drum to receive a respective second electrode sheet until a stacked battery cell includes a desired number of respective separator sheets, respective first electrode sheets, and respective second electrode sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hannah Bever, Andrew William Sherman, Paul John Bojanowski, Christopher Webber, Carly Chmura
  • Publication number: 20230253629
    Abstract: A method for stacking a battery cell includes feeding a separator sheet through a guide assembly to fold the separator sheet, inserting a plurality of first electrodes into the separator sheet at a location where the separator sheet has been folded by the guide assembly, forming respective channels in the folded separator sheet including the plurality of first electrodes, inserting a plurality of second electrodes in the respective channels to form a multilayered body, and pressing the multilayered body to form the stacked battery cell where the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes are stacked in an alternating arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hannah Bever, Andrew William Sherman, Paul John Bojanowski, Christopher Webber, Carly Chmura
  • Publication number: 20060208651
    Abstract: A liquid-activated lighted ice cube includes a battery-powered electrical circuit and LED housed in a hollow body that resembles an ice cube. The circuit includes electrodes exposed to the exterior of the hollow body that, when in contact with water or other liquid beverage, cause the circuit to turn on the LED and illuminate the beverage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Edward Lewis, Christopher Webber
  • Publication number: 20060178887
    Abstract: A signal processing system is disclosed which is implemented using Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) based Hidden Markov Model (HMM), or a GMM alone, parameters of which are constrained during its optimization procedure. Also disclosed is a constraint system applied to input vectors representing the input signal to the system. The invention is particularly, but not exclusively, related to speech recognition systems. The invention reduces the tendency, common in prior art systems, to get caught in local minima associated with highly anisotropic Gaussian components—which reduces the recognizer performance—by employing the constraint system as above whereby the anisotropy of such components are minimized. The invention also covers a method of processing a signal, and a speech recogniser trained according to the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Applicant: QinetiQ Limited
    Inventor: Christopher Webber