Patents by Inventor Dan Mills

Dan Mills 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: 20150019369
    Abstract: The invention discloses a novel device that functions as a disposable wallet, together with uses thereof and related processes and methods for design, assembly and distribution thereof. The disposable wallet invention is composed of a single, flexible substrate upon which a design template is imposed that instructs the design to either a user or manufacturing element which assembles the disposable wallet. Various utilities of the disposable wallet are articulated through the design template through the use of cuts and folds of the substrate upon which the design template is affixed. Additional utilities such as inclusion of paging may be further affixed to the substrate in accordance with the design template. The design template may be computer generated by a remote user or an assembler to provide design variations coupled with variations of the flexible substrate. Completion of the assembly may involve mechanical fastening or adhesive elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Dan Mills, David Illig, Mike Vollman, Daniel Roberts
  • Publication number: 20070271985
    Abstract: Valve guides are formed on a U-shaped sheet metal rocker arm by the horizontal displacement inwardly of surface metal from the outboard portion of the rocker arm. A rocker arm body made by forming a steel flat blank into a U-shape cross-section comprising sidewalls that connect a pad end and an opposite socket end. The pad end is defined by a central section and two outboard surfaces. The valve guide walls are formed by displacing material from the outboard surface portions of the pad end and forcing it centrally. This changes, i.e., diminishes, the thickness of the outboard portions of the pad end of the rocker arm which are not aligned with valve contact central surface. The valve contact area defined by horizontal surface and by the vertical sides of the formed guide extensions is created by a tool having a width to accept a known valve stem diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: GENTEK TECHNOLOGIES MARKETING INC.
    Inventors: Scott Smith, Dan Mills
  • Publication number: 20060157013
    Abstract: A method of making a rocker arm is provided that includes the integration, into a single piece, of three separate parts namely, a central longitudinal member, a push-rod plate; and a valve end plate in which the push-rod plate and the valve end plate are secured to opposing ends of the central member to create the integrated rocker arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Applicant: GenTek Technologies Marketing, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Smith, Dan Mills