Patents by Inventor Daniel A. Woods

Daniel A. Woods 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: 6730650
    Abstract: A liquid detergent composition includes an anionic surfactant component, a viscosity-enhancing agent, and a liquid carrier. The liquid detergent composition is substantially free of nonionic surfactant. The anionic surfactant component is present in an amount at least as great as about 2% by weight. The anionic surfactant component is also present in an amount no greater than about 7% by weight. The anionic surfactant component includes an alkyl ether sulfate material and a linear alkyl benzene sulfonate material which are present in a ratio in the range of from about 5:1 to about 1:0.5. The viscosity-enhancing agent is present in an amount sufficient so that the liquid detergent composition has a viscosity no less than about 120 centipoise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: The Dial Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel Wood
  • Publication number: 20040069730
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wine rack, large versions of which are adapted to be installed against a wall of a room or as a free standing wall separated from the walls of a room, which is a monolithic flat rigid sheet to which has uniformly mounted in rows through holes therein a like number of wine bottle support rods which project perpendicularly and parallel to each other from one or both faces of the sheet so that two wine bottles of varying sidewall diameter can be stored on three of the rods without their side-walls touching and whose essential elements can be fabricated offsite by forming uniform rows of holes in a monolithic sheet of stainless steel; fitting in the holes machine bolts whose threaded shank ends project beyond a face of the steel sheet; bonding the heads of the bolts to the opposite face of the steel sheet so that their threaded ends project axially perpendicularly, rigidly and parallel to each other; and forming a female threaded cavity in one end of a plurality of wine bottle support rods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2002
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventor: Daniel Woods
  • Patent number: 6177890
    Abstract: An encoding scheme to translate user information into encoded information, including the steps of receiving the user information and translating the user information into encoded information by employing a new kind of Run Length Limited encoding scheme. The user information and the encoded information have the same cell size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Zak Keirn, Daniel Woods
  • Patent number: 5107035
    Abstract: The quality of a product predominant in tetrabromobisphenol-A is enhanced by heat treating the product for a period of time and at a temperature which are sufficient to obtain a TBBPA predominant product having less than about 50 ppm of hydrohalide impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Assignee: Ethyl Corporation
    Inventors: Harold W. Hines, Daniel A. Wood
  • Patent number: 5017728
    Abstract: Tetrabromobisphenol-A is made in high purity and increased yield by adding a methanol-bromine solution to a methanol bisphenol-A solution with vigorous agitation. The amount of methanol in the reaction vessel is adjusted to yield a ratio of tetrabromobisphenol-A to methanol when the reaction is substantially complete that provides a lower amount of Hbr impurity in the tetrabromobisphenol-A product. An increased recovery of tetrabromobisphenol-A product is achieved by adjusting the water added to the reaction vessel when the bromination reaction is essentially complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Assignee: Ethyl Corporation
    Inventors: Bonnie G. McKinnie, Daniel A. Wood