Patents by Inventor Daniel D. Carpenter

Daniel D. Carpenter 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: 8272248
    Abstract: An emission test system may include at least one controller configured to determine, directly or indirectly, a quantity of diluted exhaust sample in a container at the completion of an emissions test, and to cause additional diluent gas to be added to the container based on the determined quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Inventors: Mark T. Guenther, Daniel D. Carpenter, Jarret D. Zablocki, Fredric C. Schmidt, Richard Thomas Rooney, Timothy Alfred Nevius, Scott Thomas Porter, Leslie Hill
  • Patent number: 4414548
    Abstract: A vehicle velocity sensing system is disclosed which includes a doppler velocity sensor (10, 12) and means for reducing spurious signal components in the output of the sensor. An accelerometer (30, 32) is mounted so as to sense vehicle accelerations along the boresight of the doppler velocity sensor. A processor (34, 36) processes the output of the accelerometer to provide a signal which corresponds essentially to the spurious components of the output of the doppler radar velocity sensor. A signal combiner (38, 40) combines the output of the processor with the output of the doppler velocity sensor to derive a corrected output signal which is more closely indicative of the velocity of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1983
    Assignee: TRW Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Carpenter, Ronald L. Lanning
  • Patent number: 4020461
    Abstract: A system for transmitting digital information such as audio or video over a lossy or dispersive medium. The digital information is of the type where certain bits are more important than others and hence the less important bits can suffer a greater bit error rate. Accordingly, the most important bits are encoded into a (7,k) 8-ary Reed Solomon code where 7 is the length of the code and k is the dimension of the code. The less important bits are then respectively encoded into a (7,k+1) or a (7,k+2) 8-ary Reed Solomon code. The code words are modulated onto a plurality of tones or subcarriers. The decoding is effected by initially demodulating the subcarriers and generating a candidate set of code words from each 7-tuple of demodulated 8-ary symbols corresponding to a transmitted code word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: TRW Inc.
    Inventors: William B. Adams, Douglas R. Anderson, Daniel D. Carpenter