Patents by Inventor Daniel Schaefer

Daniel Schaefer 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: 7623013
    Abstract: An electromagnetic moving system comprises a stator, a moving body and a controller. The stator comprises a circuit board with two layers of electrically connected coil windings spaced apart in a series way and made as spirals with center and peripheral points. The spirals of one layer are shifted in respect to the spirals of the adjacent layer along the line connecting the center points thus the center points of the spirals of one layer in transparent view are located between two nearest spirals of the adjacent layer. Each of the spirals of one layer in transparent view at least partially overlaps two nearest spirals of the adjacent layer. The moving body is comprised of one permanent magnet such as to cause interaction with the stator when it is powered, thus creating a force tending to propel the moving body along the line connecting said center points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Industrial Design Laboratories, Inc
    Inventors: Edward Lopatinsky, Lev Fedoseyev, Daniel Schaefer
  • Patent number: 7586232
    Abstract: A flat radially interacting electric drive comprises a flat stator, an axle and a magnetized flat rotor. The flat stator comprises a stator core made of silicon steel and placed within two layers of circuit boards. The circuit boards layers comprise circumferentially arrayed traces that are corresponding unidirectional segments of spatial continuous zigzag lines serving like coils with magnetic axes being directed radially. The coils electrically connected in a series way thus form a stator winding with alternated polarity coils. The flat rotor comprises circumferentially arrayed alternatively magnetized flat magnets with radially directed magnetic axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Industrial Design Laboratories, Inc
    Inventors: Edward Lopatinsky, Lev Fedoseyev, Daniel Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20090066279
    Abstract: A thin sensorless multiphase DC motor for rotating display unit comprises a flat stator, a flat magnetized rotor, an axle, a power source and multiphase electronic controller. The flat stator located parallel to the flat magnetized rotor and comprises circumferentially arrayed coils with magnetic axes parallel to the axle. The magnetized rotor comprises a display disk and located at the periphery of the display disk circumferentially arrayed permanent magnets with magnetic axes parallel to the magnetic axes of the coils. The electronic controller comprises logic elements, phase drivers and a frequency generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: Edward Lopatinsky, Daniel Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20080238218
    Abstract: An electromagnetic moving system comprises a stator, a moving body and a controller. The stator comprises a circuit board with two layers of electrically connected coil windings spaced apart in a series way and made as spirals with center and peripheral points. The spirals of one layer are shifted in respect to the spirals of the adjacent layer along the line connecting the center points thus the center points of the spirals of one layer in transparent view are located between two nearest spirals of the adjacent layer. Each of the spirals of one layer in transparent view at least partially overlaps two nearest spirals of the adjacent layer. The moving body is comprised of one permanent magnet such as to cause interaction with the stator when it is powered, thus creating a force tending to propel the moving body along the line connecting said center points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Edward Lopatinsky, Lev Fedoseyev, Daniel Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20080101966
    Abstract: A radial blower comprising an impeller, an electric drive and a housing. The impeller comprises an impeller disk with the first and second sides, radial blades protruded from the first side, a central hub mounting on an axle, and an inflow hub integrated with the impeller disk. The electric drive comprises a magnetized rotor located from the second side of the impeller disk and a stator with a central opening surrounded by circumferentially arrayed flat coil windings. The magnetized rotor comprises spaced apart by an axial gap a flat ferromagnetic ring and a layer of magnetic means. The housing comprises a base, a shaped upper side, and a side part. The shaped upper side at least partially surrounds the magnetized rotor. The stator at the outer is rigidly bounded with the shaped upper side while the inner part of the stator is placed at the axial gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Edward Lopatinsky, Lev Fedoseyev, Daniel Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20080011184
    Abstract: A switching electromagnetic moving system is comprised of at least one track and at least one moving body located on the track. The track is comprised of a power buss, at least two track sections and a controller. Each track section has a contact surface and comprises electrically connected coil windings spaced apart in a series way to form a multi-phase linear stator. Each track section has a switch and at least one sensor to detect the position of the moving body on the track. For each track section the sensor of the preceding track section relative to the direction of travel of the moving body controls the switch to power on and the sensor of the subsequent track section controls the switch to power off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventors: Edward Lopatinsky, Lev Fedoseyev, Daniel Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20080011966
    Abstract: A method for obtaining free thermal antineutrons within the cage-like structure of a fullerene molecule comprising irradiating the fullerene molecule with free neutrons causing free neutrons to be trapped within the fullerene molecule wherein the trapped neutron oscillates between the neutron and antineutron states. A method for producing antiprotons comprising irradiating a fullerene molecule with free neutrons and trapping the neutrons within the fullerene molecule such that the neutrons oscillate between neutron and antineutron states and in the antineutron state decay and produce antiprotons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventors: Daniel Schaefer, James Snead
  • Publication number: 20080015040
    Abstract: Pool balls falling into the pockets of a pool table during a game are fed through primary conduits below the table and then passed one at a time through the field of view of a camera which identifies the color and/or markings on the ball and forwards each ball through an appropriate secondary conduit to a rack located in a receiving position adjacent one end of the table. The rack is mounted on a carriage pivotally secured to the table at one end thereof so that, when the rack is full, the carriage can be pivoted from the receiving position to a discharge position over the table so that the balls can then be discharged from the rack in the correct formation on the table. Releasable retainers are provided to retain the balls in the rack during the pivoting movement and until the rack is in position over the table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventors: Denym Burlock, Mark Kilfoil, Geoff Fletcher, Rawad Raidan, John Latimer, Daniel Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20070283841
    Abstract: An energy converting system is comprised of a track, a controller, and a magnetized body located on the track and including an energy converting unit. The track comprises electrically connected coil windings spaced apart in a series way along the track to form a 3-phase linear stator. The controller is electrically connected with the linear stator and generates a combination waveform consisting of a multi-phase propulsion signal and a power signal. The propulsion and power signals are at different frequencies. The propulsion signal causes the interaction of the magnetized body with the linear stator, thus propelling the magnetized body along the track. The energy converting unit comprises electrically connected energy consuming means and at least one pick-up coil inductively coupled to the linear stator, thus providing power to the energy consuming means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventors: Edward Lopatinsky, Lev Fedoseyev, Daniel Schaefer, Henry Eisenson
  • Publication number: 20070254579
    Abstract: A method for tenderizing meat of a red meat slaughter animal including separating a vertebral column of the animal, hanging the carcass by pelvic suspension and applying electrical stimulation to the animal's musculature. Vertebral column separation is performed prior to the onset of rigor mortis to enable stretching of muscle fibers in the carcass. Electrical stimulation is focused on a midsection of the animal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: Cargill, Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew Gardner, Daniel Schaefer, James Claus, David McKenna
  • Publication number: 20070243288
    Abstract: Meat and methods to produce meat having elevated levels of HDL or an HDL mimetic are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Daniel Schaefer, David McKenna
  • Publication number: 20070166177
    Abstract: A thin air processing device suitable for wall mounting comprises a housing and located inside a crossflow blower, an air processing unit and a controller unit. The housing comprises a cover plate, a base and side parts. The blower comprises a casing, an impeller, an electric drive with a flat stator and a magnetized rotor, and an axle fixed perpendicularly to the base. The casing comprises an inlet, a central part and an outlet and integrated with the housing thus a volute shape of the casing formed by side parts. The impeller comprises circumferential arrayed magnetic means thus serving as the magnetized rotor. The flat stator comprises circumferential arrayed coils with magnetic axes coincide with a plane of the flat stator and integrated with the housing. The air processing unit located at the inlet of the casing and comprises an intake and an outtake openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Edward Lopatinsky, Lev Fedoseyev, Daniel Schaefer
  • Patent number: 7167364
    Abstract: A cooler for cooling of electronic components comprises at least two heatsinks thermally connected with each other by heat spreading means, and a double inlet centrifugal blower comprises a casing with two inlets and an outlet, a radial impeller with an axle and an electric drive. The cooler thermally connected with the electronic component. Each of the heatsinks comprises inflow and outflow openings, and thermally connected heat exchanging means and a base. The impeller comprises radial blades located from both sides of an impeller disk. The double inlet centrifugal blower is located between the heatsinks thus each of the outflow openings is coincided with the closest inlet, so cooling air flows through the inflow openings, the heat exchanging means, the outflow openings and the inlets of the blower in a series way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Rotys Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Lopatinsky, Lev Fedoseyev, Saveliy Rosenfeld, Daniel Schaefer
  • Patent number: 7150494
    Abstract: An at least partially moveable motor-vehicle outer skin is already known per se. An actuator formed of a polymer and/or ion-exchanging and/or other material exhibiting various conformations is provided so that the outer skin can be moved. This material is moveable as a result of physical or chemical effects. The novel outer skin of a motor vehicle requires no expensive tools for the production thereof. The flat section of the outer skin of the bodywork of a motor vehicle is made of a flexible material. A flexible material such as material for convertible top covers is easily moveable yet the surface thereof cannot be increased. This material is tensed at least over one part of the rib of the motor vehicle, e.g. over a space frame. At least one mechanically moveable adjusting element is provided beneath or on top of the edge of the section enabling the outer skin to be deformed. The adjusting element is normally connected to the rib of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christopher Bangle, Klaudia Kruse, Fernando Pardo, Christine Schwarz, Verena Weiss, Reinhard Mehn, Christian Bischoff, Sven Lancier, Anders Warming, Juergen Ringer, Werner Haumayr, Helmut Pulz, Alfred Neureiter, Silke Schroeder, Martin Meusel, Mario Greco, Edwin Pistorius, Raphael Von Schuttenbach, Andreas Von Schuttenbach, Peter Ratz, Bjoern Koop, Detlef Helm, Bernd Nurtsch, Daniel Schaefer, John Krieger, Michael Scully
  • Publication number: 20060238064
    Abstract: A flat radially interacting electric drive comprises a flat stator, an axle and a magnetized flat rotor. The flat stator comprises a stator core made of silicon steel and placed within two layers of circuit boards. The circuit boards layers comprise circumferentially arrayed traces that are corresponding unidirectional segments of spatial continuous zigzag lines serving like coils with magnetic axes being directed radially. The coils electrically connected in a series way thus form a stator winding with alternated polarity coils. The flat rotor comprises circumferentially arrayed alternatively magnetized flat magnets with radially directed magnetic axes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Edward Lopatinsky, Lev Fedoseyev, Daniel Schaefer
  • Patent number: 7112910
    Abstract: An electric motor comprises a housing, a magnetic rotor and a stator which comprises at least one circuit board. The magnetic rotor comprises a disk with circumferentially arrayed magnetic poles. The circuit board on each side comprises one layer of circumferentially arrayed coil windings arranged in pairs, thus each pair made as a spiral that extends from a center of a start coil winding to a center of an end coil winding with the same turn direction of the spiral in relation to each of centers. The layers are the same in transparent view and shifted angularly in such a way thus centers of the start coil windings from one side of the circuit board coincided and electrically connected by via's with centers of the end coil windings on the other side of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Rotys Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Lopatinsky, Daniel Schaefer, Savely Rosenfeld, Lev Fedoseyev
  • Publication number: 20060188623
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for tenderizing meat is disclosed. Fluid may be injected into a portion of a carcass coinciding with the cut of meat desired for tenderization. The injection site may be sterilized before or during injection of the fluid. The fluid may be a gas, such as carbon dioxide or nitrogen, or may be a liquid. Multiple injections may be performed spaced slightly apart. The injection apparatus may include a plurality of injectors or needles having openings for gas passage therethrough. The needles may be attached to a base having a hose attached thereto. Fluid may be pumped through the hose, through the base, through the needles, and into the carcass. A sterilization assembly may be provided with the injection apparatus for sterilizing the injection site before and/or during injection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Ronn Houtz, Howard Dolezal, Daniel Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20060039521
    Abstract: A method for obtaining free thermal antineutrons within the cage-like structure of a fullerene molecule comprising irradiating the fullerene molecule with free neutrons causing free neutrons to be trapped within the fullerene molecule wherein the trapped neutron oscillates between the neutron and antineutron states. A method for producing antiprotons comprising irradiating a fullerene molecule with free neutrons and trapping the neutrons within the fullerene molecule such that the neutrons oscillate between neutron and antineutron states and in the antineutron state decay and produce antiprotons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Inventors: Daniel Schaefer, James Snead
  • Patent number: 6998751
    Abstract: An electric drive comprising a stator with at least two ring-shaped windings and controllers, and a magnetized rotor with an axis of rotation. Each of said windings comprises at least one coil layer with circumferentially arrayed coils located around said axis, and a layer of electro-insulating material, and each winding is electrically connected to a power source through an individual controller. At least two said windings are electrically connected by their controllers in parallel, with the possibility to function jointly and/or independently. At least two nearest windings are located in such a way that two said coil layers belonging to the different windings are separated by an additional layer of electro-insulating material. The coils of said nearest coil layers of different windings are made the same in transparent view, so that the distances between corresponding parts of said coils of said nearest windings are equal to the thickness of said additional layer of an electro-insulating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Rotys Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Lopatinsky, Lev Fedoseyev, Saveliy Rosenfeld, Daniel Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20060005735
    Abstract: An electromagnetic moving toy system comprises a track and at least one vehicle located on the track. The track comprises electrically connected coils windings serving as a linear stator and located in a series way along the track. The coils windings are powered in such way that at least two adjacent coil windings operating in time. The linear stator further comprises a core made of magnet-conducting material with high eddy current resistance. The vehicle comprising magnetic means interacting with the coils windings so the magnetic means serving as a moving body providing a possibility for moving of the vehicle. The magnetic means are made as permanent magnets with alternative polarity. According to another embodiment, the track comprises magnetic means located in a series way along the track. The vehicle comprises electrically connected coils windings serving as a linear stator powered by at least one autonomous power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Edward Lopatinsky, Lev Fedoseyev, Daniel Schaefer