Patents by Inventor David A. Fisher

David A. Fisher 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).

  • Water-Saving Toilets and Methods of Using the Same
    Publication number: 20110167550
    Abstract: A method of operating a toilet includes: (1) providing a toilet including: (a) a bowl; (b) a tank having first and second flush modes, wherein a first volume of water is flushed from the tank to the bowl in the first flush mode, and wherein a second volume of water greater than the first volume of water is flushed from the tank to the bowl in the second flush mode; (c) a flush mode mechanism for selecting between the first and second flush modes of the tank, wherein the flush mode mechanism is biased toward selecting the first flush mode; (2) optionally actuating the flush mode mechanism to select the second flush mode; and (3) flushing either the first volume of water or the second volume of water from the tank to the bowl responsive to the selected flush mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventor: David Fisher Revelle
  • Stacked NMOS DC-To-DC Power Conversion
    Publication number: 20110148368
    Abstract: Embodiments for at least one method and apparatus of generating a regulated voltage are disclosed. One method includes generating the regulated voltage though controlled closing and opening of a series switch element and shunt switch element, the series switch element being connected between a first voltage supply and a common node, and the shunt switch being connected between the common node and a second supply voltage. The series switch element includes an NMOS series switching transistor stacked with an NMOS series protection transistor, and closing the series switch element during a first period includes applying a switching gate voltage to a gate of the NMOS series switch transistor of the series switch element, wherein the switching gate voltage has a voltage potential of at least a threshold voltage greater than a voltage potential of the common node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: R2 SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence M. Burns, David Fisher
  • Over Voltage Protection of a Switching Converter
    Publication number: 20110148200
    Abstract: Embodiments for at least one method and apparatus of generating a regulated voltage are disclosed. One apparatus includes a voltage regulator. The voltage regulator includes regulator circuitry for generating a regulated voltage from a first power supply and a second power supply, and voltage spike protection circuitry for voltage-spike-protecting the regulator circuitry, wherein the voltage spike protection circuitry includes a dissipative element and a charge-storage circuit. One method includes a method of generating a regulated voltage. The method includes regulator circuitry generating a regulated voltage from an input voltage, and voltage-spike-protecting the regulator circuitry with voltage spike protection circuitry, wherein the voltage spike protection circuitry includes a dissipative element and a charge-storage circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: R2 SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence M. Burns, David Fisher
  • Electronic reading devices
    Patent number: 7920320
    Abstract: The invention relates to electronic devices, in particular consumer electronic devices, including an electrophoactive display, as well as to electronic document reading devices, sometimes called e-readers, such as electronic books. We describe an electronic device including an electroactive display and a light to illuminate said display, wherein said display has a viewing surface, and wherein said light is configured to illuminate said display from in front and to one side of an edge of said viewing surface, across said viewing surface and through a front-most surface of said display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Plastic Logic Limited
    Inventors: Ben Watson, Nick Sandham, David Fisher, Duncan Barclay, Simon Jones, Carl Hayton, Anusha Nirmalananthan
  • Conductive curable compositions
    Patent number: 7850870
    Abstract: Conductive curable compositions contain a free radical polymerizable monomer, oligomer or polymer (i); an organoborane amine complex (ii), and an electrically or thermally conductive filler (iii). The conductive curable compositions can also contain an amine reactive compound having amine reactive groups (iv); and (v) a component capable of generating a gas when mixed with a compound bearing active hydrogen and a catalyst. The electrically conductive curable compositions can be used in composite articles of manufacture in which substrates are coated or bonded together with the composition and cured; and as electrically conductive rubbers, electrically conductive tapes, electrically conductive adhesives, electrically conductive foams, and electrically conductive pressure sensitive adhesives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Dongchan Ahn, Mark David Fisher, Andrew Anthony Mojica
  • MOBILE BROWSING
    Publication number: 20100226581
    Abstract: The present invention resides in one aspect in a system including a user operable portable radio communication device and a server. The invention includes the portable radio communication device comprising a sensor adapted to allow automatic input of data to the portable radio communication device, a controller for controlling the device, a browser adapted to download content from the server, the controller being arranged to be responsive to data input via said sensor so as control the browser to download content from a server associated with the input data, means for providing for information personal to a user, and contextualization means configured to contextualize the downloaded content with the personal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Brian James Davidson, Steven Andrew Mote, Robert Clifford Newstead, Ronald J. Lander, David Fisher
  • SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING RIVER RAFTING AND METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20100087239
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure is a method for simulating river rafting. The method includes disposing a first person within an open receptacle. The method further includes displaying at least one river rafting video file stored in a storage medium on a display screen. The storage medium is adapted to be accessed by a media player to display at least one river rafting video file on the display screen coupled to the media player. Further, the method includes rocking the open receptacle by a second person in front of the display screen for enabling the first person to simulate the river rafting based upon watching the at least one river rafting video file and the open receptacle being rocked. A system for simulating river rafting is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventor: David Fisher
  • Ultra-thin alphanumeric display
    Patent number: 7683384
    Abstract: An alphanumeric display includes a substrate that has top and bottom surfaces, a plurality of electrical contacts on the top surface, a plurality of light-emitting electronic devices mounted on the top surface, and a plurality of electrical pads on the bottom surface. The electrical contacts are connected to at least one light-emitting electronic device, and each of the light-emitting electronic devices is electrically connected with corresponding ones of the electrical contacts. The electrical pads are electrically connected to corresponding ones of the electrical contacts for communicating to the light-emitting electronic devices external sources of electrical power and control signals. The electrical pads on the bottom surface are arranged in a pattern to facilitate connections to the device using a conductive adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Nicomatic LP
    Inventors: David Fisher, Philip Heft, Rocco Vetro
  • Silicone Resin Film, Method of Preparing Same, and Nanomaterial-Filled Silicone Composition
    Publication number: 20100068538
    Abstract: A method of preparing a silicone resin film, the method comprising coating a release liner with a nanomaterial-filled silicone composition comprising a hydrosilylation-curable silicone composition and a carbon nanomaterial, and heating the coated release liner at a temperature sufficient to cure the silicone resin; a silicone resin film prepared according to the preceding method; and a nanomaterial-tilled silicone composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: DOW CORNING CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mark David FISHER
  • ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT READER
    Publication number: 20100060563
    Abstract: We describe an electronic document reading device having a front, display surface and a device rear surface, the device including a connector mounted on an edge of the device. The device includes a back panel having an exterior surface to provide the rear surface and an interior surface, wherein the back panel is substantially transparent and the interior surface of the back panel is substantially opaque, and wherein the back panel has a cut-out for the connector such that a rear surface of the connector is substantially flush with the device rear surface provided by the exterior of the transparent back panel, such that the opaque interior surface of the transparent back panel gives the impression of a device thinner than a physical thickness of the device defined by the substantially flush connector rear surface and the device rear surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: Plastic Logic Limited
    Inventors: Carl Hayton, William Reeves, Ben Watson, David Fisher
  • Sanitary Water Conservation Device
    Publication number: 20100032032
    Abstract: An installation for the intermediate holding and storage of sewage and effluent, said installation comprising a sealable housing 9 having an inlet 1 for receiving said effluent and an outlet for discharging said effluent, a holding reservoir 2 pivotally mounted and positioned within said housing to receive and temporarily store a quantity of said effluent, wherein said holding reservoir is an asymmetrically shaped open bucket adapted to automatically move about said pivot from a first position adapted for receiving and storing said effluent to a second invented position where stored effluent is emptied into said housing under the influence of gravity once the accumulated effluent reaches a sufficient mass wherein said housing includes an effluent race 11 incorporated into the floor of said housing to divert said effluent directly to said outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: Ducane Research and Development Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Quintin Davenport, David Fisher
  • PROBE EMULATION AND SPATIAL PROPERTY MEASUREMENT IN MACHINE TOOLS
    Publication number: 20100024233
    Abstract: A method of sensing contact between a first member (606, 908) and a second (608, 910) member in a computer numerical control machine, wherein the position of at least one of the first member and the second member is controlled by one or more servo mechanisms, the method including the steps of: causing at least one of the first member and the second member to be driven towards the other; monitoring an error signal in one of the servo mechanisms; and detecting when the error signal exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: ANCA PTY LTD
    Inventors: Patrick Gerard Boland, David Fisher
  • ROTATABLE BUILDING STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20090205264
    Abstract: A rotatable building structure (10) contains a vertical central core (14) for supporting suspended floor units (12) surrounding the core. An annular platform (22) extends from the core at corresponding floor units for providing accessibility to and from the central core. The floor units contain a drive mechanism (38, 40, 42) for rotational displacement. The wind load on the exterior side of each floor, and/or horizontal wind turbines that turn around the core but is a separate part of the floor itself, solar panels situated as a roof cover on top of each floor and a wind tool (46) deployable from the floor unit provides alternative wind power assist for rotating the floor units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: Rotating High Towers S.A.
    Inventors: David Fisher, Laura Micol Fisher
  • Electronic document reader
    Patent number: D603398
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Plastic Logic Limited
    Inventors: Ben Watson, Nick Sandham, Duncan Barclay, Simon Jones, Carl Hayton, David Fisher, Anusha Nirmalananthan
  • Electronic document reader
    Patent number: D606993
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Plastic Logic Limited
    Inventors: Ben Watson, Nick Sandham, Duncan Barclay, Simon Jones, Carl Hayton, Anasha Nirmalananthan, David Fisher
  • Liquid waste transfer bucket
    Patent number: D620217
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Ducane Research and Development Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Quintin Davenport, David Fisher
  • Electronic document reader
    Patent number: RE41501
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Plastic Logic Limited
    Inventors: Ben Watson, Nick Sandham, Duncan Barclay, Simon Jones, Carl Hayton, David Fisher, Anusha Nirmalananthan
  • Electronic document reader
    Patent number: D622273
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Plastic Logic Limited
    Inventors: Carl Hayton, Ben Watson, Nick Sandham, Duncan Barclay, Simon Jones, Anusha Nirmalananthan, David Fisher
  • Liquid waste transfer lower housing II
    Patent number: D624151
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Ducane Research and Development Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Quintin Davenport, David Fisher
  • Liquid waste transfer upper housing II
    Patent number: D624152
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Ducane Research and Development Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Quintin Davenport, David Fisher