Patents by Inventor David Alcaide

David Alcaide 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: 7706995
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus, including software implementation, are disclosed providing drift prediction of output values for manometers. A signal or other indication may be provided for or in relation to a capacitance manometer when a servicing, replacing, and/or zeroing event is predicted or determined to be required, based on a history (e.g., timestamps) associated with previous zeroing events. Previously recorded timestamps can be curve fit with suitable functions to calculate or predict future maintenance, calibration, and/or replacement events for a manometer. Such signals or indications can be generated as an on-screen indication, and could also be available upon interrogation of the manometer via a digital communications link or system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Inventors: Philip Sullivan, David Alcaide
  • Publication number: 20080255787
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus, including software implementation, are disclosed providing drift prediction of output values for manometers. A signal or other indication may be provided for or in relation to a capacitance manometer when a servicing, replacing, and/or zeroing event is predicted or determined to be required, based on a history (e.g., timestamps) associated with previous zeroing events. Previously recorded timestamps can be curve fit with suitable functions to calculate or predict future maintenance, calibration, and/or replacement events for a manometer. Such signals or indications can be generated as an on-screen indication, and could also be available upon interrogation of the manometer via a digital communications link or system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Philip Sullivan, David Alcaide
  • Patent number: 4008619
    Abstract: Monitoring of gas contamination and of related deviations in pressures within a sealed cavity is effected by way of electrical-network responses to conduction characteristics of a thin-film deposit of getter material within the cavity, the getter film being deposited upon inert insulation between conductive contacts externally connected into an electrical circuit which controls related output signalling in accordance with conductance changes caused by getter material reactions with gas within the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1977
    Assignee: MKS Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: H. David Alcaide, James H. Ewing