Patents by Inventor David E. Ford

David E. Ford 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: 11968895
    Abstract: The field of the DISCLOSURE lies in active materials for organic image sensors. The present disclosure relates to transparent N materials and/or to transparent P materials and their use in absorption layer(s), photoelectric conversion layer(s) and/or an organic image sensor and methods for their synthesis. The present disclosure also relates to photoelectric conversion layer(s) including an active material according to the present disclosure, to a device, including active material(s) according to the present disclosure or photoelectric conversion layer(s) according to the present disclosure. Moreover, the present disclosure relates to an organic image sensor including photoelectric conversion layer(s) according to the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Silvia Rosselli, David Danner, Tzenka Miteva, Gabriele Nelles, Vitor Deichmann, William E. Ford, Dennis Chercka, Vladimir Yakutkin, Lars Peter Scheller, Nikolaus Knorr
  • Patent number: 4464605
    Abstract: In a pilot light usable for monitoring industrial control circuits a set of three terminals comprising a signal terminal, a test terminal and a line, or return terminal, with a signal circuit network between the signal and line terminals that supplies current to a lamp when a voltage is applied to the signal terminal, and with a test circuit network between the test and line terminals that supplies current to the lamp when a voltage is applied to the test terminal. Each circuit network includes a triac and a trigger branch subcircuit for controlling the associated triac.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1984
    Assignee: Allen-Bradley Company
    Inventors: David E. Ford, Jr., Daniel G. Kannenberg
  • Patent number: D494839
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Inventor: David E. Ford