Patents by Inventor Duane Koehler
Duane Koehler 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).
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Publication number: 20190061649Abstract: A vehicle wire harness assembly is provided that, in addition to carrying electricity to and from a vehicle closure, acts as a tether that provides structural reinforcement to the vehicle closure during a crash event. The vehicle wire harness assembly includes a wire harness having electrical wires and a sheath. The electrical wires have an electrical wire tensile strength. The wire harness includes one or more reinforcing tendons configured such that the electrical wires and the reinforcing tendon(s) have a combined tensile strength that is at least 50 percent greater than the electrical wire tensile strength. Anchors retain the wire harness to a vehicle body and a body panel closure. Each anchor has a pull-out strength of at least 50 pounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2017Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: John E. Hilliker, Duane A. Koehler
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Publication number: 20190034135Abstract: An example system includes a primary device and at least one auxiliary device connected in series with the primary device. The auxiliary device has an identifier indicative of a position of the auxiliary device in the series. The identifier is based on a resistance value associated with the auxiliary device, the resistance value being based at least in part on an upstream device in the series.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2016Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Duane A Koehler, David J Gembala, Mark Jon Westlund, Ed Tucker, Jerrod Houston Tyler
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Patent number: 9962959Abstract: According to an example, an apparatus may include a controller and a non-transitory computer readable medium on which is stored instructions. The instructions may cause the controller to predict that a user is to instruct a printing device to perform a printing operation, in which the printing device includes a dryer, identify the user in response to the prediction, to access a user profile corresponding to the identified user, in which the accessed profile identifies a type of document that the identified user typically prints, and to adjust a setting of the dryer according to the identified type of document in the accessed profile.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Yraceburu, Duane A. Koehler, Brooke Hoyer
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Patent number: 9908328Abstract: Assigning firing reservations to primitives can include assigning a plurality of firing reservations to each of the plurality of primitives and reassigning a firing reservation of the plurality of firing reservations from a primitive of the plurality of primitives to another primitive of the plurality of primitives.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Guan Kwee Goh, Michael Cumbie, Garrett E Clark, Duane Koehler
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Publication number: 20180029380Abstract: According to an example, an apparatus may include a controller and a non-transitory computer readable medium on which is stored instructions. The instructions may cause the controller to predict that a user is to instruct a printing device to perform a printing operation, in which the printing device includes a dryer, identify the user in response to the prediction, to access a user profile corresponding to the identified user, in which the accessed profile identifies a type of document that the identified user typically prints, and to adjust a setting of the dryer according to the identified type of document in the accessed profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert YRACEBURU, Duane A. KOEHLER, Brooke HOYER
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Patent number: 9731517Abstract: According to an example, an apparatus may include a controller and a non-transitory computer readable medium on which is stored instructions. The instructions may cause the controller to predict that a user is to instruct a printing device to perform a printing operation, in which the printing device includes a dryer, identify the user in response to the prediction, to access a user profile corresponding to the identified user, in which the accessed profile identifies a type of document that the identified user typically prints, and to adjust a setting of the dryer according to the identified type of document in the accessed profile.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Yraceburu, Duane A. Koehler, Brooke Hoyer
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Publication number: 20170043578Abstract: Assigning firing reservations to primitives can include assigning a plurality of firing reservations to each of the plurality of primitives and reassigning a firing reservation of the plurality of firing reservations from a primitive of the plurality of primitives to another primitive of the plurality of primitives.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2014Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Guan-Kwee GOH, Michel Cumbie, Garrett E Clark, Duane Koehler
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Patent number: 9427991Abstract: An example device in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes a controller to adjust print speed intra-page according to a response curve to substantially track a power curve of a power supply. The controller is to maximize print speed based on short-term energy data corresponding to present and future print data and long-term energy data corresponding to past print data, without exceeding a peak power output and a thermal limit of the power supply when printing according to the response curve.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Todd Goyen, Duane A Koehler, Matthew A. Shepherd
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Patent number: 9415585Abstract: An example device in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes a controller to generate predicted and past power consumption values for at least one pen of a printer device, for a sliding window of future and past time, as a function of ink delivered data scaled by print speed data. The controller is to assign a dynamic power threshold for the present time as a maximum power consumption value of the sliding window, and stop power delivery to the at least one pen if the present power consumption of the at least one pen exceeds the dynamic power threshold by a margin.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.Inventors: Tod Goyen, Duane Koehler, Matthew A. Shepherd
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Patent number: 8899717Abstract: A printing system including a print mechanism to print on a print medium; and a control unit coupled to the print mechanism. The control unit is to determine a page speed for the print medium based on a power budget value of a power supply and to cause the print mechanism to move the print medium through the printing system at the determined page speed.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Duane A. Koehler, Mark H. MacKenzie, Douglas Harriman, Matthew A. Shepherd
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Patent number: 8845069Abstract: A circuit includes a capacitive-type humidity sensor. The circuit provides start and stop signals to a processor in accordance with a charge voltage across the sensor. The processor performs a counting function to derive an integer count value in response to the start and stop signals. The processor uses the integer count value to determine parameters for controlling an ink-jetting print engine. Printing speed can be controlled in accordance with ambient humidity and/or temperature so that the printed media are sufficiently dried before handling by a user or other operations.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2013Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Duane Koehler, Algird M. Gudaitis, Mark Westlund
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Publication number: 20140210897Abstract: A circuit includes a capacitive-type humidity sensor. The circuit provides start and stop signals to a processor in accordance with a charge voltage across the sensor. The processor performs a counting function to derive an integer count value in response to the start and stop signals. The processor uses the integer count value to determine parameters for controlling an ink-jetting print engine. Printing speed can be controlled in accordance with ambient humidity and/or temperature so that the printed media are sufficiently dried before handling by a user or other operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Duane KOEHLER, Algird M. Gudaitis, Mark Westlund
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Publication number: 20140210894Abstract: A printing system including a print mechanism to print on a print medium; and a control unit coupled to the print mechanism. The control unit is to determine a page speed for the print medium based on a power budget value of a power supply and to cause the print mechanism to move the print medium through the printing system at the determined page speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Duane A. KOEHLER, Mark H. MacKENZIE, Douglas HARRIMAN, Matthew A. SHEPHERD
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Patent number: 7607746Abstract: The present invention includes as one embodiment a method of ejecting a fluid onto a print media. The method includes providing an ejection head having a nozzle that is coupled to a temperature sensor and a memory device. The method further includes measuring an uncalibrated temperature of the ejection head with the temperature sensor, recalling a correction value from the memory device, applying the correction value to the uncalibrated temperature to generate a calibrated temperature, and ejecting fluid from the nozzle onto the print media when the calibrated temperature is within a predefined temperature range.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2007Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Duane A. Koehler, Jefferson P. Ward, Huston W. Rice
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Patent number: 7472938Abstract: A tailgate structural configuration accommodates the housing of a supplemental tailgate internally within the tailgate. The tailgate is formed with an outer panel and an inner panel to define an internal cavity. The upper portion of the tailgate includes a C-channel frame member connected to both the inner and outer panels to support guide tubes telescopically housing the supplemental tailgate. To enhance structural stability, the tailgate further includes one or two transversely oriented strainers having formed therein flanged depressions or openings for the passage of the guide tubes vertically therethrough. Each guide tube is affixed to a mounting bracket that is detachably connected to the C-channel to support the guide tube within the tailgate. Positioning pins mounted on the mounting bracket affixed to the guide tubes engage locator holes in the C-channel for positioning the supplemental tailgate.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2007Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jeff Firzlaff, Duane Koehler, Kian-Huat Tan
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Publication number: 20080094438Abstract: The present invention includes as one embodiment a method of ejecting a fluid onto a print media. The method includes providing an ejection head having a nozzle that is coupled to a temperature sensor and a memory device. The method further includes measuring an uncalibrated temperature of the ejection head with the temperature sensor, recalling a correction value from the memory device, applying the correction value to the uncalibrated temperature to generate a calibrated temperature, and ejecting fluid from the nozzle onto the print media when the calibrated temperature is within a predefined temperature range.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Duane Koehler, Jefferson Ward, Huston Rice
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Patent number: 7325896Abstract: The present invention includes as one embodiment a method of ejecting a fluid onto a print media. The method includes providing an ejection head having a nozzle that is coupled to a temperature sensor and a memory device. The method further includes measuring an uncalibrated temperature of the ejection head with the temperature sensor, recalling a correction value from the memory device, applying the correction value to the uncalibrated temperature to generate a calibrated temperature, and ejecting fluid from the nozzle onto the print media when the calibrated temperature is within a predefined temperature range.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2003Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Duane A. Koehler, Jefferson P. Ward, Huston W. Rice, Victorio A. Chavarria, Kenneth D. Saul
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Publication number: 20070236038Abstract: A tailgate structural configuration accommodates the housing of a supplemental tailgate internally within the tailgate. The tailgate is formed with an outer panel and an inner panel to define an internal cavity. The upper portion of the tailgate includes a C-channel frame member connected to both the inner and outer panels to support guide tubes telescopically housing the supplemental tailgate. To enhance structural stability, the tailgate further includes one or two transversely oriented strainers having formed therein flanged depressions or openings for the passage of the guide tubes vertically therethrough. Each guide tube is affixed to a mounting bracket that is detachably connected to the C- channel to support the guide tube within the tailgate. Positioning pins mounted on the mounting bracket affixed to the guide tubes engage locator holes in the C-channel for positioning the supplemental tailgate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2007Publication date: October 11, 2007Inventors: Jeff Firzlaff, Duane Koehler, Kian-Huat Tan
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Patent number: 7234749Abstract: A tailgate structural configuration accommodates the housing of a supplemental tailgate internally within the tailgate. The tailgate is formed with an outer panel and an inner panel to define an internal cavity. The upper portion of the tailgate includes a C-channel frame member connected to both the inner and outer panels to support guide tubes telescopically housing the supplemental tailgate. To enhance structural stability, the tailgate further includes one or two transversely oriented strainers having formed therein flanged depressions or openings for the passage of the guide tubes vertically therethrough. Each guide tube is affixed to a mounting bracket that is detachably connected to the C-channel to support the guide tube within the tailgate. Positioning pins mounted on the mounting bracket affixed to the guide tubes engage locator holes in the C-channel for positioning the supplemental tailgate.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2006Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jeff Firzlaff, Duane Koehler, Kian-Huat Tan
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Publication number: 20070002364Abstract: Embodiments of an imaging device are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2005Publication date: January 4, 2007Inventors: Duane Koehler, Volker Smektala, Lee Jackson