Patents by Inventor Edward M. Oscarson
Edward M. Oscarson 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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Patent number: 6603497Abstract: A wide format thermal printer for printing a multicolor graphic product on a printing sheet; a vacuum workbed for supporting a sheet material for performing work operations, such as cutting, printing or plotting, thereon; a replaceable donor sheet assembly, which includes a memory, for use with a thermal printer; methods and apparatus for improved thermal printing, including methods and apparatus for conserving donor sheet and reducing the amount of time required to print a multicolor graphic product; a thermal printhead including a memory; methods and apparatus for the alignment of a sheet material for printing or performing other work operations on the sheet material; and methods and apparatus for controlling the tension of the donor sheet during printing with a wide format thermal printer. The wide format thermal printer can include provision for the automatic loading of cassettes of donor sheet from a cassette storage rack.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2000Date of Patent: August 5, 2003Assignee: Gerber Scientific Products, Inc.Inventors: Charles M. Hevenor, Howard H. Plude, William J. Tortora, Edward M. Oscarson, Kenneth O. Wood
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Patent number: 6573923Abstract: Disclosed are the following: a wide format thermal printer for printing a multicolor graphic product on a printing sheet; a vacuum workbed for supporting a sheet material for performing work operations, such as cutting, printing or plotting, thereon; a replaceable donor sheet assembly, which includes a memory, for use with a thermal printer; methods and apparatus for improved thermal printing, including methods and apparatus for conserving donor sheet and reducing the amount of time required to print a multicolor graphic product; a thermal printhead including a memory; and methods and apparatus for the alignment of a sheet material for printing or performing other work operations on the sheet material. The wide format thermal printer can include provision for the automatic loading of cassettes of donor sheet from a cassette storage rack.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2001Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Assignee: Gerber Scientific Products, Inc.Inventors: Charles M. Hevenor, William J. Tortora, William A. Loos, Kenneth O. Wood, Edward M. Oscarson, David M. Mindek, Kurt J. Ehrhardt, John K. White, Raymond J. MacQueen, Brian H. Lis, Roy Douglas Downey, Michael J. Banavige, Daniel G. Binnall
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Patent number: 6493018Abstract: Disclosed are the following: a wide format thermal printer for printing a multicolor graphic product on a printing sheet; a vacuum workbed for supporting a sheet material for performing work operations, such as cutting, printing or plotting, thereon; a replaceable donor sheet assembly, which includes a memory, for use with a thermal printer; methods and apparatus for improved thermal printing, including methods and apparatus for conserving donor sheet and reducing the amount of time required to print a multicolor graphic product; a thermal printhead including a memory; and methods and apparatus for the alignment of a sheet material for printing or performing other work operations on the sheet material. The wide format thermal printer can include provision for the automatic loading of cassettes of donor sheet from a cassette storage rack.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1999Date of Patent: December 10, 2002Assignee: Gerber Scientific Products, Inc.Inventors: Charles M. Hevenor, William J. Tortora, William A. Loos, Kenneth O. Wood, Edward M. Oscarson, David M. Mindek, Kurt J. Ehrhardt, John K. White, Raymond J. MacQueen, Brian H. Lis, Roy Douglas Downey, Michael J. Banavige, Daniel G. Binnall
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Publication number: 20010014236Abstract: Disclosed are the following: a wide format thermal printer for printing a multicolor graphic product on a printing sheet; a vacuum workbed for supporting a sheet material for performing work operations, such as cutting, printing or plotting, thereon; a replaceable donor sheet assembly, which includes a memory, for use with a thermal printer; methods and apparatus for improved thermal printing, including methods and apparatus for conserving donor sheet and reducing the amount of time required to print a multicolor graphic product; a thermal printhead including a memory; and methods and apparatus for the alignment of a sheet material for printing or performing other work operations on the sheet material. The wide format thermal printer can include provision for the automatic loading of cassettes of donor sheet from a cassette storage rack.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2001Publication date: August 16, 2001Inventors: Charles M. Hevenor, William J. Tortora, William A. Loos, Kenneth O. Wood, Edward M. Oscarson, David M. Mindek, Kurt J. Ehrhardt, John K. White, Raymond J. Macqueen, Brian H. Lis, Roy Douglas Downey, Michael J. Banavige, Daniel G. Binnall
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Patent number: 6243120Abstract: Disclosed are the following: a wide format thermal printer for printing a multicolor graphic product on a printing sheet; a vacuum workbed for supporting a sheet material for performing work operations, such as cutting, printing or plotting, thereon; a replaceable donor sheet assembly, which includes a memory, for use with a thermal printer; methods and apparatus for improved thermal printing, including methods and apparatus for conserving donor sheet and reducing the amount of time required to print a multicolor graphic product; a thermal printhead including a memory; and methods and apparatus for the alignment of a sheet material for printing or performing other work operations on the sheet material. The wide format thermal printer can include provision for the automatic loading of cassettes of donor sheet from a cassette storage rack.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1999Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: Gerber Scientific Products, Inc.Inventors: Charles M. Hevenor, Howard H. Plude, William J. Tortora, Edward M. Oscarson, Kenneth O. Wood
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Publication number: 20010000055Abstract: Disclosed are the following: a wide format thermal printer for printing a multicolor graphic product on a printing sheet; a vacuum workbed for supporting a sheet material for performing work operations, such as cutting, printing or plotting, thereon; a replaceable donor sheet assembly, which includes a memory, for use with a thermal printer; methods and apparatus for improved thermal printing, including methods and apparatus for conserving donor sheet and reducing the amount of time required to print a multicolor graphic product; a thermal printhead including a memory; and methods and apparatus for the alignment of a sheet material for printing or performing other work operations on the sheet material. The wide format thermal printer can include provision for the automatic loading of cassettes of donor sheet from a cassette storage rack.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2000Publication date: March 22, 2001Inventors: Charles M. Hevenor, Howard H. Plude, William J. Tortora, Edward M. Oscarson, Kenneth O. Wood
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Patent number: 5652886Abstract: A state machine has specific states to boot a microprocessor and retrieve data from the microprocessor's memories while the microprocessor is running, but with operation temporarily suspended under control of the state machine. The state machine is programmed after it is installed on a circuit board with the microprocessor. The state machine is connected to a standard bus and through its specific states provides an interface to the microprocessor as well as the instructions for booting the microprocessor when the microprocessor is powered up.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1994Date of Patent: July 29, 1997Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Bhalchandra R. Tulpule, Mark A. Foss, Edward J. Kysar, III, Edward M. Oscarson, Leonard Spain, Michael C. Crisafulli
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Patent number: 5128943Abstract: An interrupt is provided to a signal processor having a non-maskable interrupt input, in response to the detection of a request for transfer to backup software. The signal processor provides a transfer signal to a transfer mechanism only after completion of the present machine cycle. Transfer to the backup software is initiated by the transfer mechanism only upon reception of the transfer signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1989Date of Patent: July 7, 1992Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Bhalchandra R. Tulpule, Edward M. Oscarson
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Patent number: 4696019Abstract: A synchronizer for use in synchronizing individual signal processors in a multi-channel system is disclosed. Each synchronizer has a counter for counting its associated processor's clock pulses and, upon reaching a selected count, providing a counter frame output signal at an output thereof for use by each of the other synchronizers in the system. Each synchronizer has a voter responsive to counter output signals from each of the other synchronizers, and from itself as well, at input ports thereof. Each synchronizer's voter provides a frame sync (macro sync) pulse in each counter frame after receiving a selected number of counter frame output signals from any of the synchronizers in the system.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1984Date of Patent: September 22, 1987Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Bhalchandra R. Tulpule, Edward M. Oscarson, David J. Vosgien