Patents by Inventor Eric Baldwin

Eric Baldwin 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: 12370794
    Abstract: The current at a deflection electrode 23, 25 of an electrostatic deflection continuous inkjet printer 127 is monitored. If the current reaches a level higher than normal for a clean print head but below the current required to trigger an automatic shutdown, a warning is generated. The warning indicates that an automatic shutdown is likely to follow unless the print head is cleaned. This allows the operator to shut the printer down in a planned manner for cleaning. The warning may be provided at the printer 127 or it may be provided by an external system 121, 129 which allows personnel who are not at the printer to be alerted. The monitoring may be done by the printer or information about the deflection electrode current may be provided to an external system 121, 129 that performs the monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Linx Printing Techologies Limited
    Inventors: Stephen Eric Baldwin, Bryn Jones, Thomas Michael Wake
  • Publication number: 20240198690
    Abstract: A continuous inkjet printer is provided comprising an ink supply system, a droplet generator configured to receive ink from the ink supply system and to produce a jet of ink for printing, a gutter configured to receive parts of the jet that are not required for printing, a gutter line connected to the gutter and configured to return unprinted ink to the ink supply system, a suction system comprising a Venturi having a suction port configured to apply a suction force to the gutter line, and a gutter flow rate control system configured to control a rate of flow of fluid along the gutter line based on temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Simon Peter Jason Newell, Stephen Eric Baldwin
  • Publication number: 20230202169
    Abstract: A system (93) monitors the break-up phase of an electrostatic deflection continuous ink jet printer to identify phase instability likely to be caused by a partial blockage of the jet-forming device (17). It ignores alternations between adjacent phase positions and brief unrepeated periods of phase disruption. Preferably it ignores phase changes caused by changes in other operational parameters of the printer, such as variations in ink pressure. Monitoring may be done in the printer (99) or in an external system (93), (95).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Miguel Calvo, John Green, Stephen Eric Baldwin
  • Publication number: 20230202170
    Abstract: The current at a deflection electrode 23, 25 of an electrostatic deflection continuous inkjet printer 127 is monitored. If the current reaches a level higher than normal for a clean print head but below the current required to trigger an automatic shutdown, a warning is generated. The warning indicates that an automatic shutdown is likely to follow unless the print head is cleaned. This allows the operator to shut the printer down in a planned manner for cleaning. The warning may be provided at the printer 127 or it may be provided by an external system 121, 129 which allows personnel who are not at the printer to be alerted. The monitoring may be done by the printer or information about the deflection electrode current may be provided to an external system 121, 129 that performs the monitoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Stephen Eric Baldwin, Bryn Jones, Thomas Michael Wake
  • Publication number: 20070293483
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formula: where variables Z, X, R15, R2, R3, and Rc are defined herein. Compounds disclosed herein are inhibitors of the beta-secretase enzyme and are therefore useful in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other diseases characterized by deposition of A beta peptide in a mammal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Varghese John, Michel Maillard, James Beck, Eric Baldwin, Robert Hughes, Shon Pulley, Ruth TenBrink
  • Publication number: 20060235401
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for repairing the femur. A connector is provided having a claw-like member to engage with the greater trochanter. Along the body of the connector are a plurality of cable apertures and cable screws to receive and engage with cables that loop around the femur. Along the inferior end of the connector are bone screw slots and bone screws engaging the connector with the femur. The bone screws provide added support to the re-attached greater trochanter and provide support for periprosthetic fractures. The connector may be used to re-attach the greater trochanter by impacting a connector onto the greater trochanter, positioning the greater trochanter onto the femur, passing cables around the femur and through the connector, tensioning the cables to provide engagement between the greater trochanter and the femur, and attaching the connector to the femur using at least one bone screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Eric Baldwin, Thomas Kilpela, Burns Severson
  • Publication number: 20050255577
    Abstract: Staphylococcus aureus peptide deformylase has been crystallized, and the three-dimensional x-ray crystal structure has been solved to 1.9 ? resolution. The x-ray crystal structure is useful for solving the structure of other molecules or molecular complexes, and designing modifiers of peptide deformylase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2004
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Applicant: PHARMACIA & UPJOHN COMPANY
    Inventor: Eric Baldwin