Patents by Inventor Eric Thomas

Eric Thomas 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: 11790802
    Abstract: A welding helmet system is provided. The welding helmet system includes a protective shell and a welding display system. The welding display system is configured to be removably coupled to the protective shell. The welding display system is configured to receive data from a sensor, and to display a welding metric derived from the sensor via the image generation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Thomas Sommers, Nishank Rudresh Patel
  • Patent number: 11764052
    Abstract: An ion guide defining a guide axis receives ions. The ion guide applies a potential profile that includes a pseudopotential well to the ions using an ion control field. The ion control field includes a component for restraining movement of the ions normal to the guide axis and a component for controlling the movement of the ions parallel to the guide axis. The ion guide sequentially injects the ions with the same ion energy and in decreasing order of m/z value into an ELIT aligned along an ELIT axis to focus the ions irrespective of m/z value at the same location on the ELIT axis within the ELIT at the same time by varying a magnitude of the pseudopotential well. The ELIT can trap the focused ions using in-trap potential lift or mirror-switching ion capture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Eric Thomas Dziekonski
  • Patent number: 11761061
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of aluminum-based alloys having improved intergranular corrosion resistance. Methods of making and using the disclosed alloy embodiments also are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: UT-Battelle, LLC, University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Eck Industries Incorporated, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Orlando Rios, Hunter B. Henderson, David Weiss, Scott McCall, Eric Thomas Stromme, Zachary Cole Sims, Ryan Ott, Fanqiang Meng, Michael Kesler, Kevin Anderson
  • Publication number: 20230286262
    Abstract: A fluidic die includes fluid-transfer elements, and a temperature sensor to monitor a temperature on the fluidic die. The fluidic die includes a trickle-warming circuit to warm fluid transferrable by the fluid-transfer elements, and a pulse-warming circuit to warm the fluid. A warming control circuit selectively activates the trickle-warming and pulse-warming circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Thomas Martin, Garrett E. Clark, Jeremy Spencer, Vincent C. Korthuis, Rogelio Cicili
  • Publication number: 20230270287
    Abstract: An example oven can include: a main body with a cooking cavity; a front portion of the main body having a front opening for receiving a pizza and acting as an air vent; a wood burning tray assembly including a grate positioned in the main body; and a gas burner positioned adjacent to the wood burning tray assembly; wherein the gas burner is configured to combust a gas to heat the cooking cavity; and wherein the gas burner is positioned to ignite wood on the grate of the wood burning tray assembly to further heat the cooking cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventor: Eric Thomas Bert
  • Publication number: 20230243439
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to an apparatus and system for adjusting rate of spool centering in a pilot-controlled hydraulic spool valve. The apparatus includes a first pilot port and a second pilot port. The apparatus includes a first valve port and a second valve port. The apparatus also includes a first hydraulic circuit connecting the first pilot port and the first valve port, wherein the first hydraulic circuit, based on a hydraulic fluid pressure of the second pilot port, comprises one of a controlled-flow condition and an unrestricted-flow condition. The apparatus further includes a second hydraulic circuit connecting the second pilot port and the second valve port, wherein the second hydraulic circuit, based on a hydraulic fluid pressure of the first pilot port, comprises one of a controlled-flow condition and an unrestricted-flow condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: James Douglas Holmes, Eric Thomas Nelson, Nathan Bradley Wourms
  • Publication number: 20230236633
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises an electronic equipment chassis comprising a housing and at least one lid, the housing comprising a control panel with a first set of one or more status indicators. The apparatus also comprises at least one latch configured for securing the at least one lid to the housing, the at least one latch comprising a second set of one or more status indicators. The apparatus further comprises a processing device configured to determine status information for electronic equipment housed in the electronic equipment chassis, the status information characterizing whether at least one of opening and removing the at least one lid is safe to perform at a given time, and controlling, based at least in part on the determined status information, at least one of the first set of indicators and at least one of the second set of indicators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Amrita Sidhu Maguire, Yuxin Chen, Zhao Chen, Lizzy Yi Sun, Eric Thomas Graham
  • Patent number: 11684210
    Abstract: An example oven can include: a main body with a cooking cavity; a front portion of the main body having a front opening for receiving a pizza and acting as an air vent; a wood burning tray assembly including a grate positioned in the main body; and a gas burner positioned adjacent to the wood burning tray assembly; wherein the gas burner is configured to combust a gas to heat the cooking cavity; and wherein the gas burner is positioned to ignite wood on the grate of the wood burning tray assembly to further heat the cooking cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Napoli LLC
    Inventor: Eric Thomas Bert
  • Publication number: 20230184644
    Abstract: Safety systems and material testing systems including safety systems are disclosed. An example material testing system includes: at least one actuator configured to control one or more operator-accessible components of the material testing system; an actuator disabling circuit configured to disable the at least one actuator; and one or more processors configured to: control the at least one actuator based on a material testing process; monitor a plurality of inputs associated with operation of the material testing system; determine, based on the plurality of inputs and the material testing process, a state of the material testing system from a plurality of predetermined states, the predetermined states comprising one or more unrestricted states and one or more restricted states; and control the actuator disabling circuit based on the determined state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Martin Allen Peterson, Earl H. Landry, Eric Thomas Stuebe, Fernando L. Castro, Jaron Burnworth
  • Patent number: 11654485
    Abstract: A method for the additive manufacturing of a component includes providing a powdered base material for a component, in particular a component for the hot gas path of a gas turbine, building up the component layer by layer on a building platform by fusing individual layers of the base material, and introducing an oxide dispersion strengthening into a region of the component to be additively manufactured by an oxidic additive, wherein the region is usually exposed to high thermomechanical loading during operation of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Lena Farahbod-Sternahl, Christian Felsmann, Dennis Glass, Jacek Grodzki, Robert Herfurth, Lars Hoefener, Bernd Hornung, David Rule, Tobias Thomas Rühmer, Eric Thomas
  • Patent number: 11649614
    Abstract: A retainer sleeve configured for use in a retainer system for a ground engaging tool includes a plurality of plate-like sections, each section being flexibly joined with an adjacent section along either a radially inner edge or a portion of a radially outer edge. The radially inner edges of the plurality of sections form part of a segmented inner surface configured for engagement with an outer surface of a locking member of the retainer system. The inner surface extends partially around a central axis of the retainer sleeve to form a substantially C-shaped retainer sleeve having opposite circumferential ends that are spaced from each other. The radially outer edges of the plurality of sections form part of a segmented, frustoconical outer surface configured for engagement in an internal lock cavity of a ground engaging tool tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Doug Serrurier, Mihai Mircea Balan, Scott Anthony Schick, Eric Thomas Sinn, Jason Grant Jura, Arun Venugopal, Kadirvel Muthusamy
  • Patent number: 11649087
    Abstract: Disclosed are rigid multi-compartment recloseable packages. A package may comprise a rigid tray comprising a product surface to hold food products. The tray may comprise a raised lip along a perimeter of the product surface to laterally secure the food products thereon. The tray may have a tray skirt horizontally extending outward from a top edge of the lip, and dividing features upwardly extending from the product surface to form distinct compartments on the product surface for receiving the food products therein. Furthermore, such an exemplary package also comprises a recloseable rigid lid having an upper surface substantially coextensive with the product surface, and at least one sidewall downwardly extending from the upper surface. The lid may also comprise a lid skirt horizontally extending outward from a bottom edge of the at least one sidewall, where the lid skirt is coextensive and complimentary in shape with the tray skirt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventors: Paola Appendini, David Block, Paulette Bluhm-Sauriol, Ryan Boudreaux, Peter Brian Clarke, Rebecca Eley, Geoffrey Gibbins, Eric Thomas Henderson, James J. Maki, Jorge W. Maldonado, Donald E. McCumber, Megan Sklanka, James Troy Starkey
  • Publication number: 20230132033
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of automatically generating, revising, and/or executing troubleshooting guide(s). In a first example, an operation is selected based at least in part on a schema and information indicating that the operation is capable of mitigating a category of issues. In a second example, information is analyzed to identify operations performed with regard to service(s) to mitigate issues, and an operation is selected based at least in part on the information indicating that the operation is capable of mitigating a category of issues that includes an identified issue. In these examples, an executable troubleshooting guide is automatically generated to perform the selected operation. In a third example, weights are assigned to features that are extracted from data associated with troubleshooting guide(s), and a subset of the troubleshooting guide(s) is automatically revised based at least in part on the weights corresponding to the subset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Anurag GUPTA, Eric Thomas LANGLAND, Ryan Wayne RIFE, Joshua John WHATLEY
  • Patent number: 11624452
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to an apparatus and system for adjusting rate of spool centering in a pilot-controlled hydraulic spool valve. The apparatus includes a first pilot port and a second pilot port. The apparatus includes a first valve port and a second valve port. The apparatus also includes a first hydraulic circuit connecting the first pilot port and the first valve port, wherein the first hydraulic circuit, based on a hydraulic fluid pressure of the second pilot port, comprises one of a controlled-flow condition and an unrestricted-flow condition. The apparatus further includes a second hydraulic circuit connecting the second pilot port and the second valve port, wherein the second hydraulic circuit, based on a hydraulic fluid pressure of the first pilot port, comprises one of a controlled-flow condition and an unrestricted-flow condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: BARKO HYDRAULICS, LLC
    Inventors: James Douglas Holmes, Eric Thomas Nelson, Nathan Bradley Wourms
  • Publication number: 20230102992
    Abstract: A class-D amplifier having an output driver with a first, second, and third driver, the output driver having a first output coupled to the first and third drivers, a second output coupled to the second driver; a sensing resistor coupled in series between the first driver and the first output; and a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller coupled to the inputs of the drivers and configured to receive an audio input signal; control a PWM generator to generate a first pulse signal and a second pulse signal based on the audio input signal and a power supply input; determine a voltage drop across the sensing resistor; and, responsive to the voltage drop being greater than a threshold, sequence control of the first pulse signal to the first driver and switch a voltage at the first driver to an increased voltage based on the voltage drop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Mark R. Peting, Eric Thomas King, Taehwan Oh
  • Publication number: 20230098492
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an audio amplifier can include an input for receiving a signal to be amplified, and an amplification stage configured to amplify the signal based on pulse width modulation and provide the amplified signal at an output node. The audio amplifier can further include a feedback circuit implemented between the output node and the input node. The feedback circuit can include a series arrangement of a high bandwidth input common mode loop and a low bandwidth output common mode loop, with the low bandwidth output common mode loop configured to provide a desired phase change for the high bandwidth input common mode loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Praveen Kumar VENKATACHALA, Wai Laing LEE, Eric Thomas KING, Venkata Rajesh PAMULA
  • Patent number: D983234
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Thomas Sinn, Douglas Charles Serrurier, Rammagy Yoeu
  • Patent number: D995576
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Thomas Sinn, Douglas Charles Serrurier, Rammagy Yoeu
  • Patent number: D995577
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Thomas Sinn, Douglas Charles Serrurier, Rammagy Yoeu
  • Patent number: D994714
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Thomas Sinn, Douglas Charles Serrurier, Rammagy Yoeu