Patents by Inventor Gary W. Shope

Gary W. Shope 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: 5605429
    Abstract: In an apparatus for storing and automatically delivering cassette and/or pallets containing cassettes to a reader. The apparatus includes a plurality of cassette retaining sites. A door assembly is provided adjacent the portal for allowing access to the plurality of cassette retaining sites. The door assembly has at least one door slideably mounted to the apparatus for movement between a closed position and an open position. A door safety system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Shahram Hejazi, Gary W. Shope, Jeffrey J. Yaskow, Carl A. Swanson, Michael J. Epner
  • Patent number: 5319217
    Abstract: In an apparatus for storing and automatically delivering cassettes and/or pallets containing cassettes to a reader. The apparatus includes a plurality of cassette retaining sites. A door assembly is provided adjacent the portal for allowing access to the plurality of cassette retaining sites. The door assembly has at least one panel slideably mounted to the apparatus for movement between a closed position and an open position. Sensors are provided for determining if a foreign object is in the closure path of the at least one panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wayne J. Arsenault, John C. Boutet, Darryl D. DeWolff, James D. Lattimore, Gary W. Shope, Jeffrey J. Yaskow, Thomas D. Baker
  • Patent number: 5261046
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus with inexpensive data line resequencing circuitry for formatting image signals to a print head. The circuitry includes a resequencing line store device connectable to a data link and a control link for resequencing at least one first line of sequentially ordered data bits carried by the data link according to control signals carried by the control link. The resequencing line store device includes a plurality of interconnected memory cells operable for storage and selectable transfer of the data bits in response to the control signals, whereby the plurality of cells are arranged in a plurality of cell groups and a plurality of cell subgroups corresponding respectively to groups and subgroups of the bits. The bits may be shifted into the plurality of groups in sequential order and shifted from the plurality of cell subgroups in a non-sequential order corresponding to the first and second partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Gary W. Shope, Jeffrey A. Small
  • Patent number: 5047955
    Abstract: An electronic printer receives multi-page documents as character code signals which are applied to a raster image processor for rasterization. The rasterized signals are electronically stored so that a plurality of electronically collated, multi-page sets can be printed without re-rasterization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Gary W. Shope, Russell L. Godshalk
  • Patent number: 4894805
    Abstract: A printer/copier which stores job image data in memory before reproduction has a "refresh period" after which data stored therein will degrade if the device is not refreshed. Upon completion of a "security" job, DRAM refresh and normal read or write operations are disabled for a time period sufficient to allow the data resident in the DRAM to degrade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1990
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Russell L. Godshalk, Gary W. Shope