Patents by Inventor Glen Thompson
Glen Thompson 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: 9046444Abstract: To effectively suppress a shift of a rotating axis of an upper chuck with respect to a rotating axis of a lower chuck due to a separating force. A tire testing device (1) includes: vertical frames (30a, 30b) which are supported by a lower frame (20); a beam (40) which bridges between the vertical frames (30a, 30b) and is movable in the vertical direction; an upper chuck (45) which is attached to the center of the beam (40), the center corresponding to the center of the beam in the longitudinal direction; and a lower chuck (25) which is attached to the lower frame. When viewed from the vertical direction, a rotating axis of an upper rotating member (47) is positioned at the center of a straight line formed by connecting supporting points where each of the vertical frames (30a, 30b) support the beam (40).Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Takehiko Wakazono, Tetsuya Yoshikawa, Glen Thompson, Yasuhiko Fujieda, Shogo Sarumaru
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Publication number: 20150123314Abstract: The present invention relates at least in part to methods for the manufacture of shape memory polymer (SMP) materials. Particularly, although not exclusive, the present invention relates to processes for the formation of complex shaped devices composed of shape memory polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2012Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: Smith & Nephew PLCInventors: Malcolm Brown, Horacio Montes de Oca Balderas, Michael Andrew Hall, Alan William Bull, David Franklin Farrar, Philip Caton-Rose, Philip David Coates, Glen Thompson, Michael Martyn, Ian MacMillan Ward, Mark James Bonner, Peter John Hine, Paul Unwin, Michael Woodhead
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Publication number: 20150073476Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising shape memory polymer (SMP) materials and uses thereof. Particularly, although not exclusively, the present invention relates to biocompatible shape memory polymer (SMP) materials and uses thereof in the medical field.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2012Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Malcolm Brown, Horacio Montes de Oca Balderas, Michael Andrew Hall, Alan William Bull, David Franklin Farrar, Philip Caton-Rose, Philip David Coates, Glen Thompson, Michael Martyn, Ian MacMillan Ward, Mark James Bonner, Peter John Hine, Paul Unwin, Robin Anthony Chivers, Michael Woodhead
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Patent number: 8950250Abstract: Provided is a loading device that is provided in a tire testing machine including a testing station (30) provided with a spindle (31) attached with a tire (50) to be tested and feeds the tire (50) from a predetermined standby position to a testing position where the center of the spindle matches the center of the tire (50) in the testing station (30). The loading device includes: conveyors (1, 2) that convey the tire (50) from the standby position toward the testing position in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the tire; and positioning devices (6B, 20) that position the tire to be tested to a position, in which a front end of the tire in the feeding direction matches a point separated from the spindle by a predetermined distance, as the standby position. Setting of the standby position based on the position of the front end of the tire (50) in the feeding direction shortens the feeding distance and the feeding time and hence shortens the testing cycle time.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Takehiko Wakazono, Glen Thompson
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Publication number: 20140309691Abstract: The present invention relates at least in part to surgical devices which comprise a shape memory polymer material composition. Particularly, although not exclusively, the present invention relates to a fixation device e.g. an anchor device e.g. a suture anchor which comprises a shape memory material. Included in the present invention are anchor devices e.g. suture anchors which are formed entirely of a shape memory polymer material. Embodiments of the present invention comprise hybrid suture anchors, particularly suture anchors which are formed from a shape memory polymer material and a non-shape memory material. Methods of securing an anchor in a bone or tissue are also included in the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2012Publication date: October 16, 2014Inventors: Malcolm Brown, Horacio Montes de Oca Balederas, Michael Andrew Hall, Alan William Bull, David Franklin Farrar, Philip Caton-Rose, Philip David Coates, Glen Thompson, Michael Martyn, Ian MacMillian Ward, Mark James Bonner, Peter John Hine
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Publication number: 20140236226Abstract: The present invention relates to shape memory polymers (SMP) and especially to shape memory polymer containing a water soluble non-reactive plasticiser and to uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicants: Smith & Nephew PLC, University of BradfordInventors: Malcolm Brown, Horacio Montes de Oca Balderas, Michael Andrew Hall, Phillip Caton-Rose, Phillip David Coates, Glen Thompson
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Publication number: 20130333615Abstract: Provided is a loading device that is provided in a tire testing machine including a testing station (30) provided with a spindle (31) attached with a tire (50) to be tested and feeds the tire (50) from a predetermined standby position to a testing position where the center of the spindle matches the center of the tire (50) in the testing station (30). The loading device includes: conveyors (1, 2) that convey the tire (50) from the standby position toward the testing position in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the tire; and positioning devices (6B, 20) that position the tire to be tested to a position, in which a front end of the tire in the feeding direction matches a point separated from the spindle by a predetermined distance, as the standby position. Setting of the standby position based on the position of the front end of the tire (50) in the feeding direction shortens the feeding distance and the feeding time and hence shortens the testing cycle time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2012Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)Inventors: Takehiko Wakazono, Glen Thompson
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Publication number: 20130233066Abstract: To effectively suppress a shift of a rotating axis of an upper chuck with respect to a rotating axis of a lower chuck due to a separating force. A tire testing device (1) includes: vertical frames (30a, 30b) which are supported by a lower frame (20); a beam (40) which bridges between the vertical frames (30a, 30b) and is movable in the vertical direction; an upper chuck (45) which is attached to the center of the beam (40), the center corresponding to the center of the beam in the longitudinal direction; and a lower chuck (25) which is attached to the lower frame. When viewed from the vertical direction, a rotating axis of an upper rotating member (47) is positioned at the center of a straight line formed by connecting supporting points where each of the vertical frames (30a, 30b) support the beam (40).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2011Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Takehiko Wakazono, Tetsuya Yoshikawa, Glen Thompson, Yasuhiko Fujieda, Shogo Sarumaru
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Patent number: 7841101Abstract: A roofing installation device for enabling quick and accurate installation of shingle type roofing. The device includes a generally c-shaped inner portion and correspondingly c-shaped outer portion slidable relative to one another. The inner and outer portions include at least one spring there between in an expansion state such that manual compression allows a user to clamp the device onto a first shingle layer. An adjustable portion is affixed to the inner portion and includes a stop edge to allow placement of a second shingle layer in such a manner to form a predetermined surface exposure of the first shingle layer. The predetermined surface exposure is variable by moving the adjustable portion relative to the inner portion. Such adjustment is accomplished in a quick, manual manner.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Inventor: Glen A. Thompson
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Publication number: 20090004340Abstract: A method and apparatus for combining beaded ice cream and cookie dough is disclosed. The ice cream is dripped, beaded, frozen, and then combined with precut shapes of cookie dough. The resulting combination is packaged for subsequent storage at low temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2008Publication date: January 1, 2009Inventors: Adam Whiteside, Geoffrey Hannan, Glen Thompson, John Lipert, Tiffany Reagor, Jamie Ehling, Dana Knudsen
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Patent number: 7464564Abstract: A method and apparatus for combining beaded ice cream and cookie dough is disclosed. The ice cream is dripped, beaded, frozen, and then combined with precut shapes of cookie dough. The resulting combination is packaged for subsequent storage at low temperature.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2004Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Dippin' Dots, Inc.Inventors: Adam Whiteside, Geoffrey Hannan, Glen Thompson, John Lipert, Tiffany Reagor, Jamie Ehling, Dana Knudsen
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Publication number: 20080111277Abstract: An inventive solid state drawing die has shaping walls that define a shaping channel and that, in the course of solid state drawing, direct polymer composition along a drawing path. Each cross section of the drawing path (and, hence, polymer composition in the drawing path) is non-circular, substantially proportional to one another, contains a centroid that lies on a substantially straight line parallel to the drawing direction and all cross sectional dimensions are 1.5 millimeters or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2007Publication date: May 15, 2008Inventors: Kevin Nichols, Brett Birchmeier, Martin Tusim, Ian Ward, Philip Coates, Phil Caton-Rose, Glen Thompson
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Publication number: 20060012468Abstract: A communication system for a vehicle traveling over a road surface is provided with at least one detector for sensing speed detection signals impinging on the vehicle, to monitor the speed of the vehicle or a nearby vehicle. A radiofrequency transmitter communicates the detector output to a receiver adjacent the passenger compartment of the vehicle. The receiver controls one or more annunciators to output one or more annunciator indications to the system user. The radiofrequency transmitter in one embodiment directs transmissions along a ground skip path, reflecting information over the road surface so as to enter the receiver located in or near a passenger compartment of the vehicle. A wireless control unit provides indication of system operating status and allows a user to input commands to the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2005Publication date: January 19, 2006Inventors: Peggy Finley, Howard Dittmer, Peter Hefner, Glen Thompson
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Publication number: 20050064074Abstract: A method and apparatus for combining beaded ice cream and cookie dough is disclosed. The ice cream is dripped, beaded, frozen, and then combined with precut shapes of cookie dough. The resulting combination is packaged for subsequent storage at low temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2004Publication date: March 24, 2005Inventors: Adam Whiteside, Geoffrey Hannan, Glen Thompson, John Lipert, Tiffany Reagor, Jamie Ehling, Dana Knudsen
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Patent number: 4870858Abstract: A tire testing machine has two spaced parallel diamond shaped support structures. On each support structure, a road wheel and two tire carriages are mounted. A motor is mounted on each support structure and drivably connected to the road wheel. Pistons and cylinders are mounted between the support structures and the carriages to drive the carriages toward and away from the road wheel to force the tire carried on the carriage against the road wheel.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1988Date of Patent: October 3, 1989Assignee: Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.Inventors: Patrick A. Smith, Glen Thompson