Patents by Inventor Gordon Thompson
Gordon 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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Publication number: 20230349425Abstract: Spherical bearing assemblies comprise an outer ring, an adjustable receiver adjustably coupled to the outer ring and at least partially received within the outer ring, and a locking bearing adapter configured to operatively couple the adjustable receiver to a boring bar of a machine tool. The locking bearing adapter includes a tapered sleeve partially received within the adjustable receiver bore and tapered toward the outboard direction, an interior nut threadingly coupled to the tapered sleeve and configured to engage the adjustable receiver, and an exterior nut threadingly coupled to the tapered sleeve and positioned adjacent to the interior nut with the interior nut positioned between the exterior nut and the adjustable receiver. Line boring machines comprise a boring bar, a cutting tool, a spherical bearing mount assembly including a spherical bearing assembly, a rotational drive unit, and an axial feed unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventor: Andrew Gordon Thompson
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Publication number: 20220062737Abstract: Exercise class systems and methods may include a plurality of pieces of exercise equipment and/or a plurality of sensing systems adapted to be worn on people in the class, each piece of equipment or sensing system outputting plural exercise signals relating to exercise performance on the piece of equipment or of the person with the sensing system. A computer system may also be provided. The computer system may include at least one electronic storage device which stores the plural signals from the pieces of equipment or sensing system and at least one processor which generates an output signal containing an animation corresponding to at least two of the exercise signals from each of the pieces of equipment or sensing systems. At least one display device, visible from each of the pieces of equipment or people in the class, may receive the output signal and display the animation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Equinox Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Elizabeth Kelly HENNING, Jeffrey Scott BRUENING, Gordon THOMPSON, III, Chirag PATEL, Neel Magan BAKARANIA, Phuc Van Nguyen, Catherine Crowe MARK, John WHITE, Jin Sung YOO, Karen RAINERT, John Paul BENVENUTO, Nicole DEL SENNO, Matthew JACOBS, David HITCHINGS
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Patent number: 11203661Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of an epoxy-functional polyester, and to solid epoxy-functional polyesters made by such process and to a coating composition, in particular a powder coating composition, comprising such solid epoxy-functional polyester. The polyester made as disclosed herein is particularly useful in powder coatings.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Inventors: Matthew George Unthank, Ian Marchant Jackson, Barry Gordon Thompson
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Patent number: 11148032Abstract: Exercise class systems and methods may include a plurality of pieces of exercise equipment and/or a plurality of sensing systems adapted to be worn on people in the class, each piece of equipment or sensing system outputting plural exercise signals relating to exercise performance on the piece of equipment or of the person with the sensing system. A computer system may also be provided. The computer system may include at least one electronic storage device which stores the plural signals from the pieces of equipment or sensing system and at least one processor which generates an output signal containing an animation corresponding to at least two of the exercise signals from each of the pieces of equipment or sensing systems. At least one display device, visible from each of the pieces of equipment or people in the class, may receive the output signal and display the animation.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: EQUINOX HOLDING, INC.Inventors: Elizabeth Kelly Henning, Jeffrey Scott Bruening, Gordon Thompson, III, Chirag Patel, Neel Magan Bakarania, Phuc Van Nguyen, Catherine Crowe Mark, John White, Jin Sung Yoo, Karen Rainert, John Paul Benvenuto, Nicole Del Senno, Matthew Jacobs, David Hitchings
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Self-Aligning, Multi-Stab Connections for Managed Pressure Drilling Between Rig and Riser Components
Publication number: 20200270955Abstract: A riser extending from a floating rig includes one or more flow control devices having at least one flow connection and having at least one control connection. A riser manifold is disposed on the riser above the one or more flow control devices and has a first mechanical connector, a first flow coupling, and a first control coupling. A rig manifold can be manipulated by an arm to couple in an automated manner to the riser manifold when running the riser from the rig. The rig manifold has a second mechanical connector that mechanically connects to the first mechanical connector of the riser manifold. Additionally, the rig manifold has a second flow coupling mating with the first flow coupling of the riser manifold for conducting flow, and has a second control coupling mating with the first control coupling of the riser manifold for conducting control.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Robert Ziegler, Julmar Shaun S. Toralde, Gordon Thompson, Edvin Andersen, Øystein Christensen, Anthony James Reid -
Publication number: 20190375884Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of an epoxy-functional polyester. The process according to the invention comprises the steps of a) providing a polyester having functional groups selected from hydroxyl groups and carboxylic acid groups, or mixtures thereof, b) reacting the functional groups of the polyester with an epihaloalkane to obtain an epoxy-functional polyester dissolved in a liquid phase, c) optionally adding an organic solvent to the liquid phase obtained in step b); d) precipitating the epoxy-functional polyester from the liquid phase obtained in step b) or in step c); and e) isolating the precipitated epoxy-functional polyester from the liquid phase by a solid-liquid separation technique. The thus obtained resin is in particular useful for use in powder coatings.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2017Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.Inventors: Matthew George UNTHANK, Ian Marchant JACKSON, Barry Gordon THOMPSON
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Patent number: 9731801Abstract: The invention is directed to an airbag system and, more particularly, to such a system employed as a rescue or life-saving system to enable a person to survive an avalanche, for example. In a particular embodiment, the invention relates to an airbag system utilized with a backpack to be worn by a skier, snowboarder, hiker, or snowmobiler, for example. Instead of relying upon compressed gas cartridges or cylinders to inflate the airbag(s), the invention inflates the airbag(s) with ambient air only. In a particular embodiment, air is supplied to the airbag by means of a battery-powered electrical motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: AMER SPORTS CANADA INC.Inventors: Michael Douglas Blenkarn, Thomas Walker Clarke Fayle, Gordon Thompson Rose
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Publication number: 20160144938Abstract: The invention is directed to an airbag system and, more particularly, to such a system employed as a rescue or life-saving system to enable a person to survive an avalanche, for example. In a particular embodiment, the invention relates to an airbag system utilized with a backpack to be worn by a skier, snowboarder, hiker, or snowmobiler, for example. Instead of relying upon compressed gas cartridges or cylinders to inflate the airbag(s), the invention inflates the airbag(s) with ambient air only. In a particular embodiment, air is supplied to the airbag by means of a battery-powered electrical motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2016Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: AMER SPORTS CANADA INC.Inventors: Michael Douglas BLENKARN, Thomas Walker Clarke FAYLE, Gordon Thompson ROSE
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Publication number: 20160089574Abstract: Exercise class systems and methods may include a plurality of pieces of exercise equipment and/or a plurality of sensing systems adapted to be worn on people in the class, each piece of equipment or sensing system outputting plural exercise signals relating to exercise performance on the piece of equipment or of the person with the sensing system. A computer system may also be provided. The computer system may include at least one electronic storage device which stores the plural signals from the pieces of equipment or sensing system and at least one processor which generates an output signal containing an animation corresponding to at least two of the exercise signals from each of the pieces of equipment or sensing systems. At least one display device, visible from each of the pieces of equipment or people in the class, may receive the output signal and display the animation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2015Publication date: March 31, 2016Inventors: Elizabeth Kelly HENNING, Jeffrey Scott BRUENING, Gordon THOMPSON, III, Chirag PATEL, Neel Magan BAKARANIA, Phuc Van Nguyen, Catherine Crowe MARK, John WHITE, Jin Sung YOO, Karen RAINERT, John Paul BENVENUTO, Nicole DEL SENNO, Matthew JACOBS, David HITCHINGS
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Patent number: 9272187Abstract: The invention is directed to an airbag system and, more particularly, to such a system employed as a rescue or life-saving system to enable a person to survive an avalanche, for example. In a particular embodiment, the invention relates to an airbag system utilized with a backpack to be worn by a skier, snowboarder, hiker, or snowmobiler, for example. Instead of relying upon compressed gas cartridges or cylinders to inflate the airbag(s), the invention inflates the airbag(s) with ambient air only. In a particular embodiment, air is supplied to the airbag by means of a battery-powered electrical motor.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: AMER SPORTS CANADA INC.Inventors: Michael Douglas Blenkarn, Thomas Walker Clarke Fayle, Gordon Thompson Rose
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Publication number: 20150017851Abstract: The invention is directed to an airbag system and, more particularly, to such a system employed as a rescue or life-saving system to enable a person to survive an avalanche, for example. In a particular embodiment, the invention relates to an airbag system utilized with a backpack to be worn by a skier, snowboarder, hiker, or snowmobiler, for example. Instead of relying upon compressed gas cartridges or cylinders to inflate the airbag(s), the invention inflates the airbag(s) with ambient air only. In a particular embodiment, air is supplied to the airbag by means of a battery-powered electrical motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: ARC'TERYX EQUIPMENT INC.Inventors: Michael Douglas BLENKARN, Thomas Walker Clarke FAYLE, Gordon Thompson ROSE
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Patent number: 8876568Abstract: The invention is directed to an airbag system and, more particularly, to such a system employed as a rescue or life-saving system to enable a person to survive an avalanche. In a particular embodiment, the invention relates to an airbag system utilized with a backpack to be worn by a skier, snowboarder, hiker, or snowmobiler, for example. Instead of relying upon compressed gas cartridges or cylinders to inflate the airbag(s), the invention inflates the airbag(s) with ambient air only. In a particular embodiment, air is supplied to the airbag by means of a battery-powered electrical motor.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Arc'Teryx Equipment Inc.Inventors: Michael Douglas Blenkarn, Thomas Walker Clarke Fayle, Gordon Thompson Rose
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Patent number: 8695216Abstract: Machine tools and methods for machining turbine rotor assemblies are disclosed. Some machine tools include a drill arm that pushes off of a turbine stage that is adjacent to a turbine stage to be machined. Some machine tools include a clamping arm that secures the machine tool to a turbine stage to be machined and an adjacent turbine stage. Some methods include pushing-off of a turbine stage that is adjacent to a turbine stage to be machined. Some methods include securing a machine tool to a turbine stage that is adjacent to a turbine stage to be machined. Some methods include monitoring at least one of a current delivered to a first motor and a voltage applied to the first motor and controlling a second motor in response to the monitoring. Some methods include sequentially machining a turbine stage with cutting tools having increasing lengths and/or diameters.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Climax Portable Machine Tools, Inc.Inventors: Keith Richard Davis, David Loyd Sorensen, John Winfrey Dillman, John Rogers Brooks, Hitesh K. Patel, David Michael Briggs, Garrett Lindon Headrick, Andrew Gordon Thompson, David Ethan Ross, Jeremy Carl Conser
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Patent number: 8577002Abstract: A system and method for screening telephone calls to a subscriber telephone number comprises a screening list of telephone numbers assigned to suspect callers and rules defining when a telephone number will be added to or removed from the screening list or ‘greylist,’ and/or modifying a screening value to be assigned to a telephone number in the greylist. Data relating to calls is received from subscribers and processed, and the telephone number is screened in accordance with the rules, based on the screening value assigned to the telephone number and optionally a selected subscriber tolerance level. Subscribers may add any telephone number to a personal list of telephone numbers to be blocked (blacklist) or telephone numbers to be accepted (whitelist).Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2008Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Primus Telecommunications Canada, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Jason Stein, Robert Gordon Thompson, Edmund Chislett
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Patent number: 8527612Abstract: Methods, devices and computer program products are provided for configuring network-enabled devices. One or more additional network-enabled devices containing configuration parameters relevant to a first network-enabled device are discovered. The relevant configuration parameters are obtained from the one or more additional network-enabled device by the first network-enabled device and the first network-enabled device is configured using the obtained configuration parameters.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2008Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Eaton CorporationInventor: James Gordon Thompson
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Publication number: 20130160292Abstract: Machine tools and methods for machining turbine rotor assemblies are disclosed. Some machine tools include a drill arm that pushes off of a turbine stage that is adjacent to a turbine stage to be machined. Some machine tools include a clamping arm that secures the machine tool to a turbine stage to be machined and an adjacent turbine stage. Some methods include pushing-off of a turbine stage that is adjacent to a turbine stage to be machined. Some methods include securing a machine tool to a turbine stage that is adjacent to a turbine stage to be machined. Some methods include monitoring at least one of a current delivered to a first motor and a voltage applied to the first motor and controlling a second motor in response to the monitoring. Some methods include sequentially machining a turbine stage with cutting tools having increasing lengths and/or diameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2011Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: Climax Portable Machine Tools, Inc.Inventors: Keith Richard Davis, David Loyd Sorensen, John Winfrey Dillman, John Rogers Brooks, Hitesh K. Patel, David Michael Briggs, Garrett Lindon Headrick, Andrew Gordon Thompson, David Ethan Ross, Jeremy Carl Conser
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Patent number: 8279768Abstract: Methods, devices and computer program products are provided for capturing information associated with a triggering event at a network-enabled device. A triggering event is detected at a first network-enabled device. A message is transmitted to at least one other network-enabled device responsive to the detected triggering event. The message includes an indication of a time period associated with the triggering event and a request that the at least one other network-enabled device mark information associated with the at least one other network-enabled device during the associated time period as having significance, such that this information is retained rather than discarded.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2008Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Eaton CorporationInventor: James Gordon Thompson
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Publication number: 20120128144Abstract: A system and method for screening incoming communications to a subscriber telephone number comprises a screening list of telephone numbers assigned to suspect incoming communication originators and rules defining when a telephone number will be added to or removed from the screening list or ‘greylist,’ and/or modifying a screening value to be assigned to a telephone number in the greylist. Data relating to an incoming communication is received from subscribers and processed, and the telephone number is screened in accordance with the rules, based on the screening value assigned to the telephone number and optionally a selected subscriber tolerance level. Subscribers may add any telephone number to a personal list of telephone numbers to be blocked (blacklist) or telephone numbers to be accepted (whitelist).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2012Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc.Inventors: Edmund Chislett, Matthew Jason Stein, Robert Gordon Thompson
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Publication number: 20120060267Abstract: The invention is directed to an airbag system and, more particularly, to such a system employed as a rescue or life-saving system to enable a person to survive an avalanche. In a particular embodiment, the invention relates to an airbag system utilized with a backpack to be worn by a skier, snowboarder, hiker, or snowmobiler, for example. Instead of relying upon compressed gas cartridges or cylinders to inflate the airbag(s), the invention inflates the airbag(s) with ambient air only. In a particular embodiment, air is supplied to the airbag by means of a battery-powered electrical motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: ARC'TERYX EQUIPMENT INC.Inventors: Michael Douglas BLENKARN, Thomas Walker Clarke FAYLE, Gordon Thompson ROSE
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Publication number: 20110170680Abstract: A system and method for screening telephone calls to a subscriber telephone number comprises a screening list of telephone numbers assigned to suspect callers and rules defining when a telephone number will be added to or removed from the screening list or ‘greylist,’ and/or modifying a screening value to be assigned to a telephone number in the greylist. Data relating to calls is received from subscribers and processed, and the telephone number is screened in accordance with the rules, based on the screening value assigned to the telephone number and optionally a selected subscriber tolerance level. Subscribers may add any telephone number to a personal list of telephone numbers to be blocked (blacklist) or telephone numbers to be accepted (whitelist).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2008Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: Primus Telecommunications Canada, Inc.Inventors: Edmund Chislett, Matthew Jason Stein, Robert Gordon Thompson