Patents by Inventor Ian Johns

Ian Johns 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).

  • Publication number: 20150203935
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a metal leach and recovery process. The process involves subjecting a metal bearing material to a reactive process by combining said metal bearing material with a leaching agent to liberate at least one metal value and forming a first aqueous leach pulp. This first aqueous leach pulp is subjected to a solid liquid separation step thereby providing a first clarified aqueous leach solution and a second aqueous leach pulp. The first clarified aqueous leach solution is then subjected to solvent extraction thereby obtaining the first aqueous raffmate. The second aqueous leach pulp is subjected to at least two further solid liquid separation steps of which some or all are in a counter current decantation (CCD) arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Andrew Nisbett, Stephen Adkins, Ian John Flanagan, Alexsandro Berger
  • Patent number: 9078614
    Abstract: A laryngoscope includes a blade that can be folded outwardly from a storage position to an operative position in which the blade extends from the handle at an angle of the order of 90°. Another laryngoscope includes two blade assemblies that are pivotally mounted together. Each assembly includes a blade and a removable outer sleeve or similar member that protects the blade. The assemblies can be folded outwardly from a storage position to an operative position in which the assemblies extend from each other an angle of the order of 90°. A doctor can remove the outer sleeve from a selected assembly and use the other assembly as a handle of the laryngoscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: SWIRL TECHNOLOGIES PTY. LTD.
    Inventor: Ian John Bird
  • Publication number: 20150187027
    Abstract: A method of controlling ordering and production of food products in a restaurant, constructing a composite queue from time slots associated with customers standing physical lines to place their orders at manual registers, and time slots associated with customers placing their orders electronically over a communications network, determining, in regard to a current order load states of at least some cooking areas in a kitchen, determining whether one of the load states varies from a pre-determined load state by a first threshold amount, and if so determining an increment to the service delay for the current order, and communicating information about the increment to the customer being served.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventor: Ian John Lowe
  • Publication number: 20150176254
    Abstract: A disarm device for use with a hitch arrangement on a working arm of a working machine, the device comprising a measurement device for measuring a property associated with the arm which can be used to determine whether or not a working implement carried by a working arm is sufficiently supported by a surface on to which it is to be released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: JC Bamford Excavators Limited
    Inventors: Ian John Blakeman, Benjamin Peter Wilcox
  • Publication number: 20150132245
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a method for detoxification or measurement of the concentration of at least one compound in a host body, wherein said host body comprises a sorption material of at least one phase over a certain period of time, where sorption of said at least one compound in at least one phase of said sorption material is effected and the content of the at least one compound in said sorption material is optionally analysed. Use of a sorption material for providing an estimate of the concentration of compounds present in a host body, use of a sorption material for detoxification and sorption material for diagnostic use is also comprised in the present application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Kevin V. Thomas, Katherine Hailey Langford, Alfhild Kringstad, Ian John Allan
  • Publication number: 20150122519
    Abstract: An adapter bushing is supported on a furrowing opener of an agricultural implement. The adapter bushing includes a bushing body received by interference fit within a transverse opening in a shank body of the furrowing opener. A cooperating aperture is formed in the bushing body so as to be arranged for alignment with a corresponding pin receiving aperture of a replacement tip body of the furrowing opening such that a retainer pin is arranged to be received simultaneously within the cooperating aperture of the adapter bushing and the pin receiving aperture of the tip body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Ian John Bodnaryk, Michael Philip Booy, Clark Evan Jack Behrns
  • Publication number: 20150110637
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hollow component, such as a fan blade for a gas turbine engine, includes the steps of: (a) providing first and second panels and a membrane; (b) providing a stop-off material on at least one of the first and second panels and the membrane to define regions where no diffusion bonding is to take place; (c) assembling the panels and the membrane together so the membrane is between the panels; (d) diffusion bonding the panels and the membrane together. The method is such that when assembled in step (c) the membrane does not extend to at least one edge of the first and second panels, so that in that region the first and second panels are diffusion bonded directly to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Ian John ANDREWS, Michael James WALLIS, Ian FEARN
  • Patent number: 9004878
    Abstract: A fan assembly for creating an air current includes an air inlet, an air outlet, an impeller, a motor for rotating the impeller to create an air flow passing from the air inlet to the air outlet, the air outlet comprising an interior passage for receiving the air flow and a mouth for emitting the air flow, the air outlet defining an opening through which air from outside the fan assembly is drawn by the air flow emitted from the mouth, a control circuit for controlling the motor, a remote control for transmitting control signals to the control circuit, and a plurality of magnets angularly spaced about the air outlet to provide a plurality of angularly spaced docking positions for the remote control on the air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Peter David Gammack, James Dyson, Arran George Smith, Ian John Brough, Mon Shy Teyu, Noorhazelinda Mohd.Salleh
  • Publication number: 20150081374
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for client-selectable power source options for network-accessible service units are described. A programmatic interface is implemented to enable clients of a service to select, from among a plurality of power source categories including a renewable category and a non-renewable category, a power source category to be used for a service unit. Based on inputs received via the interface, the respective amounts of power to be obtained from renewable and non-renewable categories during a time period may be estimated. A verification operation comparing the estimated amounts to the amount of power that is actually obtained from the different sources may be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: NATHANAEL DAVID SAHLSTROM, JAMES R. HAMILTON, IAN JOHN WRIGHTSON
  • Patent number: 8946618
    Abstract: A field use optical grain characterizing system (101) includes a generally rectangular prismatic composite body (102) that defines a component cavity (103). A substantially vertical elongate channel (104) extends within cavity (103) for housing a grain sample (not shown). An electromagnetic radiation source, in the form of a 12 Volt halogen lamp (105), is disposed within cavity (103.) for directing NIR light into channel (104). An optical detection system (107) is disposed within cavity (103) for sensing selected light emerging from channel (104) and for providing a sensor signal. A processor, which is included within detection system (107), is also disposed within cavity (103) and is responsive to the sensor signal for providing data indicative of a characteristic parameter of the grain sample. A display device, in the form of a 5.7-inch touch screen LCD display (108), is connected with body (102) for selectively presenting the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Rosewood Research Pty Ltd
    Inventors: John Kalitsis, Ian John Wesley, William Carpenter
  • Publication number: 20150000378
    Abstract: A hydraulic circuit for supplying hydraulic fluid to a subsea control module of a control system for an underwater hydrocarbon well, the hydraulic circuit including an input for hydraulic fluid, a filter connected with the input for filtering hydraulic fluid from the input, an output for supplying hydraulic fluid from the filter to the subsea control module, first sensing means for sensing pressure of hydraulic fluid from the input upstream of the filter, second sensing means for sensing pressure of hydraulic fluid downstream of the filter, and a subsea electronics module in the subsea control module, the subsea electronics module being coupled with the first and second sensing means and being adapted to produce an indication related to a hydraulic fluid pressure differential across the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Ian John KENT
  • Publication number: 20150002177
    Abstract: Apparatus for use in performing impedance measurements on a subject. The apparatus includes a processing system for causing a first signal to be applied to the subject, determining an indication of a second signal measured across the subject, using the indication of the second signal to determine any imbalance and if an imbalance exists, determining a modified first signal in accordance with the imbalance and causing the modified first signal to be applied to the subject to thereby allow at least one impedance measurement to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Scott Chetham, Christopher Newton Daly, Ian John Bruinsma
  • Publication number: 20140352567
    Abstract: An explosive composition comprising a liquid energetic material and sensitizing voids, wherein the sensitizing voids are present in the liquid energetic material with a non-random distribution, wherein the liquid energetic material comprises (a) regions in which the sensitizing voids are sufficiently concentrated to render those regions detonable and (b) regions in which the sensitizing voids are not so concentrated and wherein the explosive composition does not contain ammonium nitrate prill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: John Cooper, Ian John Kirby, Richard Goodridge, Vladimir Sujansky, Simon James Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20140326289
    Abstract: A method a photovoltaic cell assembly comprising a first and second photovoltaic cell is manufactured using an electrically conducting connection strip having a first and second lip integrally formed in or extending from the connection strip, a width of the first and second lip being smaller than a width of the strip. The lips are preferably bonded to the contact pads on a side of the cell at which the connection strip is located. Ultrasonic bonding of the first and second lip to the contact pads of the first and second photo-voltaic cell respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: STICHTING ENERGIEONDERZOEK CENTRUM NEDERLAND
    Inventor: Ian John Bennet
  • Patent number: 8836345
    Abstract: Apparatus for use in performing impedance measurements on a subject. The apparatus includes a processing system for causing a first signal to be applied to the subject, determining an indication of a second signal measured across the subject, using the indication of the second signal to determine any imbalance and if an imbalance exists, determining a modified first signal in accordance with the imbalance and causing the modified first signal to be applied to the subject to thereby allow at least one impedance measurement to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Impedimed Limited
    Inventors: Scott Chetham, Christopher Newton Daly, Ian John Bruinsma
  • Publication number: 20140244405
    Abstract: In the disclosed embodiments, a method for automatically generating a digital advertisement includes receiving a source uniform resource locator (URL) and retrieving a document associated with the source URL. The method also includes processing the document associated with the source URL to derive at least a length of text associated with the document. The method also includes automatically generating a digital advertisement from at least the length of text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: OneSpot, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Matthew COHEN, Ian John Cecil Clarke, Brendan Considine
  • Publication number: 20140161378
    Abstract: A bearing preset system for inhibiting movement of bearings in a construction comprises a first plate (1) having an upper and a lower surface wherein the upper surface (3) of the first plate is adapted for mounting onto and being secured to a lower surface of a first bearing member and a second plate (2) having an upper and a lower surface wherein the lower surface (5) of the second plate is adapted for mounting onto and being secured to an upper surface of a second bearing member and wherein the conformation of the lower surface (7) of the first plate and the conformation of the upper surface (9) of the second plate are such as to prevent movement in at least one shear direction between the first and second plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: TUN ABDUL RAZAK RESEARCH CENTRE
    Inventor: Ian John Stephens
  • Publication number: 20140144515
    Abstract: A production control system for an underwater well, comprises: first electrically operated means for supplying first hydraulic fluid, for opening a first control valve of the well; second electrically operated means, for supplying second hydraulic fluid at a higher pressure than said first fluid, for opening a further control valve of the well; electronic circuitry (SEM1) for providing electrical power for operating said first and second means; and means for controlling the sequence of closing said control valves as a result of a loss of electrical power from said electronic circuitry. The controlling means comprises: electrical power storage means; detection means responsive to said loss of power from said electronic circuitry; and means coupled with said detection means for using electrical power from said storage means to keep said further control valve open for a period after closure of said first control valve and close it after said period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Vetco Gray Controls Limited
    Inventors: Ian John Kent, Peter John Davey
  • Publication number: 20140097034
    Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to plastic wall panels. Wall panels are formed by rotational molding processes and may be used in sound attenuation barriers or other wall or building structures. Some embodiments include reinforcing structure. The reinforcing structure may be configured to effectively support a plastic shell of the wall panel in a way that allows some relative movement between the plastic shell and the reinforcing structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventors: Nicholas Marandos, Ian John Walton, Graeme Peter Hall, Graeme Francis Hisgrove
  • Patent number: 8684687
    Abstract: A fan assembly includes a device for creating an air flow and an air outlet for emitting the air flow. The air outlet is mounted on a stand for conveying the air flow to the air outlet. The fan assembly also includes a tilt mechanism for tilting the air outlet relative to at least part of the stand. The tilt mechanism comprises a flexible hose defining, at least in part, an air passage through the tilt mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: James Dyson, Ian John Brough