Patents by Inventor Ian Moore

Ian Moore 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: 20140375114
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle hydraulic braking system having at least one electric motor-operated braking pressure generator. The output power of the electric motor-operated braking pressure generator is restricted during normal driving/braking situations and the restriction is temporarily deactivated upon identification of a critical driving situation, such as an overstressing of the brake system to include brake fade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Rudolf Daniels, Ian Moore, Thomas Svensson, Joerg Riethmüller, Herbert Vollert, Timo Jahnz
  • Patent number: 8902697
    Abstract: A technique includes providing seismic data that is indicative of energy that is sensed in response to a first operation of at least one seismic source in a first seismic survey and a second operation of at least one seismic source in a second seismic survey. The technique includes processing the seismic data to determine a timing of the second operation relative to the first operation, and the technique includes based at least in part of the determined timing, processing the seismic data to generate a dataset, which is indicative of the sensed energy that is attributable to the first operation and is not attributable to the second operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: WesternGeco L.L.C.
    Inventor: Ian Moore
  • Patent number: 8888066
    Abstract: An adjustable holder of a hydraulic brake device for a bicycle which is assembled on a steering tube and is located between a stem and a head part includes a holder, a first adjusting member and a second adjusting member. The holder has a fixing portion and a fastening portion defined at two ends thereof respectively. A hydraulic brake device is assembled to a bottom of the holder. The fastening portion has a fastening hole opened therethrough. The fastening hole sleeves onto the steering tube. One end of the first adjusting member and one end the second adjusting member are abutted against two ends of the fastening hole respectively. Therefore, an angle between the holder and the steering tube is adjustable, which corresponds to an elevation angle of the stein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Ashima Ltd.
    Inventor: Wayne-Ian Moore
  • Patent number: 8879353
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for predicting a plurality of surface multiples for a plurality of traces in a record of seismic data. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a plurality of target traces at a nominal offset and a nominal azimuth; selecting a plurality of pairs of input traces, wherein the midpoints of the input traces in each pair are separated by half the nominal offset and the azimuth of a line connecting the midpoints of the input traces in each pair is equal to the nominal azimuth; convolving the selected pairs of input traces to generate a plurality of convolutions; and applying a three dimensional operator to the convolutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: WesternGeco L.L.C.
    Inventors: Richard Bisley, Ian Moore
  • Patent number: 8875853
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake device includes a main body, a brake lever, a hydraulic rod, a connecting rod, a sleeve member and an elastic member. The elastic member has an assembling portion, a driving portion and a deformation portion. When a user actuates the brake lever suddenly and forcefully, the driving portion of the elastic member moves toward the hydraulic room; a pressure of hydraulic oil pushes the driving portion so as to indirectly force the deformation portion to deform and bend, so that the deformation portion and the driving portion slightly move toward the assembling portion; thereby, a volume of hydraulic oil is smoothly pushed into a brake caliper through a hydraulic pipeline, such that the user brakes a bicycle stably, smoothly and safely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Ashima Ltd.
    Inventor: Wayne-Ian Moore
  • Patent number: 8825410
    Abstract: A method of processing seismic data including measurement data and their gradients to obtain gradients of move-out corrected data, comprising deriving gradients of the measurement data, deriving a first term comprising applying a move-out correction function to the measurement data; deriving a second term by applying the move-out correction function to the gradients and deriving gradients of move-out corrected data by adding the first term and the second term. The gradients of move-out corrected data are used to process physical properties of the earth's interior. The method may be used prior to any data processing algorithm which uses measurement gradient data in which move-out correction is applied prior to the algorithm, either because the algorithm makes a zero offset assumption or because it is beneficial for the algorithm to operate on move-out corrected data to reduce aliasing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Western Geco L.L.C.
    Inventor: Ian Moore
  • Publication number: 20140238792
    Abstract: A cooling device for a rim and a braking system includes a blower set having a frame and two blowers, the frame assembled onto a fork of a bicycle, the two blowers both assembled onto the frame at one side of a rim member, each blower having an air inlet, a receiving room, a fan, an air outlet and a switch unit, the fan rotatably assembled in the receiving room, the receiving room communicating with the air inlet and the air outlet, the switch unit electrically connected to the fan, the air outlet of one blower corresponding to a braking member of the bicycle, the air outlet of another blower corresponding to the rim member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Wayne-Ian Moore
  • Publication number: 20140238791
    Abstract: A cooling device for a braking system, includes a blower having a case and a fan, the case having an air outlet opened at one end thereof and an air inlet opened at another end thereof, the case having a receiving room, the receiving room communicating with the air outlet and the air inlet, the fan rotatably assembled in the receiving room, the blower further having a power supplier electrically connected to the fan, the power supplier being used to power the fan, one end of a frame connected to a hydraulic braking system, another end of the frame connected to the case. Under this arrangement, the blower directly blows the hydraulic braking system so as to efficiently cool the hydraulic braking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Wayne-Ian Moore
  • Patent number: 8812211
    Abstract: A deceleration of a vehicle is determined based on one or more wheel speeds of the vehicle. A brake pressure of the vehicle is determined. A model of a relationship of the deceleration and the brake pressure is produced. At least one of a vehicle load and a vehicle weight is determined by using the model. The brake pressure is adapted to at least one of the determined vehicle load and the vehicle weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Svensson, Ian Moore, Rudolf Daniels
  • Patent number: 8789663
    Abstract: A bicycle hydraulic brake clamp includes a clamp, two piston assemblies and a separation board. The clamp has a first slot defined on the middle thereof so that a brake disk is received therein. A second slot and a third slot are respectively defined in two sides of the clamp. A through hole is defined through the clamp and communicates with the third slot. The separation board is fixedly engaged with the through hole via the first slot by a way of welding. The two piston assemblies are respectively installed in the second and third slots via the first slot. The separation board is securely engaged with the through hole so as not only to prevent the separation board from dropping from the clamp by exterior impact, but also to protect the separation board from being damaged by the exterior impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Ashima Ltd.
    Inventor: Wayne-Ian Moore
  • Patent number: 8788143
    Abstract: A method for testing a hydraulic braking system. The method includes activating a brake master cylinder of the braking system mechatronically, and measuring a set of measured decision ratios pertaining to the distance travelled by the piston of the brake master cylinder to the corresponding pressure developed in the brake fluid. The measured decision ratios are then compared with a set of reference decision ratios. In a case where the measured decision ratios lie within a predetermined range, it is detected that the braking system is correctly filled with the brake fluid. However, in a case where the measured decision ratios lie outside the predetermined range, it is determined that the braking system has not been correctly filled with the brake fluid and some air is present in the brake fluid flow circuit of the braking system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Svensson, Rudolf Daniels, Ian Moore
  • Patent number: 8783429
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake device for a bicycle includes a holder, a chamber member and two side oil tubes, the holder assembled with the bicycle, the chamber member assembled to the holder and having two oil tanks, each oil tank having an operating bar movably received therein, the brake cable connected with the operating bar, each oil tank having a brake oil drain and a side oil hole, a distance being defined between each brake oil drain and each corresponding side oil hole, each brake oil drain and each side oil hole communicating with the chamber member, each brake oil drain assembled to a brake hose and communicating with a brake system of the bicycle, the chamber member having two assembling grooves, two ends of each side oil tube assembled to each corresponding side oil hole and each corresponding assembling groove respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Ashima Ltd.
    Inventor: Wayne-Ian Moore
  • Publication number: 20140186192
    Abstract: Method and device for controlling a vacuum apparatus. A method for controlling a vacuum apparatus that applies vacuum to a vacuum accumulator with a pump of a pneumatically operated servo unit of a motor vehicle. The method comprises the steps of determining the pressure in the vacuum accumulator; determining the ambient pressure; adapting a pump control signal to the ambient pressure; comparing the pressure in the vacuum accumulator with an adapted pump control signal; and outputting a pump actuation signal that is a function of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Reiner Schmid, Martin Tarnowski, Ian Moore, Russell William Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20140166847
    Abstract: An adjustable holder of a hydraulic brake device for a bicycle which is assembled on a steering tube and is located between a stem and a head part includes a holder, a first adjusting member and a second adjusting member. The holder has a fixing portion and a fastening portion defined at two ends thereof respectively. A hydraulic brake device is assembled to a bottom of the holder. The fastening portion has a fastening hole opened therethrough. The fastening hole sleeves onto the steering tube. One end of the first adjusting member and one end the second adjusting member are abutted against two ends of the fastening hole respectively. Therefore, an angle between the holder and the steering tube is adjustable, which corresponds to an elevation angle of the stein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventor: Wayne-Ian Moore
  • Publication number: 20140158487
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake device for a bicycle includes a holder, a chamber member and two side oil tubes, the holder assembled with the bicycle, the chamber member assembled to the holder and having two oil tanks, each oil tank having an operating bar movably received therein, the brake cable connected with the operating bar, each oil tank having a brake oil drain and a side oil hole, a distance being defined between each brake oil drain and each corresponding side oil hole, each brake oil drain and each side oil hole communicating with the chamber member, each brake oil drain assembled to a brake hose and communicating with a brake system of the bicycle, the chamber member having two assembling grooves, two ends of each side oil tube assembled to each corresponding side oil hole and each corresponding assembling groove respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Inventor: Wayne-Ian Moore
  • Publication number: 20140097051
    Abstract: A bicycle brake disc assembly includes an inner disc, an outer annular disc and a plurality of joint assemblies. The outer annular disc encloses the inner disc. The outer annular disc has a plurality of attachment arms. The inner disc has a plurality of connecting arms. The joint assemblies connect the attachment arms and the connecting arms. Each joint member has a first joint member and a second joint member. The first joint member and the second joint member are riveted together. A buffer groove defined between the first joint member and the second joint member. Each attachment arm and each connecting arm are clipped within the buffer groove. Under this arrangement, the inner disc and the outer annular disc are movable in the buffer groove during baking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventor: Wayne-Ian Moore
  • Patent number: 8678773
    Abstract: Method and device for controlling a vacuum apparatus. A method for controlling a vacuum apparatus that applies vacuum to a vacuum accumulator with a pump of a pneumatically operated servo unit of a motor vehicle. The method comprises the steps of determining the pressure in the vacuum accumulator; determining the ambient pressure; adapting a pump control signal to the ambient pressure; comparing the pressure in the vacuum accumulator with an adapted pump control signal; and outputting a pump actuation signal that is a function of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Reiner Schmid, Martin Tarnowski, Ian Moore, Russell William Ferguson
  • Patent number: 8651244
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake device includes a carrier body. The carrier body is integrally molded. The carrier body has at least one assembling portion disposed thereon for assembling purpose. The carrier body has at least one connecting portion respectively extending from the at least one assembling portion. At least one hydraulic brake assembly movably is mounted on the at least one connecting portion of the carrier body. The carrier body with the at least one brake assembly are adapted to assemble with a bicycle for providing a stable assembling effect, a high structural strength, and lightweight effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Ashima Ltd.
    Inventor: Wayne-Ian Moore
  • Patent number: 8646850
    Abstract: A wheel rim with a brake rotor includes a wheel rim having two retaining walls respectively and annularly formed on two lateral sides thereof. An annular groove is annularly defined between the two retaining walls for adapting to retain a tire. The wheel rim has a plurality of support plates spacedly formed on one retaining wall and extending toward a center of the wheel rim to form a hub hole defined therein. The hub hole is axially located at the center of the wheel rim for adapting to assemble with a wheel hub. A brake rotor is concentrically connected with the wheel rim and mounted with the other retaining wall of the wheel rim for adapting to be clamped by a disc brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Ashima Ltd.
    Inventor: Wayne-Ian Moore
  • Publication number: 20140035267
    Abstract: A parking device for a bicycle includes an inflator and a connecting member. The inflator has a nozzle defined thereon. The connecting member has an inserting part at one end thereof and an assembling part at another end thereof. The inserting part of the connecting member inserted into the nozzle, the assembling part assembled on the bicycle. Under this arrangement, a user connects the inflator to the bicycle via the connecting member to park the bicycle stably; in contrast, when the user wants to ride the bicycle, the connecting member and the inflator are able to be assembled on the bicycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventor: Wayne-Ian Moore