Patents by Inventor J. Phillips

J. Phillips 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).

  • Theme calendar
    Publication number: 20030173771
    Abstract: A customizable theme calendar includes a set of date cells corresponding to an arbitrarily designated time period (e.g., a starting date and a target date), and a theme applied to the calendar. The theme corresponds to an event associated with the arbitrarily designated time period. The time periods and themes may correspond to recognized holidays such Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter and so on, or to arbitrarily designated events having personal or familial significance, such as weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, etc. Such customized calendars may be designed and generated in connection with a computer system and calendar generation software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventors: Jacob L. Phillips, Karen Gardner, Richard L. Phillips, Betty J. Phillips, John C. Phillips
  • Divider wall for a room air conditioner
    Patent number: 6606878
    Abstract: A room air conditioner is provided having an evaporator coil located in a front part of the room air conditioner, a condenser coil located in a back part of the room air conditioner, and a wall separating the front part from the back part. The wall prevents a free flow of air between the front part and the back part. A portion of the wall, extending less than a full width of the air conditioner, is formed of metal. An air moving device positioned in the front part creates an air stream flowing through the evaporator coil and out through an air outlet in a front grill of the air conditioner. An air housing surrounds at least a portion of the air moving device and forms an air flow path in the air conditioner, the air housing forming at least a part of the wall. The metal portion of the wall is mounted to the room air conditioner independently of the air housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Brian J. Phillips, Christopher M. Thompson, Dewitt D. Rollins, Bradley E. Luther
  • Medical ultrasonic imaging pulse transmission method
    Patent number: 6602195
    Abstract: A medical ultrasound imaging pulse transmission method transmits at least three pulses, including at least two pulses of different amplitude and at least two pulses of differing phase. The larger-amplitude pulse is transmitted with a larger aperture and the smaller-amplitude pulses are transmitted with respective smaller subapertures. The subapertures are arranged such that the sum of the subapertures used for the smaller-amplitude pulses is equal to the aperture used for the larger-amplitude pulse. In this way, pulses of differing amplitudes are obtained without varying the power level of individual transducer elements, and precise control over pulse amplitude is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Acuson Corporation
    Inventors: Sriram Krishnan, Patrick J. Phillips, Gregory L. Holley, Ismayil M. Guracar
  • Body support system
    Patent number: 6598251
    Abstract: A body support system is provided having improved static and dynamic mechanical response characteristics and improved thermal regulation. The body support system can be of a modular construction to provide mechanical response characteristics suited to a particular user or group of users, or to a particular environment or use. In one embodiment, the body support system is a seat cushion comprising a foam layer with a central region, a plurality of spaced apart vertical foam columns that define a fluid reservoir in the central region, a plurality of fluid channels in the foam layer for communicating fluid in and out of the fluid reservoir, and an elastomeric layer having resilience and flow properties, such as a viscoelastic gel, positioned above the fluid reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Hon Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Amin K. Habboub, Marcus C. Koepke, Matthew J. Phillips, Craig H. Schultz
  • Ideal oxygen precipitating silicon wafers with nitrogen/carbon stabilized oxygen precipitate nucleation centers and process for making the same
    Publication number: 20030136961
    Abstract: A silicon wafer having a controlled oxygen precipitation behavior such that a denuded zone extending inward from the front surface and oxygen precipitates in the wafer bulk sufficient for intrinsic gettering purposes are ultimately formed. Specifically, prior to formation of the oxygen precipitates, the wafer bulk comprises dopant stabilized oxygen precipitate nucleation centers. The dopant is selected from a group consisting of nitrogen and carbon and the concentration of the dopant is sufficient to allow the oxygen precipitate nucleation centers to withstand thermal processing such as an epitaxial deposition process while maintaining the ability to dissolve any grown-in nucleation centers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Applicant: MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Luciano Mule'Stagno, Jeffrey L. Libbert, Richard J. Phillips, Milind Kulkarni, Mohsen Banan, Stephen J. Brunkhorst
  • Method for estimating a position in a wellbore
    Publication number: 20030121657
    Abstract: A method is disclosed which utilizes multiple overlapping surveys to estimate a position in a wellbore and related position uncertainty. Multiple surveys are often taken over the same portion of a wellbore either concurrently or sequentially and/or using various instruments. Each survey generates an estimated survey position and related uncertainty for a given location in the wellbore. By combining the estimated survey positions and uncertainties for these overlapping surveys, a resultant position and related ellipsoid of uncertainty is estimated. This resultant position estimates a position in the wellbore by incorporating the estimated survey positions and uncertainties of multiple overlapping surveys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Christopher R. Chia, Wayne J. Phillips, Darren Lee Aklestad
  • Method of removing dimethyl ether from an olefin stream
    Publication number: 20030125597
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a method of removing dimethyl ether from an olefin stream. The method includes distilling the olefin stream so that the dimethyl ether is separated out of the olefin stream with propane. The olefin stream can then be further distilled to provide a polymer grade ethylene stream and a polymer grade propylene stream, with each stream containing not greater than about 10 wppm dimethyl ether.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Minquan Cheng, Jeffrey J. Phillips, Michael Peter Nicoletti, David Ritchie Lumgair,, John Richard Shutt, Jeffrey Alan Kabin
  • Lumbar support for a chair
    Patent number: 6572190
    Abstract: A lumbar support for a chair having a flexible back, includes at least one generally vertical support member disposed to the rear of the chair back. A transverse member engages the vertical support and has opposed ends provided with grippers for gripping opposed edges of the flexible back. The transverse member is configured to force the opposed edges of the flexible back forwardly of the chair back in the lumbar region of the user to provide support therefor. The transverse member may also be configured to slide on the vertical support to provide for height adjustability of the lumbar support of the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: HON Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus C. Koepke, Jay R. Machael, Matthew J. Phillips, Douglas A. Schroeder, Craig H. Schultz, Erik A. Steffensen
  • Exhaust door mechanism for a room air conditioner
    Patent number: 6571570
    Abstract: A refrigeration device is provided having an air pressurizing device and a shroud enclosing the air pressurizing device and defining a first air flow path for an air flow generated by the air pressurizing device. The air pressurizing device and the shroud are positioned in a front side of the room air conditioner. A back side of the air conditioner includes air outlets communicating with an exterior of the air conditioner. A second air flow path extends between the first air flow path and the air outlets. A slider member is positioned in the second air flow path such that in a first position the second air flow path is closed to prevent communication between the first air flow path and the air outlets and in a second position of the slider member, the second air flow path is open to allow communication between the first air flow path and the air outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventor: Brian J. Phillips
  • Chair of modular construction
    Patent number: 6568760
    Abstract: A chair of modular construction having modules that form the basic chair with additional modules that can be added to the chair without changing the basic construction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: HON Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Keith L. Davis, Marcus C. Koepke, Jamie Krull, Jay R. Machael, Matthew J. Phillips, Douglas A. Schroeder, Craig H. Schultz, Erik A. Steffensen, Brian R. Trego, Eric M. Zillig
  • Magnetic field sensor
    Publication number: 20030094943
    Abstract: The invention provides a Hall effect magnetic field sensor (10, 50) including carrier excluding or extracting means (36, 66) for reducing an intrinsic contribution to carrier concentration in the active region (14e, 53c) to provide for the sensor to be operative in an extrinsic saturated regime. This provides an advantage that magnetic field measurement sensitivity of the sensor (10, 50) can be made substantially insensitive to sensor temperature thereby improving measurement accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventors: Timothy Ashley, Charles T Elliott, Timothy J Phillips
  • Charge carrier extracting transistor
    Publication number: 20030080332
    Abstract: An extracting transistor (10)—an FET—includes a conducting channel extending via a p-type InSb quantum well (22) between p-type InAlSb layers (20, 24) of wider band-gap. One of the InAlSb layers (24) incorporates an ultra-thin n-type &dgr;-doping layer (28) of Si, which provides a dominant source of charge carriers for the quantum well (22). It bears n+ source and drain electrodes (30a, 30b) and an insulated gate (30c). The other InAlSb layer (20) adjoins a barrier layer (19) of still wider band-gap upon a substrate layer (14) and substrate (16) with electrode (18). Biasing one or both of the source and drain electrodes (30a, 30b) positive relative to the substrate electrode (18) produces minority carrier extraction in the quantum well (22) reducing its intrinsic contribution to conductivity, taking it into an extrinsic saturated regime and reducing leakage current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventor: Timothy J Phillips
  • Method and apparatus for forming medical ultrasound images
    Patent number: 6551246
    Abstract: A pulse echo beamforming system generates high spatial bandwidth ultrasound images using only a few transmit/receive events per frame. Each transmit/receive event consists of firing an unfocused or weakly focused wave and receiving and storing the echo on every receive channel. Each set of stored echoes is delayed and apodized to form component beams for each desired image point in the region insonified by that particular wave. The final images are synthesized by adding two or more of the component beams for each image point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Acuson Corporation
    Inventors: Kutay F. Ustuner, Charles E. Bradley, Lewis J. Thomas, Ching-Hua Chou, David J. Napolitano, Patrick J. Phillips
  • Body support system
    Publication number: 20030041379
    Abstract: A body support system is provided having improved static and dynamic mechanical response characteristics and improved thermal regulation, and which can provide energy dissipation capabilities. The body support system can be of a modular construction to provide mechanical response characteristics suited to a particular user or group of users, or to a particular environment of use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Amin K. Habboub, Marcus C. Koepke, Matthew J. Phillips
  • Height and pivot-adjustable chair arm
    Publication number: 20030042782
    Abstract: A height and pivot-adjustable office chair arm assembly with an arm rest that can be raised to different vertical positions by actuation of a gas cylinder and having a shroud surrounding and vertically movable with respect to at least a portion of an arm support that is hollow and surrounds the gas cylinder such that the shroud is vertically movable in relation to at least a portion of the arm support. The shroud is connected to the gas cylinder at an upper end for vertical movement by the gas cylinder. An arm rest pivot support is attached only to the shroud and receives the arm rest assembly and enables the arm rest assembly to pivot in a horizontal plane thereby allowing the arm rest assembly to assume any selected rotational position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Keith L. Davis, Matthew J. Phillips, Rodney C. Schoenfelder
  • Passive vacuum transport
    Publication number: 20030042665
    Abstract: An apparatus for improving sheet feeding in a direction of movement to a process station, including: a contact surface having ribs spaced along contact surface in the direction of movement, apertures being defined in the space between each rib; a blower; and an air plenum for supplying a vacuum generated by the blower to the contact surface so that when an leading edge of the sheet passes by the contact surface the vacuum pulls the leading edge of the sheet towards contact surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Steven M. Ferrarese, John Meyers, Mark F. Scholand, Scott J. Phillips, Jacob Eyngorn, David G. Savini
  • Sealed chamber to control the environmental condition of printer media
    Publication number: 20030042353
    Abstract: A tray for holding a media roll being fed to a paper path of a copier/printer including a plurality of wall defining a chamber, the chamber including: an open portion thereof for receiving the print media roll; a cover for opening and closing the open portion of the chamber, a first seal associated with the chamber and cover, for preventing air from exiting or entering when the cover closed, a sheet slot defined in one of the plurality of wall, for feeding print media therethrough to the paper path of the copier printer; and a second seal, associated with the sheet slot, for to preventing air from exiting or entering the chamber as roll media is fed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David G. Savini, David O. Kingsland, David J. Mcewen, Jeffrey Berl, Scott J. Phillips
  • Method and apparatus for forming medical ultrasound images
    Patent number: 6517489
    Abstract: A medical ultrasonic imaging method uses transmitted plane waves, or transmitted wavefronts that are substantially planar, to improve contrast agent imaging by generating peak pressures that are more uniform over depth. Depending on the type of contrast agent, the returned frequencies of interest, and the desired strength of the non-linear response, multiple wavefronts can be generated at substantially the same time to increase peak pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Acuson Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick J. Phillips, Kutay F. Ustuner, Charles E. Bradley, Lewis J. Thomas, David J. Napolitano
  • Ergonomic chair
    Patent number: D476821
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: HON Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus C. Koepke, Jay R. Machael, Craig H. Schultz, Douglas A. Schroeder, Erik A. Steffensen, Brian R. Trego, Tim Coffield, Patrick Burgess, George Mulka, Matthew J. Phillips
  • Armless ergonomic chair
    Patent number: D477151
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: HON Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus C. Koepke, Jay R. Machael, Craig H. Schultz, Douglas A. Schroeder, Erik A. Steffensen, Brian R. Trego, Tim Coffield, Patrick Burgess, George Mulka, Matthew J. Phillips