Patents by Inventor James A. Hill

James A. Hill 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).

  • Acoustic transducer
    Patent number: 7021145
    Abstract: An acoustic transducer for measuring a property of a fluid includes an acoustic pulse generator and buffer assembly. The buffer assembly is between the pulse generator and the fluid. The buffer assembly is composed of a core and a sleeve shrink fitted over the core to form a cladding layer. The cladding layer reduces dispersion of the acoustic pulses traveling through the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Horiba Instruments, Inc
    Inventor: James A. Hill
  • System and method for determining a coagulation parameter
    Publication number: 20060035298
    Abstract: System and method for the determination of a coagulation parameter comprising a disposable test element and an instrument for evaluation thereof. The coagulation time is determined at a non-standard temperature different from a standard temperature for the respective coagulation parameter, the non-standard temperature being measured by a temperature measurement device of the instrument, the instrument has a non-volatile memory containing data which define a mathematical relationship of coagulation time versus temperature which relationship is independent of the individual patient whose blood is examined, and the coagulation parameter for the standard temperature is calculated from the coagulation time measured at the non-standard temperature, using the mathematical relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventors: James Hill, Volker Unkrig, Ewald Rieger
  • Tapping assist fastening element and method
    Publication number: 20050123376
    Abstract: A fastening element and method that utilizes a fastener or stamping which is capable of forming a fastening assembly by engagement with a self-tapping fastener is disclosed. The fastening element includes one or more indentations formed within a portion of the circumference of an unthreaded bore located within the fastening element. Each indentation has an edge that can have the same helix angle or pitch as the self-tapping fastener that it is to engage to serve as a guide to properly align the fastener within the bore. The indentations also assist formation of mating threads within the element by significantly reducing the required end load to start the tapping process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventor: James Hill
  • Coated dental floss or tape
    Publication number: 20050064089
    Abstract: A method of coating a yarn to provide a coated dental floss comprises supplying the yarn from a supply zone through a plurality of stages. At least one of the stages comprises a coating zone to provide the coated dental floss. The method further includes storing the coated dental floss in a storage zone. The yarn is under tension through at least one of the stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventors: Ian Roberts, James Hill
  • Colorimetric gas detector and windowed process chamber
    Publication number: 20050042136
    Abstract: A windowed chamber, e.g., a semiconductor manufacturing process chamber such as a scrubber, deposition chamber, thermal reactor, or the like, including a port with a radiation-transmissive window therein. Interiorly disposed within the chamber is (i) a disposable film on an interior surface of the window and/or (ii) a colorimetric medium disposed in viewable relationship to the window, so that a colorimetric change is perceivable through the window, e.g., visually or by optical sensing device, when the colorimetric medium is exposed to target gas species. Also disclosed is a gas detection article including a polymeric material that is colorimetrically responsive to the presence of at least one target gas species, in exposure thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventors: Paul Marganski, Joseph Sweeney, Glenn Tom, Jose Arno, Thomas Baum, Jeffrey Roeder, James Hills
  • Absorbent compositions
    Patent number: 6849665
    Abstract: Described is a water-absorbent composition containing from 30 to 100% by weight, based on the water-absorbent composition, of water-insoluble water-swellable hydrogels characterized by the following features: Centrifuge Retention Capacity (CRC) of at least 24 g/g, Saline Flow Conductivity (SFC) of at least 80×10?7 cm3 s/g and Free Swell Rate (FSR) of at least 0.15 g/g s and/or Vortex Time of not more than 160 s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Volker Frenz, Norbert Herfert, Ulrich Riegel, William E. Volz, Thomas H. Majette, James Hill
  • Acoustic transducer
    Publication number: 20050016298
    Abstract: An acoustic transducer for measuring a property of a fluid includes an acoustic pulse generator and buffer assembly. The buffer assembly is between the pulse generator and the fluid. The buffer assembly is composed of a core and a sleeve shrink fitted over the core to form a cladding layer. The cladding layer reduces dispersion of the acoustic pulses traveling through the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Applicant: Horiba Instruments, Inc.
    Inventor: James Hill
  • Acoustic transducer
    Publication number: 20050016281
    Abstract: An acoustic transducer includes an acoustic pulse generator, an impedance matching layer, and a thermal management system. The thermal management system is mounted to the matching layer to transfer heat from the matching layer, and is formed of a high thermal conductivity material relative to the matching layer. The thermal management system is arranged along the matching layer such that substantial heat is transferred to the environment from the thermal management system without excessive temperature increase at the pulse generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Applicant: Horiba Instruments, Inc.
    Inventor: James Hill
  • Subcritical reactivity measurement method
    Patent number: 6801593
    Abstract: A method of monitoring reactivity changes in a nuclear reaction when the nuclear reaction is subcritical. The method controls the parameter of the nuclear reaction that affects reactivity of the reaction to slightly alter the reactivity while monitoring an output of a source range detector. The Inverse Count Rate Ratio from the output of the detector is determined periodically during a transient portion of the output. A correction factor is applied to the Inverse Count Rate Ratio data and the data is plotted as a function of time. The correction factor linearizes the Inverse Count Rate Ratio data so that the curve can be predictably extrapolated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC
    Inventors: Yung-An Chao, Donald James Hill, Michael David Heibel, Jeffrey Robert Secker
  • Selecting a page description language for a printer driver
    Patent number: 6801330
    Abstract: A page description language (PDL) is selected for use by a device driver. A PDL is assigned to an application. The assignment of the PDL to the application may then be stored to an index such as a registry or to a file. The device driver is loaded from within the application. The application, from within which the device driver was loaded, is discovered. The application from within which the device driver was loaded may be discovered by examining the host operating environment upon which the application is operating. The PDL assigned to the application is selected for use by the device driver. The PDL assigned to the application may be selected by searching the index to find the PDL assignment for the application and extracting from the assignment the PDL assigned to the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Elliot Lee Klosterman, Dennis W. Howard, James A. Hill, Brian D. Griebe
  • Subcritical reactivity measurement method
    Publication number: 20040101082
    Abstract: A method of monitoring reactivity changes in a nuclear reaction when the nuclear reaction is subcritical. The method controls the parameter of the nuclear reaction that affects reactivity of the reaction to slightly alter the reactivity while monitoring an output of a source range detector. The Inverse Count Rate Ratio from the output of the detector is determined periodically during a transient portion of the output. A correction factor is applied to the Inverse Count Rate Ratio data and the data is plotted as a function of time. The correction factor linearizes the Inverse Count Rate Ratio data so that the curve can be predictably extrapolated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventors: Yung-An Chao, Donald James Hill, Michael David Heibel, Jeffrey Robert Secker
  • Flow conditioner
    Patent number: 6701963
    Abstract: A flow conditioner includes a body composed of an array of vanes generally parallel to the direction of fluid flow. The vanes create a plurality of chambers to effectively reduce large scale vortices in the flow. The vanes have surfaces with perforations to allow pressure regulation between chambers to effectively reduce asymmetric flow and reduce drag. Additional preferred features include an acoustic choke created by a reduction in cross-sectional flow area at the entrance and the exit of the flow conditioner with circular plates. The plates have rough edges to increase production of micro-vortices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Horiba Instruments, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Hill
  • (E)-7(4-Fluorophenyl)-6isopropyl2-mesylaminopyrimidin-5-y)-(3r,5s)-dihydroxyhept-6-enoic acid.
    Publication number: 20040006097
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the compound of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or an in vivo hydrolysable ester thereof. This compound of formula (I) is conveniently called: (E)-7[4-(4-fluorophenyl)-6-isopropyl-2-mesylaminopyrimidin-5-yl]-(3R,5S)-dihydroxyhept-6-enoic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2002
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Inventors: Steven James Hill, Eva Maria Lenz, Paul John Phillips
  • Medicament
    Publication number: 20030187044
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an angiotensin II receptor antagonist in the manufacture of a medicament for improving cognitive function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Applicant: SmithKline Beecham p.l.c.
    Inventor: James Hill
  • Medicament
    Publication number: 20030166700
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an angiotensin II receptor antagonist in the manufacture of a medicament for the prevention of atheroma progression and the regression of atheroma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Applicant: SmithKline Beecham p.l.c.
    Inventor: James Hill
  • Mass spectrometry detector
    Patent number: 6614019
    Abstract: Detection systems for mass spectrometry involving a combination of novel detector face coatings, repeller grid position and voltage, and in some embodiments employing tandem detectors, an interplate voltage. The mass spectra show improved sensitivities to high mass ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Inventors: W. Bruce Feller, James A. Hill, Paul L. White, James M. Abraham
  • Medicament
    Publication number: 20030096851
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an angiotensin II receptor antagonist in the manufacture of a medicament for improving cognitive function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Applicant: SmithKline Beecham p.l.c.
    Inventor: James Hill
  • Crush space crash sensor for motor vehicle occupant restraint deployment control
    Patent number: 6548914
    Abstract: A satellite crash sensor for use in a noisy area such as a crush zone has a crash dependent clock that uses an accumulated velocity signal derived from the acceleration signal, rather than the acceleration signal itself, to determine initiation and counting of the clock count. Successive velocity values are accumulated in an accumulated velocity value that is limited between zero and a maximum limit value. The clock count is incremented away from an initial zero value when the accumulated velocity value is greater than zero and back toward the zero value when the accumulated velocity value is equal to zero. The clock count is used as a measure of time from initiation of a possible crash event in the generation of a restraint deploy indicating signal in the satellite crash sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Caruso, Brian Scott Kvapil, Shyam V. Potti, Lee Charles Boger, James Hill Brogoitti, Hector Daniel Martinez
  • Medicament
    Publication number: 20030069293
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an angiotensin II receptor antagonist in the manufacture of a medicament for primary and secondary prevention of infarction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Applicant: SmithKline Beecham plc
    Inventor: James Hill
  • Medicament
    Publication number: 20030050285
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an angiotensin II receptor antagonist in the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of hemorrhagic stroke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Applicant: SmithKline Beecham p.l.c.
    Inventor: James Hill