Patents by Inventor James E. Roberts

James E. Roberts 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).

  • Patent number: 8754426
    Abstract: A light source includes a substrate arranged into at least two facing surfaces which form a seam therebetween; and a lighting device with light emitting diode (LED) chips embedded therein in a linear arrangement. The LED chips generate light photons. The lighting device has a first edge and a second edge opposite to the first edge, the light photons within the lighting device that are emitted by the LED chips from a top surface of the LED chips being output from the lighting device at the second edge of the device. The lighting device is sandwiched in the seam between the two facing surfaces, the second edge of the lighting device being exposed when the seam is in an opened position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Grote Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Martin J. Marx, Richard C. Bozich, Stanley D. Robbins, James E. Roberts, Jennifer M. Ehlers
  • Patent number: 8424283
    Abstract: A portion of the exhaust generated by a turbomachine is recirculated through an inlet portion by an exhaust gas recirculation system. The system reduces the level of harmful constituents within the exhaust before the exhaust is recirculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rahul J. Chillar, Robert W. Taylor, James E. Roberts
  • Publication number: 20130027976
    Abstract: An edge lighting device, and a method of providing edge lighting, including providing a lighting device with at least one light emitting diode (LED) chip embedded therein, wherein the LED chip(s) generates light photons. A path of the light photons within the lighting device that are emitted by the LED chip(s) from a top surface of the LED chip(s), are redirected from a first edge of the lighting device back through the lighting device to a second edge of the lighting device opposite to the first edge. The first edge and the second edge of the lighting device are perpendicular to the top surface of the LED chip(s). The photons which were redirected from the first edge of the lighting device then follow a path through the second edge of the device and are then output from the edge lighting device at the second edge of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: GROTE INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Stanley D. Robbins, Richard C. Bozich, Martin J. Marx, James E. Roberts, Jennifer M. Ehlers, Al Bolander
  • Publication number: 20130026504
    Abstract: A light source includes a substrate arranged into at least two facing surfaces which form a seam therebetween; and a lighting device with light emitting diode (LED) chips embedded therein in a linear arrangement. The LED chips generate light photons. The lighting device has a first edge and a second edge opposite to the first edge, the light photons within the lighting device that are emitted by the LED chips from a top surface of the LED chips being output from the lighting device at the second edge of the device. The lighting device is sandwiched in the seam between the two facing surfaces, the second edge of the lighting device being exposed when the seam is in an opened position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: GROTE INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Martin J. Marx, Richard C. Bozich, Stanley D. Robbins, James E. Roberts, Jennifer M. Ehlers
  • Publication number: 20130027955
    Abstract: A dual lighting apparatus includes a principal substrate, a first lighting device and a second lighting device. The first lighting device is integrated into a first plane of the principal substrate, the first lighting device having one or more first light emitting diode (LED) chips embedded therein. The second lighting device is integrated into a second plane of the principal substrate, the second lighting device having one or more second light emitting diode (LED) chips embedded therein. The first LED chip(s) emit light photons having a different wavelength than light photons emitted from the second LED chip(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: GROTE INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: William Grote, III, Richard C. Bozich, Stanley D. Robbins, James E. Roberts, Martin J. Marx, Jennifer M. Ehlers, Arturo Hernandez, Larry R. Bennett
  • Publication number: 20110107736
    Abstract: A portion of the exhaust generated by a turbomachine is recirculated through an inlet portion by an exhaust gas recirculation system. The system reduces the level of harmful constituents within the exhaust before the exhaust is recirculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Rahul J. Chillar, Robert W. Taylor, James E. Roberts
  • Patent number: 7870718
    Abstract: The exhaust within an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system should be purged to allow for access to the components of the EGR system. A system and method for purging the EGR system is provided. The system and method may incorporate an: EGR purge fan, an EGR purge blower, or a turbomachine. The system and method may draw the exhaust out of the EGR system. The system and method may drive the exhaust out of the EGR system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rahul J. Chillar, Robert W. Taylor, James E. Roberts, Joell R. Hibshman, II, Peter Martin Maly, Dale J. Davis
  • Patent number: 7861511
    Abstract: A portion of the exhaust generated by a turbomachine is recirculated through an inlet portion by an exhaust gas recirculation system. The system reduces the level of harmful constituents within the exhaust before the exhaust is recirculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rahul J. Chillar, Robert W. Taylor, James E. Roberts
  • Publication number: 20090120089
    Abstract: The exhaust within an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system should be purged to allow for access to the components of the EGR system. A system and method for purging the EGR system is provided. The system and method may incorporate an: EGR purge fan, an EGR purge blower, or a turbomachine. The system and method may draw the exhaust out of the EGR system. The system and method may drive the exhaust out of the EGR system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventors: Rahul J. Chillar, Robert W. Taylor, James E. Roberts, Joell R. Hibshman, II, Peter Martin Maly, Dale J. Davis
  • Publication number: 20090107141
    Abstract: A portion of the exhaust generated by a turbomachine is recirculated through an inlet portion by an exhaust gas recirculation system. The system reduces the level of harmful constituents within the exhaust before the exhaust is recirculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Rahul J. Chillar, Robert W. Taylor, James E. Roberts
  • Publication number: 20080179234
    Abstract: A filter cartridge has a cartridge top and a cartridge bottom interconnected by a cartridge sidewall. The cartridge top, the cartridge bottom and the cartridge sidewall enclose a filter media. An extension connectable to the cartridge bottom via threads is adjustable to fit the filter cartridge within a range of differently sized housings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventor: James E Roberts
  • Publication number: 20040153442
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to generate a controlled copy of information stored on an optical storage media. The method and apparatus comprising reading accessible information from a source optical storage media, generating information corresponding to inaccessible information stored on the source optical storage media; and saving the accessible information and the generated information such that the generated information is accessible. The accessible information and the generated information may be written to a first optical storage media. Also, the method and apparatus may modify the information saved on the persistent data storage media to either violate or not violate optical media standards, and write the modified information to a second optical storage media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Brian D. Mantz, James E. Roberts, Uma M. Veeramani
  • Patent number: 6019472
    Abstract: Multi-layered contact lens element for at least one of examination and treatment of ocular tissues. The multi-layered contact lens element includes a plurality of lens elements in layers including a first lens element having a recess capable of holding a volume of liquid against a cornea of an eye to be examined or treated. Contact lens element for at least one of examination and treatment of ocular tissues includes a lens including a contact surface and an exterior convex surface, the contact surface including a protruding contact ring which forms a recess which is capable of providing a volume for liquid between the lens and a cornea of an eye to be examined or treated when the protruding contact ring is in contact with the cornea. A system for at least one of examination and treatment of ocular tissues includes: an optically clear liquid having a refractive index greater than 1.338; and a contact lens element capable of holding the liquid against a cornea of an eye to be examined or treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Inventors: Charles J. Koester, James E. Roberts
  • Patent number: 5968094
    Abstract: The compound intraocular lens ("CIOL") of the present invention includes a preexisting lens within the eye (which can be either of the crystalline lens of the eye, a conventional IOL or a base lens of a multi-component IOL) used as a platform for support (i.e., the "support lens") a cap situated on the support lens, and a sandwich lens which is sandwiched between the support lens and the cap lens. Utilizing a pre-existing implanted IOL or the crystalline lens of the eye, a surgeon can modify a patient's vision characteristics merely by utilizing the cap and sandwich lenses in conjunction with the pre-existing implanted IOL or the crystalline lens of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Emmetropia, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore P. Werblin, Tadmor Shalon, James E. Roberts
  • Patent number: 5206969
    Abstract: A specially designed and attached anti-wind lift airfoil also acts to reduce wiper chatter in several ways. The foil is fixed to and runs along side the blade support, bracing and stiffening it. In addition, masses molded inside the foil, plus its own mass, increase the total mass and moment of inertia of the wiper in operation, which acts to counteract the sticking effect. The foil is somewhat resilient, and is fixed to the blade support at widely spaced points, with its center section unsupported. If the blade does stick and slip in operation, undulations are thereby set up in the resilient airfoil, absorbing and damping out the energy that would otherwise show up as chatter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas D. Patterson, James E. Roberts, Scot A. Blommel
  • Patent number: 4961563
    Abstract: A tundish system for teeming an entire heat from a furnace into a mold. The tundish includes a plurality of chambers; one chamber including a nozzle. The chambers are arranged to interrupt the flow of the heat from one chamber to another thereby causing better separation between the metal and the slag. The tundish is mounted on a movable frame supporting a plurality of molds. A trough is disposed between the tundish and the molds. During the pour, the tundish remains stationary as the trough and the molds are moved underneath in succession.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1990
    Assignee: INCO Alloys International, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis S. Suarez, James E. Roberts, Vinayak P. Kamdar, James R. Hyatt, Lloyd A. Lowe
  • Patent number: 4511135
    Abstract: A modular envelope feed mechanism which may be used with a cut sheet feeder attachment for high speed printers or the like is disclosed. Envelopes are more reliably fed and separated because they are urged toward a pair of separators at the separation station with uniform force by a pressure plate containing a pivotable member provided with resilient pads positioned in alignment with the separators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1985
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jose L. Huerta, Roy A. Rachui, James E. Roberts, Grainger I. Simpson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4451164
    Abstract: A dispensing container for liquid wherein the total of all of the internal forces operating on the liquid and tending to cause it to flow from a passageway in the container is overcome when the container is at rest by the total external forces acting upon the container, but wherein the total internal forces exceed the external forces when the liquid within the container is placed in motion to cause the dispensing thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1984
    Inventor: James E. Roberts, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4441476
    Abstract: A charge air cooling assembly in which water pressurized by air at reduced pressure from the air brake system of a vehicle powered by a two or four cycle Diesel engine is discharged intermittently as a spray into the intake or discharge of a turbo-compressor, in response to the demand pressure on the intake manifold of an engine to lower the rate of fuel consumption of the latter and increase the torque and power output of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Inventors: James E. Roberts, Edward L. Lenarth
  • Patent number: D406499
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Inventors: Christopher G. Singleton, Gregory Crellin, James E. Roberts