Patents by Inventor James H. Fowler

James H. Fowler 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: 20130031179
    Abstract: In order to anticipate an epidemic or adoption of a trend, individuals are randomly selected from a population and friends of the selected individuals are determined. These friends are then designated as sensors and monitored to predict or anticipate the adoption of a trend or the spread of a contagious outbreak. In one embodiment, online searches performed by these friends are monitored for the use of selected search queries to predict or anticipate the adoption of a trend or the spread of a contagious outbreak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler
  • Patent number: 8157311
    Abstract: An interior system of a vehicle includes an instrument panel substrate having a driver side, a passenger side, and a center section between the driver and passenger sides. The instrument panel substrate has an opening on the passenger side. A trim panel is mounted to the instrument panel substrate covering the opening and comprising a connector hub having a plurality of electrical connectors for mobile electronic devices. In one embodiment, at least a portion of the trim panel is releasable and pivotable after mounting in order to access a rear side of the trim panel. The trim panel may further include a cradle on the rear side to receive a printer, a paper holder on the rear side to receive and supply paper for the printer, and an elongated slot aligned with the cradle for feeding printed paper from the printer to a front side of the trim panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: James H. Fowler
  • Publication number: 20110220430
    Abstract: An interior system of a vehicle includes an instrument panel substrate having a driver side, a passenger side, and a center section between the driver and passenger sides. The instrument panel substrate has an opening on the passenger side. A trim panel is mounted to the instrument panel substrate covering the opening and comprising a connector hub having a plurality of electrical connectors for mobile electronic devices. In one embodiment, at least a portion of the trim panel is releasable and pivotable after mounting in order to access a rear side of the trim panel. The trim panel may further include a cradle on the rear side to receive a printer, a paper holder on the rear side to receive and supply paper for the printer, and an elongated slot aligned with the cradle for feeding printed paper from the printer to a front side of the trim panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: James H. Fowler
  • Patent number: 5848971
    Abstract: A medical pressure transducer includes a reusable component with channels to either side of a reusable diaphragm, and a disposable dome with mounting wings to either side of a disposable diaphragm and slidably receivable in the channels to mount the dome with the diaphragms in confronting relationship. Camming ramps are provided in the channels and on the wings by which to drive the dome diaphragm into the reusable diaphragm. Where the channels are defined behind outer front walls, the outer surface of one is provided with a tab-receiving slot to receive a locking tab associated with dome to lock diaphragms into confronting relationship. The dome includes second wings spaced from the mounting wings to receive the outer front walls. The second wings have finger gripping portions one of which is a locking paddle supporting the lock tab. In alternative embodiments, the dome wings are edges, fixed or resilient, receivable through slots formed in the reusable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Assignee: Medex, Inc.
    Inventors: James H. Fowler, Charles R. Patzer, Warren B. Nicholson, Wendell Thompson, Glenn D. Brunner, Theodore R. Adams, Nilesh M. Shah
  • Patent number: 5752918
    Abstract: A medical pressure transducer includes a reusable component with channels to either side of a reusable diaphragm, and a disposable dome with mounting wings to either side of a disposable diaphragm and slidably receivable in the channels to mount the dome with the diaphragms in confronting relationship. Camming ramps are provided in the channels and on the wings by which to drive the dome diaphragm into the reusable diaphragm. Where the channels are defined behind outer front walls, the outer surface of one is provided with a tab-receiving slot to receive a locking tab associated with dome to lock diaphragms into confronting relationship. The dome includes second wings spaced from the mounting wings to receive the outer front walls. The second wings have finger gripping portions one of which is a locking paddle supporting the lock tab. In alternative embodiments, the dome wings are edges, fixed or resilient, receivable through slots formed in the reusable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Medex, Inc.
    Inventors: James H. Fowler, Charles R. Patzer, Warren B. Nicholson, Wendell Thompson, Glenn D. Brunner, Theodore R. Adams, Nilesh M. Shah
  • Patent number: 5570114
    Abstract: A control panel includes controllers in the form of push buttons supported by an elastomeric switch pad over an electroluminescent lamp panel. The electroluminescent panel includes circuits formed by chargeable areas which register with optical indicia carried by the buttons and transmitted through openings in the elastomeric layer. The elastomeric layer includes pads which resiliently urge the buttons to a rest position at which contacts carried by the elastomeric pad are spaced apart from terminal conductors on a printed wiring board. A peripheral wall of the pad formed with the elastomeric layer is supported by a tactile membrane which permits depression of the button to engage the contact against the terminal conductors of the printed wiring board, and returning the button to the rest position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: James H. Fowler
  • Patent number: 5438172
    Abstract: In an electronic position encoder (or other panel control) of the type having a shaft-retracted position for storage and a shaft-extended position for adjustment, an anti-backlash coupling substantially eliminates backlash between a rotor and a shaft. The anti-backlash coupling includes a first wedge member fixedly coupled to the shaft and a second wedge member fixedly coupled to the rotor. The second wedge member is adapted to mate with the first wedge member when the shaft is in the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignees: Ford Motor Company, Bourns Inc.
    Inventors: James H. Fowler, Edward G. VanNimwegen
  • Patent number: 4213937
    Abstract: A balanced, closed cycle silicon refinery system has been developed for producing electronic grade silicon from industrial grade silicon. Impurities comprising approximately 1% of the industrial grade silicon are removed in the refinery system to produce the purified silicon, while only a relatively small percentage of make-up chemicals are added to the system. In the refinery, hydrogen chloride is reacted with the impure silicon in a halide reactor to provide trichlorosilane and silicon tetrachloride and hydrogen. The trichlorosilane and/or silicon tetrachloride are passed through purification means, and then reacted with the hydrogen from the halide reactor in a fluidized bed reactor to produce the purified silicon and an effluent comprised of unreacted trichlorosilane, silicon tetrachloride, hydrogen, and the by-product hydrogen chloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1980
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Francois A. Padovani, Michael B. Miller, James A. Moore, James H. Fowler, Malcom N. June, James D. Matthews, T. R. Morton, Norbert A. Stotko, Lewis B. Palmer
  • Patent number: 4092446
    Abstract: A balanced closed cycle silicon refinery has been developed for producing electronic silicon from industrial grade silicon. Impurities comprising approximately 1% of the industrial grade silicon are removed during the refinery process to produce the purified silicon, while only a relatively small percentage of make-up chemicals are added to the system. In the refinery, hydrogen chloride is reacted with the impure silicon in a halide reactor to provide trichlorosilane and silicon tetrachloride and hydrogen. The trichlorosilane and/or silicon tetrachloride are purified to remove the impurities, and then reacted with the hydrogen from the halide reactor in a fluidized bed reactor to produce the purified silicon and an effluent comprised of unreacted trichlorosilane, silicon tetrachloride, hydrogen, and the by-product hydrogen chloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1978
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Francois A. Padovani, Michael Brant Miller, James A. Moore, James H. Fowler, Malcolm Neville June, James D. Matthews, T. R. Morton, Norbert A. Stotko, Lewis B. Palmer
  • Patent number: D343842
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1994
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: James H. Fowler, Nevenka Schumaker
  • Patent number: D350139
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: James H. Fowler, Nevenka Schumaker
  • Patent number: D350964
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: James H. Fowler, Nevenka Schumaker