Patents by Inventor James Hill

James 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).

  • Combined blade attachment and disk lug fluid seal
    Publication number: 20060275107
    Abstract: Disclosed are assemblies and articles for restricting leakage of a pressurized fluid from a cavity. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a vane support defines at least one land, and an interrupted rim region of a bladed rotor assembly defines at least one segmented ring. The at least one segmented ring protruding outward from the bladed rotor assembly in the interrupted rim region, spans across the cavity and cooperates with the at least one land to define a seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Ioannis Alvanos, Rajendra Agrawal, John Virtue, James Hill, Hector Pinero
  • Rhizobium leguminosarum strain and use thereof as plant inoculant
    Publication number: 20060258534
    Abstract: A novel strain of Rhizobium leguminosarum designated S012A-2 (IDAC 080305-01). The strain is useful for improving plant growth and yield of legumes, particularly peas and lentils by nitrogen fixation. The strain is contacted with legume seeds prior to and/or during germination and growth, and may be used to form an inoculant composition that can be used to coat seeds prior to sowing or added to furrows during planting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2005
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventors: James Hill, Mary Leggett
  • Excavator
    Publication number: 20060225314
    Abstract: An excavator (10) for excavating a selected material and conveying the excavated material to a selected location. The excavator (10) includes a mobile support (16) and a boom assembly (26) mounted thereon, with the boom assembly (26) having at least one extendable section (30). The excavator (10) also includes a conveying assembly (14) for conveying the excavated material from the mobile support (16), and an excavating assembly (12) mounted on the extendable section (30) of the boom assembly (26) for excavating the material and conveying it to the conveying assembly (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventor: James Hill
  • Quick adjust support system with trapped or integral wedge
    Publication number: 20060226313
    Abstract: A support system includes a support post and support means for adjustably supporting a member to the support post. The support means includes a locking mechanism movable between a first position for press-fitting the support means, directly or indirectly, against the support post and a second position for releasing the press-fitting. The locking mechanism has a surface that abuts the support post, or a wedge member associated with the support post, when in the first position thereby to effect the press-fitting and that is released from the support post when moved to the second position to release the press-fitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Applicant: METRO INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventors: Robert Welch, James Hill, Jeffrey Olson, Robert Steele, Cheryl Kniffin, Katherine McGillivray
  • Adjustable embolic aneurysm coil
    Publication number: 20060206140
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for treatment of an aneurysm within a patient. The devices can be adjusted within the body of a patient in a minimally invasive or non-invasive manner such as by applying energy percutaneously or external to the patient's body. The energy may include, for example, acoustic energy, radio frequency energy, light energy and magnetic energy. Thus, the size and/or shape of the embolic coils can be adjusted to provide optimal filling of the aneurysm. In certain embodiments, the devices include a shape memory material that is responsive to changes in temperature and/or exposure to a magnetic field. A material having enhanced absorption characteristics with regard to a desired heating energy may be used in order to facilitate heating and adjustment of the embolic coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Inventors: Samuel Shaolian, Shawn Moaddeb, James Hill
  • Advance warning system for railroad crossing
    Publication number: 20060180712
    Abstract: An early warning system warns a motorist that a train is near a railway crossing that is being approached by the motorist. The early warning system utilizes magnetometers that are placed along a railway at locations corresponding to the locations at which existing electrical circuits detect an approaching train. The early warning system also includes a sign system that is spaced apart from the railway crossing and is visible to a driver at least five hundred feet before the driver reach the sign system. The sign system is activated when a train approaches the railway crossing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventor: James Hill
  • Acoustic transducer
    Patent number: 7062972
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Horiba Instruments, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Hill
  • Vaccine against yersinia comprising one or two antibodies, one specific for yersinia pestis f1-antigen and the other one for yersinia pestis v-antigen
    Publication number: 20060093609
    Abstract: The use of (i) an antibody specific for Yersinia pestis F1-antigen, or a binding fragment thereof, or (ii) an antibody specific for Yersinia pestis V-antigen, or a binding fragment thereof, or a combination of (i) and (ii), in the production of a medicament for the treatment of infection by Yersinia pestis. It has been found that such treatments are effective therapies for Yersinia pestis infection. In addition, the combination produces a synergistic effect when used prophylactically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Applicant: The Secretary Of State For Defence
    Inventors: James Hill, Ethel Williamson, Richard Titball
  • 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