Patents by Inventor James M. Miller
James M. Miller 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).
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Publication number: 20020168995Abstract: The present invention is a user equipment (UE) which receives a communication signal over a physical reference channel using a reference channel receiver. An expected path loss is calculated using a path loss calculation device in response to the received communication signal. A signaling receiver receives an allocation of an uplink control channel including the amount of interference in the channel. Then, a power level calculation device, responsive to the path loss calculation device and the signaling receiver, determines an uplink power level based on the path loss and the interference level, whereby an uplink control channel transmission is initiated having the power level determined by the power level calculation device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2002Publication date: November 14, 2002Applicant: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Stephen E. Terry, Stephen G. Dick, James M. Miller, Eldad Zeira, Ariela Zeira
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Publication number: 20020168996Abstract: The present invention is a base station which receives a communication signal over an uplink common control channel and measures interference on the uplink common control channel in response to the received signal. A channel quality measuring device included in the base station monitors the channel quality of the uplink common control channel and provides a quality margin for the communication signal. A spreading device, then, transmits the quality margin over a downlink control channel in response to the quality margin.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2002Publication date: November 14, 2002Applicant: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Stephen E. Terry, Stephen G. Dick, James M. Miller, Eldad Zeira, Ariela Zeira
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Publication number: 20020167928Abstract: A sequence of codes are provided for potential assignment to a user in a wireless hybrid time division multiple access (TDMA)/code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system. At least one timeslot is selected to support the communication. For each selected timeslot, at least one code is selected. If more than one code is selected, the selected codes are consecutive in the provided codes sequence. For at least one of the selected timeslots, an identifier of a first and last code of the selected consecutive codes is signaled. The user receives the signaled identifier and uses the selected consecutive codes, as identified, to support the communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2001Publication date: November 14, 2002Applicant: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Stephen E. Terry, Stephen G. Dick, James M. Miller, Eldad Zeira, Ariela Zeira
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Publication number: 20020168994Abstract: In a wireless digital communication system employing code-division multiple access (CDMA) technology, a method in which adaptive modulation and coding (AM&C) is utilized in order to achieve improved radio resource utilization and provide increased data rates for user services in which the base station measures up link interference on all time slots received from mobile terminals (UEs) and determines the need for uplink control channel; the base station transmitting to the UE the allocation of specific uplink control channels indicating uplink interference in the time slot and potentially the quality margin; the UE determining appropriate uplink power level based on a path loss determination made by the UE, uplink interference and the quality margin; the UE initiating an uplink common control transmission responsive to these determinations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2002Publication date: November 14, 2002Applicant: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Stephen E. Terry, Stephen G. Dick, James M. Miller, Eldad Zeira, Ariela Zeira
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Patent number: 6094817Abstract: Method of filling a silencer with a sound insulating material includes inserting a nozzle into a silencer and feeding sound insulating material, preferably continuous texturized glass, or basalt, or mineral fiber, through the nozzle into the silencer. The nozzle reciprocates linearly and retracts from the silencer while the fibers are being fed into the silencer. The silencer may be rotated while the sound insulating material is fed into the silencer. The nozzle is reciprocated into and out of the silencer and the silencer rotated clockwise or counter-clockwise to control the density and distribution of fill.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1998Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Assignee: Acoust-A-Fiber Research and Development, Inc.Inventors: Hiten T. Shah, Tommy E. Rice, James M. Miller
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Patent number: 5827462Abstract: An extrusion process is described in which a balanced cooling apparatus is incorporated. The cooling apparatus provides a coolant bath to an extruded component.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1996Date of Patent: October 27, 1998Assignee: Crane Plastics Company Limited PartnershipInventors: Jeffrey R. Brandt, William G. Taylor, James M. Miller
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Patent number: 5802661Abstract: A wiper blade assembly (10) is provided including a housing (12), two blades (14), (16), two blade support structures (18), (20), and a switching mechanism (22). The housing (12) includes a shell (26) having two longitudinal channels (28), (28'). The housing (12) further includes a lower opening (36) and a bottom plate (38) sized to cover the lower opening. The bottom plate (38) is releasably connected to the shell (26) and includes two slots (40). An inner seal (46) attaches to an interior surface of the bottom plate and includes slots (48) that align with the bottom plate slots (40). The blades (14), (16) and blade support structures (18), (20) are positioned within the housing channels and are aligned with the bottom plate slots. Each support structure includes a middle portion having a transverse central hole (54). The switching mechanism (22) includes a shaft (62) and first and second cams (70), (72) attached to the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1997Date of Patent: September 8, 1998Assignee: Choice, Inc.Inventors: James M. Miller, Walter L. Webb
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Patent number: 5400603Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a housing, a reservoir comprising a solid material mounted within the housing, temperature control means for controlling the temperature of the reservoir, and energy exchange means for allowing thermal contact between the reservoir and a substance for effectuating transfer of energy from the reservoir to the substance for regulating the temperature of the substance.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1993Date of Patent: March 28, 1995Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tibor L. Bauer, William A. Cavaliere, Charles R. Dart, II, Timothy H. Freebern, David C. Linnell, James M. Miller, Jin J. Wu
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Patent number: 5377911Abstract: An apparatus for producing aerosol from a substance includes a heat exchanger for receiving and cooling a substance. The heat exchanger includes a housing; a cryogenic reservoir comprising a solid material mounted within the housing; temperature control means for controllably cooling the reservoir; and energy exchange means for allowing thermal contact between the reservoir and the substance for effectuating transfer of cooling energy from the cryogenic reservoir to the substance for controllably cooling the substance. A delivery line has an inlet for receiving the substance from the heat exchanger at a first pressure. A nozzle is connected to the delivery line for receiving the substance from the delivery line. The nozzle has at least one exit opening which allows passing of the substance therethrough for expanding the substance from the first pressure to a second pressure which is lower than the first pressure for solidifying the substance and producing aerosol.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1993Date of Patent: January 3, 1995Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tibor L. Bauer, William A. Cavaliere, Charles R. Dart, II, Timothy H. Freebern, David C. Linnell, James M. Miller, Jin J. Wu
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Patent number: 5237123Abstract: In order to obtain speed and position information about a moving component of a musical instrument a fin extending in the direction of travel of the moving component is coupled thereto as, for example, by affixing the fin to the hammer shank of a piano. The fin carries indicia, such as a bar code, which can be read, for example, by an optical or magnetic sensor assembly. In one embodiment, a pair of side-by-side indicia bands are carried on the fin with the bands slightly offset in the direction of travel in order that direction, as well as speed and position information can be obtained. The gathered data may include information recorded, for example, for all the notes and the pedals of a piano in order that a performance may be reconstructed and played back employing a solenoid stack or the like.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1991Date of Patent: August 17, 1993Assignee: Laurence G. BroadmooreInventor: James M. Miller
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Patent number: 5018902Abstract: Improved devices for controlling vehicular traffic are disclosed. The present invention permits the installation of collapsible bollards or posts to create a barrier to vehicular traffic. The bollards disclosed use an internal latch bar and a hinged connection allowing them to be collapsed using an ordinary fire hydrant wrench, thereby permitting access by fire and emergency vehicles to the areas protected by the bollards. Moreover, in the preferred embodiment, a novel spring-loaded latch bar, entirely contained within the bollard and protected from the elements, permits the bollards of the present invention to be reset in a locked position without the use of a hydrant wrench or other tools. Other embodiments disclose how the bollard may be re-locked without the use of tools when the bollard is returned to an obstructing position.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 1990Date of Patent: May 28, 1991Assignee: Trustees of University of PennsylvaniaInventors: James M. Miller, James A. Wargo
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Patent number: 4988098Abstract: A machine for exercising the rotator cuff of a user includes an upright support frame having a front, a top, first and second sides defining a plane of the upright support frame, and a support structure extending from the front adjacent the top of the upright support frame. The machine preferably includes a forearm support assembly for supporting a forearm of the user in a plane substantially transverse to the plane of the upright support frame, wherein the transverse plane also passes through the shoulders of the user such that the user's arm is positioned substantially in the transverse plane to isolate the user's rotator cuff. A tension mechanism is mounted on the upright support frame and includes a tensioned cable. A cam mechanism is connected to the tensioned cable and supported by the support structure of the upright support frame for rotation with the forearm support assembly under tension as the user's forearm is rotated.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1990Date of Patent: January 29, 1991Assignee: Sport Supply Group, Inc.Inventor: James M. Miller
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Patent number: 4779358Abstract: A nozzle assembly for a web drying apparatus that can be quickly assembled and disassembled from the front or tending side of the web drying apparatus. At the rear of the web drying apparatus, instead of the normal bolt fastening system, a slidable connection is provided between the nozzle housing and the bulkhead. By manipulating the front end of the nozzle housing, nozzle mounting flanges secured to the rear end of the nozzle housing are slid under nozzle support clips on the bulkhead to secure the rear end of the nozzle housing to the bulkhead. Conventional systems are used to secure the front end of the nozzle housing. There may be one or two bulkheads in the nozzle assembly of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1987Date of Patent: October 25, 1988Assignee: Thermo Electron - Web Systems, Inc.Inventors: Eugene C. Atkinson, Robert S. Krueger, Leo A. VanOursouw, James M. Miller
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Patent number: 4777736Abstract: A flotation drying system utilizing a nozzle assembly having a mounting system that enables quick assembly and disassembly of the system. The nozzle assembly comprises one or more high pressure supply headers or bulkheads, a nozzle housing extending across the grooved face of the one or more bulkheads in a perpendicular direction to the direction of the bulkhead, the nozzle housing having a port connecting it to the bulkhead so that a stream of air goes through the nozzle housing and is applied to the web for drying. The nozzle assembly comprises sealing plates removably supported by the groove face of the bulkhead adjacent each of the nozzle housings to seal the area between the nozzle housings. A flange extends from each of the nozzle housings over the sealing plates as a means to seal the nozzle housings to the grooved face of the bulkhead.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1987Date of Patent: October 18, 1988Assignee: Thermo Electron - Web Systems, Inc.Inventors: Leo A. VanOursouw, James M. Miller, James M. Blair, Ronald Kuettel
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Patent number: 4365785Abstract: Roller-tip rocker-arm for high-performance internal combustion engines, pivotable about a trunnion therethrough, having a roller in the tip thereof for contacting the stem of a valve depressed (i.e., in the engine, per se, "lifted" from its seat in the "closed" position) thereby and having on the other end (i.e., tail) thereof an arcuate surface for contacting and abutting the cooperatively shaped end of a pushrod, the latter of which lifts said tail, wherein the roller and arcuate surface are so positioned so that, at the point in the motion of the rocker-arm wherein the valve stem is at a location corresponding to the mid-lift of the valve to which it is attached, the angles (a) that the axis of the valve stem defines with the axis intersecting the axes of the roller and trunnion and (b) that the axis of the pushrod defines with the axis intersecting the center of the arcuate surface and the axis of the trunnion are both essentially 90 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1980Date of Patent: December 28, 1982Inventor: James M. Miller
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Patent number: 4275304Abstract: An improvement in analytic instruments which measure liquid properties by optical techniques, the improvement providing an optical path through the liquid under test as low as about 0.1 mm by presence of a flat transparent surface across the optical beam and by flowing a film of the liquid under test down the surface, the depth of the film being the optical path through the liquid.Desirably the surface is normal to the beam, but at an acute angle to horizontal. A matted surface is desirable for spreading high viscosity solvents across the surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 1979Date of Patent: June 23, 1981Assignee: GOW-MAC Instrument Co.Inventors: Alexander E. Lawson, Robert J. Mathieu, James M. Miller
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Patent number: 4042304Abstract: A detector used in apparatus for measuring variations in the composition of a liquid includes a cell utilizing the Christiansen effect on light transmitted by the liquid flowing through the cell filled with particulate matter. The liquid and the particulate matter have indices of refraction that are substantially equal to one another at a specific wavelength. Variations of the transmitted light can determine changes of the refractive index of the liquid.Differences in the intensity of light transmitted through a sample cell and a reference device can be determined.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1972Date of Patent: August 16, 1977Assignee: GOW-MAC Instruments, Inc.Inventors: Archer J. P. Martin, James M. Miller, Robert J. Mathieu, Alexander E. Lawson, Jr.
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Patent number: D324920Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1989Date of Patent: March 24, 1992Assignee: Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaInventors: James M. Miller, James A. Wargo
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Patent number: D336346Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1992Date of Patent: June 8, 1993Assignee: Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaInventors: James M. Miller, James A. Wargo
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Patent number: D390433Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1995Date of Patent: February 10, 1998Inventor: James M. Miller