Patents by Inventor James R. Griffin

James R. Griffin 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: 20240071556
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for memory with parallel main and test interfaces are described. A memory die may be configured with parallel interfaces that may individually (e.g., separately) support evaluation operations (e.g., before or as part of assembly in a multiple-die stack) or access operations (e.g., after assembly in a multiple die stack). For example, a memory die may include a first set of one or more contacts that support communicating signaling with or via another memory die in a multiple-die stack. The memory die may also include a second set of one or more contacts that support probing for pre-assembly evaluations, which may be electrically isolated from the first set of contacts. By implementing such parallel interfaces, evaluation operations may be performed using the second set of contacts without damaging the first set of contacts, which may improve capabilities for supporting a multiple-die stack in a memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: James Brian Johnson, Kunal R. Parekh, Brent Keeth, Eiichi Nakano, Amy Rae Griffin
  • Publication number: 20090319544
    Abstract: A method for facilitating integration of multiple computer data systems may include source-target mapping between first and second data sources of the computer data systems. The method includes mapping, by a user, data fields from the first computer data source of the first computer data system to system-neutral business terms of an object-oriented abstraction layer; mapping, by a user, data fields from the second computer data source of the second computer data system to system-neutral business terms of the object-oriented abstraction layer; and saving the mappings in a computer-readable medium; wherein the object-oriented abstraction layer further comprises business documents, each business document comprising one or more of the business terms of the object-oriented abstraction layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventors: James R. Griffin, Rebecca D. Griffin, Doyle A. Shelton, James D. Giffin, Christopher M. Beck
  • Patent number: 4509335
    Abstract: A refrigerator including two compartments, one of which is maintained at a temperature above freezing and the other of which is maintained at a below freezing temperature. The refrigerator cabinet is divided into the two compartments by a divider that is slidably received in support grooves in the side walls of the cabinet. A self-contained pre-assembled air circulating and cooling module is arranged on the rear wall of the cabinet and the divider installed so that air circulated through the pre-assembled module is proportionally divided between the compartments in amounts sufficient to maintain the compartments at the preselected temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James R. Griffin, James A. White
  • Patent number: 4490991
    Abstract: A unitary high-side refrigeration system assembly adapted to be installed in the machinery compartment of a domestic refrigerator including a condensate collection support member on which the refrigeration system high-side components including the compressor, condenser and air moving means are mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1985
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: James R. Griffin
  • Patent number: 4296611
    Abstract: A refrigerator having a freezer compartment on top and a fresh food compartment below with an air duct connecting the two compartments. A temperature control system and method of controlling is provided and includes a temperature sensing element located at the top of the fresh food compartment and shielded from the stream of cold air being directed into the fresh food compartment. The temperature sensing element changes the temperature in both the freezer and fresh food compartments without changing the constant ratio of those respective compartment temperatures. An air flow assembly divides the cold air entering the fresh food compartment through the connecting air duct between the top of the compartment and the bottom. The air flow control assembly is arranged to divide the cold air stream such that the ratio of the difference in the freezer and fresh food compartment temperatures is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1981
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James R. Griffin, Raymond M. Schreck
  • Patent number: 4229945
    Abstract: A refrigerator having a freezer compartment on top and a fresh food compartment below with an air duct connecting the two compartments. A temperature control system and method of controlling is provided and includes a temperature sensing element located at the top of the fresh food compartment and shielded from the stream of cold air being directed into the fresh food compartment. The temperature sensing element changes the temperature in both the freezer and fresh food compartments without changing the constant ratio of those respective compartment temperatures. An air flow assembly divides the cold air entering the fresh food compartment through the connecting air duct between the top of the compartment and the bottom. The air flow control assembly is arranged to divide the cold air stream such that the ratio of the difference in the freezer and fresh food compartment temperatures is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1980
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James R. Griffin, Raymond M. Schreck
  • Patent number: 4211090
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an air circulating and cooling arrangement for a refrigerator cabinet including a fresh food and freezer storage compartment. A partition dividing the compartments includes a first wall defining the upper wall of fresh food compartment and a second wall defining the lower wall of the freezer compartment. A divider element arranged intermediate the partition walls separates a first passage for circulating air through the fresh food compartment and a second passage for circulating air through the freezer compartment. The evaporator is in heat exchange relation with a portion of the first passage so that air moving through the fresh food compartment contacts colder portions of the divider to remove moisture therefrom prior to passing through the evaporator. The heat leakage from that portion of the divider in heat exchange relation with the evaporator conductively links the evaporator to the fresh food compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1980
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert B. Gelbard, James R. Griffin
  • Patent number: 4077229
    Abstract: A refrigerator including two compartments, one of which is maintained at a temperature above freezing for the storage of fresh foods and the other of which is maintained at a temperature below freezing for storage of frozen foods is cooled by air circulated over an evaporator disposed outside the compartments. The evaporator comprises a metal plate having a cooling element mounted thereon in heat exchange relationship. The evaporator is positioned in the cabinet in such a manner that the cooling element is disposed in a first passage and air is circulated over the cooling element and then in proportioned amounts to the aforementioned compartments. To reduce the amount of frost collecting on the cooling element a second passage is provided in the refrigerator cabinet adjacent the opposite side of the plate from that on which the cooling element is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1978
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert B. Gelbard, James R. Griffin
  • Patent number: 3996434
    Abstract: A household freezer alarm system has a door alarm switch having a holding element that is movable to a position for releasably maintaining an actuating plunger of the switch at a deactivated position. At the deactivated position, the freezer can be cleaned, loaded with food, or other freezer door-open operations performed without sounding a door-open alarm. Means is associated with the holding element for automatically moving the holding element from the holding postion to the free position in response to closing the position door for automatically resetting the alarm system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1976
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: James R. Griffin
  • Patent number: 3990262
    Abstract: A natural draft refrigerator includes a condenser holding element which permits the condenser to move between a shipping and storage position, in which the condenser is held closely adjacent the outer rear wall of the refrigerator, and an in-use position, in which the condenser is spaced from the refrigerator rear wall. The refrigerator, therefore, occupies less space during shipping and storage than when in use. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the holding element includes means for biasing the condenser toward the in-use position and the condenser is releasably held in the shipping and storage position by tape so that, upon installation, the installer simply cuts or removes the shipping tape and the condenser automatically moves rearwardly toward the in-use position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1976
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: James R. Griffin