Patents by Inventor Jan A VINK
Jan A VINK 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: 20230192236Abstract: Water craft comprising a hull, with an opening and a lowerable segment arranged in said opening. The lowerable segment is coupled to the hull via a lifting mechanism for lowering or raising the lowerable segment with respect to the hull between a first position in which an outer surface of a bottom wall of the segment is substantially flush with the outer surface of a bottom of the hull adjacent to the segment, and a second position wherein the segment is arranged below the water line of the hull. The lowerable segment comprises a lower watertight compartment and an upper compartment that can at least partially be filled with water when the segment is lowered and can be drained when the segment is raised. When in the first position, a wall between the lower and upper compartment is arranged at a level at or near the water line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Jan VINK, Tjerko Onno JURGENS
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Patent number: 11649146Abstract: A safety system (2) for a working vehicle (4) comprising a working equipment (6), e.g. a crane or a working tool, the safety system (2) comprises a control unit (8), a controller (10), e.g. a remote controller, configured to control said working equipment (6), and a display unit (12).Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Hiab ABInventors: Lennart Andersson, Björn Nilsson, Bengt Söderholm, Marcel Boxem, Johan Westerberg, Jan A Vink, Kalevi Nurmi
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Publication number: 20190322498Abstract: A safety system (2) for a working vehicle (4) comprising a working equipment (6), e.g. a crane or a working tool, the safety system (2) comprises a control unit (8), a controller (10), e.g. a remote controller, configured to control said working equipment (6), and a display unit (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Lennart ANDERSSON, Björn NILSSON, Bengt SÖDERHOLM, Marcel BOXEM, Johan WESTERBERG, Jan A VINK, Kalevi NURMI
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Patent number: 9046302Abstract: A fluid is cooled and liquefied in an apparatus with a heat exchanger. A plurality of flow passages has two or more primary groups of one or more primary flow passages. Each primary group carries a part of the fluid stream through the heat exchanger and indirectly cools the part of the fluid stream against a refrigerant in the shell side of the heat exchanger to provide a liquefied fluid stream. A primary inlet header connects the two or more primary groups of primary flow passages to a source of the fluid, and is arranged to split the fluid stream between the two or more primary groups of primary flow passages. Valves are provided for selectively blocking at least one of the two or more primary groups of primary flow passages whilst allowing the fluid stream to flow through the remaining unblocked primary groups of primary flow passages.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2010Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Kornelis Jan Vink, Leendert Johannes Arie Zoetemeijer
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Publication number: 20140363558Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly, discharge device and method for the production of pancakes. The assembly includes a conveyor having a heatable carrier on which the pancakes to be made are conveyed; and, a first discharge device wherein the first discharge device is provided with several nozzles for each time discharging a preset quantity of pancake batter for the nozzle in question onto the carrier. The preset quantity of pancake batter for the nozzle in question and a conveyance speed of the conveyor are set such that the preset quantity of pancake batter for the nozzle in question forms a line on the carrier in the conveyance direction. The several nozzles may be connected to a reservoir for the pancake batter. The discharge device may include a pressure regulator for keeping the pressure in the reservoir substantially constant during discharging pancake batter.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: J. Vink jr. Development B.V.Inventor: Jan Vink
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Publication number: 20120240618Abstract: A fluid is cooled and liquefied in an apparatus with a heat exchanger (5) having a shell side (78) within its walls (85) and a plurality of flow passages extending through the shell side (78). The plurality of flow passages comprises two or more primary groups (40a, 40b) of one or more primary flow passages, each said primary group for carrying a part of the fluid stream through the heat exchanger (5) and to indirectly cool said part against a refrigerant in the shell side (78) of the heat exchanger (5) to provide a liquefied fluid stream (50, 70). A primary inlet header (6,6?) connects the two or more primary groups (40a, 40b) of primary flow passages to a source of the fluid (10), and arranged to split the fluid stream between the two or more primary groups (40a, 40b) of primary flow passages.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2010Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Kornelis Jan Vink, Leendert Johannes Arie Zoetemeijer
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Publication number: 20120240600Abstract: A boil-off gas (BOG) stream (15) from a liquefied hydrocarbon storage tank is split into a BOG heat exchanger feed stream (25) and a BOG bypass stream (35). The BOG heat exchanger feed stream (25) is heat exchanged in a BOG heat exchanger (40) against a process stream (135), thereby providing a warmed BOG stream (45) and a cooled process stream (195). The warmed BOG stream (45) is combined with the BOG bypass stream (35) to provide a temperature controlled BOG stream (55).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2010Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Peter Marie Paulus, Kornelis Jan Vink
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Publication number: 20110236552Abstract: Method and assembly for making dough products built up from a batter, such as pancakes. In the method use is made of a conveyor including a heatable carrier on which the pancakes to be made are conveyed, and with a first food jet printer. The method comprises the steps of: applying a layer of cooking oil (or a comparable shortening) on the carrier, and the first food jet printer applying a quantity of pancake batter on the layer of cooking oil applied on the carrier, wherein the carrier is moved with respect to the food jet printer by the conveyor, and wherein the food jet printer dispenses a preset quantity of pancake batter per position on the carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventor: Jan VINK
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Publication number: 20110179220Abstract: A memory controller 2 for controlling DDR SDRAM includes a physical layer block 10 connected to output pads 18 for driving the output pads with electrical signals, and a memory control block 12 for generating and receiving data signals, address signals and control signals and passing them to the physical layer block which converts these signals into the electrical signals actually transmitted from the controller. A multiplexer 16 is provided, not between the physical layer block 10 and the output pads 18, but between the memory control block 12 and the physical layer block 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2009Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventor: Jan Vink
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Publication number: 20080043545Abstract: A memory controller for a multiple data rate RAM memory module is provided. Said controller comprises a PLL unit (PLL) for generating different clock phases (clk, clk90, clk180) from a reference clock (ref clk). In addition, a controllable delay unit (CDU) for delaying a strobe signal (dqs) is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2005Publication date: February 21, 2008Inventors: Jan Vink, Jozef Jacobus Verlinden
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Patent number: 7266975Abstract: A process of liquefying a gaseous, methane-rich feed to a liquefied product is provided that includes adjusting the composition and the amount of refrigerant and controlling the liquefaction process using an advanced process controller based on model predictive control to determine simultaneous control actions for a set of manipulated variables.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2004Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Arina Petronella Jacoba Hupkes-Van Der Toorn, legal representative, Pei Jung Lin, Roland Pierre Silve, Kornelis Jan Vink, Willem Hupkes, deceased
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Publication number: 20070061522Abstract: Storage devices (2) receiving first data pieces having first formats and supplying second data pieces having second formats different from the first formats, store a set of first data pieces and a subset of second data pieces in a storage medium (23). A processor (20) searches the storage medium (23) for a predefined second data piece. In response to a positive search result, the predefined second data piece is supplied to a reproduction device (3) for being reproduced without any transcoding being necessary, to save processing capacity and power consumption. In response to a negative search result, due to having stored only a subset of second data pieces in the storage medium (23), to save storage capacity, a corresponding first data piece is read out from the storage medium (23) and a transcoder (22) transcodes this corresponding first data piece into the predefined second data piece, after which the predefined second data piece is supplied to the reproduction device (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2004Publication date: March 15, 2007Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventor: Jan Vink
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Publication number: 20040255615Abstract: A process of liquefying a gaseous, methane-rich feed to a liquefied product is provided that includes adjusting the composition and the amount of refrigerant and controlling the liquefaction process using an advanced process controller based on model predictive control to determine simultaneous control actions for a set of manipulated variables.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2004Publication date: December 23, 2004Inventors: Willem Hupkes, Arina Petronella Jacoba Hupkes-Van Der Toorn, Pei Jung Lin, Roland Pierre Silve, Kornelis Jan Vink
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Patent number: 6370910Abstract: Liquefying a stream enriched in methane comprising a) supplying a natural gas stream to scrub column, removing in the scrub column heavier hydrocarbons from the natural gas stream to obtain a gaseous overhead stream withdrawn from the top of the scrub column, partly condensing the gaseous overhead stream and removing from it a condensate stream, which is returned to the upper part of the scrub column as reflux; b) liquefying the stream enriched in methane in a tube arranged in a main heat exchanger by indirect heat exchange with a multicomponent refrigerant evaporating at low refrigerant withdrawn from the shell side of the main heat exchanger and partly condensing it at an elevated refrigerant pressure, and c) compressing the multicomponent refrigerant pressure in a tube arranged in an auxiliary heat exchanger by indirect heat exchange with an auxiliary multicomponent refrigerant evaporating at low auxiliary refrigerant pressure to obtain multicomponent refrigerant for use in step b), wherein partly condensiType: GrantFiled: November 20, 2000Date of Patent: April 16, 2002Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Hendrik Frans Grootjans, Robert Klein Nagelvoort, Kornelis Jan Vink
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Patent number: 5893274Abstract: A method is provided to liquefy and treat natural gas containing components having low boiling points, the method includes: liquefying natural gas in a main heat exchanger; cooling the liquefied gas in an external heat exchanger; allowing the cooled liquefied gas to expand dynamically; introducing the expanded fluid in the upper part of a fractionation column; allowing the liquid of the expanded fluid to flow downwards thorough contacting section; withdrawing a liquid recycle stream which is passed through the heat exchanger to obtain a heated two-phase fluid; introducing the two-phase fluid in fractionation column, and allowing the vapour to flow through the contacting section; collecting the liquid of the two-phase fluid in the lower part of the fractionation column; and withdrawing therefrom a liquid product stream having a reduced content of components having low boiling points; and withdrawing from the fractionation column a gaseous stream which is enriched in components having low boiling points.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1997Date of Patent: April 13, 1999Assignee: Shell Research LimitedInventors: Robert Klein Nagelvoort, Kornelis Jan Vink
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Patent number: 5832745Abstract: Method of cooling a fluid stream which passes through a hot side (Id, Ib, Ic) of a main heat exchanger (I) comprising removing refrigerant from the main heat exchanger (I); compressing refrigerant in a two-stage compressor unit (7) to obtain refrigerant at high pressure; partly condensing (12) the refrigerant to obtain a first two-phase fluid, and separating (13) the first two-phase fluid into a first condensed fraction (15) and a first gaseous fraction (16); cooling the first condensed fraction (15) in an auxiliary heat exchanger (2) to obtain a cooled first condensed fraction (18), cooling the first gaseous fraction (16) in the auxiliary heat exchanger (2) to obtain a second two-phase fluid (26), wherein cooling is provided by liquid evaporating at intermediate pressure in the cold side (2a); separating (28) the second two-phase fluid into a second condensed fraction (33) and a second gaseous fraction (32); allowing part of the second condensed fraction (49) to evaporate in the cold side (2a) of the auxiliaType: GrantFiled: January 28, 1998Date of Patent: November 10, 1998Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Robert Klein Nagelvoort, Kornelis Jan Vink, Hilary Ann Mercer