Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Hansen
Jeffrey Hansen 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: 20180050395Abstract: A magnet sensing portable autonomous device includes a platform. A plurality of wheel sets is coupled to the platform. A drive system is used for driving the plurality of wheels. An attachment mechanism is positioned on an underside of the platform for securing the device to a surface. A control board is used for controlling the operation of the device. In some embodiments, a drill spindle assembly is coupled to the platform. A drill feed assembly is coupled to the drill spindle assembly for raising and lowering the drill spindle assembly. A plurality of sensors are operable to sense one or more magnets disposed below the surface. A drive table is used for positioning the drill spindle assembly in an XY plane based on an output of said plurality of sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Noel A. Spishak, Charles M. Richards, Jeffrey Hansen, Stephen G. Moore, Dan D. Day
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Publication number: 20160186319Abstract: Fluidized bed reactor systems for producing high purity silicon-coated particles are disclosed. A vessel has an outer shell, an insulation layer inwardly of the outer shell, a concentric inner shell inwardly of the outer shell, and a concentric liner that is positioned inwardly of the inner shell and that defines a reactor chamber. The inner shell and liner are sealed together at their bottoms by an O-ring seal arrangement to prevent gas in the reactor chamber from entering a space between the inner shell and the liner. A central inlet nozzle produces a vertical gas plume in the reactor chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2015Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: REC Silicon IncInventors: Michael V. Spangler, Jeffrey A. Hansen, Matthew J. Miller
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Patent number: 9067628Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for adhering a vacuum to a surface is provided. A seal is positioned relative to a surface. The seal is associated with a structure and is in communication with a channel within the structure. The seal is rotated relative to the structure such that the seal at least partially conforms to the surface. Air is drawn into the channel within the structure through the seal such that the seal adheres to the surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Jeffrey Hansen, Karl Edward Nelson, Gary Georgeson, Charles M. Richards, Scott Lea, Daniel J. Wright
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Publication number: 20140339002Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for adhering a vacuum to a surface is provided. A seal is positioned relative to a surface. The seal is associated with a structure and is in communication with a channel within the structure. The seal is rotated relative to the structure such that the seal at least partially conforms to the surface. Air is drawn into the channel within the structure through the seal such that the seal adheres to the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Jeffrey Hansen, Karl Edward Nelson, Gary Georgeson, Charles M. Richards, Scott Lea, Daniel J. Wright
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Patent number: 8807257Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for adhering a vacuum to a surface is provided. A seal is positioned relative to a surface. The seal is associated with a structure and is in communication with a channel within the structure. The seal is rotated relative to the structure such that the seal at least partially conforms to the surface. Air is drawn into the channel within the structure through the seal such that the seal adheres to the surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Hansen, Karl Edward Nelson, Gary Georgeson, Charles M. Richards, Scott Lea, Daniel J. Wright
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Patent number: 8074593Abstract: The present invention relates to a watercraft attachment device for joining two watercrafts comprising: a pair of parallel tubes, where said parallel tubes are substantially parallel to the watercrafts; a pair of perpendicular tubes, where said perpendicular tubes are substantially perpendicular to the two parallel tubes and adjoin the parallel tubes; four abutting corners, where the four abutting corners are formed by the intersecting tubes; a plurality of hook attachments extending from the each corner, where said hook attachments extend over a lip of each cockpit within the watercrafts to connect the watercrafts to the watercraft attachment device; and at least one tension cord extending from each corner, where said tensioning cords tighten the hook attachments to secure the watercraft attachment device in place.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2009Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Inventors: Jeffrey Hansen, Todd Kaminski
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Patent number: 8044991Abstract: A local positioning system which includes a video camera, a computer communicating with the video camera and a target object sighted by the video camera and having a target object coordinate system. The computer is adapted to define a relative position and orientation of the video camera with respect to the target object, determine a position and orientation of the video camera in the target object coordinate system, and determine the position of a point of interest in the target object coordinate system. The system can also be used to aim the camera at a previously recorded point of interest on the target object. Contact with, or close proximity to, the target object is not required. A local positioning method is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Scott Lea, Gary E. Georgeson, James Troy, Marc Matsen, Jeffrey Hansen, Charles Richards, Matthew W. Smith
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Patent number: 7901585Abstract: There are provided methods and processes that employ a mercury-adsorbing granular material as a sorbent to remove mercury from fluids. The fluids can be waste fluids that result from manufacturing, processing, or other treatment processes or systems. The fluids can also be fluids that are treated in their natural state. The fluids to be treated may include water, air, sludge, slurries, gases from processing or furnaces flues, gaseous flows, liquid flows, and other gases and liquids. In one excellent form of the invention, the mercury-adsorbing material includes taconite tailings.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2009Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Ferro, LLCInventors: Larry J. Lehtinen, Jeffrey A. Hansen
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Publication number: 20100312525Abstract: The invention provides methods for producing high resolution crystals of ribosomes and ribosomal subunits as well as crystals produced by such methods. The invention also provides high resolution structures of ribosomal subunits either alone or in combination with protein synthesis inhibitors. The invention provides methods for identifying ribosome-related ligands and methods for designing ligands with specific ribosome-binding properties as well as ligands that may act as protein synthesis inhibitors. Thus, the methods and compositions of the invention may be used to produce ligands that are designed to specifically kill or inhibit the growth of any target organism.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2010Publication date: December 9, 2010Inventors: Thomas A. Steitz, Peter B. Moore, Nenad Ban, Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen, Joseph A. Ippolito
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Publication number: 20100131258Abstract: The invention provides methods for producing high resolution crystals of ribosomes and ribosomal subunits as well as crystals produced by such methods. The invention also provides high resolution structures of ribosomal subunits either alone or in combination with protein synthesis inhibitors. The invention provides methods for identifying ribosome-related ligands and methods for designing ligands with specific ribosome-binding properties as well as ligands that may act as protein synthesis inhibitors. Thus, the methods and compositions of the invention may be used to produce ligands that are designed to specifically kill or inhibit the growth of any target organism.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2008Publication date: May 27, 2010Inventors: Thomas A. Steitz, Peter B. Moore, Nenad Ban, Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen
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Patent number: 7666318Abstract: There are provided methods and processes that employ a mercury-adsorbing granular material as a sorbent to remove mercury from fluids. The fluids can be waste fluids that result from manufacturing, processing, or other treatment processes or systems. The fluids can also be fluids that are treated in their natural state. The fluids to be treated may include water, air, sludge, slurries, gases from processing or furnaces flues, gaseous flows, liquid flows, and other gases and liquids. In one excellent form of the invention, the mercury-adsorbing material includes taconite tailings.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2006Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Ferro, LLCInventors: Larry J. Lehtinen, Jeffrey A. Hansen
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Publication number: 20090272309Abstract: The present invention relates to a watercraft attachment device for joining two watercrafts comprising: a pair of parallel tubes, where said parallel tubes are substantially parallel to the watercrafts; a pair of perpendicular tubes, where said perpendicular tubes are substantially perpendicular to the two parallel tubes and adjoin the parallel tubes; four abutting corners, where the four abutting corners are formed by the intersecting tubes; a plurality of hook attachments extending from the each corner, where said hook attachments extend over a lip of each cockpit within the watercrafts to connect the watercrafts to the watercraft attachment device; and at least one tension cord extending from each corner, where said tensioning cords tighten the hook attachments to secure the watercraft attachment device in place.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2009Publication date: November 5, 2009Inventors: JEFFREY HANSEN, Todo Kaminski
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Publication number: 20090086014Abstract: A local positioning system which includes a video camera, a computer communicating with the video camera and a target object sighted by the video camera and having a target object coordinate system. The computer is adapted to define a relative position and orientation of the video camera with respect to the target object, determine a position and orientation of the video camera in the target object coordinate system, and determine the position of a point of interest in the target object coordinate system. The system can also be used to aim the camera at a previously recorded point of interest on the target object. Contact with, or close proximity to, the target object is not required. A local positioning method is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2007Publication date: April 2, 2009Inventors: Scott Lea, Gary E. Georgeson, James Troy, Marc Matsen, Jeffrey Hansen, Charles Richards, Matthew W. Smith
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Patent number: 7504486Abstract: The present invention provides methods for producing high resolution crystals of ribosomes and ribosomal subunits as well as the crystals produced by such methods. The x-ray diffraction patterns of the crystals provided by the present invention are of sufficiently high resolution for determining the three-dimensional structure of ribosomes and ribosomal subunits, for identifying ligand binding sites on ribosomes and ribosomal subunits, and for molecular modeling of ligands which interact with ribosomes and ribosomal subunits. The present invention provides methods for identifying ribosome-related ligands and methods for designing ligands with specific ribosome-binding properties. Thus, the methods of the present invention may be used to produce ligands which are designed to kill or inhibit any specific target organism(s).Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2003Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Yale UniversityInventors: Thomas A. Steitz, Peter B. Moore, Nenad Ban, Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen
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Publication number: 20080220166Abstract: Polysilicon is formed by pyrolytic decomposition of a silicon-bearing gas and deposition of silicon onto fluidized silicon particles. Multiple submerged spout fluidized bed reactors and reactors having secondary orifices are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2006Publication date: September 11, 2008Inventors: Paul Edward Ege, Jeffrey A. Hansen, Levi C. Allen
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Publication number: 20060136146Abstract: The invention provides methods for producing high resolution crystals of ribosomes and ribosomal subunits as well as crystals produced by such methods. The invention also provides high resolution structures of ribosomal subunits either alone or in combination with protein synthesis inhibitors. The invention provides methods for identifying ribosome-related ligands and methods for designing ligands with specific ribosome-binding properties as well as ligands that may act as protein synthesis inhibitors. Thus, the methods and compositions of the invention may be used to produce ligands that are designed to specifically kill or inhibit the growth of any target organism.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2005Publication date: June 22, 2006Inventors: Thomas Steitz, Peter Moore, Nenad Ban, Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen
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Publication number: 20050233266Abstract: A silver halide emulsion comprising radiation sensitive silver halide grains exhibiting a face centered cubic crystal lattice structure containing a hexacoordination complex of an iridium ion in which at least half of the coordination sites in the hexacoordination complex are provided by halogen or pseudohalogen ligands, and at least one coordination site is provided by a ligand comprising a azole ring containing a chalcogen atom and a nitrogen atom, wherein the azole ring is substituted at the 5-position with a halide ion. The invention provides emulsions containing with a preferred class of iridium dopants which are especially useful for improving reciprocity performance in silver halide emulsions with minimal or no impact on other aspects of photographic performance. These dopants give a superior balance of reciprocity and other photographic properties compared to other iridium dopants exemplified in the prior art.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2004Publication date: October 20, 2005Inventors: Myra Olm, Woodrow McDugle, Jeffrey Hansen, Thomas Pawlik, John Lewis, Jerzy Mydlarz, Robert Wilson, Eric Bell
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Publication number: 20050234227Abstract: The invention provides methods for producing high resolution crystals of ribosomes and ribosomal subunits as well as crystals produced by such methods. The invention also provides high resolution structures of ribosomal subunits either alone or in combination with protein synthesis inhibitors. The invention provides methods for identifying ribosome-related ligands and methods for designing ligands with specific ribosome-binding properties as well as ligands that may act as protein synthesis inhibitors. Thus, the methods and compositions of the invention may be used to produce ligands that are designed to specifically kill or inhibit the growth of any target organism.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2004Publication date: October 20, 2005Applicant: Yale UniversityInventors: Thomas Steitz, Peter Moore, Nenad Ban, Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen
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Patent number: 6952650Abstract: The invention provides methods for producing high resolution crystals of ribosomes and ribosomal subunits as well as crystals produced by such methods. The invention also provides high resolution structures of ribosomal subunits either alone or in combination with protein synthesis inhibitors. The invention provides methods for identifying ribosome-related ligands and methods for designing ligands with specific ribosome-binding properties as well as ligands that may act as protein synthesis inhibitors. Thus, the methods and compositions of the invention may be used to produce ligands that are designed to specifically kill or inhibit the growth of any target organism.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2002Date of Patent: October 4, 2005Assignee: Yale UniversityInventors: Thomas A. Steitz, Peter B. Moore, Nenad Ban, Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen, Joseph A. Ippolito
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Patent number: 6947844Abstract: The invention provides methods for producing high resolution crystals of ribosomes and ribosomal subunits as well as crystals produced by such methods. The invention also provides high resolution structures of ribosomal subunits either alone or in combination with protein synthesis inhibitors. The invention provides methods for identifying ribosome-related ligands and methods for designing ligands with specific ribosome-binding properties as well as ligands that may act as protein synthesis inhibitors. Thus, the methods and compositions of the invention may be used to produce ligands that are designed to specifically kill or inhibit the growth of any target organism.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2001Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: Yale UniversityInventors: Thomas A. Steitz, Peter B. Moore, Nenad Ban, Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen