Patents by Inventor John Sheridan
John Sheridan 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: 20090173246Abstract: A method for controlling the print-to-cut register in a web printing press having at least one print unit printing a web, each print unit having at least one drive driving the print unit independently of the other print units. The method includes presetting a web compensator position so as to set a print-to-cut registration between a print unit and a cross-cutter and controlling the print-to-cut register during printing by controlling the drives of the print units and/or a drive of the cross-cutter. A method for controlling circumferential register, as well as a printing press are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2009Publication date: July 9, 2009Applicant: GOSS INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS, INC.Inventors: John Sheridan Richards, Charles Reif Hammond
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Patent number: 7523705Abstract: A method for controlling the print-to-cut register in a web printing press having at least one print unit printing a web, each print unit having at least one drive driving the print unit independently of the other print units. The method includes presetting a web compensator position so as to set a print-to-cut registration between a print unit and a cross-cutter and controlling the print-to-cut register during printing by controlling the drives of the print units and/or a drive of the cross-cutter. A method for controlling circumferential register, as well as a printing press are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2004Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventors: John Sheridan Richards, Charles Reif Hammond
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Patent number: 7417216Abstract: Ultra-low leakage current backside-illuminated semiconductor photodiode arrays are fabricated using a method of formation of a transparent, conducting bias electrode layer that avoids high-temperature processing of the substrate after the wafer has been gettered. As a consequence, the component of the reverse-bias leakage current associated with strain, crystallographic defects or impurities introduced during elevated temperature processing subsequent to gettering can be kept extremely low. An optically transparent, conductive bias electrode layer, serving as both an optical window and an ohmic backside equipotential contact surface for the photodiodes, is fabricated by etching through the polysilicon gettering layer and a portion of the thickness of heavily-doped crystalline silicon layer formed within, and near the back of, the substrate during the gettering process.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2006Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Digirad CorporationInventors: Lars S. Carlson, Shulai Zhao, John Sheridan, Alan Mollet
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Publication number: 20080136081Abstract: A broadsheet newspaper printing press has at least one print unit printing at least one web of material and a folder. The folder has a cross-cutter to cut the web of material into broadsheet newspapers, a tucker cylinder having a gripper gripping the broadsheet newspapers at a lead edge and a tucking blade for forming a cross-fold in the broadsheet newspapers, and a jaw cylinder or fold rollers to receive the cross-folded broadsheet newspapers from the tucker cylinder at the cross-fold, the gripper being located with respect to the tucking blade so that the cross-fold is located at between 33% and 45% or 55% and 67% of the height of the newspaper.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2008Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventor: John Sheridan Richards
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Patent number: 7358623Abstract: A wind powered generator that includes first and second current generators arranged to generate electric current in response to relative rotation between the two current generators. At least one rotary part having vanes is operatively connected to one of the first and second current generators and arranged to rotate in a first direction around an axial shaft when exposed to a flow of air perpendicular to the shaft. The axial shaft is configured to receive electrical connections therethrough. The electrical connections are configured to provide an electrical connection between the current generators and an electrical generator.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2004Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Intec Power Holdings LimitedInventors: Malcolm Colin Richards, Margaret Sheridan, legal representative, Anthony Whitham, Bernard John Sheridan
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Publication number: 20080038163Abstract: A device for performing biological analysis may include at least one reaction chamber configured to receive at least one sample for biological analysis and a thermal system configured to modulate a temperature of the at least one reaction chamber to cycle a temperature of the at least one biological sample. The thermal system may include a cooling system configured to cool the at least one reaction chamber. The cooling system may include a cooling fluid source positioned distally from the at least one reaction chamber, the cooling fluid source being in flow communication with at least one conduit configured to flow cooling fluid from the cooling fluid source to at least one location in thermal communication with the at least one reaction chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2007Publication date: February 14, 2008Applicant: Applera CorporationInventors: Steven Boege, John Sheridan, Ali Aslam, Dennis Lehto, Julio Focaracci, Alexander Dromaretsky, Thomas Au, Mark Oldham, Eric Henderson, Vinod Mirchandani, Eric Nordman, Marc Haberstroh, Johannes Sluis
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Patent number: 7297927Abstract: Ultra-low leakage current backside-illuminated semiconductor photodiode arrays are fabricated using a method of formation of a transparent, conducting bias electrode layer that avoids high-temperature processing of the substrate after the wafer has been gettered. As a consequence, the component of the reverse-bias leakage current associated with strain, crystallographic defects or impurities introduced during elevated temperature processing subsequent to gettering can be kept extremely low. An optically transparent, conductive bias electrode layer, serving as both an optical window and an ohmic backside equipotential contact surface for the photodiodes, is fabricated by etching through the polysilicon gettering layer and a portion of the thickness of heavily-doped crystalline silicon layer formed within, and near the back of, the substrate during the gettering process.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignee: Digirad CorporationInventors: Lars S. Carlson, Shulai Zhao, John Sheridan, Alan Mollet
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Patent number: 7256386Abstract: Ultra-low leakage current backside-illuminated semiconductor photodiode arrays are fabricated using a method of formation of a transparent, conducting bias electrode layer that avoids high-temperature processing of the substrate after the wafer has been gettered. As a consequence, the component of the reverse-bias leakage current associated with strain, crystallographic defects or impurities introduced during elevated temperature processing subsequent to gettering can be kept extremely low. An optically transparent, conductive bias electrode layer, serving as both an optical window and an ohmic backside equipotential contact surface for the photodiodes, is fabricated by etching through the polysilicon gettering layer and a portion of the thickness of heavily-doped crystalline silicon layer formed within, and near the back of, the substrate during the gettering process.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2004Date of Patent: August 14, 2007Assignee: Digirad CorporationInventors: Lars S. Carlson, Shulai Zhao, John Sheridan, Alan Mollet
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Patent number: 7207271Abstract: A method for controlling a print-to-cut register in a shaftless web printing press having a first print unit having a first plate cylinder and first blanket cylinder for printing a web, at least one independent drive for the first print unit, and a folder having a cross cutter for cutting the web. The method includes printing the web using the first plate cylinder and first blanket cylinder so as to form at least one printed section of the web; sensing the print-to-cut register of the at least one printed section; and controlling the print-to-cut register of the first plate cylinder during printing via the first drive as a function of the sensing. The controlling includes pulling the first plate cylinder off impression and phasing the first plate cylinder with respect to the cross cutter using the independent drive. A method for controlling circumferential register and a printing press is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2006Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventors: Charles Reif Hammond, Robert Michael Pimpis, John Sheridan Richards, Jackson Hacker Jones
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Publication number: 20070012866Abstract: Ultra-low leakage current backside-illuminated semiconductor photodiode arrays are fabricated using a method of formation of a transparent, conducting bias electrode layer that avoids high-temperature processing of the substrate after the wafer has been gettered. As a consequence, the component of the reverse-bias leakage current associated with strain, crystallographic defects or impurities introduced during elevated temperature processing subsequent to gettering can be kept extremely low. An optically transparent, conductive bias electrode layer, serving as both an optical window and an ohmic backside equipotential contact surface for the photodiodes, is fabricated by etching through the polysilicon gettering layer and a portion of the thickness of heavily-doped crystalline silicon layer formed within, and near the back of, the substrate during the gettering process.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2006Publication date: January 18, 2007Inventors: Lars Carlson, Shulai Zhao, John Sheridan, Alan Mollet
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Publication number: 20060277144Abstract: A system and method for allowing simplified electronic transfer of funds in files subject to sender-defined access constraints. In one aspect of the system and method, a digital currency file is transmitted as an attachment to an electronic message. The sender of the digital currency file defines the level of security associated with the file, i.e., what the recipient must provide to access the funds.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2006Publication date: December 7, 2006Applicants: JOVE CORPORATION, NATIONAL CENTER FOR MANUFACTURING SCIENCESInventors: Stephen Ranzini, John Sheridan
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Publication number: 20060264758Abstract: An ultrasound catheter is described herein for insertion into a cavity such as a blood vessel to facilitate imaging within a vasculature. The catheter comprises an elongate flexible shaft, a capacitive microfabricated ultrasonic transducer, and a sonic reflector. The elongate flexible shaft has a proximate end and a distal end. A capacitive microfabricated ultrasonic transducer (cMUT) is mounted to the shaft near the distal end. The reflector is positioned such that a reflective surface redirects ultrasonic waves to and from the transducer. In other embodiments, the catheter comprises a plurality of cMUT elements and operates without the use of reflectors. In further embodiments, integrated circuitry is incorporated into the design.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2006Publication date: November 23, 2006Applicant: Volcano CorporationInventors: Norman Hossack, Blair Walker, Stephen Davies, Donald Mamayek, John Sheridan
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Patent number: 7120606Abstract: A system and method for allowing simplified electronic transfer of funds in files subject to sender-defined access constraints. In one aspect of the system and method, a digital currency file is transmitted as an attachment to an electronic message. The sender of the digital currency file defines the level of security associated with the file, i.e., what the recipient must provide to access the funds.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2000Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignees: Jove Corporation, National Center for Manufacturing SciencesInventors: Stephen Lange Ranzini, John Sheridan
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Patent number: 7096789Abstract: A method for controlling a print-to-cut register in a shaftless web printing press having a first print unit having a first plate cylinder and first blanket cylinder for printing a web, at least one independent drive for the first print unit, and a folder having a cross cutter for cutting the web. The method includes printing the web using the first plate cylinder and first blanket cylinder so as to form at least one printed section of the web; sensing the print-to-cut register of the at least one printed section; and controlling the print-to-cut register of the first plate cylinder during printing via the first drive as a function of the sensing. The controlling includes pulling the first plate cylinder off impression and phasing the first plate cylinder with respect to the cross cutter using the independent drive. A method for controlling circumferential register and a printing press is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2004Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventors: Charles Reif Hammond, Robert Michael Pimpis, John Sheridan Richars, Jackson Hacker Jones
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Publication number: 20060175677Abstract: Ultra-low leakage current backside-illuminated semiconductor photodiode arrays are fabricated using a method of formation of a transparent, conducting bias electrode layer that avoids high-temperature processing of the substrate after the wafer has been gettered. As a consequence, the component of the reverse-bias leakage current associated with strain, crystallographic defects or impurities introduced during elevated temperature processing subsequent to gettering can be kept extremely low. An optically transparent, conductive bias electrode layer, serving as both an optical window and an ohmic backside equipotential contact surface for the photodiodes, is fabricated by etching through the polysilicon gettering layer and a portion of the thickness of heavily-doped crystalline silicon layer formed within, and near the back of, the substrate during the gettering process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2006Publication date: August 10, 2006Inventors: Lars Carlson, Shulai Zhao, John Sheridan, Alan Mollet
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Publication number: 20060175539Abstract: Ultra-low leakage current backside-illuminated semiconductor photodiode arrays are fabricated using a method of formation of a transparent, conducting bias electrode layer that avoids high-temperature processing of the substrate after the wafer has been gettered. As a consequence, the component of the reverse-bias leakage current associated with strain, crystallographic defects or impurities introduced during elevated temperature processing subsequent to gettering can be kept extremely low. An optically transparent, conductive bias electrode layer, serving as both an optical window and an ohmic backside equipotential contact surface for the photodiodes, is fabricated by etching through the polysilicon gettering layer and a portion of the thickness of heavily-doped crystalline silicon layer formed within, and near the back of, the substrate during the gettering process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2006Publication date: August 10, 2006Inventors: Lars Carlson, Shulai Zhao, John Sheridan, Alan Mollet
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Publication number: 20060157811Abstract: Ultra-low leakage current backside-illuminated semiconductor photodiode arrays are fabricated using a method of formation of a transparent, conducting bias electrode layer that avoids high-temperature processing of the substrate after the wafer has been gettered. As a consequence, the component of the reverse-bias leakage current associated with strain, crystallographic defects or impurities introduced during elevated temperature processing subsequent to gettering can be kept extremely low. An optically transparent, conductive bias electrode layer, serving as both an optical window and an ohmic backside equipotential contact surface for the photodiodes, is fabricated by etching through the polysilicon gettering layer and a portion of the thickness of heavily-doped crystalline silicon layer formed within, and near the back of, the substrate during the gettering process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2006Publication date: July 20, 2006Inventors: Lars Carlson, Shulai Zhao, John Sheridan, Alan Mollet
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Patent number: 7075705Abstract: A method for wavelength-selective mixing and/or distribution of polychromatic light. When mixing polychromatic light, lights having only one wavelength are successively fed to each member of a selective chain to form a partial spectrum, and when distributing chromatic light, one wavelength is filtered out of each member and the remaining spectrum is fed after reflection to the next member for being further decomposed. A chain of photonic crystals is used both for mixing and distributing and a wavelength-selective coupler/decoupler is associated to each crystal. Fields of application include the wavelength-selective mixture or distribution of polychromatic light and spectrometric measurements and environment monitoring.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1998Date of Patent: July 11, 2006Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AGInventors: Hans Wilfried Peter Koops, John Sheridan, Martin Zuern
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Publication number: 20060141420Abstract: A pontic (10) having a prefabricated notch, channel or slot (11) to physically engage and ensure a secure mechanical lock with the dental appliance (30). The invention also pertains to a method of fabricating a dental appliance (30) and a kit for facilitating the same. The invention has particular application to thermoformed, removable appliances.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2005Publication date: June 29, 2006Applicant: Dentsply Research and Development Corp.Inventors: Dann Schwartz, John Sheridan
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Patent number: 7044058Abstract: A method for presetting motor phase in a web printing press includes providing a mark on a printing form, the mark being a function of a desired preset phase for a motor driving the printing form during printing. The mark is read using a sensor, the sensor having a sensor output. The phase of the motor is preset as a function of the sensor output. A printing form and web printing press are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2003Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventor: John Sheridan Richards