Patents by Inventor Keith Chapman
Keith Chapman 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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Patent number: 11377803Abstract: A method of manufacturing an orthotropic deck panel includes cambering a deck plate of the orthotropic deck panel to a first degree of camber in a longitudinal direction, cambering the deck plate to a second degree of camber in a transverse direction, and attaching a rib member of the orthotropic deck panel to the deck plate by welding the rib member to the deck plate. The first degree of camber corresponds to a shape of a surface of which the orthotropic deck panel is a part, and the second degree of camber is configured such that the deck plate is flatter in the transverse direction after the rib member is welded to the deck plate than when the deck plate is being cambered in the transverse direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Vigor Industrial LLCInventors: Terrance J. Aarnio, Keith Chapman, Bill Crittendon, Thomas J. Hickman, Daniel Miller, Christopher Palmer, Perry Royland, Vern Taute, David Ward, Oded Maman
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Patent number: 11311022Abstract: A method for producing a mixture of oil and fluid food product includes placing a funnel into a pressure tank such that a stem of the funnel extends at least halfway down into the pressure tank. The pressure tank is flushed with nitrogen. Oil flows into the pressure tank through the funnel. A flow of nitrogen into the pressure tank is maintained through a side inlet of the pressure tank. Oil is dispensed from a pressure tank into the transfer line flowing a flow of fluid food product from a batch tank. The dispensed oil is dispersed into the flow of fluid food product in a inline shear mixer creating oil-in-fluid food product droplets. The oil-in-fluid food product droplets flow to the batch tank with the flow of fluid food product. The oil-in-fluid food product droplets are distributed in a volume of fluid food product in the batch tank.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: WHITEWAVE SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Elle Ann Clarke, Dennis Keith Chapman, Gary Thomas Jerger
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Publication number: 20200301898Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for accelerating Big Data operations by utilizing subgraph templates for a hardware accelerator of a computational storage device. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises performing a query with a dataflow compiler, performing a stage acceleration analyzer function including executing a matching algorithm to determine similarities between sub-graphs of an application program and unique templates from an available library of templates; and selecting at least one template that at least partially matches the sub-graphs with the at least one template being associated with a linear set of operators to be executed sequentially within a stage of the Big Data operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: BigStream Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Balavinayagam Samynathan, Keith Chapman, Mehdi Nik, Behnam Robatmili, Shahrzad Mirkhani, Maysam Lavasani, John David Davis, Danesh Tavana, Weiwei Chen
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Publication number: 20200208360Abstract: A method of manufacturing an orthotropic deck panel includes cambering a deck plate of the orthotropic deck panel to a first degree of camber in a longitudinal direction, cambering the deck plate to a second degree of camber in a transverse direction, and attaching a rib member of the orthotropic deck panel to the deck plate by welding the rib member to the deck plate. The first degree of camber corresponds to a shape of a surface of which the orthotropic deck panel is a part, and the second degree of camber is configured such that the deck plate is flatter in the transverse direction after the rib member is welded to the deck plate than when the deck plate is being cambered in the transverse direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2020Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: Vigor Industrial LLCInventors: Terrance J. Aarnio, Keith Chapman, Bill Crittendon, Thomas J. Hickman, Daniel Miller, Christopher Palmer, Perry Royland, Vern Taute, David Ward, Oded Maman
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Patent number: 10590615Abstract: A method of manufacturing an orthotropic deck panel includes securing a rib member in a first fixture, beveling an edge surface of the rib member while the rib member is secured in the first fixture, and releasing the rib member from the first fixture, attaching the rib member to a deck plate, and attaching a floor beam to the rib member and the deck plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Vigor Industrial LLCInventors: Terrance J. Aarnio, Keith Chapman, Bill Crittendon, Thomas J. Hickman, Daniel Miller, Christopher Palmer, Perry Royland, Vern Taute, David Ward, Oded Maman
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Patent number: 10279322Abstract: An apparatus for distributing oil into fluid food product includes a batch tank, a transfer line, a pressure tank, a funnel, an oil dispenser, an inline shear mixer, and a flow line. The batch tank holds a volume of fluid food product. The transfer line is in fluid connection with the batch tank. The pressure tank holds a volume of oil. The funnel is disposed through a top opening in the pressure tank and dispenses oil into the pressure tank. A stem portion of the funnel extends at least halfway into an interior of the pressure tank. The funnel includes at least one vent. The oil dispenser dispenses oil from the pressure tank into a flow of fluid food product from the batch tank. The inline shear mixer mixes the fluid food product and the oil. The flow line flows the fluid food product-and-oil mixture to the batch tank.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: WhiteWave Services, Inc.Inventors: Elle Ann Clarke, Dennis Keith Chapman, Gary Thomas Jerger
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Publication number: 20180236418Abstract: An apparatus for distributing oil into fluid food product includes a batch tank, a transfer line, a pressure tank, a funnel, an oil dispenser, an inline shear mixer, and a flow line. The batch tank holds a volume of fluid food product. The transfer line is in fluid connection with the batch tank. The pressure tank holds a volume of oil. The funnel is disposed through a top opening in the pressure tank and dispenses oil into the pressure tank. A stem portion of the funnel extends at least halfway into an interior of the pressure tank. The funnel includes at least one vent. The oil dispenser dispenses oil from the pressure tank into a flow of fluid food product from the batch tank. The inline shear mixer mixes the fluid food product and the oil. The flow line flows the fluid food product-and-oil mixture to the batch tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2017Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventors: Elle Ann Clarke, Dennis Keith Chapman, Gary Thomas Jerger
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Publication number: 20180235250Abstract: A method for producing a mixture of oil and fluid food product includes placing a funnel into a pressure tank such that a stem of the funnel extends at least halfway down into the pressure tank. The pressure tank is flushed with nitrogen. Oil flows into the pressure tank through the funnel. A flow of nitrogen into the pressure tank is maintained through a side inlet of the pressure tank. Oil is dispensed from a pressure tank into the transfer line flowing a flow of fluid food product from a batch tank. The dispensed oil is dispersed into the flow of fluid food product in a inline shear mixer creating oil-in-fluid food product droplets. The oil-in-fluid food product droplets flow to the batch tank with the flow of fluid food product. The oil-in-fluid food product droplets are distributed in a volume of fluid food product in the batch tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2017Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventors: Elle Ann Clarke, Dennis Keith Chapman, Gary Thomas Jerger
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Publication number: 20170370054Abstract: A method of manufacturing an orthotropic deck panel includes securing a rib member in a first fixture, beveling an edge surface of the rib member while the rib member is secured in the first fixture, and releasing the rib member from the first fixture, attaching the rib member to a deck plate, and attaching a floor beam to the rib member and the deck plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2016Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicant: Vigor Industrial LLCInventors: Terrance J. Aarnio, Keith Chapman, Bill Crittendon, Thomas J. Hickman, Daniel Miller, Christopher Palmer, Perry Royland, Vern Taute, David Ward, Oded Maman
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Patent number: 8297612Abstract: A media picking device for an image forming apparatus having a sensing mechanism for detecting the leading and trailing edge of a sheet of media being picked from a media input tray. The device includes a pick mechanism for picking the top-most media sheet; and a sensing mechanism including a sensor and a flag positioned adjacent the pick tire and moveable between at least two positions, the flag having a first end contacting the surface of a picked sheet; the flag moving from a first position to a second position when the leading edge of the picked sheet passes by and moving from the second position to the first position when the trailing edge of the picked sheet passes by. The sensing mechanism providing an output signal corresponding to the movement of the flag. The sensor is one of a photointerrupter, a proximity sensor, a potentiometer, and a switch.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2010Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Lexmark International Inc.Inventors: Danny Keith Chapman, Richard Winston Thomas
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Patent number: 8195083Abstract: An imaging apparatus including an image transfer device, a first motor, a redrive section and a duplexing section. The first motor is drivingly connected to the image transfer device. The reversible redrive section is downstream from the image transfer device, and the reversible redrive section includes a second motor. The duplexing section includes a third motor. The duplexing section is positioned to receive media from the redrive section. The first motor, the second motor and the third motor are each independently controlled.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2008Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.Inventors: Hassan Bahrami, Danny Keith Chapman, Joon Won Ha, Kevin Dean Schoedinger
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Publication number: 20110304093Abstract: A media picking device for an image forming apparatus having a sensing mechanism for detecting the leading and trailing edge of a sheet of media being picked while in a media input tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2010Publication date: December 15, 2011Inventors: Danny Keith Chapman, Richard Winston Thomas
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Publication number: 20110260834Abstract: An imaging apparatus having RFID tags associated with wearable components of a system to track the usage and wear levels of the wearable components. The RFID tags can be antennas formed from conductive material impregnated in the wear components such that the RFID tags are worn with the wearing of the wear components. The RFID tags may also be RFID chip tags having memory for storing information, a portion of which is updated in real time. The presence or absence of the impregnated antenna RFID tags or the updated information stored in the chip tags may be used to track usage and wear level of the wear components.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2010Publication date: October 27, 2011Inventors: Danny Keith Chapman, Kevin Dean Schoedinger, Mark Stephen Underwood
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Publication number: 20100072938Abstract: Correction of rotary encoder eccentricity in an image forming device having a motor controller using period and position pulse train feedback signals. A motor includes an encoder disc rotating with the motor and at least two encoder sensors disposed at different circumferential positions about the encoder disc. A controller may use a high speed clock to calculate a corrected speed count based on speed counts determined from the number of clock cycles that elapse per cycle of pulse trains from the encoders. The controller may also calculate a corrected position count based at least partly on one or more position counts determined from the number of clock cycles that elapse between periodic sampling points and transitions of encoder pulse trains. The corrected position count may also be calculated based on a position count and one or more speed counts.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2009Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Brian Anthony Reichert, Steven Michael Turney, Danny Keith Chapman, Thomas Austin Fields
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Patent number: 7633256Abstract: Correction of rotary encoder eccentricity in an image forming device having a motor controller using period and position pulse train feedback signals. A motor includes an encoder disc rotating with the motor and at least two encoder sensors disposed at different circumferential positions about the encoder disc. A controller may use a high speed clock to calculate a corrected speed count based on speed counts determined from the number of clock cycles that elapse per cycle of pulse trains from the encoders. The controller may also calculate a corrected position count based at least partly on one or more position counts determined from the number of clock cycles that elapse between periodic sampling points and transitions of encoder pulse trains. The corrected position count may also be calculated based on a position count and one or more speed counts.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2005Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.Inventors: Brian Anthony Reichert, Steven Michael Turney, Danny Keith Chapman, Thomas Austin Fields
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Patent number: 7613407Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a waste toner system that collects waste toner in a waste toner container. An amount of waste toner collected in the container is increased by using a driven toner distributing member that distributes accumulated toner within the container. The toner distributing member may be driven by a shared speed-controlled motor that further drives an image forming process member. The waste toner system may detect the accumulation of waste toner by monitoring a drive control circuit while the toner distributing member is being driven. For example, a logic circuit may detect the accumulation of waste toner based on monitoring a predetermined frequency of interest of a frequency domain transform of a motor control signal, the frequency of interest associated with the shared motor driving the toner distributing member.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2006Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Inventors: Michael William Craig, Steven Michael Turney, Danny Keith Chapman
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Publication number: 20090166944Abstract: An imaging apparatus including an image transfer device, a first motor, a redrive section and a duplexing section. The first motor is drivingly connected to the image transfer device. The reversible redrive section is downstream from the image transfer device, and the reversible redrive section includes a second motor. The duplexing section includes a third motor. The duplexing section is positioned to receive media from the redrive section. The first motor, the second motor and the third motor are each independently controlled.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Hassan Bahrami, Danny Keith Chapman, Joon Won Ha, Kevin Dean Schoedinger
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Publication number: 20070173634Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods for one-step purification of organic polymers using tangential flow filtration. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to methods for size fractionation of heterogeneous organic polymers, such as poly(ethylene glycol) derivatives, using tangential flow filtration. The present invention also relates to purification of low molecular weight monofunctional organic polymer derivatives produced by procedures in which high molecular weight bifunctional poly(ethylene glycol) impurities are removed. The present invention further relates to purification of high molecular weight branched polymer products from low molecular weight starting materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2006Publication date: July 26, 2007Inventors: Nils Olsson, Keith Chapman, Jerod Wooldridge, Robert Winslow
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Patent number: 7245103Abstract: A method of controlling the speed and position of a motor includes receiving a pulse train indicative of the speed of the motor, and a periodic signal at a frequency greater than the pulse train. The number of cycles of the periodic signal per cycle of the pulse train is counted, and compared to a predetermined number. The speed of the motor is adjusted to match the count to the predetermined number, thus effecting speed control. A command position signal defining a plurality of sampling points is generated. The number of cycles of the periodic signal between a sampling point of the command position signal and an operative edge of the pulse train is counted and compared to a predetermined number. The speed of the motor is further adjusted to match the count to the predetermined number, thus effecting position control.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2003Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.Inventors: Danny Keith Chapman, Steven Michael Turney
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Patent number: 7205738Abstract: A motor control circuit uses a stored commutation table to effect time-based commutation of a brushless dc motor. Each entry in the commutation table defines a motor winding commutation state, and an exemplary method of open-loop motor control based on the commutation table comprises commutating the motor based on sequentially selecting table entries at a desired selection rate. That is, motor speed is controlled precisely by controlling the sequential selection rate rather than by relying on feedback from the motor. However, motor feedback for closed-loop control may be used in some modes of operation. For example, the method may include closed-loop control or open-loop control depending on the motor speed range, and may transition from closed-loop to open-loop control.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2004Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.Inventors: Danny Keith Chapman, Thomas Austin Fields, Steven Michael Turney