Patents by Inventor Kenneth Preston
Kenneth Preston 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: 12059380Abstract: An upgrade system upgrades a motorized mobile chair to a smart motorized mobile chair. The motorized mobile chair has a processing system comprising at least two processors. The upgrade system comprises a plurality of object detection sensors and at least one processing unit connected between at least a first one of the at least two processors of the processing system and at least a second one of the at least two processors of the processing system. The processing unit receives sensor data from at least one of the plurality of object detection sensors, receives at least one control signal transmitted from the first processor, the control signal comprising data, modifies or does not modify the data of the control signal based on at least the sensor data, and transmits the modified or not modified control signal, the transmitted control signal to be received by the second processor.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2023Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: Luci Mobility, Inc.Inventors: Jered H. Dean, Dan A. Preston, Kenneth Schofield, Kevin J. Lannen, Karl A. Grueschow
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Patent number: 7706728Abstract: An apparatus for loading one or more donor rolls of a developer unit, comprising a developer housing having a reservoir for a developer material, a rotatable first donor roll that delivers the toner onto a moving photoconductive member, a trim roll that receives developer material from the reservoir and delivers the developer material to a first magnetic brush roller that delivers toner to the first donor roll, and a rotatable second magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the first magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the first donor roll. The apparatus may further comprise a rotatable second donor roll that receives the toner from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner onto the photoconductive member, and a rotatable third magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the second donor roll.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2007Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Palghat S. Ramesh, John F. Knapp, Paul John McConville, Daniel M. Bray, Robert Pictor, Todd Kenneth Preston, Lawrence Floyd, Jr., James Edward Williams, Michael Donald Thompson
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Patent number: 7660551Abstract: An apparatus for loading one or more donor rolls of a developer unit, comprising a developer housing having a reservoir for a developer material, a rotatable first donor roll that delivers the toner onto a moving photoconductive member, a rotatable first magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the reservoir and delivers the toner to the first donor roll, and a rotatable second magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the first magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the first donor roll. The apparatus may further comprise a rotatable second donor roll that receives the toner from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner onto the photoconductive member, and a rotatable third magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the second donor roll.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2007Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Palghat S. Ramesh, John F. Knapp, Daniel M. Bray, Robert Pictor, Todd Kenneth Preston, Lawrence Floyd, Jr., James Edward Williams, Michael Donald Thompson
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Publication number: 20090040764Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for successively and repeatedly illuminating a number of remote areas collectively defining a larger area with light in the form of a beam or beams to induce a physiological blink response or optical blink reflex in the illuminated eye of an animal (e.g., a human) within the area being illuminated. Each area being intermittently illuminated long enough to induce a blink response from an animal (e.g. human) subject there, after which another area(s) is illuminated in the meantime while illumination of the initial area is not required since the subject(s) there would still be recovering from their blink response.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2006Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: Thales Holdings UK PLCInventors: Adam Alexander Hugues, Fergus O'Neill, Kenneth Preston
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Publication number: 20080226354Abstract: An apparatus for loading one or more donor rolls of a developer unit, comprising a developer housing having a reservoir for a developer material, a rotatable first donor roll that delivers the toner onto a moving photoconductive member, a rotatable first magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the reservoir and delivers the toner to the first donor roll, and a rotatable second magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the first magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the first donor roll. The apparatus may further comprise a rotatable second donor roll that receives the toner from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner onto the photoconductive member, and a rotatable third magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the second donor roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Palghat S. RAMESH, John F. KNAPP, Daniel M. BRAY, Robert PICTOR, Todd Kenneth PRESTON, Lawrence FLOYD, James Edward WILLIAMS, Michael Donald THOMPSON
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Publication number: 20080226353Abstract: An apparatus for loading one or more donor rolls of a developer unit, comprising a developer housing having a reservoir for a developer material, a rotatable first donor roll that delivers the toner onto a moving photoconductive member, a trim roll that receives developer material from the reservoir and delivers the developer material to a first magnetic brush roller that delivers toner to the first donor roll, and a rotatable second magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the first magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the first donor roll. The apparatus may further comprise a rotatable second donor roll that receives the toner from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner onto the photoconductive member, and a rotatable third magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the second donor roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Palghat S. RAMESH, John F. KNAPP, Paul John MCCONVILLE, Daniel M. BRAY, Robert PICTOR, Todd Kenneth PRESTON, Lawrence FLOYD, James Edward WILLIAMS, Michael Donald THOMPSON
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Publication number: 20080137341Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for successively and repeatedly illuminating a number of remote areas collectively defining a larger area with light in the form of a beam or beams to induce a physiological blink response or optical blink reflex in the illuminated eye of an animal (e.g., a human) within the area being illuminated. Each area being intermittently illuminated long enough to induce a blink response from an animal (e.g. human) subject there, after which another area(s) is illuminated in the meantime while illumination of the initial area is not required since the subject(s) there would still be recovering from their blink response.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2005Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: THALES HOLDINGS UK PLCInventors: Adam Alexander Hughes, Fergus O'Neill, Kenneth Preston
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Publication number: 20070107700Abstract: A fuel pump module is provided for delivering fuel to an engine. The module includes a fuel pump for pumping fuel to the engine. The fuel pump is constructed and arranged to be mounted to a side of a fuel tank. A filter is provided for filtering fuel prior entering the fuel pump. The filter includes spring structure operatively associated therewith to bias the filter into engagement with a bottom of the fuel tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2006Publication date: May 17, 2007Inventors: Jeffery Milton, Kenneth Preston
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Publication number: 20070039963Abstract: An improved sender module closure system for providing a reliable, sealed interface between a sender module and a fuel tank at the access port thereof, includes an interfacing ring set composed of a base ring and a helmeted lock ring. The base ring is permanently connected to the fuel tank at the access port, and has a plurality of upstanding lock fingers. The helmeted lock ring is a separate piece, composed of a lock ring component and an integrally connected helmet component. The lock ring component has a plurality of finger apertures, one for receiving each lock finger. The helmet component protectively covers the sender module and has helmet apertures for external access to connectors of the sender module.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2005Publication date: February 22, 2007Inventors: Richard Krentz, Gerard Betz, Dale Gaden, Mitchell Hart, Richard Novaco, Kenneth Preston, Wesley Adams, M. Siddiqui
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Publication number: 20060162195Abstract: An apparatus for dewatering dredge spoils includes a floating barge having a planar upper surface or deck. One end of the barge, such as the stem, is partially flooded or otherwise ballasted so that the deck slopes downwardly from the bow toward the stem. Dredge spoils removed from a waterway are deposited onto the bow where they flow down toward the stem. A plurality of concrete blocks on the deck form an attenuator that, in turn, defines one or more settling ponds on the surface of the barge. A weir across the stem of the barge forms an additional settling pond at the rear of the barge. Solids suspended in the water removed from the waterway settle out onto the deck when the dredge spoils are deposited onto the bow. Remaining solids suspended in the water deposit onto the deck as the water flows through the settling ponds. The relatively clear water that remains then flows back into the waterway off the stem of the sloped barge after passing through the settling ponds.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2005Publication date: July 27, 2006Inventors: Brian Langdon, Kenneth Preston, Thomas Coultas