Patents by Inventor Marcus Willis
Marcus Willis 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: 20240058974Abstract: A hair clipper attachment comb is provided for use with a powered hair clipper having a clipper bladeset including a stationary blade and a moving blade reciprocating laterally relative to the stationary blade. Included on the attachment comb is a comb base having a rear edge in operational relationship with the stationary blade and an opposite front edge, the base defining a centerline extending between the rear edge and the front edge. A plurality of comb teeth are provided, each having a tooth base associated with the front edge and a tip opposite the tooth base. The teeth are arranged on the comb to have a nonuniform spacing between adjacent teeth relative to the centerline, such that the spacings of the teeth are bilaterally symmetrical about the centerline.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: George William GASSMAN, Steven Wayne ARNDT, Marcus Willi Karl Gerhard BOSCH
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Patent number: 11692273Abstract: A method applies a titanium aluminide alloy on a substrate. The titanium aluminide alloy has a gamma phase proportion of at least 50% based on an overall composition of the titanium aluminide. The method includes: pretreating a surface of the substrate; heat treating titanium aluminide powder particles at a temperature range of 600° C. to 1000° C. to increase the proportion of the gamma phase; cold spraying the heat-treated powder particles onto the substrate or a part of the substrate to form a layer of titanium aluminide; and thermally post-treating the layer of titanium aluminide applied to the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: LUFTHANSA TECHNIK AGInventors: Jan Oke Peters, Thomas Maria Gartner, Matthias Mecklenburg, Marcus Willi Rackel, Emine Bakan, Georg Mauer
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Publication number: 20210071305Abstract: A method applies a titanium aluminide alloy on a substrate. The titanium aluminide alloy has a gamma phase proportion of at least 50% based on an overall composition of the titanium aluminide. The method includes: pretreating a surface of the substrate; heat treating titanium aluminide powder particles at a temperature range of 600° C. to 1000° C. to increase the proportion of the gamma phase; cold spraying the heat-treated powder particles onto the substrate or a part of the substrate to form a layer of titanium aluminide; and thermally post-treating the layer of titanium aluminide applied to the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Jan Oke Peters, Thomas Maria Gartner, Matthias Mecklenburg, Marcus Willi Rackel, Emine Bakan, Georg Mauer
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Patent number: 10521620Abstract: A card handling device is provided comprising a housing having an entrance aperture through which a card can be delivered and an exit aperture from which the card can leave the housing, wherein the exit aperture is located lower than the entrance aperture. A floor member is provided within the housing, onto which a card is delivered after passing through the entrance aperture. The floor member is movable between a first orientation in which it extends towards the exit aperture such that a card can slide along the floor member, under the influence of gravity, towards the exit aperture, and a second orientation in which it extends away from said exit aperture so that in use a card can slide along the floor member under the influence of gravity away from the exit aperture. A control system is also provided for controlling movement of the floor member between the first orientation and the second orientation.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2015Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: ASAHI SEIKO (EUROPE) LTD.Inventor: Marcus Willis
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Patent number: 10229293Abstract: A card handling device is provided comprising a housing having an entrance aperture through which a card can be delivered and an exit aperture from which the card can leave the housing, wherein the exit aperture is located lower than the entrance aperture. A floor member is provided within the housing, onto which a card is delivered after passing through the entrance aperture. The floor member is movable between a first orientation in which it extends towards the exit aperture such that a card can slide along the floor member, under the influence of gravity, towards the exit aperture, and a second orientation in which it extends away from said exit aperture so that in use a card can slide along the floor member under the influence of gravity away from the exit aperture. A control system is also provided for controlling movement of the floor member between the first orientation and the second orientation.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: ASAHI SEIKO (EUROPE) LTD.Inventor: Marcus Willis
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Patent number: 10121308Abstract: A card dispenser is provided comprising a capture chamber configured to receive a card dispensed from a read position by a card feed mechanism, the capture chamber comprising walls defining an exit aperture for dispensing a card to a user. A capture flap is moveable from a first orientation to a second orientation, wherein in the first orientation the capture flap is arranged to block the exit aperture so as to prevent a card from passing through said exit aperture, and in the second orientation the capture flap is arranged to guide a card through said exit aperture. If a first output is received from a communication module, the capture flap is held at the first orientation such that a card dispensed from a read position moves under the influence of gravity through the capture chamber into a card bin.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: ASAHI SEIKO CO., LTD.Inventor: Marcus Willis
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Publication number: 20180082512Abstract: A card dispenser is provided comprising a capture chamber configured to receive a card dispensed from a read position by a card feed mechanism, the capture chamber comprising walls defining an exit aperture for dispensing a card to a user. A capture flap is moveable from a first orientation to a second orientation, wherein in the first orientation the capture flap is arranged to block the exit aperture so as to prevent a card from passing through said exit aperture, and in the second orientation the capture flap is arranged to guide a card through said exit aperture. If a first output is received from a communication module, the capture flap is held at the first orientation such that a card dispensed from a read position moves under the influence of gravity through the capture chamber into a card bin.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventor: Marcus Willis
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Publication number: 20170256116Abstract: A card handling device is provided comprising a housing having an entrance aperture through which a card can be delivered and an exit aperture from which the card can leave the housing, wherein the exit aperture is located lower than the entrance aperture. A floor member is provided within the housing, onto which a card is delivered after passing through the entrance aperture. The floor member is movable between a first orientation in which it extends towards the exit aperture such that a card can slide along the floor member, under the influence of gravity, towards the exit aperture, and a second orientation in which it extends away from said exit aperture so that in use a card can slide along the floor member under the influence of gravity away from the exit aperture. A control system is also provided for controlling movement of the floor member between the first orientation and the second orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2015Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventor: MARCUS WILLIS
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Publication number: 20170193253Abstract: A card handling device is provided comprising a housing having an entrance aperture through which a card can be delivered and an exit aperture from which the card can leave the housing, wherein the exit aperture is located lower than the entrance aperture. A floor member is provided within the housing, onto which a card is delivered after passing through the entrance aperture. The floor member is movable between a first orientation in which it extends towards the exit aperture such that a card can slide along the floor member, under the influence of gravity, towards the exit aperture, and a second orientation in which it extends away from said exit aperture so that in use a card can slide along the floor member under the influence of gravity away from the exit aperture. A control system is also provided for controlling movement of the floor member between the first orientation and the second orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventor: MARCUS WILLIS
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Publication number: 20080179475Abstract: A low profile projector mount for media projectors, enabling images of a media projector to be sufficiently aligned with a projection screen upon which the images are to be displayed. The alignment of the low profile projector mount is achieved through pitch, roll, and/or yaw adjustment mechanisms incorporated into the low profile projector mount. The low profile projector mount can be flush mounted to a ceiling or attached to an extension column or other intermediary support system. A quick-release system allows a projector attached to the low profile, projector mount to be removed without disturbing the low profile, projector mount. In addition, retractable members for effectuating the pitch, roll, and/or yaw adjustments are utilized.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2008Publication date: July 31, 2008Inventors: Andy Whitley, Derrik Lam, Marcus Willi Karl Gerhard Bosch
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Patent number: 7207701Abstract: A self-powered illumination device includes an illumination source protruding from its lower surface for projecting light into a body of water to provide light that is emitted preferentially outwardly to illuminate the sides of a pool. Light emitted with an upward angle of inclination strikes the underside surface of the water-air interface surrounding the device and is reflected outwardly and laterally away the from the light source after striking such underside surface. Preferably, the illumination source has a length that extends downwardly that is commensurate or greater than its width and may be in the form of a fluorescent tube. The illumination device is fully self righting when inverted on the surface of a body of water.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2004Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: Ultra-Light Floating Objects Inc.Inventors: Miles Kennedy, John Charles Tutton, Aldo Balatti, Marcus Willi Karl Gerhard Bosch
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Patent number: 6443442Abstract: A purpose of this invention is to provide paper money extraction equipment for issuing only one sheet of paper money by surely picking up the top most sheet from a stack in which a plurality of paper money sheets are arranged. The extraction equipment provides a suction box with an opening for adsorbing one sheet of paper money. The paper is moved when the paper money is taken up. A roller device issues the paper money which is taken up on this suction box. The extraction equipment suction box is pivoted at (52).Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2000Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Asahi Seiko Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Marcus Willis, Andrew Brookman
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Patent number: 6050448Abstract: A card dispensing cassette includes a housing in which cards are stacked. A dispense outlet is provided in the housing through which cards are laterally dispensed from the cassette. A card retainer, cooperating with the dispense outlet, is slidably mounted to the cassette for substantially lateral movement between a closed position in which cards cannot be dispensed and an open position in which cards can be dispensed. The card retainer has a retaining lip which engages any cards protruding through the dispense outlet when the card retainer moves to its closed position so as to return those cards into the cassette.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1998Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: Asahi Seiko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Marcus Willis
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Patent number: D916259Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Quality Craft Industries Inc.Inventors: Dennis Hale, Marcus Willi Karl Gerhard Bosch
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Patent number: D926952Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: QUALITY CRAFT INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Dennis Hale, Marcus Willi Karl Gerhard Bosch
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Patent number: D930934Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: QUALITY CRAFT INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Dennis Hale, Marcus Willi Karl Gerhard Bosch, John Hoppes