Patents by Inventor Mark Andrew

Mark Andrew 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).

  • Data storage device operated for reduced sliding contact
    Publication number: 20020063983
    Abstract: A data storage device includes a disc stack, a rotary actuator having an arm coupled to a transducer head, and support structure for receiving the arm with a reduced incidence of sliding contact therewith. The arm is separated from the support means, and then moved so that the head is above a disc surface for storing data. After the disc stack reaches its nominal rotation speed, the head is loaded so that it can transfer data. During periods of non-activity, the head is raised (unloaded) again and the arm is placed on the support means. This reduces a risk of damage in the presence of shocks while minimizing particle generation induced by friction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventors: Gary Edwin Bement, Mark Andrew Chapin, Michael David Mundt
  • Bloom-resistant benzotriazole UV absorbers and compositions stabilized therewith
    Patent number: 6380285
    Abstract: Benzotriazole UV absorbers substituted with a ultra long ester or amide moiety wherein the ester or amide group is a hydrocarbyl group of 25 to 100 carbon atoms or is a group of alkyl of 25 to 100 carbon atoms interrupted by 5 to 39 oxygen atoms and terminated with an omega-OH or an omega-OR group exhibit excellent stabilization efficacy while they concomitantly do not bloom when incorporated into polyolefin films. These benzotriazole UV absorbers also provide excellent protection to white, dyed, dipped, unscented and/or scented candle wax from discoloration and degradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Mervin Wood, Ramanathan Ravichandran, Douglas Wayne Horsey, Anunay Gupta, Deborah DeHessa, Luther A. R. Hall, Andrea Smith, Stephen Mark Andrews
  • Microscopy imaging apparatus and method
    Patent number: 6376818
    Abstract: An object is illuminated by a light source, and a periodic pattern of transparent and non-transparent stripes is superimposed onto the object. At least three images are recorded at different spatial phases of the pattern by means of a microscope of shallow focal depth, and a three-dimensional image containing only in-focus detail is then derived from the recorded images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Isis Innovation Limited
    Inventors: Tony Wilson, Mark Andrew Aquilla Neil, Rimvydas Juskaitis
  • Reflective file
    Publication number: 20020045676
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process as described in claim of preparing a reflective film comprising a layer of a polymerized mesogenic material with helically twisted structure, wherein the helix axis is perpendicular to the film plane, and containing regions with varying helical pitch, to a reflective film obtainable by such a process, to the use of such a reflective film as reflective broadband or notch polarizer or as a multicoloured film or image in liquid crystal displays, as colour filter, in effect pigments, for decorative or security applications, and to a liquid crystal display comprising a liquid crystal cell and a reflective polarizer as described in the foregoing and the following, and optionally further comprising one or more compensaters or polarizers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Inventors: David Coates, Mark Andrew Verrall
  • Halogenated isobutylene rubber composition containing sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate
    Patent number: 6371181
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for increasing the rate of vulcanization of a halogenated isobutylene sulfur rubber composition comprising heating said halogenated isobutylene rubber composition to a temperature ranging from 100° C. to 200° C., wherein said halogenated isobutylene rubber composition contains from 0.05 to 10 phr of sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Michael D'Sidocky, Bernard Matthew Bezilla, Jr., Leighton Randolph Spadone, David Michael Smith, Sr., Mark Andrew Marinko
  • Method of content protection with durable UV absorbers
    Publication number: 20020028861
    Abstract: The contents of clear or lightly colored plastic containers or films are protected from ultraviolet radiation by the incorporation of certain UV absorbers of the class of durable benzotriazoles and tris-aryl-s-triazines in the container or film. Contents to be protected include foodstuffs, beverages, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care products, shampoos and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Inventors: Stephen Mark Andrews, Joseph Suhadolnik, Mervin Gale Wood
  • Line adjustment actuator
    Patent number: 6345549
    Abstract: An actuator for adjustment of a flexible line such as a cable or rope. The actuator includes a screw threaded spindle and a cooperatively engaging adjustment member having a nut with an internal screw thread that is in threaded engagement with an external screw thread of the spindle. The adjustment member is rotatable relative to the spindle to cause axial movement of the spindle. A turning block or pulley is mounted on an end of the spindle for rotation on an axis extending transversely with respect to the axis of the spindle and the flexible line is retained in relation to the spindle. The flexible line is passed around the turning block or pulley for adjustment of the flexible line by axial movement of the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Henderson's Industries Pty, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mark Andrew Lance
  • Flame retardant compositions
    Publication number: 20020010235
    Abstract: Hindered amine compounds containing a group of the formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Douglas Wayne Horsey, Stephen Mark Andrews, Leonard Harris Davis, Darrell David Dyas, Robert Leo Gray, Anunay Gupta, Bruce Vincent Hein, Joseph Stephen Puglisi, Ramanathan Ravichandran, Paul Shields, Rangarajan Srinivasan
  • Process for the selective deprotonation and functionalization of 3-substituted benzotrifluorides
    Publication number: 20020010375
    Abstract: 3-Substituted benzotrifluorides are selectively deprotonated and functionalized in the 2-position. The selectivity is achieved by equilibrating the mixture of lithiobenzotrifluorides initially formed in the presence of a primary or secondary amine catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Michael Glenn Smith, Mark Andrew Pobanz, Gary A. Roth, Michael A. Gonzalez
  • METHOD FOR MODIFYING ROOT GROWTH
    Publication number: 20020007588
    Abstract: A method of modifying the growth of plant roots is provided in which the roots are grown in proximity to a membrane from which water is released during the growth of the roots, wherein the membrane is a hydrophobic porous membrane or a hydrophilic non-porous membrane. The method may also be used to collect materials exuded from plant roots by growing the plant roots in a growing medium that is surrounded by a membrane such that moisture is released into the growing medium from the membrane whilst materials exuded from the plant roots are retained within the growing medium by the membrane, wherein the membrane is a hydrophobic porous membrane or a hydrophilic non-porous membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 1999
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: MARK CHISTOPHER TONKIN, MARK ANDREW YOUNG, OLAF NORBERT KIRCHNER, CHARLES WILLIAM CAHILL
  • Halogenated isobutylene rubber compsition containing sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate
    Publication number: 20020007017
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for increasing the rate of vulcanization of a halogenated isobutylene sulfur rubber composition comprising heating said halogenated isobutylene rubber composition to a temperature ranging from 100° C. to 200° C., wherein said halogenated isobutylene rubber composition contains from 0.05 to 10 phr of sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Michael D'Sidocky, Bernard Matthew Bezilla, Leighton Randolph Spadone, David Michael Smith, Mark Andrew Marinko
  • MGluR5 antagonists for the treatment of pain and anxiety
    Publication number: 20010056084
    Abstract: The invention provides the use of selective mGluR5 antagonists for the treatment of pain and anxiety, and the use of mGluR antagonists for the treatment of pain, whereby analgesic effect is achieved by interaction of said antagonists primarily or predominantly at peripheral mGluR receptors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Inventors: Hans Allgeier, Nicholas David Cosford, Peter Josef Flor, Fabrizio Gasparini, Conrad Gentsch, Stephen D. Hess, Edwin Carl Johnson, Rainer Kuhn, Mark Tricklebank, Laszlo Urban, Mark Andrew Varney, Gonul Velicelebi, Katharine Walker
  • Virtual printer
    Publication number: 20010043352
    Abstract: A flexible and extensible virtual printer architecture is provided. According to one aspect of the present invention, a mechanism is provided for driving multiple heterogeneous presentation devices. A presentation job is received on behalf of a presentation device, the presentation job includes a data stream which contains source data in the form of text, image, graphics, and/or other embedded objects. The source data is then reduced to an intermediate format. Based upon the intermediate format and control information associated with the data stream, device-specific data and device-specific control information are generated for the presentation device. Finally, the presentation device is driven by providing the device-specific data and device-specific control information to the presentation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Craig Duray Brossman, Arianne Therese Hinds, Nenad Rijavec, Mark Andrew Stephens, Raymond Glenn Wardell
  • Reflective film
    Patent number: 6319963
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process as described in claim of preparing a reflective film comprising a layer of a polymerized mesogenic material with helically twisted structure, wherein the helix axis is perpendicular to the film plane, and containing regions with varying helical pitch, to a reflective film obtainable by such a process, to the use of such a reflective film as reflective broadband or notch polarizer or as a multicolored film or image in liquid crystal displays, as color filter, in effect pigments, for decorative or security applications, and to a liquid crystal display comprising a liquid crystal cell and a reflective polarizer as described in the foregoing and the following, and optionally further comprising one or more compensaters or polarizers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: David Coates, Mark Andrew Verrall
  • Process for the preparation of spherically shaped microcomposites
    Publication number: 20010037045
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of at least one spherically shaped porous microcomposite is provided which microcomposite comprises a perfluorinated ion-exchange polymer containing pendant sulfonic and/or carboxylic acid groups entrapped within and highly dispersed throughout a network of inorganic oxide, wherein the weight percentage of the perfluorinated ion-exchange polymer in the microcomposite is from about 0.1 to about 90 percent, and wherein the size of the pores in the microcomposite is about 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventors: Mark Andrew Harmer, Qun Sun
  • Adjustable headrest
    Publication number: 20010028191
    Abstract: Adjustable headrest (201) for a seat backrest having a mounting system (148, 149) includes frame structure (207) adapted to be secured on the mounting system (148, 149) for up and down movement relative to the seat backrest. Headrest (201) also includes drive means (120, 130) having height adjustment drive system (121-123, 125) for controlling height adjustment of headrest (201) by moving height adjuster section (114), and fore/aft adjustment drive system (131-134) for controlling fore/aft adjustment by moving the fore/aft adjuster section (115). Fore/aft drive system (131-134) has adjustment member or nut (132) constrained to up and down movement, and nut (132) is engaged with adjuster section (115) so as to permit fore/aft movement of adjuster section (115) relative to adjuster section (114) and adjustment nut (132).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventor: Mark Andrew Lance
  • AC firing circuit for air bag systems
    Publication number: 20010022471
    Abstract: A system for controlling air bag deployment in vehicles includes the capability of accommodating varying inductants values in the air bag circuit. Wire harnesses that couple air bag components have varying characteristics, such as length, which affect the inductants value of the circuit. The inventive arrangement utilizes charge and discharge times of at least one capacitor for measuring the inductants of a particular circuit. The system includes a controller that accommodates the inductants by introducing an appropriate delay in the firing circuit signal to operate the air bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Charles R. Cook, Horst Belau, Mark Andrew Parsons
  • Bloom-resistant benzotriazole UV absorbers and compositions stabilized therewith
    Publication number: 20010023268
    Abstract: Benzotriazole UV absorbers substituted with an ultra long ester or amide moiety wherein the ester or amide group is a hydrocarbyl group of 25 to 100 carbon atoms or is a group of alkyl of 25 to 100 carbon atoms interrupted by 5 to 39 oxygen atoms and terminated with an omega—OH or an omega—OR group exhibit excellent stabilization efficacy while they concomitantly do not bloom when incorporated into polyolefin films. These benzotriazole UV absorbers also provide excellent protection to white, dyed, dipped, unscented and/or scented candle wax from discoloration and degradation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Mervin Wood, Ramanathan Ravichandran, Douglas Wayne Horsey, Anunay Gupta, Deborah DeHessa, Luther A. R. Hall, Andrea Smith, Stephen Mark Andrews
  • Halogenated isobutylene rubber composition containing sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate
    Patent number: 6291595
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for increasing the rate of vulcanization of a halogenated isobutylene sulfur rubber composition comprising heating said halogenated isobutylene rubber composition to a temperature ranging from 100° C. to 200° C., wherein said halogenated isobutylene rubber composition contains from 0.05 to 10 phr of sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Michael D'Sidocky, Bernard Matthew Bezilla, Jr., Leighton Randolph Spadone, David Michael Smith, Sr., Mark Andrew Marinko
  • Blackcurrant promoters and genes
    Patent number: 6281409
    Abstract: Promoters capable of driving fruit-specific expression of DNA sequences in transgenic blackcurrant and other non-climacteric fruit are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham P.L.C.
    Inventors: Mary Rose Woodhead, Mark Andrew Taylor, Rex Michael Brennan