Patents by Inventor Maurice Stanley
Maurice Stanley 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: 7012659Abstract: The present invention relates, in one aspect to an image replication system comprising a light guide (2), a light source (8) arranged to direct emitted light into the first end (2a) of a light guide (2), a reflective spatial light modulator (6) and focussing means (16). In a preferred embodiment, the light guide (2) is in the form of an elongate glass rod having first and second parallel polygonal end faces (2a, 2b) which are parallel to the long axis of the rod, the rod having a uniform polygonal cross section along its length. The spatial light modulator (6) is optically coupled to the second end face (2b) of the light guide (2) and the focussing means (16) is arranged to receive light reflected back through the rod from the spatial light modulator (6), whereby to form multiple images of said spatial light modulator in an image plane (18).Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2002Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignee: QinetiQ LimitedInventors: Mark Anthony Gleeson Smith, Richard Jonathan Miller, Maurice Stanley
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Patent number: 6864944Abstract: An electro-optic device such as a smectic liquid crystal cell 1 with an active semiconductor backplane 3 is mounted on a hybrid substrate 2, for example of alumina or silica. Other active or passive electronic or optical components may also be mounted on the substrate, and interconnected by conductive tracks, for example by wire bonding 17, and the substrate itself may be mounted on a printed circuit board. The substrate may comprise a heat sink. The arrangement facilitates the safe connection of the liquid crystal cell and good optical alignment thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1999Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: QinetiQ LimitedInventors: David C Scattergood, Maurice Stanley, Timothy D Wilkinson
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Publication number: 20040184287Abstract: The present invention relates, in one aspect to an image replication system comprising a light guide (2), a light source (8) arranged to direct emitted light into a first end (2a) of a light guide (2), a reflective spatial light modulator (6) and focussing means (16). In a preferred embodiment, the light guide (2) is in the form of an elongate glass rod having first and second parallel polygonal end faces (2a, 2b) which are parallel to the long axis of the rod, the rod having a uniform polygonal cross section along its length. The spatial light modulator (6) is optically coupled to the second end face (2b) of the light guide (2) and the focussing means (16) is arranged to receive light reflected back through the rod from the spatial light modulator (6), whereby to form multiple images of said spatial light modulator in an image plane (18).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2003Publication date: September 23, 2004Inventors: Mark Anthony Gleeson Smith, Richard Jonathan Miller, Maurice Stanley
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Patent number: 6665108Abstract: A system for the production of a dynamic image for use in display applications includes a light source (16) which travels via a liquid crystal modulator (18) placed in the path of the light source (16). The output of the LC modulator (18) passes modulated light a lens ray (22) which itself guides light to an optically addressed spatial light modulator (24). The resulting real image from the optically addressed spatial light modulator (24) may be used in two dimensional and three dimensional displays. The addressing frame-rate of the liquid crystal modulator (18) is substantially greater than the frame-rate of the optically addressed spatial light modulator (24).Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2002Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Holographic Imaging LLCInventors: Carl V Brown, Maurice Stanley
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Publication number: 20030035190Abstract: A system for the production of a dynamic image for use in display applications includes a light source (16) which travels via a liquid crystal modulator (18) placed in the path of the light source (16). The output of the LC modulator (18) passes modulated light a lens ray (22) which itself guides light to an optically addressed spatial light modulator (24). The resulting real image from the optically addressed spatial light modulator (24) may be used in two dimensional and three dimensional displays. The addressing frame-rate of the liquid crystal modulator (18) is substantially greater than the frame-rate of the optically addressed spatial light modulator (24).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2002Publication date: February 20, 2003Applicant: Holographic Imaging LLCInventors: Carl V. Brown, Maurice Stanley
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Patent number: 6437919Abstract: A system for the production of a dynamic image for use in holography includes a light source (16) which travels via a liquid crystal modulator (18) placed in the path of the light source (16). The output of the LC modulator (18) passes modulated light through a lens array (22) which itself guides light to an optically addressed spatial light modulator (24). The resulting real image from the optically addressed spatial light modulator (24) may be used in holography. The addressing frame-rate of the liquid crystal modulator (18) is substantially greater than the frame-rate of the optically addressed spatial light modulator (24).Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2000Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: Holographic Imaging LLCInventors: Carl V Brown, Maurice Stanley
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Patent number: 6337420Abstract: An electroclinic device having two spaced cell walls each bearing electrode structures and treated on at least one facing surface with an alignment layer, a layer of a smectic liquid crystal material enclosed between the cell walls, where the liquid crystal material contains one or more of the compounds described by formula I as defined in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2000Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Defence Evaluation Research AgencyInventors: Andrew John Slaney, Damien Gerard McDonnell, Amarjit Kaur Samra, Maurice Stanley, Victoria Minter, John William Goodby, Michael Hird, Simon John Cross, Chu Chuan Dong
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Patent number: 6278028Abstract: An electroclinic device having two spaced cell walls each bearing electrode structures and treated on at least one facing surface with an alignment layer, a layer of a smectic liquid crystal material enclosed between the cell walls, where the liquid crystal material contains one or more of the compounds described by formula I as defined in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2000Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: The Secretary of State for in Defence in Her Brittanic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandInventors: Andrew John Slaney, Damien Gerard McDonnell, Amarjit Kaur Samra, Maurice Stanley, Victoria Minter, John William Goodby, Michael Hird, Simon John Cross, Chu Chuan Dong
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Patent number: 6242636Abstract: An electoclinic device having two spaced cell walls each bearing electrode structures and treated on at least one facing surface with an alignment layer, a layer of a smectic liquid crystal material enclosed between the cell walls, where the liquid crystal material contains one or more of the compounds described by formula I as defined in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1999Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland of Defence Evaluation and Research AgencyInventors: Andrew John Slaney, Damien Gerard McDonnell, Amarjit Kaur Samra, Maurice Stanley, Victoria Minter, John William Goodby, Michael Hird, Simon John Cross, Chu Chuan Dong
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Patent number: 5891358Abstract: The invention describes liquid crystal compounds of formula (I) which are suitable for use in liquid crystal devices including those devices which exploit the electroclinic effect, ##STR1## where X may be CN, NO.sub.2, CF.sub.3, CF.sub.2 H, CFH.sub.2, halogen, hydrogen, alkyl or alkoxy; X.sub.2 may be CN, NO.sub.2, CF.sub.3, CF.sub.2 H, CFH.sub.2, halogen, hydrogen, alkyl or alkoxy; X.sub.3 may be CN, NO.sub.2, CF.sub.3, CF.sub.2 H, CFH.sub.2, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy or hydrogen; X.sub.4 may be CN, NO.sub.2, CF.sub.3, CF.sub.2 H, CFH.sub.2, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy or hydrogen; provided that at lease one of X or X.sub.2 is CF.sub.3, CF.sub.2 H, CFH.sub.2, CN, NO.sub.2 or halogen; A and B are independently phenyl, mono-fluorinated phenyl, di-fluorinated phenyl or cyclohexyl; Y may be single bond, COO, OOC, C.dbd.C; q may be 0 or 1; R.sub.1 may be an end group of formula (II) wherein Z may be a single bond, O, CO.sub.2, (CH.sub.2).sub.n or (CH.sub.2).sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1996Date of Patent: April 6, 1999Assignee: Secretary of State for Defence in her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britian & Northern Ireland of Defence Evaluation & Research AgencyInventors: Andrew John Slaney, Damien Gerard McDonnell, Amarjit Kaur Samra, Maurice Stanley, Victoria Minter, John William Goodby, Michael Hird, Simon John Cross, Chu Chuan Dong
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Patent number: 4081559Abstract: A shaped heat-resistant chocolate product containing 15% to 35% by weight of at least one edible fat selected from (a) cocoa butter and (b) cocoa butter and at least one other fat, not less than 40% by weight sugar, and not more than 5% by weight of water, wherein said at least one edible fat is present as individual particles which are separated from one another in a sugar glass so that a discontinuous fat phase is present in the chocolate product. The product contains individual fat particles which are separated from one another in a sugar glass so that fat seepage from the product at elevated ambient temperatures is obviated.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1976Date of Patent: March 28, 1978Assignee: Cadbury LimitedInventors: Maurice Stanley Jeffery, Paul Anthony Glynn, Mohammed Moiz Uddin Khan
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Patent number: 4045583Abstract: A method of manufacturing an expanded temperature-resistant, chocolate product, comprises mixing intimately water, at least one edible fat, sugar and an emulsifier to produce an emulsion of said fat with an aqueous sugar solution. The solution is then evaporated to about 10% moisture content while maintaining the fat in emulsion. Finally, the mixture is dried, preferably under reduced pressure, with gasification to produce an expanded product containing 15-35% fat, at least 40% sugar and not more than 5%, preferably not more than 2%, water. The product contains individual fat particles which are separated from one another in a sugar glass so that fat seepage from the product at elevated ambient temperatures is obviated.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1976Date of Patent: August 30, 1977Assignee: Cadbury LimitedInventors: Maurice Stanley Jeffery, Paul Anthony Glynn, Mohammed Moiz Uddin Khan