Patents by Inventor Michael B. Jones
Michael B. Jones 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: 20150342445Abstract: A device for quickly advancing/retracting a biopsy tool (or other driven object) into position through a colonoscope or other such scope. The device includes a drive actuator, a transmission for coupling the actuator to a driven object (biopsy tool), an attachment assembly that couples the device to the endoscope, such as to a biopsy port on the endoscope, an electronic control unit, and a user interface. Preferably, the driver/biopsy tool coupling consists of a motor and a combination of gears and friction rollers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Michael B. Jones, Carl Nelson
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Patent number: 9079196Abstract: A reversible, multiple spray tip spray gun tip assembly includes a tip holder and a turret. In one embodiment, the tip holder has a turret opening and a fluid spray passage that is in communication with the turret opening. The turret has a barrel including a plurality of spaced apart spray tips and a handle to rotate the barrel within the turret opening. Either the tip holder or the turret includes one or more projections while the other of the tip holder or the turret includes a cam surface with which the one or more projections slideable engage such that rotating the turret relative to the tip holder causes the turret to translate relative to the tip holder and to align each of the spray tips with the fluid spray passage in a spray position and a clear position.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2010Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: WAGNER SPRAY TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Jeffrey E. Sandahl, Joseph W. Kieffer, Timothy J. Wessels, Viktor Sorg, Michael B. Jones, Terry Reents
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Publication number: 20150166251Abstract: A dispenser having a pressure vessel cartridge communicatively coupled with a chamber housing a product. The communicatively coupled pressure vessel cartridge applies a pressure to the product to displace the product from the chamber and expel the product out of a nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: HTC Group Holding LimitedInventor: Michael B. Jones
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Publication number: 20150166252Abstract: A dispenser having a pressure vessel cartridge communicatively coupled with a chamber housing a product. The communicatively coupled pressure vessel cartridge applies a pressure to the product to displace the product from the chamber and expel the product out of a nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: HCT Group Holding LimitedInventor: Michael B. Jones
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Patent number: 8840046Abstract: A self-contained, hand-held paint spray gun apparatus having a paint reservoir on the gun and a turret assembly having a reversible tip for spraying paint from the reservoir through the tip and a swirl chamber adapter located between the gun and turret assembly. The tip is reversible between a SPRAY position and a CLEAN position to enable a user of the paint spray gun to rapidly and conveniently clear an obstruction in the tip and continue spraying without removing the tip. The swirl chamber adapter has a generally planar face opposing a swirl valve in the gun and forming a swirl chamber upstream of the turret assembly and has a centrally located bore extending from the generally planar face to the outlet of the adapter.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2012Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Wagner Spray Tech CorporationInventors: Michael B. Jones, Terry R. Reents, Steven D. Dodge, Christopher A. Jensen
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Patent number: 8827183Abstract: A hand-held paint spray gun apparatus having a paint reservoir on the gun and reciprocating piston driven by a motor in the hand-held paint spray gun, the gun having a multiple orifice spray tip with a pair of apertures emitting generally fan or cone shaped overlapping spray patterns. A locking nut retains the cylinder to a motor frame and a frame carries the spray tip, with one of the nut and frame having a corrugated surface and the other of the locking nut and the spray tip frame having a plurality of protrusions engaging the corrugated surface. The protrusions are spaced apart circumferentially from each other and with respect to the spacing of a plurality of troughs and crests in the corrugated surface such that only one protrusion at a time is nested in a trough of the corrugated surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Wagner Spray Tech CorporationInventor: Michael B. Jones
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Patent number: 8813867Abstract: In one example, a handheld fluid sprayer is provided and includes a housing, an assembly having at least one of a motor and a fluid pump, and at least one assembly support feature. The assembly is mounted to the housing with the at least one assembly support feature. The at least one assembly support feature includes a first portion having first and second opposed surfaces and a second portion having first and second opposed surfaces. The second portion extends from the first portion such that at least one of the first and second surfaces of the second portion is at least substantially orthogonal to the second surface of the first portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2010Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Wagner Spray Tech CorporationInventors: Craig L. Peterson, Michael B. Jones, Wayne D. Robens
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Patent number: 8465263Abstract: A fluid delivery system includes a pump operably coupleable to a source of fluid. A reciprocating electromagnetic actuator is coupled to the pump and has a coil that when energized causes the actuator to drive the pump. Coil current sensing circuitry is configured to provide an indication of current flowing in the coil. A controller is coupled to the coil current sensing circuitry and is configured to calculate a coil drive parameter based upon a plurality of coil current indications from the coil current sensing circuitry. Coil drive circuitry is coupled to the controller and is configured to supply current to the coil based on the coil drive parameter.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2009Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Wagner Spray Tech CorporationInventors: Michael B. Jones, Gregory Wayne Parkhurst, Timothy Woodward Zeigler
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Patent number: 8443755Abstract: A paint spraying system having a paint reservoir (16) remote from a spray gun (12) of the type which draws paint to the gun using vacuum (6, 7). A paint pump (14) delivers paint under positive pressure to the paint gun and a paint regulator (28) in or associated with the paint gun delivers the paint to the gun as drawn by vacuum by the gun through the regulator. An over-pressure relief valve (70) may be used to limit the positive pressure delivered by the pump. A mechanical switch may be used to select a SPRAY or CLEAN mode for the operation of the paint regulator to allow flushing of the paint regulator.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Wagner Spray Tech CorporationInventor: Michael B. Jones
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Publication number: 20120280066Abstract: A reversible, multiple spray tip spray gun tip assembly includes a tip holder and a turret. In one embodiment, the tip holder has a turret opening and a fluid spray passage that is in communication with the turret opening. The turret has a barrel including a plurality of spaced apart spray tips and a handle to rotate the barrel within the turret opening. Either the tip holder or the turret includes one or more projections while the other of the tip holder or the turret includes a cam surface with which the one or more projections slideable engage such that rotating the turret relative to the tip holder causes the turret to translate relative to the tip holder and to align each of the spray tips with the fluid spray passage in a spray position and a clear position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2010Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: Wagner Spray Tech CorporationInventors: Jeffrey E. Sandahl, Joseph W. Kieffer, Timothy J. Wessels, Viktor Sorg, Michael B. Jones, Terry Reents
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Patent number: 8267332Abstract: A self-contained, hand-held paint spray gun apparatus having a paint reservoir on the gun and a turret assembly having a reversible tip for spraying paint from the reservoir through the tip and a swirl chamber adapter located between the gun and turret assembly. The tip is reversible between a SPRAY position and a CLEAN position to enable a user of the paint spray gun to rapidly and conveniently clear an obstruction in the tip and continue spraying without removing the tip. The swirl chamber adapter has a generally planar face opposing a swirl valve in the gun and forming a swirl chamber upstream of the turret assembly and has a centrally located bore extending from the generally planar face to the outlet of the adapter.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Wagner Spray Tech CorporationInventors: Michael B. Jones, Terry R. Reents, Steven D. Dodge, Christopher A. Jensen
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Patent number: 8040894Abstract: A system and method to adjust dynamically network speed or bandwidth allocation. A network connection is established at some initial speed. The bandwidth usage through the connection is monitored, and when the connection speed becomes congested with data, the connection is dropped and a higher-speed connection is established.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2009Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventor: Michael B. Jones
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Publication number: 20110240766Abstract: In one example, a handheld fluid sprayer is provided and includes a housing, an assembly having at least one of a motor and a fluid pump, and at least one assembly support feature. The assembly is mounted to the housing with the at least one assembly support feature. The at least one assembly support feature includes a first portion having first and second opposed surfaces and a second portion having first and second opposed surfaces. The second portion extends from the first portion such that at least one of the first and second surfaces of the second portion is at least substantially orthogonal to the second surface of the first portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: Wagner Spray Tech CorporationInventors: Craig L. Peterson, Michael B. Jones, Wayne D. Robens
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Patent number: 8020141Abstract: Described herein is an implementation of a technology for the construction, identity, and/or optimization of operating-system processes. At least one implementation, described herein, constructs an operating-system process having the contents as defined by a process manifest. Once constructed, the operating-system process is unalterable.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2004Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Galen C. Hunt, James R. Larus, John D. DeTreville, Edward P. Wobber, Martin Abadi, Michael B. Jones, Trishul Chilimbi
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Patent number: 7891588Abstract: Apparatus and method for quickly disconnecting a wetted parts subassembly from a paint spray gun wherein the wetted parts subassembly includes a spray tip, pump cylinder and piston and paint cup components including a pump housing cylinder support carrying the pump cylinder and having a pair of protrusions formed on a pump housing cylinder support, a frame having a pair of slots aligned to receive the protrusions when the pump housing cylinder support is received in the frame, a locking lever pivotably attached to the frame adjacent at least one of the slots and movable between a latched position wherein the pump housing cylinder support is retained to the frame, and an unlatched position wherein the pump housing cylinder support is removable from the frame. A passive retention feature frictionally engages the wetted parts subassembly with the frame when the wetted parts subassembly is received in the frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Wagner Spray Tech CorporationInventors: Michael B. Jones, Richard Paul Anderson, Allen Arden Caldwell, Brian David Denker, Charles Thomas Graves, Christopher John Herman, Robert Ernest Miller, Lance Talbot Molby
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Publication number: 20100322795Abstract: A fluid delivery system includes a pump operably coupleable to a source of fluid. A reciprocating electromagnetic actuator is coupled to the pump and has a coil that when energized causes the actuator to drive the pump. Coil current sensing circuitry is configured to provide an indication of current flowing in the coil. A controller is coupled to the coil current sensing circuitry and is configured to calculate a coil drive parameter based upon a plurality of coil current indications from the coil current sensing circuitry. Coil drive circuitry is coupled to the controller and is configured to supply current to the coil based on the coil drive parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2009Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: Wagner Spray Tech CorporationInventors: Michael B. Jones, Gregory Wayne Parkhurst, Timothy Woodward Zeigler
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Publication number: 20100236474Abstract: A paint spraying system having a paint reservoir (16) remote from a spray gun (12) of the type which draws paint to the gun using vacuum (6, 7). A paint pump (14) delivers paint under positive pressure to the paint gun and a paint regulator (28) in or associated with the paint gun delivers the paint to the gun as drawn by vacuum by the gun through the regulator. An over-pressure relief valve (70) may be used to limit the positive pressure delivered by the pump. A mechanical switch may be used to select a SPRAY or CLEAN mode for the operation of the paint regulator to allow flushing of the paint regulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: WAGNER SPRAY TECH CORPORATIONInventor: Michael B. Jones
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Publication number: 20100240413Abstract: An application programming interface (API) may receive high level file commands and implement those commands using the storage mechanism on a smart card. The smart card may have a processor and storage mechanism and may communicate to a host device using a packet based communication protocol, such as ADPU. The API may translate the high level file commands into one or more ADPU commands, communicate with the smart card, receive APDU responses, and translate the responses into high level file commands. A high level file command may allow access to a file using long file names, a hierarchical directory structure, and may allow creating, writing, reading, and deleting a file. Some embodiments may have more complex functions for navigating and manipulating a hierarchical directory structure, as well as defining metadata including access privileges and file types to individual files.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2009Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jialin He, Michael B. Jones, Arun K. Nanda
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Patent number: 7788637Abstract: Described herein is an implementation of a technology for the construction, identification, and/or optimization of operating-system processes. At least one implementation, described herein, constructs an operating-system process having the contents as defined by a process manifest. Once constructed, the operating-system process is unalterable.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Galen C. Hunt, James R. Larus, John D. DeTreville, Edward P Wobber, Martin Abadi, Michael B. Jones, Trishul A. Chilimbi
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Patent number: 7694300Abstract: Described herein is an implementation of a technology for the construction, identification, and/or optimization of operating-system processes. At least one implementation, described herein, constructs an operating-system process having the contents as defined by a process manifest. Once constructed, the operating-system process is unalterable.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Galen C. Hunt, James R. Larus, John D. DeTreville, Michael B. Jones, Trishul A. Chilimbi