Patents by Inventor Michael Boraas
Michael Boraas 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: 20130074339Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for forming an overmolded dual in-line memory module (DIMM) cooling structure are provided. Embodiments include identifying, by a tagging module, contextual information indicating circumstances in which the photograph was taken; based on the contextual information, selecting, by the tagging module, candidate profiles from a plurality of friend profiles associated with a profile of a user; and suggesting, by the tagging module to the user, the selected candidate profiles as potential friends to tag in the photograph.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2011Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Michael A. Boraas, Vinod Kamath, Michael S. Miller, Mark E. Steinke, Jamil A. Wakil
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Patent number: 8301481Abstract: A data processing system for analyzing rejection rejections in a manufacturing process having more than one level of manufacture stores test results from an nth-level test for review by an OEM and, subject to consent of the nth level vendor, for review by a vendor on a lower level. The data for rejection analysis is linked to data in a manufacturing floor control system.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2005Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael A. Boraas, Biao Cai, Jeffrey G. Komatsu, John S. Maresca
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Publication number: 20120257353Abstract: Carriage chassis for installation of a component assembly in a support structure. The support structure includes a power connector in a connector housing. The carriage chassis includes: rails adapted to receive a component assembly and a safety cover. One of the rails includes a tri-lobed torsion stop that includes a first lobe configured to contact the connector housing when no safety cover is installed, preventing a component assembly from coupling with power; a second lobe configured to receive contact from a displacement member of a safety cover, rotating the tri-lobed torsion stop; and a third lobe configured to provide contact to the displacement member when the safety cover is installed and a component assembly is coupled with power. The third lobe and the first lobe prevent removal of the safety cover when a component assembly is coupled with the power connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Raymond F. Babcock, Michael A. Boraas
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Patent number: 8254131Abstract: Carriage chassis for installation of a component assembly in a support structure. The support structure includes a power connector in a connector housing. The carriage chassis includes: rails adapted to receive a component assembly and a safety cover. One of the rails includes a tri-lobed torsion stop that includes a first lobe configured to contact the connector housing when no safety cover is installed, preventing a component assembly from coupling with power; a second lobe configured to receive contact from a displacement member of a safety cover, rotating the tri-lobed torsion stop; and a third lobe configured to provide contact to the displacement member when the safety cover is installed and a component assembly is coupled with power. The third lobe and the first lobe prevent removal of the safety cover when a component assembly is coupled with the power connector.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Raymond F. Babcock, Michael A. Boraas
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Publication number: 20110304344Abstract: A support structure for installation of a component assembly housed in a rotating, translating carriage chassis, the support structure including: a stationary rail that includes a shaft extruding perpendicular to the stationary rail; a rotating rail adapted to receive a carriage chassis rail, the rotating rail parallel to the stationary rail when the rotating rail is in a non-rotated position, the rotating rail including a shaft receptacle that receives the shaft, the rotating rail configured to rotate about the shaft and relative to the stationary rail; and a translation mechanism attached to the rotating rail, the translation mechanism enabling the carriage chassis rail to translate parallel to and along the rotating rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2010Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Raymond F. Babcock, Michael A. Boraas, Matthew A Butterbaugh, Jefferey L. Justin
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Publication number: 20110304988Abstract: Carriage chassis for installation of a component assembly in a support structure. The support structure includes a power connector in a connector housing. The carriage chassis includes: rails adapted to receive a component assembly and a safety cover. One of the rails includes a tri-lobed torsion stop that includes a first lobe configured to contact the connector housing when no safety cover is installed, preventing a component assembly from coupling with power; a second lobe configured to receive contact from a displacement member of a safety cover, rotating the tri-lobed torsion stop; and a third lobe configured to provide contact to the displacement member when the safety cover is installed and a component assembly is coupled with power. The third lobe and the first lobe prevent removal of the safety cover when a component assembly is coupled with the power connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2010Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Raymond F. Babcock, Michael A. Boraas
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Patent number: 7779975Abstract: Disclosed herein is a shock absorbing and indicating bumper. The bumper includes, a spherical shaped body with a surface mountable to a corner of a device to which shock is to be absorbed. The bumper includes a crushable conical member engaged with a conical recess of the spherical shaped body, the crushable conical member having a hole therethrough from the vertex to the center of the base, and a shell with a substantially hollow semispherical shape slidably engaged with a surface of the spherical shaped body. The bumper further includes a rigid shaft with a first end fixedly attached to a central portion of the hollowed side of the shell and a second end pivotally engaged with the spherical shaped body at substantially the center of the spherical shaped body, the shaft extending through the hole in the crushable member and aligned thereby.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2006Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Michael A. Boraas
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Patent number: 7540509Abstract: A caster assembly with a horizontally orientated arm is attached to a base plate of a rack during a travel state and a stored state. A leveling foot with a flat portion and a non-flat portion is inserted through a slot on the arm and a hole on the base plate such that during the travel state, the horizontal orientated arm is in a fully extended position, and during the stored state, the horizontal orientated arm is in a non-extended position.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2008Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Boraas, Aaron Hegrenes, Nathan Karl, David Lund
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Patent number: 7478819Abstract: A novel caster assembly with a horizontally orientated arm is attached to a base plate of a rack during a travel state and a stored state. A leveling foot with a flat portion and a non-flat portion is inserted through a slot on the arm and a hole on the base plate such that during the travel state, the horizontal orientated arm is in a fully extended position, and during the stored state, the horizontal orientated arm is in a non- extended position.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2008Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Boraas, Aaron Hegrenes, Nathan Karl, David Lund
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Publication number: 20080170927Abstract: Disclosed is a push button latch mechanism including a catch, a spring, and a plunger. The catch includes two legs connected to a catch face. Each leg includes a first hook insertable through and retained in a hole in the structure, a second hook extending inward and toward the catch face from the free end, and a third hook insertable into and retained in a hole formed in the cover. The plunger includes a shaft having one or more tabs insertable into a hole in the catch face and retained by it, and a v-notch at the free end of the shaft configured to be accepted into the second hooks of the catch when the plunger is pushed, thereby forcing the legs of the catch closer together and releasing the first hooks from the hole in the structure allowing the cover to be removed. The spring is disposed around the shaft and configured such that when the plunger is released, the plunger returns to its original position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2006Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: Michael A. Boraas
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Publication number: 20080111386Abstract: Disclosed herein is a shock absorbing and indicating bumper. The bumper includes, a spherical shaped body with a surface mountable to a corner of a device to which shock is to be absorbed. The bumper includes a crushable conical member engaged with a conical recess of the spherical shaped body, the crushable conical member having a hole therethrough from the vertex to the center of the base, and a shell with a substantially hollow semispherical shape slidably engaged with a surface of the spherical shaped body. The bumper further includes a rigid shaft with a first end fixedly attached to a central portion of the hollowed side of the shell and a second end pivotally engaged with the spherical shaped body at substantially the center of the spherical shaped body, the shaft extending through the hole in the crushable member and aligned thereby.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2006Publication date: May 15, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: Michael A. Boraas
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Publication number: 20070203716Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing part performance management services is provided. The method includes gathering service data for products. The serviced components of the products are identified in the service data by replacement component part numbers. The method also includes mapping the service data to manufacturing data for products of manufacture by matching at least one data element common to both of the service data and the manufacturing data. The components of the products of manufacture are identified in the manufacturing data by production part numbers. The method further includes identifying which of the products of manufacture have been serviced based upon results of the mapping.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2006Publication date: August 30, 2007Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Bolch, Michael Boraas, Biao Cai, Ghassan Chidiac, Andrew Dubois, Donald Gorman, Eric Lambert, John Maresca, Kenneth Scea, Joseph Torella, Matthew Zemke, Paul Zulpa
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Publication number: 20070061186Abstract: A data processing system for analyzing rejection rejections in a manufacturing process having more than one level of manufacture stores test results from an nth-level test for review by an OEM and, subject to consent of the nth level vendor, for review by a vendor on a lower level. The data for rejection analysis is linked to data in a manufacturing floor control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2005Publication date: March 15, 2007Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Boraas, Biao Cai, Jeffrey Komatsu, John Maresca