Patents by Inventor Michael Payne
Michael Payne 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: 20100126625Abstract: A vehicle fuel inlet shut-off valve assembly (300) includes a two-piece housing having inner and outer housing components (302, 304) secured to each other. The housing components can be provided of different materials, with a surface coating. A flapper door assembly (306) is secured in the outer housing component (304) and includes directionally biased interlocking components that facilitate installation and inhibit disconnection after assembly with redundant connections.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2008Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: William Berghorst, Kirk J. Bush, Franco A. Cisternino, Michael Payne
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Patent number: 7699959Abstract: Tissues are provided as multi-ply tissue products having greater tactile sensation and resiliency in hand. Improved tissues may have a thickened and reduced density middle layer. The tissues may serve as applicators for chemical agents to be released during use of the tissue. A tissue having an improved tactile impression to the consumer, with enhanced resilience and high external bulk is disclosed. In one embodiment, a multi-ply structure having at least three plies is desirable. A middle or intermediate ply is comprised an increased thickness and a greater bulk is employed. In general, the exterior plies of the tissue are smooth and desirable to the consumer.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2009Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Margaret M. Ward, Gary Shanklin, Cynthia W. Henderson, Michael Payne
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Patent number: 7676989Abstract: A modular spring support mounting for a sash window spring counterbalance arrangement includes at least a first spring support mounting element and a second spring support mounting element each for supporting a respective coil spring. The first spring support mounting element includes a pair of wedged shaped cross section projections. The second spring support mounting element includes an interengagement fitting which engages the pair of wedged shaped cross section projections to in use securely interconnect the first and second spring support mounting elements together. Also a method of installing such a modular spring mounting includes the step of laterally slidingly engaging the spring mounting elements to securely interlock the elements together.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2003Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Clearview Industries LimitedInventors: Harold Keith Braid, Simon Christopher Braid, John Michael Payne
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Publication number: 20090162611Abstract: Tissues are provided as multi-ply tissue products having greater tactile sensation and resiliency in hand. Improved tissues may have a thickened and reduced density middle layer. The tissues may serve as applicators for chemical agents to be released during use of the tissue. A tissue having an improved tactile impression to the consumer, with enhanced resilience and high external bulk is disclosed. In one embodiment, a multi-ply structure having at least three plies is desirable. A middle or intermediate ply is comprised an increased thickness and a greater bulk is employed. In general, the exterior plies of the tissue are smooth and desirable to the consumer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2009Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: Margaret M. Ward, Gary Shanklin, Cynthia W. Henderson, Michael Payne
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Publication number: 20090064415Abstract: A portable self-contained bed-on-demand system is presented which includes a portable collapsible self-contained storage bed and support assembly and a portable self-contained peripheral support system, or headwall, adapted to the bed that supplies medical-grade power, ventilation, and an oxygen treatment system. The bed-on-demand system duplicates, in a self-contained package usable outside a hospital environment, the critical facilities provided to a patient in a traditional hospital room.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2007Publication date: March 12, 2009Inventors: Michael Payne, Michael Carmagnola, JR., Byron Scott Creasy
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Patent number: 7497923Abstract: Tissues are provided as multi-ply tissue products having greater tactile sensation and resiliency in hand. Improved tissues may have a thickened and reduced density middle layer. The tissues may serve as applicators for chemical agents to be released during use of the tissue. A tissue having an improved tactile impression to the consumer, with enhanced resilience and high external bulk is disclosed. In one embodiment, a multi-ply structure having at least three plies is desirable. A middle or intermediate ply is comprised an increased thickness and a greater bulk is employed. In general, the exterior plies of the tissue are smooth and desirable to the consumer.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2004Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Margaret M. Ward, Gary Shanklin, Cynthia W. Henderson, Michael Payne
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Publication number: 20070170627Abstract: A device is provided for positioning a first structural member relative to a second structural member, the second structural member being attractable to a magnetic material. The device comprises a body comprising the magnetic material and having an engagement surface adapted for engagement with and magnetic attachment to a surface of the second structural member. An elongate lever arm having a first lever arm end is connected to the body. A second lever arm end extends laterally outward from the body. The device further comprises a jacking arrangement attached to the second lever arm end. The jacking arrangement has an engagement member adapted for selectively engaging and applying a force to the first structural member to move at least a portion of the first structural member relative to the surface of the second structural member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2006Publication date: July 26, 2007Inventors: Ronald Delk, Michael Payne, Mark Weaver
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Publication number: 20050279728Abstract: A container is formed of a shell having a top section, a bottom section and a central section connecting the top section and the bottom section. At least a majority region of the central section is provided with a plurality of structural ribs about its periphery. The ribs are discontinuous in a circumferential direction extending around the central section and have specific structures in their shape, their orientation with respect to each other and their longitudinal alignment to enable the container to withstand deformation due to internal or external pressures. Each rib has longitudinal angle of orientation is less than 90° relative to the vertical axis of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2005Publication date: December 22, 2005Inventors: Patrick Finlay, Michael Payne, Michael Swindeman, Balakrishna Haridas
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Publication number: 20050060127Abstract: A method and system for controlling work site dust conditions are provided. The method may include providing a mobile dust control machine configured to treat a dust condition within a work location. The dust control machine may be disposed distant from the work location. The method may further include monitoring a dust condition of the work location, generating a dust control signal in response to monitoring the dust condition, dispatching the mobile dust control machine to the work location in response to the dust control signal, and operating the mobile dust control machine at the work location.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2003Publication date: March 17, 2005Inventors: Jeffery Carter, Robert Herold, Kelsey Milman, Michael Payne, Mark Rinkel
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Publication number: 20050022955Abstract: Tissues are provided as multi-ply tissue products having greater tactile sensation and resiliency in hand. Improved tissues may have a thickened and reduced density middle layer. The tissues may serve as applicators for chemical agents to be released during use of the tissue. A tissue having an improved tactile impression to the consumer, with enhanced resilience and high external bulk is disclosed. In one embodiment, a multi-ply structure having at least three plies is desirable. A middle or intermediate ply is comprised an increased thickness and a greater bulk is employed. In general, the exterior plies of the tissue are smooth and desirable to the consumer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Inventors: Margaret M. Ward, Gary Shanklin, Cynthia Henderson, Michael Payne
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Publication number: 20040082488Abstract: The invention is concerned with a process for preventing and/or counteracting smoke malodours on a surface, by applying to the surface, a composition comprising one or more macrocyclic musks selected from cyclohexadecanolide, cyclopentadecanone or cyclopentadecanolide. The invention also covers perfumes, and products comprising said perfumes, which incorporate the one or more macrocyclic musks.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2003Publication date: April 29, 2004Inventors: Roger John Henry Duprey, Simon Ellwood, Loren Hall Michael, Ian Michael Payne, Keith Douglas Ashford, Alexander Spencer Pope, Anne Richardson
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Publication number: 20040045687Abstract: Pulp fibers can be treated with water insoluble chemical additives resulting in a minimal amount of unretained water insoluble chemical additives present after exposing the treated pulp fibers to process water, liquids, or solutions used in products. One embodiment of the present invention is a method for preparing chemically treated pulp fiber. A fiber slurry is created comprising process water and pulp fibers. The fiber slurry is transported to a web-forming apparatus of a pulp sheet machine thereby forming a wet fibrous web. The wet fibrous web is dried to a predetermined consistency thereby forming a dried fibrous web. The dried fibrous web is treated with a water insoluble chemical additive thereby forming a chemically treated dried fibrous web containing chemically treated pulp fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2002Publication date: March 11, 2004Inventors: Thomas Gerard Shannon, Louise Cynthia Ellis Coe, Mike Thomas Goulet, Sheng-Hsin Hu, David Andrew Moline, Alberto Ricardo Negri, Michael Payne, Troy Michael Runge, Alan Edward Wright
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Patent number: 6244631Abstract: A drill pipe 10 comprises an elongate pipe section 12 having a substantially uniform pipe outer diameter 18 and a substantially uniform pipe inner diameter 20. A pin tool joint 14 is welded at one end to the pipe section, and a box tool joint 16 is welded to the other end of the pipe section. Each of the pin and box tool joints includes a thread for mating engagement and preferably first and second shoulders. The drill pipe has a ratio, R, which takes into consideration the pipe inner diameter, PID, the pipe outer diameter, POD, the tool joint inner diameter, TJID, and the tool joint outer diameter, TJOD. This ratio may be expressed as: R = ( P ID + TJ ID ) ( TJ OD - P OD ) .Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1999Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Inventors: Michael Payne, Jackie E. Smith, Edmond I. Bailey
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Patent number: 6219049Abstract: A dynamic mate inferencing system permits display and manipulation of a computer model, including features of allowing a user to select a feature of the model, determining a characteristic geometry of the feature, dynamically previewing the mating of the feature to a component of the model, allowing the user to alternate between different mating scenarios, and permitting the user to mate the feature to the component in the previewed geometry.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1998Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: Solidworks CorporationInventors: Robert P. Zuffante, John K. Hirschtick, Boris Shoov, David Corcoran, Mick Kallman, Michael Payne, Linda Lokay
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Patent number: 6189999Abstract: A multi-tiered, multi-faceted, anti-flicking wiper scraper system cleans an inkjet printhead wiper without flicking or splattering ink residue onto other components in an inkjet printing mechanism. This system includes a scraper apparatus supported by a service station frame to contact the wiper through relative motion of the wiper and scraper apparatus. The scraper apparatus may take the form of two scraper bars which extend into the path of the wiper, with the first scraper bar being shorter than the second scraper bar, and with the first scraper bar being rigidly or pivotally supported by the frame. The scraper apparatus may be a unitary body defining two ramped wiping surfaces joined at an apex portion of the body, or a body having a scraping surface covered with a series of ridges. A method is also provided to clean ink residue from an inkjet printhead.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1999Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventors: Le Pham, Todd R. Medin, Michael Payne
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Patent number: 6103679Abstract: Mixtures of at least two of the macrocyclic musk fragrances hexadecanolide, cyclopentadecanone and pentadecanolide and methods of using such mixtures are described. These mixtures possess substantivity to proteinaceous and cellulosic substrates which is significantly better than the substantivity of the separate components and are therefore very suitable for perfumes to be applied in products intended for treating skin, hair or textile fibers, such as bath and shower products, shampoos, laundry detergents, rinse conditioners, fabric softeners and the like. The mixtures are thus able to replace polycyclic musk fragrances in such products.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1999Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLCInventors: Antonius Johannes Albertus Van der Weerdt, Ian Michael Payne
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Patent number: 5891729Abstract: A substrate (e.g. skin of unknown type, fabric, or hard surfaces) is characterized by analyzing chemicals emanating from the substrate or from a substance (e.g. a test formulation comprising a mixture of volatile chemicals) applied to the substrate. Analysis is preferably done using a volatile chemicals sensor, desirably a sensor comprising an array of conducting polymer sensors. The chemical analysis data obtained in this way may be statistically analyzed, e.g. by Euclidian distance mapping or principal component analysis, for ease of handling. Having characterized a surface in this way, products, e.g. cosmetic and cleaning products, may be formulated for optimized performance on that substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1997Date of Patent: April 6, 1999Assignee: Quest International B.V.Inventors: John Martin Behan, Keith Douglas Perring, Brian James Willis, Ian Michael Payne, Jennifer Valerie Oliver
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Patent number: 5749863Abstract: Skin wetness is minimized on overnight usage of a disposable absorbent article containing an acquisition and distribution member consisting essentially of C.sub.2 -C.sub.9 polycarboxylic acid crosslinked cellulosic fibers prepared in the presence of surfactant.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1996Date of Patent: May 12, 1998Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Michael Payne
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Patent number: 5716703Abstract: Skin wetness is minimized on overnight usage of a disposable absorbent article containing an acquisition and distribution member consisting essentially of C.sub.2 -C.sub.9 polycarboxylic acid crosslinked cellulosic fibers prepared in the presence of surfactant.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1996Date of Patent: February 10, 1998Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Michael Payne
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Patent number: RE39869Abstract: A drill pipe 10 comprises an elongate pipe section 12 having a substantially uniform pipe outer diameter 18 and a substantially uniform pipe inner diameter 20. A pin tool joint 14 is welded at one end to the pipe section, and a box tool joint 16 is welded to the other end of the pipe section. Each of the pin and box tool joints includes a thread for mating engagement and preferably first and second shoulders. The drill pipe has a ratio, R, which takes into consideration the pipe inner diameter, PID, the pipe outer diameter, POD, the tool joint inner diameter, TJID, and the tool joint outer diameter, TJOD. This ratio may be expressed as: R = ( P ID + TJ ID ) ( TJ OD - P OD ) . According to the present invention, this ratio is greater than 8.0, and is preferably from 8.1 to 8.5, thereby providing a drill pipe with desired strength and fluid flow capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2003Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Assignee: Grant Prideco, L.P.Inventors: Michael Payne, Jackie E. Smith, Edmond I. Bailey