Patents by Inventor Mohammad Ali

Mohammad Ali 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).

  • Patent number: 7165450
    Abstract: A fuel level sensor has a rotor with two magnets mounted for rotation therewith, the magnets spaced from one another and with like poles directed toward one another. A Hall effect sensor on the housing is positioned between the two magnets such that increasing the volume of fluid in the tank moves one magnet toward the sensor and decreasing the volume in the tank moves the other magnet toward the sensor. A metal sleeve around the magnets protects the parts from interference from magnetic material in the fuel. A static discharge path is provided from a metal rod connecting a float, a plate contracting the rod, and a pivot pin retaining the rotor to the housing, and a ground connector in contact with the pivot pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Inventors: Mohammad Ali Jamnia, Jack Chen
  • Patent number: 7128776
    Abstract: An improved thermal swing adsorption process is set forth which addresses the problem of water ingress into the adsorbent by periodically heating the adsorbent to a temperature greater than the temperature used in the normal regeneration cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: William Paul Schmidt, Steven Ray Auvil, Mohammad Ali Kalbassi, Timothy Christopher Golden
  • Publication number: 20060233137
    Abstract: A wireless communications network includes a wireless-specific router topology layer that connects cellular sites to a wireline topology. The wireless-specific router topology provides a distributed architecture in which call processing including call setup, resource preservation, air bandwidth allocation, switching, soft handoff, and micromobility is performed at the cell level. The wireless routers are technology independent to support various cellular technologies. The wireless router may include a first interface operable to communicate wireless packets for a call with a remote device and a second interface operable to communicate wireline packets for the call with the wireline network. A traffic controller is coupled to the first and second interfaces and operable to convert traffic between the wireless and wireline packets and to route packets to a destination mobile or wireline device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramanamurthy Dantu, Pulin Patel, Ojas Choksi, Achal Patel, Mohammad Ali, Jerzy Miernik, Balajl Holur
  • Publication number: 20060208770
    Abstract: The buffer circuit includes a first transistor MP1 having a first end coupled to an output node N2 and a control node coupled to an input node N1; a second transistor MN2 coupled to a second end of the first transistor MP1; a third transistor MN1 coupled to the second transistor MN2 such that a current in the third transistor MN1 is mirrored to the second transistor MN2; a first sense device MP3 coupled to the output node N2; a first current source I2 coupled to the output node N2; a second current source I1 coupled to the third transistor MN1; a second sense device MP2 coupled to the third transistor MN1; and a bipolar device Q1 coupled to the output node N2 and having a base coupled to the second end of the first transistor MP1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Raul Perez, Mohammad Ali Al-Shyoukh
  • Patent number: 7076214
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining whether to transmit from a first unit to a second unit, where the transmission is one of a first type and a second type. In the method, a signal from the second unit is received at the first unit, and the strength of the signal as received at the first unit is measured. A determination is made of whether the transmission is of the first type or the second type, and a first threshold is selected if the transmission is of the first type, or else a second threshold is selected if the transmission is of the second type. The measured signal strength is then compared to the selected threshold, and the transmission proceeds only if the measured signal strength exceeds the selected threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property Corp.
    Inventor: Mohammad Ali Jabbary
  • Patent number: 7066986
    Abstract: An adsorber vessel for use in the adsorption of a component from a gas and subsequent regeneration by thermally induced desorption of the component comprises an inlet for regeneration gas having an inlet nozzle containing at least one heater element, and an outlet for regeneration gas, the inlet and outlet for regeneration being separated by a flow path including a flow chamber containing a body of adsorbent, and wherein the body of adsorbent has a first end which is adjacent the inlet for regeneration gas and a second end which is remote from the inlet for regeneration gas, and the or each heater element is located so as not to penetrate through the first end of the body of adsorbent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Richard Haben, Mohammad Ali Kalbassi, Declan Patrick O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20060090661
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing substantially intimate rolling contact between a portion of a donor sheet and a portion of an acceptor element in a laser-induced thermal transfer printer comprises a rotatably mounted cylindrical drum, an acceptor element affixed to and supported by the cylindrical drum, a rotatably mounted dispensing roller for dispensing a donor sheet, and a rotatably mounted receiving roller for receiving the donor sheet, so that the donor sheet is extended between the dispensing roller and the receiving roller. A plurality of rotatably mounted contact rollers configured to bring a portion of the donor sheet extended between the dispensing roller and the receiving roller into contact with a portion of the acceptor element is also included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2005
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Mohammad Ali, Jianbing Huang
  • Publication number: 20060071483
    Abstract: A vending machine cabinet that is retained in a closed position by a hook that is engaged by a vertically moveable latch bar can be latched closed without actuating a solenoid by means of a cam attached to one of the hooks. To engage the latch bar, the hook extends through an opening in the latch bar. Prior to the hook passing through the opening, an angled surface of the cam engages an upper surface defined by the opening in the latch bar. As the door is closed, the cam rotates through an angle less than ninety degrees, thereby lifting the latch bar until the upwardly extending finger of the hook can move through the opening of the latch plate. When the door is fully closed, the surface of the cam is moved from beneath the upper edge of the opening in the latch plate thereby allowing the latch plate to drop behind the hook, latching the door closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Mohammad Ali Jamnia, Jack Chen, Patrick Forster, Kenneth Such, Joe Chu
  • Patent number: 7022159
    Abstract: A process and an apparatus related to the reduction of the level of a component in a feed gas such as air involving passing the gas to at least three parallel thermal swing adsorption zones charged with an adsorbent and operating according to an adsorption cycle, wherein the cycle of each zone is phased with respect to that of the other zones so that at any point during the cycle, the number of zones in the adsorption step is greater than the number of zones not in the adsorption step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Ali Kalbassi, Paul Higginbotham
  • Publication number: 20050045467
    Abstract: A method for the non-oxidative conversion of methane into hydrogen, in addition to C2 and higher hydrocarbons is disclosed. Pure methane is irradiated in a reaction zone which involves the multi-photon dissociation of methane under the influence of ultra-violet laser radiation at about 193 to about 400 nm, at room temperature and at a pressure ranging from 0.5 to 4 atmospheres. The products generated as a result of methane conversion are hydrogen and higher hydrocarbons which include ethane, ethylene, propane, propylene and isobutene. A conversion of 7-10% was achieved. The hydrogen yield achieved in one hour exposure of methane at ambient temperature and one atmosphere of pressure was 6.6 mole %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Mohammad Gondal, Zain Yamani, Abdul Al-Arfaj, Mohammad Ali, Mohamed Dastageer
  • Patent number: 6840470
    Abstract: This invention relates to a refiner force sensor for refiners used in the pulp and paper industry, to a refining apparatus, and to a method of measuring force acting on a refiner bar in a refiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignees: Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada, Queen's University at Kingston, University of British Columbia
    Inventors: Alan Henry Bankes, Peter Martin Wild, Daniel Ouellet, Behrouz Shiari, Seyed Mohammad Ali Siadat, John Jaa Senger
  • Patent number: 6813630
    Abstract: Disclosed are a system, apparatus, method and computer program for communicating information content using wireless means between a host and a client in a communications system, wherein the client is adapted to transmit pointer movement signals and selection signals to a host. The host is adapted to receive pointer movement signals and selection signals and to display a pointer and a selection boundary, and is further adapted to transmit data to the client. The client is adapted to receive and store in storage the data thus acquired. Preferably the client is further adapted to transmit to a host pointer movement and insertion point selection signals and to transmit selected data from its storage to the host. The host is adapted to receive these signals and data, and to respond by displaying the data according to the insertion point selection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Mohammad Ali Sanamrad
  • Publication number: 20040204233
    Abstract: An operator configurable cash out menu that is displayed when a player presses the cash out button of a gaming device. The present invention provides for more flexible cash outs than in known gaming systems, wherein the player can select one or more methods of payment. The player can select an amount of money to be transferred to a casino account. The player can also select an amount of money to issue on a ticket that the gaming device prints and provides to the player, whereby the player can redeem the ticket for cash. The present invention also enables the player to select different amounts of money to cash out. The player can choose: (i) to have some or all of the amount transferred to the casino account; (ii) to have some or all of the amount issue as cash printed on a ticket; or (iii) to have some be transferred to the account and some issue on a ticket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Mohammad Ali Saffari, Richard W. Poole, Larry R. Hollibaugh, Bryan D. Wolf
  • Publication number: 20040129136
    Abstract: An adsorber vessel for use in the adsorption of a component from a gas and subsequent regeneration by thermally induced desorption of said component comprises an inlet for regeneration gas having an inlet nozzle containing at least one heater element, and an outlet for regeneration gas, said inlet and outlet for regeneration gas being separated by a flow path including a flow chamber containing a body of adsorbent, and wherein said body of adsorbent has a first end which is adjacent said inlet for regeneration gas and a second end which is remote from said inlet for regeneration gas, and the or each heater element is located so as not to penetrate through said first end of the body of adsorbent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Christopher Richard Haben, Mohammad Ali Kalbassi, Declan Patrick O'Connor
  • Patent number: 6758463
    Abstract: An apparatus for distributing a liquid in an exchange column includes a plate and at least one elongated internal baffle. The plate has at least one elongated channel, which has a first longitudinal axis, a bottom, and at least one aperture in the bottom. At least a substantial portion of the internal baffle, which has a second longitudinal axis substantially parallel to the first longitudinal axis, is disposed in the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Robert Zone, Raymond Elliott Sacks, Kenneth William Kovak, Mohammad Ali Kalbassi, Steven Ray Auvil
  • Publication number: 20040118279
    Abstract: A process for the reduction of the level of a component in a feed gas such as air involving passing the gas to at least three parallel thermal swing adsorption zones charged with an adsorbent and operating according to an adsorption cycle. The cycle of each zone is phased with respect to that of the other zones so that at any point during the cycle, the number of zones in the adsorption step is greater than the number of zones not in the adsorption step. Thermal swing adsorption apparatus having at least three parallel thermal swing adsorption zones and means for controlling the flow of the feed gas through the zones such that each bed undergoes repeated cycles which are out of phase with the cycles for the other vessels provided that, in use, at least two vessels are in the adsorption step at any time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: Mohammad Ali Kalbassi, Paul Higginbotham
  • Patent number: 6719827
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process and apparatus for the removal of nitrous oxide from a feed gas stream using an adsorbent having a nitrogen diffusion parameter of 0.12 sec−1 or higher and a nitrous oxide capacity of 79 mmol/g/atm or higher at 30° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Christopher Golden, Fred William Taylor, Elizabeth Helen Salter, Mohammad Ali Kalbassi, Christopher James Raiswell
  • Patent number: 6713504
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel antifungal molecule 2-(3,4-dimethyl-2,5-dihydro-1H-pyrrol-2-yl)-1-methylethyl pentanoate of formula (I) from a plant Datura metel a process for isolation and characterization of the molecule and a pharmaceutical composition essentially comprising the molecule as an antifungal agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research
    Inventors: Gainda Lal Sharma, Rajesh Dabur, Mohammad Ali
  • Publication number: 20040045434
    Abstract: A process for removing at least water and carbon dioxide from a feed gas stream of air, synthesis gas or natural gas is described, comprising the steps of: contacting the feed gas stream with a composite adsorbent comprising silica and metal oxide, wherein the composite adsorbent contains at least 50 wt % silica, to form a first purified gas stream, and regenerating the composite adsorbent at a temperature of 0 to 200° C. The process optionally further comprises contacting the first purified gas stream with a carbon dioxide adsorbent and/or a nitrous oxide or hydrocarbon adsorbent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventors: Timothy Christopher Golden, Fred William Taylor, Elizabeth Helen Salter, Mohammad Ali Kalbassi, Christopher James Raiswell
  • Publication number: 20030221555
    Abstract: A process for removing at least water and carbon dioxide from a feed gas stream of air, synthesis gas or natural gas is described, comprising the steps of:
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Inventors: Timothy Christopher Golden, Fred William Taylor, Elizabeth Helen Salter, Mohammad Ali Kalbassi, Christopher James Raiswell