Patents by Inventor Patrick J. Hurley

Patrick J. Hurley 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: 4937710
    Abstract: A ventilation system for a replaceable bulb headlamp that has a vent device which, when combined with a reflector housing of the headlamp, creates a spiraling passage through which air is capable of flowing into and out of the interior of the headlamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick J. Hurley, Michael E. Lines, Marian Kulesz
  • Patent number: 4747023
    Abstract: A headlamp assembly having a spring plate member fastened through a pivot connection to the lamp body and formed with a pair of clip members and a pair of spring members for allowing the lamp body to be readily secured to a support panel of a motor vehicle and allow selective adjustment of the lamp body about a horizontal aim axis and a vertical aim axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel A. Ball, Patrick J. Hurley
  • Patent number: 4624591
    Abstract: An impact printing system which is particularly suitable for word processing is provided with the capability of effecting mid-line pitch changes. The impact printer system which is particularly compatible with interactive display terminals in word processing system has means for receiving a selected one of a plurality of type or character font elements. The pitch of character font elements are different from each other. The printing system includes means for selectively impacting selected characters from selected fonts along lines in a document. The system further includes control apparatus for controlling and determining the selection of font elements to be used and in the case of printing with a particular font element, the characters to be printed in respective positions along the lines of the document to provide the desired document format. The control apparatus includes apparatus for controlling the printing with at least two different font elements having different pitch along a single line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1986
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Johnny G. Barnes, James L. Gaudet, Patrick J. Hurley, Grover H. Neuman
  • Patent number: 4575817
    Abstract: A system in which a device or machine is controlled by instructions from a data processor is provided which minimizes main memory storage requirements. An interrupt service routine monitors the input to the processor received from the device in response to control instructions sent by the processor. The interrupt service routine monitors this response for exception conditions. When an exception condition indicating that the device is no longer capable of fully carrying out processor instructions is received by the interrupt service routine, it activates an exception handler routine. A primary memory storage stack normally supports the interrupt service routine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1986
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Wade H. Allen, Theodore M. Cory, Patrick J. Hurley, Raymond A. Thornton
  • Patent number: 4525806
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to word processing systems wherein material to be printed is formatted on a display unit having a display, e.g., CRT display and a text formatting processor which formats the display material. The display unit further includes means for controlling a printer to print the formatted text. In the present invention a plurality of such display units share a printer. This is accomplished by having at least one of the display units comprise means for controlling the sharing of the printer by the plurality of display units and each of the other display units communicate with the printer through these printer sharing control means. At least part of this printer sharing control means is contained in the text formatting processor of the primary display unit through which the other display units communicate with the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1985
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Johnny G. Barnes, John A. Hooten, Patrick J. Hurley, Ernest L. Miller
  • Patent number: 4397572
    Abstract: Overstruck text is justified by distributing the white space residue at the end of the unjustified line among the interword spaces for justification. The amount of the residue distributed is used to determine a number of overstrike characters which will overstrike the text including these expanded interword spaces. This is accomplished by placing controls in the text stream during editing to delineate the text to be overstruck. Before printing, these controls in the edited data stream are detected to cause the print line to be first justified by expansion of interword spaces and then followed by overstriking with the appropriate number of overstrike characters determined during the justification process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Johnny G. Barnes, Rudolph E. Chukran, Patrick J. Hurley, Harry L. Lineman
  • Patent number: 4298290
    Abstract: A system for first justifying a text line according to a system minimum escapement unit, and then rejustifying the line according to a minimum escapement unit for a printer which is to be utilized in printing the line. The first justification of the line is in a normal manner. That is, any residue is divided by the number of word spaces on the line to obtain a quotient and any remainder. The extent of word space expansion is then the value of the quotient plus the remainder until exhausted. Rejustification for the printer being utilized is accomplished by dividing each system justified word space size by the printer minimum escapement unit to obtain a new quotient and remainder. Each system justified word space is then converted to a value including the obtained quotient for each space, and the remainders for all spaces are accumulated for adding to the first word space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1981
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Johnny G. Barnes, Patrick J. Hurley, Gary W. Miller