Patents by Inventor Patrick M. O'Connell
Patrick M. O'Connell 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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Patent number: 11686936Abstract: A head up display mirror holder arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit producing a light field. A mirror reflects the light field such that the light field is visible to the driver as a virtual image. A mirror holder has two opposite ends and an activation feature. The two opposite ends are aligned along a rotational axis of the mirror. The mirror holder retains the mirror. Each of two bushings is coupled to a respective opposite end of the mirror holder. A calibration switch has minimum proximity to the activation feature of the mirror holder.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Edo Omanovic, Patrick M. O'Connell
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Publication number: 20220155605Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display producing a virtual image that is visible to a driver of the motor vehicle when he is sitting in a driver's seat and his eyes are above a first vertical level and below a second vertical level. An eye tracking system detects a vertical level of the eyes of the driver and transmits a height signal indicative of the detected vertical level of the eyes of the driver. A motorized seat height adjustment module adjusts a vertical level of the driver's seat. An electronic controller is communicatively coupled to the eye tracking system and to the motorized seat height adjustment module. The electronic controller controls the motorized seat height adjustment module based on the height signal to move the driver's eyes to a vertical position above the first vertical level and below the second vertical level.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: DAVID KAY LAMBERT, FIDELIS ITSEDE, PATRICK M. O'CONNELL
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Publication number: 20220043260Abstract: A head up display mirror holder arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit producing a light field. A mirror reflects the light field such that the light field is visible to the driver as a virtual image. A mirror holder has two opposite ends and an activation feature. The two opposite ends are aligned along a rotational axis of the mirror. The mirror holder retains the mirror. Each of two bushings is coupled to a respective opposite end of the mirror holder. A calibration switch has minimum proximity to the activation feature of the mirror holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: EDO OMANOVIC, PATRICK M. O'CONNELL
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Patent number: 11181738Abstract: A head up display mirror holder arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit producing a light field. A mirror reflects the light field such that the light field is visible to the driver as a virtual image. A mirror holder has two opposite ends and an activation feature. The two opposite ends are aligned along a rotational axis of the mirror. The mirror holder retains the mirror. Each of two bushings is coupled to a respective opposite end of the mirror holder. A calibration switch has minimum proximity to the activation feature of the mirror holder.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Edo Omanovic, Patrick M. O'Connell
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Publication number: 20210193086Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit emitting a light field including an image. A mirror is positioned to reflect the light field after the light field has been emitted by the picture generation unit. A windshield is positioned to reflect the light field after the light field has been reflected by the mirror such that a human driver sees the image in the light field after the light field has been reflected by the windshield, and such that the driver sees the image as a virtual image that appears to be outside of the windshield when eyes of the driver are in an imaginary eyebox. An electronic processor is communicatively coupled to the picture generation unit and translates the image on the picture generation unit display to thereby change a vertical level of the eyebox.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: DAVID KAY LAMBERT, DAMON EDWARD STAUFFER, FIDELIS ITSEDE, PATRICK M. O'CONNELL
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Publication number: 20200150434Abstract: A head up display mirror holder arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit producing a light field. A mirror reflects the light field such that the light field is visible to the driver as a virtual image. A mirror holder has two opposite ends and an activation feature. The two opposite ends are aligned along a rotational axis of the mirror. The mirror holder retains the mirror. Each of two bushings is coupled to a respective opposite end of the mirror holder. A calibration switch has minimum proximity to the activation feature of the mirror holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: EDO OMANOVIC, PATRICK M. O'CONNELL
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Publication number: 20170343342Abstract: The present invention provides a method of measuring the placement of material forming a blow-molded plastic container after the container is released from a mold of a blow molder having a plurality of molds, wherein each plastic container comprises a continuous sidewall and a base, the method comprising the steps of: detecting with an infrared camera infrared light emitted from the container after the container is released from a mold; converting the detected infrared light into corresponding electrical signals; transmitting the electrical signals to a microprocessor; comparing in the microprocessor the electrical signals with stored data regarding desired material distribution forming the plastic container; and producing output information regarding the placement of material forming the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Patrick M. O'Connell, Garrett R. Pennington, Russell Varone
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Patent number: 9778031Abstract: The present invention provides a method of measuring the placement of material forming a blow-molded plastic container after the container is released from a mold of a blow molder having a plurality of molds, wherein each plastic container comprises a continuous sidewall and a base, the method comprising the steps of: detecting with an infrared camera infrared light emitted from the container after the container is released from a mold; converting the detected infrared light into corresponding electrical signals; transmitting the electrical signals to a microprocessor; comparing in the microprocessor the electrical signals with stored data regarding desired material distribution forming the plastic container; and producing output information regarding the placement of material forming the container.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: GRAHAM PACKAGING COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Patrick M. O'Connell, Garrett R. Pennington, Russell Varone
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Publication number: 20150343698Abstract: The present invention provides a method of measuring the placement of material forming a blow-molded plastic container after the container is released from a mold of a blow molder having a plurality of molds, wherein each plastic container comprises a continuous sidewall and a base, the method comprising the steps of: detecting with an infrared camera infrared light emitted from the container after the container is released from a mold; converting the detected infrared light into corresponding electrical signals; transmitting the electrical signals to a microprocessor; comparing in the microprocessor the electrical signals with stored data regarding desired material distribution forming the plastic container; and producing output information regarding the placement of material forming the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Patrick M. O'Connell, Garrett R. Pennington, Russell Varone
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Patent number: 9146099Abstract: The present invention provides a method of measuring the placement of material forming a blow-molded plastic container after the container is released from a mold of a blow molder having a plurality of molds, wherein each plastic container comprises a continuous sidewall and a base, the method comprising the steps of: detecting with an infrared camera infrared light emitted from the container after the container is released from a mold; converting the detected infrared light into corresponding electrical signals; transmitting the electrical signals to a microprocessor; comparing in the microprocessor the electrical signals with stored data regarding desired material distribution forming the plastic container; and producing output information regarding the placement of material forming the container.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2011Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: GRAHAM PACKAGING COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Patrick M. O'Connell, Garrett R. Pennington, Russell Varone
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Publication number: 20120007289Abstract: The present invention provides a method of measuring the placement of material forming a blow-molded plastic container after the container is released from a mold of a blow molder having a plurality of molds, wherein each plastic container comprises a continuous sidewall and a base, the method comprising the steps of: detecting with an infrared camera infrared light emitted from the container after the container is released from a mold; converting the detected infrared light into corresponding electrical signals; transmitting the electrical signals to a microprocessor; comparing in the microprocessor the electrical signals with stored data regarding desired material distribution forming the plastic container; and producing output information regarding the placement of material forming the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: GRAHAM PACKAGING COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Patrick M. O'Connell, Garrett R. Pennington, Russell Varone
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Publication number: 20100000959Abstract: A method and apparatus for reforming a portion of a blow molded plastic container includes directing energy from a heater onto the portion of the container so as to heat the portion while leaving the remainder of the container relatively unheated. The heated portion of the container is then engaged by a reforming tool having an embossed or imprinted characteristic on a contact surface of the reforming tool so as to reform the portion of the container and form a three-dimensional feature thereon which is not reproducible without using the method and/or apparatus of the present invention. Alternatively, the heated portion of the container is engaged by a reforming tool having a transferable element on a contact surface of the reforming tool so as to reform the portion of the container and transfer the transferable element to the portion of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2009Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: Graham Packaging Company, LPInventors: Patrick M. O'Connell, Brian J. Chisholm
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Patent number: 7637733Abstract: A method and apparatus for reforming a portion of a blow molded plastic container includes directing energy from a heater onto the portion of the container so as to heat the portion while leaving the remainder of the container relatively unheated. The heated portion of the container is then engaged by a reforming tool having an embossed or imprinted characteristic on a contact surface of the reforming tool so as to reform the portion of the container and form a three-dimensional feature thereon which is not reproducible without using the method and/or apparatus of the present invention. Alternatively, the heated portion of the container is engaged by a reforming tool having a transferable element on a contact surface of the reforming tool so as to reform the portion of the container and transfer the transferable element to the portion of the container.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2006Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Graham Packaging Company, L.P.Inventors: Patrick M. O'Connell, Brian Chisholm
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Patent number: 4304254Abstract: A dust valve for the discharge line of a dust collection system includes a removable closet with two wear surfaces and a coacting removable valve door with two wear surfaces mounted within the valve body. Once the coacting wear surfaces on the closet and the door are sufficiently worn that they need replacement, each element can be disconnected from its supporting structure, inverted, and then reconnected to the valve body so as to expose a new wear surface. The useful lives of these elements is thus doubled over conventional single wear surface closets and doors.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1978Date of Patent: December 8, 1981Inventors: Stephen R. O'Connell, deceased, Patrick M. O'Connell, executor