Patents by Inventor Paul A. Perron
Paul A. Perron 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: 11401928Abstract: A mechanical pump includes a motor with an output shaft, a cam coupled to the output shaft for rotating the cam when the motor is energized, and a driver with spaced ledges engaging the cam and driven linearly by the rotating cam. The piston is driven by the driver. A cylinder receives the piston therein and includes an inlet section for drawing fluid into the cylinder and an outlet section for pumping fluid out of the cylinder as the piston reciprocates in the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLCInventors: Ognjen Vrdoljak, John-Paul Perron, Dan Meyer
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Publication number: 20210254615Abstract: A mechanical pump includes a motor with an output shaft, a ca coupled to the output shaft for rotating the cam when the motor is energized, and a driver with spaced ledges engaging the cam and driven linearly by the rotating cam. The piston is driven by the driver. A cylinder receives the piston therein and includes an inlet section for drawing fluid into the cylinder and an outlet section for pumping fluid out of the cylinder as the piston reciprocates in the cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Ognjen VRDOLJAK, John-Paul PERRON, Dan MEYER
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Patent number: 10932644Abstract: A mechanical pump includes a motor with an output shaft, a cam coupled to the output shaft for rotating the cam when the motor is energized, and a driver with spaced ledges engaging the cam and driven linearly by the rotating cam. The piston is driven by the driver. A cylinder receives the piston therein and includes an inlet section for drawing fluid into the cylinder and an outlet section for pumping fluid out of the cylinder as the piston reciprocates in the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLCInventors: Ognjen Vrdoljak, John-Paul Perron, Dan Meyer
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Publication number: 20160324388Abstract: A mechanical pump includes a motor with an output shaft, a cam coupled to the output shaft for rotating the cam when the motor is energized, and a driver with spaced ledges engaging the cam and driven linearly by the rotating cam. The piston is driven by the driver. A cylinder receives the piston therein and includes an inlet section for drawing fluid into the cylinder and an outlet section for pumping fluid out of the cylinder as the piston reciprocates in the cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: SharkNinja Operating LLCInventors: Ognjen Vrdoljak, John-Paul Perron, Dan Meyer
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Patent number: 7867691Abstract: Excellent development of planographic printing plates can be achieved by exposing an imaged, negative working, photopolymerizable coating to a high pressure stream of essentially heated but otherwise untreated tap water, whereby the water completely removes only the less cohesive and adhesive (e.g., partially polymerized) regions to the substrate, thereby directly producing a printing plate having an image pattern of highly cohesive and adhesive, oleophilic regions of the coating and hydrophilic regions of the substrate. The coating removal mechanism appears to be due entirely to ablation. The process variables of spray pressure, spray volumetric flow rate, and water temperature can be traded off to achieve one or more targets for plate quality, energy conservation, production rate, and equipment availability.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2008Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Anocoil CorporationInventors: Howard A. Fromson, William J. Ryan, William J. Rozell, Paul A. Perron
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Patent number: 7816065Abstract: A novel coating for lithographic printing plates can be imagewise exposed to radiation and then directly processed with only water to remove the non-exposed regions of the coating. The coating comprises a polymer, a monomer and/or oligomer, polymerization or cross link initiator, stabilizer, and dye or pigment, such that after imaging, the non-imaged resin areas are removable from the planar surface by penetration of water through the non-imaged coating without dissolution of the resin components of the coating, to form a lithographic printing plate with clearly defined image and non-image areas. The stabilizer is a solvent soluble, partially water soluble, non-polymerizable organic component that enables the coating to be removable by water in the non-cross linked areas.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2006Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Anocoil CorporationInventors: Howard A. Fromson, William J. Rozell, William J. Ryan, Paul A. Perron
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Patent number: 7700266Abstract: Excellent development of planographic printing plates can be achieved by exposing an imaged, negative working, photopolymerizable coating to a high pressure stream of essentially untreated tap water, whereby the water completely removes only the less cohesive and adhesive (e.g., partially polymerized) regions to the substrate, thereby directly producing a printing plate having an image pattern of highly cohesive and adhesive, oleophilic regions of the coating and hydrophilic regions of the substrate. The coating removal mechanism appears to be due entirely to ablation. The high pressure stream is preferably delivered to the plate through at least one nozzle having a discharge pressure greater than about 200 psi. Each nozzle preferably has a spray pattern that impinges the plate over a substantially rectangular region of the plate, and the nozzle and plate translate relative to each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2007Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Anocoil CorporationInventors: Howard A. Fromson, William J. Ryan, William J. Rozell, Paul A. Perron
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Patent number: 7229739Abstract: The invention generally relates to positive-working coating compositions and to a substrate formed with a coating of that composition. Advantageous versions of the invention provide an infrared imageable, positive lithographic printing plate having a coating comprising a hydroxy substituted polymer, a diphenylcarbinol solubility suppressing compound and an infrared radiation absorbing compound.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2005Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Anocoil CorporationInventors: Paul A. Perron, Brian L. Anderson, William J. Ryan
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Publication number: 20070026342Abstract: A novel coating for lithographic printing plates can be imagewise exposed to radiation and then directly processed with only water to remove the non-exposed regions of the coating. The coating comprises a polymer, a monomer and/or oligomer, polymerization or cross link initiator, stabilizer, and dye or pigment, such that after imaging, the non-imaged resin areas are removable from the planar surface by penetration of water through the non-imaged coating without dissolution of the resin components of the coating, to form a lithographic printing plate with clearly defined image and non-image areas. The stabilizer is a solvent soluble, partially water soluble, non-polymerizable organic component that enables the coating to be removable by water in the non-cross linked areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2006Publication date: February 1, 2007Inventors: Howard Fromson, William Rozell, William Ryan, Paul Perron
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Publication number: 20060127802Abstract: The invention generally relates to positive-working coating compositions and to a substrate formed with a coating of that composition. Advantageous versions of the invention provide an infrared imageable, positive lithographic printing plate having a coating comprising a hydroxy substituted polymer, a diphenylcarbinol solubility suppressing compound and an infrared radiation absorbing compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2005Publication date: June 15, 2006Applicant: Anocoil CorporationInventors: Paul Perron, Brian Anderson, William Ryan
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Patent number: 6861196Abstract: The present invention includes an imageable element, which can be: (a) an imageable element comprising an imaging layer which comprises: an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound having an alkoxy substituent and an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound free of an alkoxy substituent; a polyvinyl acetal binder; and a sheet substrate; or (b) an imageable element comprising an imaging layer which comprises: an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound having an alkoxy substituent and an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound free of an alkoxy substituent; and a sheet substrate. The imaging layer includes a total aromatic diazonium salt containing compound content of at least 10 weight percent. The molar ratio of the aromatic diazonium salt containing compound having an alkoxy substituent to the aromatic diazonium salt containing compound that is free of an alkoxy substituent is from about 1.0:1 to 70:1. Upon imagewise exposure and development, an imaged element is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2003Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Kodak Polychrome Graphics LLCInventors: Stephan J. Platzer, Maria T. Sypek, Paul Perron, Harald Baumann, Melinda Alden
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Publication number: 20040063022Abstract: The present invention includes an imageable element, which can be: (a) an imageable element comprising an imaging layer which comprises: an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound having an alkoxy substituent and an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound free of an alkoxy substituent; a polyvinyl acetal binder; and a sheet substrate; or (b) an imageable element comprising an imaging layer which comprises: an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound having an alkoxy substituent and an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound free of an alkoxy substituent; and a sheet substrate. The imaging layer includes a total aromatic diazonium salt containing compound content of at least 10 weight percent. The molar ratio of the aromatic diazonium salt containing compound having an alkoxy substituent to the aromatic diazonium salt containing compound that is free of an alkoxy substituent is from about 1.0:1 to 70:1. Upon imagewise exposure and development, an imaged element is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2003Publication date: April 1, 2004Applicant: Kodak Polychrome Graphics, LLC.Inventors: Stephan J. Platzer, Maria T. Sypek, Paul Perron, Harald Baumann, Melinda Alden
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Patent number: 6638679Abstract: The present invention includes an imageable element, which can be: (a) an imageable element comprising an imaging layer which comprises: an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound having an alkoxy substituent and an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound free of an alkoxy substituent; a polyvinyl acetal binder; and a sheet substrate; or (b) an imageable element comprising an imaging layer which comprises: an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound having an alkoxy substituent and an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound free of an alkoxy substituent; and a sheet substrate. The imaging layer includes a total aromatic diazonium salt containing compound content of at least 10 weight percent. The molar ratio of the aromatic diazonium salt containing compound having an alkoxy substituent to the aromatic diazonium salt containing compound that is free of an alkoxy substituent is from about 1.0:1 to 70:1.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2001Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Kodak Polychrome Graphics, LLCInventors: Stephan J. Platzer, Maria T. Sypek, Paul Perron, Harald Baumann, Melinda Alden
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Publication number: 20030013035Abstract: The present invention includes an imageable element, which can be: (a) an imageable element comprising an imaging layer which comprises: an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound having an alkoxy substituent and an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound free of an alkoxy substituent; a polyvinyl acetal binder; and a sheet substrate; or (b) an imageable element comprising an imaging layer which comprises: an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound having an alkoxy substituent and an aromatic diazonium salt containing compound free of an alkoxy substituent; and a sheet substrate. The imaging layer includes a total aromatic diazonium salt containing compound content of at least 10 weight percent. The molar ratio of the aromatic diazonium salt containing compound having an alkoxy substituent to the aromatic diazonium salt containing compound that is free of an alkoxy substituent is from about 1.0:1 to 70:1.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2001Publication date: January 16, 2003Applicant: Kodak Polychrome Graphics, L.L.C.Inventors: Stephan J. Platzer, Maria T. Sypek, Paul Perron, Harald Baumann, Melinda Alden
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Publication number: 20020146633Abstract: A novel fluorinated aromatic acetal polymer comprises at least one unit of A and at least one unit of B or C, or at least one unit of each of A, B and C and optionally further comprises at least one unit of either D or E or at least one unit of each of D and E, wherein the units A and B and/or C, and optionally D and/or E are linked together by single covalent C-C bonds and have the formulae: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2001Publication date: October 10, 2002Applicant: Kodak Polychrome Graphics L.L.C.Inventors: Stephan Platzer, Paul Perron, Melinda Alden
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Patent number: 6458503Abstract: A novel fluorinated aromatic acetal polymer comprises at least one unit of A and at least one unit of B or C, or at least one unit of each of A, B and C and optionally further comprises at least one unit of either D or E or at least one unit of each of D and E, wherein the units A and B and/or C, and optionally D and/or E are linked together by single covalent C—C bonds and have the formulae: wherein RA is H or C1-C11 alky, or an aryl group that does not contain fluorine, and RB and RC are an aryl groups that contain fluorine. The polymer is prepared by reacting a hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate polymer or copolymer with at least one non-fluorinated aldehyde component, and at least one fluorinated aromatic component. The polymer is useful is preparing a photosensitive composition which comprises at least one diazo resin and at least one such fluorinated aromatic acetal polymer.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2001Date of Patent: October 1, 2002Assignee: Kodak Polychrome Graphics LLCInventors: Stephan Platzer, Paul Perron, Melinda Alden
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Patent number: 5837586Abstract: Provided are 4-(alkoxyhydroxy)styryl triazine photoinitiator compounds having the formula: ##STR1## wherein n is 3 or 4, as well as photopolymerizable compositions and photographic elements containing such photoinitiator compounds. These photoinitiator compounds improve the reproduction quality of photographic elements such as lithographic printing plates since the photosensitive compositions in which they are incorporated are resistant to surface blooming.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1997Date of Patent: November 17, 1998Assignee: Kodak Polychrome Graphics Company, Ltd.Inventor: Paul A. Perron
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Patent number: 5543262Abstract: A light sensitive composition which is capable of photopolymerization which includes a photopolymerizable compound a free radical generating component and a benzanthrone or substituted benzanthrone which substantially prevents photopolymerization when the light sensitive composition is exposed to actinic radiation below a threshold amount but permits photopolymerization when the light sensitive composition is exposed to actinic radiation above a threshold amount. This achieves a gate effect which eliminates or decreases unwanted partial exposure in the nonimage areas and hence improves reproduction quality.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1995Date of Patent: August 6, 1996Assignee: International Paper CompanyInventors: Maria T. Sypek, John R. Delude, Paul A. Perron
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Patent number: 5340681Abstract: Photopolymeric printing plates are presented wherein and electrochemically etched and anodized, silicated aluminum substrate has a single photosensitive coating thereon composed of a photopolymerizable combination which includes a photopolymerizable pigment dispersion, a photosensitive lithographic diazonium resin, multifunctional acrylate oligomer, multifunctional acrylate monomer, photopolymerizable binder and photoinitiator to yield a non-tacky, mar resistant, easily developed durable plate. In a preferred embodiment, an additional aqueous, non-photosensitive overcoat is applied over the initial coating to retard oxygen inhibition.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1993Date of Patent: August 23, 1994Assignee: International Paper CompanyInventors: Maria T. Sypek, Paul A. Perron, Gary V. Grosclaude
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Patent number: 5286594Abstract: Photopolymeric printing plates are presented wherein an electrochemically etched and anodized, silicated aluminum substrate has a single photosensitive coating thereon composed of a photopolymerizable combination which includes a photopolymerizable pigment dispersion, a photosensitive lithographic diazonium resin, multifunctional acrylate oligomer, multifunctional acrylate monomer, photopolymerizable binder and photoinitiator to yield a non-tacky, mar resistant, easily developed durable plate. In a preferred embodiment, an additional aqueous, non-photosensitive overcoat is applied over the initial coating to retard oxygen inhibition.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1992Date of Patent: February 15, 1994Assignee: International Paper CompanyInventors: Maria T. Sypek, Paul A. Perron, Gary V. Grosclaude