Patents by Inventor Paul Fredericks

Paul Fredericks 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: 8028673
    Abstract: A fuel line protective cover is disclosed. The fuel line protective cover includes a first leg configured to be mounted to a top surface of an engine and configured to extend the length of an engine. The fuel line protective cover further includes at least one second leg configured to be mounted to a side surface of an engine. The first leg and the at least one second leg cooperate to at least partially enclose a high pressure fuel system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Inventors: Paul Frederick Olsen, William Lyle Schell, Eric James Charles, Christine Cronin McKay
  • Patent number: 8025341
    Abstract: A process line for excavating and processing oil sands ore near a mine face. A mobile excavator excavates ore along the length of a mobile mining conveyor. A mobile comminutor receives and comminutes the excavated ore and transfers the comminuted ore to the mobile mining conveyor. The mobile mining conveyor conveys the comminuted ore to a transfer conveyor that conveys the comminuted ore to a mobile slurry facility. The mobile slurry facility combines the comminuted ore with process water to produce a slurry and pumps and conditions the slurry through a hydro-transport pipeline to a mobile extraction facility as a slurry feed. The mobile extraction facility receives the slurry feed and directs the slurry feed and a water stream as inputs to a three stage countercurrent cyclone separator. The cyclone separator produces a bitumen rich stream and a tailings stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Suncor Energy Inc.
    Inventors: Bradford E. Bjornson, Mario Decrescentis, John Steven Little, Paul Frederick MacDougall
  • Publication number: 20110174463
    Abstract: A water heating system, in which water from a relatively low pressure closed-loop heated water circuit flows through a heat exchanger, through which a relatively high pressure mains cold water feed also flows, to supply both a demand for hot water from the high pressure circuit and/or a demand from heated water consumers such as radiators or showers, is characterised by the feature that the low pressure heated water always flows first through the heat exchanger before supplying any of the heated water consumers; or by the feature that flow restrictors are incorporated into the heat exchanger circuit infeed; or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventor: Paul Frederick Dudley
  • Patent number: 7966979
    Abstract: A cooling device for emissions system electronics is disclosed. The cooling device may have a mount for an exhaust treatment device. The mount may have a framework comprising a plurality of rigid members. The cooling device may also have a passageway located within at least one rigid member of the plurality of rigid members. The passageway may be configured to transmit a flow of coolant. The cooling device may further have a plate coupled to the at least one rigid member and at least one electronic device coupled to the plate. The at least one electronic device may be associated with the exhaust treatment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Frederick Olsen, Jack Albert Merchant, Eric James Charles, Muthukumar Chandrasekaran Trichirapalli
  • Publication number: 20110094944
    Abstract: A screening disk for use on a roller of a roller screen for screening an ore feed is disclosed, which includes first and second opposing side working surfaces, and provisions for mounting the screening disk on a shaft of the roller. At least one of the first and second side working surfaces has a plurality of protrusions operable to extend outwardly into an interstice between the applicable side working surface and a side working surface of an adjacent mounted screening disk. A spacer may be disposed in the one interstice for confining an extent of the one interstice to a region disposed generally between the third working surface and the shaft. A screening disk may have a keyway configured to receive a key for coupling the body of the screening disk to the shaft for rotation therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: SUNCOR ENERGY INC.
    Inventors: Kyle Alan Bruggencate, Paul Frederick MacDOUGALL
  • Publication number: 20110097183
    Abstract: A system and method for transporting a slurry apparatus to a new operating location is disclosed. The system includes a first mobile support for coupling to a first lifting region of the slurry apparatus, the first mobile support being located adjacent to the slurry apparatus. The system also includes a second mobile support for supporting a second lifting region of the slurry apparatus, the first and second lifting regions being selected such that a center of mass of the slurry apparatus is disposed within a stability region defined between the first lifting region and the second lifting region. The first and second mobile supports are operable to take up a load of the slurry apparatus and to advance in a desired direction to cause the slurry apparatus to be moved toward the new operating location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: SUNCOR ENERGY INC.
    Inventors: Kyle Alan Bruggencate, Paul Frederick MacDOUGALL
  • Publication number: 20110064854
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards a method for making a healthy snack food having an appearance and taste similar to conventional fried snack products without the use of an oil-frying process. The method of the present invention includes the steps of providing food slices from a starch-based food or dough. The food slices can be blanched and a controlled amount of oil can be added to enhance final organoleptical properties. The food slices are then rapidly dehydrated to a much lower moisture content in a primary drying step that simulates conventional frying dehydration rates. A food snack, such as a corn or potato-based snack, produced by this method is a low-fat, ready-to-eat snack having the conventional texture and taste associated with fried snack products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: FRITO-LAY TRADING COMPANY, GMBH
    Inventors: John Richard Bows, Colin Jeffrey Burnham, Jonathan Paul Coker, David Lester Hickie, Greg Paul Hilliard, Michelle Louise Lock, Norman John Maloney, Brian Richard Newberry, Paul Frederick Tomlinson, David Ellis, Martin Yonnone, Stanley Joseph Whitehair
  • Publication number: 20110046761
    Abstract: A media processing method that dramatically improves the perceived audio quality and audio output level and video quality and video display consistency for most commonly used audio and video recording, storage and playback systems. The system synthesizes and boosts harmonics and spectral ranges that have been diminished or are missing in the audio component of media files and also processes the audio component to allow maximum playback level without distortion, while also insuring that the perceived audio playback level between different media files stays consistent. The system also improves the listening experience for users of headphones or ear buds. The system also improves the video image color range and brightness for best display on particular display devices while also insuring that the image brightness and color intensity stays consistent even when viewing media files containing video from a variety of different sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventors: Paul Frederick Titchener, Mark Robert Kaplan
  • Patent number: 7877636
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for detecting temporal relationships that are uniquely associated with a selected root cause. The method comprises identifying error codes associated with a root cause, wherein each error code comprises a plurality of event indicators and temporal data describing when the event indicator was generated, analyzing each of the error codes to detect a combination of event indicators that is associated with error codes corresponding to the selected root cause and to a non-selected root cause, and detecting a temporal relationship involving the combination of event indicators, wherein the temporal relationship is uniquely associated with error codes corresponding to the selected root cause.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Kyusung Kim, Robert C. McCroskey, Paul Frederick Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20100266734
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards a method for making a healthy snack food having an appearance and taste similar to conventional fried snack products without the use of an oil-frying process. The method of the present invention includes the steps of providing food slices from a starch-based food or dough. The food slices can be blanched and a controlled amount of oil can be added to enhance final organoleptical properties. The food slices are then rapidly dehydrated to a much lower moisture content in a primary drying step that simulates conventional frying dehydration rates. A food snack, such as a corn or potato-based snack, produced by this method is a low-fat, ready-to-eat snack having the conventional texture and taste associated with fried snack products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: FRITO-LAY TRADING COMPANY, GMBH
    Inventors: John Richard Bows, Colin Jeffrey Burnham, Jonathan Paul Coker, David Ellis, David Lester Hickie, Greg Paul Hilliard, Michelle Louise Lock, Norman John Maloney, Brian Richard Newberry, Rocco Dominic Papalia, Paul Frederick Tomlinson, Stanley Joseph Whitehair, Martin Yonnone
  • Publication number: 20100186382
    Abstract: An emissions control system is disclosed. The emissions control system may have a first exhaust treatment device. The emissions control system may also have an end cap defining a mixing chamber connected to an end of the first exhaust treatment device. The mixing chamber may be configured to promote mixing between a flow of exhaust received from the first exhaust treatment device and a reductant. The emissions control system may further have a second exhaust treatment device configured to receive the flow of exhaust and reductant after it passes through the mixing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Eric Lee Schroeder, Jinhui Sun, Yuxiang Gu, Amarnath Nelli, Paul Frederick Olsen, Jack Albert Merchant, Stephan D. Roozenboom
  • Publication number: 20100187383
    Abstract: An exhaust system device is disclosed. The exhaust system device may have a mount supporting a first exhaust treatment device and a second exhaust treatment device. The exhaust system device may also have a mounting bracket coupled to the mount. The exhaust system device may further have an air cleaner attached to the mounting bracket. The mounting bracket may be configured to substantially occlude the air cleaner from thermal radiation emitted by the first exhaust treatment device and the second exhaust treatment device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Paul Frederick Olsen, Jack Albert Merchant, Eric James Charles, Muthukumar Chandrasekaran Trichirapalli
  • Publication number: 20100186388
    Abstract: A cooling device for emissions system electronics is disclosed. The cooling device may have a mount for an exhaust treatment device. The mount may have a framework comprising a plurality of rigid members. The cooling device may also have a passageway located within at least one rigid member of the plurality of rigid members. The passageway may be configured to transmit a flow of coolant. The cooling device may further have a plate coupled to the at least one rigid member and at least one electronic device coupled to the plate. The at least one electronic device may be associated with the exhaust treatment device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Paul Frederick Olsen, Jack Albert Merchant, Eric James Charles, Muthukumar Chandrasekaran Trichirapalli
  • Publication number: 20100186394
    Abstract: A combustion engine exhaust after treatment system mount, including a body, with a first mounting position, a second mounting position, and a foot for mounting the body to an engine or wall, the first mounting position having a first mounting surface, the second mounting position having a second mounting surface, the first mounting position having a first longitudinal axis, and the second mounting position having a second longitudinal axis, the first axis positioned substantially parallel to the second axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Benjamin Harrison, Nasser Ahmed Niaz, Barry Medd, Jack Albert Merchant, Scott Andrew Simpson, Matthew Dean Moran, Brian Robert Weller, Paul Frederick Olsen, Stephan D. Roozenboom
  • Patent number: 7721540
    Abstract: An engine system is disclosed. The engine system has an engine block having at least one combustion chamber and at least partially defining a crankcase. The engine system also has an inlet conduit connecting a compressor of a turbocharger with the at least one combustion chamber. The engine system further has an exhaust conduit connecting a turbine of the turbocharger with the combustion chamber and a ventilation conduit connecting the crankcase with the exhaust conduit. The engine system also has a controller in communication with the turbocharger, the controller being configured to adjust the geometry of the turbocharger to maintain a pressure of the crankcase lower than a pressure of the inlet conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: William Lyle Schell, Paul Frederick Olsen, Christopher Ronald Gehrke, Joshua David Keyes
  • Publication number: 20100064633
    Abstract: An improved carton feed drive includes feed dog drives for delivering carton blanks to transport lugs of a carton. Components of the feed dog drives are inclined to the vertical, providing ability to handle very short depth cartons by operating feed dogs in an operative run closely adjacent the transport lugs while the feed dog drives are inclined away from the transport lug drives so the respective drives to not interfere in any way to unduly limit the ability to handle short depth cartons. Feed dogs are selectively pivoted on their drives to positions for operative engagement of cartons, and are releasable to retracted positions to avoid carton damage as the dogs move to a return run.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: R.A. Jones & Co. Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Kalany, Paul A. Frederick, Scott J. Ziemer
  • Publication number: 20100058112
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for detecting temporal relationships that are uniquely associated with a selected root cause. The method comprises identifying error codes associated with a root cause, wherein each error code comprises a plurality of event indicators and temporal data describing when the event indicator was generated, analyzing each of the error codes to detect a combination of event indicators that is associated with error codes corresponding to the selected root cause and to a non-selected root cause, and detecting a temporal relationship involving the combination of event indicators, wherein the temporal relationship is uniquely associated with error codes corresponding to the selected root cause.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Kyusung Kim, Robert C. McCroskey, Paul Frederick Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20100031644
    Abstract: An exhaust system is disclosed. The exhaust system may have an emissions control system including a mount and at least one exhaust treatment device secured to the mount. The exhaust system may also have a mounting assembly including a platform and a base frame. The emissions control system may be secured to the platform. The mounting assembly may be configured to position the emissions control system substantially adjacent to a power source. The platform may be movable relative to the base frame between a first position and a second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Inventors: Martin Joseph Keane, Scott Ira Archey, Jeffrey David Lind, Jerry Edward Berkeland, Paul Frederick Olsen, Tazio Stephan Grivetti, Jack Albert Merchant, Christopher Martin Pogioli
  • Publication number: 20100024407
    Abstract: A removable exhaust treatment unit for an aftertreatment assembly is provided. The removable exhaust treatment unit include a housing, at least one exhaust treatment element coupled within the housing, and a flange on one end of the housing. The removable exhaust treatment unit also includes a plurality of apertures on the flange configured to receive a plurality of fasteners. The removable exhaust treatment unit further includes at least one handle coupled to the flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Jack Albert Merchant, Paul Frederick Olsen
  • Publication number: 20090220594
    Abstract: A medicament tablet containing paracetamol (acetaminophen) as the (or an) active ingredient, and an encapsulated flavorant. The tablet may be swallowed in tablet form or may be dissolved or dispersed in water to form a palatable drink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventor: Paul Frederick Field