Patents by Inventor Paul L. St. Cyr
Paul L. St. Cyr 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: 9927335Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein are directed to sample holders that can be used to retain a sample support effective for use in direct sample analysis. In some embodiments, the sample support can include a first and a second plate with apertures to permit a sample to be analyzed using direct sample analysis.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc.Inventors: Paul L St. Cyr, Michael L. DelVecchio, Leonard J. Weisgable, John T. Buturla, Stephen M Pignataro
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Patent number: 9748084Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein are directed to adapters for use in coupling a direct sample analysis device to an analytical instrument such as, for example, a mass spectrometer. In some examples, the adapter can include an internal coupler separated from an external coupler through an insulator.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: PerkinElmer Health Sciences, inc.Inventors: Paul L. St. Cyr, Michael L. DelVecchio, Craig M. Whitehouse
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Patent number: 9733156Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein are directed to sample platforms that are configured to permit electrical coupling between a sample support and electrical ground. In some examples, a sample platform configured to receive a sample support effective to retain a sample for direct sample analysis and comprising an aperture for receiving at least one electrical coupler configured to engage the sample support and provide electrical coupling between the sample support and ground is described.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc.Inventors: Paul L. St. Cyr, Michael L. DelVecchio
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Publication number: 20170045425Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein are directed to sample holders that can be used to retain a sample support effective for use in direct sample analysis. In some embodiments, the sample support can include a first and a second plate with apertures to permit a sample to be analyzed using direct sample analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Paul L St. Cyr, Michael L. DelVecchio, Leonard J. Weisgable, John T. Buturla, Steve M Pignataro
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Patent number: 9412572Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein are directed to sample holders that can be used to retain a sample support effective for use in direct sample analysis. In some embodiments, the sample support can include a first and a second plate with apertures to permit a sample to be analyzed using direct sample analysis.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2012Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc.Inventors: Paul L St. Cyr, Michael L. DelVecchio, Leonard J. Weisgable, John T. Buturla, Steve M Pignataro
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Publication number: 20160071712Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein are directed to adapters for use in coupling a direct sample analysis device to an analytical instrument such as, for example, a mass spectrometer. In some examples, the adapter can include an internal coupler separated from an external coupler through an insulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Paul L. St. Cyr, Michael L. DelVecchio, Craig M. Whitehouse
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Patent number: 9117641Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein are directed to adapters for use in coupling a direct sample analysis device to an analytical instrument such as, for example, a mass spectrometer. In some examples, the adapter can include an internal coupler separated from an external coupler through an insulator.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: PERKINELMER HEALTH SCIENCES, INC.Inventors: Paul L. St. Cyr, Michael L. DelVecchio, Craig M. Whitehouse
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Publication number: 20140117228Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein are directed to adapters for use in coupling a direct sample analysis device to an analytical instrument such as, for example, a mass spectrometer. In some examples, the adapter can include an internal coupler separated from an external coupler through an insulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Inventors: Paul L. St. Cyr, Michael L. DelVecchio
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Publication number: 20140116161Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein are directed to sample platforms that are configured to permit electrical coupling between a sample support and electrical ground. In some examples, a sample platform configured to receive a sample support effective to retain a sample for direct sample analysis and comprising an aperture for receiving at least one electrical coupler configured to engage the sample support and provide electrical coupling between the sample support and ground is described.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Inventors: Paul L. St. Cyr, Michael L. DelVecchio
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Publication number: 20140116160Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein are directed to sample holders that can be used to retain a sample support effective for use in direct sample analysis. In some embodiments, the sample support can include a first and a second plate with apertures to permit a sample to be analyzed using direct sample analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Inventors: Paul L. St. Cyr, Michael L. DelVecchio, Leonard J. Weisgable, John T. Buturla, Steve M. Pignataro
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Patent number: 8541741Abstract: A photonic measurement system, such as an atomic absorption spectrometer, includes source, sample and detection modules that are interconnected by fiber optic cables. A first set of fiber optic cables guides light from one or more light sources in the source module to each of at least two analysis chambers in the sample module. A second set of fiber optic cables guides light from the analysis chambers to a detector in the detection module. The detector provides to a processing sub-system signals that correspond to intensities of the guided light. One analysis chamber is selected to perform a sample analysis at a given time, and the processing sub-system processes the signals associated with the selected analysis chamber as measurement signals. The processing sub-system may further process the signals associated with a given non-selected analysis chamber as reference signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2010Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc.Inventors: Juan C. Ivaldi, Paul L. St. Cyr, Eugene Chow, Mark C. Werner
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Publication number: 20110122396Abstract: A photonic measurement system, such as an atomic absorption spectrometer, includes source, sample and detection modules that are interconnected by fiber optic cables. A first set of fiber optic cables guides light from one or more light sources in the source module to each of at least two analysis chambers in the sample module. A second set of fiber optic cables guides light from the analysis chambers to a detector in the detection module. The detector provides to a processing sub-system signals that correspond to intensities of the guided light. One analysis chamber is selected to perform a sample analysis at a given time, and the processing sub-system processes the signals associated with the selected analysis chamber as measurement signals. The processing sub-system may further process the signals associated with a given non-selected analysis chamber as reference signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2010Publication date: May 26, 2011Inventors: Juan C. Ivaldi, Paul L. St. Cyr, Eugene Chow, Mark C. Werner
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Patent number: 6395554Abstract: A method and apparatus for a slide loading/unloading system is described. A slide storage cassette is provided to store slides in which the slides are stored with an end protruding from the slide storage cassette. A slide feeder is described having grippers, which grip the end of a slide and transport the slide to a sample holder. The sample holder receives and retains the transported slide.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1999Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Packard Instrument CompanyInventors: Donald T. Regan, Robert T. Milkowski, George Gyorke, Jr., Paul L. St. Cyr, Sean R. Doane
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Patent number: 6361745Abstract: A microarray storage device includes a cassette having top, bottom and opposite side walls, the front and rear of the cassette being open. The side walls are formed with a multiplicity of parallel rails spaced along the heights of the walls which define compartments in the cassette for supporting a multiplicity of microarrays one above the other. The depth of the cassette is such that the microarrays supported in the compartments project appreciably from the front and/or rear of the cassette. Integral springs are formed in the side walls of the cassette which press down directly on the side edge margins of the microarrays so as to releasably retain the microarrays in their respective compartments.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1999Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Packard Instrument Company, Inc.Inventors: Donald T. Regan, Robert T. Milkowski, George Gyorke, Jr., Paul L. St. Cyr, Sean R. Doane
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Patent number: 4719810Abstract: A drive mechanism for raising and lowering the placement head of an electrical component assembly machine, the mechanism having a servo motor driving a lead nut engaging a lead screw which carries the placement head. The servo motor, in response to the machine control, rotates the lead nut to lower the placement head the desired distance from the board for proper placement in the board. A pair of rollers contact upper flat surfaces on the lead screw to prevent axial rotation of the lead screw.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1986Date of Patent: January 19, 1988Assignee: USM CorporationInventors: Paul L. St. Cyr, Vitaly Bandura
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Patent number: 4502829Abstract: A system for sensing the size of electronic components processed within a machine for placing components on a media such as a printed circuit board. The size of a component is determined at a sensing station and the component is thereafter precisely positioned according to its size relative to a placement head. The placement head picks up the thus positioned component and places the component on the media.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1983Date of Patent: March 5, 1985Assignee: USM CorporationInventor: Paul L. St. Cyr