Patents by Inventor Peter Butler

Peter Butler 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).

  • Publication number: 20240071713
    Abstract: There is provided a charged particle apparatus comprising: a particle beam generator, optics, a first and a second positioning device, both configured for positioning the substrate relative to the particle beam generator along its optical axis, and a controller configured for switching between a first operational mode and a second operational mode. The apparatus is configured, when operating in the first operational mode, for irradiating the substrate by the particle beam at a first landing energy of the particle beam and, when operating in the second operational mode, for irradiating the substrate at a second, different landing energy. When operating in the first operational mode, the second positioning device is configured to position the substrate relative to the particle beam generator at a first focus position of the particle beam and in the second operational mode, to position the substrate at a second, different focus position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Niels Johannes Maria BOSCH, Xu WANG, Peter Paul HEMPENIUS, Yongqiang WANG, Hans BUTLER, Youjin WANG, Jasper Hendrik GRASMAN, Jianzi SUI, Tianming CHEN, Aimin WU
  • Patent number: 11912466
    Abstract: A fuel container having a body defining a volume for receiving fuel. The body has an inlet and optionally a vent. The inlet extends upwards as a spout and has a threaded collar which is closed by a threaded cap. A gas expansion pathway is provided between the inlet and the vent. The spout has a guide for receiving and locating a dog-leg portion of a fuel dispenser nozzle. A restriction in the throat of the spout prevents the fuel dispenser nozzle from being inserted beyond a preselected distance into the container thereby preventing backwash and spillage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: B & T Products Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Taylor, James Butler
  • Publication number: 20150309702
    Abstract: A system with a server configured to generate data for display on a first computing device. The server configured to receive a query over a network from a web browser launched on the first computing device and to generate an output with data for transmission over the network to the first computing device. The data generates a user interface on the web browser that configures the web browser to display information about the plurality of valve assemblies. In one example, the user interface is configured to conform to a form factor that defines physical attributes of the display on the first computing device. The user interface is also configured to receive a user selection from an end user that defines the query to change the information on the user interface to relate to an individual valve assembly from among the plurality of valve assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Peter Butler, Karen McAdams, Rama Krishna Raju Mundunuru, Urvashi Sahni
  • Publication number: 20070011296
    Abstract: The online support system of the present invention provides each user with possible resolutions and operations to eliminate problems and troubles arising in a device of the user in the form of Web pages. The online support system allows the user to gain access to a Web page defined by the URL, which is specified according to user's input information, for example, the model name of the device, the nation, the operating system, and the type of a problem. Possible resolutions and operations against a specific problem, which are prepared in advance, are then displayed for self help on the browser. The operations and resolutions are provided in a stepwise manner in response to user's instructions until the problem is eliminated. When the problem is not eliminated by any of the possible operations and resolutions, the online support system displays an E mail (electronic mail) transmission form. The transmission form allows the user to gain E mail support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masumi Yoshino, Yoshihiko Akasaka, Bruno Ziegler, Peter Butler, Marita Haas
  • Publication number: 20010042117
    Abstract: The online support system of the present invention provides each user with possible resolutions and operations to eliminate problems and troubles arising in a device of the user in the form of Web pages. The online support system allows the user to gain access to a Web page defined by the URL, which is specified according to user's input information, for example, the model name of the device, the nation, the operating system, and the type of a problem. Possible resolutions and operations against a specific problem, which are prepared in advance, are then displayed for self help on the browser. The operations and resolutions are provided in a stepwise manner in response to user's instructions until the problem is eliminated. When the problem is not eliminated by any of the possible operations and resolutions, the online support system displays an E mail (electronic mail) transmission form. The transmission form allows the user to gain E mail support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masumi Yoshino, Yoshihiko Akasaka, Bruno Ziegler, Peter Butler, Marita Haas
  • Patent number: 5781360
    Abstract: Apparatus for detecting data track misregistration is described. The present invention involves the interaction of a microprocessor with a demodulator. Microcode within the microprocessor initiates a misregistration scan of all data tracks at specific intervals to generate a calibration offset table that is used to direct the heads during the subsequent interval. A demodulator obtains the peak values of calibration servo bursts, displaced one-half of the track width to either side of a track, and outputs a timing pulse proportional to their respective peak voltage values. A timer within the microprocessor extracts the time values, and the misregistration displacement is calculated by the comparison of the inner burst and outer burst time values. The calculated displacement is used in the offset table for subsequent disk references.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Maxtor Corporation
    Inventors: Rosser S. Wilson, Peter Butler
  • Patent number: 5651939
    Abstract: Especially for use in disinfecting water by bubbling in a gas such as ozone, novel apparatus having an inlet and an outlet for liquid and which defines a flow path therebetween, the path including, in succession, a downward flow zone and an upward flow zone, the zones being separated by a wall beneath which there is a gap for the flow between the zones, wherein the upward flow zone includes a perforate baffle, adjacent to the gap, such that there is substantially laminar flow throughout that zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: Anglian Water Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Edwin William John Murrer, Philip Peter Butler, Sin-Man Lo
  • Patent number: 5535094
    Abstract: A module which has an integral blower that cools an integrated circuit package. The blower is attached to a heat sink that is mounted to the integrated circuit package. Heat generated by the integrated circuit conducts to the heat sink. The blower generates a stream of air that flows across the heat sink and removes heat from the package. The module may have a manifold and duct that direct the airstream across the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daryl J. Nelson, Muralidhar Tirumala, Peter Butler, Gerald A. Budelman
  • Patent number: 4999091
    Abstract: A process for coating an article simultaneously with a metal and a film-forming polymer which comprises passing an electric current at a current density of 1 to 35 milliamps cm.sup.-2 between the article as a cathode and a counter-electrode immersed in an aqueous coating composition having an inherent pH of 2.5 to 9.5, comprising:(a) a dispersion in an aqueous carrier of film-forming polymer having steric stabilizing units and being free from ionic stabilizing units the dispersion being one which has a critical coalescence value more negative than -0.3 units and(b) at least 0.06% by weight based on the total composition of one or more zinc, cadmium, cobalt, iron, lead or nickel salts such that the dispersion has a critical coalescence temperature of 35.degree. to 90.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLC
    Inventors: Andrew Doroszkowski, Michael A. Toynton, Peter Butler
  • Patent number: 4452945
    Abstract: Coating compositions capable of curing at or near to room temperature comprise 90-50% by weight of a specified hydroxyl group-containing addition polymer, 10-50% by weight of an alkylated melamine-formaldehyde crosslinking agent and an acid catalyst consisting of a blend of a C.sub.1-4 alkylated arylsulphonic acid and a C.sub.8-14 alkylated arylsulphonic acid in amounts such that the --SO.sub.3 H group content is 0.70-2.1% of the total weight of the addition polymer and the crosslinking agent. The compositions are particularly suitable for the refinishing of automobile bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLC
    Inventors: Thomas N. E. Bowen, Peter Butler, Auguste L. L. Palluel