Patents by Inventor Ralph A. Roberts

Ralph A. Roberts 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: 8002811
    Abstract: A resorbable screw fastener and a method of firing with an applicator capable of applying a surgical fastener to tissue in order to form tissue connection to secure objects to tissue, the fastener including a body portion having a helical thread, a head portion disposed at the proximal end of the body portion. The resorbable screw fastener is 100% resorbed in vivo during a period of time ranging from about 14 days to about one year after implantation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Tyco Healthcare Group LP
    Inventors: Ralph Robert Corradi, David N. Fowler, Christopher J. Criscuolo, Earl Zergiebel, Michael Bettuchi, Frank J. Viola
  • Publication number: 20080091575
    Abstract: The present invention automates the process of receiving transportation documentation and producing advance loading manifests therefrom to optimize load planning and dynamic product shipment and delivery control. Methods provide for receipt of the transportation documentation, initial preparation, and transmission of the documentation from on board a vehicle or while the vehicle is in transit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: R & L CARRIERS, INC.
    Inventors: Steve Naghshineh, Ralph Roberts
  • Publication number: 20080086393
    Abstract: The present invention automates the process of receiving transportation documentation and producing advance loading manifests therefrom to optimize load planning and dynamic product shipment and delivery control. Methods provide for receipt of the transportation documentation, initial preparation, and transmission of the documentation from on board a vehicle or while the vehicle is in transit. A remote processor receives the documentation, stores the documentation and feeds the documentation to a load planning software for generation of advance loading manifests from the remote processor and receive them on demand. Further, a mobile data transmission device is provided for use by a driver to communicate transportation documentation, and vehicle information to the remote processor, and, in some applications, can receive instructions for en route alterations of package pickup or delivery. The documentation can reside on a server remotely accessible by customers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Applicant: R & L CARRIERS, INC.
    Inventors: Steve Naghshiineh, Ralph Roberts
  • Publication number: 20080026135
    Abstract: Compounds and compositions are provided that can be used as electron transport agents in organic electronic devices such as organic electroluminescent devices. The compounds are non-polymeric and have an aromatic core conjugated to end capping groups. The aromatic core contains an arylene group having a pendant heteroaryl group that includes a —C?N— unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Inventors: James Bentsen, Nicholas Goplen, Yingbo Li, Ralph Roberts
  • Publication number: 20070237983
    Abstract: Light emitting polymers can include a plurality of arylene monomeric units and a plurality of soft segment units independently selected from soft segment end caps; soft segment side chains coupled to a portion, but not all, of the arylene monomeric units; internal soft segment monomeric units; and combinations thereof. These light emitting polymers can be used in forming electroluminescent devices or other articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventors: Yingbo Li, John Baetzold, Terence Spawn, Ralph Roberts, James Bentsen, John Staral
  • Patent number: 7244501
    Abstract: A composite sheet material that includes at least one porous core layer including a thermoplastic material and from about 20 weight percent to about 80 weight percent fibers based on a total weight of the porous core layer, and at least one skin covering a surface of the core layer. The skin includes at least one of a thermoplastic film, a fiber based scrim, a non-woven fabric, and a woven fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignees: Azdel, Inc., General Electric Company
    Inventors: Venkatkrishna Raghavendran, Daniel Scott Woodman, Erich Otto Teutsch, Ralph Robert Buoniconti, Scott Michael Davis, Paul Anthony Bristow, Minquan Cheng, Daniel Wardell Sowle, Benny Ezekiel David
  • Publication number: 20070107835
    Abstract: Compounds, compositions, organic electronic devices, and methods for preparing organic electronic devices are described. The compounds of the invention contain at least two carbon-carbon triple bonds and a heteroaromatic ring having at least one —C?N— unit. The compounds can be used as electron transport agents in organic electronic devices such as organic electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventors: Ralph Roberts, Yingbo Li, Sergey Lamansky
  • Publication number: 20070079927
    Abstract: Organic electroluminescent device can be formed with multiple layers including an electrode, an emission layer, and a buffer layer. The emission layer includes a light emitting material. The buffer layer is disposed between and in electrical communication with the electrode and the emission layer and includes a triarylamine hole transport material and an electron acceptor material. The buffer layer optionally includes one or more of a) a polymeric binder, b) a color converting material, and c) light scattering particles. The buffer layer can also be formed using a polymeric hole transport material having a plurality of triarylamine moieties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Inventors: Sergey Lamansky, Manoj Nirmal, Fred McCormick, Ralph Roberts, John Baetzold, Todd Jones
  • Publication number: 20060155106
    Abstract: Electroactive polymeric arylenes and intermediates useful for making such polymers are disclosed. The present invention also provides electroactive compositions comprising the electroactive polymeric arylenes, organic electronic devices which comprise these polymers and compositions, and methods of fabricating these devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: Ralph Roberts, James Bentsen, Yingbo Li
  • Publication number: 20060008577
    Abstract: In a method of making an organic electroluminescent device, a transfer layer is solution coated on a donor substrate. The transfer layer includes a polymerizable, amorphous matrix with a light emitting material disposed in the matrix. The transfer layer is then selectively patterned on a receptor. The polymerizable, amorphous matrix is then polymerized. Examples of patterning methods include laser thermal transfer or thermal head transfer. The method and associated materials can be used to form, for example, organic electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Martin Wolk, Erika Bellmann, Yingbo Li, Ralph Roberts, James Bentsen
  • Publication number: 20050191776
    Abstract: Organic electroluminescent device can be formed with multiple layers including an electrode, an emission layer, and a buffer layer. The emission layer includes a light emitting material. The buffer layer is disposed between and in electrical communication with the electrode and the emission layer and includes a triarylamine hole transport material and an electron acceptor material. The buffer layer optionally includes one or more of a) a polymeric binder, b) a color converting material, and c) light scattering particles. The buffer layer can also be formed using a polymeric hole transport material having a plurality of triarylamine moieties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Sergey Lamansky, Manoj Nirmal, Fred McCormick, Ralph Roberts, John Baetzold, Todd Jones
  • Publication number: 20050148620
    Abstract: Imidazoquinoline and tetrahydroimidazoquinoline compounds that contain ether and sulfonamide or sulfamide functionality at the 1-position are useful as immune response modifiers. The compounds and compositions of the invention can induce the biosynthesis of various cytokines and are useful in the treatment of a variety of conditions including viral diseases and neoplastic diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Stephen Crooks, George Griesgraber, Philip Heppner, Bryon Merrill, Ralph Roberts, Ai-Ping Wei
  • Publication number: 20050148619
    Abstract: Imidazoquinoline and tetrahydroimidazoquinoline compounds that contain ether and sulfonamide or sulfamide functionality at the 1-position are useful as immune response modifiers. The compounds and compositions of the invention can induce the biosynthesis of various cytokines and are useful in the treatment of a variety of conditions including viral diseases and neoplastic diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Stephen Crooks, George Griesgraber, Philip Heppner, Bryon Merrill, Ralph Roberts, Ai-Ping Wei
  • Patent number: 6796790
    Abstract: A burner assembly for a radiant burner includes a burner tube structure in the form of an elongated burner conduit having spaced inlet and outlet ends. The conduit is adapted and arranged for directing a fuel lean gaseous mixture comprising a portion of the total fluid fuel to be combusted and oxygen therealong from the inlet end to the outlet end. The assembly also includes a main burner nozzle at the outlet end of the conduit, which nozzle has a central axis, a wall extending around a centrally located chamber therein, and a downstream end spaced from the outlet end of the conduit. The main burner nozzle is arranged and adapted for receiving the mixture from the conduit in the chamber and redirecting the same through a plurality of apertures in the wall and into a combustion zone in a direction transverse to the axis and at a velocity which is greater than the flame speed of the gaseous mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: John Zink Company LLC
    Inventors: Demetris T. Venizelos, Wesley Ryan Bussman, Ralph Robert Hayes, Jesse S. Chambers, Roger L. Poe
  • Publication number: 20040146826
    Abstract: A burner arrangement includes a venturi cluster including a plurality of venturis arranged for parallel flow. The multi venturi arrangement utilizing pressurized fuel as the inducing fluid to induce a flow of air enables the provision of an ultra fuel lean premix of fuel and air. A central burner tube which extends outwardly beyond the delivery end of a primary burner tip and mounts a relatively small capacity nozzle at a substantial distance from the delivery end of the burner tip enabling the ultra fuel lean mixture to expand and slow down such that its linear speed does not exceed the flame speed of the mixture prior to by the flame of the spaced nozzle. A deflector may be positioned adjacent the nozzle to assist in stabilizing the flame after the expansion and slowing process has been completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: John Zink Company, LLC
    Inventors: Roger L. Poe, Wesley Ryan Bussman, I-Ping Chung, Ralph Robert Hayes, Jaiwant D. Jayakaran, Andrew Jones, Jason D. McAdams, Demetris T. Venizelos, Richard T. Waibel
  • Patent number: 6729874
    Abstract: A burner arrangement includes a venturi cluster including a plurality of venturis arranged for parallel flow. The multi venturi arrangement utilizing pressurized fuel as the inducing fluid to induce a flow of air enables the provision of an ultra fuel lean premix of fuel and air. A central burner tube which extends outwardly beyond the delivery end of a primary burner tip and mounts a relatively small capacity nozzle at a substantial distance from the delivery end of the burner tip enabling the ultra fuel lean mixture to expand and slow down such that its linear speed does not exceed the flame speed of the mixture prior to by the flame of the spaced nozzle. A deflector may be positioned adjacent the nozzle to assist in stabilizing the flame after the expansion and slowing process has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: John Zink Company, LLC
    Inventors: Roger L. Poe, Wesley Ryan Bussman, I-Ping Chung, Ralph Robert Hayes, Jaiwant D. Jayakaran, Andrew Jones, Jason D. McAdams, Demetris T. Venizelos, Richard T. Waibel
  • Publication number: 20030233813
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for making a wrapped tampon. A continuously moving wrapper material is provided with a longitudinal axis, width and a tear member. The wrapper material is maintained in a pre-determined rotational position. The wrapper material provided also has a pair of opposing longitudinal edges that are folded and sealed together to form a longitudinal seal. The wrapper material is cut to form a pair of opposing transverse edges. The transverse edges are to form a transverse seal having a width defined by a first end and a second end. A tampon is provided and is inserted into the wrapper material through the unsealed opposing transverse edges that are subsequently sealed. At the end of the process, when the wrapper is sealed the tear member extends into the transverse seal adjacent to the first end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Inventors: Wayne Grant Leslie, Ralph Robert Emenaker, Paul Felix Fusco
  • Publication number: 20020076668
    Abstract: A burner assembly for a radiant burner includes a burner tube structure in the form of an elongated burner conduit having spaced inlet and outlet ends. The conduit is adapted and arranged for directing a fuel lean gaseous mixture comprising a portion of the total fluid fuel to be combusted and oxygen therealong from the inlet end to the outlet end. The assembly also includes a main burner nozzle at the outlet end of the conduit, which nozzle has a central axis, a wall extending around a centrally located chamber therein, and a downstream end spaced from the outlet end of the conduit. The main burner nozzle is arranged and adapted for receiving the mixture from the conduit in the chamber and redirecting the same through a plurality of apertures in the wall and into a combustion zone in a direction transverse to the axis and at a velocity which is greater than the flame speed of the gaseous mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: Demetris T. Venizelos, Wesley Ryan Bussman, Ralph Robert Hayes, Jesse S. Chambers, Roger L. Poe
  • Patent number: 6386054
    Abstract: A manikin that may be used for accelerated seat durability is disclosed. The manikin provides forces that simulate both the weight of a person against the butt portion of a seat and forces produced against the back portion of a seat by human movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Visteon Global Tech., Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph Robert Jones, Tim Alan Whitehead, William Tumbull
  • Publication number: 20020015930
    Abstract: A burner arrangement includes a venturi cluster including a plurality of venturis arranged for parallel flow. The multi venturi arrangement utilizing pressurized fuel as the inducing fluid to induce a flow of air enables the provision of an ultra fuel lean premix of fuel and air. A central burner tube which extends outwardly beyond the delivery end of a primary burner tip and mounts a relatively small capacity nozzle at a substantial distance from the delivery end of the burner tip enabling the ultra fuel lean mixture to expand and slow down such that its linear speed does not exceed the flame speed of the mixture prior to by the flame of the spaced nozzle. A deflector may be positioned adjacent the nozzle to assist in stabilizing the flame after the expansion and slowing process has been completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: Roger L. Poe, Wesley Ryan Bussman, I-Ping Chung, Ralph Robert Hayes, Jaiwant D. Jayakaran, Andrew Jones, Jason D. McAdams, Demetrs T. Venizelos, Richard T. Waibel