Patents by Inventor Ralph Young

Ralph Young 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: 11208131
    Abstract: A railroad crossing warning circuit includes a lamp and a signal generator for generating a first signal of a selected frequency. Divider circuitry divides the frequency of the signal to generate second signal at a flashing frequency. A switch responsive to the second signal controls current flow through the lamp and cause the lamp to flash at the flashing frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: BNSF Railway Company
    Inventor: Ralph Young
  • Publication number: 20200346676
    Abstract: A railroad crossing warning circuit includes a lamp and a signal generator for generating a first signal of a selected frequency. Divider circuitry divides the frequency of the signal to generate second signal at a flashing frequency. A switch responsive to the second signal controls current flow through the lamp and cause the lamp to flash at the flashing frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventor: Ralph Young
  • Patent number: 7890223
    Abstract: A system for remotely monitoring compliance with a railroad signal associated with a section of railroad track includes a remote aspect compliance subsystem for monitoring compliance with an indication for the section of railroad track represented by an aspect of the railroad signal. The remote aspect compliance subsystem selectively generates corresponding compliance messages, which are communicated via a network to server for display and processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: BNSF Railway Company
    Inventor: Ralph Young
  • Publication number: 20090084031
    Abstract: A method of controlling noxious weeds comprising removing the noxious weed, encouraging the germination of the seed remaining after removal of the plant, covering the area containing the seed until the seed germinates into a seedling, allowing the seedling to die under the cover then removing the cover either physically or by incorporating it into the soil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Inventors: Pamela Sue Smith, Craig Ralph Young
  • Publication number: 20070252516
    Abstract: An OLED device comprises a cathode, an anode, and has therebetween a light emitting layer (LEL) comprising a phosphorescent emitting compound disposed in a host comprising a mixture of at least one electron transporting co-host and at least one hole transporting co-host, wherein there is present an electron transporting layer contiguous to the LEL on the cathode side and wherein there is present an EIL layer containing a heteroaromatic compound contiguous to the cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Inventors: Marina Kondakova, Denis Kondakov, Ralph Young, Christopher Brown, Kevin Klubek, Viktor Jarikov, Sheena Zuberi
  • Publication number: 20060251922
    Abstract: An OLED includes an anode, a light-emitting layer disposed over the anode, and a first electron-injecting layer disposed over the light-emitting layer, wherein the first electron-injecting layer includes at least one organic host material having a reduction potential less than ?1.0 V vs. a Saturated Calomel Electrode and at least one dopant material capable of reducing the organic host material. The OLED also includes a second electron-injecting layer disposed in contact with the first electron-injecting layer, wherein the second electron-injecting layer includes at least one organic material having a reduction potential greater than ?1.0 V vs. a Saturated Calomel Electrode, and a cathode disposed over the second electron-injecting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Inventors: Liang-Sheng Liao, Wojciech Slusarek, Michele Ricks, Ralph Young, Dustin Comfort
  • Publication number: 20060204784
    Abstract: An OLED device comprises a cathode, an anode, a light emitting layer, and on the cathode side of said emitting layer, a further layer containing a) a first compound that has the lowest LUMO value of the compounds in the layer, in an amount greater than or equal to 10% by volume and less than 100% by volume of the layer; b) at least one second compound exhibiting a higher LUMO value than the first compound, where at least one of the second compounds is a low voltage electron transport material, the total amount of such second compounds(s) is less than or equal to 90% by volume of the layer; and c) a metallic material based on a metal having a work function less than 4.2 eV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Inventors: William Begley, Tukaram Hatwar, Ralph Young, Natasha Andrievsky
  • Publication number: 20060204786
    Abstract: An OLED device comprises a cathode, an anode, a light emitting layer, and on the cathode side of said emitting layer, a further layer, wherein the further layer is an electron-transporting layer containing: a) a first compound that has the lowest LUMO value of the compounds in the layer, the amount being greater than 10% by volume and less than 100% by volume of the layer; b) at least one second compound that is a low voltage electron transport material, exhibiting a higher LUMO value than the first compound, the total amount of said compound(s) being less than 90% by volume and more than 0% by volume of the layer; provided, that when paragraphs a) and b) each contain a single compound and the compound of paragraph a) is tris(8-quinolinolato)aluminum(III), then the compound of paragraph b) is not 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline; and provided further that when paragraphs a) and b) each contain a single compound and the compound of paragraph b) is tris(8-quinolinolato)aluminum(III), then the compound of paragr
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Inventors: William Begley, Tukaram Hatwar, Ralph Young, Natasha Andrievsky
  • Publication number: 20060071931
    Abstract: A dynamic directory and tetrahedralization method. The dynamic directory of degree of freedom data for elements in a non-conformal mixed-element mesh includes elements subdividable into tetrahedral, in which a respective degree of freedom value is stored for each element, wherein the degree of freedom value is current as element subdivision proceeds. The tetrahedralization method includes providing a non-conformal mixed element mesh comprising elements subdividable into tetrahedra, identifying respective degree of freedom values for the elements in the mesh, and performing element subdivision based on the degree of freedom values of elements in the mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephen Fischer, Jeffrey Johnson, Ralph Young
  • Publication number: 20060003184
    Abstract: A broadband-emitting OLED device having an anode and a cathode spaced from the anode includes a first light-emitting layer provided over the anode and containing a first host material and a first light-emitting material, wherein the first host material is a mixture of one or more mono-anthracene derivatives and one or more aromatic amine derivatives, wherein the mono-anthracene derivative(s) being provided in a volume fraction range of 5% to 50% relative to the total host volume, and the aromatic amine derivative(s) being provided in a volume fraction range of 50% to 95% relative to the total host volume, and a second light-emitting layer provided over or under the first light-emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Tukaram Hatwar, Jeffrey Spindler, Ralph Young
  • Publication number: 20050123797
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electroluminescent device comprising a cathode and an anode and, located therebetween, a light-emitting layer (LEL) comprising a phosphorescent guest material, a hole- and electron-transporting host material, and an efficiency-enhancing material having an ionization potential lower than that of the host material and a triplet energy level that is lower than that of the phosphorescent guest material by no more than 0.2 eV. Such a device provides useful light emission features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Marina Kondakova, Ralph Young
  • Publication number: 20050121666
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electroluminescent device comprising a cathode and an anode; and, located therebetween, a light-emitting layer (LEL) comprising a phosphorescent green-light-emitting material and a host material for the light-emitting material, and in a layer adjacent to the LEL on the anode side, an exciton-blocking layer containing a compound having a hole mobility of at least 1×10?3 cm2V?1s?1 and a triplet energy exceeding that of the green-light-emitting material of the LEL. Such a device provides useful light emission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Marina Kondakova, Ralph Young
  • Publication number: 20050048311
    Abstract: Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that produce white light include an anode, a hole-transporting layer disposed over the anode, a blue light-emitting layer disposed over the hole-transporting layer, an electron-transporting layer disposed over the blue light-emitting layer, and a cathode disposed over the electron-transporting layer. The hole-transporting layer is doped with both a yellow-emitting and a red-emitting dopant. When used together with red, green, and blue color filters, the OLEDs produce red, green, and blue light with good color quality and high efficiency. Also disclosed are multicolor display devices utilizing the OLEDs together with color filters or together with both color filters and liquid-crystal light valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2003
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Tukaram Hatwar, Ralph Young, Christopher Brown
  • Patent number: 4028246
    Abstract: A liquid purification system for treating liquids such as water or sewage effluent in which a sealed casing has a plurality of corrugated panels therein dividing the casing into a plurality of sections. Liquid which may already have been partially treated is sprayed against or caused to flow onto each side of each corrugated panel and against the side walls of the casing and allowed to run down the panels and casing walls in a thin layer. The casing is filled with ozone under pressure and may have ultraviolet tubes placed between each pair of panels so as to permeate and disinfect the liquid at the bottom of the casing is pumped through an output pipe and through a filter system and may have additional treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Inventors: Norman S. Lund, George Ralph Young, Jr., Norman W. Lund