Patents by Inventor Raymond A. James

Raymond A. James 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: 6045476
    Abstract: An all wheel drive transmission has a transfer gearing apparatus disposed in axial alignment between a hydrodynamic input drive and an input member of a planetary transmission. The transfer gearing apparatus delivers power from the hydrodynamic drive to the planetary transmission and from a differential output of the planetary transmission to a first output drive member. A second output drive member is connected to the differential output. One output drive member is connectable with the front drive wheels of a vehicle and the other output drive member is connected with the rear drive wheels of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Raymond James Haka
  • Patent number: 5931271
    Abstract: A hybrid drive has an internal combustion engine and a motor/generator (M/G) for supplying and absorbing driving forces either alone or in combination. Two one-way devices are assembled between the engine and the M/G. One of these one-way devices permits the M/G to drive the engine at start-up and is released centrifugally at or above engine idle speed. The other one-way device permits the M/G to overrun the engine if the engine is at idle speed during dynamic braking. This permits all the dynamic braking energy of the M/G to be used in a regenerative fashion when battery charging is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Raymond James Haka
  • Patent number: 5898825
    Abstract: A technique involves trapping a command-not-found message instead of displaying it when an erronous command is entered at a user terminal and connecting it to a translation file of successful command signals which is searched for a match. There are several alternatives including displaying a failing command signal for editing, verification, review or confirmation. If a match is revealed, a substitute command signal can be displayed also for these activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Raymond James Eberhard
  • Patent number: 5895335
    Abstract: A continuously variable transmission (CVT) of the variable belt (CVU) type provides a variable drive range. A simple planetary gearset disposed between a power source and the CVU provides a forward direct ratio and a reverse underdrive ratio. The CVT is controlled at a lower overall ratio determined by the diameter of the input sheave being controlled during the forward drive condition at a dimension M. During the reverse drive condition, the diameter of the input sheave is maintained at a larger diameter (M*R) where R is the reverse underdrive ratio of the planetary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Raymond James Haka
  • Patent number: 5879263
    Abstract: A five speed power transmission has a planetary gear arrangement comprised of three simple planetary gearsets and a plurality of clutches and brakes. The planetary gear arrangement is controlled to establish five forward gear ratios and a reverse gear ratio between the input and output shaft. One of the planetary gearsets is controlled to establish a reaction point or node for the fifth forward gear ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Raymond James Haka
  • Patent number: 5866443
    Abstract: Disclosed is an integrated circuit configuration including a carrier having recesses for supporting individual semiconductor die units. The semiconductor die units and the carrier recesses have lithographically defined dimensions so as to enable precise alignment and a high level of integration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: H. Bernhard Pogge, Johann Greschner, Howard Leo Kalter, Raymond James Rosner
  • Patent number: 5803859
    Abstract: A torque converter and a planetary gear arrangement are positioned in serial power flow relation between an engine and a final drive. A continuously variable unit (CVU) is positioned for serial power flow between a torque converter clutch and the final drive. The power path of the CVU includes a direct clutch which, when engaged, connects the CVU with the output member of the planetary gear arrangement. The power flow path of the planetary gear arrangement includes a one-way clutch which permits overrunning of the planetary input member when the direct clutch is engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Raymond James Haka
  • Patent number: 5803858
    Abstract: A power transmission has an engine driven torque converter and a selectively engageable direct clutch. The output from the torque converter is connected through a one-way clutch to a planetary gearing input, the output of which is connected to a transmission output. The selectively engageable direct clutch connects the input of a continuously variable transmission with the engine in bypassing relationship with the torque converter. The continuously variable transmission output is connected with the transmission output in parallel relationship with the planetary gearing. Engagement of the direct clutch transfers the engine input from the planetary gearing to the continuously variable transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Raymond James Haka
  • Patent number: 5796106
    Abstract: A detector for detecting the presence of ice, water, mist, frost or other solids or liquids on a sensing surface is provided. The sensing surface is provided by a medium substantially transparent to electromagnetic radiation and solids or liquids are deposited on the surface. A transmitter directs radiation onto the surface and a receiver is responsive to radiation reflected from the surface. A discriminator circuit receivers an output from the receiver and provides an output indicative of whether a solid or a liquid is present on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Inventor: Raymond James Noack
  • Patent number: 5770884
    Abstract: Disclosed is an integrated circuit configuration including a carrier having recesses for supporting individual semiconductor die units. The semiconductor die units and the carrier recesses have lithographically defined dimensions so as to enable precise alignment and a high level of integration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: H. Bernhard Pogge, Johann Greschner, Howard Leo Kalter, Raymond James Rosner
  • Patent number: 5720216
    Abstract: A power transmission has a high pressure fluid feed for supplying fluid pressure to the control chamber of a movable sheave. The high pressure fluid is supplied through a tube supported for relative rotation in a pair of spaced bushings. One bushing has radial passages for communicating the high pressure fluid from the tube to the chamber and axial passages on the outer periphery circumferentially spaced from the radial passages. The other bushing has uninterrupted inner and outer sealing surfaces. The space between the bushings receives leakage fluid escaping passed the outer surface of the tube and the inner surface of one bushing. This leakage fluid is redirected, at least partially, by the axial passages to a lubrication passage in the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Raymond James Haka
  • Patent number: 5713001
    Abstract: A selectable adder/hashing circuit generates a hashed virtual address from address operands within or derived from a program instruction. The hashed virtual address is used to address a translation lookaside buffer (TLB). The hashing function and addition function each comprise multiple steps. Some of the hashing function steps are performed in parallel with some of the steps of the addition function, and other of the hashing function steps are performed within other of the addition function steps. Therefore, the hashing function does not add delay over that required to produce an un-hashed virtual address from an addition function performed on the address operands. The hashing function can be enabled or disabled to meet the needs of the particular program environment. A method for generating the un-hashed address from the hashed address determines if the contents of the TLB location addressed by the hashed address match the unhashed virtual address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond James Eberhard, James Edward Phillips
  • Patent number: 5705223
    Abstract: These desirable results and other objects of the present invention are realized and provided by depositing coating material on a front surface of a rotating wafer to spread a thin film over this surface while directing a light positive pressure of clean gas over the backside of the spinning wafer to preclude deposits of gas borne particles of the coating material thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machine Corp.
    Inventor: Raymond James Bunkofske
  • Patent number: 4690433
    Abstract: A composite mailable business record and envelope assembly requiring only single manual entries to produce an original enclosed in an envelope and a retained record copy has only a single sheet foldable into three page sections to produce an addressed envelope with entries retained on the record page. The record page has a tab end for retaining in a book or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Glenwood Systems U.S.A., Ltd.
    Inventors: David F. Showers, Raymond A. James
  • Patent number: 4046994
    Abstract: Control card receiving and sensing assembly including a fixed base plate, a generally U-shaped cover member mounted thereon and card entry defining means of a character such as to permit card insertion therebetween and removal therefrom only under conditions where essentially zero force is exerted on the card control surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: Unit Process Assemblies, Inc.
    Inventor: Raymond James Prohaska
  • Patent number: 4040808
    Abstract: A method for the production of an article suitable as a circuit element is formed by admixing vanadium dioxide or doped vanadium dioxide with a binder of vanadium pentoxide and phosphorus pentoxide then heating and shaping the admixture into a shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Assignee: AMP Incorported
    Inventors: David Kahn, Raymond James Geckle
  • Patent number: 4007819
    Abstract: A shear liquid fan drive assembly for radiator cooling system of an internal combustion engine of the type wherein a temperature responsive valve controls the degree of rotary coupling between the engine and a radiator cooling fan by controlling the quantity of shear liquid between a driving disc and a driven housing carrying the fan. The specific improvement relates to a modification for redirecting flow of shear liquid to inhibit breakdown of the shear liquid due to overheating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1977
    Assignee: Wallace-Murray Corporation
    Inventor: Raymond James Maci
  • Patent number: 3983074
    Abstract: An article suitable as a circuit element is formed by admixing vanadium dioxide or doped vanadium dioxide with a binder of vanadium pentoxide and phosphorous pentoxide then heating and pressing the admixture into a shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1974
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1976
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: David Kahn, Raymond James Geckle
  • Patent number: D419670
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Inventor: Raymond James Pollard
  • Patent number: D428138
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Inventor: Raymond James Pollard