Patents by Inventor Richard E. Shafer

Richard E. Shafer 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).

  • Robot compatible crystal worksite suite
    Patent number: 6925815
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a robot compatible crystal worksite suite comprising a unique dewar, a plurality of magazines, a plurality of cryo-pins (that mount crystals to be transferred from the dewar for crystallography study) adapted to be placed into the magazines and a programmed controller to provide the operational sequence necessary to remove the frozen mounted crystals from the dewar to an instrument or a goniometer for the x-ray diffraction of the crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Oceaneering International, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard E. Shafer
  • End effector
    Publication number: 20040012217
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an end effector, a gripper, that retrieves crystals that are mounted on cryo-pins from a storage location in liquid nitrogen. More specifically, the end effector of the present invention is a collet type of gripping mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Richard E. Shafer, William C. Robertson
  • Robot compatible crystal worksite suite
    Publication number: 20040008814
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a robot compatible crystal worksite suite comprising a unique dewar, a plurality of magazines, a plurality of cryo-pins (that mount crystals to be transferred from the dewar for crystallography study) adapted to be placed into the magazines and a programmed controller to provide the operational sequence necessary to remove the frozen mounted crystals from the dewar to an instrument or a goniometer for the x-ray diffraction of the crystals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Richard E. Shafer