Patents by Inventor Richard Hook

Richard Hook 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: 20230148485
    Abstract: A method of growing fish and marijuana in a single body of water, includes planting seeds; growing the seeds in a nursery until the plants are 8 inches tall; potting the plants into individual pots; placing the pots with the plants into a float; placing the float into a first bay in a tank with 58 bays and fish in corresponding baskets to be situated under the float with the potted plants; incubating the plants in the first bay and the fish in the corresponding fish basket for 7 days; moving the float and corresponding fish basket into the second bay; adding a second float with another round of potted plants and a second corresponding fish basket into the first bay; progressing the floats and corresponding fish baskets forward to the next bay and adding subsequent floats and corresponding fish baskets into the first bay each 7 days; after 7 days in the 58th bay, harvesting the fish; trimming the plants; moving the plants to a first bay of a flowering stage tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventor: Richard Hook
  • Publication number: 20080055757
    Abstract: An interior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a reflective element assembly portion and at least one cap portion adapted to attach to the reflective element assembly portion. The reflective element assembly portion includes a reflective element. The reflective element assembly portion comprises a first molding that encompasses at least a perimeter portion of the reflective element. The first molding is formed by molding a first resinous material having a tool shrinkage factor equal to or greater than about 1%. The cap portion comprises at least one second molding formed by molding a second resinous material having a tool shrinkage factor of less than or equal to about 1%. The cap portion preferably includes internal structure for supporting at least one accessory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: John Uken, Lee Karner, Richard Hook, Niall Lynam
  • Publication number: 20070285789
    Abstract: An interior rearview mirror assembly includes a human machine interface having at least one user actuatable input accessible at a portion of the mirror casing. The user actuatable input provides user input to at least one element of circuitry that is disposed in the mirror casing, the interior rearview mirror assembly and/or an accessory module. The circuitry is associated with at least one of (i) a moisture sensor, (ii) a blower motor, (iii) a cabin air monitoring device that monitors the air within the cabin of the vehicle, (iv) a cabin air monitoring device that monitors the level of carbon monoxide in the air within the cabin of the vehicle, (v) an air intake, (vi) a remote ignition system, (vii) a humidity sensing device, and (viii) a display device disposed behind a transflective mirror reflector of the interior rearview mirror assembly and visible to the driver when displaying information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: DONNELLY CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Lindahl, Peter Whitehead, Niall Lynam, John Uken, Lee Karner, Richard Hook
  • Publication number: 20070091626
    Abstract: An interior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a circuit element having a mirror wire harness extending therefrom and extending from a mirror casing. The mirror assembly includes a mirror mounting assembly having a mounting base and a support arm for adjustably mounting the mirror reflective element at the mounting base. The mirror wire harness is routed along an exterior surface of the support arm and an exterior surface of the mounting base. A support arm sleeve is attached at an exterior of the support arm and routes and may contain the mirror wire harness substantially along the support arm and within the support arm sleeve. A mounting base cover assembly is disposed at the mounting base of the mirror assembly and substantially conceals the mounting base and the mirror wire harness at the mounting base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Inventor: Richard Hook
  • Publication number: 20070023195
    Abstract: A lift system includes parallel connected cylinder circuits with cylinders mechanically tied together on a first lift wheel arm. The base end of a third cylinder connected to a second lift wheel arm is connected in parallel with the pair of cylinders. The rod end of the third cylinder is constrained for movement with the rod end of a fourth cylinder also connected to the second wheel arm. The rod end of one of the pair of cylinders is connected in series with the base end of the fourth cylinder to thereby constrain the third and fourth cylinders on the second lift wheel arm to move in unison with the pair of cylinders on the first lift wheel arm. Series cylinder circuits move the wing cylinders in unison with the main frame cylinders to keep the implement level. The hydraulic circuit is also plumbed to retract outer wing wheels during wing fold operations to eliminate outer wing wheel interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Donald Peck, David Winter, James Noonan, Richard Hook
  • Publication number: 20060255960
    Abstract: An interior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a reflective element assembly portion and at least one cap portion adapted to attach to the reflective element assembly portion. The reflective element assembly portion includes a reflective element. The reflective element assembly portion comprises a first molding that encompasses at least a perimeter portion of the reflective element. The first molding is formed by molding a first resinous material having a tool shrinkage factor equal to or greater than about 1 percent. The cap portion comprises at least one second molding formed by molding a second resinous material having a tool shrinkage factor of less than or equal to about 1 percent. The cap portion preferably includes internal structure for supporting at least one accessory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2004
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventors: John Uken, Lee Karner, Richard Hook, Niall Lynam
  • Publication number: 20060228185
    Abstract: A bulkhead suited for constraining a bulk material within a shipping container. The bulkhead is foldable about a hinge feature, providing for easy manipulation and installation of the bulkhead within the shipping container. The bulkhead is suitable for construction with corrugated cardboard made from materials such as paper or plastic. The bulkhead optionally includes additional features such as a ripcord enabling quick and easy bulk material unloading, and an RFID tag enabling electronic identification and tracking of bulk material contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Stephen Faivre, Richard Hook
  • Publication number: 20060074496
    Abstract: A method of monitoring a physical parameter comprises receiving a sensor signal representative of an actual value from each of a plurality of sensors. The method further comprises calculating confidence value for each sensed value and a weighted average of actual values of the sensor signal by weighting each sensed value by the respective confidence value. The weighted average is used to determine a corresponding value of the sensed parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Avinash Taware, Teeporn Tanpitukpongse, Andrew Lehmann, Kenneth Meiners, Steven Handelsman, Richard Hook, Michael Durling, Peter Harrison, William Barrow
  • Publication number: 20060018742
    Abstract: The entire right, title and interest in and to this application and all subject matter disclosed and/or claimed therein, including any and all divisions, continuations, reissues, etc., thereof are, effective as of the date of execution of this application, assigned, transferred, sold and set over by the applicant(s) named herein to Deere & Company, a Delaware corporation having offices at Moline, Ill. 61265, U.S.A., together with all rights to file, and to claim priorities in connection with, corresponding patent applications in any and all foreign countries in the name of Deere & Company or otherwise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Inventor: Richard Hook
  • Publication number: 20060005978
    Abstract: Sweep retaining structure includes a spring wire retainer with a base supported in a groove on the underside of the wedge support which mates with a stem portion of the sweep. The wedge support is apertured, and a central curved portion of the retainer passes through the aperture and supports a sweep-contacting end above the surface of the wedge support. The end is biased toward a contact area on the sweep to engage the area and eliminate sweep loss problems by preventing the sweep from slipping downwardly from the mounted position. To remove the sweep, a tool is inserted through the slot to depress the retainer end, and the sweep is forced off the wedge support. A raised area on the sweep directs soil away from the retainer and contact area to reduce wear and eliminate depression of the end during operation. The underside of the raised area positions the wire end and provides bend-resisting support for the wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Richard Zaun, Benoit Poutre, Donald Peck, Mark Beeck, Richard Hook, James VanAuwelaer, Jarrod Ruckle
  • Publication number: 20050169003
    Abstract: An interior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a casing having a human machine interface thereat. The human machine interface includes at least one user actuatable input integrally formed at a portion of the casing during the molding operation that forms the casing. The mirror assembly includes circuitry. The user actuatable input may be actuatable by a user to operate at least one element of the circuitry. The human machine interface may be at least partially at a bezel portion of the casing, or may be at least partially at a rear casing portion of the mirror casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: John Lindahl, Peter Whitehead, Niall Lynam, John Uken, Lee Karner, Richard Hook
  • Publication number: 20050161239
    Abstract: Sweep retaining structure includes a retainer having a contact end biased towards the sweep. The sweep includes two or more spaced end-receiving areas to accommodate changes in the mounted sweep position. In one embodiment, the retainer is a wire made of spring steel having a contact end biased against the underside of the sweep. In one embodiment, the underside of the sweep includes a series of stepped portions. As the sweep is forced on the adapter on the shank, the contact end springs into retaining position on the stepped portion that aligns with the spring end when the sweep is in the mounted position. The sweep can be attached loosely by hand in an initial position with operating forces moving the sweep to a wedge locked position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: Benoit Poutre, Richard Hook, James Noonan, Donald Peck, Michael Egert
  • Publication number: 20050115579
    Abstract: The invention relates to a smoking article (1) having a high proportion of non-combustible, inorganic material and a relatively low level of visible sidestream. The smoking article comprises a substantially non-combustible, wrapper (5) which extends along the full length of the smoking material rod and enwraps a combustible fuel source (6) and aerosol generating means (7), both of which extend substantially along the length of the smoking material rod. Various suitable fuel source system and aerosol generating systems are described. The article has a visible burn line which advances along the article and produces an ash which can be removed by the smoker in the normal way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: John Beven, David Dittrich, Colin Greig, Richard Hook, Kevin McAdam, Rosemary O'Reilly
  • Publication number: 20050023013
    Abstract: Sweep retaining structure includes a retainer having a contact end biased towards the sweep. The sweep includes two or more spaced end-receiving areas to accommodate changes in the mounted sweep position. In one embodiment, the retainer is a wire made of spring steel having a contact end biased against the underside of the sweep. In one embodiment, the underside of the sweep includes a series of stepped portions. As the sweep is forced on the adapter on the shank, the contact end springs into retaining position on the stepped portion that aligns with the spring end when the sweep is in the mounted position. The sweep can be attached loosely by hand in an initial position with operating forces moving the sweep to a wedge locked position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: Benoit Poutre, Richard Hook, James Noonan, Donald Peck, Michael Egert
  • Publication number: 20040024516
    Abstract: A mapping device maps each burner mode at various bleed settings to generate control schedules for a combustion controller that ensure combustion dynamic (acoustic) pressures, and emissions limits and ring flame temperatures are within operational limits. In general, a method of combustor mapping involves adjusting the bulk ring flame temperature to meet emissions and acoustic requirements. The dome (ring) ring flame temperature is then adjusted to determine maximum and minimum ring flame temperature boundary limits. At both the maximum and minimum ring flame temperatures, the emissions levels and acoustic pressures are checked to see that they are within specification limits. If they are not, the bulk ring flame temperature is adjusted, and the entire process is repeated for that bleed setting and burner mode. If the emissions levels and acoustic pressures are within specification limits, then the power is increased to a different mode and bleed setting combination, and the process is again repeated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Richard Hook, Eric John Kress, William Lee Barrow, John Bolton
  • Patent number: 6013177
    Abstract: A silo and process for decontaminating sewage sludge comprising a vertical silo within which are a plurality of discrete levels, each level having at least one air inlet pipe and at least one air outlet tube, a plurality of monitors for temperature and moisture, a central shaft through which air may travel, and at least one oxygen monitor; loading of herbaceous material in the upper portion of the silo; spraying sewage sludge onto the herbaceous material as it enters the silo to produce an herbaceous material-sewage sludge mixture; monitoring at least one parameter at each of the discrete levels; unloading the mixture from the lower portion of the silo; reloading some portion of the mixture into the upper portion of the silo; and collecting some portion of the mixture for further treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Inventor: Richard Hook