Patents by Inventor Robert A. Frederick

Robert A. Frederick 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: 20170080161
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a drug delivery device (1) comprising a primary drug delivery assembly (3) for the delivery of a primary medicament with a primary dose setting mechanism (8) and a secondary drug delivery assembly (4) for the delivery of a secondary medicament. A selection element (13) is movable in a first and a second direction and configured such that movement of the selection element (13) in the first direction and in the second direction causes the setting of an increasing dose in the primary dose setting mechanism (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Matthew Meredith Jones, Samuel Keir Steel, Neal Alexander Blundred, Joseph Butler, Robert Frederick Veasey, David Plumptre
  • Publication number: 20170062166
    Abstract: A frame module for a circuit breaker includes a first interface structured to connect to a trip unit, a second interface structured to connect to a frame, and a current rating storage unit structured to store a current rating associated with the frame and to provide the stored current rating to the trip unit when the trip unit is connected to the first interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: EATON CORPORATION
    Inventors: JAMES LEO LAGREE, DAVID RAYMOND ROHN, PAUL RICHARD RAKUS, ROBERT FREDERICK BROOKS, YIBO CHEN
  • Publication number: 20170056598
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a dose setting mechanism that may be used with a drug delivery device. The dose setting mechanism may include an inner body having a helical thread along an outer cylindrical surface of the inner body, and a drive sleeve for driving a piston rod in an axial direction, the drive sleeve positioned within at least a portion of the inner body. The dose setting mechanism may further include a dose dial sleeve rotatably engaged with the helical thread of the inner body and a dial grip connected to the dose dial sleeve and releasably connected to the drive sleeve. Further when a dose is set, the dial grip is rotated so that both the dose dial sleeve and the drive sleeve rotate with respect to the inner body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Christopher Nigel Langley, Steven Wimpenny
  • Publication number: 20170051674
    Abstract: An engine component for a gas turbine engine includes a film-cooled recess comprising a contoured portion defining a step. A hot surface facing hot combustion gas and a cooling surface facing a cooling fluid flow are fluidly coupled by a passage through the engine component. The passage further comprises an inlet in the cooling surface and an outlet in the step. The inlet, passage and outlet are oriented such that the cooling fluid flowing through the passage and exiting the outlet diffuses within the contoured portion prevents premature mixing out with the hot fluid flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Francis Manning, Ronald Scott Bunker, Robert Frederick Bergholz, Robert David Briggs
  • Publication number: 20170038094
    Abstract: A fuel fired, atmospheric water heater has a burner positioned inside a combustion chamber. All combustion air entering the combustion chamber must pass through a damper. The damper is operable to adjust the flow resistance to combustion air entering the combustion chamber. The damper is biased to a closed position such that during non-firing periods of the water heater, the damper significantly reduces the flow rate of combustion air being provided to the combustion chamber reducing standby heat loss. An actuator is in fluid communication with a fuel supply line such that when pressurized fuel is provided to the burner, the pressurized fuel causes the actuator to move the damper to an open position to permit operative combustion air delivery to the combustion chamber during firing periods of the water heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Frederick Poehlman, Janice Fitzgerald, J. Eric Arnold, Timothy Mitchel Smith, Chad Taylor Thompson, George W. Kraus, II, Duane A. Lee
  • Patent number: 9561331
    Abstract: A drive mechanism suitable for use in drug delivery devices is disclosed. The drive mechanism may be used with injector-type drug delivery devices, such as those permitting a user to set the delivery dose. The drive mechanism may include a housing, a dose dial sleeve, and a drive sleeve. A clutch is configured to permit rotation of the drive sleeve and the dose dial sleeve with respect to the housing when the dose dial sleeve and drive sleeve are coupled through the clutch. Conversely, when the dose dial sleeve and drive sleeve are in a de-coupled state, rotation of the dose dial sleeve with respect to the housing is permitted and rotation of the drive sleeve with respect to the housing is prevented. In the de-coupled state, axial movement of the drive sleeve transfers force in a longitudinal direction for actuation of a drug delivery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Robert Perkins, David Aubrey Plumptre
  • Publication number: 20170028136
    Abstract: The present invention relates to injectors, such as pen-type injectors, that provide for administration of medicinal products from a multidose cartridge and permit a user to set the delivery dose. The injector may include a housing, a cartridge containing medicinal product, the cartridge being retained within the housing, means for selecting a dose of medicinal product to be expelled, and means for expelling the selected dose of medicinal product. The housing may be a unitary housing within which the means for selecting a dose and the means for expelling the selected dose are moveably retained. Alternatively, the injector may include a housing, a piston rod, an insert located in the housing and through which the piston may rotate, ratchet means, a dose dial sleeve, a drive sleeve, a button located on the drive sleeve and rotatable with respect to the drive sleeve, and clutch means which upon depression of the button prevents rotation between the dose dial sleeve and the drive sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Christopher Nigel Langley, Steven Wimpenny
  • Patent number: 9533105
    Abstract: A drive mechanism suitable for use in drug delivery devices is disclosed. The drive mechanism may be used with injector-type drug delivery devices, such as those permitting a user to set the delivery dose. The drive mechanism may include a housing, a dose dial sleeve, and a drive sleeve. A clutch is configured to permit rotation of the drive sleeve and the dose dial sleeve with respect to the housing when the dose dial sleeve and drive sleeve are coupled through the clutch. Conversely, when the dose dial sleeve and drive sleeve are in a de-coupled state, rotation of the dose dial sleeve with respect to the housing is permitted and rotation of the drive sleeve with respect to the housing is prevented. In the de-coupled state, axial movement of the drive sleeve transfers force in a longitudinal direction for actuation of a drug delivery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Robert Perkins, David Aubrey Plumptre
  • Patent number: 9526843
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a dose setting mechanism that may be used with a drug delivery device. The dose setting mechanism may include an inner body having a helical thread along an outer cylindrical surface of the inner body, and a drive sleeve for driving a piston rod in an axial direction, the drive sleeve positioned within at least a portion of the inner body. The dose setting mechanism may further include a dose dial sleeve rotatably engaged with the helical thread of the inner body and a dial grip connected to the dose dial sleeve and releasably connected to the drive sleeve. Further when a dose is set, the dial grip is rotated so that both the dose dial sleeve and the drive sleeve rotate with respect to the inner body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: SANOFI-AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Christopher Nigel Langley, Steven Wimpenny
  • Patent number: 9526844
    Abstract: The present invention relates to injectors, such as pen-type injectors, that provide for administration of medicinal products from a multidose-cartridge and permit a user to set the delivery dose. The injector may include a housing, a piston rod adapted to operate through the housing, a dose dial sleeve located between the housing and the piston rod, and a drive sleeve located between the dose dial sleeve and the piston rod. The dose dial sleeve may have a helical thread of first lead and the drive sleeve may have a helical groove of second lead. The first lead of the helical thread and the second lead of the helical groove may be the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: SANOFI-AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Robert Perkins, David Aubrey Plumptre
  • Publication number: 20160366233
    Abstract: The system provisions and upgrades a private cloud stack from a public cloud application. The system registers and activates installed private cloud stacks to discover names, and software packages. The system enables each private cloud stack's roles for data plane elements and activates a private cloud stack. The system receives connection request from the installed host agent to customer resource manager. The system receives host related information from host agent. The software system stores and pushes the desired state for particular host agent to the host agent. The system installs components on enterprise machine associated with role via host agent. The system configures said installed components using templates and dynamic template parameters. The system receives continuous configuration updates for the installed components and continuous heart beat messages for account manager. The system displays visual alerts via UI for any heartbeat, component install or configuration failures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: Platform9, Inc.
    Inventors: Bich Cau Le, Paavan Kashinath Shanbhag, Roopak Parikh, Sachin Manpathak, Robert Frederick Deuel
  • Publication number: 20160303329
    Abstract: The present invention relates to injectors, such as pen-type injectors, that provide for administration of medicinal products from a multidose-cartridge and permit a user to set the delivery dose. The injector may include a housing, a piston rod adapted to operate through the housing, a dose dial sleeve located between the housing and the piston rod, and a drive sleeve located between the dose dial sleeve and the piston rod. The dose dial sleeve may have a helical thread of first lead and the drive sleeve may have a helical groove of second lead. The first lead of the helical thread and the second lead of the helical groove may be the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Robert Perkins, David Aubrey Plumptre
  • Publication number: 20160296708
    Abstract: The present invention relates to injectors, such as pen-type injectors, that provide for administration of medicinal products from a multidose-cartridge and permit a user to set the delivery dose. The injector may include a housing, a piston rod adapted to operate through the housing, a dose dial sleeve located between the housing and the piston rod, and a drive sleeve located between the dose dial sleeve and the piston rod. The dose dial sleeve may have a helical thread of first lead and the drive sleeve may have a helical groove of second lead. The first lead of the helical thread and the second lead of the helical groove may be the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Robert Perkins, David Aubrey Plumptre
  • Publication number: 20160273364
    Abstract: A turbine component includes a component wall with inner and outer surfaces wherein a diffuser hole passes through the component wall between the inner surface and the outer surface. The diffuser hole has a hole axis and includes: a metering section extending from an inlet at the inner surface to a junction plane between the inner and outer surfaces; and a diffuser section extending from the junction plane to an outlet at the outer surface, and increasing in flow area from the junction plane to the outlet, the diffuser section having an upstream portion defining a first area ratio and a downstream portion defining a second area ratio different from the second area ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Robert Frederick BERGHOLZ
  • Publication number: 20160256633
    Abstract: The present invention relates to injectors, such as pen-type injectors, that provide for administration of medicinal products from a multidose-cartridge and permit a user to set the delivery dose. The injector may include a housing, a piston rod adapted to operate through the housing, a dose dial sleeve located between the housing and the piston rod, and a drive sleeve located between the dose dial sleeve and the piston rod. The dose dial sleeve may have a helical thread of first lead and the drive sleeve may have a helical groove of second lead. The first lead of the helical thread and the second lead of the helical groove may be the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Robert Perkins, David Aubrey Plumptre
  • Patent number: 9414265
    Abstract: A method for location based policy for UE operating in different areas of a shared home LTE system includes: responsive to detecting a trigger, determining a first enterprise operating area (EOA) in which the UE is currently located, wherein the first EOA is one of a plurality of EOAs of the LTE system; determining whether the first EOA is a home EOA or a visited EOA; when the first EOA is the home EOA, selecting a first set of policy rules for the UE; when the first EOA is the visited EOA, selecting a second set of policy rules for the UE that provides a lower Quality of Service (QoS) than the first set of policy rules; if a trust relationship exists, selecting a third set of policy rules for the UE while in the visited EOA, which provides a higher QoS than the second set of policy rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Trent J. Miller, Anatoly Agulnik, Robert A. Fredericks, James A. Marocchi, Randy L. Ekl, Peter E. Thomas, Ryan P. Ziolko
  • Patent number: 9408979
    Abstract: The present invention relates to injectors, such as pen-type injectors, that provide for administration of medicinal products from a multidose-cartridge and permit a user to set the delivery dose. The injector may include a housing, a piston rod adapted to operate through the housing, a dose dial sleeve located between the housing and the piston rod, and a drive sleeve located between the dose dial sleeve and the piston rod. The dose dial sleeve may have a helical thread of first lead and the drive sleeve may have a helical groove of second lead. The first lead of the helical thread and the second lead of the helical groove may be the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: SANOFI-AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Robert Perkins, David Aubrey Plumptre
  • Patent number: 9408298
    Abstract: A flexible circuit current measuring apparatus includes a flexible substrate member having a top side and a bottom side, a plurality of first conductive traces disposed on the top side of the flexible substrate member and spaced along a length of the flexible substrate member, and a plurality of second conductive traces disposed on the bottom side of the flexible substrate member and spaced along the length of the flexible substrate member. The first conductive traces and the second conducive traces are electrically connected to one another to form a serpentine pattern having a number of windings about and along the flexible substrate member, and the current measuring apparatus is structured to be wrapped around a conductor for measuring a current carried by the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: EATON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Frederick Brooks, Theodore J. Miller
  • Publication number: 20160201476
    Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine includes a cooling cavity and a cooling fluid supply cavity which supplies cooling fluid to the cooling cavity through a passage. The cooling cavity can be provided with a swirl feature for imparting a swirling motion to the cooling fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Ronald Scott BUNKER, Robert Frederick BERGHOLZ, Robert David BRIGGS, Kevin Robert FELDMANN
  • Patent number: D779650
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: A. O. SMITH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Frederick Poehlman, Janice Fitzgerald