Patents by Inventor Robert By

Robert By 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: 7377706
    Abstract: A print media and ink supply cartridge includes an outer housing in which there is located a roll of print media located about a cylindrical former. The former includes a number of internal longitudinal ink storage volumes that are filled with hydrophobic sponges. One end of the former has winding airways formed into it that communicate with the internal ink storage volumes. An opposing end of the former includes a number of ink outlet ports that communicate with corresponding outlets in the housing. The cartridge includes a pair of print media transport rollers arranged to be driven by a power source external to the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Kia Silverbrook, Paul Lapstun, Simon Robert Walmsley
  • Publication number: 20080117592
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for facilitating cooling of an electronics rack employing an air delivery structure coupled to the electronics rack. The air delivery structure delivers air flow at a location external to the electronics rack and in a direction to facilitate mixing thereof with re-circulating exhausted inlet-to-outlet air flow from the air outlet side of the electronics rack to the air inlet side thereof. The delivered air flow is cooler than the re-circulating exhausted inlet-to-outlet air flow and when mixed with the re-circulating air flow facilitates lowering air inlet temperature at a portion of the air inlet side of the electronics rack, thereby enhancing cooling of the electronics rack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Levi CAMPBELL, Richard CHU, Michael ELLSWORTH, Madhusudan IYENGAR, Roger SCHMIDT, Robert SIMONS
  • Publication number: 20080116423
    Abstract: Provided herein are electroactive agglomerated particles, which comprise nanoparticles of a first electroactive material and nanoparticles of a second electroactive materials, and processes of preparation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Jiang Fan, Robert M. Spotnitz
  • Publication number: 20080118789
    Abstract: A fuel cell assembly (20) has a plurality of characteristics that extend the useful life of the assembly. In one example, flow field layers are non-porous and hydrophobic such that they have an acid absorption rate of less than about 0.10 mg/khr-cm2. An electrolyte retaining matrix has a reaction rate with phosphoric acid of less than about 0.010 mg/khr-cm2. Hydrophilic substrates associated with catalyst layers have an initial transferable phosphoric acid content of less than about 25 mg/cm2. A condensation zone provides an evaporative phosphoric acid loss rate that is less than about 0.17 mg/khr-cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Richard D. Breault, Robert R. Fredley
  • Publication number: 20080115934
    Abstract: A formation evaluation system and method. A formation evaluation system includes an assembly interconnected as part of a tubular string and displaceable to multiple positions proximate each of multiple zones intersected by a wellbore. The assembly includes at least one formation evaluation instrument for determining a characteristic of formation fluid, and a pump which draws the fluid into the assembly. A method of evaluating multiple subterranean zones during a single trip into a wellbore includes the steps of: interconnecting a formation evaluation assembly in a coiled tubing string; for each of the multiple zones, displacing the formation evaluation assembly to a position proximate the respective zone, receiving formation fluid from the respective zone into the formation evaluation assembly, and determining at least one characteristic of the formation fluid; and performing the multiple displacing, receiving and determining steps during the single trip of the coiled tubing string into the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Miguel H. Pettinato, Federico Sorenson, Robert F. Shelley, Saul Plavnik, Ricardo Jorquera
  • Publication number: 20080116456
    Abstract: Gallium nitride material-based semiconductor structures are provided. In some embodiments, the structures include a composite substrate over which a gallium nitride material region is formed. The gallium nitride material structures may include additional features, such as strain-absorbing layers and/or transition layers, which also promote favorable stress conditions. The reduction in stresses may reduce defect formation and cracking in the gallium nitride material region, as well as reducing warpage of the overall structure. The gallium nitride material-based semiconductor structures may be used in a variety of applications such as transistors (e.g. FETs) Schottky diodes, light emitting diodes, laser diodes, SAW devices, and sensors, amongst others devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: Nitronex Corporation
    Inventors: Edwin Piner, Pradeep Rajagopal, John Roberts, Kevin Linthicum
  • Publication number: 20080120061
    Abstract: In an AC magnetic tracker one or more multi-axis field sources, each operating at a different frequency, or frequency set, are detected and tracked in three-dimensional space, even when wireless or otherwise not physically connected to the tracking system. Multiple sources can be tracked simultaneously as they each operate with their own unique detectable set of parameters. The invention not only provides the ability to uniquely identify one or more sources by their frequencies, but also to synchronize with these frequencies in order to measure signals that then allow tracking the position and orientation (P&O) of the source(s). Further, these sources need not be present at the time of system start-up but can come and go while being detected, discriminated and tracked. It also should be noted that application of such systems in multiples with more sensors not synchronized to a source or sources also could be employed to give the reverse appearance of a known source phase and incoherency with the sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Robert Higgins, Herbert Jones, Allan Rodgers
  • Publication number: 20080117255
    Abstract: Micro-fluid ejection devices, such as inkjet printheads, such as those that use a laser to eject fluid. One such micro-fluid ejection device includes a passageway plate defining a fluid chamber filled with fluid and a fluid channel to supply the fluid chamber with fluid, a top plate provided on the passageway plate, a fluid ejection hole formed through the top plate at a position corresponding to the fluid chamber, a condenser lens provided on a bottom surface of the passageway plate at a position corresponding to the fluid chamber, and laser beam irradiator capable of irradiating a laser beam through the condenser lens and into fluid contained in the fluid chamber, wherein the fluid is nucleated by the laser beam such that a vapor bubble forms and displaces a portion of the fluid, thereby ejecting a fluid droplet through the fluid ejection hole. Method of using such devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Roger Steven Cannon, Robert Lee Cornell
  • Publication number: 20080119786
    Abstract: A syringe (110) having a barrel (111) that receives a rod assembly (117). Mounted at the forward end of the Barrel (111) is a needle mounting (121) that receives as needle (124). The mounting (121) is releasably attached to the barrel (111). The rod assembly (117) includes a hollow rod (118) that has at its forward end a gripper device (135) that engages the mounting (121) so that upon release of the mounting (121) with respect to the barrel (111) and release of the device (135) with respect to the rod (118), the mounting (121) and device (135) are propelled into the rod (118) by a spring (138).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: BREWER RETRACTABLE TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD
    Inventors: Daniel Craig Stewart, Robert Warring Geddes, Roy Tudor Brewer, Craig Wilson
  • Publication number: 20080120240
    Abstract: The present inventions provide an integrated, modular array of administrative and support services for electronic commerce and electronic rights and transaction management. These administrative and support services supply a secure foundation for conducting financial management, rights management, certificate authority, rules clearing, usage clearing, secure directory services, and other transaction related capabilities functioning over a vast electronic network such as the Internet and/or over organization internal Intranets. These administrative and support services can be adapted to the specific needs of electronic commerce value chains. Electronic commerce participants can use these administrative and support services to support their interests, and can shape and reuse these services in response to competitive business realities. A Distributed Commerce Utility having a secure, programmable, distributed architecture provides administrative and support services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Karl L. Ginter, Victor H. Shear, Francis J. Spahn, David M. Van Wie, Robert P. Weber
  • Publication number: 20080117047
    Abstract: A method and apparatus that facilitates radio frequency (RF) communication between a radio frequency identification (RFID) device and RFID tags for a conveyer system are disclosed. The method may include positioning an RFID device in proximity of the conveyor system, wherein at least one conductive surface is coupled to the RFID device, the conveyer system being configured to transport a plurality of articles with at least one or more of the plurality of articles having one or more associated RFID tags, and operating the conveyer system such that the plurality of articles are brought in contact with the at least one conductive surface, wherein the RFID device, the at least one conductive surface and the associated RFID tags are capacitively coupled allowing RF signals to be communicated between RFID device and the associated RFID tags and enabling data to be electronically read from the associated RFID tags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Collins, Robert A. Perri
  • Publication number: 20080119442
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to nitro-1,2-dihydro-3H-benzo[e]indoles and related analogues, to their preparation, and to their use as hypoxia-selective drugs and radiosensitizers for cancer therapy, both alone or in combination with radiation and/or other anticancer drugs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: William Alexander Denny, William Robert Wilson, Ralph James Stevenson, Moana Tercel, Graham John Atwell, Shangjin Yang, Adam Vorn Patterson, Frederik Bastlaan Pruijn
  • Publication number: 20080118366
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes forward and aft serpentine cooling circuits terminating in corresponding forward and aft impingement channels. Each serpentine circuit has two metered inlets for distributing primary inlet flow to the first passes thereof and supplemental inlet flow to the last passes thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Robert Francis Manning, Bhanu Mahasamudram Reddy
  • Publication number: 20080117042
    Abstract: An apparatus, methods and computer program product, and system are described that enable a first subset of actuatable cushioning elements for a first time period, enable a second subset of actuatable cushioning elements for a second time period, determine an event, and actuate, based on a time the event is determined, at least one of the first and the second subsets of actuatable cushioning elements to provide cushioning support for an object. Other example embodiments are also provided relating to actuatable cushioning elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Edward K.Y. Jung, Royce A. Levien, Robert W. Lord, Mark A. Malamud, John D. Rinaldo, Lowell L. Wood
  • Publication number: 20080116205
    Abstract: A trash receptacle is provided with retaining elements that project outwardly and downwardly from the upper comer portions of the receptacle. Flexible trash bags having openings in the upper comer portions thereof are used to line the trash receptacle. The retaining elements project through openings in a bag for retaining the bag in lined relation within the receptacle. A drawer is provided in a compartment in the lower portion of the receptacle for use in containing a supply of bags therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventor: Robert A. Forest
  • Publication number: 20080120746
    Abstract: Methods for protecting a plant from a plant pathogenic fungus are provided. A method for enhancing fungal pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antifungal polypeptide of the invention. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antifungal polypeptide of the embodiments, or variant or fragment thereof, are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Hana S. Ali, Robert J. Keenan, Michael Lassner, Mathias L. Muller, Gusui Wu
  • Publication number: 20080119487
    Abstract: Disclosed are novel compounds of the formula Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of Formula I. Also disclosed are methods of treating various diseases or conditions, such as, for example, allergy, allergy-induced airway responses, and congestion (e.g., nasal congestion) using the compounds of Formula I. Also disclosed are methods of treating various diseases or conditions, such as, for example, allergy, allergy-induced airway responses, and congestion (e.g., nasal congestion) using the compounds of Formula I in combination with a H1 receptor antagonist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Robert G. Aslanian, Neng-Yang Shih, Pauline C. Ting, Michael Y. Berlin, Stuart B. Rosenblum, Kevin D. McCormick, Wing C. Tom, Christopher W. Boyce, Pietro Mangiaracina, Mwangi W. Mutahi, John J. Piwinski
  • Publication number: 20080115737
    Abstract: Annoying insects are controlled by attaching an insect control device to the body of the animal to be treated. The insect control is a molded article, preferably in the form of an ear tag, which has been formed from a powder mixture of coumaphos and diazinon, polyvinyl chloride, and a plasticizer. The coumaphos and diazinon are generally used in an amount that would prolong the insecticidal activity without detracting from the suitability of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Robert G. Arther, Robert G. Pennington
  • Publication number: 20080116250
    Abstract: Cartons are formed from two or more continuous webs that can individually or concurrently provided with cuts, scores, or other lines of disruption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Joseph C. Walsh, Robert L. Conatser, Raymond S. Kastanek
  • Patent number: D569772
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: George Saridakis, Douglas Gaffka, Robert Jensen