Patents by Inventor Robert E. Adams

Robert E. Adams 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: 20090075782
    Abstract: The custom exercise video website implements a computerized method for development of a personal fitness/wellness training regimen that is uniquely tailored to an individual user's needs. The website provides a user interface that can accept user inputs related to the user's desire for physical therapy and/or exercise of a body part, muscle group or series of muscle groups. Based on the user inputs, system processing creates a multimedia playlist linking discrete video clips together to form a unique exercise program having clips that have been sequentially ordered by the user. A user-selectable running time is also provided. The website provides an option to add a user-specified music track to the exercise video. The music volume will automatically adjust down when the audio from the clips is on. The video is formatted in a digital file that can be played by a variety of media players.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Karen L. Joubert, Robert E. Adams
  • Patent number: 7072757
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of controlling an engine by determining the state of an ignition command device and the speed of an engine and operating a fuel pump during a predetermined period in response to the ignition command device being in a predetermined state and the speed being substantially zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Adams, Douglas M. Chevalier, Jeffery T. Fischer, Robert C. Griffith, Jr., Bin He, Diane M. Laugel
  • Publication number: 20030217721
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of controlling an engine by determining the state of an ignition command device and the speed of an engine and operating a fuel pump during a predetermined period in response to the ignition command device being in a predetermined state and the speed being substantially zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2001
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventors: Robert E. Adams, Douglas M. Chevalier, Jeffery T. Fischer, Robert C. Griffith, Bin He, Diane M. Laugel
  • Patent number: 5562741
    Abstract: A method of making a bipolar battery comprising a plurality of framed, bipolar electrodes stacked together and embedded in a housing molded in situ thereabout. The housing will preferably comprise a polymeric foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Clarence A. Meadows, Robert E. Adams
  • Patent number: 5527642
    Abstract: A bipolar battery comprising a plurality of framed, bipolar electrodes stacked together and embedded in a housing molded in situ thereabout. The housing will preferably comprise a polymeric foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Clarence A. Meadows, Robert E. Adams
  • Patent number: 5344727
    Abstract: A bipolar electrode for a Pb-acid battery comprising a lead septum plate and a porous coating on at least one face of the septum plate for anchoring at least the positive active material paste to the septum. The porous coating comprises multiple layers of lead particles fused together and to the septum face so as to define a plurality of interconnected, interstitial pores therebetween. The particles are fused droplets of lead arc-sprayed into the surface of the septum. A particular bipolar and battery construction useful with the bipolar electrode is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1994
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Clarence A. Meadows, James R. Bish, Robert E. Adams
  • Patent number: 5326656
    Abstract: A bipolar battery comprising a plurality of bipolar electrodes stacked together, each bipolar electrode comprising a conductive septum having positive and negative active material on opposite faces thereof. Each electrode has a nonconductive frame formed thereabout, and a mesa-like lattice which is integral with the frame, overlays the faces of the septum and is defined by an annular shoulder formed between the border of the lattice and the frame. Discrete spacer frames interjacent the electrode frames separate the electrodes from each other and define a region thereabout for retaining the battery's electrolyte. The faces of the spacer include an annular recess contiguous an inner rim thereof which receives, in nesting fashion, the mesa-like lattices for interlocking the several frames together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1994
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Clarence A. Meadows, Robert E. Adams, James R. Bish
  • Patent number: 4763731
    Abstract: A dry bay (4) in an aircraft wing (2) is filled with a large number of relatively small, preferably spherical, containers (12). Sealed inside each container (12) is a noncorrosive gaseous fire extinguishant (14). A number of containers (12) are opened by being broken by an impact force or melted or burst by the heat of a fire. Extinguishant (14) is released from the opened containers (12) to suppress a fire. The packing density of containers (12) in dry bay (4) may be varied by varying the size and/or shape of containers (12). Containers (12) may be introduced into dry bay (4) by pressure injection or by gravity. Containers (12) may be removed from dry bay (4) to allow maintenance and repair activities by allowing containers (12) to drop out of dry bay (4) into a suitable receptacle or by drawing containers (12) out of dry bay (4) with a vacuum powered device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1988
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Robert E. Adams, A. Fredric Grenich, Frederick F. Tolle
  • Patent number: D254696
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1980
    Inventor: Robert E. Adams