Patents by Inventor Robert To

Robert To 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).

  • Suppression of vertical crosstalk in a plasma display panel
    Publication number: 20040252080
    Abstract: A method for controlling electrodes in a plasma display panel (815). includes applying a voltage Ve to a sustain electrode during a setting up of the sustain electrode (710) for an addressing operation, where Ve2<Ve. Another method includes a) applying Ve2 to the sustain electrode during the addressing, where the sustain electrode is associated with a scan electrode (714) in an electrode pair, and b) applying a voltage Vs1 to the scan electrode during a discharging of the electrode pair after the addressing, where Ve2<Vs1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Robert G. Marcotte, Norifusa Isobe, William S. Schindler
  • Programmable joint simulator with force and motion feedback
    Publication number: 20040254771
    Abstract: The invention concerns a joint simulator for duplicating the biomechanical properties of body segments with joints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Robert Riener, Rainer Burgkart
  • System and method for evaluating vehicle and operator performance
    Publication number: 20040254698
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of safety management of one or more vehicles, and more particularly, to a system and method for analyzing information relating to a vehicle's performance characteristics such as speed against environmental attributes such as speed limits to assess a vehicle and operator's tendency to operate according to preset or other criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Jonathan Hubbard, Christopher Kantarjiev, Robert Reid, Jonathan Tash
  • Alanyl-piperidine heterocyclic derivatives useful against cardiovascular diseases
    Publication number: 20040254374
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Stuart Donald Jones, Daniel Jon Sall, Michael Robert Wiley
  • Gas flow diverter for respiratory monitoring device
    Publication number: 20040254491
    Abstract: A gas flow diverter for increasing the turbulence of an incoming respiratory gas flow through a respiratory gas sensor is provided. The diverter is positioned at a patient or inlet end of a tube section of the sensor in order to divert the respiratory gas flow from the patient generally equally across the cross-sectional area of the tube section. The diverter can be formed integrally as a part of the sensor, or can be releasably attached to the sensor or to an adapter that is releasably connected to the inlet end of the sensor for use in situations in which the volume of the incoming respiratory gas flow from the patient is greatly reduced due to the size of the patient, i.e., when the patient is an infant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: CardioPulmonary Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert H. Ricciardelli
  • Radio communication device having a navigational wheel
    Publication number: 20040253989
    Abstract: A radio communication device (100) includes a navigational thumbwheel (102) that surrounds the periphery of the display area (114). Movement of the navigation thumbwheel (102) allows for movement of item(s) displayed on display area (114). The navigational thumbwheel (102) can be rotated either clockwise or counterclockwise. User controls (104) can be used to provide further movement/selection capabilities. In another embodiment, the navigational thumbwheel (102) can be depressed along certain portions of its outer ring (110), allowing the user further movement or selection capabilities using the thumbwheel (102).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Amy M. Tupler, Matthew R. Michieli, Robert P. Muszkiewicz
  • Fluid management article having body-faceable protrusions
    Publication number: 20040254554
    Abstract: A fluid-management article, such as a sanitary napkin, comprises a body-faceable, liquid-pervious cover having a top surface, a garment-faceable, liquid-impervious barrier, and an absorbent system intermediate the cover and the barrier. The fluid-management article comprises a plurality of fluid-guiding channels that surround a plurality of isolated protrusions. The channels and the protrusions are formed through the top surface of the cover of the fluid management article. The protrusions have an apex that extends a height greater than about 0.5 millimeters (mm) above at least a portion of the plurality of channels. The protrusions have a number density greater than about 0.15 protrusions/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Pramod S. Mavinkurve, John T. Ulman, Steven H. White, Robert J. Graeme, Kenneth Anthony Pelley, Brian Michael Drzewiecki
  • Mobility assistance vehicle
    Publication number: 20040251655
    Abstract: A human-powered vehicle comprising a structural frame, two front wheels mounted to a forward portion of the frame for rotation, a seat secured to the frame, the seat positioned between the front wheels and adapted to pivot about a seat pivot axis, and a steerable rear wheel mounted to the frame behind the seat and defining a rear wheel kingpin axis, the rear wheel operably linked to the seat such that pivoting of the seat about the seat pivot axis causes pivoting of the rear wheel about the kingpin axis to steer the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Stuart M. Lindsay, David Winters McMath, Robert Cowles, Timothy C. Mathewson
  • Substrates and assays for beta-secretase
    Publication number: 20040253706
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel substrates for Hu-Asp. More particularly, the invention provides peptide substrates and fusion polypeptide substrates comprising a &bgr;-secretase cleavage site. Methods and compositions for making and using the peptides are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company, a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Riqiang Yan, Alfredo G. Tomasselli, Mark E. Gurney, Thomas L. Emmons, Michael Jerome Bienkowski, Robert L. Heinrikson
  • Diamondoid-containing materials for passivating layers in integrated circuit devices
    Publication number: 20040251478
    Abstract: Novel uses of diamondoid-containing materials in the field of microelectronics are disclosed. Embodiments include, but are not limited to, thermally conductive films in integrated circuit packaging, low-k dielectric layers in integrated circuit multilevel interconnects, thermally conductive adhesive films, thermally conductive films in thermoelectric cooling devices, passivation films for integrated circuit devices (ICs), and field emission cathodes. The diamondoids employed in the present invention may be selected from lower diamondoids, as well as the newly provided higher diamondoids, including substituted and unsubstituted diamondoids. The higher diamondoids include tetramantane, pentamantane, hexamantane, heptamantane, octamantane, nonamantane, decamantane, and undecamantane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy E. Dahl, Robert M. Carlson, Shenggao Liu
  • Mobile communication device printing
    Publication number: 20040252333
    Abstract: A cellular telephone printing system is provided. The print system includes a discovery logic configured to identify an image forming device with which the system may interact, a content transforming logic configured to prepare content for delivery to the image forming device in a form useable by the image forming device, and a print managing logic configured to manage providing the content to the image forming device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Leo Robert Blume, Phillip A. McCoog, Rabindra Pathak, Michael Strittmatter
  • Covering for floors and/or walls
    Publication number: 20040253409
    Abstract: A fabric is provided having discrete surface portions of a primary backing and tufted yarns exposed on the technical face of the fabric. To form the fabric, the yarn feed controlled by servomotors is adjusted in increments to rob back yarn sufficient to pull out the previously tufted loops in selected portions of the fabric, leaving the primary backing portion of the pulled-out loops exposed on the technical face. By the selection process, random or patterned tufted portions and exposed primary backing surface portions are provided on the technical face of the fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Whitten, Gene C. Duff, Robert D. Hutchison
  • Integrated bend limiter for fiber optic connectors
    Publication number: 20040252949
    Abstract: A connector (10) comprising: a housing 11 having a front and rear orientation; a ferrule (12) disposed in the front of the housing and containing at least one fiber, a resilient member (13) disposed in the housing rearward of the ferrule (12); and a bendlimiter (14) disposed in the housing rearward of the resilient member, the bend limiter comprising a crimp portion (21) for interengaging the housing such that the bend limiter position with respect to the housing (11) is fixed, the crimp portion providing a backstop for compressing the resilient means (13) against the ferrule to urge the ferrule forward, the bend limiter also comprising an arcuate portion for dressing the fiber, the arcuate portion having a radius no less than the minimum bend radius of the fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventor: Robert Verhagen
  • Surface covering
    Publication number: 20040253410
    Abstract: A surface covering element adapted for disposition in covering relation to a support surface. The surface covering element includes a show surface adapted to project away from the support surface when the surface covering element is disposed across the support surface and an underside adapted to project towards the support surface when the surface covering element is disposed across the support surface. A friction enhancing coating composition is disposed in coated relation across the underside at an effective level to enhance sliding friction of the surface covering element such that the surface covering element exhibits a degree of lateral grip cross across the support surface. The friction enhancing coating composition does not permanently stick to the support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Kenneth B. Higgins, William Tippett, N. David Sellman, Heather J. Hayes, Shulong Li, Thomas E. Godfrey, Robert S. Brown
  • Method and system for detecting race condition vulnerabilities in source code
    Publication number: 20040255277
    Abstract: A method and system of detecting vulnerabilities in source code. Source code is parsed into an intermediate representation. Models are derived for the code and the models are then analyzed in conjunction with pre-specified rules about the routines to determine if the routines posses one or more of pre-selected vulnerabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: Ounce Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan James Berg, Larry Rose, John Peyton, John J. Danahy, Robert Gottlieb, Chris Rehbein
  • Ordered elastomeric composite material
    Publication number: 20040251052
    Abstract: Ordered elastomeric composites comprise an ordered arrangement of a number of first elastomeric phases distributed uniformly within a continuous matrix second elastomeric phase. The second phase can be formed from an elastomeric material that is relatively harder than an elastomeric material that is used to form the first phases. Each first phase can be in the form of a core having a defined length and diameter, and the second phase can be formed from a number of shells that each surround a respective core. In a preferred embodiment, the arrangement of cores and shells are aligned coaxially with one another to provide a cellular structure. Ordered elastomeric composites of this invention can be used to form part of or an entire elastomeric seal, e.g., in the form of an annular ring adapted for use in a rotary cone drill bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: Smith International, Inc.
    Inventors: Madapusi K. Keshavan, Anthony Griffo, Alysia C. White, Robert Denton, Patricia Heel, Leroy N. Tinkham, Michael A. Siracki
  • Computer system with movable card guide
    Publication number: 20040252471
    Abstract: A computer system includes a chassis, a first printed circuit board having a surface facing the cavity and at least one component extending from the surface. The printed circuit board moves between a first position in which the at least one component is at least partially received within the cavity and a second position in which the at least one component is removed from the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Stephan K. Barsun, Robert W. Dobbs
  • High resolution patterning method
    Publication number: 20040253816
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of forming high resolution patterns of material on a substrate by way of catalytic reactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: William Norman Damerell, Anthony William Kynaston-Pearson, Daniel Robert Johnson
  • Micro-sized tilt sensor
    Publication number: 20040251406
    Abstract: A tilt sensor especially adapted for micro-size, which includes a micro-size housing with a cavity inside. An element, such as a disk, is movable in the cavity between a default position and a second position. A light source is aligned with an aperture which, in turn, is aligned with the default position of the disk in the cavity. In the default position the disk blocks the light source. If the housing is tipped sufficiently in a certain plane, the disk moves out of the default position allowing light from the light source to enter the cavity. A photo detector aperture is positioned to receive light from the unblocked light source to indicate tilt of the housing. The housing can be made of two pieces and plastic and receive a printed circuit board with all electrical optical components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventor: Robert Figueria
  • Options for negotiation with multiple sellers
    Publication number: 20040254846
    Abstract: An automated negotiation system and an automated negotiating method involve a processor adapted to, on identifying a plurality of sellers for a quantity of a good or service, create a plurality of permutations each comprising an ordering of the sellers in the plurality of sellers. For each of the permutations, an allocation of the quantity between the sellers is created wherein as much is allocated to the first seller in the ordering as can be sold by that seller and consequently as much of the remainder is allocated to the second seller in the ordering as can be sold by that seller and so on for each subsequent seller until all the quantity has been allocated, each such allocation creating a bundle for that permutation. Negotiation takes place with at least some of the plurality of sellers in order to buy one of said bundles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventor: Andrew Robert Byde