Patents by Inventor Roger A. Clark
Roger A. Clark 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).
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Patent number: 7748196Abstract: Disclosed herein is a portable panel having numerous favorable characteristics. The panel comprises a core having a length, a width, a first side and a second side. A first fiber layer is attached to the first side while a second fiber layer is attached to the second side. A first polyurethane layer is impregnated in the first fiber layer while a second polyurethane layer is impregnated into the second fiber layer. A first skin is attached to the first polyurethane layer while a second skin is attached to the second polyurethane layer. The panel can be used in the manufacture of tables, flooring, risers, stages, bleachers, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2009Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Palmer/Snyder Furniture CompanyInventors: George Gula, Roger A Clark
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Patent number: 7698872Abstract: Disclosed herein is a portable panel having numerous favorable characteristics. The panel comprises a core having a length, a width, a first side and a second side. A first fiber layer is attached to the first side while a second fiber layer is attached to the second side. A first polyurethane layer is impregnated in the first fiber layer while a second polyurethane layer is impregnated into the second fiber layer. A first skin is attached to the first polyurethane layer while a second skin is attached to the second polyurethane layer. The panel can be used in the manufacture of tables, flooring, risers, stages, bleachers, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2008Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Palmer/Snyder Furniture CompanyInventors: Roger Clark, George Gula
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Publication number: 20090298854Abstract: This invention is directed to indole acetic acid derivatives and their use in pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of diseases such as diabetes, obesity, hyperlipidemia, and atherosclerotic disease. The invention is also directed to intermediates useful in preparation of indole acetic derivatives and to methods of preparation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Inventors: Xin Ma, Louis-David Cantin, Soongyu Choi, Roger Clark, Martin Hentemann, Joachim Rudolph, Rico Lavoie, Zhonghua Zhang
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Publication number: 20090249723Abstract: Disclosed herein is a portable panel having numerous favorable characteristics. The panel comprises a core having a length, a width, a first side and a second side. A first fiber layer is attached to the first side while a second fiber layer is attached to the second side. A first polyurethane layer is impregnated in the first fiber layer while a second polyurethane layer is impregnated into the second fiber layer. A first skin is attached to the first polyurethane layer while a second skin is attached to the second polyurethane layer. The panel can be used in the manufacture of tables, flooring, risers, stages, bleachers, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicant: Palmer/Snyder Furniture CompanyInventors: Roger A. Clark, George Gula
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Patent number: 7597289Abstract: A system and method for dissipating vortices that form at the wingtips on aircraft and from other airfoils. A jet air stream is discharged in a location at or proximate to the outer end portion of the airfoil into the vortex flow, and the jet air stream is moved cyclically back and forth. The cyclic movement can be at lower or higher frequencies to alleviate at least in part intensity of the vortex or accelerate instability of the vortex which leads to vortex dissipation.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2006Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Arvin Shmilovich, Yoram Yadlin, Roger Clark, Donald Leopold
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Patent number: 7592361Abstract: This invention is directed to indole acetic acid derivatives and their use in pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of diseases such as diabetes, obesity, hyperlipidemia, and atherosclerotic disease. The invention is also directed to intermediates useful in preparation of indole acetic derivatives and to methods of preparation.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2004Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Bayer Pharmaceuticals CorporationInventors: Xin Ma, Louis-David Cantin, Soongyu Choi, Roger Clark, Martin Hentemann, Joachim Rudolph, Rico Lavoie, Zhonghua Zhang
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Publication number: 20090211187Abstract: Disclosed herein is a portable panel having numerous favorable characteristics. The panel comprises a core having a length, a width, a first side and a second side. A first fiber layer is attached to the first side while a second fiber layer is attached to the second side. A first polyurethane layer is impregnated in the first fiber layer while a second polyurethane layer is impregnated into the second fiber layer. A first skin is attached to the first polyurethane layer while a second skin is attached to the second polyurethane layer. The panel can be used in the manufacture of tables, flooring, risers, stages, bleachers, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2009Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: PALMER SNYDER FURNITURE COMPANYInventors: Roger Clark, George Gula
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Publication number: 20090211499Abstract: Disclosed herein is a portable panel having numerous favorable characteristics. The panel comprises a core having a length, a width, a first side and a second side. A first fiber layer is attached to the first side while a second fiber layer is attached to the second side. A first polyurethane layer is impregnated in the first fiber layer while a second polyurethane layer is impregnated into the second fiber layer. A first skin is attached to the first polyurethane layer while a second skin is attached to the second polyurethane layer. The panel can be used in the manufacture of tables, flooring, risers, stages, bleachers, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2009Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: PALMER SNYDER FURNITURE COMPANYInventors: Roger Clark, George Gula
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Publication number: 20090084049Abstract: Disclosed herein is a portable panel having numerous favorable characteristics. The panel comprises a core having a length, a width, a first side and a second side. A first fiber layer is attached to the first side while a second fiber layer is attached to the second side. A first polyurethane layer is impregnated in the first fiber layer while a second polyurethane layer is impregnated into the second fiber layer. A first skin is attached to the first polyurethane layer while a second skin is attached to the second polyurethane layer. The panel can be used in the manufacture of tables, flooring, risers, stages, bleachers, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Inventors: Roger Clark, George Gula
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Patent number: 7401442Abstract: Disclosed herein is a portable panel having numerous favorable characteristics. The panel comprises a core having a length, a width, a first side and a second side. A first fiber layer is attached to the first side while a second fiber layer is attached to the second side. A first polyurethane layer is impregnated in the first fiber layer while a second polyurethane layer is impregnated into the second fiber layer. A first skin is attached to the first polyurethane layer while a second skin is attached to the second polyurethane layer. The panel can be used in the manufacture of tables, flooring, risers, stages, bleachers, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2006Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Inventors: Roger A Clark, George Gula
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Publication number: 20080124501Abstract: Disclosed herein is a portable panel having numerous favorable characteristics. The panel comprises a core having a length, a width, a first side and a second side. A first fiber layer is attached to the first side while a second fiber layer is attached to the second side. A first polyurethane layer is impregnated in the first fiber layer while a second polyurethane layer is impregnated into the second fiber layer. A first skin is attached to the first polyurethane layer while a second skin is attached to the second polyurethane layer. The panel can be used in the manufacture of tables, flooring, risers, stages, bleachers, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2006Publication date: May 29, 2008Inventors: Roger Clark, George Gula
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Publication number: 20080078321Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing a crystalline ribbon continuously from a melt pool of liquid feed material, e.g. silicon. The silicon is melted and flowed into a growth tray to provide a melt pool of liquid silicon. Heat is passively extracted by allowing heat to flow from the melt pool up through a chimney. Heat is simultaneously applied to the growth tray to keep the silicon in its liquid phase while heat loss is occurring through the chimney. A template is placed in contact with the melt pool as heat is lost through the chimney so that the silicon starts to “freeze” (i.e. solidify) and adheres to the template. The template is then pulled from the melt pool thereby producing a continuous ribbon of crystalline silicon.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Applicant: BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventor: Roger Clark
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Publication number: 20080051415Abstract: Disclosed are novel piperazine derivatives that act as agonists of the ?7 nAChR. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treating inflammatory conditions, methods of treating CNS disorders, methods for inhibiting cytokine release from mammalian cells and methods for the preparation of the novel compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2007Publication date: February 28, 2008Inventors: Roger Clark, Daniel Elbaum
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Publication number: 20080042013Abstract: Active systems and methods for controlling aircraft vortices are disclosed. An apparatus in accordance with one embodiment is directed to an aircraft system that includes an airfoil having first and second oppositely facing flow surfaces and a tip. The system can further include a vortex dissipation device carried by the airfoil, with the vortex dissipation device including an orifice positioned to direct a flow of fluid outwardly from the tip, an actuator operatively coupled to the fluid flow orifice and positioned to change a manner in which flow is directed outwardly from the tip, and a controller operatively coupled to the actuator to direct the operation of the actuator. The vortex dissipation device can be activated to accelerate the rate at which vortices (e.g., wing tip vortices) dissipate after they are generated, for example, by alternately pulsing flow inwardly and outwardly through the fluid flow orifice.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2007Publication date: February 21, 2008Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Arvin Shmilovich, Yoram Yadlin, Roger Clark
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Publication number: 20080041323Abstract: A powertrain includes an Atkinson cycle engine having at least one cylinder, a crankshaft, and an air intake system that provides selective fluid communication between the at least one cylinder and the atmosphere. A motor is in hybrid combination with the engine, and a compressor is configured to selectively pressurize air in the air intake system. The powertrain provides the fuel efficiency of an Atkinson cycle engine while compensating for the reduced torque output of an Atkinson cycle engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2007Publication date: February 21, 2008Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.Inventor: Roger A. Clark
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Publication number: 20070265298Abstract: This invention relates to certain biphenyl-4-yl carbonylamino acid compounds, compositions, and methods for treating or preventing obesity and related diseases.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2005Publication date: November 15, 2007Applicant: Bayer Pharmaceuticals corporationInventors: Roger Smith, Stephen O'Connor, Philip Coish, Derek Lowe, Roger Clark, Jeffrey Stebbins, Ann-Marie Campbell, Christiana Akuche, Tatiana Shelekhin
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Patent number: 7288586Abstract: A solid concentrate is provided having a combination of a transition metal present in an amount ranging from 1000 to 40,000 ppm (weight by metal) and a polyester polymer present in an amount of at least 40 wt. % based on the weight of the concentrate. Concentrates made with highly modified polyester polymers are easy to compound with transition metals forming less brittle polymer upon melt extrusion. Bottle preforms and oxygen scavenging bottles can be made from these concentrates by combining solid polyester particles, solid polyamide particles, and solid these concentrate particles c into an melt processing zone, forming a melt, and forming an article directly from the melt. The b* color and the L* color and the haze levels of the preforms are improved over the preforms made with liquid carriers instead of solid concentrates.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2005Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Mark Edward Stewart, Emerson Eston Sharpe, Jr., Benjamin Bradford Gamble, Steven Lee Stafford, Robert Noah Estep, James Carl Williams, Thomas Roger Clark
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Publication number: 20070246604Abstract: Integrated engine exhaust systems and methods for reducing drag and thermal loads are disclosed. In one embodiment, a propulsion system includes an engine installation configured to be mounted on a wing assembly of an aircraft. The engine installation includes an engine, and an exhaust system operatively coupled to the engine. The exhaust system includes at least one nozzle configured to exhaust an exhaust flow from the engine. The nozzle includes a variable portion configured to vary an exit aperture of the nozzle from a first shape to a second shape to change a flowfield shape of at least a portion of the nozzle flowfield proximate the wing assembly, thereby reducing at least one of drag and thermal loading on the wing assembly. In a further embodiment, the exhaust system includes an inner nozzle that exhausts a core exhaust flow, and an outer nozzle that exhausts a secondary exhaust flow, the outer nozzle having the variable portion configured to vary the exit aperture of the outer nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2006Publication date: October 25, 2007Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Arvin Shmilovich, Yoram Yadlin, David Smith, Roger Clark
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Publication number: 20070195852Abstract: A high-temperature furnace for melting materials, e.g. silicon, wherein the furnace comprises a vessel having a wall which defines an inner chamber. A crucible containing the material to be melted is positioned inside of the chamber and heating means is arranged around the crucible. An insulation package is provided in the chamber for protecting the vessel wall from the heat generated by said heating means. Specifically, the package comprises a support ring of insulation mounted in the chamber, a sleeve of insulation supported on the ring and extending upward between the heating means and the vessel wall, a catch tray adapted to receive any material which may leak from the crucible during heating mounted through the support ring, and a top and a lower layer of insulation to thermally seal the crucible within the package during heating.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2006Publication date: August 23, 2007Applicant: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.Inventors: Roger Clark, James Cliber, Douglas Stark, Daniel Heck
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Publication number: 20070080486Abstract: A folding work platform apparatus is used on a support surface and includes a work platform table and at least three legs. The work platform table has a top surface and a bottom surface disposed opposite the top surface and a side wall disposed between the top and bottom surfaces to define a thickness. The work platform table might have a groove formed into the top surface that extends longitudinally along a longitudinal axis. The at least three legs movably adjoin the bottom surface of the work platform table and are movable to and between a folded state wherein the at least three legs extended from the bottom surface generally parallel with one another and an extended state wherein the at least three legs extend from the bottom surface generally angularly away from the bottom surface and from one another for supporting the work platform table on the support surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2005Publication date: April 12, 2007Inventor: Roger Clark