Patents by Inventor Ronald Evans
Ronald Evans 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: 8739584Abstract: A door lock retainer may include a door-latch-mechanism frame, a retainer, and a door-lock cylinder. The door-latch-mechanism frame may support a linkage and include a landing surface. The retainer may include an aperture and a first surface engaging the landing surface and restricting deflection of the linkage. The door-lock cylinder may be received in the aperture and supported by the retainer.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Chrysler Group LLCInventors: John S. Kargilis, Terence P. Grace, Ronald A. Evans, Derek Chance
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Patent number: 8708283Abstract: An aircraft store ejector systems and subsystems thereof. Embodiments can include a two-reservoir re-pressurization system wherein a remote reservoir is used to maintain desired pressure in a local ejector reservoir. The system can include a release valve having a vent valve and valve piston. The release valve can control release of pressurized gas to a pitch control valve. The pitch control valve can be configured to distribute the pressurized gas between two or more ejector piston assemblies. One or more of the ejector piston assemblies can include multiple concentric piston stages and piston chambers, the piston chambers configured to contain a volume of gas. The ejector piston assemblies can be configured to compress the volume of gas within the piston chambers as the piston stages are extended out from the aircraft. Such compression can provide a return force to the piston stages.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Marvin Engineering Co., Inc.Inventors: Lee Allen Tobias, Sohrab John Talebian, Robert Ronald Evans
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Publication number: 20140076156Abstract: An aircraft store ejector systems and subsystems thereof. Embodiments can include a two-reservoir re-pressurization system wherein a remote reservoir is used to maintain desired pressure in a local ejector reservoir. The system can include a release valve having a vent valve and valve piston. The release valve can control release of pressurized gas to a pitch control valve. The pitch control valve can be configured to distribute the pressurized gas between two or more ejector piston assemblies. One or more of the ejector piston assemblies can include multiple concentric piston stages and piston chambers, the piston chambers configured to contain a volume of gas. The ejector piston assemblies can be configured to compress the volume of gas within the piston chambers as the piston stages are extended out from the aircraft. Such compression can provide a return force to the piston stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Marvin Engineering Co., Inc.Inventors: Lee Allen Tobias, Sohrab John Talebian, Robert Ronald Evans
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Patent number: 8576505Abstract: Disclosed is a method of storing data on a tape medium in at least one data recording session employing a tape drive apparatus operable to record the data in accordance with a format specifying an unused area of the tape medium. The method comprises formatting the tape medium according to the format, and recording a tape medium identifier in the specified unused area of the tape medium.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2005Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Nigel Ronald Evans, Andrew Malcolm George Clarke, John Mark Mackelden
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Publication number: 20130048107Abstract: An aircraft store ejector systems and subsystems thereof. Embodiments can include a two-reservoir re-pressurization system wherein a remote reservoir is used to maintain desired pressure in a local ejector reservoir. The system can include a release valve having a vent valve and valve piston. The release valve can control release of pressurized gas to a pitch control valve. The pitch control valve can be configured to distribute the pressurized gas between two or more ejector piston assemblies. One or more of the ejector piston assemblies can include multiple concentric piston stages and piston chambers, the piston chambers configured to contain a volume of gas. The ejector piston assemblies can be configured to compress the volume of gas within the piston chambers as the piston stages are extended out from the aircraft. Such compression can provide a return force to the piston stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: MARVIN ENGINEERING CO., INC.Inventors: Lee Allen Tobias, Sohrab John Talebian, Robert Ronald Evans
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Publication number: 20130048790Abstract: An aircraft store ejector systems and subsystems thereof. Embodiments can include a two-reservoir re-pressurization system wherein a remote reservoir is used to maintain desired pressure in a local ejector reservoir. The system can include a release valve having a vent valve and valve piston. The release valve can control release of pressurized gas to a pitch control valve. The pitch control valve can be configured to distribute the pressurized gas between two or more ejector piston assemblies. One or more of the ejector piston assemblies can include multiple concentric piston stages and piston chambers, the piston chambers configured to contain a volume of gas. The ejector piston assemblies can be configured to compress the volume of gas within the piston chambers as the piston stages are extended out from the aircraft. Such compression can provide a return force to the piston stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: MARVIN ENGINEERING CO., INC.Inventors: Lee Allen Tobias, Sohrab John Talebian, Robert Ronald Evans
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Publication number: 20130048789Abstract: An aircraft store ejector systems and subsystems thereof. Embodiments can include a two-reservoir re-pressurization system wherein a remote reservoir is used to maintain desired pressure in a local ejector reservoir. The system can include a release valve having a vent valve and valve piston. The release valve can control release of pressurized gas to a pitch control valve. The pitch control valve can be configured to distribute the pressurized gas between two or more ejector piston assemblies. One or more of the ejector piston assemblies can include multiple concentric piston stages and piston chambers, the piston chambers configured to contain a volume of gas. The ejector piston assemblies can be configured to compress the volume of gas within the piston chambers as the piston stages are extended out from the aircraft. Such compression can provide a return force to the piston stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: MARVIN ENGINEERING CO., INC.Inventors: Lee Allen Tobias, Sohrab John Talebian, Robert Ronald Evans
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Publication number: 20130048788Abstract: An aircraft store ejector systems and subsystems thereof. Embodiments can include a two-reservoir re-pressurization system wherein a remote reservoir is used to maintain desired pressure in a local ejector reservoir. The system can include a release valve having a vent valve and valve piston. The release valve can control release of pressurized gas to a pitch control valve. The pitch control valve can be configured to distribute the pressurized gas between two or more ejector piston assemblies. One or more of the ejector piston assemblies can include multiple concentric piston stages and piston chambers, the piston chambers configured to contain a volume of gas. The ejector piston assemblies can be configured to compress the volume of gas within the piston chambers as the piston stages are extended out from the aircraft. Such compression can provide a return force to the piston stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: MARVIN ENGINEERING CO., INC.Inventors: Lee Allen Tobias, Sohrab John Talebian, Robert Ronald Evans
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Publication number: 20130047835Abstract: An aircraft store ejector systems and subsystems thereof. Embodiments can include a two-reservoir re-pressurization system wherein a remote reservoir is used to maintain desired pressure in a local ejector reservoir. The system can include a release valve having a vent valve and valve piston. The release valve can control release of pressurized gas to a pitch control valve. The pitch control valve can be configured to distribute the pressurized gas between two or more ejector piston assemblies. One or more of the ejector piston assemblies can include multiple concentric piston stages and piston chambers, the piston chambers configured to contain a volume of gas. The ejector piston assemblies can be configured to compress the volume of gas within the piston chambers as the piston stages are extended out from the aircraft. Such compression can provide a return force to the piston stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: MARVIN ENGINEERING CO., INC.Inventors: Lee Allen Tobias, Sohrab John Talebian, Robert Ronald Evans
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Patent number: 8345372Abstract: A tape drive apparatus is for a tape medium having a magnetic segment for magnetically transducing information and an identification segment carrying a medium identification pattern and a segment identification pattern. The tape drive apparatus has a data transfer apparatus configured to transfer data between the tape medium and the tape drive apparatus, a reader configured to read a signal representative of the identification segment, a detector configured to detect the segment identification pattern in the signal, and a decoder configured to decode the medium identification pattern in response to the detection of the segment identification pattern.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2012Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Stephen V. Deckers, Nigel Ronald Evans, Robert Morling
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Publication number: 20120304542Abstract: A door lock retainer may include a door-latch-mechanism frame, a retainer, and a door-lock cylinder. The door-latch-mechanism frame may support a linkage and include a landing surface. The retainer may include an aperture and a first surface engaging the landing surface and restricting deflection of the linkage. The door-lock cylinder may be received in the aperture and supported by the retainer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2011Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventors: John S. Kargilis, Terence P. Grace, Ronald A. Evans, Derek Chance
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Publication number: 20120264796Abstract: This disclosure described the role of AMPK in circadian rhythms and methods of screening for agents that modulate such rhythms, compositions that are useful for modulating such rhythms and uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2010Publication date: October 18, 2012Inventors: Ronald Evans, Katja A. Lamia, Reuben J. Shaw, Luciano Ditacchio, Satchidananda Panda
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Publication number: 20120134985Abstract: The role of AMPK in arcadian rhythms and methods of screening for agents that modulate such rhythms are disclosed. Compositions that are useful for modulating such rhythms and uses thereof are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: The Salk Institute for Biological StudiesInventors: Ronald Evans, Katja A. Lamia, Reuben J. Shaw
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Publication number: 20120106004Abstract: A tape medium has an identification segment located on a transparent leader segment of the tape medium for optical detection of the segment identification pattern. The segment identification pattern and the medium identification pattern have a predefined spatial relationship, enabling photo-optical detection of the segment identification pattern and reading of the medium identification pattern. The medium identification pattern carries various medium identification information, such as tape manufacturer, tape serial number and a tape medium property.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2012Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: STEPHEN V. DECKERS, Nigel Ronald Evans, Robert Morling
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Patent number: 8132088Abstract: A method of processing data comprising arranging data into a data group comprising a plurality of sub groups each said subgroup comprising a plurality of columns; for each column, determining at least one checksum data of said column; and for each column, storing the checksum data of that column within at least one said subgroup of the group, other than the subgroup to which said column belongs.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2007Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Nigel Ronald Evans, Andrew Hana
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Patent number: 8120876Abstract: A tape medium has an identification segment located on a transparent leader segment of the tape medium for optical detection of the segment identification pattern. The segment identification pattern and the medium identification pattern have a predefined spatial relationship, enabling photo-optical detection of the segment identification pattern and reading of the medium identification pattern. The medium identification pattern carries various medium identification information, such as tape manufacturer, tape serial number and a tape medium property.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2004Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Stephen V. Deckers, Nigel Ronald Evans, Robert Morling
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Patent number: 7911727Abstract: An apparatus for writing data to a data storage medium on which data is stored in data groups (N?3 to N+1) comprising tracks extending across and spaced from a reference edge of the storage medium includes a control system operable to cause i) a track reference difference value representative of a difference in a distance between the tracks of an existing data group (N?1) on the storage medium and the reference edge and a distance between the reference edge and the tracks of a data group (N) to be written to the storage medium such that it is the next data group following the existing data group (N?1) or ii) data from which such a difference value can be derived to be included in at least one of frame (A1 to A5) to be written between the existing data group and the next data group such that the tracks of the at least one frame are spaced from the reference edge by substantially the same distance as the tracks of the existing data group.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Nigel Ronald Evans, Russell Ian Monk
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Patent number: 7913076Abstract: A configuration of a media drive apparatus is stored as a plurality of configuration settings in a non volatile memory of a media drive apparatus. A removable storage medium is identified as a reconfiguration medium, and data is read from the removable storage medium, where the data includes an identifier of one configuration setting of the plurality of configuration settings and a value for the one configuration setting. The one configuration setting is updated with the value read from the removable storage medium.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2007Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Nigel Ronald Evans, Tony Martyn Haworth, Shiraz Billimoria
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Data Deduplication Apparatus and Method for Storing Data Received in a Data Stream From a Data Store
Publication number: 20110022718Abstract: A method of storing data received in a data stream from a data source is disclosed in which prior to performing deduplication on the data stream a processor decompresses selected compressed data entities in the data stream to provide a decompressed form of the data entities in the data stream in place of the compressed form, the data stream including the decompressed data entities is deduplicated and the deduplicated data is stored to a deduplicated data store.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Inventors: Nigel Ronald Evans, Russell Ian Monk, Garry Brady -
Patent number: 7813069Abstract: A method of controlling relative motion of a data storage medium on which data is stored in data groups comprising tracks extending across the storage medium and a rotatable transducer for reading data from the storage medium includes determining from the data groups a start reread data group at which a data reread process is to start following detection of a read error condition in a preceding data read process. The method also includes obtaining a reread track reference value for use in controlling that relative motion during the data reread process using a track reference value difference stored in at least one track of at least one data group that is to be reread during the data reread process and a track reference value that was used in controlling that relative rotation during the preceding data read process.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2008Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Nigel Ronald Evans, Russell Ian Monk