Patents by Inventor Ronald H. Wilson
Ronald H. Wilson 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: 6604019Abstract: The system for automatically dispensing medications or other medical elements includes several groupings, i.e. vaults, of storage members, each vault containing approximately 100 individual cartridges, which each contain packages of unit-of-use doses of a given medication or other medical supply, such as syringes. Each storage member includes an ejector which ejects selected medications/supplies to a supply trough. The packages in the trough are moved to a central collator, which dispenses them to a bin receptacle which has been moved underneath the collator and which is typically identified with a particular patient. Information concerning medications/supplies for a particular patient is stored in a system database and used to determine the particular medications/supplies dispensed into a given bin. Bar coding is used to maintain control over the bins, and the medications, forming a closed information/control system.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2000Date of Patent: August 5, 2003Assignee: NextRx CorporationInventors: Arnold C. Ahlin, John R. Wilson, Ronald H. Wilson, Michael F. Smith
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Patent number: 6435370Abstract: The ejection mechanism includes an elongated housing for storing medication packages of uniform configuration. An eject member moves between two positions, including a first, rest position and a second, eject position. An actuator moves the eject member between its two positions. A clamping member which forms part of one wall of the housing near the lower end thereof is spring biased so as to clamp the medication packages in place, except for the lowermost package, during the time that the lowermost package is begin ejected from the housing assembly. A cam member portion of the clamping member interacts physically with the eject member in such a manner that as the eject member moves from its rest position to its eject position, the clamping member is allowed to move inwardly, clamping those packages above the lowermost package. When the eject member is in its rest position, the clamping member is held away from the packages, permitting them to move downwardly in the housing assembly.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2000Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: NextRx CorporationInventor: Ronald H. Wilson
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Publication number: 20020095238Abstract: The system for automatically dispensing medications or other medical elements includes several groupings, i.e. vaults, of storage members, each vault containing approximately 100 individual cartridges, which each contain packages of unit-of-use doses of a given medication or other medical supply, such as syringes. Each storage member includes an ejector which ejects selected medications/supplies to a supply trough. The packages in the trough are moved to a central collator, which dispenses them to a bin receptacle which has been moved underneath the collator and which is typically identified with a particular patient. Information concerning medications/supplies for a particular patient is stored in a system database and used to determine the particular medications/supplies dispensed into a given bin. Bar coding is used to maintain control over the bins, and the medications, forming a closed information/control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2000Publication date: July 18, 2002Inventors: Arnold C. Ahlin, Marilynn Ahlin, John R. Wilson, Ronald H. Wilson, Michael F. Smith
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Patent number: 6354783Abstract: The system includes a medication-receiving assembly which collects medications automatically dispensed from storage assemblies therefor and a transport assembly for moving the collected medications to a loading assembly, wherein the loading assembly is arranged and positioned so that the medications move by gravity action from an upper end thereof, past a pair of opposing, angled deflectors which are individually controllable and which guide the medications into selected portions of a medication bin in a medication cart, which accommodates medications for a large number of patients, such as all the patients on a hospital ward. Supplemental medications not present in the storage assemblies can be provided with a hand-loaded supplemental doses assembly. The medication cart may then be moved directly to the ward and the bedside of the individual patients in turn.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1999Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: NextRx CorporationInventors: Michael A. Stoy, Ronald H. Wilson
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Publication number: 20010002448Abstract: The system for automatically dispensing medications or other medical elements includes several groupings, i.e. vaults, of storage members, each vault containing approximately 100 individual cartridges, which each contain packages of unit-of-use doses of a given medication or other medical supply, such as syringes. Each storage member includes an ejector which ejects selected medications/supplies to a supply trough. The packages in the trough are moved to a central collator, which dispenses them to a bin receptacle which has been moved underneath the collator and which is typically identified with a particular patient. Information concerning medications/supplies for a particular patient is stored in a system database and used to determine the particular medications/supplies dispensed into a given bin. Bar coding is used to maintain control over the bins, and the medications, forming a closed information/control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2000Publication date: May 31, 2001Inventors: John R. Wilson, Ronald H. Wilson, Michael F. Smith
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Patent number: 6219587Abstract: The system for automatically dispensing medications or other medical elements includes several groupings, i.e. vaults, of storage members, each vault containing approximately 100 individual cartridges, which each contain packages of unit-of-use doses of a given medication or other medical supply, such as syringes. Each storage member includes an ejector which ejects selected medications/supplies to a supply trough. The packages in the trough are moved to a central collator, which dispenses them to a bin receptacle which has been moved underneath the collator and which is typically identified with a particular patient. Information concerning medications/supplies for a particular patient is stored in a system database and used to determine the particular medications/supplies dispensed into a given bin. Bar coding is used to maintain control over the bins, and the medications, forming a closed information/control system.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1998Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: NextRx CorporationInventors: Arnold C. Ahlin, John R. Wilson, Ronald H. Wilson, Michael F. Smith
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Patent number: 6170929Abstract: An automated medication-dispensing cart includes a closed cart housing and a plurality of medication-containing bins which extend for substantially the length of the cart and which are supported within the cart housing. The support structure includes two spaced sets of sprockets positioned at both ends of the cart and endless chains which extend around the sprockets, with one of the sprockets being motor-driven. The bins are connected at opposing ends thereof to the spaced chains. The movement of the bins is controlled such that the bins can be stopped at a preselected position within the cart, in the vicinity of the top front edge of the cart. A plurality of doors is located in the top of the cart, such that when one or more of the doors is opened, a preselected portion of the bin in the preselected position and the medications therein are exposed.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 1998Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Inventors: Ronald H. Wilson, Michael A. Stoy
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Patent number: 5559392Abstract: A first portion of a spiral wire support for an amalgam is securely fitted into an exhaust tube formed in a re-entrant cavity of an electrodeless fluorescent lamp before attachment and sealing of the re-entrant cavity to the bulb of the lamp. A second portion of the spiral wire support extends into the bulb and holds an amalgam in thermal contact with the apex of the bulb. The second portion has a larger diameter than the first portion to ensure against movement of the spiral wire support into the exhaust tube. The end of the second portion of the spiral wire support is wetted with an alloy capable of forming an amalgam with mercury prior to insertion of the wire support into the exhaust tube. Mercury is added to the bulb after final evacuation of the bulb in preparation for dosing the lamp with its fill. As a result, an amalgam is formed and maintained in thermal contact with the apex of the bulb, regardless of lamp orientation.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1994Date of Patent: September 24, 1996Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: John P. Cocoma, Joseph C. Boroweic, Ronald H. Wilson
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Patent number: 5500567Abstract: A glass rod extending through and sealed to the exhaust tube of an electrodeless SEF fluorescent discharge lamp has a metal support member at one end thereof for supporting an amalgam at or near the apex of the lamp envelope. The metal support member may comprise a spiral-shaped wire, a wire screen, or a wire basket. Preferably, the amalgam is maintained in contact with the apex of the lamp envelope. If desired, the metal support member may comprise a magnetic material to allow for magnetic transport of the amalgam assembly during lamp processing. The metal support member restricts spreading of the amalgam when in a liquid state; and the glass rod provides rigid support for the amalgam independent of lamp orientation.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1994Date of Patent: March 19, 1996Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ronald H. Wilson, Douglas A. Doughty, John P. Cocoma
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Patent number: 5389853Abstract: The invention refers to a filament having improved emission of visible light. The emissivity of a tungsten filament is improved by depositing a layer of submicron-to-micron crystallites on the filament, the layer having substantially submicron spacing between crystallites. The crystallites being formed from tungsten or a tungsten alloy of up to 1 weight percent thorium, up to 10 weight percent of at least one of rhenium, tantalum, or niobium, and the balance substantially tungsten.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1992Date of Patent: February 14, 1995Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Laurence Bigio, Joseph M. Ranish, Clyde L. Briant, Ronald H. Wilson, John F. Ackerman
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Patent number: 5382758Abstract: A process for making metallized vias in diamond substrates is disclosed. The process involves laser-drilling a plurality of holes in a CVD diamond substrate and depositing tungsten, or a similar refractory metal, in the holes by low pressure CVD to provide substantially void-free metallized vias. Diamond substrates having metallized vias are also disclosed. The structures are useful for making multichip modules for high clock rate computers.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1994Date of Patent: January 17, 1995Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Charles D. Iacovangelo, Elihu C. Jerabek, Ronald H. Wilson, Peter C. Schaefer
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Patent number: 5328715Abstract: A process for making metallized vias in diamond substrates is disclosed. The process involves laser-drilling a plurality of holes in a CVD diamond substrate and depositing tungsten, or a similar refractory metal, in the holes by low pressure CVD to provide substantially void-free metallized vias. Diamond substrates having metallized vias are also disclosed. The structures are useful for making multichip modules for high clock rate computers.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 1993Date of Patent: July 12, 1994Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Charles D. Iacovangelo, Elihu C. Jerabek, Ronald H. Wilson, Peter C. Schaefer
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Patent number: 5032762Abstract: A protective beryllium oxide coating of suitable thickness is applied to the inner surface of the arc tube of a high-intensity, metal halide discharge lamp in order to avoid a substantial loss of the metallic portion of the metal halide fill and hence a substantial buildup of free halogen, thereby extending the useful life of the lamp. A preferred lamp structure includes a fused silica arc tube. The beryllium oxide coating is preferably applied to the arc tube by evaporating beryllium in the arc tube under non-oxidizing conditions, and then heating in an oxidizing atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1990Date of Patent: July 16, 1991Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Henry S. Spacil, Ronald H. Wilson
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Patent number: 4933742Abstract: A contact metal such as tungsten, platinum silicide or palladium silicide is selectively deposited or formed on the semiconductor substrate portion of an integrated circuit chip. The metallization pattern for the circuit makes contact with the contact metal at the bottom of a contact opening or via, rather than contacting the substrate directly. Thus, the interconnection metal makes contact to the semiconductor surface through an intermediate contact metal so as to provide decreased contact resistance. This permits narrower interconnect metallization patterns so as to facilitate the construction of denser integrated circuits. In the present invention, therefore, metal framing of the contact hole is not employed.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1988Date of Patent: June 12, 1990Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Dale M. Brown, Bernard Gorowitz, Ronald H. Wilson
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Patent number: 4849377Abstract: Molybdenum gate electrode material is provided with an upper layer of molybdenum nitride which acts to prevent deposition of source and drain contact metal by selective chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The nitride layer also provides an improved mask for ion implantation process steps. This results in an FET structure exhibiting a high degree of planarity which is desirable for multilevel device fabrication.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1986Date of Patent: July 18, 1989Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Manjin J. Kim, Bruce F. Griffing, Ronald H. Wilson, Arlene G. Williams, Robert W. Stoll
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Patent number: 4741928Abstract: A method and heating apparatus are provided for selectively depositing metal films, such as tungsten, on the metal and semi-conductor surfaces of a silicon wafer by chemical vapor deposition. The method and heating apparatus serve to isolate the depositing surface of silicon wafers from both infrared radiation and the nucleating species which are vaporized by hot surfaces within the reaction chamber by means of a barrier which reflects or absorbs infrared radiation and condenses vaporized nucleating species before a nucleate metal deposition sites on metal or semiconductor surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1987Date of Patent: May 3, 1988Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ronald H. Wilson, Robert W. Stoll, Herbert R. Philipp
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Patent number: 4653428Abstract: An apparatus is provided for selectively depositing metal films on metal and semiconductive surfaces of a substrate wherein the depositing surface of the substrate is isolated from undesired impinging radiation, such as infrared radiation.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 1985Date of Patent: March 31, 1987Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ronald H. Wilson, Robert W. Stoll, Michael A. Calacone
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Patent number: 4584207Abstract: Adherent deposits of tungsten are formed on receiving surfaces by preparing the receiving surface and thereafter forming a thin deposit of polycrystalline silicon on the surface. The surface and the deposited polycrystalline silicon is then exposed to a hydrogen containing tungsten fluoride gas at a suitable temperature to induce the adherent growth of tungsten film on the surface by reaction of the silicon with the tungsten fluoride gas. It is possible to form the polycrystalline silicon in a pattern on the surface and to form the tungsten deposit in the pattern in which the polycrystalline silicon had been deposited.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1984Date of Patent: April 22, 1986Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Ronald H. Wilson
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Patent number: 4552783Abstract: A method is provided for selectively depositing tungsten metal at thicknesses over 1000 angstroms or more on silicon and other conductor and semiconductor surfaces, wherein a substrate containing such surfaces is exposed to a chlorine or bromine containing solution to prevent deposition of tungsten on the insulator surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1984Date of Patent: November 12, 1985Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert W. Stoll, Michael R. MacLaury, Ronald H. Wilson