Patents by Inventor Ronald Owens
Ronald Owens 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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Publication number: 20240139982Abstract: A razor blade including: a substrate having a tip portion including a tip region, a blade body including a base, and first and second outer sides disposed opposite a split line of the substrate, in which the first and second outer sides converge at a tip, the first outer side comprises a first coating disposed substantially thereon and extending from the tip region toward the base, and a first portion of the second outer side is substantially free of any coating, the first portion extending from the tip region toward the base or being spaced apart from the tip region and the base. Also provided is a method of coating the razor blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Kenneth James Skrobis, William Owen Jolley, John Lawrence Maziarz, Bin Shen, Ronald Richard Duff, JR., Joe David Lussier, Oliver Heinz Claus, Joseph Allan DePuydt
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Patent number: 11939864Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for controlling a hydraulic fracturing job.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: William Owen Alexander Ruhle, Ronald Glen Dusterhoft, Ajish Potty, Joshua Lane Camp
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Patent number: 11149768Abstract: A fastener assembly is configured to securely couple to a component. The fastener assembly includes a compression-limiting bushing, a fastener coupled to the bushing, and a grommet coupled to the bushing. A clearance gap is defined between one or both of the bushing or the fastener and the grommet. At least a portion of the grommet is configured to move into the clearance gap as the fastener assembly is urged into an opening of the component. The grommet is configured to securely couple to the component.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Chad M. Clark, Ronald Owens, Michael Fullerton
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Publication number: 20190242418Abstract: A fastener assembly is configured to securely couple to a component. The fastener assembly includes a compression-limiting bushing, a fastener coupled to the bushing, and a grommet coupled to the bushing. A clearance gap is defined between one or both of the bushing or the fastener and the grommet. At least a portion of the grommet is configured to move into the clearance gap as the fastener assembly is urged into an opening of the component. The grommet is configured to securely couple to the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2017Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Chad M. Clark, Ronald Owens, Michael Fullerton
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Patent number: 10151440Abstract: A lamp assembly operable to project light in a forward direction along an optical axis includes at least one light emitting device, a first light collector and a second light collector. The at least one light emitting device includes a light emitting surface. The first light collector is disposed on a first side of the light emitting device and defines a first axis. The first light collector is symmetrically disposed about the first axis. The second light collector is disposed on a second side of the light emitting device opposite the first side and defines a second axis. The second axis is substantially aligned with the first axis. The second light collector is symmetrically disposed about the second axis. The first and second axes are tangential to the light emitting surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Magna International Inc.Inventor: Ronald Owen Woodward
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Publication number: 20160334073Abstract: A lamp assembly operable to project light in a forward direction along an optical axis includes at least one light emitting device, a first light collector and a second light collector. The at least one light emitting device includes a light emitting surface. The first light collector is disposed on a first side of the light emitting device and defines a first axis. The first light collector is symmetrically disposed about the first axis. The second light collector is disposed on a second side of the light emitting device opposite the first side and defines a second axis. The second axis is substantially aligned with the first axis. The second light collector is symmetrically disposed about the second axis. The first and second axes are tangential to the light emitting surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2015Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventor: Ronald Owen WOODWARD
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Patent number: 9085943Abstract: A pipe handling system reduces the amount of physical effort required for an operator to transfer steel rotary drilling pipe sections from a storage location to and from a rotary drive unit. The system utilizes an indexing arm which removes or adds the pipe sections from the storage location, placing them in the correct position to be attached to or removed from the rotary drive unit. The index arm, unlike other systems, can remove individual pipe sections to and from the storage location directly to the rotary drive unit's centerline of drilling position. This reduces both the number of physical moves required to complete the task and the amount of weight being transferred. The indexing arm is able to lift a pipe section from the storage location and place it below the rotary drive unit's centerline, then lower away from it without additional movement of the rotary drive unit itself.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2012Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Inventor: George Ronald Owens
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Patent number: 8851721Abstract: The optics system is a lamp assembly which produces the desired beam pattern by using a reflector, a lens, a retainer lens, and an LED as a light source. The lamp assembly has three main components (the reflector, the lens, and the retainer lens) that maintain proper alignment between the light source and the reflector, the lens, and the retainer lens. The optical system collects substantially 100% of the light from the light source while effectively shaping the beam pattern using both cylindrical and revolved reflector elements. The lens has a saddle-shape which is used with the surface of a revolution to eliminate any “dogbone” light pattern shape. The use of a reflective element forms the foreground of the beam pattern.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Magna International, Inc.Inventor: Ronald Owen Woodward
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Publication number: 20140186143Abstract: A pipe handling system reduces the amount of physical effort required for an operator to transfer steel rotary drilling pipe sections from a storage location to and from a rotary drive unit. The system utilizes an indexing arm which removes or adds the pipe sections from the storage location, placing them in the correct position to be attached to or removed from the rotary drive unit. The index arm, unlike other systems, can remove individual pipe sections to and from the storage location directly to the rotary drive unit's centerline of drilling position. This reduces both the number of physical moves required to complete the task and the amount of weight being transferred. The indexing arm is able to lift a pipe section from the storage location and place it below the rotary drive unit's centerline, then lower away from it without additional movement of the rotary drive unit itself.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Inventor: George Ronald Owens
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Publication number: 20130120988Abstract: The optics system is a lamp assembly which produces the desired beam pattern by using a reflector, a lens, a retainer lens, and an LED as a light source. The lamp assembly has three main components (the reflector, the lens, and the retainer lens) that maintain proper alignment between the light source and the reflector, the lens, and the retainer lens. The optical system collects substantially 100% of the light from the light source while effectively shaping the beam pattern using both cylindrical and revolved reflector elements. The lens has a saddle-shape which is used with the surface of a revolution to eliminate any “dogbone” light pattern shape. The use of a reflective element forms the foreground of the beam pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: MAGNA INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventor: Ronald Owen Woodward
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Patent number: 7795634Abstract: A modular semiconductor light source assembly includes a semiconductor light source, such as a light emitting diode, which is mounted on a substrate which supplies electricity to the light source and which assists in removing waste heat therefrom. Substantially all of the light emitted by the LED is transferred to a lens by a light pipe, the cross section of the light pipe increasing from the light source to the lens and the lens having a general D-shape such that the light pattern formed by the lens is constrained in a first direction orthogonal to a second direction. The assembly can be combined with other similar assemblies or other light sources in a light fixture to produce a desired overall beam pattern such as a automobile headlamp low beam or high beam pattern.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2009Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Magna International, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Henry Wilson, Chad Dalton Lambert, Ronald Owen Woodward, Cole J. Cunnien
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Patent number: 7604383Abstract: A headlamp fixture and a control system for controlling a vehicular lighting system to produce particular lighting patterns required under different regulatory regimes is disclosed. The headlamps employ semiconductor light sources to create the desired patterns and can include at least two inclined light source elements which are alternately illuminated to produce required side illumination or can include single light source elements which can be rotated clockwise and counterclockwise to produce the required side illumination. The lighting system can employ an output from a GPS receiver to determine the country or region in which the vehicle is being driven to automatically configure the operation of lighting system components, such as the side illumination of the headlamps and/or the activation and deactivation of daytime running lights, to meet the regulatory requirements of the country or region.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2006Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Magna InternationalInventors: Chad D. Lambert, Chris Wilson, Ronald Owen Woodward
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Patent number: 7575354Abstract: An automotive lighting system employing semiconductor light sources includes LED light sources (52) which are mounted to an edge of a heat pipe (44) such that emitted light from the LED light sources travels toward a reflector (32) at the back of the housing (24) of the system, where it is reflected and/or focused forward through the lens (40) of the system. The heat pipe is thermally connected to a heat sink (35) which extends outside of the housing and which operates to remove heat from the LED light sources. The thickness of the heat pipe is significantly less than the size of the reflector, so that only a small amount of reflected light from the LED light sources is obscured.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2005Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Magna International Inc.Inventor: Ronald Owen Woodward
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Publication number: 20080247188Abstract: The present invention is a lighting arrangement having at least one light source, light at least two light pipes for receiving light from the light source, and a lens having two or more sections. The lens is configured to receive light from at least one of the at least two light pipes, wherein each one of the sections projects light in a desired isomeric beam pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2007Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: Magna International Inc.Inventor: Ronald Owen Woodward
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Publication number: 20080205074Abstract: A light engine (20) to provide light from a plurality of semiconductor light sources (40) in an automotive lighting system, such as a headlamp, includes a substrate (24) upon which the semiconductor light sources are mounted. The semiconductor light sources are spaced from one another on the substrate for cooling purposes. The substrate also preferably includes at least one layer (48) of heat transfer material which assists in transferring waste heat from the semiconductor light sources to a heat sink or other cooling means. The light engine (20) further includes a transfer device (28) comprising a bundle of fiber optic cables (60), one cable for each semiconductor light source (40), and each cable has a receiving end (32) which is located adjacent a respect one semiconductor light source (40) and an emitter end (36) which is located in close proximity to the emitter end of each other cable emitter end.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2006Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventor: Ronald Owen Woodward
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Publication number: 20080002420Abstract: A headlamp fixture and a control system for controlling a vehicular lighting system to produce particular lighting patterns required under different regulatory regimes is disclosed. The headlamps employ semiconductor light sources to create the desired patterns and can include at least two inclined light source elements which are alternately illuminated to produce required side illumination or can include single light source elements which can be rotated clockwise and counterclockwise to produce the required side illumination. The lighting system can employ an output from a GPS receiver to determine the country or region in which the vehicle is being driven to automatically configure the operation of lighting system components, such as the side illumination of the headlamps and/or the activation and deactivation of daytime running lights, to meet the regulatory requirements of the country or region.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2006Publication date: January 3, 2008Applicant: Magna International Inc.Inventors: Chad D. Lambert, Chris Wilson, Ronald Owen Woodward
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Patent number: 6583117Abstract: A method for joining tissue comprising aligning and abutting edges of the tissue to be joined applying a biodegradable, biological solder or an analogue thereof, across the edges and exposing the solder to an energy source under conditions which provide transfer of energy from the source to the solder to cause the solder to bond to the tissue surface adjacent the edges to provide a weld holding the edges together.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignees: The Microsearch Foundation of Australia, Macquarie Research Ltd.Inventors: Earl Ronald Owen, Rodney Ian Trickett, Antonio Lauto, Judith Margaret Dawes, James Austin Piper
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Patent number: 6488395Abstract: A vehicle headlamp includes a reflector, a source and a lens. The headlamp is configured so that light from the source reflects from the reflector and is output from the headlamp through the lens. Concave reflector sections are formed by dividing the reflector. Each reflector section has a primary focal point and primary axis. The primary focal points of the reflector sections are coincident and the primary axes of the reflector sections are angled with respect to one another.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1999Date of Patent: December 3, 2002Assignee: Federal-Mogul World Wide, Inc.Inventor: Ronald Owen Woodward
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Publication number: 20020045732Abstract: A method for joining tissue comprising aligning and abutting edges of the tissue to be joined applying a biodegradable, biological solder or an analogue thereof, across the edges and exposing the solder to an energy source under conditions which provide transfer of energy from the source to the solder to cause the solder to bond to the tissue surface adjacent the edges to provide a weld holding the edges together.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2001Publication date: April 18, 2002Inventors: Earl Ronald Owen, Rodney Ian Trickett, Antonio Lauto, Judith Margaret Dawes, James Austin Piper
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Publication number: 20020003707Abstract: A vehicle headlamp includes a reflector, a source and a lens. The headlamp is configured so that light from the source reflects from the reflector and is output from the headlamp through the lens. Concave reflector sections are formed by dividing the reflector. Each reflector section has a primary focal point and primary axis. The primary focal points of the reflector sections are coincident and the primary axes of the reflector sections are angled with respect to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 1999Publication date: January 10, 2002Inventor: RONALD OWEN WOODWARD