Patents by Inventor S. Hancock
S. Hancock 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: 20110296856Abstract: A condensing unit has a fan selectively operable to draw air through the condensing unit along an airflow path, a first row of condenser tubes disposed along the airflow path, and a second row of desuperheater tubes disposed along the airflow path downstream relative to the first row of condenser tubes. A condensing unit has an airflow path, a desuperheater heat exchanger disposed along the airflow path, and a condenser heat exchanger disposed along the airflow path. A method of desuperheating a refrigerant includes causing air having a first air temperature to encounter a condenser tube comprising refrigerant having a first refrigerant temperature, raising the temperature of the air to a second air temperature, and causing the air having the second air temperature to encounter a desuperheater tube comprising refrigerant having a second refrigerant temperature higher than the first refrigerant temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: December 8, 2011Applicant: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventor: Stephen S. Hancock
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Patent number: 8061415Abstract: A fin having a leading edge, a trailing edge opposing the leading edge, and a plurality of leading holes substantially centered along a leading axis. The fin further having a plurality of secondary holes substantially centered along a secondary axis, the secondary axis being substantially parallel to the leading axis and located between the leading axis and the trailing edge, the plurality of secondary holes being located so that the plurality of leading holes and the plurality of secondary holes form a substantially rectangular matrix. The fin further having a plurality of trailing holes substantially centered along a trailing axis, the trailing axis being substantially parallel to at least one of the leading axis and the secondary axis and located between the secondary axis and the trailing edge, each of the plurality of trailing holes being substantially equidistant from the respective two nearest secondary holes.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2009Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Trane International, Inc.Inventor: Stephen S. Hancock
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Publication number: 20110154397Abstract: The present invention is directed to a television schedule guide which includes a detector for determining whether a previously scrambled program is unscrambled. If a previously scrambled program is momentarily unscrambled due to promotional efforts by the program provider, the system will visually distinguish the program on the guide, and a viewer may tune to or record the program from the guide. The view may also subscribe to the program provider through the guide during the promotional period.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2011Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: Gemstar Development CorporationInventors: Douglas B. Macrae, Thomas E. Ward, III, Kenneth S. Hancock, Jonathan B. Orlick
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Publication number: 20110097757Abstract: Methods of identifying subjects having, or at risk of developing, diabetes, obesity, and/or hypertension are disclosed, as well as methods of identifying biomarkers for diabetes, obesity, and/or hypertension, and biomarkers identified by such methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2008Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYInventors: William S. Hancock, Marina Hincapie, M.K. Disni R. Dayarathna
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Patent number: 7921441Abstract: The present invention is directed to a television schedule guide which includes a detector for determining whether a previously scrambled program is unscrambled. If a previously scrambled program is momentarily unscrambled due to promotional efforts by the program provider, the system will visually distinguish the program on the guide, and a viewer may tune to or record the program from the guide. The view may also subscribe to the program provider through the guide during the promotional period.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2004Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Gemstar Development CorporationInventors: Douglas B Macrae, Thomas E Ward, III, Kenneth S Hancock, Jonathan B Orlick
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Publication number: 20110036551Abstract: A fin has a substantially flat base plane with a first side facing a first direction and a second side facing a second direction. The fin also has a first louver with a leading edge closer to the base plane and a trailing edge offset from the base plane in the first direction, a second louver located at least partially downstream of the first louver, with a leading edge offset from the base plane in the second direction and a trailing edge offset from the base plane in the first direction, and a third louver located at least partially downstream of the second louver, the third louver having a leading edge offset from the base plane in the second direction and a trailing edge closer to the base plane than the third louver leading edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2009Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: Trane International Inc.Inventor: Stephen S. HANCOCK
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Publication number: 20100326643Abstract: A fin having a leading edge, a trailing edge opposing the leading edge, and a plurality of leading holes substantially centered along a leading axis. The fin further having a plurality of secondary holes substantially centered along a secondary axis, the secondary axis being substantially parallel to the leading axis and located between the leading axis and the trailing edge, the plurality of secondary holes being located so that the plurality of leading holes and the plurality of secondary holes form a substantially rectangular matrix. The fin further having a plurality of trailing holes substantially centered along a trailing axis, the trailing axis being substantially parallel to at least one of the leading axis and the secondary axis and located between the secondary axis and the trailing edge, each of the plurality of trailing holes being substantially equidistant from the respective two nearest secondary holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2009Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventor: Stephen S. Hancock
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Publication number: 20100326624Abstract: An air handling unit has an enclosure, a heat exchanger disposed within the enclosure, and a heating element substantially co-located with the heat exchanger within the enclosure. An air handling unit has a cabinet with a first air opening and a second air opening. A blower is disposed within the cabinet adjacent to the first air opening and a heat exchanger is disposed within the cabinet adjacent to an air outlet of the blower unit and also adjacent to the second air opening. At least one heating element is located adjacent the heat exchanger. A method of constructing an air handling unit includes forming an air handling enclosure, mounting a blower in the air handling enclosure, mounting a heat exchanger in the air handling enclosure downstream of the blower, and mounting at least one heating element in the air handing enclosure downstream of the blower.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2009Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventor: Stephen S. HANCOCK
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Publication number: 20100212876Abstract: A heat exchanger has a first fin having a hole, a collar attached to the first fin and associated with the hole, and a bluff body carried by the first fin. The bluff body is partially directly upstream of the collar. A heat exchanger has a fin having a hole, a collar attached to the fin and associated with the hole, and a bluff body associated with the fin. A configuration of the bluff body is associated with a fin pitch separation distance of the heat exchanger. A method of increasing a heat exchange efficiency of a heat exchanger is provided that includes passing an air flow adjacent a surface of a fin, obstructing the air flow with a bluff body, reducing a thickness of a thermal boundary layer, and locating a reduced thickness portion of the thermal boundary layer adjacent to a collar associated with the fin.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2009Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventor: Stephen S. HANCOCK
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Publication number: 20100186033Abstract: The present invention is directed to a television schedule guide which includes a detector for determining whether a previously scrambled program is unscrambled. If a previously scrambled program is momentarily unscrambled due to promotional efforts by the program provider, the system will visually distinguish the program on the guide, and a viewer may tune to or record the program from the guide. The view may also subscribe to the program provider through the guide during the promotional period.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2010Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: Gemstar Development CorporationInventors: Douglas B. Macrae, Thomas Edward Ward, III, Kenneth S. Hancock, Jonathan B. Orlick
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Patent number: 7677238Abstract: A combustion furnace includes a blower housing with a centrifugal blower impeller disposed therein and plural heat exchanger tubes disposed substantially around a major portion of the periphery of the impeller. The heat exchanger tubes receive combustion gasses from plural burner nozzles and discharge combustion gasses to a plenum in communication with a motor driven inducer gas pump. The integrated blower housing and heat exchanger may be disposed in a cabinet including support structure for a fuel delivery manifold, associated burner nozzles and forming air inlet and outlet openings for air being circulated by the blower.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2008Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Trane International Inc.Inventor: Stephen S. Hancock
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Patent number: 7677237Abstract: A combustion furnace includes a blower housing with a centrifugal blower impeller disposed therein and plural heat exchanger tubes disposed substantially around a major portion of the periphery of the impeller. The heat exchanger tubes receive combustion gasses from plural burner nozzles and discharge combustion gasses to a plenum in communication with a motor driven inducer gas pump. The integrated blower housing and heat exchanger may be disposed in a cabinet including support structure for a fuel delivery manifold, associated burner nozzles and forming air inlet and outlet openings for air being circulated by the blower.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2007Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Trane International Inc.Inventor: Stephen S. Hancock
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Publication number: 20090315251Abstract: A method for feeding media items seriatim along a path of travel includes initiating a feed of a first media item along the path of travel and detecting the presence of the first media item along the path of travel. The time value is determined between initiating the feeding of the first media item and detecting the presence of the first media item. The initiating of feed of a second media item along the path of travel is controlled based on the determined time value between initiating the feeding of the first media item and detecting the presence of the first media item.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2008Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: Pitney Bowes Inc.Inventors: Mark S. HANCOCK, Arthur H. DePoi, Peter J. Zanger
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Patent number: 7591633Abstract: An air handling blower for HVAC equipment includes a blower housing adapted to accommodate centrifugal impellers of selected inside and outside diameters of the impeller blades wherein the inside diameter of the largest diameter impeller accommodated by the housing is not less than the outside diameter of the smallest diameter impeller accommodated by the housing without loss of performance. The blower housing preferably has a continuously increasing cross-sectional airflow area for air being discharged from the blower and extending from a cutoff edge to an outlet.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2005Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Trane International, Inc.Inventor: Stephen S. Hancock
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Publication number: 20090221430Abstract: The invention relates to methods for detecting and identifying potential biomarkers of high-grade cervical dysplasia in an individual human subject. The invention also relates to newly discovered biomarkers, as set forth in Tables 1-4 herein, which are associated with the dysplastic state of cervical cells. It has been discovered that a differential level of expression of any of these markers or combination of these markers correlates with a dysplastic condition in a human subject, e.g., a patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2007Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicants: CYTYC CORPORATION, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYInventors: Shiaw-Lin Wu, William S. Hancock, Barry L. Karger, James Linder, David W. Hanlon
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Publication number: 20090187420Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a user with personalized wellness and health information are described. More particularly, methods and systems are provided for creating an individual health profile display, presented on a network-based interface, based on the analysis of a user-submitted biological sample that has been compared to a knowledge database, and including information related to the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Inventors: William S. HANCOCK, Tomas REJTAR, Lakshmi Manohar AKELLA, Christina ORAZINE, Haven H. BAKER
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Publication number: 20090166224Abstract: Methods, compositions, and kits related to the use of multi-ligand affinity chromatography are described. The methods include those related to identification of glycoprotein panels for analyzing and diagnosing disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2005Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventors: Ziping Yang, William S. Hancock, Marina Hincapie
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Publication number: 20090035797Abstract: Described herein are methods and techniques to study the “degradome”. The degradome of a specific protease is the complete product of the natural substrate repertoire of that enzyme in a cell, tissue or organism. The complete set of proteases that are expressed at a particular moment or circumstance by a cell, tissue or organism produces the collective degradome. Included in the methods described herein are approaches that allow the direct identification and characterization of degradome peptides from approx. 400 to approx. 12,000 Da. The methods of the invention avoid the inherent problems of studying the peptidome by focusing on specific or unique proteolytic cleavages that occur as a result of endogenous protease activity induced by specific diseases. Once characterized, the presence of, or change in level of, specific peptides of the degradome can be used, e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2005Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventors: William S. Hancock, Haven Baker, Marina Hincapie, Xiaoyang Zheng
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Publication number: 20080280317Abstract: A combination of “bottom up” and “top down” MS analysis of posttranslational modifications in complex proteins is described. The method comprises digestion of the protein with an enzyme that forms larger peptide fragments than trypsin (>3000 D), performing HPLC with the fragments and applying a new data acquisition strategy using on-line coupling with e.g. LTQ-FTMS, a hybrid mass spectrometer that couples a linear ion trap with a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FTICR) cell. The method is applied to analysis of posttranslational modifications of protein isoforms.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2005Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYInventors: Shiaw-Lin Wu, William S. Hancock, Barry L. Karger
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Publication number: 20080257336Abstract: A combustion furnace includes a blower housing with a centrifugal blower impeller disposed therein and plural heat exchanger tubes disposed substantially around a major portion of the periphery of the impeller. The heat exchanger tubes receive combustion gasses from plural burner nozzles and discharge combustion gasses to a plenum in communication with a motor driven inducer gas pump. The integrated blower housing and heat exchanger may be disposed in a cabinet including support structure for a fuel delivery manifold, associated burner nozzles and forming air inlet and outlet openings for air being circulated by the blower.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: Trane International, Inc.Inventor: Stephen S. Hancock