Patents by Inventor Scott Stuart Smith

Scott Stuart Smith 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).

  • Patent number: 8022341
    Abstract: An improved oven is aimed at optimizing heat transfer and delivering an optimal cooking efficiency in comparison to conventional high-speed cooking ovens. The oven includes tubes that generate plume arrays of a heated gas and introduce them into a cooking chamber of the oven. The tubes may be removably located at the bottom of the cooking chamber of the oven. The tubes are dimensioned for hot air impingement to tighten impingement plume arrays, subject to the space constraints of the oven's cooking chamber. With the optimized cooking efficiency provided by the present invention, high-speed cooking technology may now be extended to ovens operating on a power supply based on a voltage less than 220 volts, preferably between 110 and 125 volts, with more productive results, so that the high-speed cooking technology may find wider applicability and a broader customer base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Appliance Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip R. McKee, Earl R. Winkelmann, Scott Stuart Smith, Lee Thomas VanLanen
  • Publication number: 20090095739
    Abstract: An improved oven is aimed at optimizing heat transfer and delivering an optimal cooking efficiency in comparison to conventional high-speed cooking ovens. The oven includes tubes that generate plume arrays of a heated gas and introduce them into a cooking chamber of the oven. The tubes may be removably located at the bottom of the cooking chamber of the oven. The tubes are dimensioned for hot air impingement to tighten impingement plume arrays, subject to the space constraints of the oven's cooking chamber. With the optimized cooking efficiency provided by the present invention, high-speed cooking technology may now be extended to ovens operating on a power supply based on a voltage less than 220 volts, preferably between 110 and 125 volts, with more productive results, so that the high-speed cooking technology may find wider applicability and a broader customer base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Philip R. McKee, Earl R. Winkelmann, Scott Stuart Smith, Lee Thomas VanLanen
  • Patent number: 6748458
    Abstract: The input/output expansion system (“I/O expansion system”) for an external or main computing unit includes a rack; at least one I/O expansion module mounted to the rack, the I/O expansion module comprising at least one I/O circuit card; a utilities control module mounted to the rack, the utilities control module being configured to receive a command from the external computer unit and generating a signal in response to the command for distribution to at least one I/O expansion module; and expansion power chassis mounted to the rack, the an expansion power chassis being electrically connected to a power source and being configured to distribute the power to the at least one I/O expansion module and the utilities control module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: J. Michael Andrewartha, Martha G. Peterson, Farrukh S. Syed, Brent A. Boudreaux, Richard A. Schumacher, Bryan Wayne Pogor, Eric C. Peterson, Lee Thomas VanLanen, Patrick Wesley Clark, Michael Jay Zalta, Scott Stuart Smith, Kirankumar Chhaganlal Patel
  • Patent number: 6675720
    Abstract: A cable management system includes an opposed pair of articulated A-frame support assemblies that are connected by a cable support platform, such as a roller. The A-frame support assemblies may be reach between an electrical system chassis and an equipment rack in a manner that permits the elevation of the cable support platform to change concomitant with extensile and de-extensile motion of the electrical system chassis relative to the equipment rack. This change in elevation manages slack in the cable to feed cable forwardly during extensile motion of the electrical system chassis and to pull cable rearwardly with de-extensile motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Martha G. Peterson, Brent A. Boudreaux, Patrick Wesley Clark, Scott Stuart Smith, Michael Jay Zalta, Lee Thomas Van Laren
  • Publication number: 20030042096
    Abstract: A cable management system includes an opposed pair of articulated A-frame support assemblies that are connected by a cable support platform, such as a roller. The A-frame support assemblies may be reach between an electrical system chassis and an equipment rack in a manner that permits the elevation of the cable support platform to change concomitant with extensile and de-extensile motion of the electrical system chassis relative to the equipment rack. This change in elevation manages slack in the cable to feed cable forwardly during extensile motion of the electrical system chassis and to pull cable rearwardly with de-extensile motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Martha G. Peterson, Brent A. Boudreaux, Patrick Wesley Clark, Scott Stuart Smith, Michael Jay Zalta, Lee Thomas Van Laren
  • Publication number: 20030046452
    Abstract: The input/output expansion system (“I/O expansion system”) for an external or main computing unit includes a rack; at least one I/O expansion module mounted to the rack, the I/O expansion module comprising at least one I/O circuit card; a utilities control module mounted to the rack, the utilities control module being configured to receive a command from the external computer unit and generating a signal in response to the command for distribution to at least one I/O expansion module; and expansion power chassis mounted to the rack, the an expansion power chassis being electrically connected to a power source and being configured to distribute the power to the at least one I/O expansion module and the utilities control module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: J. Michael Andrewartha, Martha G. Peterson, Farrukh S. Syed, Brent A. Boudreaux, Richard A. Schumacher, Bryan Wayne Pogor, Eric C. Peterson, Lee Thomas VanLanen, Patrick Wesley Clark, Michael Jay Zalta, Scott Stuart Smith, Kirankumar Chhaganlal Patel
  • Patent number: 6152777
    Abstract: Connector 10 mountable to a mother board for mating with a daughter card (80,90) at a card-receiving slot (14). Connector (10) includes at least two key-receiving sites (30a,30b) along the length of the card-receiving slot (14), and a pair of switching contacts (40) at each site that are normally in engagement with each other, completing an indicator circuit of the mother board. A key member (50) is affixable to the connector at a selected one of the key-receiving sites (30a,30b) and includes an actuator arm (58) that disengages the switching contacts (40), breaking the circuit. The key member (50) prevents insertion of a daughter card (90) that is not programmed by having a notch (82) at the corresponding location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Stuart Smith, Robert Thomas Hirsbrunner, Karen Elizabeth Benjamin
  • Patent number: 5674083
    Abstract: An electrical connector (10) having an array of contacts (14) in housing (12), and including a conductive member (50) affixed to the housing to be nonengagingly adjacent the contacts and define spark gaps (80) therebetween such as at protrusions (58) along body section (52) of the conductive member (50). Board-mounting sections (56) extend from the conductive member and be received into mounting holes (36) of a circuit element (30) to establish a chassis ground connection, thereby establishing a continuing ESD arrangement for protection of circuits and components of an electronic apparatus when connected to another apparatus at an input/output port, and even when unmated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Neil Whiteman, Jr., Scott Stuart Smith