Patents by Inventor Sean O'Connor

Sean O'Connor 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).

  • Integrated fiber cement and foam as insulated cladding with enhancements
    Patent number: 9650791
    Abstract: An integrated fiber cement and foam cladding system is provided that incorporates foam or similar light weight material to improve the insulation capacity of the cladding system. The system includes at least a fiber cement layer and a foam layer disposed on the backside of the fiber cement layer. The system improves the R-value of the building, a measure of the building's resistance to transferring heat or thermal energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: James Hardie Technology Limited
    Inventors: Dawn Cole, George Elizarraras, Hui Li, Kevin O'Leary, Sean O'Leary
  • Sample encapsulation system and method
    Patent number: 9645058
    Abstract: A sample encapsulation system includes a base, a chamber having an inlet and a chamber housing in which the chamber is housed. The chamber is fixedly mounted at least in part within the housing and the housing is movably mounted to the base. The system includes a cap, a first ram operably mounted to the cap for engaging the chamber inlet and a second ram positioned in the chamber opposite the inlet. The second ram is movable toward and away from the first ram. The chamber and housing are movable toward the cap for engaging the first ram with the chamber inlet during an encapsulation cycle and away from the cap, disengaging the first ram from the chamber inlet following an encapsulation cycle. The system includes heating and cooling assemblies and a temperature sensor located remotely from the chamber interior to automatically isolate cooling water to the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence L. Freson, Kurt G. Adair, Charles E. Shewey, Douglas A. Ceckowski, Sean O'Flaherty, Anatoly Gosis, Yury Shkolnikov, Michael F. Hart, Daniel P. Schmidt
  • DPF Cleaning Process Using a Temporary Plug
    Publication number: 20170122157
    Abstract: A method of removing or reducing the particulate buildup within the diesel particulate filter of an aftertreatment system includes the selective application of a blocking agent to a filter medium of the diesel particulate filter, displacement of the particulate from the filter medium using a fluid stream, and subsequent removal of the blocking agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Sean O. Cornell
  • Containment gate for inline temperature control melting
    Patent number: 9630246
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus comprising at least one gate and a vessel, the gate being configured to move between a first position to restrict entry into an ejection path of the vessel and contain a material in a meltable form within the vessel during melting of the material, and a second position to allow movement of the material in a molten form through the ejection path. The gate can move linearly or rotate between its first and second positions, for example. The apparatus is configured to melt the material and the at least one gate is configured to allow the apparatus to be maintained under vacuum during the melting of the material. Melting can be performed using an induction source. The apparatus may also include a mold configured to receive molten material and for molding a molded part, such as a bulk amorphous alloy part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC
    Inventors: Quoc Tran Pham, Michael Deming, Theodore A. Waniuk, Sean O'Keeffe
  • System and method for providing data storage redundancy for a protected network
    Patent number: 9628510
    Abstract: A system and method for providing redundancy with remote scrubbing center devices. The system includes an edge detection device and a plurality of scrubbing center devices in a telecommunications network for providing redundant scrubbing center functionality for the edge detection device. The edge detection device maintains a network connection with more than one of the plurality of scrubbing center devices whereby each of the more than one of the plurality of scrubbing center devices sends and receives a synchronization signal with each of the one or more edge detection devices as if it was the only remote scrubbing center device coupled to the edge detection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Arbor Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Sean O'Hara
  • Headrest for head and neck
    Patent number: 9615682
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure are related to a supportive apparatus for the head and neck. Embodiments of the invention incorporate a C-shaped apparatus shaped to support the posterior region of the neck. A center region found in certain embodiments of the C-shaped apparatus is placed on the posterior of a neck. Lateral supports found in certain embodiments of the C-shaped apparatus are placed on the lateral aspect of a neck. Embodiments of the invention include an opening across a center region functioning to support the apparatus, and to further act as to ventilate a user's nape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: BullRest LLC
    Inventors: Glenn Maddocks, Sean O'Meara
  • Reagent bottle with aspiration pipe
    Patent number: 9610583
    Abstract: An embodiment of a reagent container includes a bottle with a pipe to reduce the effects of reagent sloshing. The bottle has an elongated base and an opposed cover connected by side walls and an end wall. A flat platform surrounded by a raised rim lies in the base opposite an opening in the cover. A ribbed pipe frictionally fits within the bottle opening and may attach to the anchor region leaving vent passages around the pipe. The pipe includes an aperture adjacent to the anchor region and oriented toward the end wall so that sloshed fluid has only a small effect on the level of reagent in the pipe during transfers. A modified blow molding process produces the anchor region by extending a pin a predetermined distance into a mold while the molded material is still plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignees: Beckman Coulter, Inc., DTIL Ireland Holdings Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Onishi, Masato Kayahara, Hiroshi Suzuki, Ryusuke Furuya, Naoki Mukaiyama, Michael Cooney, Marcus O'Neill, Sean O'Mahony
  • Framework to support a hybrid of meshed endpoints with non-meshed endpoints
    Patent number: 9602772
    Abstract: A videoconferencing system includes a hybrid MCU configured to act as a hybrid mesh participant in a videoconference. The hybrid MCU may include a processing module to mix videoconference media data received by the hybrid MCU in data streams transmitted from mesh and non-mesh endpoints. The hybrid MCU may further include a forking module to fork combined video/audio data streams received by the hybrid MCU to provide separate video and audio data streams to each mesh endpoint. The hybrid MCU may be configured to provide a mixed video/audio data steam to each non-mesh endpoint of the videoconference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: CafeX Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Glass, Kris Hopkins, John Holvey, Sean O'Loughlin
  • Disc Brake Arrangement
    Publication number: 20170066426
    Abstract: A vehicle braking arrangement includes an axle member, a brake torque plate having a first portion fixedly coupled to the axle member, and a second portion laterally offset from the first portion, and a brake caliper member coupled to the second portion of the brake torque plate such that the first portion of the brake torque plate is spaced from the brake caliper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: SAF-HOLLAND, Inc.
    Inventors: John Bowyer, Edward Hammer, Sean O'Brien
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD TO INCREASE THROUGHPUT OF A TRANSMITTER
    Publication number: 20170063508
    Abstract: Described is an apparatus which comprises: a transmitter; an input-output (I/O) interface coupled to the transmitter; and logic to split data for transmission into a plurality of packets, wherein each packet is stored in a buffer and then transmitted via the I/O interface to a receiver, wherein the logic can vary a number of packets sent prior to the transmitter receiving an Acknowledgement (ACK) signal, and wherein the logic can vary a packet length of the number of packets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Sean O. Stalley
  • Method of ejecting ink droplets having variable droplet volumes
    Patent number: 9579889
    Abstract: A method of ejecting an ink droplet from an inkjet nozzle device having an actuator and a meniscus pinned across a nozzle opening. The method includes the steps of: delivering a sub-ejection pulse to the actuator for perturbing the meniscus from a quiescent state; and subsequently delivering an ejection pulse to the actuator at an instant when the meniscus is perturbed from its quiescent state, the ejection pulse ejecting the ink droplet from the nozzle opening. A time period between a trailing edge of the sub-ejection pulse and a leading edge of the ejection pulse controls a droplet volume of the ejected ink droplet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Memjet Technology Limited
    Inventors: Vincent Patrick Lawlor, Gregory John McAvoy, Ronan Padraig Sean O'Reilly, Emma Rose Kerr, Misty Bagnat
  • HYDROXAMIC ACIDS AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20170036996
    Abstract: Compounds of formula I are provided: R1 is an alkoxy or O(CH2)pX, p is an integer from 2 to 3 and X is OH, NH2, or CO2H, m is an integer from 0 to 5, n is an integer from 0 to 5, each R2 is independently selected from hydrogen, alkenyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxymethyl, heterocyclyl, hetereocyclylmethyl, amino, amido, hydroxamido, any of which may be optionally substituted with one or more of acyl, alkyl, alkoxy, hydroxyalkyl, or halogen, each R3 is independently selected from hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkenyl, carboxy, hydroxymethyl, amido, and at least one of R2 and R3 is not hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Alan Thomas Johnson, Seong Jin Kim, Sean O'Malley, Henry Lee Jackson
  • Flexible bag material
    Patent number: 9550608
    Abstract: A flexible bag material made of plastic material for the packaging of dry food products such as cereals wherein the plastic material is a multilayer film. The multilayer film comprises at least one high moisture barrier layer made of HDPE, a moderate oxygen barrier layer made of a blend of amorphous polyethylene terephthalate (PETG) and PE having a oxygen permeability of 400 cm3/m2/day or higher when measured at 23° C. and 0% relative humidity, and a peelable sealing layer. The flexible bag material is especially suitable for manufacturing an inner bag of a bag-in-box package having an outer rigid box made of cardboard, in particular recycled cardboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: AMCOR FLEXIBLES DREUZLINGEN LTD.
    Inventor: Sean O'Connor
  • Inkjet nozzle device with roof actuator connected to lateral drive circuitry
    Patent number: 9550359
    Abstract: An inkjet printhead integrated circuit includes: a substrate having a silicon layer; a nozzle plate disposed on the silicon layer; and embedded inkjet nozzle devices. Each inkjet nozzle device includes a nozzle chamber having a roof actuator; drive circuitry laterally disposed relative to the nozzle chamber; a connection arm extending parallel with the nozzle plate from the actuator towards the drive circuitry; and a metal via interconnecting each connection arm and the drive circuitry, the metal via extending perpendicularly to the nozzle plate. The drive circuitry is positioned proximal the nozzle plate relative to a plane of the floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Memjet Technology Limited
    Inventors: Ronan Padraig Sean O'Reilly, Gregory John McAvoy, Emma Rose Kerr, Vincent Patrick Lawlor, Misty Bagnat, Brian Kevin Donohoe, Eimear Ryan
  • FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT A HYBRID OF MESHED ENDPOINTS WITH NON-MESHED ENDPOINTS
    Publication number: 20170019638
    Abstract: A videoconferencing system includes a hybrid MCU configured to act as a hybrid mesh participant in a videoconference. The hybrid MCU may include a processing module to mix videoconference media data received by the hybrid MCU in data streams transmitted from mesh and non-mesh endpoints. The hybrid MCU may further include a forking module to fork combined video/audio data streams received by the hybrid MCU to provide separate video and audio data streams to each mesh endpoint. The hybrid MCU may be configured to provide a mixed video/audio data steam to each non-mesh endpoint of the videoconference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: CafeX Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Glass, Kris Hopkins, John Holvey, Sean O'Loughlin
  • USE OF ERYTHRITOL OR COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING SAME AS MAMMAL-SAFE INSECTICIDES
    Publication number: 20170013832
    Abstract: The invention includes a mammal-safe method of killing or harming an insect. The method comprises administering to the insect a composition comprising erythritol ((2R,3S)-butane-1,2,3,4-tetraol).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Daniel R. MARENDA, Sean O'DONNELL
  • Estimating pitch using symmetry characteristics
    Patent number: 9548067
    Abstract: An estimate of a pitch of a signal may be computed by using correlations of frequency portions of a frequency representation of the signal. An initial pitch estimate may be obtained and frequency portions of the frequency representation may be identified using multiples of the initial pitch estimate. Correlations of the frequency portions may be computed, and a score for the initial pitch estimate may be determined using the correlations. A second pitch estimate may be determined using the first score, and the process may be repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: KNUEDGE INCORPORATED
    Inventors: David C. Bradley, Yao Huang Morin, Sean O'Connor
  • Travel pillow
    Patent number: D778086
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: GAS BRAND STARTER, LLC
    Inventors: Sean O'Meara, Glenn Maddocks
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D784552
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: Beckman Coulter, Inc., DTIL Ireland Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Onishi, Masato Kayahara, Hiroshi Suzuki, Ryusuke Furuya, Naoki Mukaiyama, Michael Cooney, Marcus O'Neill, Sean O'Mahony
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D784553
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: Beckman Coulter, Inc., DTIL Ireland Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Onishi, Masato Kayahara, Hiroshi Suzuki, Ryusuke Furuya, Naoki Mukaiyama, Michael Cooney, Marcus O'Neill, Sean O'Mahony