Patents by Inventor Stephen O'Connor

Stephen 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).

  • Publication number: 20160159406
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a side sill formed of high strength steel and a seat cross-member formed of high strength steel. A floor pan is welded to at least one of the side sill and the seat cross-member. A flange includes a base extending from the seat cross-member and a tab extending from the base. The tab is spaced from the seat cross-member and is welded to the floor pan and the side sill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yi Qu, Michael Luchtman, Chris Stephen O'Connor, John Michael McGuckin, Randall R. Frank
  • Patent number: 9260135
    Abstract: A deflector member comprises opposing first and second walls and a plurality of sidewalls arranged adjacent to each other and between the first and second walls, the sidewalls having a cross-sectional shape between the first and second walls that is at least three-sided. The deflector member is adapted to mount to a vehicle frame. The deflector member is further adapted to extend distally from the first wall to the second wall relative to the vehicle frame, and away from a centerline of the vehicle frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Ramanjaneya Reddy Butukuri, Yi Tony Qu, Chris Stephen O'Connor, Ahteram Khan
  • Publication number: 20150353040
    Abstract: A deflector member comprises opposing first and second walls and a plurality of sidewalls arranged adjacent to each other and between the first and second walls, the sidewalls having a cross-sectional shape between the first and second walls that is at least three-sided. The deflector member is adapted to mount to a vehicle frame. The deflector member is further adapted to extend distally from the first wall to the second wall relative to the vehicle frame, and away from a centerline of the vehicle frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Ramanjaneya Reddy Butukuri, Yi Tony Qu, Chris Stephen O'Connor, Ahteram Khan
  • Patent number: 9172052
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device having a phase-separated light-emissive layer comprising: a charge transport phase comprising a charge transport material; and an emitting phase, the emitting phase comprising a plurality of discrete emissive domains dispersed in the charge transport phase, each emitting domain comprising a host material and one or more metal complexes for emitting light by phosphorescence; wherein the charge transport material has a T1 energy level lower than the T1 energy level of the metal complexes and the host material has a T1 energy level higher than the T1 energy level of the metal complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignees: CDT OXFORD LIMITED, CAMBRIDGE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Carl Towns, Andrew Bruce Holmes, Stephen O'Connor
  • Patent number: 9156718
    Abstract: A system for treating a fluid in a container. The system includes an included airlift tube and active air input into the tube. The air is supplied by a pump that is external to the tank and sized in accordance with the size of the tank. The system is arranged to promote the generation of suspended growth bacteria. The bacteria are provided by an air supply that is diffused in the tube wherein the air carries naturally occurring bacterial spores. The airlift tube includes one or more inlet ports located below an air diffuser. The tube may be located on the floor of the tank, suspended from the ceiling of the tank or arranged to float within the tank. A plurality of tubes may be used together to treat fluids in containers larger than standard septic tanks. A pH neutralizing device may form part of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Inventors: Robert F. Silva, Stephen A. O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20150095534
    Abstract: A local device, such as a field-programmable gate array, has a local state machine and a local interface component for communicating with a remote device that implements a remote state machine. The local interface component receives a new set of incoming data from the remote device and determines whether the new set is good data or bad data. If good data, then the local interface component causes the new set of data to transmitted internally for use by the local state machine. If bad data, then the local interface component does not forward the new set of data to the local state machine, which instead continues to use a previously received set of good data. Although the clock rate of the local and remote state machines may differ from the frame rate of the local interface component, their operations are nevertheless synchronized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen O'Connor, Shyam Chandra, Robert Bartel
  • Patent number: 8985671
    Abstract: A V shape bumper extension for a vehicle is provided where the V shape member has an extension member and a support member. The extension member extends linearly away from a bumper and the support member is positioned at an acute angle with respect to a crush can. The support member includes an outer edge spaced apart from the crush can and is connected to the crush can through at least one breakable attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wanjun Lei, Yi Qu, Chris Stephen O'Connor, Naeem Ahmed Ghias, Erika Kristin Low
  • Publication number: 20140263047
    Abstract: A system for treating a fluid in a container. The system includes an included airlift tube and active air input into the tube. The air is supplied by a pump that is external to the tank and sized in accordance with the size of the tank. The system is arranged to promote the generation of suspended growth bacteria. The bacteria are provided by an air supply that is diffused in the tube wherein the air carries naturally occurring bacterial spores. The airlift tube includes one or more inlet ports located below an air diffuser. The tube may be located on the floor of the tank, suspended from the ceiling of the tank or arranged to float within the tank. A plurality of tubes may be used together to treat fluids in containers larger than standard septic tanks. A pH neutralizing device may form part of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Robert F. Silva, Stephen A. O'Connor
  • Patent number: 8635317
    Abstract: An approach is provided for providing uniform content management for a user equipment. A uniform content management platform determines new content from a plurality of content of different categories. The uniform content management platform further initiates presentation of the new content via a graphical user interface that includes: a dashboard providing a layout of the new content, a content manager that is invoked upon selection of a particular one of the new content for managing a group of content of a common category, and a content editor that is invoked upon selection of one of the content in the group for editing the selected content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Samuli Ylinen, Teemu Kankaanpää, Ari-Pekka Hirvonen, Jaana Huotari, Andrew Daymond, Aki Tamminen, Aki Lehto, Kalle Ojala, Marko Lindgren, Christopher Michael Nyffeler, Nerea Armendariz, Kristian Russell Thomas Simsarian, Energy Cruse, II, Anne Sybille Pascual, Marcus Hauer, Abbe Don, Astrid Jantina Van Der Flier, Scott Yiu-Lun Tong, Adam Glazier, Jeffrey John Cunningham, Stephen O'Connor, Katrin B. Gosling
  • Patent number: 8500191
    Abstract: A frangible vehicle sub-frame joint between a sub-frame and compartment pan. The sub-frame defines a clearance area forward of a collar. In a collision event, the collar is separated into a breakaway portion and a portion that is retained by the sub-frame. The breakaway portion breaks into a clearance area defined in front of the frame joint when the sub-frame is subjected to a front end impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mohamed Ridha Baccouche, Jamel E. Belwafa, Christopher Stephen O'Connor, Thierry Guimberteau, Saeed David Barbat
  • Publication number: 20130181481
    Abstract: A frangible vehicle sub-frame joint between a sub-frame and compartment pan. The sub-frame defines a clearance area forward of a collar. In a collision event, the collar is separated into a breakaway portion and a portion that is retained by the sub-frame. The breakaway portion breaks into a clearance area defined in front of the frame joint when the sub-frame is subjected to a front end impact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Mohamed Ridha Baccouche, Jamel E. Belwafa, Christopher Stephen O'Connor, Thierry Guimberteau, Saeed David Barbat
  • Patent number: 8488651
    Abstract: A spread spectrum slip time encoding scheme encodes data values with one or more Pseudo Noise (PN) codes and generates a corresponding PN encoded data stream. Other data values are encoded into the PN encoded data stream by varying a slip time between the 10 encoded data values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Mack, Stephen O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20130178472
    Abstract: The invention relates to pyridine-pyridinone derivatives general formula (I): in which R1, R2, R3, R4, n, n?, V, W, Y, Z, Ar are as defined in the description, and to their methods of preparation and their therapeutic applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: SANOFI
    Inventors: Patrice BELLEVERGUE, Patrick GRAILHE, Gary MCCORT, Stephen O'CONNOR, Olivier DUCLOS
  • Patent number: 8431695
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel compounds of formula (I). Formula (I) in which the variable groups are as defined in the specification and claims, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and to a method of treatment using them for treatment of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Stephen O'Connor, Jacques Dumas, Wendy Lee, Julie Dixon, David Cantin, David Gunn, Jennifer Burke, Barton Phillips, Derek Lowe, Tatiana Shelekhin, Gan Wang, Xin Ma, Shihong Ying, Andrea McClure, Furahi Achebe, Mario Lobell, Frederick Ehrgott, Christiana Iwuagwu, Kyle Parcella
  • Patent number: 8415367
    Abstract: Novel compounds of structure Formula I: or an enantiomer, a diastereomer, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein n1, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are defined herein, are provided which are GPR119 G protein-coupled receptor modulators. GPR119 G protein-coupled receptor modulators are useful in treating, preventing, or slowing the progression of diseases requiring GPR119 G protein-coupled receptor modulator therapy. Thus, the disclosure also concerns compositions comprising these novel compounds and methods of treating diseases or conditions related to the activity of the GPR119 G protein-coupled receptor by using any of these novel compounds or a composition comprising any of such novel compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Dean Wacker, Stephen O'Connor, Zhenqiu Hong
  • Patent number: 8143393
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel pyrrozolotriazine compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and the use of those compounds or compositions for treating hyper-proliferative and/or angiogenesis disorders, as a sole agent or in combination with other active ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Bayer HealthCare LLC
    Inventors: Julie A. Dixon, Barton Phillips, Furahi Achebe, Harold C. E. Kluender, Jason Newcom, Kyle Parcella, Steven Magnuson, Zhenqiu Hong, Zhonghua Zhang, Zheng Liu, Uday Khire, Lei Wang, Martin Michels, Brent Chandler, Stephen O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20120065338
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device having a phase-separated light-emissive layer comprising: a charge transport phase comprising a charge transport material; and an emitting phase, the emitting phase comprising a plurality of discrete emissive domains dispersed in the charge transport phase, each emitting domain comprising a host material and one or more metal complexes for emitting light by phosphorescence; wherein the charge transport material has a T1 energy level lower than the T1 energy level of the metal complexes and the host material has a T1 energy level higher than the T1 energy level of the metal complexes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicants: CAMBRIDGE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, CDT OXFORD LIMITED
    Inventors: Carl Towns, Andrew Bruce Holmes, Stephen O'Connor
  • Patent number: 8129379
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel pyrrozolotriazine compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and the use of those compounds or compositions for treating hyper-proliferative and/or angiogenesis disorders, as a sole agent or in combination with other active ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Bayer HealthCare LLC
    Inventors: Julie A. Dixon, Barton Phillips, Furahi Achebe, Harold C. E. Kluender, Jason Newcom, Kyle Parcella, Steven Magnuson, Zhenqiu Hong, Zhonghua Zhang, Zheng Liu, Uday Khire, Lei Wang, Martin Michels, Brent Chandler, Stephen O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20110294776
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel compounds of formula (I). Formula (I) in which the variable groups are as defined in the specification and claims, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and to a method of treatment using them for treatment of cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: BAYER HEALTHCARE AG
    Inventors: Stephen O'Connor, Jacques Dumas, Wendy Lee, Julie Dixon, David Cantin, David Gunn, Jennifer Burke, Barton Phillips, Derek Lowe, Tatiana Shelekhin, Gan Wang, Xin Ma, Shihong Ying, Andrea McClure, Furahi Achebe, Mario Lobell, Frederick Ehrgott, Christiana Iwuagwu, Kyle Parcella
  • Patent number: 8063554
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device having a phase-separated light-emissive layer comprising: a charge transport phase comprising a charge transport material; and an emitting phase, the emitting phase comprising a plurality of discrete emissive domains dispersed in the charge transport phase, each emitting domain comprising a host material and one or more metal complexes for emitting light by phosphorescence; wherein the charge transport material has a T1 energy level lower than the T1 energy level of the metal complexes and the host material has a T1 energy level higher than the T1 energy level of the metal complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignees: CDT Oxford Limited, Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Bruce Holmes, Carl Towns, Stephen O'Connor