Patents by Inventor Stephen W. Carter

Stephen W. Carter 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: 20030011672
    Abstract: A technique for marking pixels on workpieces by routing a scanned beam to different marking stations to mark individual pixels on the workpieces. A diffractive scan lens focuses the beam. A mark is formed on a workpiece by producing the mark and curing the mark. Angular position of a scanning mirror in a raster scanner is determined by moving a beam, reflected from the scanner, across rulings on an optical element during scanning. A print head for printing spots on a surface of a workpiece has a walled, internally pressurized chamber and structure for causing an inked web to conform to a contour of the chamber wall and to be pulled along the chamber wall. A print head has a compliant-walled, internally pressurized chamber. A print head has a chamber having a low-coefficient of friction coating. Two workpieces may be marked at two marking stations by two-directional scanning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Applicant: Markem Corporation, New Hampshire corporation
    Inventors: Garry J. Emge, Stephen W. Carter, David G. Georgis, James T. McCann, Frank A. Meneghini, John S. Deeken, John J. Drake
  • Patent number: 6037968
    Abstract: A technique for marking pixels on workpieces by routing a scanned beam to different marking stations to mark individual pixels on the workpieces. A diffractive scan lens focuses the beam. A mark is formed on a workpiece by producing the mark and curing the mark. Angular position of a scanning mirror in a raster scanner is determined by moving a beam, reflected from the scanner, across rulings on an optical element during scanning. A print head for printing spots on a surface of a workpiece has a walled, internally pressurized chamber and structure for causing an inked web to conform to a contour of the chamber wall and to be pulled along the chamber wall. A print head has a compliant-walled, internally pressurized chamber. A print head has a chamber having a low-coefficient of friction coating. Two workpieces may be marked at two marking stations by two-directional scanning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Markem Corporation
    Inventors: Garry J. Emge, Stephen W. Carter, David G. Georgis, James T. McCann
  • Patent number: 4963936
    Abstract: A mounting apparatus for a developer unit adapted to develop an electrostatic latent image recorded on a photoconductive member. A support system is mounted pivotably on a frame and slidably supports the developer unit. The support system pivots from an operative position wherein the developer unit is positioned adjacent the photoconductive member to a non-operative position wherein the developer unit is inclined away from the photoconductive member. In the non-operative position, the developer unit may be slidably removed from the printing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1990
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen W. Carter
  • Patent number: 4319827
    Abstract: A method for assembling photographic processing systems of the type for advancing integral, self-processable film units to the exterior of a camera while simultaneously spreading a fluid processing composition in a uniformly thin layer between selected layers of a film unit. A number of processing rollers which comprise the system are provided with a partially textured surface by using an electric discharge machining process having predetermined conditions, and then a number of test processing systems are assembled with these rollers and other pieceparts randomly selected from lots of all other pieceparts which comprise the system. Characteristic film units are processed through the test processing systems, and the fluid layer thickness in each of these film units is afterwards measured and compared with a predetermined standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1982
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen W. Carter, Harvey S. Friedman, Irving S. Lippert