Patents by Inventor Steven A. Spear

Steven A. Spear 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: 5797624
    Abstract: An integral label/gasket for use in crimped sealing engagement with an airbag inflator. The integral label/gasket combines a flat, generally annular label, an annular, deformable outer gasket seal and an annular, deformable inner gasket seal into one component. The outer gasket seal is secured to and extends downwardly from a bottom surface of the label adjacent an outer edge of the label, and the inner gasket seal is secured to and extends downwardly from the bottom surface of the label adjacent an inner edge of the label. The label, for printing handling and operational warnings and other information thereon, has adhesive on a top surface thereof for securing the label to a baseplate of an airbag inflator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Assignee: Morton International, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory J. Lang, Brian H. Fulmer, Todd S. Parker, Harry W. Miller, II, Scott A. Jackson, Steven A. Spear, Graig S. Oba
  • Patent number: 5179314
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube non-sequential raster scanning method maintains a more uniform screen luminescence. This raster scanning method scans and stores electrical signals representing the locations of non-sequential blocks of adjacent raster lines or reordered individual raster lines from a cathode ray tube in a temporary storage apparatus. A programmable controller associated with the cathode ray tube and the temporary storage apparatus reorders the stored raster line location and selectively deflects the cathode ray beam. Analog or digital film-to-video transfer systems incorporating a cathode ray tube having non-sequential raster scanning are also described. A method of variable raster scanning for a weave correcting film-to-video transfer system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Inventors: David L. Walker, Steven A. Spears
  • Patent number: 5150957
    Abstract: A weave correction system for the transfer of film to video or video to film operable in real time is disclosed. The digital real time registration weave correction system includes: a high powered deflection system and low inductance yoke in conjunction with a cathode ray tube (CRT), and digital circuitry operable to detect the crossing of a light beam generated by the CRT over the edge of a film sprocket hole. The digital real time registration weave correction system is operable in conjunction with a standard telecine. An analog real time registration weave correction system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1992
    Inventors: David L. Walker, Steven A. Spears