Patents by Inventor Steven Deane

Steven Deane 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: 20240027708
    Abstract: A first electronic device may comprise a chassis and first fins. The chassis may be configured to removably couple with a second electronic device. The first fins are configured to interleave with second fins of the second electronic device in a coupled state of the first and second electronic devices. A corrugated thermal interface device comprises folded fins. The folded fins are coupled to the first fins and are also removably couplable to the second fins in the coupled state of the first and second electronic devices. Each folded fin comprises one or more lateral walls, and the corrugated thermal interface device further comprises a plurality of spring fingers coupled to and extending at least partially in a lateral direction from the lateral walls. The spring finger contacts may be contacted and displaced by the second fins in the coupled state of the first and second electronic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Harvey John LUNSMAN, Steven DEAN
  • Publication number: 20240032249
    Abstract: A heat removal apparatus may comprise a vapor chamber device and a cover coupled to the vapor chamber device. The vapor chamber device comprises a base, a folded fin structure coupled to the base, with the base and folded fin structure defining a vapor chamber containing a wick and a working fluid. The cover and the vapor chamber device define a liquid chamber configured to receive liquid coolant. The folded fin structure comprises a plurality of folded fins defining a first plurality of grooves on a first side of the folded fin structure and defining a second plurality of grooves on a second side of the folded fin structure. The first plurality of grooves are part of the vapor chamber. The second plurality of grooves are part of the liquid chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Steven DEAN, Ernesto J. FERRER, John Paul FRANZ, Laura MALCOTTI-SANCHEZ
  • Publication number: 20240022819
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to vision systems. Enclosures that each include event scanners, beam generators, or frame cameras may be provided such that the event cameras or the frame cameras may be arranged to provide foveated resolution and such that the enclosures each may include an aperture that enables beams from the beam generators to scan a scene that may be in a field-of-view (FOV) of the aperture. Paths may be scanned across objects in the scene with the beams. Events may be determined based on detection of beam reflections corresponding to objects in the scene. The enclosures may be rotated to orient the apertures into a physical position for continued scanning of the objects within the FOV based on directions of travel for the objects such that the directions of travel for the objects is based on scanned trajectories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Publication number: 20230360268
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a sensing system that employs beams to scan paths across an object such that sensors may the beams reflected by the scanned object. Events may be provided based on the detected signals and the paths such that each event may be associated with a sensor and event metrics. Crossing points for each sensor may be determined based on where the paths intersect the scanned object such that events associated with each sensor are associated with the crossing points for each sensor. Each crossing point of each sensor may be compared to each correspondent crossing point of each other sensor. actual crossing points may be determined based on the comparison and the crossing points for each sensor. Position information for each sensor may be determined based on the actual crossing points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Schuyler Alexander Cullen, Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Patent number: 11808857
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to multi-sensor superresolution scanning and capture system. A sensing system may be employed to scan a plurality of paths across objects using beams such that the sensing system includes event sensors and image sensors and such that the image sensors are a higher resolution than the event sensors. The event sensors may be employed to provide events based on detection of the beams that are reflected by the objects. The image sensors may be employed to provide images based on the reflected the beams. Enhanced trajectories may be generated based on a plurality of first trajectories and a plurality of second trajectories such that the plurality of the first trajectories are based on the events and the plurality of paths and such that the plurality of second trajectories are based on the images and the plurality of paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Summer Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Schuyler Alexander Cullen, Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Publication number: 20230316657
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed providing auxiliary devices for augmented reality. Images or video of a scene may be captured with frame cameras included in a mobile computer. A plurality of paths may be scanned across objects in the scene with beams provided by scanning devices that may be separate from the mobile computer. A plurality of events may be determined based on detection of beam reflections corresponding to the objects such that the beam reflections may be detected the scanning devices. A plurality of trajectories may be determined based on the plurality of paths and the plurality of events such that each trajectory may be a parametric representation of a one-dimensional curve segment in a three-dimensional space. The images or video of the scene may be augmented based on the plurality of trajectories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Patent number: 11740674
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein make previously stranded power capacity (power that is provisioned for a data center according to a computing system's nameplate power consumption but is currently not useable) available to the data center. Systems described herein generate empirical power profiles that specify expected upper bounds for the power consumption levels that applications trigger. Using the upper bounds for application power-consumption levels, a computing system described herein can reliably release part of its provisioned nameplate power for other systems or data center consumers, reducing the amount of stranded power in a data center. The method described herein avoids performance penalties for most jobs by using sensor measurements made at a rapid rate explained herein to ensure that a system power cap based on running application's measured peak power consumption is reliable with reference to the power capacitance inherent in the computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Torsten Wilde, Andy Warner, Steven Dean, Steven Martin, Pat Donlin
  • Publication number: 20230262928
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to compact and replaceable accumulator to be utilized in a chassis-level cooling device. The accumulator is a low pressurized device having a housing, a bladder, and a compressible fluid. The housing has an inner surface defining a volume and an opening. The bladder is disposed within a volume portion and attached to the opening. The bladder includes a plurality of elongated wall sections foldably coupled to each other and defining a bladder volume therebetween. The bladder inflates by unfolding the plurality of elongated wall sections to increase the bladder volume in response to an increase in a pressure of a working fluid inside the bladder volume. The compressible fluid is contained in a remaining volume portion between the inner surface of the housing and the bladder. The compressible fluid is compressed to an offset pressure in response to inflation of the plurality of elongated wall sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Steven Dean, Michael Scott, Harvey J. Lunsman
  • Patent number: 11704835
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a sensing system that employs beams to scan paths across an object such that sensors may the beams reflected by the scanned object. Events may be provided based on the detected signals and the paths such that each event may be associated with a sensor and event metrics. Crossing points for each sensor may be determined based on where the paths intersect the scanned object such that events associated with each sensor are associated with the crossing points for each sensor. Each crossing point of each sensor may be compared to each correspondent crossing point of each other sensor. Actual crossing points may be determined based on the comparison and the crossing points for each sensor. Position information for each sensor may be determined based on the actual crossing points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Summer Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Schuyler Alexander Cullen, Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Publication number: 20230169683
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to the association of concurrent tracks across multiple views for sensing objects. A sensing system that employs signal beams to scan paths across an object may be provided such that two or more sensors separately detect signals reflected by the object. Events may be determined based on the detected signals such that the events include pairs of events that correspond to pairs of sensors. Essential matrices may be generated based on the positions of each pair of sensors. The pairs of events associated with the pairs of sensors may be compared based on the essential matrices of the sensors. Scores for the pairs of events may be provided based on the comparison. If a score for a pair of events may be less than a threshold value, each event in the pair of events may be associated with a same location on the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Paden, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Publication number: 20230060421
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to multi-sensor superresolution scanning and capture system. A sensing system may be employed to scan a plurality of paths across objects using beams such that the sensing system includes event sensors and image sensors and such that the image sensors are a higher resolution than the event sensors. The event sensors may be employed to provide events based on detection of the beams that are reflected by the objects. The image sensors may be employed to provide images based on the reflected the beams. Enhanced trajectories may be generated based on a plurality of first trajectories and a plurality of second trajectories such that the plurality of the first trajectories are based on the events and the plurality of paths and such that the plurality of second trajectories are based on the images and the plurality of paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Schuyler Alexander Cullen, Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Patent number: 11579668
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to a host device and a method for thermal management of a removable device, such as a pluggable electronic transceiver comprising a plurality of spring fingers that provide multipoint contact conduction cooling of the removable device. The host device includes a host circuit board having a connector, and a thermal management unit having a cooling component and the plurality of spring fingers. The cooling component is coupled to a portion of the host circuit board and includes a partially protruded portion. Each of the plurality of spring fingers includes a first end coupled to the partially protruded portion, and a second end having a dry contact surface to establish a direct thermal interface with a peripheral surface of the removable device to allow waste-heat to transfer from the removable device to the cooling component through each spring finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Harvey J. Lunsman, Steven Dean, John Franz, Brady Dulian
  • Publication number: 20230034733
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a sensing system that employs beams to scan paths across an object such that sensors may the beams reflected by the scanned object. Events may be provided based on the detected signals and the paths such that each event may be associated with a sensor and event metrics. Crossing points for each sensor may be determined based on where the paths intersect the scanned object such that events associated with each sensor are associated with the crossing points for each sensor. Each crossing point of each sensor may be compared to each correspondent crossing point of each other sensor. Actual crossing points may be determined based on the comparison and the crossing points for each sensor. Position information for each sensor may be determined based on the actual crossing points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Schuyler Alexander Cullen, Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Publication number: 20220344239
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a cooling assembly. In some examples, the cooling assembly includes a cooling component and a thermal gap pad disposed in thermal contact with the cooling component. The thermal gap pad includes thermally conductive fabric that is curved at a plurality of locations along one or both of its length or its breadth, wherein a first side of the thermal gap pad is disposed in thermal contact with the cooling component and a second side of the thermal gap pad is disposable in thermal contact with a heat generating component. Certain examples described herein also relate to an electronic circuit module having the cooling assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Harvey J. Lunsman, Ernesto Ferrer, Brady Dulian, Steven Dean
  • Publication number: 20220253118
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein make previously stranded power capacity (power that is provisioned for a data center according to a computing system's nameplate power consumption but is currently not useable) available to the data center. Systems described herein generate empirical power profiles that specify expected upper bounds for the power consumption levels that applications trigger. Using the upper bounds for application power-consumption levels, a computing system described herein can reliably release part of its provisioned nameplate power for other systems or data center consumers, reducing the amount of stranded power in a data center. The method described herein avoids performance penalties for most jobs by using sensor measurements made at a rapid rate explained herein to ensure that a system power cap based on running application's measured peak power consumption is reliable with reference to the power capacitance inherent in the computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Torsten Wilde, Andy Warner, Steven Dean, Steven Martin, Pat Donlin
  • Patent number: 11406036
    Abstract: A flexible input/output (I/O) expansion card connection and communication technique are provided. The flexible I/O expansion card is, in some examples, a mezzanine expansion card that may be a single width mezzanine expansion card, a double width expansion card, or a quad width expansion card. Multiple connectors on a mainboard provide a slot to receive plug in (insertion) of an expansion card. A slot is associated with a communication bus (e.g., Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)) established between the expansion card and an associated processor. The expansion card (or more than one expansion card) may be inserted in multiple orientations with respect to the multiple connectors. Automatic adjustment of communication on the communication bus may be implemented via one or more hardware level and/or software assisted translations to allow the mezzanine expansion card to function in a normal or a reverse (180 degrees relative to normal) orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Brian T. Purcell, Steven Dean, Harvey J. Lunsman, Jonathan Daniel Befort
  • Publication number: 20220234893
    Abstract: An activated carbon-coated carbon black material having a nitrogen BET surface area of about 850 to 1800 m2/g, a packing density of at least 0.8 g/cc as determined at a compressive force of 500 kgf/cm2 on dry carbon powder, an electrical conductivity of a least 10 S/cm at a compressive force of 500 kgf/cm2 on dry carbon powder and electrodes and batteries comprising the carbon material. Methods for preparing such carbon materials from sugar, dextrose, oils and carbon black are described. The material is comprised of carbon black particles coated with a porous activated carbon shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Dean Dietz, Jeremy Noce
  • Publication number: 20220173825
    Abstract: An optical network on chip comprises a first optical communication link and a second communication optical link. The first communication optical link comprises a plurality of first wavelength division multiplexers (WDMs) coupled to a first processor, a plurality of second WDMs coupled to a second processor, and a plurality of first optical interconnects coupled between the plurality of first WDMs and the plurality of second WDMs. The second optical communication link comprises a plurality of first serializer-deserializers (SerDes) coupled to the first processor at one end and coupled to a plurality third WDMs at the other end, a plurality of second SerDes coupled to a memory component at one end and coupled to a plurality of fourth WDMs at the other end, and a plurality of second optical interconnects coupled between the plurality of third WDMs and the plurality of fourth WDMs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: LUCA RAMINI, Jinsung YOUN, Steven DEAN, Marco FIORENTINO
  • Publication number: 20220141557
    Abstract: A photonic node includes a first circuit disposed on a first substrate and a second circuit disposed on a second substrate different from the first substrate. The first circuit is configured to route light signals originated from the photonic node to local nodes of a local group in which the photonic node is a member. The second circuit is configured to route light signals received from a node of an external group in which the photonic node is not a member, to one of the local nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: KEVIN B. LEIGH, LUCA RAMINI, MIR ASHKAN SEYEDI, STEVEN DEAN, MARCO FIORENTINO
  • Patent number: 11323787
    Abstract: A photonic node includes a first circuit disposed on a first substrate and a second circuit disposed on a second substrate different from the first substrate. The first circuit is configured to route light signals originated from the photonic node to local nodes of a local group in which the photonic node is a member. The second circuit is configured to route light signals received from a node of an external group in which the photonic node is not a member, to one of the local nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Kevin B. Leigh, Luca Ramini, Mir Ashkan Seyedi, Steven Dean, Marco Fiorentino