Patents by Inventor Stewart Williams

Stewart Williams 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: 20120144979
    Abstract: The free-space gesture MIDI controller technique described herein marries the technologies embodied in a free-space gesture controller with MIDI controller technology, allowing a user to control an infinite variety of electronic musical instruments through body gesture and pose. One embodiment of the free-space gesture MIDI controller technique described herein uses a human body gesture recognition capability of a free-space gesture control system and translates human gestures into musical actions. Rather than directly connecting a specific musical instrument to the free-space gesture controller, the technique generalizes its capability and instead outputs standard MIDI signals, thereby allowing the free-space gesture control system to control any MIDI-capable instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Dennis Stewart William Tansley
  • Publication number: 20110237397
    Abstract: A static cycling machine includes a support assembly and a drive assembly. A frame assembly is mounted on the support assembly. The frame assembly includes a seat tube assembly extending from the drive assembly, the seat tube assembly being adjustable in length. A down tube assembly extends from the drive assembly, the down tube assembly being adjustable in length. A handlebar assembly is mounted on the down tube assembly. A fork assembly is connected to the handlebar assembly and is adjustable in length. The seat tube, down tube, handlebar and fork assemblies are connected to each other such that at least the dimensions of the frame assembly can be adjusted by adjusting the lengths of the tube assemblies. A driven wheel assembly is operatively connected to the drive assembly so that work applied to the drive assembly can be transmitted to the wheel assembly. Actuators are operatively engaged with the frame assembly to adjust dimensions of the frame assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Peter Mabey, Stewart Williams
  • Patent number: 7484928
    Abstract: A trailing edge coupon for the trailing edge of a airfoil of a turbine nozzle segment is welded to an airfoil section of the nozzle segment having a damaged trailing edge portion removed. The coupon includes film cooling holes spaced one from the other along a pressure side wall portion of the coupon and a plurality of radially spaced openings along the trailing edge. By welding the pressure and suction side edges of the coupon to the pressure and side edges of the remaining portion of the airfoil, the operating life of the nozzle is extended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Brian Peter Arness, Graham David Sherlock, Joseph Leonard Moroso, Stewart William Beitz, Graydon Wayne Peters
  • Patent number: 7402665
    Abstract: Poly(ADP)-ribose polymerase (PARP) becomes activated at sites of DNA damage and is thought to promote repair by modifying local chromatin proteins and transcription factors. Disclosed is an isoform of PARP, PARP-e, which lacks enzymatic function and which is encoded by a gene having a novel structure. Also disclosed are methods of modulating chromatin structure resulting in modulation of gene activation, gene repression and chromatin condensation and decondensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Carnegie Institution of Washington
    Inventors: Allan C. Spradling, Dianne Stewart Williams, Alexei V. Tulin
  • Patent number: 7125457
    Abstract: A method for removing an oxide material from a crack in a substrate, the method includes: applying a slurry paste comprising a fluoride salt to the crack; heating the slurry paste and the crack to at least a melting point of the fluoride salt to form a reaction product; and removing the reaction product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Lawrence Bernard Kool, Ann Melinda Ritter, Laurent Cretegny, Mark Dean Pezzutti, Stewart William Beitz
  • Patent number: 6955213
    Abstract: An exhaust gas heat exchanger comprising an external shell (20) extending between two tube plates (30, 31) and defining a coolant chamber; internal tubes (38) forming exhaust gas passages which extend between the tube plates (30, 31); an exhaust gas manifold divided by a baffle plate (29) into first and second chambers (26, 28) with an exhaust gas inlet (25) and outlet (27) respectively. The baffle plate (29) is provided with a valve (51) which can be operated between an open position, which exhaust gas flows along the cooling tubes (38), and a closed position, in which exhaust gas is diverted directly from the first chamber (26) to the second chamber (28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Thomas Graham Stonehouse, Stewart William Leedham
  • Patent number: 6807955
    Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation cooler (1) with a coolant chamber (14), a bypass tube (50) and means (70) to selectively direct exhaust gas through the coolant chamber (14) or bypass tube (50). The bypass tube (50) may be used to direct hot exhaust gases to the engine under low engine temperature/load operating conditions and during start up of the engine; the coolant chamber (14) may be used to cool very hot gases under high engine temperature/load conditions and direct the cooled gas to the engine. The bypass tube (50) is integrally formed with the coolant chamber, reducing space required for the cooler and making for easier installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.
    Inventors: Stewart William Leedham, Matthew Thomas Graham Stonehouse
  • Patent number: 6792691
    Abstract: A gage assembly for measuring a distance d from an end edge of a blade segment to a center location of a groove formed in the segment comprising a gage body having at least two reference surfaces adapted to engage edges of the segment; a dial indicator gage having a dial and a stem, the stem passing through a portion of the gage body; and a slide gage adapted for insertion into the groove, the slide gage fitted with an element that, in use, aligns with the stem of the dial indicator gage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Shawn Gregory Genal, James Philip Stanley, Lynn Charles Gagne, Stewart William Beitz
  • Publication number: 20040127444
    Abstract: Poly(ADP)-ribose polymerase (PARP) becomes activated at sites of DNA damage and is thought to promote repair by modifying local chromatin proteins and transcription factors. Disclosed is an isoform of PARP, PARP-e, which lacks enzymatic function and which is encoded by a gene having a novel structure. Also disclosed are methods of modulating chromatin structure resulting in modulation of gene activation, gene repression and chromatin condensation and decondensation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Allan C. Spradling, Dianne Stewart Williams, Alexei V. Tulin
  • Publication number: 20040088876
    Abstract: A gage assembly for measuring a distance d from an end edge of a blade segment to a center location of a groove formed in the segment comprising a gage body having at least two reference surfaces adapted to engage edges of the segment; a dial indicator gage having a dial and a stem, the stem passing through a portion of the gage body; and a slide gage adapted for insertion into the groove, the slide gage fitted with an element that, in use, aligns with the stem of the dial indicator gage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Shawn Gregory Genal, James Philip Stanley, Lynn Charles Gagne, Stewart William Beitz
  • Publication number: 20030150434
    Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation cooler (1) with a coolant chamber (14), a bypass tube (50) and means (70) to selectively direct exhaust gas through the coolant chamber (14) or bypass tube (50). The bypass tube (50) may be used to direct hot exhaust gases to the engine under low engine temperature/load operating conditions and during start up of the engine; the coolant chamber (14) may be used to cool very hot gases under high engine temperature/load conditions and direct the cooled gas to the engine. The bypass tube (50) is integrally formed with the coolant chamber, reducing space required for the cooler and making for easier installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Stewart William Leedham, Matthew Thomas Graham Stonehouse
  • Publication number: 20030111211
    Abstract: An exhaust gas heat exchanger comprising an external shell (20) extending between two tube plates (30, 31) and defining a coolant chamber; internal tubes (38) forming exhaust gas passages which extend between the tube plates (30, 31); an exhaust gas manifold divided by a baffle plate (29) into first and second chambers (26, 28) with an exhaust gas inlet (25) and outlet (27) respectively. The baffle plate (29) is provided with a valve (51) which can be operated between an open position, in which exhaust gas flows along the cooling tubes (38), and a closed position, in which exhaust gas is diverted directly from the first chamber (26) to the second chamber (28).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: Matthew Thomas Graham Stonehouse, Stewart William Leedham
  • Patent number: 6438110
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for scheduling reservations across a communications networks receives a plurality of connection requests specifying a time for the connection, and attempts to find a route for the connection. If an available route is found, the connection is reserved in advance. Unscheduled connection requests are stored in the list, which is generated as a display view at a graphical user interface. Similarly, reserved connections are stored in another list which forms a basis for a display view of reserved connections. The list of reserved connections is used by a network controller to implement the reserved connections at the appropriate times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Suman Rai, Dennis Stewart William Tansley
  • Patent number: 6308174
    Abstract: A method of managing a communications network is described which makes use of information about the current state of the network and in addition, information about past and/or future states of the network. Information about the current state of the network is stored in a management information base (MIB) and the information about the past/future states is either stored in this MIB, or separate past/future MIBs are created. The information about the past/future states is stored in a way such that it can be operated on in the same way as the information about the current state of the network. By storing the information in this way management of the network is improved. For example, future states of the network can be tested before being implemented. Also, information about past states can be used to predict future states. Fault management, configuration management, accounting management and performance management can all be improved by using the information about past/future states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Clive Colin Hayball, Gillian Barbara Kendon, Dennis Stewart William Tansley, Andrew Tunnicliffe, John Ian Turner, David Stephen Riches, John Gavin L'Estrerange Shurmer
  • Patent number: 6050329
    Abstract: A liquid-filled cooling fin generally includes two roughly rectangular opposing fin walls separated by a relatively thin liquid space or chamber. In this invention the fin walls have reinforcing ripples to increase fin wall rigidity and resistance to deformation. The opposing walls are sealed at both ends along the depth of the fin and at one of the two edges along the height of the fin. The second, open edge of the fin is attached along the height of the fin in a liquid tight seal to a tank in which a transformer or other heat generating device to be cooled is submerged in a cooling fluid. The tank is provided with holes or other fluid passages so that cooling fluid can circulate between the tank and the fin. Cooling fluid is heated in the tank by the transformer and flows from the tank to the cooling fins, where it is then cooled by transferring heat through the fin walls to ambient air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: McGraw Edison Company
    Inventors: Stewart William Durian, Stephen Durian
  • Patent number: 3994725
    Abstract: In an electrostatic copying apparatus, background toner particle removal is enhanced by employing a corona emission device between a development station and a background toner removal station. The corona emissions are such as to substantially reduce the background residual potential on a photoconductor and ensure that all background particles on the photoconductor are of a polarity opposite to the polarity of the charge on the latent image whereby toner particles may be more easily removed from the photoconductor surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1976
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Stewart William Volkers
  • Patent number: D432639
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: McGraw Edison Company
    Inventors: Stewart William Durian, Stephen Durian