Patents by Inventor Stuart Dodd

Stuart Dodd 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: 20080082929
    Abstract: The present inventors devised, among other things, systems, methods, and software that allow users to readily access informational resources, such as an online legal research tools, while using document-processing applications, such as word processors. One exemplary system associates a document with a task in a workflow having multiple sequential tasks. In response to the task association, the system selects a set of computerized information-retrieval services relevant to the task and configures one or more graphical users interfaces associated with the word-processing application to facilitate access to information from the information-retrieval services and incorporation of the information in the document or in metadata associated with the document. Additionally, one or more of the graphical users interfaces allows input of and subsequent access to user notes, queries, and/or case management into the metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Mark Stignani, Stuart Dodd, Ron Kaminecki, Jerold Wish, Noralyn Harlow
  • Patent number: 7024753
    Abstract: An inductor comprising a core, wherein the inductor is produced by the steps of: defining physical parameters of the core of the inductor, the physical parameters including dimensions of the air gap; defining a plurality of branches of the core; approximating the relative permeability of the core material by interpolating between first and second known values of magnetic flux density that exist in the core material when the core material is exposed to first and second values of magnetic field strength, respectively; calculating boundary currents that must flow through the inductor for each of the first and second known values of magnetic flux density to exist in each branch of the core; establishing the inductance of the inductor at each of the calculated boundary currents; and constructing the inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Minebea C. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joe Leisten, Brian Lees, Stuart Dodds
  • Patent number: 6989998
    Abstract: A method of determining the inductance required to maintain the amplitudes of harmonic current waveforms in a rectifier circuit below a predetermined level includes a rectifier circuit that has an inductor and a capacitor. The circuit draws power from a varying power source and supplies power to a load. The method includes the steps of calculating, using a resonant analysis method, an expression for the input current waveform in the rectifier circuit in terms of the inductance of the inductor when a predetermined input voltage waveform is applied to the rectifier circuit. The capacitor has a predetermined capacitance and the load drawing has a predetermined current from the rectifier circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Minebea Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joe Leisten, Brian Lees, Stuart Dodds
  • Patent number: 6855382
    Abstract: An ink-jet recording material comprising a support material and at least a lower and an upper pigment-containing layer wherein the pigment of the upper layer is present in two particle size distributions (A, B) and one particle size distribution (A) is in the range of 10 to 100 nm and the other particle size distribution (B) is in the range of 1,000 to 3,000 nm, and wherein the pigment of the upper layer is different from the pigment of the lower layer and wherein the average particle size of the pigment of the upper layer is different from the average particle size of the pigment of the lower layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Felix Schoeller jr. Foto-und Spezialpapiere GmbH & Co.KG
    Inventors: Richard Anthony Barcock, Alastair Stuart Dodds, Aidan Josph Lavery, Marguerite Claire Quinn
  • Publication number: 20040158801
    Abstract: An inductor comprising a core, wherein the inductor is produced by the steps of: defining physical parameters of the core of the inductor, the physical parameters including dimensions of the air gap; defining a plurality of branches of the core; approximating the relative permeability of the core material by interpolating between first and second known values of magnetic flux density that exist in the core material when the core material is exposed to first and second values of magnetic field strength, respectively; calculating boundary currents that must flow through the inductor for each of the first and second known values of magnetic flux density to exist in each branch of the core; establishing the inductance of the inductor at each of the calculated boundary currents; and constructing the inductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Joe Leisten, Brian Lees, Stuart Dodds
  • Publication number: 20040027840
    Abstract: A method of determining the inductance required to maintain the amplitudes of harmonic current waveforms in a rectifier circuit below a predetermined level, the rectifier circuit comprising an inductor and a capacitor, drawing power from a varying power source and supplying power to a load, the method comprising the steps of calculating, using a resonant analysis method, an expression for the input current waveform in the rectifier circuit in terms of the inductance of the inductor when a predetermined input voltage waveform is applied to the rectifier circuit, the capacitor having a predetermined capacitance and the load drawing a predetermined current from the rectifier circuit; determining the amplitudes of harmonic current waveforms constituting the calculated input current waveform in the rectifier circuit; and providing a value for the inductor in the rectifier circuit at which none of the amplitudes of the harmonic current waveforms constituting the calculated input current waveform in the rectifier ci
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Joe Leisten, Brian Lees, Stuart Dodds
  • Publication number: 20030227363
    Abstract: An inductor comprising a core, wherein the inductor is produced by the steps of: defining physical parameters of the core of the inductor, the physical parameters including dimensions of the air gap; defining a plurality of branches of the core; approximating the relative permeability of the core material by interpolating between first and second known values of magnetic flux density that exist in the core material when the core material is exposed to first and second values of magnetic field strength, respectively; calculating boundary currents that must flow through the inductor for each of the first and second known values of magnetic flux density to exist in each branch of the core; establishing the inductance of the inductor at each of the calculated boundary currents; and constructing the inductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Applicant: Minebea Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joe Leisten, Brian Lees, Stuart Dodds
  • Publication number: 20030152721
    Abstract: An ink-jet recording material comprising a support material and at least a lower and an upper pigment-containing layer wherein the pigment of the upper layer is present in two particle size distributions (A, B) and one particle size distribution (A) is in the range of 10 to 100 nm and the other particle size distribution (B) is in the range of 1,000 to 3,000 nm, and wherein the pigment of the upper layer is different from the pigment of the lower layer and wherein the average particle size of the pigment of the upper layer is different from the average particle size of the pigment of the lower layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Richard Anthony Barcock, Alastair Stuart Dodds, Aidan Joseph Lavery, Marguerite Claire Quinn
  • Patent number: D399231
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: James G. Rydelek, Stuart A. Dodd, Steven S. Chapman