Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Jones

Thomas A. Jones 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).

  • CEILING FAN MOTOR ADAPTER
    Publication number: 20170175773
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for mounting a ceiling fan motor to a structure by mounting a motor shaft to a downrod with a motor adapter. The motor shaft mounts to the motor adapter with a press-fit. The motor shaft can extend beyond the motor adapter press-fit within the motor adapter such that the extended portion of the motor shaft can be swaged to provide a mounting redundancy. The motor can be encased with a motor housing, such that the motor adapter minimally extends from the motor housing, obstructing the motor adapter from view. The downrod can insertably mount to the motor adapter with a snug fit reducing fan wobble and with a set screw inserted along a ratcheting fastener to secure loosening of the set screw. A cap is slidably disposed over the downrod to cover the portion of the motor adapter extending beyond the motor housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: EWELL MCKEE, WILLIAM WALTER WALKER, RICKEY THOMAS JONES
  • Protective Hoof Coating and Trimming Method for Prevention of Hoof Damage and Infection
    Publication number: 20170156302
    Abstract: A protective coating for an ungulate hoof comprising an abrasive-resistant, anti-microbial adhesive that is harder and more flexible than a hoof wall applied to the ground-contacting surface of a hoof and the dorsal hoof wall for the purpose of furnishing protection against hoof damage and hoof infection and adding support to a hoof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventor: David Thomas Jones
  • Asymmetric gate driver apparatus, methods, and systems
    Patent number: 9673816
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may operate to transform a first control signal to produce an isolated second control signal, to receive a pair of floating power supply voltages at opposing ends of a totem-pole series of driver metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), and to clamp an output of a driver apparatus to one of the pair of floating power supply voltages. The isolated second control signal may operate to control current flow through the driver MOSFETs. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Cong, Thomas Jones
  • Electrical connector with a jumper switch and push-in ports
    Patent number: 9664197
    Abstract: A plurality ceiling fan kits comprising one or more pre-wired downrods or a set of pre-wired downrods having internal wiring terminating on one or more ends in wire leads made of electrically conductive materials. Different electrical connectors, for use with the ceiling fan kits and pre-wired downrods, are adapted to electrically couple one or more sets of wiring by pushing in the electrically conductive wire leads into a plurality of ports disposed on the electrical connectors. The electrical connectors may include a jumper for switching between a single- and dual-power supply switch configuration and indicia for identifying the insertion of a wire into a corresponding port. A method of mounting a ceiling fan to a structure having an electrical supply, utilizing the pre-wired downrods and the electrical connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: William Walter Walker, Benjamin David Stout, Rickey Thomas Jones, Douglas Troy Mason
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FILLING AND SEALING VIALS
    Publication number: 20170144782
    Abstract: A filling and sealing system is provided for efficiently filling a series of individual vials with therapeutic liquids. In particular embodiments, the system includes a filling zone or station, a sealing zone or station, an unloading zone or station, and electronic controls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Richard B. Sisken, James Thomas Jones, Charles Leland Baxter, Marc C. Buhrmester, William J. Havel, James D. Purdy, Neal E. Fearnot, Kyle D. Amick
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING BIPOLAR PLATES
    Publication number: 20170133692
    Abstract: A method for producing bipolar plates includes removing scrap material from an electrically conductive plate. The scrap material is created when the plate is cut through to produce a fluid flow opening therein and in which an inlet manifold opening and an outlet manifold opening are located at the ends of the fluid flow opening and in communication therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventor: Thomas JONES
  • Vertical axis wind turbines
    Patent number: 9644611
    Abstract: A device comprising a vertical axis wind turbine comprising an arm, a housing coupled to the arm, a generator housed within the housing, and a blade extending along the housing vertically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Inventor: Thomas Jones
  • Dry chemical scrubber with pH adjustment
    Patent number: 9630144
    Abstract: Implementations disclosed herein provide a dry chemical scrubber with a pH regulator that adjusts an internal pH value of the dry chemical scrubber by adding high pH elements to the contents of the dry chemical scrubber on a continuous or periodic basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: MTARRI/VARANI EMISSIONS TREATMENT, LLC
    Inventors: John Jenkins, Frederick T. Varani, Thomas A. Jones, Paul Bertram Trost, Aaron F. Primmer, Nathan A. Emsick
  • Method of completing a well
    Patent number: 9617842
    Abstract: A method of completing a well includes, pumping treating fluid into a tool string in the well, displacing drilling mud within the tool string with the treating fluid, and treating an earth formation with the treating fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Michael Johnson, Thomas Jones, Randal F. LaFollette, D. V. Satyanarayana Gupta, Andrew K. Jordan
  • Exercise apparatus having guided foot pad carriers
    Patent number: 9586078
    Abstract: An apparatus for human exercise includes a first foot pad attached to a first guided carrier member, and a second foot pad attached to a second guided carrier member. Motion of the first and second guided carrier members is limited to linear translation along a longitudinal axis of a horizontal guide rail. First and second and third elastic members may be attached to and apply opposite elastic forces to the first and second guided carrier members along the longitudinal axis. A transverse frame member is fixed to the horizontal guide rail and is oriented horizontally and transverse to the longitudinal axis. A vertical frame member with a raised hand rail may extend from the transverse frame member. The first and second foot pads may be pivotably coupled to the first and guided carrier members by torsional elastic members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: TCDP, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Jones
  • CONTINUOUS FLUIDIC THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIAL DISPENSING
    Publication number: 20170027084
    Abstract: A temperature control system for controlling a temperature of an electronic device during testing of the electronic device includes a thermal head having a device contact face configured to contact the electronic device during testing; a fluidic thermal interface material (TIM) dispenser configured to dispense a fluidic TIM to a location between a face of the electronic device and the device contact face of the thermal head; and a fluidic TIM dispenser controller configured to control the TIM dispenser such that the TIM dispenser dispenses the fluidic TIM during a test cycle of the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: Delta Design, Inc.
    Inventors: Samer KABBANI, Jerry Ihor TUSTANIWSKYJ, James Wittman BABCOCK, Thomas JONES
  • Devices that train voice patterns and methods thereof
    Patent number: 9532897
    Abstract: A voice enhancement device including an earpiece configured to be positioned in an ear canal of a user. A microcontroller is operatively coupled to the earpiece. The microcontroller is configured to selectively provide at least multitalker babble. An accelerometer is located within the earpiece and operatively coupled to the microcontroller. The accelerometer is configured to detect speech by the user and communicate with the microcontroller to provide the multitalker babble to the earpiece during the detected speech by the user. A method of making the voice enhancement device, and a method for increasing vocal loudness in a patient using the voice enhancement device are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jessica E. Huber, Scott Kepner, Derek Tully, James Thomas Jones, Kirk Solon Foster
  • TRANSITION DEVICE FOR EXTENSION LADDERS
    Publication number: 20160369561
    Abstract: A transition device for fitting to an extension ladder includes a single elongate rung portion and two hook-shaped arm portions at respective opposite ends of the rung portion. The hook-shaped arm portions have respective wing formations that project longitudinally from each end of the transition device 110. The hook-shaped arm portions are engaged over the uppermost exposed rung of the lower section of the extension ladder, so that the wing formations abut the uprights of the ladder and prevent movement or rotation of the device. The transition device 110 acts to increase the forward extension of the rung to enables a user to step safely over the transition between the lower and upper sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventor: Ronald Barry Thomas Jones
  • ASYMMETRIC GATE DRIVER APPARATUS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20160301409
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may operate to transform a first control signal to produce an isolated second control signal, to receive a pair of floating power supply voltages at opposing ends of a totem-pole series of driver metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), and to clamp an output of a driver apparatus to one of the pair of floating power supply voltages. The isolated second control signal may operate to control current flow through the driver MOSFETs. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Steven Cong, Thomas Jones
  • INJECTION DEVICES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20160287811
    Abstract: Medical devices for injecting tissue and methods of use thereof are described. The medical device may comprise a handle, a shaft, and a plurality of needles extending through the shaft, each needle defining a lumen therethrough and being independently moveable along a longitudinal axis of the device to transition from a retracted configuration to an extended configuration. In the extended configuration, a distal portion of each needle may deflect radially outward with respect to the longitudinal axis of the device. The medical device may comprise an end cap coupled to the distal end of the shaft and/or a locking mechanism to selectively lock the needles in the retracted configuration and/or extended configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Elisabeth GABIN, Sharon HUNTER, Thomas JONES, Gary LEANNA, Eric SCHNEIDER, Manoj MADHAVAN, Benedicta CHUMO
  • LOAD PREDICTOR FOR A COOLING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160283844
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods for determining a predicted building heating or cooling load for a future time using historical data points recorded in situ to build analytical models that use predictions of environmental conditions to provide building administrators and systems with an automated prediction of building load over a period of time. In one embodiment, the present invention allows for the automatic creation of a plan of the day by dynamically providing local building systems with a prediction of load from moment to moment that can then be used to make maximally efficient HVAC equipment operation choices. Additionally, this invention provides a method to predict and model building energy usage using a K-nearest neighbors analytical model or a linear regression model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas Jones, Ian Robert Dempster
  • SHOCK ABSORBER ASSEMBLY FOR POWER DRIVE UNIT OF A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20160244151
    Abstract: A shock absorber assembly is configured to be operatively connected to a drive shaft of a power drive unit (PDU) of an aircraft. The shock absorber assembly may include a first hub, a second hub, and a bull gear having at least a portion sandwiched between the first and second hubs. The bull gear is configured to rotate independently of the first and second hubs a controlled distance in response to a mechanical malfunction of the PDU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventor: Kelly Thomas Jones
  • Managing garbage collection in a data processing system
    Patent number: 9418005
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing garbage collection. Monitoring is performed for a garbage collection state in a virtual machine. Responsive to detecting the garbage collection state, a priority for a set of garbage collection threads is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Thomas Jones, Frank Eliot Levine
  • Method and system for training voice patterns
    Patent number: 9381110
    Abstract: One example embodiment of the present disclosure includes method and system to improve communication comprising an assembly fixedly positioned during use in close proximity to a user's ear. The assembly includes an accelerometer to detect the initiation and duration of the user's speech and an output presentation system. The output presentation system comprises a non-occlusive ear fitting that presents unintelligible noise that is unrelated to the sound-frequency or intonation of the user's current speech. The unintelligible noise is presented to the patient at a level less than 85 dB. The system further comprises a control arrangement to maintain presentation of the noise substantially throughout the detected duration of the user's speech, but substantially not at other times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jessica E. Huber, Scott Kepner, Derek Tully, James Thomas Jones, Kirk Solon Foster
  • Thread spool storage shelf
    Patent number: D763566
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventors: Dominic Fasino, Emmanuel Ercole, Milind Sahebrao Nimgulkar, Lauren Lihvarcik, Thomas Jones, Edward S. Espinosa Espinosa, Daniel W. Brinton, Tammy Nixon, Rebecca Hanson