Patents by Inventor Thomas B. Taylor
Thomas B. Taylor 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).
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Patent number: 10344403Abstract: Provided herewith is a process for improving tensile strength of precursor PAN fiber during the spinning stage in the manufacturing process. According to the process of the present invention, precursor fiber is made denser as it enters each wash bath. This progressive densification approach is useful for all PAN precursor bath draw/wash processes where a need for careful control of fiber network density and structure is required for improved carbon fiber properties.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Cytec Industries Inc.Inventor: Thomas B Taylor
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Publication number: 20160186365Abstract: Provided herewith is a process for improving tensile strength of precursor PAN fiber during the spinning stage in the manufacturing process. According to the process of the present invention, precursor fiber is made denser as it enters each wash bath. This progressive densification approach is useful for all PAN precursor bath draw/wash processes where a need for careful control of fiber network density and structure is required for improved carbon fiber properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2015Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: Cytec Industries Inc.Inventor: Thomas B. Taylor
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Patent number: 7853480Abstract: A fulfillment services provider may offer export services to merchants, including generation of required export documentation; calculation, collection, and remittance of customs duties; and transportation via an international carrier. Such export services may be offered through a registration service, and may be integrated with other fulfillment services provided to registered merchants (e.g., domestic order fulfillment and/or warehousing of inventory), or may be offered to merchants that do not receive other fulfillment services from the provider. Export services may be provided to merchants who certify that all registered or specified items may be legally exported to all (or specified) international destinations, or the provider may verify compliance to export regulations on behalf of registered merchants. The provider may assume the role of Principal Party in Interest for registered merchants or the merchants may retain this role.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2007Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Thomas B. Taylor, Jason W. Murray, Ankit Patel, John R. Ehrhardt, Karpagavalli Jaykumar, Kimberly Awalt
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Publication number: 20080294536Abstract: A fulfillment services provider may offer export services to merchants, including generation of required export documentation; calculation, collection, and remittance of customs duties; and transportation via an international carrier. Such export services may be offered through a registration service, and may be integrated with other fulfillment services provided to registered merchants (e.g., domestic order fulfillment and/or warehousing of inventory), or may be offered to merchants that do not receive other fulfillment services from the provider. Export services may be provided to merchants who certify that all registered or specified items may be legally exported to all (or specified) international destinations, or the provider may verify compliance to export regulations on behalf of registered merchants. The provider may assume the role of Principal Party in Interest for registered merchants or the merchants may retain this role.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2007Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Thomas B. Taylor, Jason W. Murray, Ankit Patel, John R. Ehrhardt, Karpagavalli Jaykumar, Kimberly Awalt
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Patent number: 7148455Abstract: The invention includes a toploading weighing instrumentality which determines loss on drying by a cylindrical microwave. The cylindrical cavity of the microwave includes a power supply, a magnetron, a power module operatively coupled between the power supply and the magnetron for driving the magnetron, a wave guide communicating with the magnetron and with a microwave containment chamber for delivering energy, and at least one microwave energy sensor for sensing microwave energy or magnetic and/or electric field strengths within the chamber for controlling, inter alia, the loss on drying process of the sample being assayed and determining when the drying process is complete. A precision electronic balance is operatively disposed within the microwave chamber for allowing a specimen being assayed to be weighed. In addition, a ventilation chamber is provided for venting moisture from the microwave chamber. A processing unit provides for data acquisition, processing and storage.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2001Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Denver Instrument CompanyInventors: Robert F. Scalese, Thomas B. Taylor, Tim Holzschuh, Douglas E. Harbert, Thomas G. Plaven, Martin L. Maple, Jan Claesson
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Patent number: 6783722Abstract: Spunbond nonwoven fabrics are produced with an apparatus which comprises a spinnerette having a plurality of orifices for extruding filaments; an attenuator for receiving and attenuating the filaments; and a collection surface upon which the filaments are deposited to form a nonwoven web. A filament diffuser is positioned between the attenuator and the collection surface in the path of filament travel. The diffuser comprises a pair of opposing divergingly arranged side walls and a pair of opposing end walls, these walls collectively defining filament passageway. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a flow of fluid is injected along the walls of the diffuser in the direction of filament travel. More particularly, fluid is injected along both the opposing divergingly arranged walls and the opposing ends walls which form the diffuser. In another aspect of the present invention, the filaments are electrostatically charged and a like electrical charge is imparted to the walls of the diffuser.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2002Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: BBA Nonwovens Simpsonville, Inc.Inventor: Thomas B. Taylor
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Patent number: 6737009Abstract: A system and process for producing spunbond nonwoven fabric in which two or more polymeric components are separately melted and are separately directed through a distribution plate configured so that the separate molten polymer components combine at a multiplicity of spinnerette orifices to form filaments containing the two or more polymer components. Multicomponent filaments are extruded from the spinnerette orifices into a quench chamber where quench air is directed from a first independently controllable blower and into contact with the filaments to cool and solidify the filaments. The filaments and the quench air are directed into and through a filament attenuator and the filaments are pneumatically attenuated and stretched. The filaments are directed from the attenuator into and through a filament depositing unit and are deposited randomly upon a moving continuous air-permeable belt to form a nonwoven web of substantially continuous filaments.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2001Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: BBA Nonwovens Simpsonville, Inc.Inventors: Thomas B. Taylor, Robert C. Alexander
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Publication number: 20030057586Abstract: Spunbond nonwoven fabrics are produced with an apparatus which comprises a spinnerette having a plurality of orifices for extruding filaments; an attenuator for receiving and attenuating the filaments; and a collection surface upon which the filaments are deposited to form a nonwoven web. A filament diffuser is positioned between the attenuator and the collection surface in the path of filament travel. The diffuser comprises a pair of opposing divergingly arranged side walls and a pair of opposing end walls, these walls collectively defining filament passageway. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a flow of fluid is injected along the walls of the diffuser in the direction of filament travel. More particularly, fluid is injected along both the opposing divergingly arranged walls and the opposing ends walls which form the diffuser. In another aspect of the present invention, the filaments are electrostatically charged and a like electrical charge is imparted to the walls of the diffuser.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2002Publication date: March 27, 2003Applicant: BBA Nonwovens Simpsonville, Inc.Inventor: Thomas B. Taylor
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Publication number: 20020063364Abstract: A system and process is provided for producing spunbond nonwoven fabric. Two or more polymeric components are separately melted and are separately directed through a distribution plate configured so that the separate molten polymer components combine at a multiplicity of spinnerette orifices to form filaments containing the two or more polymer components. Multicomponent filaments are extruded from the spinnerette orifices into a quench chamber where quench air is directed from a first independently controllable blower and into contact with the filaments to cool and solidify the filaments. The filaments and the quench air are directed into and through a filament attenuator and the filaments are pneumatically attenuated and stretched. The filaments are directed from the attenuator into and through a filament depositing unit and are deposited randomly upon a moving continuous air-permeable belt to form a nonwoven web of substantially continuous filaments.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2001Publication date: May 30, 2002Applicant: BBA Nonwovens Simpsonville, Inc.Inventors: Thomas B. Taylor, Robert C. Alexander
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Publication number: 20020035792Abstract: A toploading weighing instrumentality which determines loss on drying by a cylindrical microwave.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2001Publication date: March 28, 2002Inventors: Robert F. Scalese, Thomas B. Taylor, Tim Holzschuh, Douglas E. Harbert, Thomas G. Plaven, Martin L. Maple, Jan Claesson
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Patent number: 6247246Abstract: A toploading weighing instrumentality which determines loss on drying by a cylindrical microwave. The cylindrical cavity of the microwave includes a power supply, a magnetron, a power module operatively coupled between said power supply and said magnetron for driving said magnetron, a wave guide communicating with the magnetron and with a microwave containment chamber for delivering energy thereto, at least one microwave energy sensor for sensing microwave energy or magnetic and/or electric field strength within the chamber for controlling, inter alia, the loss on drying process of the sample being assayed and determining when the drying process is complete. A precision electronic balance is operatively disposed within the microwave chamber for allowing a specimen being assayed to be weighed. In addition, a ventilation chamber is provided for venting moisture from the microwave chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1998Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Denver Instrument CompanyInventors: Robert F. Scalese, Thomas B. Taylor, Tim Holzschuh, Douglas E. Harbert, Thomas G. Playen, Martin L. Maple, Jan Claesson
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Patent number: 6092924Abstract: A toploading weighing apparatus which determines weight loss for a sample by drying the sample in a cylindrical microwave with a specific structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1998Date of Patent: July 25, 2000Assignee: Denver Instrument CompanyInventors: Robert F. Scalese, Thomas B. Taylor, Tim Holzschuh, Douglas E. Harbert, Thomas G. Plaven, Martin L. Maple, Jan Claesson
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Patent number: 4932728Abstract: A vehicle braking system having a wheel lock control arrangement with isolation valves, solenoid, and brake control valves for the system. In one arrangement, each wheel brake and isolation valve has its own solenoid and control valve. Additionally, the isolation valve is configured in a manner to prevent premature drop out from isolation and to prevent any flow from a master cylinder brake apply pressure circuit to a pump pressure circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 1989Date of Patent: June 12, 1990Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Donald E. Schenk, Schuyler S. Shaw, Edward J. DeHoff, Scott A. Baughman, Donald M. Flory, Timothy A. Haerr, Donald L. Parker, Thomas B. Taylor, George N. Villec
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Patent number: 4768843Abstract: A vehicle braking system having a wheel lock control arrangement with isolation valves for each wheel brake and either three or four solenoid and brake control valves for the system. In one arrangement, each wheel brake and isolation valve has its own solenoid and control valve. In other arrangements two front wheel brakes have separate solenoid controlled operating valves and the two rear wheel brakes have a single solenoid controlling operating valve controlling both isolation valves. Traction control is incorporated into the system so that a wheel brake required braking for traction control purposes may be applied by pump pressure without the vehicle brakes themselves having to be applied through service braking.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1987Date of Patent: September 6, 1988Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Scott A. Baughman, Donald M. Flory, Timothy A. Haerr, Donald L. Parker, Thomas B. Taylor, George N. Villec