Patents by Inventor Thomas Leon
Thomas Leon 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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Publication number: 20230124529Abstract: Techniques are described for determining an amount of fuel that is consumed by the body components of a vehicle, based at least partly on sensor data describing the operations of the body components and/or the location of the vehicle. A vehicle is equipped with a body that has any suitable number of body components that perform operations not directly associated with the translational movement of the vehicle from one location to another. Fuel is consumed to provide power (e.g., through power take off) to operate the body components. The vehicle includes sensor device(s) configured to sense the operations of the body components and generate sensor data that describes the operations of the body components. The sensor data is analyzed to determine an amount of fuel that is consumed to power the operations of the body components.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Richard Buteau, Thomas Leon Wilding, Albert Xiaoxia Jiang, John Forrest Smith, Michael Dean Geary, Brian Huston Ham
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Publication number: 20230011562Abstract: A refuse collection vehicle includes a body having a storage compartment and a packer system. The storage compartment includes a floor. The packer system includes an ejector, two or more helical band actuators, and a driver. The helical band actuators each include a drive cylinder base, a helical band drive cylinder, and a drive cylinder receptacle coupled between the helical band drive cylinder and the ejector. The driver is commonly coupled to the helical band actuators and operable to extend and retract the helical band drive cylinders. The helical band actuators are operable to advance the ejector such that refuse is compacted in the storage compartment or ejected from the storage compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: John Forrest Smith, Thomas Leon Wilding, Rodel Caguete Magsombol
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Patent number: 11530940Abstract: Techniques are described for determining an amount of fuel that is consumed by the body components of a vehicle, based at least partly on sensor data describing the operations of the body components and/or the location of the vehicle. A vehicle is equipped with a body that has any suitable number of body components that perform operations not directly associated with the translational movement of the vehicle from one location to another. Fuel is consumed to provide power (e.g., through power take off) to operate the body components. The vehicle includes sensor device(s) configured to sense the operations of the body components and generate sensor data that describes the operations of the body components. The sensor data is analyzed to determine an amount of fuel that is consumed to power the operations of the body components.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: Richard Buteau, Thomas Leon Wilding, Albert Xiaoxia Jiang, John Forrest Smith, Michael Dean Geary, Brian Huston Ham
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Publication number: 20220243746Abstract: A refuse collection vehicle has various hydraulic actuators including at least one cylinder with an internal seal. A sensor is responsive to movement of the piston and sends a signal to a controller to indicate piston movement information during an associated vehicle body component movement. The controller is configured to determine a motion characteristic of the piston during a predetermined body component movement, compare the determined motion characteristic to a stored reference motion characteristic, and in response to determining that a difference between the determined motion characteristic and the reference motion characteristic is greater than a predetermined value, trigger an indication that the refuse collection vehicle is in need of service.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: John Forrest Smith, Alejandro de Leon, Garrett Eckerl, Albert Xiaoxia Jiang, Thomas Leon Wilding
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Publication number: 20210131849Abstract: Techniques are described for determining an amount of fuel that is consumed by the body components of a vehicle, based at least partly on sensor data describing the operations of the body components and/or the location of the vehicle. A vehicle is equipped with a body that has any suitable number of body components that perform operations not directly associated with the translational movement of the vehicle from one location to another. Fuel is consumed to provide power (e.g., through power take off) to operate the body components. The vehicle includes sensor device(s) configured to sense the operations of the body components and generate sensor data that describes the operations of the body components. The sensor data is analyzed to determine an amount of fuel that is consumed to power the operations of the body components.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Richard Buteau, Thomas Leon Wilding, Albert Xiaoxia Jiang, John Forrest Smith, Michael Dean Geary, Brian Huston Ham
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Patent number: 10859419Abstract: Techniques are described for determining an amount of fuel that is consumed by the body components of a vehicle, based at least partly on sensor data describing the operations of the body components and/or the location of the vehicle. A vehicle is equipped with a body that has any suitable number of body components that perform operations not directly associated with the translational movement of the vehicle from one location to another. Fuel is consumed to provide power (e.g., through power take off) to operate the body components. The vehicle includes sensor device(s) configured to sense the operations of the body components and generate sensor data that describes the operations of the body components. The sensor data is analyzed to determine an amount of fuel that is consumed to power the operations of the body components.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: Richard Buteau, Thomas Leon Wilding, Albert Xiaoxia Jiang, John Forrest Smith, Michael Dean Geary, Brian Huston Ham
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Patent number: 10327586Abstract: A cooking grate assembly configured for use on a portable radiant heater with a front safety grille. The cooking grate assembly has a flat main cooking grate with an upper/inner end and a lower/outer end, a pair of spaced hook tabs extending from the upper/inner end of the grate that attach to an upper part of the grille, and a pair of inwardly-angled key tabs extending from the lower/outer end of the grate. A pair of detachable legs supports the grate from a lower part of the grille, with a rotatable locking connection to the key tabs on the grate at one end and opposed inner and outer hooks at the other end that both support the grate on the grille and provide a nesting flat interlock to the rear face of the grate for storage.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Inventors: Thomas Leon Beerens, Faron Jeffrey Beerens
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Patent number: 10136634Abstract: A kit of parts including a wheel, a bracket, an axel and an axel retainer. The axel having a central diameter, a larger first end and a second end portion adapted to receive an axel retainer. The bracket having a U-shape so that the bracket comprises a pair of spaced apart legs each of which legs comprise an axel aperture therein. The wheel having a hub comprising an axel bore there through. The central diameter of the axel is smaller than the axel aperture in each leg of the U-shaped bracket and smaller than the axel bore of the hub of the wheel.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Inventor: Thomas Leon Matthews
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Publication number: 20180252567Abstract: Techniques are described for determining an amount of fuel that is consumed by the body components of a vehicle, based at least partly on sensor data describing the operations of the body components and/or the location of the vehicle. A vehicle is equipped with a body that has any suitable number of body components that perform operations not directly associated with the translational movement of the vehicle from one location to another. Fuel is consumed to provide power (e.g., through power take off) to operate the body components. The vehicle includes sensor device(s) configured to sense the operations of the body components and generate sensor data that describes the operations of the body components. The sensor data is analyzed to determine an amount of fuel that is consumed to power the operations of the body components.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Richard Buteau, Thomas Leon Wilding, Albert Xiaoxia Jiang, John Forrest Smith, Michael Dean Geary, Brian Huston Ham
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Publication number: 20180221895Abstract: The present invention relates generally to an improved rotating lawn sprinkler capable of precisely watering lawns with straight edges without over-spraying onto sidewalks and fences. More specifically, the invention relates to a rotating sprinkler with a plane of rotation is adjustable upwards or downwards from horizontal that will water in a triangle pattern when the plane of rotation is angled downwards from horizontal or a diamond pattern when the plane of rotation is angled upwards from horizontal. These watering patterns are possible because the axis of rotation is adjustable, which adjusts the plane of rotation. By adjusting the plane of rotation, the nozzle trajectory is being continually increased or decreased as the sprinkler rotates, which causes the watering pattern to form patterns with straight lines rather than traditional watering arcs.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2017Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventor: Thomas Leon McCarty
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Publication number: 20180139951Abstract: A kit of parts including a wheel, a bracket, an axel and an axel retainer. The axel having a central diameter, a larger first end and a second end portion adapted to receive an axel retainer. The bracket having a U-shape so that the bracket comprises a pair of spaced apart legs each of which legs comprise an axel aperture therein. The wheel having a hub comprising an axel bore there through. The central diameter of the axel is smaller than the axel aperture in each leg of the U-shaped bracket and smaller than the axel bore of the hub of the wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2017Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventor: Thomas Leon Matthews
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Publication number: 20170254544Abstract: A cooking grate assembly configured for use on a portable radiant heater with a front safety grille. The cooking grate assembly has a flat main cooking grate with an upper/inner end and a lower/outer end, a pair of spaced hook tabs extending from the upper/inner end of the grate that attach to an upper part of the grille, and a pair of inwardly-angled key tabs extending from the lower/outer end of the grate. A pair of detachable legs supports the grate from a lower part of the grille, with a rotatable locking connection to the key tabs on the grate at one end and opposed inner and outer hooks at the other end that both support the grate on the grille and provide a nesting flat interlock to the rear face of the grate for storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2017Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: Thomas Leon Beerens, Faron Jeffrey Beerens
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Publication number: 20170071153Abstract: A feed tickler used in conjunction with either a round or square funnel feeder discharge opening. The tickler rotates with a feed dispersal disk of the feeder and agitates the feed to prevent clogging and choking of feed delivered through a dispersal end of the feeder funnel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventor: Thomas Leon Stanley
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NK1 fragment of hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF/SF) and variants thereof, and their use
Patent number: 8232258Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of the NK1 fragment of the polypeptide growth factor HGF/SF which act as agonists of the MET receptor and their use. The agonists comprise at least one substitution at positions equivalent to 132, 134, 170 and 181 of full length HGF/SF and these substitutions provide a variant which shows scatter factor activity and induces DNA synthesis. In vivo the variants provide protection from liver damage in a model of acute liver failure.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2010Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignees: Cambridge Enterprise Limited, Medical Research CouncilInventors: Ermanno Gherardi, Daniel Lietha, Thomas Leon Blundell, Dimitry Yurievich Chirgadze -
NK1 FRAGMENT OF HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR/SCATTER FACTOR (HGF/SF) AND VARIANTS THEREOF, AND THEIR USE
Publication number: 20110021612Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of the NK1 fragment of the polypeptide growth factor HGF/SF which act as agonists of the MET receptor and their use. The agonists comprise at least one substitution at positions equivalent to 132, 134, 170 and 181 of full length HGF/SF and these substitutions provide a variant which shows scatter factor activity and induces DNA synthesis. In vivo the variants provide protection from liver damage in a model of acute liver failure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: Medical Research CouncilInventors: Ermanno Gherardi, Daniel Lietha, Thomas Leon Blundell, Dimitry Yurievich Chirgadze -
Patent number: 7795214Abstract: Variants of the NK1 fragment of the polypeptide growth factor HGF/SF which act as agonists of the MET receptor and their use are disclosed. The agonists comprise at least one substitution at positions equivalent to 132, 134, 170 and 181 of full length HGF/SF (SEQ ID NO:2) and these substitutions provide variants which show scatter factor activity and induce DNA synthesis. In vivo, the variants provide protection from liver damage in a model of acute liver failure.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2007Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignees: Cambridge Enterprise Limited, Medical Research CouncilInventors: Ermanno Gherardi, Daniel Lietha, Thomas Leon Blundell, Dimitry Yurievich Chirgadze
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Publication number: 20090061189Abstract: A composite engineered wood panel comprising a top surface layer and a bottom surface layer. The layers comprise amounts of lignocellulosic material with particular densities. The bottom layer comprises more lignocellulosic material and lignocellulosic material moisture in amounts effective to produce an essentially symmetrical vertical density profile through the panel upon consolidation of a formed panel. The panel can further comprise at least one core layer. The top surface layer preferably comprises primarily softwood, and the other layers preferably comprise primarily hardwood. Also disclosed is a method of making the panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2007Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: HUBER ENGINEERED WOODS LLCInventors: Nianhua Ou, Jason Corey Tolar, Thomas Leon Lee, JR., Timothy William Romans
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Publication number: 20080167224Abstract: Variants of the NK1 fragment of the polypeptide growth factor HGF/SF which act as agonists of the MET receptor and their use are disclosed. The agonists comprise at least one substitution at positions equivalent to 132, 134, 170 and 181 of full length HGF/SF (SEQ ID NO:2) and these substitutions provide variants which show scatter factor activity and induce DNA synthesis. In vivo, the variants provide protection from liver damage in a model of acute liver failure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2007Publication date: July 10, 2008Applicant: Medical Research CouncilInventors: Ermanno Gherardi, Daniel Lietha, Thomas Leon Blundell, Dimitry Yurievich Chirgadze
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Patent number: 7179786Abstract: Variants of the NK1 fragment of the polypeptide growth factor HGF/SF which act as agonists of the MET receptor and their use are disclosed. The agonists comprise at least one substitution at positions equivalent to 132, 134, 170 and 181 of full length HGF/SF (SEQ ID NO:2) and these substitutions provide variants which show scatter factor activity and induce DNA synthesis. In vivo, the variants provide protection from liver damage in a model of acute liver failure.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2002Date of Patent: February 20, 2007Assignee: Medical Research CouncilInventors: Ermanno Gherardi, Daniel Lietha, Thomas Leon Blundell, Dimitry Yurievich Chirgadze
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Publication number: 20060121096Abstract: A veterinary delivery system in the form of a pliable film comprising at least one binder, at least one lubricant, at least one solvent for the binder and lubricant, and an effective amount of at least one effective agent. According to one embodiment, a flavorant is included in a pliable hydrophilic film in order to enhance oral acceptability by the animal. In other embodiments, the films preferably have a moisture content of about 2-15%, preferably about 3-7% by weight. The hydrophilic films most preferably have at least one effective agent distributed homogeneously throughout the film. Also disclosed are methods of delivering veterinary delivery systems wherein a pliable, hydrophilic film comprising at least one effective agent is placed within the oral cavity of an animal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2006Publication date: June 8, 2006Inventors: Thomas Leon, John Berggren, Paul Gabel, Daniel Leon