Patents by Inventor Thomas Lindblom
Thomas Lindblom 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: 20210315169Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for controlling environmental conditions to control latent and sensible loads in a plant grow chamber. The density of plant-0 receptacles in the grow chamber is such that, when plants are held in the plurality of plant receptacles, evapotranspiration contributes to the latent load so that the latent load exceeds a sensible load, resulting in evapotranspirative cooling. This shift in the energy balance allows for greater energy savings, as compared with conventional indoor farms that focus on removing heat from the growth environment. Environmental conditions may be controlled to achieved desired conditions, such as the optimum ratio of harvest weight yield to energy consumption under given constraints. Light modules for enabling plant growth suitable for controlled environment agriculture are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: MJNN LLCInventors: Yara Thomas, Joshua John Mark Pero, Meaghan Fitzgerald, Nathaniel R. Storey, Kevin Duane Grauberger, Alan Colbrie Schoen, Michael Peter Flynn, Anthony Nicholas McDougle, Liane Jessica Fang, Frances Willcox Esparza, Christopher Kwok Wai Mui, Grant Thomas Lindblom, Paul Guerra, Timothy Michael Murcko
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Publication number: 20200355330Abstract: A lighting assembly is provided that is configured for use with a hydroponic farm, preferably a hydroponic farm utilizing horizontal racks. The light assembly includes one or more LED boards affixed to a thermally conductive mounting fixture. The number and location of the LED boards which are mounted to the fixture is primarily dependent upon the size and layout of the hydroponic racks within the hydroponic farming facility. A light shield, which surrounds the LED boards and the mounting fixture, extends the entire length of the light assembly. The light shield is sealed to both light assembly end caps, thereby providing a completely sealed lighting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2019Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: MJNN, LLCInventors: Kevin Kai Morris, Grant Thomas Lindblom, John Whitworth
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Patent number: 10598366Abstract: A lighting system is provided that is configured for use with one or more hydroponic towers. The primary component of the lighting system is a light tube that includes one or more LED boards affixed to a central, actively cooled, mounting fixture. The LED boards may be affixed to one side or to multiple sides of the mounting fixture. A tethering system locates each light tube within the hydroponic farming facility, the tethering system configured to (i) allow for thermal expansion and contraction of the light tube, (ii) maintain the desired location of the light tube, (iii) simplify removal of the light tube, (iv) prevent accidental disengagement from the top mounting fixture while still allowing limited movement of the light tube, and (v) allow disengagement from the bottom mounting fixture when undue stress is applied to the light tube.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: MJNN, LLCInventors: Kevin Kai Morris, Grant Thomas Lindblom, Frances Willcox Esparza, Paul Guerra, Meaghan Fitzgerald, Juli Satoh, Michael Peter Flynn
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Patent number: 7344580Abstract: Converting machines give rise to polluted air which must be removed with the aid of fans and filters. The invention aims at removal of the polluted air in such a way that the servicing interval is greatly extended by the use of a filter unit having a number of part-filters arranged one after the other and formed of pleated fiber mats, the various mats having different filtering properties.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2002Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Absolent ABInventor: Thomas Lindblom
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Publication number: 20070189108Abstract: A self-purging auxiliary fluid supply system for supplying washout or makeup water or other fluids under pressure to a truck-mounted concrete mixing/dispensing drum is disclosed. The system includes a truck-mounted fluid reservoir for containing a quantity of fluid connected to supply fluid to an air-operated diaphragm pump connected to supply auxiliary fluid from the fluid reservoir under pressure to a discharge assembly. The pump further provides an integral purge system for displacing fluid in the fluid supply system after use.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2006Publication date: August 16, 2007Applicant: McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Lindblom, Ted Daly, Thomas Quigley
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Publication number: 20050011172Abstract: Converting machines give rise to polluted air which must be removed with the aid of fans and filters. The present invention aims at such removal but in such a way that the servicing interval is greatly extended by the use of a filter unit consisting of a number of part-filters arranged one after the other and consisting of pleated fibre mats, the various mats having different filtering properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2002Publication date: January 20, 2005Inventor: Thomas Lindblom
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Patent number: 6308314Abstract: In an object oriented computer system, a framework mechanism defines a mechanism that separates the ability to complete a process from the results of that process. A task is defined in the framework in terms of a sequence of processes. The framework includes a coupling mechanism for flexibly coupling any of these processes together in any suitable order to define the run-time behavior of the framework without changing the core functions of the framework. The coupling mechanism includes the definition of a processable interface and a processing interface. A particular process generally takes detail information as input and produces detail information that is used in a subsequent process. The detail information input into a process is said to be “processable”, and therefore implements the “processable” interface. The detail information output from a process is said to be “processing” detail that is output to the next process, and therefore implements the processing interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1998Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Brent Allen Carlson, Timothy James Graser, Ulf Jesper Thomas Lindblom, Torbjorn Pernbeck, Simon Paul Reason
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Patent number: 6195791Abstract: In an object oriented computer system, a framework mechanism defines an infrastructure for allowing a user to couple processes in the framework together in any suitable way to define a desired process flow. A user first defines a static object structure that corresponds to the specific process flow from one process to the next. The processes in the framework may be flexibly coupled in any suitable order, so a process does not have knowledge of its predecessor or successor processes. Thus, at run-time, a process determines the next step in the process flow from the static object structure. Once a process determines its subsequent process, a client may then create the next process and invoke methods on one or more objects corresponding to the newly-created process. Each process thus determines at run-time the next step in the process flow from the static object structure that the user statically defined to configure the process flow, which defines the desired processing environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1998Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Brent Allen Carlson, Jan Olof Engstrom, Timothy James Graser, Ulf Jesper Thomas Lindblom, Barbara Regine Proske
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Patent number: 6173439Abstract: In an object oriented computer system, an object oriented framework defines an interface mechanism that provides a common interface to a non-object oriented persistent datastore. This common interface can be customized by various types within the framework by effectively hiding attributes on the common interface that are not needed by a particular type. Attributes defined on the common interface may be accessed at any level in the framework through a process of delegation from one level to the next. In addition, one or more of these attributes on the common interface may be defined at various levels, which causes those attributes to be accessed at their respective levels instead of delegating to different levels.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1998Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Brent Allen Carlson, Timothy James Graser, Ulf Jesper Thomas Lindblom, Anders Magnus Nilsson, Torbjorn Pernbeck