Patents by Inventor Thomas McDermott
Thomas McDermott 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: 20080295966Abstract: An apparatus and a method comprising same for removing metal oxides from a substrate surface are disclosed herein. In one particular embodiment, the apparatus comprises an electrode assembly that has a housing that is at least partially comprised of an insulating material and having an internal volume and at least one fluid inlet that is in fluid communication with the internal volume; a conductive base connected to the housing comprising a plurality of conductive tips that extend therefrom into a target area and a plurality of perforations that extend therethrough and are in fluid communication with the internal volume to allow for a passage of a gas mixture comprising a reducing gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2008Publication date: December 4, 2008Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Chun Christine Dong, Wayne Thomas McDermott, Alexander Schwarz, Gregory Khosrov Arslanian, Richard E. Patrick, Gary A. Orbeck, Donald A. Seccombe, JR.
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Patent number: 7439654Abstract: Ultrasonic probe comprising an elongate body having a first end and a second end, an ultrasonic transducer attached to the probe at or adjacent the first end, and an enlarged support section intermediate the ultrasonic transducer and the second end, wherein the enlarged support section has an equivalent diameter greater than an equivalent diameter of the body at any location between the enlarged support section and the ultrasonic transducer. The probe may be used to introduce ultrasonic energy into ultrasonic cleaning systems.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2004Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Wayne Thomas McDermott, Dean Van-John Roth, Richard Carl Ockovic
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Patent number: 7426249Abstract: A configurable Viterbi decoder to decode a coded signal for inclusion in a radio receiver for implementing the physical layer receiving function (PHY) of a wireless data network. The decoder includes a branch metric generator with an input to the coded signal, an ACS subsystem coupled to the branch metric generator, and a survivor memory unit coupled to the ACS subsystem. The decoder includes a plurality of outputs each providing a decoded version of the input signal decoded to a distinct decision depth such that the Viterbi decoder is programmable to decode the signal to one of a plurality of decision depths.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2006Date of Patent: September 16, 2008Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Richard A. Keaney, Thomas McDermott, Philip J. Ryan
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Publication number: 20080202550Abstract: Ultrasonic probe comprising an elongate body having a first end and a second end, an ultrasonic transducer attached to the probe at or adjacent the first end, and an enlarged support section intermediate the ultrasonic transducer and the second end, wherein the enlarged support section has an equivalent diameter greater than an equivalent diameter of the body at any location between the enlarged support section and the ultrasonic transducer. The probe may be used to introduce ultrasonic energy into ultrasonic cleaning systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Wayne Thomas McDermott, Dean Van-John Roth, Richard Carl Ockovic
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Publication number: 20080149690Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for removing metal oxides from a substrate surface. In one particular embodiment, the method comprises: providing a substrate, a first, and a second electrode that reside within a target area; passing a gas mixture comprising a reducing gas through the target area; supplying an amount of energy to the first and/or the second electrode to generate electrons within the target area wherein at least a portion of the electrons attach to a portion of the reducing gas and form a negatively charged reducing gas; and contacting the substrate with the negatively charged reducing gas to reduce the metal oxides on the surface of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2008Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Chun Christine Dong, Wayne Thomas McDermott, Alexander Schwarz, Gregory Khosrov Arslanian, Richard E. Patrick
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Publication number: 20080155323Abstract: Power consumption that occurs in response to software errors may be reduced. In one example a system tracks a number of occurrences a first set of code causes a system to perform one or more reset actions, determines whether the number of occurrences exceeds a threshold, and selects a second set of code to execute in place of the first set of code, if the quantity exceeds the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventors: Michael T. Hogan, Thomas McDermott
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Patent number: 7387738Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for removing metal oxides from a substrate surface. In one particular embodiment, the method comprises: providing a substrate, a first, and a second electrode that reside within a target area; passing a gas mixture comprising a reducing gas through the target area; supplying an amount of energy to the first and/or the second electrode to generate electrons within the target area wherein at least a portion of the electrons attach to a portion of the reducing gas and form a negatively charged reducing gas; and contacting the substrate with the negatively charged reducing gas to reduce the metal oxides on the surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2003Date of Patent: June 17, 2008Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Chun Christine Dong, Wayne Thomas McDermott, Alexander Schwarz, Gregory Khosrov Arslanian, Richard E. Patrick
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Publication number: 20080098245Abstract: Power management for a computing device is described based on idle thread code execution and other conditions. In one example, a controller is operated at a first power state. Then the controller is transitioned from the first power state to a second lower power state after it starts executing idle thread code. As an additional optional feature it may be determined whether any one or more of a plurality of conditions is true and the controller may be transitioned from the first power state to the second power state if one or more of the plurality of conditions is true.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2006Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Michael Hogan, Thomas McDermott
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Publication number: 20070287812Abstract: The invention relates to an improvement in apparatus and process for the formation of a complex of Lewis acidic or Lewis basic gases in a reactive liquid of opposite character and for the breaking (fragmentation) of said complex associated with the recovery of the Lewis gas therefrom. The improvement resides in forming finely divided droplets of reactive liquid and controlling the temperature, pressure and concentration of said Lewis gas of opposite character to provide for (a) the formation of said complex between said gas and reactive liquid or (b) the breaking of said complex and the recovery of the atomized droplets of reactive liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2006Publication date: December 13, 2007Inventors: Wayne Thomas McDermott, Philip Bruce Henderson, Daniel Joseph Tempel, Ronald Martin Pearlstein, James Joseph Hart, Rosaleen Patricia Morris-Oskanian, Diwakar Garg
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Patent number: 7307826Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for the dry fluxing of at least one component and/or solder surface via electron attachment. In one embodiment, there is provided a method for removing oxides from the surface of a component comprising: providing a component on a substrate wherein the substrate is grounded or has a positive electrical potential to form a target assembly; passing a gas mixture comprising a reducing gas through an ion generator comprising a first and a second electrode; supplying an amount of voltage to at least one of the first and second electrodes sufficient to generate electrons wherein the electrons attach to at least a portion of the reducing gas and form a negatively charged reducing gas; and contacting the target assembly with the negatively charged reducing gas to reduce the oxides on the component.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2006Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Chun Christine Dong, Wayne Thomas McDermott, Richard E. Patrick, Alexander Schwarz
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Patent number: 7282099Abstract: Method for processing an article by contacting the article with a dense fluid. The article is introduced into a sealable processing chamber and the processing chamber is sealed. A dense fluid is prepared by introducing a subcritical fluid into a pressurization vessel and isolating the vessel, and then heating the subcritical fluid at essentially constant volume and essentially constant density to yield a dense fluid. At least a portion of the dense fluid is transferred from the pressurization vessel to the processing chamber, wherein the transfer of the dense fluid is driven by the difference between the pressure in the pressurization vessel and the pressure in the processing chamber, thereby pressurizing the processing chamber with transferred dense fluid. The article is contacted with the transferred dense fluid to yield a spent dense fluid and a treated article, and the spent dense fluid is separated from the treated article.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2002Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Wayne Thomas McDermott, Richard Carl Ockovic, Alexander Schwarz
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Patent number: 7267727Abstract: Method for processing an article with a dense processing fluid in a processing chamber while applying ultrasonic energy during processing. The dense fluid may be generated in a separate pressurization vessel and transferred to the processing chamber, or alternatively may be generated directly in the processing chamber. A processing agent may be added to the pressurization vessel, to the processing chamber, or to the dense fluid during transfer from the pressurization vessel to the processing chamber. The ultrasonic energy may be generated continuously at a constant frequency or at variable frequencies. Alternatively, the ultrasonic energy may be generated intermittently.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2003Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Wayne Thomas McDermott, Hoshang Subawalla, Andrew David Johnson, Alexander Schwarz
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Patent number: 7201018Abstract: The invention relates to a process and apparatus for delivering an ultra high purity fluid comprising at least one component to a point of use at a required pressure without mechanical pumping. In one embodiment, a high purity feed comprising at least one component in gaseous or liquid form is charged into a vessel and at least partially converted to a solid phase source. As the feed is converted to a solid phase source, additional feed may be added until the vessel is at least substantially filled with a solid phase source or slush. Once filled, the solid phase source or slush may be isochorically heated whereby the solid phase source is converted to a product at an elevated pressure.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2004Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Vladimir Yliy Gershtein, Alexander Schwarz, Wayne Thomas McDermott, John Frederick Cirucci, John Christopher Ivankovits
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Patent number: 7195676Abstract: Method for removing flux residue and defluxing residue from an article using a dense processing fluid and a dense rinse fluid is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising: introducing the article comprising contaminants into a processing chamber; contacting the article with a dense processing fluid comprising a dense fluid, at least one processing agent, and optionally a cosolvent to provide a partially treated article; and contacting the partially treated article with a dense rinse fluid comprising the dense fluid and optionally the cosolvent to provide a treated article wherein an agitation source is introducing during at least a portion of the first and/or the second contacting step.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2004Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Wayne Thomas McDermott, Gene Everad Parris, Dean Van-John Roth, Hoshang Subawalla
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Publication number: 20060176968Abstract: A configurable Viterbi decoder to decode a coded signal for inclusion in a radio receiver for implementing the physical layer receiving function (PHY) of a wireless data network. The decoder includes a branch metric generator with an input to the coded signal, an ACS subsystem coupled to the branch metric generator, and a survivor memory unit coupled to the ACS subsystem. The decoder includes a plurality of outputs each providing a decoded version of the input signal decoded to a distinct decision depth such that the Viterbi decoder is programmable to decode the signal to one of a plurality of decision depths.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2006Publication date: August 10, 2006Inventors: Richard Keaney, Thomas McDermott, Philip Ryan
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Patent number: 7079370Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for the dry fluxing of at least one component and/or solder surface via electron attachment. In one embodiment, there is provided a method for removing oxides from the surface of a component comprising: providing a component on a substrate wherein the substrate is grounded or has a positive electrical potential to form a target assembly; passing a gas mixture comprising a reducing gas through an ion generator comprising a first and a second electrode; supplying an amount of voltage to at least one of the first and second electrodes sufficient to generate electrons wherein the electrons attach to at least a portion of the reducing gas and form a negatively charged reducing gas; and contacting the target assembly with the negatively charged reducing gas to reduce the oxides on the component.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2003Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Chun Christine Dong, Wayne Thomas McDermott, Richard E. Patrick, Alexander Schwarz
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Patent number: 7046746Abstract: A configurable Viterbi decoder to decode a coded signal for inclusion in a radio receiver for implementing the physical layer receiving function (PHY) of a wireless data network. The decoder includes a branch metric generator with an input to the coded signal, an ACS subsystem coupled to the branch metric generator, and a survivor memory unit coupled to the ACS subsystem. The decoder includes a plurality of outputs each providing a decoded version of the input signal decoded to a distinct decision depth such that the Viterbi decoder is programmable to decode the signal to one of a plurality of decision depths.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2002Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: Cisco Systems Wireless Networking (Australia) Pty LimitedInventors: Richard A. Keaney, Thomas McDermott, Philip J. Ryan
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Publication number: 20050083921Abstract: Instead of alternatively utilizing only one fabric or the other fabric of a redundant pair, both fabrics simultaneously transmit duplicate information, such that each packet forwarding module (PFM) receives the output of both fabrics simultaneously. In real time, an internal optics module (IOM) analyzes each information chunk coming out of a working zero switch fabric; simultaneously examines a parallel output of a working one duplicate switch fabric; and compares on a chunk-by-chunk basis the validity of each and every chunk from both switch fabrics. The IOM does this by examining forward error correction (FEC) check symbols encapsulated into each chunk. FEC check symbols allow correcting a predetermined number of bit errors within a chunk. If the chunk cannot be corrected, then the IOM provides indication to all PFMs downstream that the chunk is defective. Under such conditions, the PFMs select a chunk from the non-defective switch fabric.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2004Publication date: April 21, 2005Applicant: Chiaro Networks Ltd.Inventors: Thomas McDermott, Harry Blackmon, Tony Brewer, Harold Dozier, Jim Kleiner, Gregory Palmer, Keith Shaw, David Traylor, Dean Walker
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Publication number: 20040231597Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for the dry fluxing of at least one component and/or solder surface via electron attachment. In one embodiment, there is provided a method for removing oxides from the surface of a component comprising: providing a component on a substrate wherein the substrate is grounded or has a positive electrical potential to form a target assembly; passing a gas mixture comprising a reducing gas through an ion generator comprising a first and a second electrode; supplying an amount of voltage to at least one of the first and second electrodes sufficient to generate electrons wherein the electrons attach to at least a portion of the reducing gas and form a negatively charged reducing gas; and contacting the target assembly with the negatively charged reducing gas to reduce the oxides on the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Inventors: Chun Christine Dong, Wayne Thomas McDermott, Richard E. Patrick, Alexander Schwarz
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Publication number: 20040226831Abstract: An apparatus and a method comprising same for removing metal oxides from a substrate surface are disclosed herein. In one particular embodiment, the apparatus comprises an electrode assembly that has a housing that is at least partially comprised of an insulating material and having an internal volume and at least one fluid inlet that is in fluid communication with the internal volume; a conductive base connected to the housing comprising a plurality of conductive tips that extend therefrom into a target area and a plurality of perforations that extend therethrough and are in fluid communication with the internal volume to allow for a passage of a gas mixture comprising a reducing gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2004Publication date: November 18, 2004Inventors: Chun Christine Dong, Wayne Thomas McDermott, Alexander Schwarz, Gregory Khosrov Arslanian, Richard E. Patrick, Gary A. Orbeck, Donald A. Seccombe