Patents by Inventor Timothy Lowell Strunk

Timothy Lowell Strunk 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).

  • Micro-Fluid Ejection Devices Having Reduced Input/Output Addressable Heaters
    Publication number: 20080278542
    Abstract: Micro-fluid ejection devices, methods for making micro-fluid ejection, heads, and micro-fluid ejection heads having N actuators on a first substrate and logic capable of driving the N actuators on a second substrate. The ejection heads also have less than N electrical connections between the first and second substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Frank Edward Anderson, Michael John Dixon, Jeanne Marie Saldanha Singh, Timothy Lowell Strunk, George Nelson Woolcott
  • Method of licensing functionality after initial transaction
    Patent number: 7376627
    Abstract: Methods for licensing functionality after an initial transaction are provided. One such method is directed to licensing after an initial transaction of a customer obtaining a supply item including the step of prompting the customer to acquire a usage license for the supply item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Alan Adkins, Timothy P. Craig, Stephen Kelly Cunnagin, Timothy Lowell Strunk, Michael Shayne Wilson
  • Method for Improving Thermal Conductivity in Micro-Fluid Ejection Heads
    Publication number: 20080079779
    Abstract: Methods for improving the thermal conductivity of a substrate for a micro-fluid ejection head and micro-fluid ejection heads are provided. One such head includes a substrate having a thermal conductivity ranging from about 1.4 W/m-° C. to about 148 W/m-° C., a fluid ejection actuator, and a thermal bus thermally adjacent to the substrate and configured to dissipate heat associated with the operation of the actuator. Exemplary modified substrates have improved thermal conductivity characteristics as compared to a corresponding substrate not modified to include the thermal bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Robert Lee Cornell, Robert Wilson Cornell, Curtis Ray Droege, Elios Klemo, Timothy Lowell Strunk, Melissa Marie Waldeck
  • Micro-Fluid Ejection Devices with a Polymeric Layer Having an Embedded Conductive Material
    Publication number: 20070296767
    Abstract: Micro-fluid ejection devices, methods for making a micro-fluid ejection device, and methods for reducing a size of a substrate for a micro-fluid ejection head. One such micro-fluid ejection device has a polymeric layer adjacent a substrate and at least one conductive layer embedded in the polymeric layer. The polymeric layer comprises at least two layers of polymeric material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Frank E. Anderson, Yimin Guan, Carl Edmond Sullivan, Timothy Lowell Strunk
  • Method of licensing functionality after initial transaction
    Publication number: 20040153415
    Abstract: Methods for licensing functionality after an initial transaction are provided. One such method is directed to licensing after an initial transaction of a customer obtaining a supply item including the step of prompting the customer to acquire a usage license for the supply item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Christopher Alan Adkins, Timothy P. Craig, Stephen Kelly Cunnagin, Timothy Lowell Strunk, Michael Shayne Wilson
  • Method for reducing the cost of imaging for customers
    Publication number: 20040138945
    Abstract: A method for reducing the cost of imaging for customers includes the steps of establishing an imaging reward threshold value; determining a rate of consumption of a supply item; comparing the rate of consumption with the imaging reward threshold value; and, based on an outcome of the comparing step, determining whether the customer qualifies to receive an imaging reward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Christopher Alan Adkins, Michael Clark Campbell, Jeffrey Ray Ehlert, Timothy Lowell Strunk