Patents by Inventor William C. Ward

William C. Ward 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).

  • Patent number: 8785357
    Abstract: The present Invention relates to the use of a compound in a lubricating composition as an engine oil antiwear and/or extreme pressure agent, wherein the compound is a heterocycle having a hydrocarbyl group containing 6 to 40 carbon atoms, wherein the heterocycle is either (i) a heterocycle compound having a functional group selected from the group consisting of at least one of an ester, an amide, a salt and an acid, or (ii) a pyrimidine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick E. Mosier, Jason R. Brown, Matthew D. Gieselman, Calvin W. Schroeck, Seth Crawley, William Barton, William C. Ward
  • Patent number: 8410030
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lubricating composition containing an alkali metal borate. The invention further provides for a method of lubricating a device with grease or a metalworking fluid by employing the lubricating composition containing the alkali metal borate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: William C. Ward, Richard A. Denis
  • Publication number: 20120214716
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lubricating composition containing an alkali metal borate. The invention further provides for a method of lubricating a device with grease or a metalworking fluid by employing the lubricating composition containing the alkali metal borate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: THE LUBRIZOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: William C. Ward, Richard A. Denis
  • Patent number: 8193130
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lubricating composition containing an alkali metal borate. The invention further provides for a method of lubricating a device with grease or a metalworking fluid by employing the lubricating composition containing the alkali metal borate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: William C. Ward, Richard A. Denis
  • Publication number: 20110190180
    Abstract: The present Invention relates to the use of a compound in a lubricating composition as an engine oil antiwear and/or extreme pressure agent, wherein the compound is a heterocycle having a hydrocarbyl group containing 6 to 40 carbon atoms, wherein the heterocycle is either (i) a heterocycle compound having a functional group selected from the group consisting of at least one of an ester, an amide, a salt and an acid, or (ii) a pyrimidine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: THE LUBRIZOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Patrick E. Mosier, Jason R. Brown, Matthew D. Gieselman, Calvin W. Schroeck, Seth Crawley, William Barton, William C. Ward
  • Publication number: 20100113312
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lubricating composition containing an alkali metal borate. The invention further provides for a method of lubricating a device with grease or a metalworking fluid by employing the lubricating composition containing the alkali metal borate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: THE LUBRIZOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: William C. Ward, Richard A. Denis
  • Publication number: 20090093384
    Abstract: The invention relates to an industrial gear formulation containing a high TBN overbased detergent that results in decreasing micropitting for industrial gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: William C. Ward, Brian M. O'Connor, James N. Vinci
  • Patent number: 6564552
    Abstract: A free-piston device has a stabilized piston drift. A piston having a frequency of reciprocation over a stroke length and with first and second sides facing first and second variable volumes, respectively, for containing a working fluid defining an acoustic wavelength at the frequency of reciprocation. A bypass tube waveguide connects the first and second variable volumes at all times during reciprocation of the piston. The waveguide has a relatively low impedance for steady flow and a relatively high impedance for oscillating flow at the frequency of reciprocation of the piston, so that steady flow returns fluid leakage from about the piston between the first and second volumes while oscillating flow is not diverted through the waveguide. Thus, net leakage about the piston is returned during each stroke of the piston while oscillating leakage is not allowed and pressure buildup on either the first or second side of the piston is avoided to provide a stable piston location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: William C. Ward, John A. Corey, Gregory W. Swift
  • Patent number: 6451745
    Abstract: Continuously variable transmission can be lubricated by supplying to them a composition of (a) an oil of lubricating viscosity; (b) a dispersant; and (c) a detergent. At least one of the dispersant (b) and the detergent (c) is a borated species, and the amount of boron present in the composition is sufficient to impart improved friction and anti-seizure properties to the composition when employed in said transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventor: William C. Ward
  • Patent number: 6164073
    Abstract: Energy transfer apparatus has a resonator for supporting standing acoustic waves at a selected frequency with a steady flow process fluid thermodynamic medium and a solid medium having heat capacity. The fluid medium and the solid medium are disposed within the resonator for thermal contact therebetween and for relative motion therebetween. The relative motion is produced by a first means for producing a steady velocity component and second means for producing an oscillating velocity component at the selected frequency and concomitant wavelength of the standing acoustic wave. The oscillating velocity and associated oscillating pressure component provide energy transfer between the steady flow process fluid and the solid medium as the steady flow process fluid moves through the resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Gregory W. Swift, Robert S. Reid, William C. Ward
  • Patent number: 5858929
    Abstract: A composition for use in lubricants and function fluids to provide improved anti-shudder and shudder durability properties to an automatic transmission. The composition comprises alkoxylated fatty amines as well as a mixture of other friction modifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: James L. Sumiejski, William C. Ward, Mitsuo Higashi, Craig D. Tipton
  • Patent number: 5151559
    Abstract: This is a semiconductor chip in which the conductive path between the chip and the lead frame via wires can be easily and reproduceably improved. This is accomplished by improving the bond between the wires and the lead frame members to which the wires are joined and by creating additional contacts between each wire and its respective lead even if the bonded contact breaks or fails at or immediately adjacent to the bonding point. This is accomplished by placing an insulating layer on the active surface of each chip, carrying input and output bonding pads thereon, to which lead frame conductors have been connected by bonding wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1992
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: H. Ward Conru, Gary H. Irish, Francis J. Pakulski, William J. Slattery, Stephen G. Starr, William C. Ward
  • Patent number: 5086018
    Abstract: A method of making a semiconductor chip in which the conductive path between the chip and the lead frame via wires can be easily and reproduceably improved. This is accomplished by improving the bond between the wires and the lead frame members to which the wires are joined and by creating additional contacts between each wire and its respective lead even if the bonded contact breaks or fails at or immediately adjacent to the bonding point. This is accomplished by placing an insulating layer on the active surface of each chip, carrying input and output bonding pads thereon, to which lead frame conductors have been connected by bonding wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1992
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: H. Ward Conru, Gary H. Irish, Francis J. Pakulski, William J. Slattery, Stephen G. Starr, William C. Ward
  • Patent number: 4965654
    Abstract: A plastic encapsulated semiconductor package in which the connecting lead frame members are deposited over the surface of the device together with a covering ground plane so as to provide enhanced electrical and thermal coupling of the members and the device and so reduce the signal to noise ratio by a factor or greater than three over that available in other similar plastic encapsulated packages while simultaneously improving the transfer of heat out of the package.In particular, a lead frame having a plurality of conductors is attached to a major active surface of a semiconductor chip via a ground plane which, in the preferred embodiment, is a multilayered structure containing an insulated integral, uniform ground plane positioned between the lead frame and the chip and adhesively and insulatively joined to both of them. Wires connect terminals on the major active surface of the semiconductor chip to the ground plane and to selective lead frame conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Friedrich A. Karner, Douglas W. Phelps, Jr., Stephen G. Starr, William C. Ward
  • Patent number: 4916519
    Abstract: In an encapsulated semiconductor module in which a semiconductor chip, having a major surface with terminals thereon, is deposed within the encapsulating material, a plurality of self-supporting, unitary, discrete, and continuous lead frame conductors formed of metal sheet stock are positioned at various locations around the chip and cantilevered out of the encapsulating material, so that discrete wires can be used to connect respective ones of said conductors to respective ones of said terminals. In the present invention excessively long bonding wires are avoided by connecting a selected one of said lead frame conductors to a parallel conductor by a jumper wire and connecting the parallel conductor to the desired terminal with a short wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: William C. Ward
  • Patent number: 4907734
    Abstract: A compression bond is formed between a gold or gold alloy wire and lead/tin solder by forming a head on the wire and forcing the head into a pad of the solder by thermosonic, or thermocompression, or ultrasonic compression bonding techniques. This forms a gold/tin intermetallic compound which in turn forms the bond. The head of the wire is maintained out of contact with any underlying surface, and surrounded by the solder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1990
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: H. Ward Conru, Stephen E. Gons, Gordon C. Osborne, Jr., Douglas W. Phelps, Jr., Stephen G. Starr, William C. Ward
  • Patent number: 4878108
    Abstract: A package for heat dissipation of electronic components mounted on a strip of thermally conductive material. A plastic body is molded to encapsulate the component and strip with extended mold ejector pins employed to form a recess such that access to the thermally conductive strip is obtained. An external heat sink is mounted onto the plastic body. A clip or through bolt establishes thermal contact between the external heat sink and the internal thermally conductive strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas W. Phelps, Jr., William C. Ward
  • Patent number: 4862245
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a packaged semiconductor chip which effectively dissipates heat and has improved performance. The packaged chip has a plurality of lead frame conductors extending through the encapsulating material which are adhesively joined to the semiconductor chip, preferably by means of an alpha barrier. The conductors cover a substantial portion of the surface of the chip and thereby serve as conduits for the dissipation of heat from the chip. Wires are bonded to the conductors and extend from the conductors to the terminals on the semiconductor chip. In a preferred embodiment the semiconductor chip terminals are located along a center line of the chip. This allows for short connecting wires which in turn contribute to faster chip response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard P. Pashby, Douglas W. Phelps, Jr., Sigvart J. Samuelsen, William C. Ward
  • Patent number: 4796078
    Abstract: An electronic assembly having a semiconductor device back bonded to a first lead frame. An adhesive insulative tape is placed on the first lead frame and the device. A second lead frame is mounted on the adhesive tape. Electrical contacts by wire bonds are established between the device and the first and second lead frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1989
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas W. Phelps, Jr., Robert J. Redmond, William C. Ward
  • Patent number: 4714953
    Abstract: An improved thermal management technique is disclosed for use in semiconductor device packaging utilizing ultrasonic welding to attach aluminum wires of predetermined diameter at one end directly to preselected hot spots on the device and at the other end to thermally conductive package elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marvin L. Buller, Douglas L. Lumbra, Douglas W. Phelps, Sigvart J. Samuelsen, William C. Ward