Patents by Inventor William Ormond

William Ormond 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: 5690784
    Abstract: An ion milling end point detection method for etching coated substrates is disclosed comprising the use of a light measurement of light passing through a monitor substrate (e.g., glass coated with the same material at about the same thickness as the coated substrate to be etched) during the milling process, comparing the light values with a reference value and determining the end point of the milling process based on said values. Coated and uncoated monitor substrates may also be employed together and the values compared to determine the end point. An apparatus for determining the end point of an ion milling process is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William Harrington Brearley, Donald Charles Forslund, Douglas William Ormond, Jr., Gerald Joseph Sliss
  • Patent number: 5161594
    Abstract: A system is presented for monitoring, measuring and controlling tie bars in, for example, a die casting machine. In this system, an ultrasonic device is used to monitor stress, strain, load, bending and temperature changes in each of the tie bars (typically four). This ultrasonic system will sound an alarm and/or shut down the die cast machine if bending in individual tie bars exceeds a predetermined limit, or if the variance in the combined tie bar loads exceeds a predetermined critical limit. The system of the present invention is comprised of an ultrasonic device that monitors changes in tie bar length with applied load, transducers that send and receive the ultrasonic signals to and from the tie bars, a microprocessor to select the proper transducer and log the data, and a multiplexer that switches the transducer signals on command from the controlling microprocesor. Preferably, the tie bars are instrumented with four equally spaced transducers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Assignee: Raymond Engineering Inc.
    Inventors: Darryl A. Bolton, Jesse R. Meisterling, William Ormond, Gordon H. Woodhouse
  • Patent number: 4191350
    Abstract: A storable holder for a container such as a glass cup, mug, bottle or can, intended especially for use in boats and mobile homes consists of a recessed base, a yoke member and a ring member. The yoke member is pivoted by an axle to the base member and can be moved between stored and operative positions about a yoke axis, while the ring member is pivoted to the yoke member so as to assume a horizontal position under gravity when in the operative position. The ring member includes two flexible loops of ferromagnetic material (e.g. chain) depending therefrom at right angles to one another and joined together at the bottom so as to engage the bottom of a container in the ring and retain it in the holder. The yoke and ring are accommodated in the recess in the base in their stored positions, and the base includes a magnet against which the flexible loops are stored by magnetic attraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1980
    Inventor: William Ormond
  • Patent number: 4098618
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing semiconductor devices of the type wherein regions of oxide such as silicon oxide recessed or inset in a silicon substrate are formed by oxidation of the silicon with the use of a masking layer protecting locally against the oxidation. In order to prevent the formation of a projecting oxide beak under the masking layer a nitride oxidation mask is applied directly to the substrate which has been previously ion-implanted to a controlled depth and then annealed to generate a dense dislocation network array on the substrate surface to prevent mechanical stress defects which normally would occur when a nitride mask is applied directly to a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1978
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Billy Lee Crowder, William Ralph Hunter, Douglas William Ormond, Jr.
  • Patent number: D256528
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1980
    Inventor: William Ormond
  • Patent number: D263906
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1982
    Inventor: William Ormond