Patents by Inventor William Peter

William Peter 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).

  • Publication number: 20140165951
    Abstract: Adding dome-shaped protuberances, or polydomes, to an engine system increases the structural integrity of the engine component to which they are added and allows noise radiated in the engine system to be reduced in certain regions of the frequency spectrum without incurring a significant increase in the mass of the engine part to which they are added, which may result in a longer solidification time during the mold injection process. The size and spatial arrangement of polydomes relative to one another can be further adjusted to reduce noise within the engine system and polydomes may be reinforced with ribs to increase the structural stiffness of plastic engine components. Because plastic engine components are created using an injection mold process during the manufacturing process, added surface features (e.g. polydomes and ribs) are continuous with the underlying planar surface to which they are added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad Ali Moetakef, John G. Kilby, Edward William Peters, Jeff Richard Kosko, Abdul Sami Siddiqui
  • Publication number: 20140163846
    Abstract: A method of operating an engine including varying a level of ignition energy provided to the engine during an engine start is provided. For example, the ignition energy level may be varied responsive to the amount of alcohol in fuel delivered to the engine in order to improve cold engine starting with higher alcohol fuels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mark William Peters, Jason Eugene Devries, John M. Roth, John Hedges
  • Publication number: 20140150386
    Abstract: Described herein is a substrate including a central longitudinal axis, a first support web, and a second support web. A sinuous web may be positioned between the first support web and the second support web. The sinuous web may include transverse web portions and bridging web portions, where the bridging web portions alternatively connect ends of adjacent transverse web portions. The sinuous web may be connected to the first support web by support legs extending between bridging web portions and a surface of the first support web. The sinuous web may be connected to the second support web by support legs extending between bridging web portions and a surface of the second support web. A support leg length to distance between transverse web portions ratio may be from about 1.0 to about 4.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventors: William Peter Addiego, Michael Edward Badding, Paul Martin Elliott, Michael Fischer, Thomas Dale Ketcham, Denis Pavlovich Lukanin, Richard Curwood Peterson
  • Publication number: 20140149263
    Abstract: A user registers with a server system and provides user data (e.g., personal information). The server system divides the user data into multiple components. Each device in a set of devices receives a component of the user data for storage. When the user accesses a web page through a host device that includes one or more data fields into which user data can be entered, the host device receives the components of the user data from the devices in the set. The host device reassembles the user data based on the received components. When an authorization gesture is performed by the user with a storage device from the set of devices, the host device inserts the user data in the data field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Mashinery Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Matthew Charles Denton, Henry William Peter Beadle, Joseph Alan Narai, Simon Peter Narai, James Ian Murchison
  • Publication number: 20140144571
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for bonding refractory substrates, such as zircon substrates, without the use of a bonding agent. Exemplary methods include (a) providing a plurality of refractory components, each component having at least one surface to be bonded, (b) polishing each surface to be bonded to a surface roughness (Ra) of 200 nm or finer, (c) contacting the surfaces to be bonded to form an unbonded refractory substrate, (d) firing the unbonded refractory substrate, and (e) subjecting the surfaces to be bonded to a compressive force during firing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventors: William Peter Addiego, Michael John Bennett, Michael Patrick Carson, Jeffrey Scott Davis, Martin Herbert Goller, Benjamin Zain Hanson, Tracey Lynn Timmons
  • Patent number: 8716165
    Abstract: A method for providing a catalyst on a substrate is disclosed comprising providing a first washcoat comprising a soluble washcoat salt species, a polar organic solvent, and an insoluble particulate material, contacting the first washcoat with a substrate to form a coated substrate, and then contacting the coated substrate with a second washcoat comprising an oxide or an oxide-supported catalyst to physisorb, chemisorb, bond, or otherwise adhere the oxide or the oxide-supported catalyst to the coated substrate. Also disclosed is a catalyst on a substrate comprising: a substrate; an anchor layer comprising a soluble washcoat salt species, a polar organic solvent, and an insoluble particulate material; and a second layer comprises an oxide or an oxide-supported catalyst. The catalyst on a substrate can be in either green or fired form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: William Peter Addiego
  • Patent number: 8693284
    Abstract: An apparatus for creating pressure pulses in the fluid of a bore hole is described. The preferred embodiment takes the form of a mud pulser apparatus having a signalling valve controlled by a variable pilot valve. The forces on the signalling valve are balanced and controlled by the flow of mud through the variable orifice of the pilot valve. The arrangement is such as to act like a hydraulic amplifier, and results in the signalling valve being compensated for variable flow rates. In the preferred embodiment, the pilot valve has rotary vanes that allow it to be self-cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sondex Limited
    Inventors: Victor Laing Allan, William Peter Stuart-Bruges
  • Publication number: 20140094645
    Abstract: The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to percutaneous interface lines and related methods for implanting such lines. Each percutaneous interface line has an internal component coupleable to a percutaneous component with an internal connector. The percutaneous component can have a Y-shaped end having two arms, one arm having a lumen and another arm having at least one wire. The methods for implanting a percutaneous interface line include the use of a tunneling tool having a flexible rod and a replaceable dilator tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Sunshine Heart Company Pty LTD
    Inventors: Daniel Lafontaine, William Peters, Martin Cook, Tolga Tas
  • Publication number: 20140055029
    Abstract: An electric lamp (1) has two pairs of external connection pins (5) adapted for connecting the lamp to a voltage source for powering an internal lighting module (3). Each pair of pins is disconnected from the lighting module by an open switch (6) unless a non-zero electric voltage is applied to the pair and causes the switch to close. The lamp is therefore safe to handle even in a condition where one pair of pins is connected and the other is not. The lamp may be fitted in a switch-start fixture, providing an ohmic connection between two pins in different pairs, as well as a rapid-start fixture, with a capacitive connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: William Peter Mechtildis Marie Jans
  • Publication number: 20140049189
    Abstract: In a lighting device, sets of LEDs are employed using the natural characteristics of the LEDs to resemble incandescent lamp behavior when dimmed, thereby Obviating the need for sophisticated controls. A first set of at least one LED produces light with a first color temperature, and a second set of at least one LED produces light with a second color temperature. The first set and the second set are connected in series, or the first set and the second set are connected in parallel, possibly with a resistive element in series with the first or the second set. The first set and the second set differ in temperature behavior, or have different dynamic electrical resistance. In various embodiments, the sum of the currents provided to the first and second sets may be substantially equal to a magnitude of an input current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Berend Jan Willem TER WEEME, William Peter Mechtildis Marie JANS, Theo Gerrit ZIJLMAN, Gazi AKDAG, Erik Martinus Hubertus Petrus VAN DIJK, PAUL JOHANNES MARIE JULICHER, Bertrand Johan Edward HONTELE
  • Patent number: 8654400
    Abstract: A computer program for, or method of, generating 1-bit image data from multiple-bit image data, by a process which comprises the steps of: receiving multiple-bit image data comprising multiple-bit pixel values; and deriving from the multiple-bit pixel values 1-bit image data comprising “on” and “off pixel values, each pixel value of the 1-bit image data corresponding to a pixel of an output medium, which pixel an output device would attempt to mark when printing the 1-bit image data if the pixel value were “on”, the 1-bit image data producing when printed an image constituted by dots, each dot corresponding to a plurality of pixel values of the 1-bit image data, which pixel values correspond to a block of M*N horizontally and/or vertically adjacent pixels of an output is medium, at least one of M and N being greater than one, wherein for at least some of the dots, where M or N is equal to one, a pixel value corresponding to a first or last pixel of a row of horizontally adjacent pixels, or to a first or last
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Inventor: Andrew William Peter Cave
  • Patent number: 8654401
    Abstract: A process for receiving data comprising multiple-bit pixel values and deriving therefrom 1-bit image data comprising “on” and “off” pixel values, each corresponding to a pixel on an output medium, which an output device would attempt to mark when printing the 1-bit image data if the pixel value were “on”, the 1-bit image data producing when printed an image constituted by a plurality of densities of dots, the dots being arranged such that, at least for densities of dots greater than a first threshold density, at least a majority of dots form a pair with at least one horizontally or vertically adjacent dot, and for densities of dots less than a second threshold density, the image is substantially free of blocks of 2*2 horizontally and vertically adjacent dots, the second threshold density being greater than the first threshold density. Additionally or alternatively dot arrangements are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Inventor: Andrew William Peter Cave
  • Publication number: 20140022527
    Abstract: A lithographic apparatus including a substrate table position measurement system and a projection system position measurement system to measure a position of the substrate table and the projection system, respectively. The substrate table position measurement system includes a substrate table reference element mounted on the substrate table and a first sensor head. The substrate table reference element extends in a measurement plane substantially parallel to the holding plane of a substrate on substrate table. The holding plane is arranged at one side of the measurement plane and the first sensor head is arranged at an opposite side of the measurement plane. The projection system position measurement system includes one or more projection system reference elements and a sensor assembly. The sensor head and the sensor assembly or the associated projection system measurement elements are mounted on a sensor frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Engelbertus Antonius Fransiscus VAN DER PASCH, Joost Jeroen Ottens, Emiel Jozef Melanie Eussen, Johannes Henricus Wilhelmus Jacobs, William Peter Van Drent, Frank Staals, Lukasz Jerzy Macht, Erik Willem Bogaart
  • Patent number: 8619235
    Abstract: A level sensor configured to measure a height level of a substrate arranged in a measurement position is disclosed. The level sensor comprises a projection unit to project multiple measurement beams on multiple measurement locations on the substrate, a detection unit to receive the measurement beams after reflection on the substrate, and a processing unit to calculate a height level on the basis of the reflected measurement beams received by the detection unit, wherein the projection unit and the detection unit are arranged next to the substrate, when the substrate is arranged in the measurement position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: William Peter Van Drent
  • Publication number: 20130321869
    Abstract: Computer programs generating 1-bit image data from multiple-bit image data that, when printed, produces a colour image constituted by dots. Printing apparatuses include a printer and a computer programmed with such a computer program. Methods for printing a colour image derived from multiple-bit image data include converting the multiple-bit image data into 1-bit image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventor: Andrew William Peter Cave
  • Publication number: 20130319947
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and apparatus that treats waste water, in particular waste water containing surfactants and including grey water, for local reuse. According to the invention, the process comprises a) collecting waste water in a reservoir; b) injecting gas into waste water from the reservoir to form bubbles in the waste water; c) separating the bubbles, and any entrained contaminants, from the waste water; d) drying the separated bubbles and returning any water recovered from the dried bubbles to the waste water undergoing treatment; e) optionally repeating steps b) to d) to achieve the desired purification of the waste water; and f) collecting the purified waste water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventor: William Peter Keith Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20130320869
    Abstract: A lighting driver includes a shunt switch circuit configured to detect when an input of the lighting driver is connected to mains power without a ballast, and in response thereto to disable the lighting driver, and further configured to detect a type of ballast connected to the input of the lighting driver when the input of the lighting driver is connected to the ballast, and to regulate a bus voltage of the shunt switch circuit according to the detected type of ballast; and a switching mode power supply configured to receive the bus voltage of the shunt switch circuit and in response thereto to supply a lamp current to drive one or more light emitting diodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: William Peter Mechtildis Marie Jans, Haimin Tao, Tijmen Cornelis Van Bodegraven, Patrick John Zijlstra
  • Patent number: 8584650
    Abstract: A method of operating an engine including varying a level of ignition energy provided to the engine during an engine start is provided. For example, the ignition energy level may be varied responsive to the amount of alcohol in fuel delivered to the engine in order to improve cold engine starting with higher alcohol fuels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mark William Peters, Jason Eugene Devries, John M. Roth, John Hedges
  • Patent number: 8587205
    Abstract: In a lighting device, sets of LEDs are employed using the natural characteristics of the LEDs to resemble incandescent lamp behavior when dimmed, thereby obviating the need for sophisticated controls. A first set of at least one LED produces light with a first color temperature, and a second set of at least one LED produces light with a second color temperature. The first set and the second set are connected in series, or the first set and the second set are connected in parallel, possibly with a resistive element in series with the first or the second set. The first set and the second set differ in temperature behavior, or have different dynamic electrical resistance. The light device produces light with a color point parallel and close to a blackbody curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Berend Jan Willem Ter Weeme, William Peter Mechtildis Marie Jans, Theo Gerrit Zijlman, Gazi Akdag, Erik Martinus Hubertus Petrus Van Dijk, Paul Johannes Marie Julicher, Bertrand Johan Edward Hontele
  • Patent number: 8578906
    Abstract: A system for an internal combustion engine is provided. The system includes an oil pan, a pick up tube; and a spacer. The spacer is positioned vertically above a static oil level and secured to a surface of the oil pan. Further, the spacer may include an opening that may communicate with oil when the oil is in a tilt orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shuya Dan Yamada, David Matthew Gasior, Edward William Peters, Dallis Sun, Karl Robert Klomp, Michael David Deegan