Patents by Inventor William Quinn
William Quinn 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: 20190127838Abstract: A coating deposition assembly includes a substrate having an outer surface with a contoured geometry, a mesh mask having a plurality of apertures and being disposed over a subset of the outer surface of the substrate and spaced apart from the outer surface, and a tool secured to the substrate. The tool is configured to move the substrate and the mesh mask relative to a coating material source such that the mesh mask maintains a fixed spatial relationship with the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventor: Timothy William Quinn, JR.
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Publication number: 20190060939Abstract: A fixture assembly for supporting workpieces in a coating process includes a shaft; and a plurality of fixtures each having a workpiece support surface and a shaft mount defining a shaft mounting structure, wherein the shaft mounting structure extends from the workpiece support surface such that, when the shaft mounting structure is engaged with the shaft, workpiece support surfaces of the fixtures are positioned facing radially outwardly away from the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Timothy William Quinn, Scott A. Elliott
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Publication number: 20180325586Abstract: An ablation catheter comprises a shaft having a proximal end portion, and a distal end portion having a distal end and defining a longitudinal axis of the ablation catheter. An ablation electrode is located at the distal end of the shaft. A mapping region including a plurality of mini-electrode sets disposed about the shaft is located proximal to the ablation electrode. Each of the mini-electrode sets includes a plurality of mini-electrodes. The ablation catheter further includes a deflection region proximate to or within the mapping region.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Brian Stewart, Nathan H. Bennett, Vasiliy E. Buharin, Charles A. Gibson, Kurt E. Guggenberger, William Quinn
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Publication number: 20180245650Abstract: A spring assembly includes a coil spring having one or more helical coils between two longitudinally spaced ends, and an attachment site disposed at at least one of the longitudinally spaced ends. The attachment site includes a casing enclosing the at least one of the longitudinally spaced ends, the casing having a casing passage therethrough between a first side and a second side. The attachment site also includes a washer disposed on the first side and having a washer passage aligned with the casing passage, and a base disposed on the second side and having a base passage aligned with the casing passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Kerry William Quinn, Ed Steffes, JR.
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Patent number: 9931487Abstract: A steering control apparatus includes a first wire and a second wire extending from a distal end of a catheter to a steering assembly. The steering assembly includes a steering knob disposed at an exterior of the handle, a cylindrical steering shaft projecting from the steering knob and into the interior of the handle, a first cylindrical drum disposed within the handle and connected to the first wire, and a second cylindrical drum within the handle and connected to the second wire. The first drum is configured to engage the steering shaft to produce tension on the first wire. The first drum is coaxial with the steering shaft. The second drum is configured to engage the steering shaft to produce tension on the second wire. The second drum is coaxial with the steering shaft and axially adjacent to the first drum.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: William Quinn, Kurt E. Guggenberger, Ian Collier, Justin Callaway, Doron Harlev, Paul DiCesare, Jeffrey P. Radziunas, Greg Hires
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Publication number: 20170370809Abstract: A sampling device is constructed having an airflow path from a size-selective inlet to a device outlet, without using any tubing. The size-selective inlet includes at least one of an impactor, a filter, a cyclone, and an inhalable inlet. The device includes a sampling assembly configured to be removably coupled directly to a sampling device housing (e.g., without using tubing), and an airflow assembly that may be constructed without using tubing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: Daniel D. Miller-Lionberg, Casey William Quinn, John Volckens, David Leith
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Publication number: 20170042473Abstract: A mapping catheter including an elongate catheter body extending from a proximal end to a distal end, a handle connected to the proximal end of the catheter body, an electrode array connected to the distal end, a deployment shaft, and an irrigation system. The catheter body includes at least one lumen. The irrigation system includes a manifold and a thin, polymeric irrigation tube. The manifold is disposed within the handle and is connectable to a source of irrigation fluid. The irrigation tube is connected to the manifold and extends around the deployment shaft from the manifold to the distal end of the catheter through the catheter body lumen. The irrigation tube forms an annular lumen between an inner surface of the irrigation tube and an outer surface of the deployment shaft. The annular lumen is configured to carry irrigation fluid from the manifold to the array.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: William Quinn, Kurt E. Guggenberger, Ian Collier, Justin Callaway, Paul DiCesare, Jeff Radzuinas, Greg Hires
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Publication number: 20170035993Abstract: A steering control apparatus includes a first wire and a second wire extending from a distal end of a catheter to a steering assembly. The steering assembly includes a steering knob disposed at an exterior of the handle, a cylindrical steering shaft projecting from the steering knob and into the interior of the handle, a first cylindrical drum disposed within the handle and connected to the first wire, and a second cylindrical drum within the handle and connected to the second wire. The first drum is configured to engage the steering shaft to produce tension on the first wire. The first drum is coaxial with the steering shaft. The second drum is configured to engage the steering shaft to produce tension on the second wire. The second drum is coaxial with the steering shaft and axially adjacent to the first drum.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: William Quinn, Kurt E. Guggenberger, Ian Collier, Justin Callaway, Doron Harlev, Paul DiCesare, Jeff Radzuinas, Greg Hires
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Publication number: 20170035311Abstract: A deployment control apparatus to control deployment of an array at an end of a catheter includes a pair of walls, a slider assembly, and a deployment shaft. The walls project from a first surface of the interior of a handle. The slider assembly includes a rigid body, an elastomeric element, a tab, and a knob. The elastomeric element is connected to the rigid body and at least partially disposed between the walls to frictionally engage with a surface of each wall. The knob is connected to the rigid body and is configured to maintain the elastomeric element between the walls. The deployment shaft connects the rigid body to the array, wherein a force applied to the knob sufficient to overcome the frictional engagement between the elastomeric element and the surface of each wall causes movement of the slider assembly and the deployment shaft to control deployment of the array.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Kurt E. Guggenberger, William Quinn, Doron Harlev, Ian Collier
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Patent number: 8980000Abstract: In a rotating disk reactor for growing epitaxial layers on substrate or other CVD reactor system, gas directed toward the substrates at gas inlets at different radial distances from the axis of rotation of the disk has both substantially the same gas flow rate/velocity and substantially the same gas density at each inlet. The gas directed toward portions of the disk remote from the axis may include a higher concentration of a reactant gas than the gas directed toward portions of the disk close to the axis, so that portions of the substrate surfaces at different distances from the axis receive substantially the same amount of reactant gas per unit area, and a combination of carrier gases with different relative molecular weights at different radial distances from the axis of rotation are employed to substantially make equal the gas density in each region of the reactor.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2006Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Veeco Instruments Inc.Inventors: Bojan Mitrovic, Alex Gurary, William Quinn, Eric A. Armour
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Publication number: 20140326186Abstract: A VPE reactor is improved by providing temperature control to within 0.5° C., and greater process gas uniformity via novel reactor shaping, unique wafer motion structures, improvements in thermal control systems, improvements in gas flow structures, improved methods for application of gas and temperature, and improved control systems for detecting and reducing process variation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Inventors: Ajit Paranjpe, Alexander Gurary, William Quinn
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Publication number: 20120272892Abstract: A VPE reactor is improved by providing temperature control to within 0.5° C., and greater process gas uniformity via novel reactor shaping, unique wafer motion structures, improvements in thermal control systems, improvements in gas flow structures, improved methods for application of gas and temperature, and improved control systems for detecting and reducing process variation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: Veeco Instruments Inc.Inventors: Ajit Paranjpe, Alexander Gurary, William Quinn
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Patent number: 8103733Abstract: Described is a method for retracting an instant message from a receiver in an instant messaging session. A request is made to retract the instant message from the receiver. If the receiver is present in the session, the instant message is removed from the user interface of the receiver. Notification is sent to the requestor to indicate whether the instant message was successfully retracted and whether the instant message was saved by the receiver. Optionally, the method allows an entry made in an instant messaging log to be retracted when the corresponding instant message is retracted.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2010Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael William Quinn, Malissa Galloway Sullivan, Anthony Eugene Payne, Kevin Joel Solie, Andrew Ortwein
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Patent number: 8062346Abstract: The present invention provides an endoprosthesis comprising a radially distensible, tubular stent comprising opposed open ends and a stent wall structure having opposed exterior and luminal surfaces; and a continuous and seamless ePTFE tubular covering having a node and fibril structure securably disposed to at least one of the stent surfaces, the graft covering comprising at least two laminated layers, wherein the laminated layers include at least one region where the laminated layers are not securely bonded; and the at least one region has a different bending flexibility from the tubular graft covering.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2008Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Fergus Quigley, Robert C. Thistle, William Quinn
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Publication number: 20100235458Abstract: Described is a method for retracting an instant message from a receiver in an instant messaging session. A request is made to retract the instant message from the receiver. If the receiver is present in the session, the instant message is removed from the user interface of the receiver. Notification is sent to the requestor to indicate whether the instant message was successfully retracted and whether the instant message was saved by the receiver. Optionally, the method allows an entry made in an instant messaging log to be retracted when the corresponding instant message is retracted.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Michael William Quinn, Malissa Galloway Sullivan, Anthony Eugene Payne, Kevin Joel Solie, Andrew Ortwein
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Patent number: 7752271Abstract: Described is a method for retracting an instant message from a receiver in an instant messaging session. A request is made to retract the instant message from the receiver. If the receiver is present in the session, the instant message is removed from the user interface of the receiver. Notification is sent to the requestor to indicate whether the instant message was successfully retracted and whether the instant message was saved by the receiver. Optionally, the method allows an entry made in an instant messaging log to be retracted when the corresponding instant message is retracted.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2004Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael William Quinn, Malissa Galloway Sullivan, Anthony Eugene Payne, Kevin Joel Solie, Andrew Ortwein
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Publication number: 20090297344Abstract: A rotor for driving, or being driven by, a fluid has rotor blades that follow a screw thread shape, all portions of all blades having the same screw pitch. This enables the rotor, or a molding pattern for use in making a mold, to be withdrawn from a mold part by a screw motion without damage to the mold part. This helps to make it economically viable to manufacture the rotor by a molding or casting process in which the mold parts are not destroyed to release the rotor, such as injection molding, for example with reinforced plastics. Additionally, in the case of manufacturing methods in which the mold is destroyed to release the rotor, the process of making or assembling the mold may be improved. In some molding processes, the ability to remove the rotor or the pattern by screw motion improves the economic viability of the process by reducing the number of mold parts required.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2008Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: Controlled Power Technologies LimitedInventors: Stephen Henry Hill, Richard William Quinn
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Publication number: 20090163994Abstract: The present invention provides an endoprosthesis comprising a radially distensible, tubular stent comprising opposed open ends and a stent wall structure having opposed exterior and luminal surfaces; and a continuous and seamless ePTFE tubular covering having a node and fibril structure securably disposed to at least one of the stent surfaces, the graft covering comprising at least two laminated layers, wherein the laminated layers include at least one region where the laminated layers are not securely bonded; and the at least one region has a different bending flexibility from the tubular graft covering.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Fergus Quigley, Robert C. Thistle, William Quinn
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Patent number: 7418793Abstract: A novelty footwear item includes a mid-sole foot platform for supporting from below the foot of a user, an outer sole for providing the footwear item with turning traction and a stash assembly sandwiched between the mid-sole foot platform and the outer sole, wherein said stash assembly has disposed therein a slidably removable comb sufficient width, length and depth dimensions for storage therein of loose items.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2007Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Inventors: Bonnie Dominguez, James Darr Burress, Amy Lynn McMahan, Ryan William Quinn, Eric Simmons, Brett D. Ritter
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Publication number: 20080110055Abstract: A novelty footwear construction includes a cassette-like heel component which is sandwiched between a mid-sole and an outsole for supporting the heel of a user, and wherein the heel component includes an upper retainer, a lower retainer, and a hollow flask for supporting the heel of a user and for providing the user with a source of fluid refreshment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2007Publication date: May 15, 2008Applicant: South Cone, Inc.Inventors: John Michael Eades, James Darr Burress, Michael Gass, Ryan William Quinn, Andrew Wickstrom, Joel Steven Barrie, Brett D. Ritter, Eric Simmons, Nicholas Aniko Mann, Philip Harper Ceccarelli