Patents by Inventor Wojciech Zalewski
Wojciech Zalewski 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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Patent number: 11548702Abstract: A cap (10) for adding additives to a container. The base (12) is a round platform (20) with a vertical axis (18), a container attachment (30), a series of truncated sawteeth (60) extending around the perimeter (36), a through aperture (80) between the bottom and top surfaces, and a spike (84) extending from the aperture. A cylindrical tank (14) has sealed compartments (110) filled with additives arranged in a circle around the axis. A mechanism (16, 32) holds the base and tank together and biases the tank to the base. As the tank rotates, cogs (144) in the tank slide up the tooth ramps (64) to push the tank away from the platform until the cogs reach the tooth plateaus (66). The cogs pass the plateaus where the tank is pulled toward the platform and the spike punctures a seal covering an opening in the aligned compartment.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: ZM2 Design, LLCInventor: Wojciech Zalewski
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Publication number: 20220242631Abstract: A cap (10) for adding additives to a container. The base (12) is a round platform (20) with a vertical axis (18), a container attachment (30), a series of truncated sawteeth (60) extending around the perimeter (36), a through aperture (80) between the bottom and top surfaces, and a spike (84) extending from the aperture. A cylindrical tank (14) has sealed compartments (110) filled with additives arranged in a circle around the axis. A mechanism (16, 32) holds the base and tank together and biases the tank to the base. As the tank rotates, cogs (144) in the tank slide up the tooth ramps (64) to push the tank away from the platform until the cogs reach the tooth plateaus (66). The cogs pass the plateaus where the tank is pulled toward the platform and the spike punctures a seal covering an opening in the aligned compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventor: Wojciech Zalewski
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Patent number: 10717570Abstract: A cap for bottles that allows a user to select additives. A base has an axis with a coaxial cavity, typically threaded, for attachment to the bottle. A housing rotates and reciprocates on the axis between a selecting position where the housing and base are pulled apart and an operative position where the housing and base are pushed together. Compartments with additives and one or more vacant locations are arranged in a circle around the axis inside the housing. An opening in the compartment bottom is covered by a frangible seal. As the housing rotates, the compartment openings or vacant location align with an aperture in the base that extends into the cavity. Spikes extending from the aperture puncture the compartment opening seal when the housing is pushed to the operative position, allowing the additive to flow into the bottle. The vacant locations provide positions for storage and transportation.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: ZM2 Design, LLCInventor: Wojciech Zalewski
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Publication number: 20190270559Abstract: A cap for bottles that allows a user to select additives. A base has an axis with a coaxial cavity, typically threaded, for attachment to the bottle. A housing rotates and reciprocates on the axis between a selecting position where the housing and base are pulled apart and an operative position where the housing and base are pushed together. Compartments with additives and one or more vacant locations are arranged in a circle around the axis inside the housing. An opening in the compartment bottom is covered by a frangible seal. As the housing rotates, the compartment openings or vacant location align with an aperture in the base that extends into the cavity. Spikes extending from the aperture puncture the compartment opening seal when the housing is pushed to the operative position, allowing the additive to flow into the bottle. The vacant locations provide positions for storage and transportation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventor: Wojciech Zalewski
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Patent number: 10093463Abstract: A cap for bottles that allows the user to select one or more additives. A base has an axis with a coaxial cavity, typically threaded, for attachment to the bottle. A housing rotates and reciprocates on the axis. A mechanism biases the housing from the base on the axis in a storage position. Pushing the housing against the biasing mechanism moves the housing to an operative position. Compartments arranged in a circle around the axis inside the housing hold the additives. An opening in the compartment bottom is covered by a frangible seal. As the housing rotates, the compartment openings align with an aperture in the base that extends into the cavity. Sharp spikes extending from the aperture puncture the seal when the housing is pushed to the operative position, thereby creating a hole for the additive to flow into the bottle.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: ZM2 Design, LLCInventor: Wojciech Zalewski
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Publication number: 20180178957Abstract: A cap for bottles that allows the user to select one or more additives. A base has an axis with a coaxial cavity, typically threaded, for attachment to the bottle. A housing rotates and reciprocates on the axis. A mechanism biases the housing from the base on the axis in a storage position. Pushing the housing against the biasing mechanism moves the housing to an operative position. Compartments arranged in a circle around the axis inside the housing hold the additives. An opening in the compartment bottom is covered by a frangible seal. As the housing rotates, the compartment openings align with an aperture in the base that extends into the cavity. Sharp spikes extending from the aperture puncture the seal when the housing is pushed to the operative position, thereby creating a hole for the additive to flow into the bottle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2017Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventor: Wojciech Zalewski
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Publication number: 20120102600Abstract: We disclose a DNA cassette and a method of increasing the productivity of cereal plants and/or the root mass of these plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Inventors: Anna Nadolska-Orczyk, Petr Galuszka, Wojciech Zalewski, Waclaw Orczyk
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Patent number: 6507723Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a generally fluidized toner in an image developer system utilized in an image forming system are provided. The method includes introducing a fluid, such as atmospheric air, into a chamber containing toner particles to fluidize the toner. The fluid-like characteristics of the fluidized toner may be used to delump and transport the toner, and to detect the toner level.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2001Date of Patent: January 14, 2003Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Wojciech Zalewski
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Patent number: 6487388Abstract: An image forming system having two simplex print engines is provided that transfers and fuses two images on either side of a substrate in a single nip. The two images can be formed simultaneously at the single nip.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2001Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Sotos M. Theodoulou, Robert A. Moore, Wojciech Zalewski, Sarbjit Parhar, Jeffrey P. Belbeck
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Publication number: 20020098015Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a generally fluidized toner in an image developer system utilized in an image forming system are provided. The method includes introducing a fluid, such as atmospheric air, into a chamber containing toner particles to fluidize the toner. The fluid-like characteristics of the fluidized toner may be used to delump and transport the toner, and to detect the toner level.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2001Publication date: July 25, 2002Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventor: Wojciech Zalewski
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Publication number: 20020098017Abstract: An image forming system having two simplex print engines is provided that transfers and fuses two images on either side of a substrate in a single nip. The two images can be formed simultaneously at the single nip.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2001Publication date: July 25, 2002Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Sotos M. Theodoulou, Robert A. Moore, Wojciech Zalewski, Sarbjit Parhar, Jeffrey P. Belbeck
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Patent number: 5629761Abstract: In a printing system a first endless imaging member, such as a belt or drum, moves past an imaging station where it receives a dry toner image, and contacts a second endless imaging member to transfer the toner image to the second member. The first and the second imaging members are each operated isothermally with at least the second member at a temperature T2 higher than the softening temperature of the toner which, in turn, is above the temperature T1 of the first member. The first member has a hard abrasion-resistant and preferably smooth surface with a surface energy under about 20 dynes per centimeter, while the second member is both softer and has a higher surface energy, but still below that of the ultimate imaging substrate, e.g., paper, and has a thickness and compressibility that allow it to conform. In a preferred system, a charge-deposition cartridge deposits a latent charge image on a dielectric layer to attract and hold toner particles.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1995Date of Patent: May 13, 1997Inventors: Sotos M. Theodoulou, Robert A. Moore, Wojciech Zalewski
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Patent number: 5567001Abstract: An improved seat for a disabled driver or passenger of an automotive vehicle, is disclosed. The seat comprises a seat cushion including a stationary cushion component and a transport cushion component, the transport cushion component being constrained for movement in a path between a retracted position and an extended position. The transport cushion component is controlled by an operational system that includes a member having an extension member telescopically extendable from an end thereof and cable-drive means for moving the component between the retracted position and the extended position when under constant manual control. The manual actuator is accessible to constant manual control at the transport cushion and is recessed therein.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1994Date of Patent: October 22, 1996Assignee: Enhancements Unlimited, Inc.Inventor: Wojciech Zalewski
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Patent number: 5301993Abstract: An improved seat for a disabled driver or passenger of an automotive vehicle, is disclosed. The seat comprises a seat cushion including a stationary cushion component and a transport cushion component, the transport cushion component being constrained for movement in a path between a retracted position and an extended position. The transport cushion component is controlled by an operational system that includes a member having an extension member telescopically extendable from an end thereof and cable-drive means for moving the component between the retracted position and the extended position when under constant manual control. The manual actuator is accessible to constant manual control at the transport cushion and is recessed therein.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1992Date of Patent: April 12, 1994Assignee: Enhancements Unlimited, Inc.Inventor: Wojciech Zalewski
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Patent number: 5147104Abstract: A seat for a disabled driver or passenger at the door of an automotive vehicle, the door moving between closed and open positions at a doorway through which the seat is accessible. The seat comprises a seat cushion including a stationary cushion component remote from the doorway and a transport cushion component adjacent to the doorway, the transport cushion component being constrained for movement in a path between a retracted position and an extended position. The transport cushion component, when in extended position, is located downwardly and outwardly of its retracted position. The transport cushion component is controlled by an operational system that includes a manual actuator for maintaining movement between the retracted position and the extended position when under constant manual control. The actuator is accessible to constant manual control at a handle bar that moves with the transport cushion.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1991Date of Patent: September 15, 1992Assignee: Enhancements Unlimited, Inc.Inventor: Wojciech Zalewski
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Patent number: 5040832Abstract: A seat for disabled driver or passenger at the door of an automotive vehicle, the door moving between closed and open positions at a doorway through which the seat is accessible. The seat comprises a seat cushion including a stationary cushion component remote from the doorway and a lift cushion component adjacent to the doorway, the lift cushion component being constrained for movement in a path between a retracted position and an extended position. The lift cushion component, when in extended position, is located upwardly of its retracted position. The lift cushion component is controlled by an operational system that includes a manual actuator for maintaining movement between the retracted position and the extended position when under constant manual control. The actuator is accessible to constant manual control at the window sill of a front door of the automotive vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1990Date of Patent: August 20, 1991Assignee: Enhancement Unlimited, Inc.Inventor: Wojciech Zalewski
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Patent number: 4951070Abstract: There is described a cartridge mounting for locating a cartridge in a printer adjacent a print drum for receiving a charge image from the cartridge. The cartridge includes a spine and has a longitudinal axis substantially parallel to the axis of rotation of the print drum and an inner face adjacent the image receiving portion of the drum surface. The mounting has provision for locating the cartridge radially in relation to the axis of rotation of the drum and for biasing the cartridge towards the drum surface. Further provision is made for locating the cartridge tangentially in opposition to the direction of travel of the drum surface. Spacers extend from the inner face of the cartridge to abut the drum surface at a sliding contact, thus spacing the cartridge a predetermined distance from the surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1989Date of Patent: August 21, 1990Assignee: 501 Delphax SystemsInventors: Sotos M. Theodoulou, Andrzej Maczuszenko, Sabir H. Bajwa, Duncan J. Gibbons, Wojciech Zalewski