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Don L. Claps US
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20120111450 | Beverage Mixing and Dispensing Apparatus - This present invention includes an apparatus and a process for mixing two or more beverages and dispensing the same for one or more consumer(s). It is comprised of a primary beverage collection funnel, which is designed to hold a secondary beverage collection funnel or funnels. Attached to the bottom of the collection funnels are beverage transport tubes, primary and secondary respectively. The beverage transport tubes are then connected to either a beverage combining device which has an integrated one way check valve or to a beverage splitting devises which would then in turn have additional beverage transport tubes connected thereto that are then connected to multiple beverage combining devices which have integrated one way check valves. Attached to the bottom of the beverage combining device is a beverage transport tube. Attached to the bottom of the beverage transport tube is a trigger type valve that has the option of being either locked into the open/on position or the trigger type valve may be used in such a way that when the trigger is released, it returns to the closed/off position automatically. And attached to the outlet port of the trigger type valve is a mouthpiece. | 05-10-2012 |
Leonardo Claps, Bologna IT
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20130132008 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF ELECTRIC DEVICES/APPLIANCES - A system for automatic identification of a device or appliance includes: at least one sensor associatable with the device or appliance to be identified, and able to monitor an evolution in time of an electrical quantity indicative of device or appliance energy consumption; an analyzer communicating with the at least one sensor including receiving reports of the monitored electrical quantity, and automatically identifying the device or appliance by analyzing the evolution in time of the monitored electric quantity. The analyzing calculates a cross-correlation between the evolution in time of the monitored electric quantity and at least one reference pattern representative of at least one sample device or appliance; and when more than one sample device or appliance is included in a candidate list, identifies the device or appliance by performing a selection among the candidates based on characteristic parameters related to the respective calculated cross-correlations. | 05-23-2013 |
Paul G. Claps, Algonquin, IL US
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20160071430 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TRAINING DEVICE AND METHOD - A musical instrument training device has a sensor array cooperating with a remote device and an electronic controller to assist as a guide for finger placement on the strings of the instrument, and to provide feedback on proper finger use and placement, the sensor being removably mountable on an instrument neck. | 03-10-2016 |
Ricardo Claps, Clovis, CA US
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20100165338 | Time-Resolved Spectroscopy System and Methods for Multiple-Species Analysis in Fluorescence and Cavity-Ringdown Applications - A time-resolved spectroscopy system employing a time-division multiplexing optical device with no dispersive optical elements to perform lifetime and concentration measurements in multi-species samples, is disclosed. Some examples include fluorescence and cavity ring-down spectroscopy. The system is unique in its compactness and simplicity of operation. In one embodiment, the system makes use of only one photo-detector and an efficient linear regression algorithm. The system offers a measurement time for multiple species measurements of less than 1 s. The system can also be used to perform fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy. Four methods to de-convolve a multi-component, exponentially decaying optical signal such as obtained with the system disclosed here, are presented. These methods may be applied to the measurement of fluorescence decay lifetimes and cavity ring-down times, the latter used extensively for the measurement of gas and trace-gas concentrations in complex mixtures, via absorption spectroscopy. | 07-01-2010 |
Ricardo Claps, San Jose, CA US
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20080319712 | DISCRETE PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (DPCA) - An optical system employs filtered broad band light for determining the specific components in a material sample. The system forms an r by n matrix C representing r principal components of the measurement to be analyzed at n different frequencies. Each sample contains a known quantity of the different materials in the sample being analyzed where r represents the number of different analytes or components in the sample. The system measures m different samples at n different frequencies, said m samples containing unknown quantities of the material, where “m” is a selected integer representing the number of samples. Using the measured results from the m samples the system forms an n by m matrix P, where P=C·R, and where R is an m by r matrix representing r unknown values of the r principal components which are being measured in the m material samples. The system then solves the equation P=C·R for R by inverting C in the equation | 12-25-2008 |
20100027002 | HIGH-SPEED, RUGGED, TIME-RESOLVED, RAMAN SPECTROMETER FOR SENSING MULTIPLE COMPONENTS OF A SAMPLE AND FOR DIAGNOSTICS OF PATHOLOGICAL SKIN CONDITIONS SUCH AS CANCER - A new architecture for implementing a time-resolved Raman spectrometer is 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than current systems. In one embodiment, the invention employs a rotating optical switch to time multiplex an input signal through multiple band-pass filters and into a single optical detector which is electrically activated only when the filtered input light pulse is about to impact it. | 02-04-2010 |
Ricardo J. Claps, Clovis, CA US
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20130218479 | TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MULTIPLE-SPECIES ANALYSIS IN FLUORESCENCE AND CAVITY-RINGDOWN APPLICATIONS - A time-resolved spectroscopy system employing a time-division multiplexing optical device with no dispersive optical elements to perform lifetime and concentration measurements in multi-species samples, is disclosed. Some examples include fluorescence and cavity ring-down spectroscopy. The system is unique in its compactness and simplicity of operation. In one embodiment, the system makes use of only one photo-detector and an efficient linear regression algorithm. The system offers a measurement time for multiple species measurements of less than 1 s. The system can also be used to perform fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy. Four methods to de-convolve a multi-component, exponentially decaying optical signal such as obtained with the system disclosed here, are presented. These methods may be applied to the measurement of fluorescence decay lifetimes and cavity ring-down times, the latter used extensively for the measurement of gas and trace-gas concentrations in complex mixtures, via absorption spectroscopy. | 08-22-2013 |