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Charles Speller, Flower Mound, TX US
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20130149150 | Preventing Rotation of a Fixed Ring of a Swashplate - According to one embodiment, a rotor system, comprise a mating element, a sleeve, a first swashplate ring, a locking element, and a second swashplate ring. The mating element having a first plurality of grooves a first plurality of ridges. The sleeve is positioned inside the mating element such that the sleeve prevents rotation of the mating element about the sleeve while allowing the mating element to translate along the sleeve. The sleeve has a second plurality of grooves mating with the first plurality of ridges and a second plurality of ridges mating with the first plurality of grooves. The first swashplate ring is positioned around the mating element, and the locking element prevents. the first swashplate ring from rotating about the sleeve. The second swashplate ring is rotatable about the sleeve. | 06-13-2013 |
Charles A. Speller, Newark, NJ US
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20090184828 | Automatic driver alert device and associated method - A driver alerting device includes body that is adapted to be worn around a driver's neck. The driver alerting device is configured to emit alert signals when a triggering event is detected. The alert signals are configured in such a manner to adequately notify the driver of the dangerous driving condition. The triggering event may be defined by a position of the driver's head/neck regions, such as when the chin or jaw line dip as the driver begins to fall asleep at the wheel. A neck position determining mechanism is provided for alerting the driver when his/her neck/head has dropped below a minimum threshold level. If such an event has occurred, at least one alert signal is emitted for notifying the driver of the dangerous situation. | 07-23-2009 |
David J. Speller, Houston, TX US
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20120261130 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTILATERAL CONSTRUCTION AND INTERVENTION OF A WELL - A multilateral access system for a multilateral well including a main well bore and at least one lateral well bore includes a tubular workstring having an inner string and an outer string. The outer string includes a diverter body having a cylindrical housing with a lateral window, the diverter body being shaped and dimensioned to direct the inner string the lateral window and into the at least one lateral well bore. The system is used by positioning the tubular workstring within a multilateral bore. The method further includes positioning the diverter body such that the window of the diverter body faces a milled casing window of the lateral well bore and moving the inner string upwardly above the diverter body. Subsequently, the inner string is lowered back though the diverter body, wherein the diverter body exerts a lateral force on a lower end of the inner string urging the lower end of the inner string toward the milled casing window. | 10-18-2012 |
John Speller, Hamburg DE
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20140321947 | FASTENING ARRANGEMENT FOR PLATE-SHAPED FACING COMPONENTS, FACING ARRANGEMENT AND AIRCRAFT OR SPACECRAFT - The present disclosure relates to a fastening arrangement for plate-shaped facing components. The fastening arrangement includes at least one profiled rail comprising legs in a cross-section, an intermediate space being formed between these legs and configured to hold a peripheral portion of at least one of the facing components. A first one of the legs of the profiled rail includes at least one opening which extends into the first leg in a transverse direction of the profiled rail. The fastening arrangement also includes at least one fixing element which is equipped with at least one extension. The extension is designed such that it can be pressed into the opening in the first leg to fix the facing component so that the extension protrudes into the intermediate space and portions thereof come into frictional contact with the peripheral portion of the facing component held in the intermediate space. | 10-30-2014 |
Michael Speller, Aurora CA
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20120170996 | ADHESIVE APPLICATION MODULE FOR A BATCHER UNIT IN A BOOK BLOCK FINISHING MACHINE - A batcher unit for a book block finishing machine can include a plurality of receiving members. Each receiving member can be operable to receive and stack a corresponding plurality of sheets. The batcher unit can also include a plurality of adhesive applicators. At least one adhesive applicator can be associated with each receiving member. Each adhesive applicator can be displaceable relative to its associated receiving member to apply adhesive to at least one edge of the stack of sheets in the receiving member to form a book block, and each adhesive applicator can be operable to be independently displaceable with respect to the other adhesive applicators. | 07-05-2012 |
20120181739 | ADJUSTABLE CONVEYOR APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BOOK BLOCK FINISHING MACHINE - An apparatus for conveying a plurality of sheets into a receiving member includes receiving member and a conveyor for conveying a plurality of sheets into the receiving member so that the sheets are stacked one upon another to form a book block. The conveyor can have a downstream end that is moveable relative to the stack of sheets in the receiving member. The apparatus can also include an actuator connected to the conveyor that is operable to move the downstream end of the conveyor relative to the stack of sheets in the receiving member. | 07-19-2012 |
20120251270 | BOOK BLOCK FINISHING MACHINE - A book block finishing machine includes a forming unit to receive a printed web and a sheeting unit downstream from the forming unit to receive the web and to separate the web into at least one plurality of sheets. The machine also includes a batcher unit that includes at least one hopper to receive and stack each plurality of sheets to form at least one book block. The batcher unit also includes at least one adhesive applicator. Each adhesive applicator is operable to apply adhesive to at least one edge of each book block to bind together the plurality of sheets forming each book block. | 10-04-2012 |
20130084146 | BATCHER UNIT IN A BOOK BLOCK FINISHING MACHINE AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME - A batcher unit for a book block finishing machine can include at least one receiving member to receive a plurality of sheets and stack the plurality of sheets into a book block having a binding face lying in a binding plane. The batcher unit can also include at least one adhesive applicator to apply adhesive to the at least one binding face of the book block to bind together the edges of plurality of sheets. The adhesive applicator can be moveable in relative to the binding plane and can direct a stream of adhesive toward the binding plane along a first adhesive axis when the adhesive applicator is in a first position, and along a second adhesive axis when the adhesive applicator is in a second position. The first and second adhesive axes can intersect the binding plane at respective angles. | 04-04-2013 |
Robert Speller, Cheddington Buckinghamshire GB
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20120224666 | TOMOSYNTHESIS APPARATUS AND METHOD - An X-ray inspection system is mounted around conveyor ( | 09-06-2012 |
Robert Speller, Croddington GB
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20080232550 | Intelligent adaptive x-ray imaging system - A method and an arrangement for an intelligent adaptive x-ray imaging system, in which the exposure conditions of the object to x-rays is dynamically controlled and optimized in real-time in order to provide the optimum diagnostic information. The arrangement splits the imaging beam into two separate fan beams that scan over the object in a single pass, where the first beam (scout) collects information from the object, that is analyzed to control the intensity or spectral quality or spatial distribution of the second beam (I-ImaS). The CMOS image sensors deployed in the arrangement are able to process detected information either on-chip or within a field programmable gate array, so as to compute a measure related to the diagnostic value of the information. | 09-25-2008 |
Robert Speller, Bedfordshire GB
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20140233697 | X-RAY IMAGING - A method of aligning masks for phase imaging or phase contrast imaging in X-ray apparatus using a pixel-type X-ray detector makes use of non-idealities of all real detectors. A mask may be provided before the sample to generate beams, adjacent to the pixels of the detector or both. The method includes moving the mask into a plurality of translational position increments and identifying the increment for which the intensity has a maximum or minimum. The identified value of the increment may vary over the pixels of the detector. Alignment positions are selected in which steps in a plot of the increment over the area of the detector are minimised and/or aligned with the rows and columns of pixels. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233699 | PHASE IMAGING - A method of phase imaging uses X-ray beams having edges overlapping with pixels. A phase image may be obtained from first and second images using one or more X-ray beam, the first image being measured with the first edge but not the second edge of each X-ray beam overlapping the corresponding pixel(s) and the second image being measured with the second edge but not the first edge overlapping the corresponding pixel(s). The gradient of the X-ray absorption function may be calculated and a proportional term included in the image processing to calculate a quantitative phase image. | 08-21-2014 |
Robert D. Speller, Cheddington GB
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20100054415 | PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING - Phase contrast imaging is achieved using a sample mask | 03-04-2010 |
Sylvia Speller, Nijmegen NL
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20100304425 | METHOD FOR THE EX VIVO ANALYSIS OF A CELL AND APPARATUS THEREFORE - The invention provides a method for ex vivo analysis of a cell ( | 12-02-2010 |
Tessa Louise Speller, Victoria AU
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20100062408 | Training Aid - A training aid for practicing inserting a needle in a vein, the aid including: | 03-11-2010 |