Foster, MI
Brendan J. Foster, Fenton, MI US
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20150252712 | DIESEL EXHAUST FLUID SYSTEMS - A diesel exhaust fluid system for use on a diesel-powered machine, including a storage tank adapted to store diesel exhaust fluid, a receiver, and a shut-off valve. The receiver is disposed in selective fluid communication with the storage tank and is adapted to receive diesel exhaust fluid. The shut-off valve is interposed in fluid communication between the storage tank and the receiver and has: a first position wherein diesel exhaust fluid can flow from the receiver to the storage tank, and a second position wherein flow is interrupted from the receiver to the storage tank. The shut-off valve moves from the first position to the second position in response to predetermined accumulation of diesel exhaust fluid in the storage tank. | 09-10-2015 |
Dave Foster, Clarkston, MI US
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20080252414 | BIOMETRIC ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM INCORPORATING A TOUCHSCREEN ACCESSIBLE AND KIOSK BASED ID STATION OPERATING IN COMBINATION WITH MULTIPLE CRITICAL ASSET RETAINING RACKS AND LOCERS FOR PERMITTING SELECTIVE BIOMETRIC INPUT AND PROCESSOR DRIVEN/WIRELESS RELEASE AUTHORIZATION, MAINTENANCE AND INVENTORY CONTROL OF ANY PLURALITY OF CRITICAL ASSETS AND INCLUDING AN ASSOCIATED COMPUTER WRITEABLE MEDIUM OPERATING WITH THE ID STATION FOR ENABLING ASSET RELEASE, REENTRY AND ASSOCIATED INVENTORY CONTROL - A biometric access control system for tracking critical assets and including an ID station incorporating a biometric input reader, an RFID antenna and reader and a wired or wireless (Bluetooth) communication device. A remotely positioned structure includes either or both of a rack or a locker for holding a plurality of the critical assets in individually locked fashion. A processor control built into the ID station operatively actuates each of a plurality of individual locking mechanisms incorporated into the rack structure or locker, in response to successive biometric and weapon selection inputs communicating with the processor, and for determining at least one of user identification and weapon release authorization prior to the processor actuating the locking mechanism to release the weapon. An associated computer writeable medium operates with the processor and establishes a series of subroutines for establishing user identification, weapons rating, selective weapon release/reentry and associated maintenance and record keeping log reports. | 10-16-2008 |
20120228243 | Biometric Access Control System - A biometric access control system, and a weapon rack. The system may include an identification station including a biometric reader, an equipment identification reader, and a user interface, and an equipment structure in communication with the identification station and including a plurality of locks corresponding to a plurality of storage locations. The weapon rack may include a plurality of storage locations individually storing a plurality of weapons, and including a plurality of weapon stock receiving and supporting pockets to secure the weapons, a plurality of clamps corresponding to the plurality of storage locations to additionally secure the weapons, and a plurality of sensors aligned with the plurality of clamps to indicate presence or absence of the plurality of weapons. | 09-13-2012 |
David Foster, Middleville, MI US
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20090095234 | WATER HEATER AND SYSTEM FOR INSULATING SAME - A water heater and method of assembling the water heater are disclosed. The method includes the step of positioning an insulation member around a water tank. An expandable tube is positioned at an elevation between a top surface and a bottom surface of the insulation member. An outer shell is positioned over the water tank, the insulation member, and the expandable tube to at least partially encapsulate the water tank. The expandable tube is expanded to compress at least a portion of the insulation member against the water tank or the outer shell. Foam insulation is delivered into a space defined adjacent the top surface of the insulation member and between the water tank and the outer shell. The foam insulation is substantially limited from traveling past the expandable tube when the expandable tube is maintained in an expanded state. | 04-16-2009 |
David G. Foster, Clarkston, MI US
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20150102901 | Biometric Access Control System - A biometric access control system includes an equipment structure in communication with an identification station, which includes a processor, a user biometric reader, an equipment identification reader, a user interface to display categories of equipment authorized for use by a user and to receive input from the user including an indication to acquire or return the piece of equipment and a selection of an equipment category and a selection of a specific piece of equipment of the selected equipment category. The equipment structure includes storage locations for storing pieces of equipment assigned to the storage locations, and locks corresponding to the storage locations for individually securing the pieces of equipment to the structure, wherein an authorization signal from the identification station is receivable to release a lock containing the selected specific piece of equipment to permit removal of the selected specific piece of equipment. | 04-16-2015 |
Elmer S. Foster, Ypsilanti, MI US
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20100139582 | Cooling System and Method for a Vehicle Engine - The present invention relates to a cooling system for an internal combustion engine. The cooling system can be used in a hybrid electric vehicle. The system includes electric pumps in fluid communication with the engine and a control unit that governs the pumps. The pumps can be configured to supply fluid to either a cylinder block or cylinder head and backflow fluid through either the cylinder block or cylinder heads. Various arrangements of electrical and mechanical pumps are disclosed to control fluid flow and pressure. | 06-10-2010 |
Joseph E. Foster, Sterling Heights, MI US
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20090090421 | High throughput double valve with reduced outlet pressure during a faulted state - A double valve having inlet, outlet, and exhaust ports maintains an outlet pressure below one percent of inlet pressure during a faulted state while maintaining a relatively small exhaust for reduced overall valve size. Crossover passages receive inlet pressure through main crossover poppets when the respective valve units are not in a deactuated position. When the valve units are in a deactuated position, then the crossover passages receive inlet pressure through respective bypass passages whose flow rate can be controlled independently from the size of the crossover poppets. The use of bypass passages provides particular benefits for double valves for non-press applications which have a ratio of exhaust flow coefficient to inlet flow coefficient that is less than about 2.5. | 04-09-2009 |
Ken Foster, Brighton, MI US
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20080274321 | PLASTIC GLAZING PANEL HAVING UV CURABLE PRINTED PATTERN AND PROCESS FOR MAKING THE SAME - An economical method of manufacturing a plastic glazing panel having a decorative marking and/or opaque border printed from a UV curable ink is presented. This economical method includes the steps of forming a plastic panel; printing an opaque pattern from an ink, the pattern having an A-side and a B-side with the B-side being in contact with the plastic panel; curing the ink in the shape of the printed pattern using UV radiation directed at the ink from both the A-side and B-side; applying a weatherable layer on the B-side of the ink and on the plastic panel; curing the weatherable layer; and depositing an abrasion resistant layer onto the weatherable layer. | 11-06-2008 |
20080280060 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING UNIFORM WEATHERING RESISTANCE OF A COATING - A process for flow, dip, or curtain coating a plastic panel with a weather resistant coating system of relatively uniform thickness is presented. More specifically, the process includes the step of rotating the plastic panel by about 180 degrees between the application of subsequent coating layers in order to minimize the variation in thickness measured near the top and bottom of the coated panel. The coatings are applied to the plastic panel at a predetermined coating angle (φ). | 11-13-2008 |
20140376243 | LIGHT EMISSIVE PLASTIC GLAZING - A window assembly having a first transparent area and a light emissive area. The panel includes a first transparent layer with an ultraviolet blocking layer and an abrasion layer. The light emissive area includes a light emissive layer that may be an organic light emitting display, an electroluminescent display, a polymer light emitting display or a light pipe configured to receive light from a light source. | 12-25-2014 |
Michael Alan Foster, Novi, MI US
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20160078118 | PARALLEL PROCESSING USING A BOTTOM UP APPROACH - A method, apparatus, system, computer program product, and computer readable storage medium provide the ability to parallel process hierarchical data. Hierarchical data is obtained. The hierarchical data is organized in a relationship graph having two or more nodes (consisting of parent nodes that are dependent on child nodes). The relationship graph requires bottom-up processing. Cycles are identified in the relationship graph. The relationship graph is leveled by traversing the graph and assigning all graph nodes into levels. The hierarchical data is processed by parallel processing the nodes in a first level of the one or more levels before parallel processing the nodes in a subsequent level. | 03-17-2016 |
Michael G. Foster, Midland, MI US
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20130065805 | Food Grade Compressor Lubricant - The invention relates to an improved food-grade-lubricant useful as hydraulic oil, circulating oil, drip oil, general purpose oil, grease base oil, cable oil, chain oil, spindle oil, gear oil, and compressor oil for equipment in the food service industry. Specifically, it relates to a composition comprising at least one polyalphaolefin base fluid, at least one food grade polyolester base fluid, and at least one food grade performance additive. | 03-14-2013 |
20140138105 | FIRE SUPPRESSION FLUID CONTAINING A CARBOXYLATE SALT - An aqueous fire sprinkler fluid containing low carbon number carboxylate salts for freezing point depression is described. The salts may be used in conjunction with glycols. The salts decrease the combustibility of the glycol containing fluids and give lower viscosity than higher glycol fluids, both benefitting fire sprinkler systems. These salt solutions are friendly to metal and CPVC pipes and are thus useful for fire sprinkler systems by not causing environmental stress cracking of the CPVC components and not being corrosive to the metal parts. | 05-22-2014 |
Richard E. Foster, Grand Rapids, MI US
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20140023530 | PISTON PUMP FOR LIQUEFIED GAS - A fuel supply system for a vehicle uses a multi-piston LPG injunction pump which pumps fluid from a storage tank to an engine. The multi-piston pump uses the vehicle's pneumatic air system, wherein the pressurized air of this system alternatingly drives at least two pistons of the piston pump. Each piston moves through a pumping stroke and a return stroke wherein one piston moves through a pumping stroke, while the opposite piston moves through a return stroke. The pump includes barrier fluid chambers surrounding each of the pistons wherein during a pumping stroke of one piston, a first barrier fluid chamber associated with the one piston decreases in volume as the piston displaces through its pumping stroke. This reduction in volume of the barrier chamber drives the barrier fluid out of the first barrier fluid chamber into a second barrier fluid chamber associated with the second piston. By driving the barrier fluid into this second chamber, this pressurizes the second chamber and effects the displacing movement of the second piston through its return stroke as the barrier fluid chamber increases in volume through the movement of the second piston. | 01-23-2014 |
20140271262 | SEAL-LESS PISTON PUMP FOR LIQUEFIED GAS - A fuel supply system for a vehicle uses a seal-less piston LPG injunction pump which pumps fluid from a storage tank to an engine. The pump uses the vehicle's pneumatic air system, wherein the pressurized air of this system alternatingly drives an actuator magnetically coupled to a piston. | 09-18-2014 |
Roland Foster, Detriot, MI US
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20130017899 | MODULAR GOLFING SYSTEM - A golf club system includes a club head and a shaft. The club head has a column extending upwardly therefrom, the column having a tooth extending radially outwardly therefrom, the tooth having a first magnet attaching thereto. The shaft has a wall defining a hollow portion that receives the column, the wall having a slot therein the slot having an insertion portion through which the tooth may slide axially and an attachment portion in which the tooth may rotate circumferentially after passing through the insertion portion and a second magnet that engages the first magnet in the tooth after the tooth rotates circumferentially away from the slot. | 01-17-2013 |
Rolando Foster, Detroit, MI US
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20130017899 | MODULAR GOLFING SYSTEM - A golf club system includes a club head and a shaft. The club head has a column extending upwardly therefrom, the column having a tooth extending radially outwardly therefrom, the tooth having a first magnet attaching thereto. The shaft has a wall defining a hollow portion that receives the column, the wall having a slot therein the slot having an insertion portion through which the tooth may slide axially and an attachment portion in which the tooth may rotate circumferentially after passing through the insertion portion and a second magnet that engages the first magnet in the tooth after the tooth rotates circumferentially away from the slot. | 01-17-2013 |
Stanley Neil Foster, Wixom, MI US
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20150339626 | PRODUCT INTELLIGENCE ENGINE - In one example, a product intelligence engine for visualizing matching and non-matching ones of asynchronously-modifiable functional parts, physical parts, and virtual parts of a variant of a product. | 11-26-2015 |
Stephen Foster, Okemos, MI US
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20130288210 | INTEGRATED MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A semi-automated maintenance management system instructs a technician to disassemble a component into parts, compare each part to a reference entry and identify any discrepancies between the part and the reference entry, repair or replace the component according to instructions automatically provided for the discrepancy when a known discrepancy is found, create a disposition when an unknown discrepancy is found, and reassemble the component. | 10-31-2013 |
Theodore W. Foster, Leslie, MI US
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20100300170 | VARIABLE CRIMP ON FLANGE TOOL - A variable crimp on flange (COF) tool is provided for engaging and attaching a weather strip and like structures onto a flange. The COF tool includes a housing with two or more crimp rollers that project therefrom. For example, a fixed roller is mounted to the housing to rotate in a first direction, while a movable roller is mounted to the housing to rotate in a second, opposite direction. The movable roller is axially offset from and movable relative to the fixed roller. A driving mechanism, such as a pneumatic motor, is encased within the housing, and operates to rotate the crimp rollers. A biasing mechanism, such as a pneumatic piston assembly, is also encased within the housing, and operates to move the movable crimp roller relative to the fixed crimp roller. The COF tool is engineered such that the crimp speed, crimp rate, and crimp pressure are independently adjustable. | 12-02-2010 |
Timothy W. Foster, Saline, MI US
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20080229150 | Address translation system for use in a simulation environment - Methods and systems for simulation of a testable system are provided in which a virtual testable system is used. One method includes inputting a system definition file into a translation utility, where the system definition file includes a plurality of physical addresses required for execution of the system definition file in the testable system. The method also includes inputting a memory map file into the translation utility, the memory map representing a virtual memory space for a virtual testable system. The method further includes generating virtual translation information by translating the physical addresses into virtual addresses using the memory map file. | 09-18-2008 |
20080229165 | Address translation system for use in a simulation environment - Methods and systems for simulation of a testable system are provided in which a virtual testable system is used. One method includes inputting a system definition file into a translation utility, where the system definition file includes a plurality of virtual addresses required for execution of the system definition file in a virtual testable system. The method also includes inputting a memory map file into the translation utility, the memory map representing a physical memory space for a testable system. The method further includes generating translation information by translating the virtual addresses into physical addresses using the memory map file. | 09-18-2008 |
Todd P Foster, Kalamazoo, MI US
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20090048327 | Polymorphs of Pyrrole Substituted 2-Indolinone Protein Kinase Inhibitors - The present invention relates to polymorphs of the 3-pyrrole substituted 2-indolinone compound 5-(5-fluoro-2-oxo-1,2-dihydro-indol-3-ylidenemethyl)-2,4-dimethyl-1H-pyrrole-3-carboxylic acid (2-pyrrolidin-1-yl-ethyl)-amide. | 02-19-2009 |
Troy Foster, Troy, MI US
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20080202602 | Valve Controlled Vacuum Assembly - A valve assembly controls a vacuum. The valve assembly includes a poppet valve operatively connected to the vacuum. The poppet valve is movable between an open state and a closed state to turn the vacuum on and off respectively. A pilot valve is fixedly secured to the poppet valve to selectively move the poppet valve between its open and closed states. The valve assembly also includes a bladder system for controlling the pilot valve such that the pilot valve moves the poppet valve to the open position only when the bladder system measures a reduced suction force created by the vacuum to force the vacuum to increase the suction force produced thereby. | 08-28-2008 |
William Frederick Foster, Grand Ledge, MI US
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20110221589 | HAZARD LIGHT FOR A VEHICLE - One embodiment of the invention relates to a light system for use in a vehicle. The light system includes a door coupled to the vehicle, a portion of the door having a surface that is visible from outside of the vehicle when the door is opened, and an illumination device disposed on the door and comprising a plurality of illuminated elements. The illumination device is visible from outside of the vehicle when the door is opened. The illuminated elements are capable of being illuminated in a pattered sequence after the door is opened. | 09-15-2011 |
20120013132 | LOW EMISSIONS HYBRID VEHICLE - One embodiment of the invention relates to a power system for a vehicle. The power system includes a first power source that is configured to provide power to the wheels of the vehicle. The power system further includes a second power source, an electrical system powered by the second power source, and an accessory powered by the second power source. The first power source does not provide power to the electrical system or to the accessory. | 01-19-2012 |