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Alexandre Laforest, Laval CA
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20150307013 | Tank Trailer Operating System - A ground-level access operating system for a tank trailer. The ground-level system includes a cleaning/washing device, a venting device, an inspection access port, and device for loading/unloading the compartments. All devices in this system are located on the side of the semi-trailer, within an operator's reach on the ground. The devices locations are meant to be reachable to ensure operator safety. The operator of the trailer can execute all work without having to reach the top of the tank. Both of venting and cleaning/washing devices have their access port on top of the tank but are hooked up at a position proximate ground level, for an easy-to-reach operation and inspection by on operator on the ground. | 10-29-2015 |
Andre Laforest, St-Amable CA
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20130296548 | SUPERABSORBENT SURFACE-TREATED CARBOXYLATED POLYSACCHARIDES AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME - Surface-treated carboxyalkylated polysaccharides comprising a biobased content of at least 82% are described herein. The surface-treated carboxyalkylated polysaccharides comprise a CRC of at least 18 g/g, a FSC of at least 26 g/g, and an AUL at 0.7 psi of at least 14 g/g. Processes for the manufacture of surface-treated carboxyalkylated polysaccharides are also described herein. | 11-07-2013 |
André Laforest, Longueuil CA
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20100042063 | ABSORBENT HYDROPHOBIC BORONATE GALACTOMANNAN COMPLEXES AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME - Absorbent boronate-galactomannan complexes comprising a hydrophobic group are disclosed. The boronate-galactomannan complexes are solid materials capable of gel forming upon contacting with liquids. The boronate-galactomannan complexes are particularly suitable for absorbing liquids. | 02-18-2010 |
André Laforest, Longueuil CA
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20100036337 | ABSORBENT HYDROPHOBIC BORONATE GALACTOMANNAN COMPLEXES AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME - Absorbent boronate-galactomannan complexes comprising a hydrophobic group are disclosed. The boronate-galactomannan complexes are solid materials capable of gel forming upon contacting with liquids. The boronate-galactomannan complexes are particularly suitable for absorbing liquids. | 02-11-2010 |
20100042063 | ABSORBENT HYDROPHOBIC BORONATE GALACTOMANNAN COMPLEXES AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME - Absorbent boronate-galactomannan complexes comprising a hydrophobic group are disclosed. The boronate-galactomannan complexes are solid materials capable of gel forming upon contacting with liquids. The boronate-galactomannan complexes are particularly suitable for absorbing liquids. | 02-18-2010 |
Bradley J. Laforest, Yorkville, IL US
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20080298977 | Machine retarder - A system is provided for controllably absorbing energy associated with a machine. The system may include a power source configured to provide power to a hydraulic pump, wherein the hydraulic pump is configured to provide a flow of fluid to a hydraulic dissipation circuit and to one or more implement system hydraulic cylinders, and wherein the hydraulic dissipation circuit is configured to generate a load associated with the hydraulic pump. The system may also include at least one valve configured to provide the flow of fluid to the hydraulic dissipation circuit in response to one or more control signals and a controller configured to receive an input signal from an operator actuated device, and generate the one or more control signals based on the input signal. | 12-04-2008 |
Earl Laforest, Mirabel CA
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20120151732 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TREATING FLOORBOARDS - A method and system for treating floorboards. A plurality of panels are provided and comprise a plurality of floorboards, each floorboard having a top and bottom surface, and longitudinal and transversal edges. The floorboards are assembled together by at least one of their edges to form the panel. The panel is mechanically dismantled in order to expose each edge of each floorboard. A treatment product is applied to the peripheral edges of the floorboards. The method and system of the invention are particularly suitable for a mass production of floorboards on a production line. The method and system of the invention allow the edges of the boards to be treated separately, for example with a color or shade different than the top and bottom surfaces. | 06-21-2012 |
Jacob J. Laforest, Milan, MI US
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20120098207 | CROSSLINKABLE ULTRAVIOLET (UV) CURED COATING OVER FLOCK FIBERS FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE - A cross-linkable UV curable coating layer disposed over flocked fibers on an automotive component requiring improved squeak and itch resistance and freeze release is provided. The coating layer includes an elongated member having along a pre-determined portion of the member flocked fibers. The elongated member finds application as a weatherstrip or seal. | 04-26-2012 |
20140377475 | CROSSLINKABLE ULTRAVIOLET (UV) CURED COATING OVER FLOCK FIBERS FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE - A cross-linkable UV curable coating layer disposed over flocked fibers on an automotive component requiring improved squeak and itch resistance and freeze release is provided. The coating layer includes an elongated member having along a pre-determined portion of the member flocked fibers. The elongated member finds application as a weatherstrip or seal. | 12-25-2014 |
Luc Laforest, Roberval CA
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20080223045 | Combustor Configurations - The present specification generally relates to improvements to combustors such as burners and engines. In one aspect, the specification presents an acoustically enhanced ejector system which can be used as part of an intake system for a combustor. In another aspect, the specification teaches the use of a combustor combustion chamber as an oscillator to magnify a harmonic frequency of a pulsating frequency of the combustor. In still other aspects, the specification presents a combustion chamber having an inlet with a plurality of tangentially spaced apertures, and an in-line intake system connected to the apertures. | 09-18-2008 |
20120100495 | COMBUSTOR CONFIGURATIONS - The present specification generally relates to improvements to combustors such as burners and engines. In one aspect, the specification presents an acoustically enhanced ejector system which can be used as part of an intake system for a combustor. In another aspect, the specification teaches the use of a combustor combustion chamber as an oscillator to magnify a harmonic frequency of a pulsating frequency of the combustor. In still other aspects, the specification presents a combustion chamber having an inlet with a plurality of tangentially spaced apertures, and an in-line intake system connected to the apertures. | 04-26-2012 |
20120107754 | COMBUSTOR CONFIGURATIONS - The present specification generally relates to improvements to combustors such as burners and engines. In one aspect, the specification presents an acoustically enhanced ejector system which can be used as part of an intake system for a combustor. In another aspect, the specification teaches the use of a combustor combustion chamber as an oscillator to magnify a harmonic frequency of a pulsating frequency of the combustor. In still other aspects, the specification presents a combustion chamber having an inlet with a plurality of tangentially spaced apertures, and an in-line intake system connected to the apertures. | 05-03-2012 |
Luc Laforest, Quebec CA
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20140272733 | LIQUEFIED FUEL COMBUSTOR WITH INTEGRATED EVAPORATOR DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - The method can include injecting fuel from a liquefied fuel source into a combustion chamber having a combustion path, by circulating the fuel out from an inlet conduit into an evaporator housing, along the evaporator housing in a direction opposite the combustion path and across an evaporator element receiving fuel in the liquid state and exposing a multiplied surface of the liquid fuel to heat from the combustion path to evaporate the liquid fuel, and conveying the evaporated fuel into the combustion chamber and into the combustion path. | 09-18-2014 |
Mark Laforest, Austin, TX US
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20090070697 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING SERVERS OF A DATA CENTER - A system and method for monitoring devices such as servers in one or more data centers. In one embodiment of the method a first graphical user interface is displayed on a computer system such as a desktop computer system. The first graphical user interface may include first and second graphical elements corresponding to first and second system racks, respectively, within a data center. The first system rack may include a plurality of computer systems such as servers. The second system rack may also include a plurality of computer systems such as servers. The first graphical element may include first visual information identifying a location of the first system rack on a floor within the data center, and the second graphical element may include second visual information identifying a location of the second system rack on the floor within the data center. | 03-12-2009 |
20100217849 | Automatic Administration of UNIX Commands - Various techniques for automatically administering UNIX commands to target systems are disclosed. One method involves receiving information identifying a UNIX command and additional information identifying one or more target systems. The method then issues N instances of the UNIX command in parallel to the one or more target systems, where N is an integer greater than one. The N instances of the UNIX command are issued automatically, in response to receipt of the information and the additional information. In some situations, issuing the N instances of the UNIX command in parallel involves creating N threads, where each of the N threads is configured to issue a respective one of the N instances of the UNIX command to a respective one of the target systems. | 08-26-2010 |
Mark Laforest, Acton, MA US
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20140051984 | ULTRASOUND PROBE WITH INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS - A hand-held ultrasound system includes integrated electronics within an ergonomic housing. The electronics includes control circuitry, beamforming and circuitry transducer drive circuitry. The electronics communicate with a host computer using an industry standard high speed serial bus. The ultrasonic imaging system is operable on a standard, commercially available, user computing device without specific hardware modifications, and is adapted to interface with an external application without modification to the ultrasonic imaging system to allow a user to gather ultrasonic data on a standard user computing device such as a PC, and employ the data so gathered via an independent external application without requiring a custom system, expensive hardware modifications, or system rebuilds. An integrated interface program allows such ultrasonic data to be invoked by a variety of such external applications having access to the integrated interface program via a standard, predetermined platform such as visual basic or c | 02-20-2014 |
Mark L. Laforest, Granger, IN US
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20080233286 | Method and apparatus for removing carbonized pitch from the surface of a pitch infiltrated disk - A device for removing carbonized pitch from first and second parallel surfaces ( | 09-25-2008 |
20090139807 | Brake assembly having multi-piece core and replaceable friction surfaces - A brake disk ( | 06-04-2009 |
20100084075 | Strength enhancement of carbon-carbon composite brake pads using fiber pre-stressing - This invention relates to an improved carbon-carbon composite material and method of preparation. The carbon-carbon composite material comprises a plurality of carbon fiber substrates that have been joined or consolidated. In the present invention, the carbon fibers are stressed during the preparation of the composite material. The invention comprises adding a low-melting point pitch to the carbon fiber substrates and heat treating the carbon fiber substrates. The fibers tend to shrink more than the pitch during heat-treatment which produces stress in the fibers. This invention enhances the strength of the composite material and improves reliability. | 04-08-2010 |
20120153528 | APPARATUS FOR CARBON FIBER PROCESSING AND PITCH DENSIFICATION - A pitch densification apparatus may be used to form a carbon-carbon composite material. The apparatus may be used to compress a carbon fiber material, and, thereafter, pitch densify the carbon fiber material. The compression and pitch densification of the carbon fiber material may be carried out within the same mold cavity of the pitch densification apparatus. In one example, an apparatus may comprise a mold defining a mold cavity that is configured to receive a material to be densified. The mold cavity is configured to be adjusted from a first volume to a second volume less than the first volume to compress the material in the mold cavity. The example apparatus may further comprise a gas source configured to apply a gas pressure in the mold cavity to force pitch into the material in the mold cavity to densify the material, and a vacuum source configured to create a vacuum pressure in the mold cavity at least prior to the application of the gas pressure. | 06-21-2012 |
Martin Laforest, St.-Jean-Sur-Richelieu CA
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20140173776 | Herbicide-Metabolizing Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenases - The present invention refers to method for producing a transgenic plant with increased herbicide tolerance or resistance as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant, comprising transforming a plant cell or a plant cell nucleus or a plant tissue with a nucleic acid molecule encoding an | 06-19-2014 |
20150322453 | HERBICIDE-METABOLIZING CYTOCHROME P450 MONOOXYGENASES - The present invention refers to method for producing a transgenic plant with increased herbicide tolerance or resistance as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant, comprising transforming a plant cell or a plant cell nucleus or a plant tissue with a nucleic acid molecule encoding an | 11-12-2015 |
Michael F. Laforest, Sturbridge, MA US
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20080253725 | MULTI-LENGTH FLEXIBLE IMAGE BUNDLE - A method for manufacturing an image fiber bundle that includes the steps of aligning a plurality of image fibers into a bundle, bonding the plurality of image fibers in at least three regions to form an image fiber bundle with a useable length and at least one useable sub-length, and inspecting the image fiber bundle for defective image fibers. The image fiber bundle includes flexible regions disposed between the bonded regions and the spacing of the bonded regions corresponds to a plurality of standardized lengths for fiberscopes. | 10-16-2008 |
Omer Laforest, Alma CA
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20110226884 | CABLE HANDLING SYSTEM - A cable handling system has a cable traction unit having a sequence of cable-driving pulleys, a cable path coiling partially around each one of the cable-driving pulleys in the sequence, the cable traction unit being mounted on a rear portion of the vehicle; a cable accumulator unit mounted on the vehicle, having an cable chamber fixed relative to the vehicle and having an annular cable receiving area between a cylindrical outer wall and a cylindrical inner wall, and a cable channel having a first end communicating with the cable traction unit, and a second end communicating with the annular cable receiving area. | 09-22-2011 |
Pierre Laforest, Montreal CA
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20110215621 | REMOVABLE SEATS SYSTEM - The removable seals system has a lirsl vertically movable platform defining opposite upper ami lower sides, a seal member comprising at least one seat and first and second complementary male-female engagement members respectively provided on the first platform and on the scat member. The scat member may be removably installed in an operative position on the upper side of the first platform through a releasable engagement of the first and second male-female engagement members with one an- other. | 09-08-2011 |
Pierre Laforest, Toulouse FR
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20090039871 | PROCEDURE FOR LOCATION OF MOBILE MAGNETIC TARGETS - A procedure for locating a mobile magnetic target ( | 02-12-2009 |
Timothé Laforest, Sivignon FR
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20150332081 | Hyperspectral image acquisition system and method - A system for acquiring a hyperspectral image, including: a grey level image sensor; and a diffuser and dispersive element placed on the optical path between the sensor and a scene, this element including an array of individually-controllable liquid crystal cells, where each cell can receive a control voltage selected from among a series of at least three different control voltages. | 11-19-2015 |