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Andrew John Chalk, Dallas, TX US
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20140122215 | TECHNIQUES TO MAXIMIZE RETAIL TRAFFIC - Techniques for maximizing retail traffic are provided. A retailer defines or provides a service to automatically define a promotion to increase retail traffic and business. The promotion is dynamically delivered to specific consumers based on defined criteria for selecting the specific consumers. The promotion is automatically turned off when a desired level of traffic is reached at the retailer. | 05-01-2014 |
Chris Chalk, Essex GB
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20110315879 | IR DETECTOR SYSTEM AND METHOD - An Infra Red detector system and method are disclosed for a SAR ADC capable of operation at low power and for use on a Focal Plane Array FPA) detector. High power consumption makes known converter approaches unattractive for use on Focal Plane Array (FPA) detectors that are to be cooled to cryogenic temperatures. Many such ADCs are used on a FPA detector (e.g., up to one ADC per column of the imaging array) to digitise image data for the whole array at standard frame rates. Increased power makes cooling difficult to achieve or unattractive at system level. An exemplary system as disclosed can use an adaptive approach to set the comparator gain and settling time depending on the dynamics of the input signal, thereby achieving specified performance whilst reducing overall power. | 12-29-2011 |
Christine Chalk, Crawley GB
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20160083833 | METHOD OF APPLYING A THERMAL BARRIER COATING TO A METALLIC ARTICLE AND A THERMAL BARRIER COATED METALLIC ARTICLE - A thermal barrier coated metallic article includes a platinum-group metal enriched outer layer on the article. The surface of the outer layer has a microstructure including a plurality of projections extending away from the metallic article. A thin adherent layer of oxide is formed on the outer layer of the metallic article. A ceramic coating is provided on the oxide layer on the surface on and around the projections. The ceramic coating includes a plurality of columnar ceramic grains which extend through the full thickness of the ceramic coating. The grains are arranged in clusters separated by gaps. The grains deposited around the projections are generally blocked. The projections reduce the stress in the ceramic coating near the interface with the adherent layer of oxide and also reduce the stress in the adherent layer of oxide and hence increase the working life of the thermal barrier coating system. | 03-24-2016 |
Clive Chalk, Owestry GB
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20090049864 | Liquid Collector and Redistributor For Packed Columns - An apparatus for collecting/redistributing a flow of liquid descending in an exchange column containing a layer of packing that includes: a plurality of horizontally spaced longitudinal members, each member having an inner side and an upper end adjacent a bottom of the layer of packing; at least one plate vertically spaced from the bottom of the layer of packing, each plate adapted to collect a portion of the flow of the descending liquid and having opposing ends connected to the inner sides of a pair of the longitudinal members; and at least one vapor riser in fluid communication with the plate and adapted to receive and transmit at least a portion of a stream of a vapor ascending in the exchange column from below to above the plate, each vapor riser having a cap vertically spaced apart from the bottom of the layer of packing. | 02-26-2009 |
David Jonathan Chalk, Slatington, PA US
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20130125568 | Compressor Assemblies and Methods to Minimize Venting of a Process Gas During Startup Operations - Systems and methods are provided for compressing a cryogenic fluid using a multi-stage compressor. Coolant in a first coolant loop cools cooling jackets of the compression stages and/or inter-stage heat exchangers and warms a pre-compression heat exchanger. The temperature of the coolant in the first heat exchanger is moderated by ambient-air heat exchange. The process fluid is electively cooled by one of the inter-stage heat exchangers after each of the compression stage if the temperature of the process fluid is above a temperature criterion. This enables the system to operate through a transient period (cool down period) without venting process fluid. The inter-stage heat exchangers are preferably bypassed when the system reaches steady-state operating temperature. | 05-23-2013 |
20140090554 | Wear-Compensating Sealing Ring Assembly - A seal assembly for a reciprocating piston system is provided that compensates for uneven wear rates between the ring components of the seal assembly by initially sizing a portion of the width of the sealing ring larger than the width of the annular recess in the cover ring, this portion at least partially overlapping the gap in the cover ring but not the gap in the sealing ring. | 04-03-2014 |
Julie A. Chalk, Hickory, NC US
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20120288246 | DURABLE OPTICAL FIBER RIBBONS AND METHODS OF MAKING OPTICAL FIBER RIBBONS - Durable optical fiber ribbons are formed by promoting a strong bond between fiber ink layers and ribbon matrix material. During curing of the ink layer desired oxygen levels are maintained in the curing environment of the manufacturing process. | 11-15-2012 |
Julie Ann Chalk, Hickory, NC US
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20150104137 | DURABLE OPTICAL FIBER RIBBONS AND METHODS OF MAKING OPTICAL FIBER RIBBONS - Durable optical fiber ribbons are formed by promoting a strong bond between fiber ink layers and ribbon matrix material. During curing of the ink layer desired oxygen levels are maintained in the curing environment of the manufacturing process. | 04-16-2015 |
Mark Chalk, Fort Wayne, IN US
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20100279664 | SELF-MONITORED HOME SECURITY SYSTEM USING MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS - A system and method for providing home security services may include receiving, at a local alarm controller, a cordless sensor signal indicative of an alarm sensor being triggered. The cordless sensor signal may be communicated over one of multiple cordless telephone channels. In response to receiving the sensor signal, a signal indicative of the cordless telephone channel may be communicated to a mobile telephone of a user to notify the user that a sensor associated with the cordless telephone channel was triggered. | 11-04-2010 |
Mary Beth Chalk, Austin, TX US
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20120221345 | HELPING PEOPLE WITH THEIR HEALTH - Among other things, a method includes, on successive occasions over a period of time, gathering measured data and self-reported data that represent a health state of a particular participant in a health goal system, using the gathered data in a machine learning engine to select, for a current occasion, a current intervention to be self-applied by the particular participant, the machine learning engine having learned from data gathered from a group of participants on successive occasions, the effectiveness of sequences of self-applied interventions in improving the health states of participants who belong to respective groups that share similar characteristics, the current intervention being expected to affect, for the particular participant (i) a behavior, (ii) the health state, or (iii) a health awareness, and providing the particular participant, electronically through a user interface, information that will encourage the particular participant to engage in the selected self-applied current intervention. | 08-30-2012 |
20140278474 | Helping People with Their Health - Among other things, a computer-implemented method includes, on successive occasions over a period of time, gathering measured data and self-reported data that represent health states of participants in a health goal system, based on at least some of the gathered data, determining, by machine learning, data representing a relationship between sequences of self-applied interventions and health states of participants who belong to respective groups that share similar characteristics, calculating scores representing characteristics of interactions between participants and the health goal system, and based on the scores and the data determined by machine learning, choosing elements of conversations to be provided to the participants, elements of the conversations being chosen to affect (i) behaviors, (ii) health states, or (iii) health awareness, or a combination of any two or more of them, of the participants, the elements of the conversations comprising questions posed to the participants on user interfaces of electronic devices. | 09-18-2014 |
Paul Gregory Chalk, Corning, NY US
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20140190213 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESSURE CONTROL OF GLASS-MAKING THICKNESS-CONTROL ZONE - Managing pressure within a thickness-control-zone (muffle door) housing ( | 07-10-2014 |
Paul Gregory Chalk, Danville, KY US
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20080276646 | Conformable nosing device for reducing motion and stress within a glass sheet while manufacturing the glass sheet - A conformable nosing device is described herein which conforms to have a bowed shape that substantially matches a bowed shape of a glass sheet and which engages the glass sheet to help minimize the motion of the glass sheet and to help reduce the stress within the glass sheet while the glass sheet is being scored and separated into individual glass sheets. In addition, the conformable nosing device can include a passive nosing device which can be controlled to further help minimize the motion of the glass sheet while the glass sheet is being scored and separated into individual glass sheets. | 11-13-2008 |
20110126591 | Method and Apparatus for Pressure Control of Glass-Making Thickness-Control Zone - Managing pressure within a thickness-control-zone (muffle door) housing ( | 06-02-2011 |
Robert Chalk, Enfield Middx JP
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20090301499 | Device for alleviating snoring - A device for alleviating snoring | 12-10-2009 |
Robert Chalk, St. Albans GB
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20100130279 | SELECTION APPARATUS - A selection apparatus for use with a gaming apparatus having an ordered array of winning areas which are adapted to be selected by selection means, each winning are being associated with one of a plurality of identifiers. The selection apparatus comprises: a first ordered array of alternately offset selection areas; and a second ordered array of alternately offset identifier areas interleaved with the first array such that each area of each array is adjacent to a plurality of areas of the other array. Each identifier area is associated with one of the plurality of identifiers such that the ordering of the identifier areas is the same as the ordering of the winning areas. | 05-27-2010 |
20100203944 | SELECTION APPARATUS - A selection apparatus adapted to be used with a gaming apparatus comprising a set of selectable outcomes. The selection apparatus comprises: a first array of identifier areas; and a second array of selection areas alternately interspaced between the identifier areas of the first array such that each selection area of the second array is adjacent to a plurality of identifier areas of the first array. Each identifier area is associated with one of the selectable outcomes such that each selectable outcome of the set is associated with at least one identifier area. Further, each selection area is associated with the plurality of identifier areas it is adjacent to. | 08-12-2010 |
Simon James Chalk, Redfern AU
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20140190359 | Combination Juicer Blender - A juicer and a blender share a common base. The juicer and blender may share a common motor. The juicer has a spout that discharges into the blender. | 07-10-2014 |
20150230652 | Portafilter for Capsule - Accordingly, there is provided a portafilter having an internal compartment that is adapted to receive a capsule. In one embodiment, an upper compartment has a puncturing component that is free to rotate. | 08-20-2015 |