Ervin, CA
Daniel Ervin, Escondido, CA US
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20110115713 | FOLDING MOBILE DEVICE - A method and apparatus for a folding wireless device is disclosed. The wireless device may have a first housing and a second housing. Each housing may have a keyboard and a display. The housings may be connected by a hinge assembly which is operable to position the wireless device in an open or a closed configuration. Each display may be connected to each respective housing by a display support assembly operable to position the displays in a retracted position or an extended position. The display support assemblies may be further operable to tilt the displays toward a longitudinal axis formed by the housings, which may be in the open configuration. | 05-19-2011 |
Daniel R. Ervin, Escondido, CA US
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20100079355 | MULTI-PANEL DEVICE WITH CONFIGURABLE INTERFACE - A multi-panel device is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the device includes a first hinge coupled to a first panel and coupled to a second panel. The first panel includes a first display surface and the second panel includes a second display surface. The second hinge is coupled to the second panel and coupled to a third panel that includes a third display surface. The device also includes a sensor coupled to the first hinge to detect a relative orientation of the first panel to the second panel. The device includes a processor responsive to the sensor to detect a device configuration. The processor is configured to adjust a user interface displayed at the first display surface, the second display surface, and the third display surface based on the detected device configuration. | 04-01-2010 |
20100085274 | MULTI-PANEL DEVICE WITH CONFIGURABLE INTERFACE - A multi-panel device with a configurable interface is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the device includes a hinge rotatably coupled to a first panel of the device via a first pin and rotatably coupled to a second panel of the device via a second pin. The first pin is engaged within a slot of the first panel to enable a lateral movement of the first panel relative to the second panel such that the first panel has a first range of motion relative to the second panel when the hinge is in an extended configuration and a second range of motion when the hinge is in a retracted configuration. The first range of motion is larger than the second range of motion. | 04-08-2010 |
Eric N. Ervin, San Diego, CA US
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20120139564 | Method and Apparatus for Single Side Bilayer Formation - An apparatus for single-sided bilayer formation includes a first fluid chamber including a sidewall and a second fluid chamber extending through the sidewall. A barrier wall separates the first and second fluid chambers and includes a nanopore therein across which a planar lipid bilayer (PLB) is formed. In use, an electrolyte is added to the first and second fluid chambers and a lipid/organic solvent mixture is added to the first fluid chamber to form a lipid/organic solvent layer. The electrolyte level within the first fluid chamber is adjusted such that the lipid layer is raised above the barrier wall and a PLB is formed. Electrolyte levels may be adjusted manually or utilizing a fluid level regulator with or without feedback control. Optionally, the apparatus may be in the form of a nanopore array. The apparatus may be incorporated into an ion channel sensing system. | 06-07-2012 |
Jim Ervin, San Jose, CA US
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20140269741 | TRANSPARENT FLOW BASED APPLICATION NAVIGATOR - In one embodiment, a network frame is received at flow aware navigator between a client computer and a server computer. The flow aware navigator is configured to determine whether the network frame should be forwarded to one or more network services for processing before forwarding the network frame to the server computer. If the flow aware navigator determines that the network frame should be forwarded to one or more network services for processing before forwarding the network frame to the server computer, the flow aware navigator forwards the network frame to the one or more network services for processing. In response to receiving the processed network frame from the network services, the flow aware navigator then forwards the processed network frame to the server computer. | 09-18-2014 |
John Lawrence Ervin, San Diego, CA US
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20080294695 | Use of XML for a modular system used to study label free biomolecular interactions - The use of XML in the context of a system of instrument modules used to study label free binding interactions. This includes provisions for computer to instrument communication using XML, intramodule communication using XML, a data format in XML and for automated firmware testing using XML. | 11-27-2008 |
20080301632 | Controller programmed with graphical language driving molecular sensor - An easy way of introducing a controller into an instrument used to study biomolecular interactions without labels. By introducing a controller, which may be programmed using a graphical programming language, into the system the development time for that system can be made much shorter. | 12-04-2008 |
20090036327 | Method for chemical treatment of porous silicon surface - A method which renders the 3D surface of the insides of the pores of porous silicon biochip appropriate for conducting studies on biomolecule interactions without labels. | 02-05-2009 |
20090081694 | Modified well plates for molecular binding studies - Microtiter plates modified to permit their use for molecular binding studies. | 03-26-2009 |
20100150781 | Optical sensor and methods for measuring molecular binding interactions - Optical sensor for the measurement of molecular binding interactions. Preferred embodiments provide real-time measurements of kinetic binding and disassociation of molecules including binding and disassociation of protein molecules with other protein molecules and with other molecules. In preferred embodiments ligands are immobilized within pores of a porous silicon interaction region produced in a silicon substrate, after which analytes suspended in a fluid are flowed over the porous silicon region. Binding reactions occur when analyte molecules diffuse closely enough to the ligands to become bound. In preferred embodiments both ligands and analytes are delivered by computer controlled robotic fluid flow control techniques to the porous silicon interaction regions through microfluidic flow channels. | 06-17-2010 |
20100178435 | Methods and systems for manufacturing polycrystalline silicon and silicon-germanium solar cells - The present invention relates to a novel, unconventional methods and systems for the fabrication of silicon on silicon-germanium photovoltaic cell applications. In some embodiments high purity gaseous and/or liquid intermediate compounds of silicon (or silicon germanium) are converted directly to polycrystalline films by a thermal plasma chemical vapor deposition process or by a thermal plasma spraying technique. The intermediate compounds of silicon (or silicon germanium) are injected into the thermal plasma source where temperatures range from 2,000 K to 20,000 K. The compounds dissociate and silicon (or silicon germanium) is deposited onto substrates. Polycrystalline films having densities approaching the bulk value are obtained on cooling. PN junction photovoltaic cells can be directly prepared by spraying, or doped films after heat treatment are subsequently transformed to viable photovoltaic cells having high efficiency, low cost at a high throughput. In some embodiments a roll-to-roll or a cluster-tool type automated, continuous system is provided. | 07-15-2010 |
20100227414 | Affinity capture mass spectroscopy with a porous silicon biosensor - Affinity Capture-Mass Spectroscopy (AC-MS), an analytical technique which couples the sensitivity of a label-free binding detected biosensor, and the information richness of mass spectroscopy is described. A 3-dimensional porous silicon bio-surface is used to capture proteins, DNA, or small molecules while acquiring a label-free, time resolved signal linearly proportional to the amount of binding. A switch to dissociative buffer conditions then frees the captured molecule for analysis by mass spectroscopy. In particular, techniques for use with electrospray mass spectroscopy are described. | 09-09-2010 |
Ronald G. Ervin, Encino, CA US
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20110050395 | UTILITY MONITORING SYSTEM - A utility monitoring system, methods of implementation, and programs are disclosed which can provide real-time information regarding a utility system, such as a water system of a home or building. The monitoring system can detect operating parameters or attributes of one or more sources in the water system and create a user-defined output selected so as to motivate and inspire conservation. For example, the system can output a monetized analysis of the usage of the water system. Further, the system can be configured to provide alarms in response to possible leaks when no period of zero usage is detected and/or in response to operating parameters that exceed a predetermined range of acceptable values. The system can control one or more of the sources in response to an alarm, allowing the system to shutoff or otherwise control the sources in the water system. | 03-03-2011 |
Timothy R. Ervin, Napa, CA US
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20160053503 | FIBER REINFORCED ANCHORS AND CONNECTORS, METHODS OF MAKING ANCHORS AND CONNECTORS, AND PROCESSES FOR REINFORCING A STRUCTURE - A method of anchoring surface mounted strengthening systems to a structural member being repaired/strengthened or connecting the surface mounted strengthening systems to adjacent structural members to provide force-transfer or terminating a surface-mounted strengthening system includes drilling a hole in an existing structural member and inserting a portion of a fiber-reinforced anchor or connector into the hole in the existing structural member. The anchor or connector includes a bundle of fibers/rovings, and the portion includes rovings encapsulated in a pre-cured adhesive to form a reinforced portion having a desired cross-sectional size and shape to be received by the hole. The method further includes splaying free ends of the fibers/rovings at an end of the anchor and adhering the splayed ends of the fibers/rovings onto the surface-mounted strengthening system of the strengthened member or onto adjacent members with adhesive. | 02-25-2016 |