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Brian J. Hitt, Forest Lake, MN US
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| 20120073537 | ENGINE - An engine is described having a crankcase, a liner and a head assembly. The crankcase is split along a plane defining a two part crankcase, where fluid passages are passing through only one of the crankcase portions, so as to not require crossing the split line. A connecting rod also includes a tapered end, and the piston has a complementary carrier receiving the connecting rod. | 03-29-2012 |
Dale K. Hitt, San Jose, CA US
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| 20090007706 | Wireless Sensor Probe - A wireless sensor probe for use in environmental monitoring and control includes a separable probe body and sensor mast. The probe body includes a void configured to house the sensor mast including one or more sensor devices for sensing a soil property surrounding the probe body when the probe body is inserted partially into the ground. The probe body includes a probe top part for encapsulating the probe body and the sensor mast. The sensor mast is inserted into the probe body to form the sensor probe. In another embodiment, a wireless sensor probe includes a housing containing one or more sensor devices. The probe further includes a collar situated near a top portion of the housing being used to anchor the housing to the top of the ground and a gasket formed on the outside perimeter of the housing for securing the housing in the ground. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20100152909 | Irrigation Zone Time Control - A wireless sensor probe for use in environmental monitoring and control includes a separable probe body and sensor mast. The probe body includes a void configured to house the sensor mast including one or more sensor devices for sensing a soil property surrounding the probe body when the probe body is inserted partially into the ground. The probe body includes a probe top part for encapsulating the probe body and the sensor mast. The sensor mast is inserted into the probe body to form the sensor probe. In another embodiment, a wireless sensor probe includes a housing containing one or more sensor devices. The probe further includes a collar situated near a top portion of the housing being used to anchor the housing to the top of the ground and a gasket formed on the outside perimeter of the housing for securing the housing in the ground. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110042480 | Wireless Sprinkler Control - The present invention provides a system and method to control the flow duration and the flow rate of each individual sprinkler head wirelessly in each zone of an automatic sprinkler system. The system comprises a plurality of sensors, preferably wireless, to control the sprinkler heads, either directly or through a controller. The system enables precise control over irrigation times for the areas covered by each sprinkler head. The system also enables each sprinkler head to control its on/off and duration decisions based on receiving data from a sensor within an irrigation zone of an automatic sprinkler system. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110137472 | Control Method Of Wireless Irrigation - A wireless sensor probe for use in environmental monitoring and control includes a separable probe body and sensor mast. The probe body includes a void configured to house the sensor mast including one or more sensor devices for sensing a soil property surrounding the probe body when the probe body is inserted partially into the ground. The probe body includes a probe top part for encapsulating the probe body and the sensor mast. The sensor mast is inserted into the probe body to form the sensor probe. In another embodiment, a wireless sensor probe includes a housing containing one or more sensor devices. The probe further includes a collar situated near a top portion of the housing being used to anchor the housing to the top of the ground and a gasket formed on the outside perimeter of the housing for securing the housing in the ground. | 06-09-2011 |
Darren Hitt, Jericho, VT US
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| 20110214246 | Aeroacoustic Duster - The aero-acoustic duster invention disclosed herein provides for high particle removal rate from surfaces with low energy expenditure relative to competing vacuum-based devices. The device removes particulate matter from a surface using a two-step process: 1. Acoustic radiation is used to break the adhesive bonds between dust and the surface, forcing particles into a mode where they continuously bounce up and down on the surface; and, 2. A bounded vortex is generated over the surface, with suction in the vortex center and jets for blowing air along the periphery. The jets are tilted in the tangential direction to induce vortex motion within the suction region. The vortex is said to be bounded because streamlines originating in the downward jets are entrained back into the central vortex. | 09-08-2011 |
Darren L. Hitt, Jericho, VT US
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| 20100058734 | METHOD OF ENHANCING MICROTHRUSTER PERFORMANCE - Coaxial micronozzle designs are presented. Initial coaxial micronozzle designs utilizing center-body geometries to better exploit pressure thrust show a potential threefold increase in specific impulse under vacuum and near vacuum conditions. | 03-11-2010 |
Donald W. Hitt, Rogers, AR US
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| 20080316692 | Moveable platform for a laptop computer - A moveable platform for a laptop computer has an angled support base to angle the laptop keyboard and elevate the laptop display monitor. The angled support base forms an airgap between the moveable platform and the desktop to dissipate the heat from the laptop computer. A separate cooling fan system integral with the support base can also dissipate the laptop computer heat. Spherical roller assemblies on the bottom of the platform move the laptop computer around the desktop. The spherical roller assemblies have a Teflon™ spherical ball surrounded by a plurality of Delrin™ spherical ball bearings in a Nylon™ semi-spherical cavity. These non-metallic materials provide smooth quiet operation with minimal frictional resistance and are non-abrasive to the desktop surface. A braking mechanism at the front of the moveable platform lifts the front spherical roller assemblies from contact with the desktop to lock the moveable platform and laptop computer into position on the desktop. | 12-25-2008 |
James Hitt, Lancaster, NY US
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| 20110194931 | CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR DIFFUSER VANELET - A system, in certain embodiments, includes a centrifugal compressor diffuser including a flow path having a first surface and a second surface defining opposite axial sides of the flow path. The centrifugal compressor diffuser also includes multiple vanes extending from the first surface to the second surface of the flow path. A first profile of each vane varies along an axial direction. The centrifugal compressor diffuser further includes multiple vanelets extending from the first surface toward the second surface in the axial direction. A first axial extent of each vanelet is less than a second axial extent of the flow path. In addition, a second profile of each vanelet varies along the axial direction and/or the vanelets form a non-periodic pattern around a circumference of the flow path. | 08-11-2011 |
James E. Hitt, Midland, MI US
John Hitt, Plano, TX US
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| 20090283802 | HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR DEVICE WITH ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE RUGGEDNESS - A heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) device and system having electrostatic discharge ruggedness, and methods for making the same, are disclosed. An HBT device having electrostatic discharge ruggedness may include one or more emitter fingers including an emitter layer, a transition layer formed over the emitter layer, and an emitter cap layer formed over the transition layer. | 11-19-2009 |
Joseph K. Hitt, Fairfax, VA US
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| 20110278857 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HARVESTING ENERGY FROM ANKLE MOTION - A method for harvesting energy from ankle motion includes coupling a generator module across an ankle joint, the generator module including a generator and an elastic member. The generator is affixed to the leg shank and at least one of the generator and the elastic member is continuously coupled to the foot across the ankle joint. Energy may be harvested in the elastic member while generating electricity with the generator from motion of the ankle joint. Alternatively, or in addition, electricity may be generated with the generator from energy harvested in the elastic member after the energy is harvested. | 11-17-2011 |
Kirby Hitt, Temple, TX US
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| 20080287958 | Flexible intramedullary rod - An elongated rod for insertion into a bowed canal of a bone such as a femoral medulla of a femur bone, wherein the canal is bowed in one plane. The rod has a longitudinal axis disposed on a first plane and one or more cutouts formed in at least a portion of a length of the rod and on opposite sides of the first plane. The rod is flexible along a second plane which is co-planar with the bowed canal plane and which is disposed on the longitudinal axis and perpendicular to the first plane. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20100241121 | FLEXIBLE INTRAMEDULLARY ROD - An elongated rod for insertion into a bowed canal of a bone such as a femoral medulla of a femur bone, wherein the canal is bowed in one plane. The rod has a longitudinal axis disposed on a first plane and one or more cutouts formed in at least a portion of a length of the rod and on opposite sides of the first plane. The rod is flexible along a second plane which is co-planar with the bowed canal plane and which is disposed on the longitudinal axis and perpendicular to the first plane. | 09-23-2010 |
Richard E. Hitt, New Fairfield, CT US
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| 20090232510 | DIGITAL RADIO FREQUENCY TRANCEIVER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A transceiver architecture for wireless base stations wherein a broadband radio frequency signal is carried between at least one tower-mounted unit and a ground-based unit via optical fibers, or other non-distortive media, in either digital or analog format. Each tower-mounted unit (for both reception and transmission) has an antenna, analog amplifier and an electro-optical converter. The ground unit has ultrafast data converters and digital frequency translators, as well as signal linearizers, to compensate for nonlinear distortion in the amplifiers and optical links in both directions. In one embodiment of the invention, at least one of the digital data converters, frequency translators, and linearizers includes superconducting elements mounted on a cryocooler. | 09-17-2009 |
Thomas Lee Hitt, Katy, TX US
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| 20120026002 | System and Method for Remote Well Monitoring - A system for remote monitoring of a wellsite operation comprises a sensor disposed at a wellsite to measure a parameter of interest. An information handling system in data communication with the sensor acts according to programmed instructions to generate a predetermined screenshot related to the parameter of interest. A radio frequency transceiver is in data communication with the information handling system to transmit the predetermined screenshot. A personal mobile device comprises a radio frequency transceiver and a display wherein the personal mobile device receives and displays the transmitted predetermined screenshot on the personal mobile device display. | 02-02-2012 |
Tom Clayton Hitt, Davie, FL US
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| 20110278292 | METHOD OF LIMITING OR ELIMINATING UNHEALTHY PERSONAL HABITS AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Disclosed is a drug free method and apparatus for defeating unhealthy personal habits based on the use of a container with a time driven access control system that allows the user to open the container storing the object of the habit or the means to access it only after a preset time interval expires. Optionally this time interval may be increased by a preset increment after each access to the container causing the time interval between the openings to grow gradually until the need of use of the object of the unhealthy personal habit is eliminated. | 11-17-2011 |