Joseph A Thompson

US Patent:

7937303, May 3, 2011

Filed:

Sep 30, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/673431

Inventors:

Gerardo Kobeh - Bethesda MD, US
Frank Godeby - Bethesda MD, US
James Keith Harmon - Alexandria VA, US
Joseph Thompson - Vienna VA, US

Assignee:

SAP AG - Walldorf

International Classification:

G06Q 40/00

US Classification:

705 35

Abstract:

A system and method for managing grants received from one or more sponsors is proposed. The grants management system receives a transaction request and retrieves data associated with the transaction request from a data cube. The grants management system then determines, from the perspective of the sponsors, if the transaction request satisfies administrative and financial requirements imposed by the sponsors. If the administrative and financial requirements are satisfied, the transaction request is admitted.

US Patent:

41667298, Sep 4, 1979

Filed:

Jul 26, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/819205

Inventors:

Joseph K. Thompson - Washington DC
Robert C. Clark - Annandale VA
George H. Fielding - Alexandria VA
Harold F. Bogardus - Copenhagen NY

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy - Washington DC

International Classification:

B03C 308
B03C 312
B03C 360

US Classification:

55138

Abstract:

Collector plates for use in the second stage of a two-stage electrostatic ecipitator comprise plates having non-conducting surfaces to which a coating of low conductivity, typically between 300 and 150,000 ohms per square, is affixed. One embodiment of such plates typically comprises a rigid, non-conducting plastic material coated with a material of low conductivity. Another embodiment of the present invention comprises a metallic plate coated with an insulating material of high dielectric strength, typically with a dielectric constant of at least 3000, to which the above mentioned low-conductivity coating is affixed. The collector plates may be mounted in such a manner as to maintain the airflow through the second stage of the precipitator in a direction virtually parallel to the surface of the plates.