Ronald Howard Hill

US Patent:

20030070053, Apr 10, 2003

Filed:

Oct 5, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/970933

Inventors:

Frank David Gallo - Rogers AR, US
Brian Gerard Goodman - Tucson AZ, US
Ronald Faye Hill - Tucson AZ, US
Roberta Lee Winston - Tucson AZ, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation

International Classification:

G06F013/00

US Classification:

711/170000

Abstract:

Drives of a data storage library are concurrently configured. A processor transmits library configuration data separately to each drive, initializes a first configuration process state, with a time-out period, for each drive. A drive responds with a status response, the first process state is updated to “completed”. A request for drive unique information is transmitted to the responding drive, advancing the process to a second state, with a time-out period. A drive responds with the information, and the second process state is updated to “completed”, and the received information is stored.

US Patent:

20060199988, Sep 7, 2006

Filed:

Jan 27, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/342365

Inventors:

Ralph Kowalik - Kingwood TX, US
Thomas Gribschaw - Friendswood TX, US
Keith Kuechler - Friendswood TX, US
Ronald Hill - Houston TX, US

International Classification:

C07C 2/02
C07C 7/20
C10L 1/06

US Classification:

585533000, 585001000

Abstract:

A hydrocarbon fluid composition that comprises species of at least two different carbon numbers, an aerobic biodegradability of greater than 40% at 28 days, a cetane number of less than 60, and a certain boiling point range; and a process for making the hydrocarbon fluid composition.

US Patent:

57044228, Jan 6, 1998

Filed:

May 19, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/445041

Inventors:

David Durham Chess - Houston TX
Mark Elliott Taylor - Houston TX
Raj Kumar Khanna - Dhahran, SA
William Dale Henderson - Houston TX
Ronald William Hill - Houston TX

Assignee:

Huntsman Specialty Chemicals Corporation - Salt Lake City UT

International Classification:

F28F 922

US Classification:

165160

Abstract:

A heat exchanger is provided, including a tubular shell having an opening in one end thereof, an open-topped, side-slotted shroud mounted inside the shell, a bundle of tubes extending through the opening into the shroud, means for circulating a hot fluid through the bundle of tubes, means for charging a heat-exchange fluid to the space between the shell and the shroud for flow through slots into the shroud and into indirect heat exchange contact with the bundle of tubes for cooling the hot fluid, and means for removing heated exchange fluid from the top of said shell.