Scott M Phillips

US Patent:

7520588, Apr 21, 2009

Filed:

Dec 23, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/318284

Inventors:

Gerald A. Domoto - Briarcliff Manor NY, US
Elias Panides - Whitestone NY, US
Mark A. Cellura - Webster NY, US
Elliott A. Eklund - Penfield NY, US
Scott J. Phillips - West Henrietta NY, US

International Classification:

B41J 2/165

US Classification:

347 29

Abstract:

An apparatus is used with an ink jet print head in an ink jet printer. The apparatus includes a print head protector that surrounds a print head. A substantially continuous slot is provided along a perimeter of the bracket and a filter is located in the substantially continuous slot. An inlet in fluid communication with the substantially continuous slot enables a positive pressure air supply to be coupled to the inlet. The air entering the inlet flows through the filter in the slot and the filtered air flows outwardly away from the print head.

US Patent:

7571996, Aug 11, 2009

Filed:

Aug 10, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/502283

Inventors:

Gerald A. Domoto - Briarcliff Manor NY, US
Elias Panides - Whitestone NY, US
Mark Anthony Cellura - Webster NY, US
Elliot Allan Eklund - Penfield NY, US
Scott J. Phillips - West Henrietta NY, US

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation - Norwalk CT

International Classification:

B41J 2/175
B41J 2/165

US Classification:

347 88, 347 29

Abstract:

An apparatus in an ink jet printer reduces the risk of clogged nozzles in ink jet printing machines by providing a negative pressure area in the vicinity of a localized high shear stress region that is located about a print head perimeter. The apparatus includes a print head protector substantially surrounds a print head, the protector having a first substantially continuous slot along a portion of a length of the protector that is upstream of the print head and a second substantially continuous slot along a portion of a length of the protector that is upstream of the first substantially continuous slot, an inlet in fluid communication with the first substantially continuous slot, the inlet enables a positive pressure air supply to be coupled to the first substantially continuous slot so air entering the inlet flows through the first slot to displace debris from media approaching the print head, and an outlet in fluid communication with the second substantially continuous slot, the outlet enables a negative pressure source to be coupled to the second substantially continuous slot so displaced debris flows into the second substantially continuous slot and out through the outlet for removal from the ink printing machine in which the print head is located.

US Patent:

54413010, Aug 15, 1995

Filed:

Mar 1, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/024076

Inventors:

David S. Breed - Boonton Township NJ
Scott D. Phillips - Rockaway NJ
W. Thomas Sanders - Rockaway NJ
Richard Downs - Newton NJ

Assignee:

Automotive Technologies International, Inc. - Boonton Twp. NJ

International Classification:

H01H 1504
B60R 2116

US Classification:

280735

Abstract:

A vehicle crush detecting device consists of an electrically conducting tube with an electrically conducting rod concentrically positioned within the tube along with insulating means positioned at at least two points between the rod and the tube to insulate the rod from the tube. The electrically conducting tube is deformed during a vehicle crash by a force greater than a predetermined magnitude which causes the tube to contact the rod in response to the crush of a vehicle of a predetermined amount. The crush sensor is mounted in the crush zone of the vehicle and is used in conjunction with automobile passive restraint systems such as airbags.