Christopher Alan Ward

US Patent:

8293035, Oct 23, 2012

Filed:

Oct 11, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/870928

Inventors:

Zbigniew Zurecki - Macungie PA, US
Christopher Alan Ward - Alburtis PA, US

Assignee:

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. - Allentown PA

International Classification:

C21D 11/00
B05D 1/02

US Classification:

148511, 427 8

Abstract:

A process for treating a workpiece having the steps of: altering the temperature of a workpiece surface wherein at least one condition selected from the group of: thermal treatment rate, relative motion between the surface and said thermal treatment rate, coolant flow rate onto said surface, heating flow rate onto said surface and the relative speed between the heating means or the cooling means and the surface is controllable; simultaneously measuring temperatures at a plurality of locations over the surface of the workpiece; determining an average temperature of the temperatures measured; comparing the average temperature to preselected minimum and maximum temperatures for the workpiece; and automatically adjusting at least one of, the controllable conditions if said average temperature is not between the preselected minimum and maximum temperatures for the workpiece. A system for performing a thermal treatment process and the resulting product are also provided.

US Patent:

61378348, Oct 24, 2000

Filed:

May 28, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/864322

Inventors:

Charles M. Wine - Princeton NJ
Robert Norman Hurst - Hopewell NJ
Christopher Ward - Glen Ridge NJ
Paul Wallace Lyons - New Egypt NJ

Assignee:

Sarnoff Corporation - Princeton NJ

International Classification:

H04B 166

US Classification:

375240

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for splicing a first compressed digital information stream into a second compressed digital information stream. The first information stream includes at least one entrance indicium identifying an appropriate stream entrance point, the second information stream includes at least one exit indicium identifying an appropriate stream exit point. A controller monitors the two streams until the appropriate points are found and, in response to a control signal, splices the first stream into the second stream.

US Patent:

56883390, Nov 18, 1997

Filed:

Aug 18, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/292657

Inventors:

Larry Keith Farmer - Fleetwood PA
Michael Dennis Lanyi - Macungie PA
Joseph Scott Becker - Schnecksville PA
Christopher Alan Ward - Alburtis PA

Assignee:

Gas Research Institute - Chicago IL

International Classification:

B23K 700

US Classification:

148194

Abstract:

Heating metal articles by direct surface impingement of an oxy-fuel flame without causing damage, or surface melting of the articles being heated. Flame contact is cycled to achieve maximum allowable rate of heat introduction thereby substantially reducing the time and energy required to achieve the final desired piece temperature.

US Patent:

61413585, Oct 31, 2000

Filed:

Jun 5, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/092809

Inventors:

Robert Norman Hurst - Hopewell NJ
Christopher Ward - Glen Ridge NJ

Assignee:

Sarnoff Corporation - Princeton NJ

International Classification:

H04J 322

US Classification:

370543

Abstract:

A method and concomitant apparatus for incorporating one or more relatively low bitrate information streams (e. g. , MPEG) into a relatively high bitrate information stream (e. g. , SDTI) in a manner aligning low bitrate sub-stream splice entrance points and splice exit points within the frame boundaries of the high bitrate information stream. In this manner the splicing of the relatively high bitrate information stream at appropriate In Frames and Out Frames will provide relatively seamless splicing of information sub-streams.

US Patent:

20190244626, Aug 8, 2019

Filed:

Dec 11, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/216635

Inventors:

- New York NY, US
Christopher Ward - Lawrenceville NJ, US
Charles W. Christine - Robbinsville NJ, US

International Classification:

G10L 19/16
G10L 19/26
G06F 9/50
G10L 19/008
H04H 60/04
G11B 27/038

Abstract:

Systems and methods are presented for cross-fading (or other multiple clip processing) of information streams on a user or client device, such as a telephone, tablet, computer or MP3 player, or any consumer device with audio playback. Multiple clip processing can be accomplished at a client end according to directions sent from a service provider that specify a combination of (i) the clips involved; (ii) the device on which the cross-fade or other processing is to occur and its parameters; and (iii) the service provider system. For example, a consumer device with only one decoder, can utilize that decoder (typically hardware) to decompress one or more elements that are involved in a cross-fade at faster than real time, thus pre-fetching the next element(s) to be played in the cross-fade at the end of the currently being played element. The next elements(s) can, for example, be stored in an input buffer, then decoded and stored in a decoded sample buffer, all prior to the required presentation time of the multiple element effect. At the requisite time, a client device component can access the respective samples of the decoded audio clips as it performs the cross-fade, mix or other effect. Such exemplary embodiments use a single decoder and thus do not require synchronized simultaneous decodes.

US Patent:

20150316262, Nov 5, 2015

Filed:

May 2, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/268655

Inventors:

- Allentown PA, US
Yan Zhao - Allentown PA, US
Christopher Alan Ward - Alburtis PA, US
Reed Jacob Hendershot - Orefield PA, US
Aleksandar Georgi Slavejkov - Allentown PA, US
Thomas David Matthew Lee - Basingstoke, GB
Michael J. Gallagher - Coopersburg PA, US

Assignee:

AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICAL, INC. - Allentown PA

International Classification:

F23N 5/24
F23N 5/26

Abstract:

A remote burner monitoring system including one or more burners each including integrated sensors, a data collector corresponding to each of the burners for receiving and aggregating data from the sensors of the corresponding burner, and a local transmitter corresponding to each of the data collectors for transmitting the data, a data center configured and programmed to receive the data from the local transmitters corresponding to the one or more burners, and a server configured and programmed to store at least a portion of the data, to convert the data into a display format, and to provide connectivity to enable receipt and transmission of data and the display format via a network including at least one of a wired network, a cellular network, and a Wi-Fi network.