公开(公告)号：US20140125502A1

公开(公告)日：2014-05-08

申请号：US14073584

申请日：2013-11-06

申请人： Jim Wittkop ,  Christopher Gardner

发明人： Jim Wittkop ,  Christopher Gardner

IPC分类号： G08B21/22 ,  G08G1/127

CPC分类号： G08G1/127

摘要： The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for tracking vehicle riders, such as students riding in a school bus, for example. In one embodiment, the disclosed system has a biometric device, such as a palm vein reader, configured to identify users who are expected to ride a school bus. When a student rider either gets on or off the bus, the biometric device is used to identify the rider. An automated controller on the bus maintains a list of expected passengers on the bus, and based on the biometric device, the controller maintains data, referred to hereafter as “rider data,” indicating whether each expected passenger is currently on the bus. The rider data is updated, in real time, as riders get on and off the bus at various stops.

摘要翻译： 本公开总体上涉及用于跟踪车辆骑行者的系统和方法，例如乘坐校车的学生。 在一个实施例中，所公开的系统具有生物测定装置，例如手掌静脉读取器，其被配置为识别预期乘坐校车的用户。 当学生车手上下车时，生物识别装置用于识别车手。 总线上的自动化控制器保持总线上预期乘客的列表，并且基于生物测定装置，控制器维护数据，以下称为“骑手数据”，指示每个预期乘客当前是否在总线上。 骑手数据在实时更新，因为骑手在各个站点上下车。

公开(公告)号：US20130306747A1

公开(公告)日：2013-11-21

申请号：US13979412

申请日：2012-01-24

申请人： Stephen John Cox ,  Christopher Gardner ,  Frank H. Coats ,  Louis M. Notarianni

发明人： Stephen John Cox ,  Christopher Gardner ,  Frank H. Coats ,  Louis M. Notarianni

IPC分类号： E01B9/30

CPC分类号： E01B9/30 ,  E01B9/306

摘要： In a railway rail fastening clip 1 for fastening a railway rail to an underlying rail foundation, which clip 1 is formed of an elongate plate shaped such that a central region 11 of the plate has in profile the form of a letter C, a first end region of the plate extending from one side of the central region 11 of the plate to form a substantially planar base portion 12 of the clip for engaging a rail fastening anchoring device secured to the rail foundation and a second end region of the plate extending from the opposite side of the central region 11 of the plate to form a toe portion 13 of the clip for bearing on a foot of the railway rail, such that in profile the second end region extends further than the first end region, the toe portion of the clip is provided with a throughhole 14 which is arranged such that, when the clip is in its operative configuration, part or all of the throughhole 14 lies above the foot of the rail, the throughhole being configured to receive a corresponding spigot 25 of a toe insulator 2 for electrically insulating the clip from the rail whereby the insulator can be retained on the toe portion of the clip.

摘要翻译： 在用于将铁路轨道固定到下面的轨道基座的铁路轨道紧固夹1中，该夹子1由细长的板形成，该细长板的形状使得板的中心区域11具有字母C的形状，第一端 板的区域从板的中心区域11的一侧延伸以形成用于接合固定到轨道基座的轨道固定锚固装置的夹子的基本平坦的基部12，以及从板的第二端部区域延伸的板的第二端部区域 形成板的中心区域11的相对侧，以形成用于承载在铁路轨道的脚上的夹子的脚趾部分13，使得在轮廓中第二端部区域比第一端部区域延伸， 夹具设置有通孔14，该通孔被布置成使得当夹子处于其操作构造时，通孔14的一部分或全部位于轨道的脚之上，通孔被配置为接收对应的 用于将夹子与轨道电绝缘的脚趾绝缘体2的插口25，由此绝缘体可以保持在夹子的脚趾部分上。

公开(公告)号：US20120187207A1

公开(公告)日：2012-07-26

申请号：US13388431

申请日：2010-08-13

申请人： Stephen John Cox ,  Robert John Hamilton ,  Christopher Gardner

发明人： Stephen John Cox ,  Robert John Hamilton ,  Christopher Gardner

IPC分类号： E01B9/68

CPC分类号： E01B9/685 ,  E01B9/686 ,  E01B2205/00

摘要： A railway rail pad (1), for use beneath a railway rail in a rail fastening assembly as cushioning and/or electrical insulation, has first and second major faces (2, 3), the first face (2) having a rail seat portion (20) on which a foot of a railway rail sits when the pad (1) is in use, and side members (4A, 4B) attached to and extending from two opposite edges of the first face (2) of the pad (1). The side members (4A, 4B) are arranged so as to be located on respective opposite sides of the railway rail when the pad (1) is in use such that the rail seat portion (20) of the pad (1) lies between respective inwardly-facing wall faces (41A, 41B) of the said side members (4A, 4B). When the pad (1) is not under load and is placed so as to rest on a surface with the first face (2) of the pad (1) uppermost and part of the surface lying beneath the rail seat portion of the pad, an inclination angle (α1, α2) between the wall face (41A, 41B) of each side member (4A, 4B) and that part of the surface beneath the rail seat portion on which the pad (1) is resting is greater than 90°. When the pad is not under load, the first face is substantially convex in a vertical plane that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the rail when the pad is in use.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在轨道紧固组件中作为缓冲和/或电绝缘的铁路轨道下方使用的铁路轨道座（1）具有第一和第二主面（2,3），所述第一面（2）具有轨道座部分 （20），当使用所述垫（1）时，铁路轨道的脚位于所述轨道（20）上，以及附接到所述垫（1）的所述第一面（2）的两个相对边缘并且从所述垫 ）。 当使用垫（1）使得垫（1）的轨座部分（20）位于相应的位置之间时，侧构件（4A，4B）布置成位于铁路轨道的相应相对侧上 所述侧构件（4A，4B）的面向内的壁面（41A，41B）。 当垫（1）不处于负载下并且被放置成使垫的第一面（2）最上面并且表面的一部分位于垫的轨道座部分的下方的表面上时， 每个侧构件（4A，4B）的壁面（41A，41B）与衬垫（1）所在的轨道座部分下方的表面部分之间的倾斜角（α1，α2）大于90° 。 当衬垫不处于负载下时，当使用垫时，第一面在垂直于轨道的纵向轴线的垂直平面中基本上是凸形的。

公开(公告)号：US20090218410A1

公开(公告)日：2009-09-03

申请号：US12279170

申请日：2007-02-21

申请人： Stephen John Cox ,  John Phillip Porrill ,  Robert John Hamilton ,  Jozef Nevidal ,  Martin Somerset ,  Paul Hewlett ,  Christopher Gardner

发明人： Stephen John Cox ,  John Phillip Porrill ,  Robert John Hamilton ,  Jozef Nevidal ,  Martin Somerset ,  Paul Hewlett ,  Christopher Gardner

IPC分类号： E01B13/02

CPC分类号： E01B9/303 ,  E01B3/28 ,  E01B9/686

摘要： A shoulder for use in retaining a railway rail fastening clip, comprising two interconnected spaced-apart walls, between which a portion of the clip to be retained is held when the shoulder is in use, and clip-engaging means, supported by the walls, for engaging a portion of the clip to be retained, does not have any feature or surface which engages the surface of that clip portion which faces downwardly when the clip is in use. Alternatively, or in addition, none of the contact regions, at which the device engages the rail clip, can be seen when the anchoring device is viewed from above when in its operative orientation and all of the contact regions can be seen when the anchoring device is viewed from below when in the operative orientation. Alternatively, or in addition, all the contact regions lie substantially at the same horizontal distance from the edge of the rail foot when measured perpendicularly to the axis of the rail and in the plane of the rail foot.

摘要翻译： 用于保持铁路轨道紧固夹的肩部，包括两个互连的间隔开的壁，当使用肩部时，保持夹子的一部分被夹持在夹子之间，并且由壁支撑的夹子接合装置， 用于接合待保持的夹子的一部分，当夹子在使用时，没有任何与该夹子部分的面向下的表面接合的特征或表面。 或者或另外，当从上方观察锚定装置时，当处于其工作方向时，可以看到装置接合导轨夹的接触区域中的任何接触区域，并且当锚定装置 从下方观察，在实际的方向。 或者或另外，当垂直于轨道的轴线和轨道脚的平面中测量时，所有接触区域基本上处于与轨道脚的边缘相同的水平距离处。

公开(公告)号：US20050188095A1

公开(公告)日：2005-08-25

申请号：US10852885

申请日：2004-05-25

申请人： Jeffrey Gardiner ,  Domonic Snyder ,  Christopher Gardner ,  William Boggs

发明人： Jeffrey Gardiner ,  Domonic Snyder ,  Christopher Gardner ,  William Boggs

IPC分类号： G06F9/50 ,  G06F15/16 ,  G06F15/167

CPC分类号： G06F9/5033 ,  G06F2209/5016

摘要： A system automatically seizes a session that is actively connected to a device and attaches it to a different device. A system manages user operation sessions on a plurality of servers. The system includes an interface for receiving, from a first workstation, a request to initiate a current session of operation of a particular executable application on a first server and user identification information from a particular user. In response to the received particular user identification information, a session processor identifies an active session of operation of the particular user on a second server previously initiated via a second workstation and re-attaches connection of the previously initiated active session of operation to the first workstation as the current session.

摘要翻译： 系统自动占用主动连接到设备并将其连接到不同设备的会话。 系统管理多个服务器上的用户操作会话。 该系统包括用于从第一工作站接收在第一服务器上发起特定可执行应用的当前操作会话的请求以及来自特定用户的用户标识信息的接口。 响应于接收到的特定用户识别信息，会话处理器在先前通过第二工作站发起的第二服务器上识别特定用户的活动会话，并将先前发起的活动操作会话的连接重新附加到第一工作站 作为当前会话。

公开(公告)号：US20050106443A1

公开(公告)日：2005-05-19

申请号：US10968287

申请日：2004-10-20

申请人： William Adams ,  Christopher Gardner ,  James Blair

发明人： William Adams ,  Christopher Gardner ,  James Blair

IPC分类号： H01M2/22 ,  H01M8/02 ,  H01M8/04

CPC分类号： H01M8/0228 ,  H01M8/0206 ,  H01M8/0247 ,  H01M8/0258 ,  H01M8/0267 ,  H01M8/241 ,  H01M2008/1095

摘要： A plate, an electrical interconnect formed by the plate, and a fuel cell assembly incorporating the electrical interconnect. The electrical interconnect is for use in a fuel cell stack. The fuel cell assembly is for use in the electrochemically active section of a fuel cell stack. The assembly includes one or more membrane electrode assemblies (MEA), each disposed between two flow field plates that distribute fuel and oxidant to the anode and the cathode, an additional flow field plate for passing coolant in order to cool the assembly and, possibly, a buss plate. At least one of the buss plates is an electrical interconnect of the present invention. The electrical interconnect is constructed to include one or more electrically conductive tabs, where one or more of the tabs are in turn coupled to a fuel cell health management (FCHM) device that is able to monitor, control, rejuvenate, supplement, and bypass the fuel cell assembly through the connection made via the tabs. The tabs may also be utilized as mounts and heat sinks for high power electronic components associated with the FCHM, the heat generated by these FCHM components being dissipated by the fuel cell stack cooling system. The plate members are made from a highly electrically conductive material such that the voltage drop across each plate member provided by an FCHM is small thus allowing the current density across the MEA to be essentially uniform since the voltage throughout the area of the plate is more uniform that in the usual plate design. The material of the plate member is advantageously selected based on its electrical and thermal conductivities and its chemical stability in the operating environment of the fuel cell.

摘要翻译： 板，由板形成的电互连以及结合电互连的燃料电池组件。 电互连用于燃料电池堆。 燃料电池组件用于燃料电池堆的电化学活性部分。 该组件包括一个或多个膜电极组件（MEA），每个膜电极组件（MEA）分别设置在将燃料和氧化剂分配到阳极和阴极的两个流场板之间，用于通过冷却剂以便冷却组件的附加流场板， 一个公共汽车板。 总线板中的至少一个是本发明的电互连。 电互连被构造成包括一个或多个导电突片，其中一个或多个突片依次耦合到燃料电池健康管理（FCHM）装置，燃料电池健康管理（FCHM）装置能够监视，控制，振兴，补充和绕过 燃料电池组件通过通过接头制成的连接。 这些接头还可以用作与FCHM相关联的大功率电子部件的安装座和散热器，这些FCHM部件产生的热量被燃料电池堆冷却系统消散。 板构件由高度导电的材料制成，使得由FCHM提供的每个板构件上的电压降很小，从而允许跨越MEA的电流密度基本上均匀，因为板的整个区域中的电压更均匀 在通常的平板设计。 板件的材料有利地基于其在燃料电池的操作环境中的电和热导率及其化学稳定性来选择。

公开(公告)号：US08905322B2

公开(公告)日：2014-12-09

申请号：US13388431

申请日：2010-08-13

申请人： Stephen John Cox ,  Robert John Hamilton ,  Christopher Gardner

发明人： Stephen John Cox ,  Robert John Hamilton ,  Christopher Gardner

IPC分类号： E01B9/68

CPC分类号： E01B9/685 ,  E01B9/686 ,  E01B2205/00

摘要： A railway rail pad (1), for use beneath a railway rail in a rail fastening assembly as cushioning and/or electrical insulation, has first and second major faces (2, 3), the first face (2) having a rail seat portion (20) on which a foot of a railway rail sits when the pad (1) is in use, and side members (4A, 4B) attached to and extending from two opposite edges of the first face (2) of the pad (1). The side members (4A, 4B) are arranged so as to be located on respective opposite sides of the railway rail when the pad (1) is in use such that the rail seat portion (20) of the pad (1) lies between respective inwardly-facing wall faces (41A, 41B) of the said side members (4A, 4B). When the pad (1) is not under load and is placed so as to rest on a surface with the first face (2) of the pad (1) uppermost and part of the surface lying beneath the rail seat portion of the pad, an inclination angle (α1, α2) between the wall face (41A, 41B) of each side member (4A, 4B) and that part of the surface beneath the rail seat portion on which the pad (1) is resting is greater than 90°. When the pad is not under load, the first face is substantially convex in a vertical plane that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the rail when the pad is in use.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在轨道紧固组件中作为缓冲和/或电绝缘的铁路轨道下方使用的铁路轨道座（1）具有第一和第二主面（2,3），所述第一面（2）具有轨道座部分 （20），当使用所述垫（1）时，铁路轨道的脚位于所述轨道（20）上，以及附接到所述垫（1）的所述第一面（2）的两个相对边缘并且从所述垫 ）。 当使用垫（1）使得垫（1）的轨座部分（20）位于相应的位置之间时，侧构件（4A，4B）布置成位于铁路轨道的相应相对侧上 所述侧构件（4A，4B）的面向内的壁面（41A，41B）。 当垫（1）不处于负载下并且被放置成使垫的第一面（2）最上面并且表面的一部分位于垫的轨道座部分的下方的表面上时， 每个侧构件（4A，4B）的壁面（41A，41B）与衬垫（1）所在的轨道座部分下方的表面部分之间的倾斜角（α1，α2）大于90° 。 当衬垫不处于负载下时，当使用垫时，第一面在垂直于轨道的纵向轴线的垂直平面中基本上是凸形的。

公开(公告)号：US20120181344A1

公开(公告)日：2012-07-19

申请号：US13388445

申请日：2010-08-13

申请人： Stephen John Cox ,  Robert John Hamilton ,  Christopher Gardner

发明人： Stephen John Cox ,  Robert John Hamilton ,  Christopher Gardner

IPC分类号： E01B9/30

CPC分类号： E01B9/303 ,  E01B2205/00

摘要： An electrical insulator for use with a rail fastening clip comprises a contact member providing on one side a substantially flat rail contact surface for contacting a foot of a rail and on the opposing side a clip contact surface for contacting a rail bearing surface of a bearing portion of the clip, the insulator also having retaining means for retaining the insulator on the clip in such a way as to allow rotation of the insulator about a longitudinal axis of the bearing portion of the clip. The insulator has stop portions for limiting such rotation about the longitudinal axis of the bearing portion of the clip to a desired extent. The clip contact surface of the insulator is convex, in a vertical plane which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the bearing portion of the clip, such that, when the insulator is attached to a clip having a flat rail bearing surface, a contact region between the flat rail bearing surface of the clip and the clip contact surface of the insulator is linear. The insulator is rockable about the linear contact region within the extent defined by the stop portions such that, when the rail contact surface of the insulator contacts the surface of a rail foot, the angle of the rail contact surface can conform to the angle of the rail foot surface. A rail fastening clip, suitable for use with the insulator and of the kind driven onto a rail in a direction which is parallel to a longitudinal axis of the rail, has a bearing portion having a flat rail bearing surface, wherein a detent, extending laterally with respect to the longitudinal axis of the bearing portion, is formed in the flat rail bearing surface, at a location spaced from a free end of the bearing portion of the clip, for engaging a corresponding abutment surface of the insulator to be retained on the rail bearing portion of the clip.

摘要翻译： 一种用于轨道紧固夹的电绝缘体包括接触构件，该接触构件在一侧上提供基本平坦的轨道接触表面，用于接触轨道的脚，并且在相对侧上提供用于接触轴承部分的轨道支承表面的夹子接触表面 绝缘体还具有用于将绝缘体保持在夹子上的保持装置，以允许绝缘体围绕夹子的支承部分的纵向轴线旋转。 绝缘体具有止动部分，用于限制围绕夹子的轴承部分的纵向轴线的这种旋转到期望的程度。 绝缘体的夹子接触表面在与夹子的轴承部分的纵向轴线垂直的垂直平面中是凸形的，使得当绝缘体连接到具有平坦的轨道承载表面的夹子上时，接触区域 在夹子的平轨承载面和绝缘子的夹子接触面之间是线性的。 绝缘体可以在由止动部限定的范围内围绕线性接触区域摇摆，使得当绝缘体的轨道接触表面接触轨道脚的表面时，轨道接触表面的角度可以符合 铁脚表面。 适于与绝缘体一起使用的轨道紧固夹，并且在平行于轨道的纵向轴线的方向上被驱动到轨道上的轨道紧固夹具具有平坦的轨道支承表面的轴承部分，其中， 相对于轴承部分的纵向轴线形成在平的轨道支承表面中，在与夹子的轴承部分的自由端隔开的位置处，用于接合绝缘体的相应的邻接表面以保持在其上 夹子的轨道轴承部分。

公开(公告)号：US08140684B2

公开(公告)日：2012-03-20

申请号：US11564448

申请日：2006-11-29

申请人： Jeffrey Gardiner ,  Domonic Snyder ,  Christopher Gardner ,  William Boggs ,  James Giancarlo

发明人： Jeffrey Gardiner ,  Domonic Snyder ,  Christopher Gardner ,  William Boggs ,  James Giancarlo

IPC分类号： G06F15/173 ,  G06F15/177 ,  G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04L67/14 ,  H04W80/10

摘要： A system enables clinicians to use naturally spoken voice commands from a small, wearable, wireless badge (or other portable device) to trigger events including, application session transfer, wireless communications (such as voice calls) and control of electronic devices. A system for managing user operation sessions on multiple servers includes an interface for receiving, from a first workstation, a request to initiate a current session of operation of a particular executable application on a first server and user identification information from a particular user. A session processor, in response to the received particular user identification information, identifies an active session of operation of the particular user on a second server previously initiated via a second workstation and re-attaches connection of the previously initiated active session of operation to the first workstation as the current session in response to a user voice command.

摘要翻译： 一种系统使临床医生能够使用小型可穿戴式无线徽章（或其他便携式设备）中的自然语音命令来触发事件，包括应用会话转移，无线通信（例如语音通话）和电子设备的控制。 用于在多个服务器上管理用户操作会话的系统包括用于从第一工作站接收在第一服务器上发起特定可执行应用的当前操作会话的请求以及来自特定用户的用户标识信息的接口。 会话处理器响应于所接收的特定用户标识信息，在先前通过第二工作站发起的第二服务器上识别特定用户的活动会话，并且将先前发起的活动会话操作的连接重新附加到第一 工作站作为当前会话响应用户语音命令。

公开(公告)号：US07962544B2

公开(公告)日：2011-06-14

申请号：US11407529

申请日：2006-04-20

申请人： David Torok ,  Jeffrey Gardiner ,  Domonic Snyder ,  Christopher Gardner ,  William Boggs ,  Robert D. Williamson

发明人： David Torok ,  Jeffrey Gardiner ,  Domonic Snyder ,  Christopher Gardner ,  William Boggs ,  Robert D. Williamson

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： G06Q10/08 ,  G06F19/00 ,  G06Q50/22 ,  G06Q50/24 ,  G16H40/20 ,  H04L67/12

摘要： A system automatically establishes context information (e.g., determining changes to user interface workflows, screens, menus, and access requirements for devices such as monitors, ventilators, and diagnostic equipment) used by a worker in using healthcare information applications based on patient geographic location (e.g., a room or bed or department). The system addresses the need for a user to sign onto a system with each location change and manually change context information which consumes computer, server and network resources and represent a potential security problem. A healthcare system selects information to be provided to a user in response to received location dependent context data. The system includes a proximity detector for wirelessly detecting presence of an identification tag substantially within a predetermined vicinity of the detector. The identification tag is associated with at least one of, (a) a particular processing device and (b) a particular person. A location detector determines location information indicating a location associated with an identification tag detected by the proximity detector. A workflow processor automatically alters information presented to a user including information associated with a task sequence to be performed by the user for a patient in response to the determined location information.

摘要翻译： 系统自动建立上下文信息（例如，确定用户使用基于患者地理位置的医疗保健信息应用程序使用的用户界面工作流程，屏幕，菜单和访问要求，例如监视器，呼吸机和诊断设备） 例如，房间或床或部门）。 系统解决了用户在每个位置更改时签署系统的需要，并手动更改消耗计算机，服务器和网络资源的上下文信息，并且表示潜在的安全问题。 医疗保健系统响应于接收的与位置相关的上下文数据来选择要提供给用户的信息。 该系统包括接近检测器，用于基本上在检测器的预定附近无线地检测识别标签的存在。 识别标签与（a）特定处理装置和（b）特定人物中的至少一个相关联。 位置检测器确定指示与由接近检测器检测到的识别标签相关联的位置的位置信息。 响应于所确定的位置信息，工作流处理器自动地改变呈现给用户的信息，包括由用户为患者执行的任务序列相关联的信息。