Parker-hannifin Corporation

Physical Sciences, Inc.

Ftl Labs Corporation

Christopher Lewis Templeman

Michael Alton White

Michael B Frish

Jeffery W Gibson

Michael White

Peter E Nebolsine

David Thomas

Leonard Arthur White

Methods and systems for operating a touch sensitive display are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for operating a touch sensitive display is provided that includes detecting a plurality of inputs via the touch sensitive display, interpreting, using at least one compute processor, each input in accordance with a location of the associated input on the touch sensitive display and a gesture of the associated input, generating a display based on the interpretation; updating a state of objects displayed on the touch sensitive display based on the interpretation, determining whether to generate an output to another device based on the interpretation, sending the output to the other device based on the determination, and displaying the generated display on the touch sensitive display.

Touch sensitive computing surface for interacting with physical surface devices

A flow meter includes a magnet actuated switch, and an impeller configured to be insertable into a standard NPT &#xbc;&#x2033; pipe fitting. Rotation of the impeller in response to a fluid flow actuates the magnet actuated switch with a frequency that is proportional to a flow rate of the fluid flow. The impeller has a cylindrical shaft and a plurality of extensions that extend from the cylindrical shaft that form a spiral shaped cross section. Each extension has an inner curved surface and an outer curved surface, and the inner curved surface is concave shaped to catch the flow of the fluid, and the outer curved surface is convex shaped to provide reduced counter resistance to the rotation of the impeller. A pipe section assembly includes a pipe section including a standard NPT &#xbc;&#x2033; pipe fitting and the flow meter vertically inserted into the pipe fitting.

Insertable flow meter

A light scattering sensor is provided with a cylindrical lens focusing received light along substantially parallel lines, or bands, that correspond to a range of scattering angles and a linear detector that detects the light intensity along the substantially parallel lines. By using a cylindrical lens, the lens serves as an auto-collimator, whereby light scattered at a specific angle from the collimated light beam strikes the linear detector at a corresponding specific location regardless of the location from where the light was scattered. Embodiments of the cylindrical lens-based light sensor can be applied to a number of different applications and industries that analyze light scattering intensity as a function of scattering angle. For example, embodiments of the cylindrical lens-based light scattering sensor can be used for monitoring a target fluid for contaminants.

Cylindrical lens-based light sensor and use of the sensor in an automated method and apparatus for monitoring a target fluid for contaminants

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Somerville, MA, United States of America

Christopher Lewis Templeman