Motorola Corporation

International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC

Mark Paul Lill

Cathryn E Goodman

Timothy J Collins

Patrick Lee Rakers

Joseph F Wodka

Edward E Li

Koushun Sun

Behnam Bavarian

Miles Randall Jackson

A thermal operated fluid pump has a plunger which is moved by a thermally expandable element to compress a fluid, such as natural gas, into a storage cylinder.

Thermal-operated pump

A lock mechanism for a motor vehicle ignition switch includes a housing defining a barrel and a locking cylinder fitted for rotation in the barrel. A cap is fitted over one end of the housing capturing a frangible lock insert between the housing and cap. The frangible lock insert includes an electrically conductive pathway between radially displaced connection points on the rim of the insert. A circuit includes the electrically conductive pathway which is interrupted by disintegration of the frangible lock insert. Such disintegration occurs upon efforts to tamper with the lock mechanism or application of brute force to the sensor.

Ignition lock mechanism

A radio frequency identification ('RFID') device () having stored thereon an expiration and a set of data bits which, when presented to a processing device () via a RFID reader (), causes the processing device () to enable a feature that would otherwise be disabled in an electronic device (), and disable the feature when the expiration reaches a predetermined value.

Enabling/enhancing a feature of an electronic device using radio frequency identification technology

A smartcard devicethat includes a single embedded IC chipthat includes smart card circuitry that includes a processor device and memory that is shared with a fingerprint capture device () that has a plurality of charge storage devices (), i.e., the shared memory, that couple through conductive surfaces () to conductive spheres () that are disposed within an epoxy that comprises a fingerprint contact surface (). When raised portions of an object () appropriately contact certain conductive spheres (), the corresponding charge storage device () will discharge through a separate conductive sphere which is connected to a grounded conductive surface. This discharging serves both to simultaneously sense the asperity features of the object and to store that sensed information as well.

Fingerprint based smartcard

A fingerprint capture device () has a plurality of charge storage devices () that couple through conductive surfaces () to conductive spheres () that are disposed within an epoxy that comprises a fingerprint contact surface (). When raised portions of an object () appropriately contact certain conductive spheres (), the corresponding charge storage device () will discharge. This discharging serves both to simultaneously sense the asperity features of the object and to store that sensed information as well.

Method and apparatus for asperity sensing and storage

A technique for detecting misfire due to a fault in the secondary of an automotive ignition system compares the ignition signal developed by the ignition coil, preferably the primary winding thereof, to reference signals. Abnormal results which occur at predetermined times subsequent to the initiation of the ignition signal indicate short circuit and/or open circuit conditions in the ignition system's secondary. In response to such fault conditions, fuel is preferably shut off to the cylinder associated with the misfire.

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Mark Paul Lill