Michael H Linse, Age 741032 36Th St, Corvallis, OR 97330

8192242, Jun 5, 2012

Dec 22, 2009

12/645386

Michael C. Luecker - Corvallis OR, US
Michael H. Linse - Corvallis OR, US

B63H 16/04
B63H 16/10

440101

A system for determining the magnitude of force applied to an oar by a rower as the oar is pulled through water includes a deflection sensor and a temperature sensor mounted on an oar shaft to determine deflection and temperature of a portion of the oar shaft during rowing. A processor connected to the deflection sensor and the temperature sensor receives signals indicative of deflection and temperature of the oar shaft and derives a force applied to an oar blade based on the deflection and temperature signals.

2008005, Mar 6, 2008

Aug 29, 2006

11/512604

Michael H. Linse - Corvallis OR, US
Phillip R. Hays - Corvallis OR, US
Gary J. Oliver - Corvallis OR, US
Thomas V. Scrivner - Sweet Home OR, US
Jimmy Jack Jewell - Sweet Home OR, US

G01V 3/08
G01V 3/10

324326

Metal detectors include a sense coil coupled to an analog to digital converter that produces a numeric representation of an electrical signal associated with a conductive object situated in an active region of a sense coil. The numeric representation is processed to obtain a noise contribution associated with random noise, fixed pattern noise, and/or thermal drift. The noise is subtracted from the numeric representation to produce a numeric difference. The numeric difference includes contributions associated with conductive objects located in a sense volume defined by the sense coil. The numeric difference (or the numeric representation) can be digitally processed with, for example, a matched filter to enhance the conductive object contribution. The matched filter can be based on a measured sense coil speed or can be based on typical sense coil speeds.

2022037, Nov 24, 2022

Aug 5, 2022

17/882520

- Bloomington IL, US
Michael Howard Linse - Corvallis OR, US
Nelson Sigman Slavik - Niles MI, US
Gary Jay Oliver - Corvallis OR, US

A61L 2/06

An air handling system for a hot air sterilizer apparatus includes a sterilization chamber having an air exhaust portal, an air handling pathway traversing above the sterilization chamber through an upper supply air plenum and traversing below the sterilization chamber through a lower supply air plenum, a circulation fan configured to direct supply air from the air exhaust portal over an upper heating element through the upper supply air plenum and over a lower heating element through the lower supply air plenum, a first temperature sensor in the upper supply air plenum and configured to measure temperature of air downstream from the upper heating element, a second temperature sensor in the lower supply air plenum and configured to measure temperature of air downstream from the lower heating element, and a third temperature sensor at the air exhaust portal and configured to monitor temperature of air exiting the sterilization chamber.

2022029, Sep 22, 2022

Mar 19, 2022

17/699111

- Bloomington IL, US
Michael H. Linse - Corvallis OR, US
Gary Jay Oliver - Corvallis OR, US
William B. Smith - Bloomington IL, US

A61L 2/24
A61L 2/06

Methods and systems implement a dry-heat sterilizer configured to operate at temperatures permissive of a heat-intolerant articles and heat-intolerant packaging. To effectively and evenly transmit heat throughout a dry-heat sterilizer at such temperatures, the dry-heat sterilizer furthermore provides an electronic controller coupled to multiple sensor-heating element configurations, the electronic controller configured to compute proportional-integral-derivative (PID) terms to operate a multi-loop heat control cycle including at least a first feedback loop and a second feedback loop, and configured as an asymptotic PID controller for at least one feedback loop. In this fashion, the likelihood that spot airflow temperature at particular temperature sensors will overshoot a PID setpoint is substantially reduced. This results in spot airflow temperature at the temperature sensors being sustained at the PID setpoint asymptotically, substantially improving precision of heat control cycles.

2019025, Aug 22, 2019

Feb 19, 2019

16/279091

William Bryan Smith - Bloomington IL, US
Michael Howard Linse - Corvallis OR, US
Nelson Sigman Slavik - Niles MI, US

A61L 2/06

A device and system for sterilizing objects, commonly dental, medical, or veterinary instruments, having a double door configuration that can provide entry of contaminated instruments into a sterilizer from a contaminated area and subsequently, post-sterilization, their pass-through directly into a sterile area through an exit door from said sterilizer. More specifically, the invention is a countertop, high velocity, dry heat sterilization device that is readily adaptable for those clinical areas requiring separation of contaminated and sterile areas for the processing of medical, dental, or veterinary instruments. The sterilization device utilizes a dual airflow pathway and a controlled heat delivery system to deliver to the sterilization chamber the supply air having temperature uniformity and air velocity required of the high velocity dry heat sterilization process.

2016016, Jun 16, 2016

Nov 16, 2013

14/082114

- Bloomington IL, US
Nelson S. Slavik - Niles MI, US
Michael H. Linse - Corvallis OR, US

A61B 5/06
A61B 8/08
A61G 13/10
A61B 19/00

The present invention provides a method of detection of metallic items and/or metallic surgical instruments or articles by a detection device in the event that such articles have been retained in a patient after a surgical procedure. More specifically, the invention relates to a detection system that uses (1) a metal detector or (2) a detector for harmonic-generating amorphous or non-amorphous metallic tags together with three-dimensional spatial position measurement to determine if a foreign metallic article has been retained in the body and if so, to determine the article's location. The invention scans the patient pre- and post-operatively, evaluating three-dimensional differences in electronic response to account for other nearby metallic objects not related to the retained metallic article, thereby determining by inference whether the post-operative electronic response results from presence of a retained article.