Daniel P Carpenter

US Patent:

20140014796, Jan 16, 2014

Filed:

May 6, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/887775

Inventors:

DANIEL LANCE CARPENTER - ANAHEIM CA, US

International Classification:

G10G 5/00

US Classification:

2482194, 2482184

Abstract:

The invention provides for a simple and inexpensive holder for musical instruments. Unlike existing instrument holders, the present invention mounts without any tools or clamps onto the shaft of a stand such as a microphone stand, music stand, or similar stand and and is easily installed or repositioned or removed. The object of this invention is to hold various musical instruments or a plurality of various instruments and/or accessories when not in use in a convenient place during a performance or rehearsal and display for easy selection of use when desired. It utilizes a stand that is most likely to be already in use therefore eliminating the need for another stand while providing the convenience of the holder.

US Patent:

44145489, Nov 8, 1983

Filed:

Mar 30, 1981

Appl. No.:

6/249073

Inventors:

Daniel D. Carpenter - Manhattan Beach CA
Ronald L. Lanning - Rancho Palos Verdes CA

Assignee:

TRW Inc. - Cleveland OH

International Classification:

G01S 944

US Classification:

343 8

Abstract:

A vehicle velocity sensing system is disclosed which includes a doppler velocity sensor (10, 12) and means for reducing spurious signal components in the output of the sensor. An accelerometer (30, 32) is mounted so as to sense vehicle accelerations along the boresight of the doppler velocity sensor. A processor (34, 36) processes the output of the accelerometer to provide a signal which corresponds essentially to the spurious components of the output of the doppler radar velocity sensor. A signal combiner (38, 40) combines the output of the processor with the output of the doppler velocity sensor to derive a corrected output signal which is more closely indicative of the velocity of the vehicle.

US Patent:

40204618, Apr 26, 1977

Filed:

Nov 18, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/633148

Inventors:

William B. Adams - Camillus NY
Douglas R. Anderson - Van Nuys CA
Daniel D. Carpenter - Manhattan Beach CA

Assignee:

TRW Inc. - Redondo Beach CA

International Classification:

G06F 1112

US Classification:

3401461AL

Abstract:

A system for transmitting digital information such as audio or video over a lossy or dispersive medium. The digital information is of the type where certain bits are more important than others and hence the less important bits can suffer a greater bit error rate. Accordingly, the most important bits are encoded into a (7,k) 8-ary Reed Solomon code where 7 is the length of the code and k is the dimension of the code. The less important bits are then respectively encoded into a (7,k+1) or a (7,k+2) 8-ary Reed Solomon code. The code words are modulated onto a plurality of tones or subcarriers. The decoding is effected by initially demodulating the subcarriers and generating a candidate set of code words from each 7-tuple of demodulated 8-ary symbols corresponding to a transmitted code word. The decoding of each transmitted code word is completed by making the statistical decision that the transmitted code word is the member of the associated group of candidate code words maximizing an adaptive maximum likelihood test statistic.