George Alfred Cook

US Patent:

7840177, Nov 23, 2010

Filed:

May 23, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/752629

Inventors:

David L. DeBusk - Nashville TN, US
Darren P. Briggs - Nashville TN, US
Richard Wardwell - Nashville TN, US
David A. Gilbert - Nashville TN, US
Jack E. Jenkins - Antioch TN, US
Fredric I. Graham - Nashville TN, US
George Anderson Cook - Nashville TN, US
Dustin Withers - Hermitage TN, US

Assignee:

Landmark Digital Services, LLC - Nashville TN

International Classification:

H04H 1/00

US Classification:

455 301, 455 6711, 4551511, 455140

Abstract:

A media content monitoring system uses a rack adapted to receive multiple carrier boards to improve the system's ability to be configured to specific applications. Each carrier board contains tuner modules for receiving AM/FM broadcasts, satellite radio broadcasts, TV audio broadcasts, HD, IBOC, DAB and DRM digital radio broadcasts, etc. The tuner modules produce a USB output that is combined by a USB hub on the carrier boards into a single USB output. The carrier board outputs are in turn combined by a rack based USB hub into single USB output that is provided to a host computer. The host computer includes content identification software that automatically identifies selected media content received by the tuner modules and stores the selected content in a database. The host computer can send control codes to the tuner modules to alter their reception parameters.

US Patent:

8320597, Nov 27, 2012

Filed:

Jan 22, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/357400

Inventors:

Benjamin T. Guy - Nashville TN, US
George Anderson Cook - Nashville TN, US

Assignee:

Griffin Technology, Inc. - Nashville TN

International Classification:

H04R 1/34
H04R 1/30
G10K 11/02

US Classification:

381339, 381340, 381341, 181179, 379444, 379455

Abstract:

An accessory for a portable electronic device having a speaker uses an acoustic wave guide to passively amplify and direct the output of the device's speaker. The accessory has a housing with a docking cavity formed therein. The docking cavity has supportive sidewalls that are adapted to receive and support the portable electronic device in an upright position. A cable access channel is formed in the docking cavity that allows a connector and cable to be coupled to the portable electronic device when the portable electronic device is mounted in the docking cavity. An acoustic waveguide having a spiral shaped acoustic chamber is positioned in the housing such that an entrance to the acoustic waveguide corresponds to a hole in the docking cavity that is positioned to correspond to the location of the speaker of the device when the device is mounted in the docking chamber. The exit of the acoustic chamber corresponds to an exterior opening in a sidewall of the housing and the hole in the docking cavity. The housing can be provided with charging circuitry to charge the device when the device is mounted in the dock.

US Patent:

20090294511, Dec 3, 2009

Filed:

May 30, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/130622

Inventors:

Paul Fleming - Nashville TN, US
David Lammlein - Houston TX, US
George E. Cook - Brentwood TN, US
D. M. Wilkes - Nashville TN, US
Alvin M. Strauss - Nashville TN, US
David Delapp - Ashland City TX, US
Daniel A. Hartman - Santa Fe NM, US

Assignee:

Vanderbilt University - Nashville TN

International Classification:

B23K 31/12
B23K 20/12

US Classification:

228103, 228 23

Abstract:

A friction stir system for processing at least a first workpiece includes a spindle actuator coupled to a rotary tool comprising a rotating member for contacting and processing the first workpiece. A detection system is provided for obtaining information related to a lateral alignment of the rotating member. The detection system comprises at least one sensor for measuring a force experienced by the rotary tool or a parameter related to the force experienced by the rotary tool during processing, wherein the sensor provides sensor signals. A signal processing system is coupled to receive and analyze the sensor signals and determine a lateral alignment of the rotating member relative to a selected lateral position, a selected path, or a direction to decrease a lateral distance relative to the selected lateral position or selected path. In one embodiment, the friction stir system can be embodied as a closed loop tracking system, such as a robot-based tracked friction stir welding (FSW) or friction stir processing (FSP) system.

US Patent:

41885252, Feb 12, 1980

Filed:

Dec 5, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/857359

Inventors:

George J. Merrick - Franklin TN
George E. Cook - Brentwood TN
Donald D. Modglin - Nashville TN

Assignee:

Merrick Welding International - Nashville TN

International Classification:

B23K 912

US Classification:

21912512

Abstract:

Apparatus for rapid and automatic welding of joints which interconnect sections of pipe, and in particular oil or gas transmission pipe. The system includes at least one torch transport assembly which simultaneously moves a plural number of welding torches along a path parallel to the pipe joint being welded. The torch transport assembly includes track segments which surround circumferential portions of the pipe joint, with a welding torch carrier and multiple torches being independently movable along each track segment. The torch transport assembly is mounted on a support apparatus which is rigidly clamped to the pipe sections during welding, and which permits the torch transport assembly to be rapidly positioned in rough alignment with a pipe joint. The torch transport assembly and selected operating parameters of each welding torch are adjusted to accurately position each torch with respect to the pipe joint, and to repeatably provide programmed welding parameters resulting in a uniform pipe joint weld. The present system is disclosed in the context of hot-wire gas-tungsten arc welding torches, and in the operating environment of out-of-position joint welding.

US Patent:

41114434, Sep 5, 1978

Filed:

May 3, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/793401

Inventors:

Neal Sullivan - Nashville TN
George E. Cook - Franklin TN

Assignee:

KFC Corporation - Louisville KY

International Classification:

H05B 102

US Classification:

219497

Abstract:

A system for controlling energization of an electrical resistance heater disposed in heat exchanging relation with a food cooking medium includes a signal generator providing an output signal of amplitude-time character defining a preselected cooking cycle, an element in the cooking medium providing a control signal indicative of cooking medium temperature and circuitry interconnecting an electrical voltage supply with the heater for excitation thereof responsively to both the control signal and the signal generator output signal.

US Patent:

45311927, Jul 23, 1985

Filed:

Sep 23, 1982

Appl. No.:

6/422369

Inventors:

George E. Cook - Nashville TN

Assignee:

CRC Welding Systems, Inc. - Nashville TN

International Classification:

G06F 1546
B23K 912
G05B 1942

US Classification:

364513

Abstract:

Apparatus and method for sensing the topography of a workpiece with an electrical arc by measuring a parameter of the electrical arc signal as an electrode is scanned across the surface of the workpiece by a tool manipulator such as a multi-axis robot arm, and processing the measured arc signal in order to derive the three-dimensional topography. The apparatus includes a digital microcomputer which samples the arc signal, stores a plurality of samples in computer memory, computes the average of a predetermined number of samples, and provides correction factors to the host computer of the robot manipulator so that the electrode or a tool carried by the robot can be adaptively positioned. The apparatus senses such features of the workpiece as holes, edges, and slopes of a given magnitude, and passes the location of these features to the host computer for appropriate corrective action. The system provides vertical correction factors as well as workpiece scanning correction factors so that the host can adaptively adjust the position of the electrode or of a separate tool with respect to the workpiece.

US Patent:

41479203, Apr 3, 1979

Filed:

Dec 5, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/857225

Inventors:

George J. Merrick - Franklin TN
George E. Cook - Brentwood TN
Donald D. Modglin - Nashville TN

Assignee:

Merrick Welding International - Nashville TN

International Classification:

B23K 928

US Classification:

21913763

Abstract:

A welding torch assembly including a torch base, and a torch body which can be rapidly removed from the torch base and replaced without the use of tools, and without separately disconnecting welding current, coolant, or shielding gas lines.

US Patent:

44917180, Jan 1, 1985

Filed:

May 20, 1982

Appl. No.:

6/380222

Inventors:

George E. Cook - Nashville TN
A. Michael Wells - Nashville TN

Assignee:

CRC Welding Systems, Inc. - Nashville TN

International Classification:

B23K 912

US Classification:

21912422

Abstract:

A template-matching adaptive control system for welding comprising noncontacting means for sensing the lateral profile of a weld joint while the welding electrode moves laterally across the joint, means for comparing the sensed lateral profile to a predetermined reference profile or "template", and means for adjusting a welding parameter, such as the center of oscillation for tracking, the width of oscillation, and constant fill control, in response to the results of the comparison. The comparison between the sensed lateral profile and the template is based upon a mathematical criterion of the degree of match therebetween. One disclosed embodiment performs control based upon finding the closest match between the sensed lateral profile and a plurality of different templates. Another embodiment performs control by making adjustments related to the value of the mathematical criterion. The disclosed embodiments employ programmed microprocessers to accomplish the template matching.