Mark D Mathews

US Patent:

54656605, Nov 14, 1995

Filed:

Feb 16, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/198072

Inventors:

Walter Conti - Woodside CA
William R. Feemster - Malibu CA
Jeffrey L. Felts - Poppy Meadow CA
Antony J. Fields - San Francisco CA
Robert W. Henderson - Claremont CA
Paul L. Howard - Palo Alto CA
Kevin F. Kaub - Palmdale CA
Joel A. Lederman - Canoga Park CA
Thomas M. Lee - Sherman Oaks CA
Gilbert Martinez - Castaic CA
Mark H. Mathews - Northridge CA
Ravi V. Patel - Newhall CA
Michael W. Waldrep - Santa Clarita CA
John H. Wetzel - Glendora CA

Assignee:

Aero-Design Technology - Valencia CA

International Classification:

B30B 1506

US Classification:

100 48

Abstract:

A trash collection and compacting apparatus primarily intended for use onboard an aircraft comprising a stationary compactor unit and interrelated movable wheeled trolley unit, the trolley unit having a plurality of separate trash collection chambers into which trash is deposited and compacted and support rails for supporting the trolley unit on the compactor unit for the direct compaction of trash in the trolley. The trolley unit also has separable sides to facilitate removal of compacted trash, and multiple fail safe locks and latches to ensure that the sides are not inadvertently separated during trash collection and compaction. Fire doors are provided to close the chambers, and removable trash bins are disposed in each trash chamber to facilitate handling of compacted trash, the bins having separable sides for emptying the compacted trash therefrom. The compactor unit includes a compaction ram mounted on a carriage assembly for movement into discrete positions overlying each collection chamber of the trolley unit and supports the trolley so that compaction forces are not transmitted to the aircraft.

US Patent:

54904552, Feb 13, 1996

Filed:

May 17, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/442677

Inventors:

Walter Conti - Woodside CA
William R. Feemster - Malibu CA
Jeffrey L. Felts - Canyon Country CA
Antony J. Fields - San Francisco CA
Robert W. Henderson - Claremont CA
Paul L. Howard - Palo Alto CA
Kevin F. Kaub - Palmdale CA
Joel A. Lederman - Canoga Park CA
Thomas M. Lee - Sherman Oaks CA
Gilbert Martinez - Castaic CA
Mark H. Mathews - Northridge CA
Ravi V. Patel - Newhall CA
Michael W. Waldrep - Santa Clarita CA
John H. Wetzel - Glendora CA

Assignee:

Aero-Design Technology - Valencia CA

International Classification:

B03B 1516

US Classification:

100 50

Abstract:

A trash collection and compacting apparatus primarily intended for use onboard an aircraft comprising a stationary compactor unit and interrelated movable trolley unit, the trolley unit having a plurality of separate trash collection chambers into which trash is deposited and compacted. The trolley unit includes wheels for moving the trolley through an aircraft for the collection of trash, and support rails for supporting the trolley unit on the compactor unit for the direct compaction of trash in the trolley. The compactor unit includes a compaction ram mounted on a carriage assembly for movement into discrete positions overlying each collection chamber of the trolley unit, and supports the trolley so that compaction forces are not transmitted to the aircraft. The trolley unit includes separable sides and dividing panels which facilitate the removal of compacted trash within the chambers, and has multiple fail safe locks and latches to ensure that the sides and panels are not inadvertently separated during trash collection and compaction. The trolley unit is also provided with fire doors to close the chambers, and removable trash bins are disposed in each trash chamber to facilitate handling of compacted trash, the bins having separable sides for emptying the compacted trash therefrom.

US Patent:

63046768, Oct 16, 2001

Filed:

Oct 3, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/944199

Inventors:

Mark A. Mathews - San Jose CA

International Classification:

G06K 936

US Classification:

382246

Abstract:

System and method using a competitive process to create an optimized set of variable length bit codes to encode one, two or three dimensional data and a high speed redundant lookup table for decoding the resulting representation in real time. The encoding phase consists of multiple passes through the unencoded data to determine the overall best code set for the given data. The primitives used to encode the data may be any mix of operations that captures the redundancy of the raw data. For graphic applications, specific colors and patterns copied from previously occurring data yield sufficiently high compression ratios, but any likely candidates for high frequency occurrence may be added to the mix. The encoding algorithm will ignore any non-optimal operations and assign them no space in the code set. The decoding phase takes the code set generated by the encoding phase and builds one or more redundant lookup tables, where each code's entry occurs a sufficient number of times to guarantee that a single lookup using the next n bits of the encoded data stream as index will correctly decode the next code in the stream.