William Otto Peterson
Engineers in Salt Lake City, UT

2005010, May 19, 2005

Nov 13, 2004

10/987465

William Peterson - Salt Lake City UT, US

H04M001/64

455567000, 455569100, 455569200, 379067100

A new type of telephone device is made such to answer an incoming call, the incoming message is listened to but the answerer stays silent and instead replies with a recorded prepared message, the conversation continues this way, with means for the receiving party to be silent and unobtrusive amongst others. In addition to having prepared answers and messages, the correspondent can make other messages. A call out is made the same way, the caller remaining silent and inconspicuous. The new telephone device has the outward appearance of only a hearing aid worn on a user. A combination of a cellular telephone and a hearing aid components are such that when the combination instrument is not functioning as a cellular phone (calling, ringing, talking, listening), the combination instrument is functioning as a hearing aid for the user's (personal conversing), where the external ambient sound, including voice from persons talking to the user is collected by the cellular telephone microphone (Mic.), or hearing aid Mic., or other or more, then the input is amplified, the input digitally adjusted by the hearing aid for the users hearing frequency deficiencies, then transmitted to an earpiece speaker[s] in place in the users ear[s], one or both. Sound collected in two mics would enable stereo listening for the user. Then when a phone call occurs, the phone system received sound is collected and carried to the same speaker[s] in place in the users ears. As an additional benefit received audio from persons calling is (like personal conversing) adjusted for the instrument's user's hearing frequency deficiencies so he hears the callers voice in correct perspective. A system of switching to transition between phone and hearing aid function, using automatic phone sensing to make such a switch, or having a switch at the phone, or having a switch at the phone cord. The device also being combined with other audio devices, including a Mic. for normal cell phone function.

2008020, Aug 28, 2008

Sep 4, 2007

11/899209

William D. Peterson - Salt Lake City UT, US

G21F 9/00

588 3

A method including a combination of intermediate storage and reprocessing is utilized to process spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and thereby effect a disposition of that SNF within a period of 300 years. The method includes five or more years of pool water storage wherein ninety-nine percent (%) of the fission wastes energy decays. The waste material is then stored in an air convention storage facility, before processing to separate Cesium and Strontium from the waste is effected. This air convection cooling may be done in convection air-cooled concrete casks. During 50 years of convection air-cooled storage the energy contained in the waste material declines another one half %. Thereafter, at any point the SNF is processed to sufficiently separate 99.999% of the 97% of actinides (approximately 95% U238 uranium, 1% U235 uranium, and 1% Pu239 plutonium) from the 3% fission wastes. Again, it is only necessary to provide approximately 99.999% separation of the TRU's (transuranic waste) from the fps (fission products)—more specifically, sufficient separation so that the residual fps are contaminated with less than 100 nCi/g TRU's, as defined in the Class C regulations—10CFR61. The separated actinides and transuranics are thereafter utilized in the manufacture of MOX (mixed oxide) or fast burner reactor fuel pellets for future reactor fuel. The remaining fission wastes, containing Cesium and Strontium, are then placed into containers and subsequently put into dry storage for the remainder of around 300 years, where most of the remaining half % of its radiation energy material, i.e., Cesium and Strontium decays. Thereafter this fission waste is put into a low level Class-C nuclear waste repository, which may include leaving them in the intermediate storage facility that is also designed to accommodate and dispose Class C waste.

4855608, Aug 8, 1989

Jun 12, 1987

7/061562

William D. Peterson - Salt Lake City UT

G01N 2186, G01V 904

250560

A laser beam fanned into a triangular plane configuration by mirrors, succeeding additional mirrors focusing the laser curtain rays back onto a spot, the spot having a light detecting, electrical transmitting element such that a square wave pulse is generated as the laser timely sweeps the collecting mirror, a breach in the square wave occurring when the laser ray curtain is penetrated breaking a laser beam, thus said penetration being detected, a system of three laser curtains in X, Y, and Z coordinates, having means of traversing an object to be measured, determining the exterior of each of its six sides.

5448604, Sep 5, 1995

May 31, 1994

8/251134

William D. Peterson - Holladay UT

G21C 1900

376261

A transport, storage, monitoring, and retrieval system for casks including intermediate storage of spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants. The system consists of a powered rail transport car which carries a cask standing on its end. A cross-ways traveling powered rail "under car" unit carries the rail transport car and loaded cask transversely on rails underneath to align with a bay rail which the powered rail car traverses to the cask storage location. Bridge cranes off-load the casks and with monitoring equipment perform remote cask inspections. Bay rails and a pair of cross-ways traveling "under car" units serve for movement of both the transport car and the bridge units. Casks are located automatically at specific addresses for inventory control and data logging of radioactive emissions. The system may operate remotely and cask conditions are monitored from automated retrieved collected at an off-site data base.

5862195, Jan 19, 1999

Sep 9, 1996

8/708791

William Donald Peterson - Holladay UT

G21C 1900

376272

A conveyance system provides for storing, monitoring, and retrieving (multi-purpose) canisters "MPC" for intermediate storage of spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants. The system includes a shielded transport system, an access corridor shielded for radiation, a lifting transport conveyance, an elevation chase, a dry-pool, seismic bracing to support the canisters in storage, associated shielding to confine radiation to the dry-pool, and air manifold system for cooling, and facilities to add alternative liquid radiation shielding around the canisters in the dry pool. A RR-locomotive moves a RR-car having a radiation shielded transport container to communicate with a dry-pool access corridor. A bridge crane carries an "MPC" through the corridor to a vertical chase which accesses to the dry-pool. The bridge crane places the "MPC" at a cooling vent manifold.

4261460, Apr 14, 1981

Aug 27, 1979

6/069884

William D. Peterson - Salt Lake City UT

B65G 3910

198828

An intermediate assembly for supporting parallel cables stretched between end frames in a conveyor. The assembly including rigid cross members maintaining the cables a fixed distance apart, first and second posts each connected at its top end to one of the cables and at its bottom end to an anchor, and a third post connected diagonally of the first two posts, all of the posts are adjustable in length and the connection of the first and second posts to the anchors is pivotal to enable movement of the posts transverse to the cables.

4524864, Jun 25, 1985

May 21, 1984

6/612998

William D. Peterson - Salt Lake City UT

B65G 3910

198828

A gap stringer conveyor belt support structure having a pair of spaced apart parallel stringers with rollers therebetween and a pair of underlying support frames. Each support frame includes a pair of generally vertical extensible load bearing posts each of which is connected at its upper end to a stringer and at its lower end to a weight bearing anchor. A third extensible post is connected at one end to a stringer and extends in a direction diagonally to the vertical posts to connect at its other end to an anchor. The weight bearing anchors may be imbedded in the ground. The connections between the extensible posts at the stringers and anchors are pivotal to permit adjustment by movement about at least an axis parallel to the stringers. Each extensible post is provided with a clamp or lock to hold it at a selected length.

4123070, Oct 31, 1978

Oct 5, 1976

5/729695

William D. Peterson - Salt Lake City UT

F16J 1540

277135

A drive shaft seal system, having an interior solid material feeder atmosphere being sealed from the outside ambient atmosphere by a sealing system of high pressure hydrogen over liquid via a low pressure seal, the high pressure liquid over the ambient atmosphere via a high pressure seal the liquid being cooled as required.

4282835, Aug 11, 1981

Jul 2, 1979

6/053750

William D. Peterson - Salt Lake City UT
John M. Lytle - Richland WA

Wm. D. Peterson & Associates - Salt Lake City UT

B01J 700, F01N 315, F02B 4308, B01J 802

123 1A

An internal combustion engine, synthesizing CO and H. sub. 2 fuels from methanol in a first synthesizer, and also synthesizing H. sub. 2 fuel from CO and water in a second synthesizer, thus upgrading a technically difficult to use fuel to a low polluting, easily usable fuel, by use of the energy from exhaust gas waste heat thus improving the fuel heating value by 20%; the engine fuel system also having an alternate energy source for synthesizing the fuel, the engine also having an additional alternate fuel source for engine starting and operation when the synthesized fuel reservoir is low and electrical battery energy is limited thus allowing time for the heat exchanger synthesizers to warm up to produce CO and H. sub. 2 fuel, which is especially required during cold operating seasons.