About Us:
Don Parent
East Coast Manager
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Specialized Professional Competence
Diversified engineering and management experience. Experienced in technical problem solving, fault and failure analysis, design for compliance, safety and risk analysis, project, product and technical management, and the design of capital equipment for process and assembly automation.
Mr. Parent has 30 years experience in the engineering, manufacturing and marketing of fully integrated and automated process machinery, electronic products and consumer products. He is a named inventor on more than 20 US and international patents and is a Registered Professional Engineer. As Principal Engineer at D2 Systems and at Steinke Beyer, Mr. Parent provides expert engineering services and testimony relating to intellectual property protection and patent related matters.
Background and Professional Honors
Graduate classes in servo systems and signal processing,
University of New Hampshire 1982
M.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Stanford University 1980
B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Northeastern University 1979
Machine Tool Technology, Central Maine Technical College, 1974
Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer, Maine #4832
Professional Experience:
Steinke Beyer, Inc. • 2000-Present
East Coast Manager, patents and intellectual property, product design, machine design, failure analysis, safety and human factors engineering, and product remediation
New Concepts Engineering (formerly D2 Systems),
Windham, Maine • 1998-Present
Principal Engineer, mechanical engineering consulting in product design and process automation
Marca Coating Technology, LLC / D2 In-Line Solutions, LLC,
Scarborough,
Maine •
2009-2011
Vice President. Sales, engineering development and intellectual protection of new vacuum coating machines and technologies.
First Light Technology, Inc., Saco, Maine
Director of Technology Development, design and development of DVD manufacturing processes, 1997 to 1998
Director of Engineering, design and development of compact disc production machinery, 1991 to 1997
Chapman Corp., Windham, Maine
Vice President of Engineering, design of static elimination equipment, 1985 to 1991
GTE Product Corporation, Standish, Maine
Senior Engineer, design of heating products, 1982 to 1985
Bell Telephone Laboratory, Whippany, New Jersey
Member of Technical Staff, design of digital tape backup systems, 1979 to 1982
Ingersoll Rand Company, Nashua, New Hampshire
Manufacturing Engineer, Worked to improve assembly practices with injection molding machines, 1978 to 1979
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Junior Design Engineer, Computed mass, volume and other properties on inertial guidance system components, 1976 to 1978
Professional Affiliations:
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Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer, Maine #4832
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Member, National Society of Professional Engineers
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Member, American Society of Safety Engineers
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Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
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Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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Member, Society of Vacuum Coaters
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Past member, Northeastern University Engineering Department Industrial Advisory Board
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Past President, Windham Educational Foundation Board of Directors
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Past instructor, PE Exam review class, University of Southern Maine
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Participant, State of Maine Commission on Science and Technology Literacy
Specialized Experience: 
Donald G. Parent has extensive experience in the design and analysis of fully integrated and automated process machinery and in failure and risk analysis. As a principal with Steinke Beyer, Inc. and D2 Systems, he has conducted failure and risk analyses on large industrial machinery, and designed operational and safety improvements to automated systems used in industries such as consumer products, medical products, steel products, and others. Mr. Parent is the holder of more than 20 US and international patents and applications and provides engineering consulting relating to patent and intellectual property related matters. He has testified as an expert witness on matters involving product design, safety, and human factors.
As Engineering Director at First Light Technology, Mr. Parent was an industry leader in the development and construction of computer-controlled capital machinery used worldwide for making various types of optical discs, (compact discs, DVD’s, and CD-R discs, etc.). He is experienced in developing products for compliance to US and international standards, including European CE marking. He has extensive experience in the design of automated machinery for safe operation.
Expertise Includes:
- CD \ DVD \ CDR Technologies
- CD \ DVD \ CDR Manufacturing Equipment
- Robotics
- Optical Inspection
- Sensors
- Ionization Systems
- Failure analysis
- UV Curable Coating Systems
- Safety and Risk Analysis
- Coating Machinery
- Injection Molding Machinery
- Automated Assembly Machines
- Physical Vapor Deposition Systems
- Vacuum Metalizers
- Product Design
- Sputter Machines
Publications and Presentations
Inline Metallization: The Next Game-Changing Technology in Cosmetic Packaging, HBA NYC, 2010
Sputtered Metal Coatings and UV Coatings, Working Together, RadTech Report, November/December 2008
PVD and UV Coatings, Working Together, Presenter, RadTech2008, May 2008
Gazebo Project Report, Mikkeli International Industrial Coating Seminar (MIICS), Mikkeli, Finland, March 2003
Innovations in Sputtering Technology Workshop, Panelist and Presenter,
Replitech Europe 1998, Netherlands.
DVD-9, Perfecting the Process, Panelist and Presenter, Replitech USA,
San Francisco, California. 1998.
Practical Solutions for Gold Sputtering of Recordable Compact Discs,
Society of Vacuum Coaters Conference, 1995.
Presentation on design for CE compliance, Presented to American Society of
Quality Control, Maine Chapter.
A Comparison of Various Ionizer Balancing Methods, Electrostatic Society of America Conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
Benchtop Ionization Workshop, Panelist and Presenter, EOS/ESD Symposium.
Balancing of Benchtop Ionizers, Magazine Article, Evaluation Engineering Magazine.
DC Motor Selection with Personal Computer Software,
Power Conversion & Intelligent Motion Magazine, August, 1986
DC Motor Selection with Personal Computer Software, Proceedings,
Motor-Con Conference, 1985.
Monitoring Heat Transfer Coefficients using Liquid Crystals, Master’s Project,
Stanford University, 1980.
Patents
In-Line Metallizer Assemblies and Part-Coating Conveyor Systems Incorporating the Same, US Patent Application 20100181193, January 15, 2010
Rotary Barrel Gate Valve, US Patent 6,938,925, Jan 10, 2006.
Peak flow meter, US Patent 6,889,564, May 10, 2005.
Method of coating insulative substrates, US Patent 6,767,810, January 13, 2004.
System and method for curing a resin disposed between a top and bottom substrate with thermal management,
US Patent 6,511,616, January 28, 2003.
Method of forming bonded storage disks with low power light assembly,
US Patent 6,500,297, December 31, 2002.
Method for maintaining concentricity of a combination of a top and bottom substrate during the assembly of a bonded storage disk, US Patent 6,430,803, August 13, 2002.
System and method for thermally manipulating a combination of a top and bottom substrate before a curing operation, US Patent 6,355,129, March 12, 2002.
System for forming bonded storage disks with low power light assembly,
US Patent 6,352,612, March 5, 2002.
System and method for curing a resin disposed between a top and bottom substrate with thermal management US Patent 06,254,809, July 3, 2001.
System and method for thermally manipulating a combination of a top and bottom substrate before a curing operation, US Patent 06,103,039, August 15, 2000.
System for maintaining concentricity of a combination of a top and bottom substrate during the assembly of a bonded storage disk,
US Patent 06,098,272, August 8, 2000.
Metallizing machine, US Patent 05,709,785, January 20, 1998
Air distributing and ionizing systems, US Patent 05,491,602, February 13, 1996
Method for removing a cap from a container with a cap engaging unit,
US Patent 05,430,923, 1995
Automated container cap remover and method,
US Patent 05,271,296, December 21, 1993
Self-balancing circuit for convection air ionizers,
US Patent 05,008,594, April 16, 1991
Insecticide dispenser containing eutectic disconnector,
US Patent 04,780,286, October 25, 1988
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