Patents by Inventor Calvin L. Wilkinson

Calvin L. Wilkinson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Thermal control method
    Patent number: 4421105
    Abstract: Method for controlling the temperature of a thermally sensitive body (10) exposed to visible and near-visible radiant energy (14) through the use and control of an electric field imposed on a liquid-crystal based material (20) capable of having a cholesteric-nematic phase transition with pleochroic dyes (32) mixed within the liquid-crystal based material (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Calvin L. Wilkinson, Christopher G. Shaw
  • Integral purged multi-layer insulation design
    Patent number: 4417428
    Abstract: Segments of multi-layer insulation have their ends bent outwardly and abutting the outwardly bent ends of adjacent segments. A purge gas flows through the spaces in the multi-layer insulation segments, the purge gas entering the spaces by way of some of the segment ends from gas inlet channels formed by extending the outer layers of segments past some of the segment ends and joining the extended outer layers to the outer layers of adjacent segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1983
    Assignee: Boeing Aerospace Company
    Inventor: Calvin L. Wilkinson