Patents by Inventor Christopher Kempf

Christopher Kempf 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).

  • Patent number: 10189560
    Abstract: A landing gear platform is positionable between rearward and forward tires on one side of an aircraft landing gear and rearward and forward tires on the opposite side of the aircraft landing gear. The platform includes a pair of chocks that engage between the rearward and forward tires on the one side of the aircraft landing gear and the rearward and forward tires on the opposite side of the aircraft landing gear and prevent the tires from rotating. A panel spans over the tops of the pair of chocks. A top surface of the panel can be reached by a worker using a stepstool, enabling the worker to stand on the top surface of the panel when performing work on the landing gear above the rearward and forward tires of the aircraft landing gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Erika Lee Beursken, Andrea Le Ridgeway, Christopher Kempf, Gregory Edward Olson, Michael Glen Nielson
  • Publication number: 20180094445
    Abstract: A landing gear platform is positionable between rearward and forward tires on one side of an aircraft landing gear and rearward and forward tires on the opposite side of the aircraft landing gear. The platform includes a pair of chocks that engage between the rearward and forward tires on the one side of the aircraft landing gear and the rearward and forward tires on the opposite side of the aircraft landing gear and prevent the tires from rotating. A panel spans over the tops of the pair of chocks. A top surface of the panel can be reached by a worker using a stepstool, enabling the worker to stand on the top surface of the panel when performing work on the landing gear above the rearward and forward tires of the aircraft landing gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Erika Lee Beursken, Andrea Le Ridgeway, Christopher Kempf, Gregory Edward Olson, Michael Glen Nielson
  • Patent number: 9919877
    Abstract: An end of travel arrangement for shutting down an assembly line conveyor when an ergo assist arm at a conveyor station moves beyond an end of travel limit point, the end of travel arrangement including a trolley rail mounted alongside one of a pair of runway rails for supporting an ergo assist arm carriage with the trolley movable along the trolley rail. One or more proximity switches are mounted aligned with a home position on the trolley and detect when the trolley is displaced from the home position by contact of a feature on the carriage with the trolley and generate signals immediately initiating shutting down of the assembly line conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Knight Industries
    Inventors: Scot Christopher Kempf, James Michael Weitz, Jeffrey William Hamden
  • Publication number: 20160297617
    Abstract: An end of travel arrangement for shutting down an assembly line conveyor when an ergo assist arm at a conveyor station moves beyond an end of travel limit point, the end of travel arrangement including a trolley rail mounted alongside one of a pair of runway rails for supporting an ergo assist arm carriage with the trolley movable along the trolley rail. One or more proximity switches are mounted aligned with a home position on the trolley and detect when the trolley is displaced from the home position by contact of a feature on the carriage with the trolley and generate signals immediately initiating shutting down of the assembly line conveyor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Scot Christopher Kempf, James Michael Weitz, Jeffrey William Hamden