Patents by Inventor Christopher McAuliffe
Christopher McAuliffe 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).
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Publication number: 20240131330Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided for transcutaneously delivering energy impulses to bodily tissues for therapeutic purposes, such as for enhancing the body's bone healing process in spinal fusion patients. A therapeutic stimulator system comprises a housing for an energy source and a signal generator. The system further includes one or more electrodes coupled to the signal generator. A processor is coupled to the housing and configured to determine usage levels of the signal generator and/or motion data of the housing. The system may include a mobile device that allows the patient to input user status data, such as pain levels, and compare the user status data with the usage levels and/or the motion data, thereby improving patient compliance with a prescribed therapy regimen.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Richard H. Pearce, Jon Christopher McAuliffe
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Patent number: 11857785Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided for transcutaneously delivering energy impulses to bodily tissues for therapeutic purposes, such as for enhancing the body's bone healing process in spinal fusion patients. A therapeutic stimulator system comprises a housing for an energy source and a signal generator. The system further includes one or more electrodes coupled to the signal generator. A processor is coupled to the housing and configured to determine usage levels of the signal generator and/or motion data of the housing. The system may include a mobile device that allows the patient to input user status data, such as pain levels, and compare the user status data with the usage levels and/or the motion data, thereby improving patient compliance with a prescribed therapy regimen.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Theragen, Inc.Inventors: Richard H. Pearce, Jon Christopher McAuliffe
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Patent number: 11759637Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided for transcutaneously delivering energy impulses to bodily tissues for therapeutic purposes, such as for enhancing the body's bone healing process in spinal fusion patients. A therapeutic stimulator system comprises a housing for an energy source and a signal generator. The system further includes one or more electrodes coupled to the signal generator. A processor is coupled to the housing and configured to determine usage levels of the signal generator and/or motion data of the housing. The system may include a mobile device that allows the patient to input user status data, such as pain levels, and compare the user status data with the usage levels and/or the motion data, thereby improving patient compliance with a prescribed therapy regimen.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Theragen, Inc.Inventors: Richard H. Pearce, Jon Christopher McAuliffe
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Patent number: 11717685Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided for transcutaneously delivering energy impulses to bodily tissues for therapeutic purposes, such as for enhancing the body's bone healing process in spinal fusion patients. A therapeutic stimulator system comprises a housing for an energy source and a signal generator. The system further includes one or more electrodes coupled to the signal generator. A processor is coupled to the housing and configured to determine usage levels of the signal generator and/or motion data of the housing. The system may include a mobile device that allows the patient to input user status data, such as pain levels, and compare the user status data with the usage levels and/or the motion data, thereby improving patient compliance with a prescribed therapy regimen.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Theragen, Inc.Inventors: Richard H. Pearce, Jon Christopher McAuliffe
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Publication number: 20220387783Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided for transcutaneously delivering energy impulses to bodily tissues for therapeutic purposes, such as for enhancing the body's bone healing process in spinal fusion patients. A therapeutic stimulator system comprises a housing for an energy source and a signal generator. The system further includes one or more electrodes coupled to the signal generator. A processor is coupled to the housing and configured to determine usage levels of the signal generator and/or motion data of the housing. The system may include a mobile device that allows the patient to input user status data, such as pain levels, and compare the user status data with the usage levels and/or the motion data, thereby improving patient compliance with a prescribed therapy regimen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Richard H. Pearce, Jon Christopher McAuliffe
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Publication number: 20220387782Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided for transcutaneously delivering energy impulses to bodily tissues for therapeutic purposes, such as for enhancing the body's bone healing process in spinal fusion patients. A therapeutic stimulator system comprises a housing for an energy source and a signal generator. The system further includes one or more electrodes coupled to the signal generator. A processor is coupled to the housing and configured to determine usage levels of the signal generator and/or motion data of the housing. The system may include a mobile device that allows the patient to input user status data, such as pain levels, and compare the user status data with the usage levels and/or the motion data, thereby improving patient compliance with a prescribed therapy regimen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Richard H. Pearce, jon Christopher McAuliffe
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Publication number: 20220323754Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided for transcutaneously delivering energy impulses to bodily tissues for therapeutic purposes, such as for enhancing the body's bone healing process in spinal fusion patients. A therapeutic stimulator system comprises a housing for an energy source and a signal generator. The system further includes one or more electrodes coupled to the signal generator. A processor is coupled to the housing and configured to determine usage levels of the signal generator and/or motion data of the housing. The system may include a mobile device that allows the patient to input user status data, such as pain levels, and compare the user status data with the usage levels and/or the motion data, thereby improving patient compliance with a prescribed therapy regimen.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Richard H. Pearce, Jon Christopher McAuliffe
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Patent number: 11426574Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided for transcutaneously delivering energy impulses to bodily tissues for therapeutic purposes, such as for enhancing the body's bone healing process in spinal fusion patients. A therapeutic stimulator system comprises a housing for an energy source and a signal generator. The system further includes one or more electrodes coupled to the signal generator. A processor is coupled to the housing and configured to determine usage levels of the signal generator and/or motion data of the housing. The system may include a mobile device that allows the patient to input user status data, such as pain levels, and compare the user status data with the usage levels and/or the motion data, thereby improving patient compliance with a prescribed therapy regimen.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: THERAGEN, INC.Inventors: Richard H. Pearce, Jon Christopher McAuliffe
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Publication number: 20220249843Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided for transcutaneously delivering energy impulses to bodily tissues for therapeutic purposes, such as for enhancing the body's bone healing process in spinal fusion patients. A therapeutic stimulator system comprises a housing for an energy source and a signal generator. The system further includes one or more electrodes coupled to the signal generator. A processor is coupled to the housing and configured to determine usage levels of the signal generator and/or motion data of the housing. The system may include a mobile device that allows the patient to input user status data, such as pain levels, and compare the user status data with the usage levels and/or the motion data, thereby improving patient compliance with a prescribed therapy regimen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2021Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Richard H. Pearce, Jon Christopher McAuliffe
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Publication number: 20220249833Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided for transcutaneously delivering energy impulses to bodily tissues for therapeutic purposes, such as for enhancing the body's bone healing process in spinal fusion patients. A therapeutic stimulator system comprises a housing for an energy source and a signal generator. The system further includes one or more electrodes coupled to the signal generator. A processor is coupled to the housing and configured to determine usage levels of the signal generator and/or motion data of the housing. The system may include a mobile device that allows the patient to input user status data, such as pain levels, and compare the user status data with the usage levels and/or the motion data, thereby improving patient compliance with a prescribed therapy regimen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2021Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Richard H. Pearce, Jon Christopher McAuliffe
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Patent number: 11395919Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided for transcutaneously delivering energy impulses to bodily tissues for therapeutic purposes, such as for enhancing the body's bone healing process in spinal fusion patients. A therapeutic stimulator system comprises a housing for an energy source and a signal generator. The system further includes one or more electrodes coupled to the signal generator. A processor is coupled to the housing and configured to determine usage levels of the signal generator and/or motion data of the housing. The system may include a mobile device that allows the patient to input user status data, such as pain levels, and compare the user status data with the usage levels and/or the motion data, thereby improving patient compliance with a prescribed therapy regimen.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: THERAGEN, INC.Inventors: Richard H. Pearce, Jon Christopher McAuliffe
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Patent number: 11090592Abstract: A water collector assembly includes a diffuser assembly having a diffuser body. The diffuser body extends between an inlet duct and an outlet duct along a first axis. The diffuser body includes a first end wall extending from a second inlet duct end towards a first inlet duct end, a second end wall extending from a first outlet duct end towards a first inlet duct end, and a side wall extending between the first end wall and the second end wall.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Donald E. Army, Christopher McAuliffe
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Patent number: 10975887Abstract: A heat sink that can be positioned around a rotating shaft includes a cylindrical body with a first end and a second end, a bore running through the body with a first opening at the first end of the body and a second opening at the second end of the body, fins extending radially outward from the body and running from the first end to the second end of the body, and channels defined between the fins and running from the first end to the second end of the body.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Craig M. Beers, Christopher McAuliffe, Murtuza Lokhandwalla
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Patent number: 10808862Abstract: A self-acting pressure activated drain valve includes at least one inlet configured to receive a fluid. A drainage passage delivers the fluid to at least one outlet where the fluid is expelled. The self-acting pressure activated drain valve further includes a flexible diaphragm configured to operate in an open position and a closed position based on a pressure. The flexible diaphragm is normally biased in the open position such that fluid is delivered from the at least one inlet to the at least one outlet via the drainage passage. The pressure, however, initiates the closed position such that air is prevented from flowing through the drainage passage.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: HAMILTON SUNSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher McAuliffe, Nigel Palmer
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Patent number: 10661906Abstract: A housing for an air cycle machine includes a housing with a first end and a second end opposite the first end, a first duct adjacent the first end of the housing with an air inlet and an air outlet, a second duct adjacent the second end of the housing with an air inlet and an air outlet, and a collar in the housing extending into the second duct. The collar includes a first annular surface facing radially inward and configured to engage a journal bearing and a second annular surface facing radially inward and configured to engage a rotating shaft, wherein the second surface is monolithic with the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2014Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Craig M. Beers, Christopher McAuliffe, Brent J. Merritt
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Patent number: 10639574Abstract: A water extractor includes an inlet, an outlet a body, outer wall, inner wall, helical wall, plurality of catchment areas, and scuppers. The body extends between the inlet and the outlet. The inner wall is disposed radially inward from the outer wall and forms a main flow channel through a portion of the body. The helical wall extends between and is connected to the outer wall and the inner wall and forms a helical passageway fluidly connected to the inlet and the outlet. The helical passageway includes a plurality of turns along a bottom of the body. One of the catchment areas is disposed in each turn of the helical passageway. The scuppers are disposed in the catchment areas and are connected to and extend radially inward from the outer wall.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Michael Zager, Christopher McAuliffe
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Patent number: 10569887Abstract: A system and method onboard an aircraft includes a ram air temperature sensor, a bleed air temperature sensor, a valve, and a controller. The ram air temperature sensor is positioned to sense a ram air temperature of a ram air flow. The bleed air temperature sensor is positioned to sense a bleed air temperature of a bleed air flow, wherein the bleed air flow is cooled by a heat exchanger using the ram air flow. The valve is configured to control the bleed air flow upstream of the heat exchanger. The controller is configured to determine a bleed air threshold based on the ram air temperature, and control the valve to reduce the bleed air flow in response to the bleed air temperature reaching the bleed air threshold.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Patrick Valiquette, Erin G. Kline, Christopher McAuliffe, Thomas M. Zywiak, James Joyce, Lauren Kodet
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Publication number: 20190388817Abstract: A water collector assembly includes a diffuser assembly having a diffuser body. The diffuser body extends between an inlet duct and an outlet duct along a first axis. The diffuser body includes a first end wall extending from a second inlet duct end towards a first inlet duct end, a second end wall extending from a first outlet duct end towards a first inlet duct end, and a side wall extending between the first end wall and the second end wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2018Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Donald E. Army, Christopher McAuliffe
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Patent number: 10514065Abstract: A system for managing a temperature of at least one bearing in an air cycle machine includes an inlet for allowing cooling air to enter the air cycle machine, at least one bearing downstream from the inlet and in fluidic connection with the inlet, an outlet downstream from the at least one bearing and in fluidic connection with the at least one bearing, a temperature sensor at a point between the inlet and the outlet, and an electronic controller electrically connected to and receiving temperature data from the temperature sensor with the electronic controller configured to modify an operation of the air cycle machine depending on the temperature data.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Donald E. Army, Christopher McAuliffe
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Patent number: 10513948Abstract: A rotary machine includes a shaft extending through the rotary machine; a bearing positioned around the shaft; and an air deflector mounted on the shaft between the bearing and the shaft, wherein the air deflector has a first cylindrical body portion that is connected to a second cylindrical body portion with a ramp portion. A method for cooling a bearing positioned around a rotating shaft includes providing air to a cavity that surrounds a rotating shaft; deflecting the air towards an inner surface of a bearing that is positioned radially outward of the rotating shaft, wherein the air is deflected with an air deflector that is mounted on the rotating shaft; and flowing the air between an outer surface of the air deflector and the inner surface of the bearing.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Craig M. Beers, Christopher McAuliffe, Murtuza Lokhandwalla