Patents by Inventor Clinton Lane Lafferty

Clinton Lane Lafferty 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: 8286421
    Abstract: An exhaust diluting and diffusing apparatus includes a pipe mountable on a exhaust stack pipe, and having a flared skirt inlet to define an annular inlet, a mixing section adjacent the inlet, and an exhaust section formed as a pipe section with a multiplicity of holes. The apparatus pipe has a diameter greater than the diameter of the exhaust stack on which it is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Volvo Group North America, LLC
    Inventors: Hugh Thomas Dickinson, Clinton Lane Lafferty, Rayvonn Donnell Core, William Robert Miller
  • Patent number: 8006489
    Abstract: An exhaust diffuser for a truck includes a chamber mountable on a truck exhaust stack pipe. The chamber has a cross sectional area much greater than the cross sectional area of the exhaust pipe, and has a dispersing element disposed in the line of exhaust flow to divert exhaust gases laterally into the chamber volume. One or both of the top and front side walls are formed as a mesh or screen to allow the dispersed exhaust gases to flow outward away from the truck cab in a diffused area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Volvo Group North America, LLC
    Inventors: Hugh Thomas Dickinson, Clinton Lane Lafferty, Rayvonn Donnell Core
  • Publication number: 20100083647
    Abstract: An exhaust diffuser for a truck includes a chamber mountable on a truck exhaust stack pipe. The chamber has a cross sectional area much greater than the cross sectional area of the exhaust pipe, and has a dispersing element disposed in the line of exhaust flow to divert exhaust gases laterally into the chamber volume. One or both of the top and front side walls are formed as a mesh or screen to allow the dispersed exhaust gases to flow outward away from the truck cab in a diffused area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: Volvo Trucks North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Hugh Thomas Dickinson, Clinton Lane Lafferty, Rayvonn Donnell Core
  • Publication number: 20100043412
    Abstract: An exhaust diluting and diffusing apparatus includes a pipe mountable on a exhaust stack pipe, and having a flared skirt inlet to define an annular inlet, a mixing section adjacent the inlet, and an exhaust section formed as a pipe section with a multiplicity of holes. The apparatus pipe has a diameter greater than the diameter of the exhaust stack on which it is mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: Volvo Trucks North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Hugh Thomas Dickinson, Clinton Lane Lafferty, Rayvonn Donnell Core, William Robert Miller
  • Patent number: 7481287
    Abstract: A vehicle cooling package has a fan shroud mounted to a heat exchanger assembly. A diverter plate is mounted adjacent to the shroud and spaced therefrom with a fan interposed therebetween. A diverting surface of the shroud and the diverter plate are angled from the axis of the fan when the shroud and plate are assembled to the vehicle. A vehicle hood has upper and side surfaces each having air discharge apertures corresponding with the space between the diverting surface and the diverter plate when the hood is closed. The diverting surface and the diverter plate both extend fully to the hood assembly when the hood is closed. The angles of the diverting surface and the diverter plate closely match a natural discharge angle of the fan, so that air is discharged from the fan at a high velocity from under the hood through the air discharge apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Ricky Dean Madson, Andy Blaine Appleton, Clinton Lane Lafferty, Ronnie Franklin Burk, Dennis Aaron Bowman, Thomas Frederick Tock, Paul Thomas Bruss, Charles Nicholas Warren, Scott Keith Farlow, Matthew Robert Oliver