Patents by Inventor John W. Herndon

John W. Herndon 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: 4989641
    Abstract: A multi-port valve internally supports a rotatable trunnion having an elbow passage between a nozzle portion of the trunnion and a lower end outlet that communicates with a test port of the valve body. The outer end of the nozzle has an axially reciprocable hollow seal piston with a seal support ring whose outer face is formed with an endless groove to receive an O-ring. An actuating shaft is coaxially mounted in an upper end of the trunnion and has a lower end with an eccentric pin engaged in a slot of the seal piston to reciprocate the seal piston into and out of sealing registration around a port selected by rotation of the trunnion. External ends of the actuating shaft and trunnion are respectively drivably coupled to a coaxial sprocket wheel and geneva wheel. A housing on top of the valve contains an input rotor fitted with a cam and a drive roller for engaging radial slots of the geneva wheel alternately with cam engagement of the dwell notches of the geneva wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Santa Fe Energy Co.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Jones, John W. Herndon
  • Patent number: 4103435
    Abstract: A human head trackable wide angle visual system is disclosed which probes y given terrain constructed on a model board and causes selected image portions thereof to be projected on a trio of display sectors located on the inside of a spherical screen, with the view thereof being displayed thereon in accordance with control signals that are respectively portional to the turning of said head about a predetermined axis thereof. A head position sensor, a cockpit, a switching logic circuit, a synchronization signals generator, a trio of video switches, the aforesaid screen, and left, middle, and right light projectors are uniquely combined to provide such effects and, thus, simulate a real-life pilot training environment from a model thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1978
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: John W. Herndon