Patents by Inventor Kevin M. Collins

Kevin M. Collins 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).

  • Publication number: 20240168528
    Abstract: An information handling system bay accepts plural communication carriers having storage communication support, such as in compliance with OCP3.0. The communication carrier has a support structure to support processing components, such as a network interface controller coupled to a printed circuit board, and coupled within the bay by a latch having a member extending from one end to engage the bay housing and latching an opposite chamfered end with a pin coupled to a spring loaded button. A press on the button away from the latch releases the chamfered end from the pin so support structure member is free from the housing bay to remove the communication carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Zhao Chen, Harris Di, John C. Donachy, Amrita Sidhu Maguire, Weidong Zuo, Libertad Paloma Escobar Carrizales, Peter A. Kaltenbach, Kevin M. Keller, Brad P. Collins
  • Patent number: 11975812
    Abstract: A stern drive is for propelling a marine vessel in water. The stern drive has an upper drive unit with a lower mounting surface; a lower gearcase coupled to the lower mounting surface and a trailing end surface that is angled relative to the lower mounting surface; and a propeller shaft extending forwardly from the lower gearcase and being configured to rotate a propeller for pulling the marine vessel in the water. The upper drive unit and the lower gearcase are configured such that when a forward side of the lower gearcase impacts an underwater obstruction, the lower gearcase is caused to pivot relative to the upper drive unit until the trailing end surface impacts the lower mounting surface, which thereby causes the lower gearcase to completely uncouple from the upper drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: David J. Waldvogel, Randall J. Poirier, John O. Scherer, III, Stephen R. Collins, Wayne M. Jaszewski, Kevin M. Moore
  • Patent number: 4834403
    Abstract: A bi-directionally convertible infant car-seat/stroller in which the conversion is effected by operating a single pushbutton which is mechanically coupled to a pair of pawls on opposite sides of the car-seat/stroller, such pawls engaging respective detents in discs or drums rotatably supported from the frame of the apparatus on opposite sides of the apparatus until withdrawn against the force of respective return-spring by the operator's actuation of a single control button which is mechanically coupled by means of flexible cables or rods to such pawls and causes such withdrawal when desired, the result of such withdrawal being the enabling of the movement of the front and rear wheel assemblies of the car-seat/stroller from an extended to a folded position and vice versa as result of the coupling of pivot arms carrying the front and rear wheel assemblies being rotatable with the disc when the pawl associated with each disc is withdrawn from the detent in the disc, as a result of which the apparatus can be con
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1989
    Inventors: Theodore M. Yanus, Kevin M. Collins, Cynthia L. Collins, Robert J. Spicer
  • Patent number: D1026955
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: David J. Waldvogel, Randall J. Poirier, John O. Scherer, III, Stephen R. Collins, Wayne M. Jaszewski, Kevin M. Moore