Patents by Inventor Mark Malburg

Mark Malburg 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).

  • Method of evaluating a disc brake rotor
    Patent number: 7437917
    Abstract: A method for determining local departures of opposed friction surfaces that are spaced apart in parallel planes normal to the axis of the rotor. Displacement sensing probes are placed in opposing alignment adjacent the friction surfaces and rotor is spun. Instantaneous distances from each probe to the friction surfaces is made by repetitively sampling and converting the sample distances into digital form. The differences between contemporaneous sample distances are computed to determine rotor thicknesses and displayed. An analog measure of the instantaneous angular rotor position is provided for each instantaneous angular position. The angular rotor position and distance measures are correlated and the angular rotor position sample converted to digital form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Robert J. McNaughton, Mark Malburg
  • Method for analyzing waviness of a surface
    Patent number: 7035761
    Abstract: A method for analyzing waviness of a surface. The method includes measuring a height of the surface, producing a set of data points indicative of a waviness profile, selecting a subset of the set of data points, calculating a waviness height of the subset, repeating the selecting, determining, and calculating steps for additional subsets until all members of the set of data points have been selected, and selecting a maximum waviness height value from the waviness heights calculated for each subset. The height of the surface may be measured over a distance longer than the length over which waviness assessment is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Gregory Link, Raghunandan Sridhara, Youssef Hamidieh, Mark Malburg
  • METHOD FOR ANALYZING WAVINESS OF A SURFACE
    Publication number: 20050049823
    Abstract: A method for analyzing waviness of a surface. The method includes measuring a height of the surface, producing a set of data points indicative of a waviness profile, selecting a subset of the set of data points, calculating a waviness height of the subset, repeating the selecting, determining, and calculating steps for additional subsets until all members of the set of data points have been selected, and selecting a maximum waviness height value from the waviness heights calculated for each subset. The height of the surface may be measured over a distance longer than the length over which waviness assessment is required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Applicant: FORD MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Gregory Link, Raghunandan Sridhara, Youssef Hamidieh, Mark Malburg