Patents by Inventor Phillip Howard
Phillip Howard 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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Patent number: 11749915Abstract: A grounding clamp includes a safety lock-out which locks the operation of the clamp in the absence of a cooperating hot-stick. The lock-out employs a clutch which prevents the translation of the clamping members relative to one another until the clutch is disengaged. The cooperating hot-stick is required for the disengagement of the clutch.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Quanta Associates, L.P.Inventors: Phillip Howard Quaedvlieg, David Karl Wabnegger, Janos Csaba Toth, Daniel Neil O'Connell
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Publication number: 20230187852Abstract: Disclosed is an equipotential (EPZ) matting for creating an equipotential zone at a work site. A wire mesh of the EPZ matting is constructed by first cutting desired lengths of cable and laying the lengths of cable parallel and adjacent to each other. The cables are then connected to one another at regularly spaced intervals along the cables using pressed metal ferrules. The connections are staggered as between adjacent cables to create an evenly spaced, open mesh pattern when the wire mesh is tensioned perpendicularly to the longitudinal axes of the cables when initially laid along side one another. The wire mesh is opened and pulled tight for use as EPZ matting on the work site. After work is completed, the mesh is closed and bundled for transport, storage, and re-use.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Luke Asbjorn LODER, Phillip Howard QUAEDVLIEG
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Patent number: 11563313Abstract: The present invention relates to replacing conductors in a high-voltage power transfer system. The method provides, for example, a method for maintaining sections of electrically conductive phases in a three-phase power conductor line, wherein the three phases are parallel and spaced apart in an ordered sequence. The phases are strung between support structures and supported above the ground. Maintenance work, which include replacement or repair, is performed on sections of the three phases without interrupting a power load in any one of the three phases and without transposing the relative positions of the phases out of their ordered sequence.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Quanta Associates, L.P.Inventors: Daniel Neil O'Connell, David Karl Wabnegger, Phillip Howard Quaedvlieg, Robert Wayne Palmer
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Publication number: 20220352653Abstract: A grounding clamp includes a safety lock-out which locks the operation of the clamp in the absence of a cooperating hot-stick. The lock-out employs a clutch which prevents the translation of the clamping members relative to one another until the clutch is disengaged. The cooperating hot-stick is required for the disengagement of the clutch.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Phillip Howard Quaedvlieg, David Karl Wabnegger, Janos Csaba Toth, Daniel Neil O'Connell
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Patent number: 11404802Abstract: A grounding clamp includes a safety lock-out which locks the operation of the clamp in the absence of a cooperating hot-stick. The lock-out employs a clutch which prevents the translation of the clamping members relative to one another until the clutch is disengaged. The cooperating hot-stick is required for the disengagement of the clutch.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Quanta Associates, L.P.Inventors: Daniel Neil O'Connell, Phillip Howard Quaedvlieg, David Karl Wabnegger, Janos Csaba Toth, Ian Edward Trip, Ronald F. Howarth, Jolly Vincent Pangan Nepomuceno, Robert Dale Wicks
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Publication number: 20220101096Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a knowledge-based deep learning refactoring model with tightly integrated functional nonparametric memory are disclosed. An example non-transitory computer readable medium comprises instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least estimate a first information extraction cost corresponding to retrieval of information from a local knowledge base, estimate a second information extraction cost corresponding retrieval of information from a remote knowledge base, select an information source based on the first and second estimated information extraction costs, query the selected information source, in response to determining that the selected information source was an external information source, store the queried information in the local knowledge base, organize the stored information in the local knowledge base, and return the queried information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Gadi Singer, Nagib Hakim, Phillip Howard, Daniel Korat, Vasudev Lal, Arden Ma, Erik Norden, Ze'ev Rivlin, Ana Paula Quirino Simoes, Oren Pereg, Moshe Wasserblat
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Publication number: 20200295476Abstract: A grounding clamp includes a safety lock-out which locks the operation of the clamp in the absence of a cooperating hot-stick. The lock-out employs a clutch which prevents the translation of the clamping members relative to one another until the clutch is disengaged. The cooperating hot-stick is required for the disengagement of the clutch.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Daniel Neil O'Connell, Phillip Howard Quaedvlieg, David Karl Wabnegger, Janos Csaba Toth, Ian Edward Trip, Ronald F. Howarth, Jolly Vincent Pangan Nepomuceno, Robert Dale Wicks
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Publication number: 20200259316Abstract: The present invention relates to replacing conductors in a high-voltage power transfer system. The method provides, for example, a method for maintaining sections of electrically conductive phases in a three-phase power conductor line, wherein the three phases are parallel and spaced apart in an ordered sequence. The phases are strung between support structures and supported above the ground. Maintenance work, which include replacement or repair, is performed on sections of the three phases without interrupting a power load in any one of the three phases and without transposing the relative positions of the phases out of their ordered sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Daniel Neil O'Connell, David Karl Wabnegger, Phillip Howard Quaedvlieg, Robert Wayne Palmer
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Patent number: 10673152Abstract: A grounding clamp includes a safety lock-out which locks the operation of the clamp in the absence of a cooperating hot-stick. The lock-out employs a clutch which prevents the translation of the clamping members relative to one another until the clutch is disengaged. The cooperating hot-stick is required for the disengagement of the clutch.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Quanta Associates, L.P.Inventors: Daniel Neil O'Connell, Phillip Howard Quaedvlieg, David Karl Wabnegger, Janos Csaba Toth, Ian Edward Trip, Ronald F. Howarth, Jolly Vincent Pangan Nepomuceno, Robert Dale Wicks
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Patent number: 10644485Abstract: The present invention relates to replacing conductors in a high-voltage power transfer system. The method provides, for example, a method for maintaining sections of electrically conductive phases in a three-phase power conductor line, wherein the three phases are parallel and spaced apart in an ordered sequence. The phases are strung between support structures and supported above the ground. Maintenance work, which include replacement or repair, is performed on sections of the three phases without interrupting a power load in any one of the three phases and without transposing the relative positions of the phases out of their ordered sequence.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Quanta Associates, L.P.Inventors: Daniel Neil O'Connell, David Karl Wabnegger, Phillip Howard Quaedvlieg, Robert Wayne Palmer
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Patent number: 10571028Abstract: A circumferential seal for a rotating machine having a ceramic runner and support system is provided. The circumferential seal may comprise a sealing runner having a radially inward facing surface and a mounting element. The mounting element may comprise a radial pilot, an axial flange, an isolating element, a spring element to provide an axially clamping force to the runner, and a support ring extending axially along a shaft a distance greater than the radially inward facing surface of the runner.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE CORPORATIONInventors: Phillip Howard Burnside, John Munson
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Publication number: 20190363462Abstract: A grounding clamp includes a safety lock-out which locks the operation of the clamp in the absence of a cooperating hot-stick. The lock-out employs a clutch which prevents the translation of the clamping members relative to one another until the clutch is disengaged. The cooperating hot-stick is required for the disengagement of the clutch.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Daniel Neil O'Connell, Phillip Howard Quaedvlieg, David Karl Wabnegger, Janos Csaba Toth, Ian Edward Trip, Ronald F. Howarth, Jolly Vincent Pangan Nepomuceno, Robert Dale Wicks
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Patent number: 10283882Abstract: A grounding clamp includes a safety lock-out which locks the operation of the clamp in the absence of a hot-stick. A clamping member cooperates with a frame having an arm, and is selectively biasable by a user to translate the clamping member relative to the frame to clamp a conductor between the clamping member and arm. The lock-out cooperates with the clamping member to prevent the translation of the clamping member unless in the presence of an insulating tool such as a hot-stick.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Quanta Associates, L.P.Inventors: Phillip Howard Quaedvlieg, David Karl Wabnegger, Janos Csaba Toth, Daniel Neil O'Connell
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Publication number: 20170317437Abstract: A grounding clamp includes a safety lock-out which locks the operation of the clamp in the absence of a hot-stick. A clamping member cooperates with a frame having an arm, and is selectively biasable by a user to translate the clamping member relative to the frame to clamp a conductor between the clamping member and arm. The lock-out cooperates with the clamping member to prevent the translation of the clamping member unless in the presence of an insulating tool such as a hot-stick.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Phillip Howard Quaedvlieg, David Karl Wabnegger, Janos Csaba Toth, Daniel Neil O'Connell
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Publication number: 20170234432Abstract: A circumferential seal for a rotating machine having a ceramic runner and support system is provided. The circumferential seal may comprise a sealing runner having a radially inward facing surface and a mounting element. The mounting element may comprise a radial pilot, an axial flange, an isolating element, a spring element to provide an axially clamping force to the runner, and a support ring extending axially along a shaft a distance greater than the radially inward facing surface of the runner.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: Rolls-Royce CorporationInventors: Phillip Howard Burnside, John Munson
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Publication number: 20170047716Abstract: The present invention relates to replacing conductors in a high-voltage power transfer system. The method provides, for example, a method for maintaining sections of electrically conductive phases in a three-phase power conductor line, wherein the three phases are parallel and spaced apart in an ordered sequence. The phases are strung between support structures and supported above the ground. Maintenance work, which include replacement or repair, is performed on sections of the three phases without interrupting a power load in any one of the three phases and without transposing the relative positions of the phases out of their ordered sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Daniel Neil O'Connell, David Karl Wabnegger, Phillip Howard Quaedvlieg, Robert Wayne Palmer
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Patent number: 7984792Abstract: A lubrication system for a component is disclosed herein. The disclosed lubrication system can be applied relatively high temperature operating environments, relatively low temperature operating environments, or both. The lubrication system includes a tank operable to contain lubricant and having at least one tank outlet. The lubrication system also includes a tube extending between first and second ends. The first end of the tube is in fluid communication with at least one tank outlet. The lubrication system also includes an atomizer in fluid communication with the second end of the tube to receive lubricant from the tank. The atomizer is operable to dispense atomized lubricant on the component. The tank, the tube, and the atomizer are all adjacent to the component. A method for practicing the invention is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2008Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Rolls-Royce CorporationInventors: Timothy Andrew Hoffmann, Dan Vetters, Matthew Michael Miller, Phillip Howard Burnside, Didier Leveille
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Publication number: 20090218170Abstract: A lubrication system for a component is disclosed herein. The disclosed lubrication system can be applied relatively high temperature operating environments, relatively low temperature operating environments, or both. The lubrication system includes a tank operable to contain lubricant and having at least one tank outlet. The lubrication system also includes a tube extending between first and second ends. The first end of the tube is in fluid communication with at least one tank outlet. The lubrication system also includes an atomizer in fluid communication with the second end of the tube to receive lubricant from the tank. The atomizer is operable to dispense atomized lubricant on the component. The tank, the tube, and the atomizer are all adjacent to the component. A method for practicing the invention is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2008Publication date: September 3, 2009Inventors: Timothy Andrew Hoffmann, Dan Vetters, Matthew Michael Miller, Phillip Howard Burnside, Didier Leveille
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Publication number: 20080289250Abstract: Unleaded blend compositions, as well as formulated gasolines containing them have a Motor Octane Number (MON) of at least 80 comprising either: (i) component (a) at least 5% (by volume of the total composition) of at least one hydrocarbon having the following formula I R—CH2—CH(CH3)—C(CH3)2—CH3??I wherein R is hydrogen or methyl, especially triptane, or (ii) at least 2% of component (a?), which is at least one branched chain alkane of MON value of at least 90 and of boiling point 15-160° C. or a substantially aliphatic hydrocarbon refinery stream, of MON value of at least 85, at least 70% in total of said stream being branched chain alkanes, said stream being obtainable or obtained by distillation from a refinery material as a cut having Initial Boiling Point of at least 15° C. and Final Boiling Point of at most 160° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: BP Oil International LimitedInventors: Roberto Vittorio Bazzani, Paul James Bennett, Graham Butlar, Alisdair Quentin Clark, John Hardy Cooper, Phillip Howard, Anthony George William Parker
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Publication number: 20050230561Abstract: A support structure (1) is provided comprising a plurality of curved surfaces A, B hingedly interconnected along their edges such as to provide effective deployment in two separate stages. Preferably, the structure has only two curved surfaces hingedly interconnected at a single non-planar hinge line. In FIG. 1 (a), the two sheets A, B are coplanar in that they lie in the same horizontal plane, permitting the structure to be in a flat, first stage deployment position. In Figure (b), the structure is fully deployed in a second stage deployment position by bringing sheet A out of plane through some angle in relation to the position of sheet B, resulting in both sheets becoming curved. The structure has utility in various space-based as well as terrestrial reflective and absorbing applications, and bears definite advantage in terms of weight saving, high stiffness and well-defined surface precision.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2004Publication date: October 20, 2005Applicant: ASTRIUM LimitedInventors: Alan Watt, Sergio Pellegrino, Phillip Howard