Patents by Inventor Robert A. Rhein
Robert A. Rhein 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: 11916336Abstract: An electrical header for use in an electrical connector assembly includes a body for mounting to an object and having an opening formed therethrough for receiving an electrical terminal. The body further defines a plug on a first side thereof for engaging with a mating electrical connector of the assembly. The plug includes a pair of first opposing sidewalls extending from the body at a first height and defining a locking feature for engaging with a corresponding locking feature of the mating connector, and a pair of second opposing sidewalls extending from the body at a second height, less than the first height. The first and second pairs of opposing sidewalls are adapted to mate with a first mating connector oriented in a first direction, and mate with a second mating connector oriented in a second direction distinct from the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Thomas Robert DeWitte, Adam Price Tyler, Lindsey Gatesman, David James Rhein
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Patent number: 10479334Abstract: A vehicle brake system includes a brake control device, a vehicle acceleration sensor, and a trailer brake controller. The trailer brake controller outputs an initial trailer brake torque demand based on an input received from the brake control device and adjusts the initial trailer brake torque demand to converge a signal from the vehicle acceleration sensor to an expected negative acceleration value correlated with the input from the brake control device.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thaddeus Hill, Joe Alexander Bousamra, Lawrence Robert Rhein
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Patent number: 10328921Abstract: A controller can display via an instrument cluster a brake capacity based on a temperature of friction material of at least one brake of a vehicle and a predicted brake fade threshold that is derived from a speed, mass, and current angle of inclination of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: John G. Fraser, Andrew Denis Lewandowski, Jason Christopher Matthews, Lawrence Robert Rhein, Jeremy Mateyk
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Publication number: 20180339685Abstract: A vehicle brake system includes a brake control device, a vehicle acceleration sensor, and a trailer brake controller. The trailer brake controller outputs an initial trailer brake torque demand based on an input received from the brake control device and adjusts the initial trailer brake torque demand to converge a signal from the vehicle acceleration sensor to an expected negative acceleration value correlated with the input from the brake control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2017Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thaddeus Hill, Joe Alexander Bousamra, Lawrence Robert Rhein
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Patent number: 10065641Abstract: A cruise control system for a vehicle includes a controller configured to maintain a speed of the vehicle about a setpoint, and in response to predicted brake capacity falling below a threshold based on predicted brake fade, reduce the setpoint and downshift a transmission of the vehicle to increase negative torque to reduce brake fade. Also, a powertrain of a vehicle includes an engine, an automatic transmission coupled with the engine, and a controller. The controller is configured to maintain a speed of the vehicle about a setpoint, and in response to a predicted brake capacity falling below a threshold based on predicted brake fade, reduce the setpoint and downshift the transmission to increase a negative torque.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: John G. Fraser, Andrew Denis Lewandowski, Lawrence Robert Rhein, Jason Christopher Matthews, Jeremy Mateyk
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Publication number: 20170297573Abstract: A cruise control system for a vehicle includes a controller configured to maintain a speed of the vehicle about a setpoint, and in response to predicted brake capacity falling below a threshold based on predicted brake fade, reduce the setpoint and downshift a transmission of the vehicle to increase negative torque to reduce brake fade. Also, a powertrain of a vehicle includes an engine, an automatic transmission coupled with the engine, and a controller. The controller is configured to maintain a speed of the vehicle about a setpoint, and in response to a predicted brake capacity falling below a threshold based on predicted brake fade, reduce the setpoint and downshift the transmission to increase a negative torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2016Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: John G. Fraser, Andrew Denis Lewandowski, Lawrence Robert Rhein, Jason Christopher Matthews, Jeremy Mateyk
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Publication number: 20170210371Abstract: A controller can display via an instrument cluster a brake capacity based on a temperature of friction material of at least one brake of a vehicle and a predicted brake fade threshold that is derived from a speed, mass, and current angle of inclination of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: John G. Fraser, Andrew Denis Lewandowski, Jason Christopher Matthews, Lawrence Robert Rhein, Jeremy Mateyk
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Publication number: 20070223853Abstract: The present invention provides a transmission pump bearing assembly having an integral seal. The apparatus preferably includes an outer race retained by a pump body such that the outer race is fixed relative thereto. An inner race is disposed radially within the outer race, and is engaged by a damper hub such that the inner race rotates along with the damper hub. The inner race includes a radially recessed portion adapted to accommodate a seal and maintain tight clearance to control leakage. A plurality of bearing members are disposed radially between the inner race and the outer race. The seal disposed within the radially recessed portion of the inner race is configured to engage the pump body and thereby seal an interface between the inner race and the pump body such that leaked hydraulic fluid is restricted from passing therebetween. A bearing cage is configured to axially retain and/or to maintain circumferential spacing of the plurality of bearing members.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2006Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventors: John Diemer, Robert Rhein
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Patent number: 5281735Abstract: A commercially viable method of making disilacyclohexadiene polymers with surpassed thermal stability is made possible by using the dialkali metal salt of the diol of disilacyclohexadiene as the starting material for polymerization. The structure of the new alkali metal compound and a method of preparing it are disclosed. Uses for the new compound are also described.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1993Date of Patent: January 25, 1994Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Robert Rhein, James C. Baldwin
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Patent number: 4778871Abstract: A high temperature, high impact, erosion resistant silphenylene-vinylmethiloxane elastomer and a process for making the same in which a liquid hydroxyl-terminated silphenylene vinylmethylsiloxane polymer is cured using a combination of hydrosilylation cure and urethane cure techniques.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1987Date of Patent: October 18, 1988Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: James P. Newhouse, Robert A. Rhein
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Patent number: 4581391Abstract: The use of high vinyl-containing vinylmethylsiloxane polymers as high temature insulating materials.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1984Date of Patent: April 8, 1986Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: James C. Baldwin, Gary W. Meyers, Robert A. Rhein, Kenneth J. Wynne
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Patent number: 4481119Abstract: Titanium metal fires are extinguished by the application of a material selected from the group consisting of calcium fluoride, lithium fluoride and sodium fluoride.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1983Date of Patent: November 6, 1984Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Robert A. Rhein, James C. Baldwin, Charles L. Beach
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Patent number: 4196129Abstract: A process for preparing dianhydrides that are miscible with hydroxyl prepolymers at moderate temperatures and can cure hydroxyl prepolymers to elastomers at moderate temperatures is disclosed. The dianhydrides are prepared by solution reaction of a prepolymer diol with excess dianhydride followed by removal of unreacted dianhydride. The prepolymer dianhydrides are miscible with hydroxyl substituted hydrocarbon prepolymers and cure the prepolymers to polyester-linked elastomers.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1978Date of Patent: April 1, 1980Assignee: California Institute of TechnologyInventors: Robert A. Rhein, John D. Ingham
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Patent number: 4118427Abstract: Production of hydroxyl-containing curable liquid hydrocarbon prepolymers by ozonizing a high molecular weight saturated hydrocarbon polymer such as polyisobutylene or ethylene-propylene rubber, followed by reducing the ozonized material; e.g., by using reducing agents, preferably diisobutyl aluminum hydride, to form the above-noted hydroxyl-containing liquid prepolymers having a substantially lower molecular weight than the parent polymer.The resulting curable liquid hydroxyl-containing prepolymers can be poured into a mold and readily cured; e.g.; with reactants such as toluene diisocyanate, to produce highly stable elastomers having a variety of uses such as binders for solid propellants.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1973Date of Patent: October 3, 1978Assignee: California Institute of TechnologyInventors: Robert A. Rhein, John D. Ingham
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Patent number: H1486Abstract: A new siloxane polymer containing disilacyclohexadiene rings in the polymer ackbone and a commercially viable method of making it are disclosed. The new polymer is an elastomer, and it has unsurpassed thermal stability. Some of the thermal, mechanical, and chemical properties of the new polymer are described.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1993Date of Patent: September 5, 1995Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Robert Rhein, James C. Baldwin
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Patent number: H1612Abstract: A method for making silarylene-siloxane polymers having the Formula: ##STR1## where R.sub.1 -R.sub.6 are alkyl or aryl and n is an integer above about , wherein the rate of reaction and the degree of polymerization achieved when reacting disilanols with dichlorosilanes to form silarylene-siloxane polymers are unexpectedly enhanced by a subsequent charge into the reaction medium of a tertiary amine which functions as an acid acceptor.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1993Date of Patent: November 5, 1996Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Robert A. Rhein, James C. Baldwin