Patents by Inventor Robert E. Owen

Robert E. Owen 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: 5960719
    Abstract: A railway car yaw control device includes a housing mounted on the upper surface of a truck bolster with an engagement member biased upwardly from the housing into engagement with a depression formed in a wear plate attached to the bottom of a car body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Inventors: John R. Sunderman, Dale E. Monsell, Robert E. Owen
  • Patent number: 5682822
    Abstract: A railway car truck side bearing includes a housing mounted on the upper surface of a truck bolster with an engagement member biased upwardly from the housing into engagement with a depression formed in a wear plate attached to the bottom of a car body. A carriage is affixed to the bottom of the top plate and supports two stacks of disk springs under an engagement member support member to bias the support member and the engagement member upwardly into the top plate aperture. A pair of elastomeric blocks are located on opposite sides of the carriage, between the top plate and the housing bottom, within the housing, to act as shock absorbers for the top plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Inventors: John R. Sunderman, Dale E. Monsell, Robert E. Owen
  • Patent number: 4876660
    Abstract: An integrated circuit multiplier-accumulator architecture includes an M-bit wide register for inputting an X operand and an N-bit wide input register for inputting a Y operand to a multiplier. The multiplier can selectably multiply or concatenate the operands to produce a binary product in the form of a first array of M+N parallel bits. A binary adder adds the binary product to a second array of M+N+P+1 parallel bits and outputs the sum as a Z result in the form of a third array of M+N+P+1 parallel bits. The Z result is stored in a selected one of two accumulators. A feedback path is provided to output selected accumulator contents to the adder as the second binary array of M+N+P+1 bits. Output ports are provided for outputting a selected portion of the accumulator contents. Preferably, the output ports can output the entire M+N+P bits in parallel, as well as any selected portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: Bipolar Integrated Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Owen, Bruce E. Miller
  • Patent number: 4841468
    Abstract: A high-speed digital multiplier architecture is implemented in a bipolar very large scale integrated circuit technology. Operand input and product output latches are independently enabled by inverted clock signals. The multiplier can be operated in unclocked, separately clocked and single clock or master-slave modes of operation. The multiplier can be operated to concatenate, rather than multiply, the operands and thereby load the operands directly from the inputs to the output. A selectable format adjust performs a one bit left shift on the product. A low order zero bit is inserted in the shifted product, an overflow flag is set in case the product is -1.0.times.-1.0=1.0, and rounding is correct for both adjusted and unadjusted products. A zero flag is provided which is correct for both rounded and unrounded output products. A negative flag provides an unambiguous indicator of product sign in signed and mixed mode or format adjusted operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Bipolar Integrated Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce E. Miller, Robert E. Owen
  • Patent number: 4170845
    Abstract: A hydraulic railroad car door assembly comprising a sliding door of the plug type carried on crank arms rotated by shafts rotating with respect to the door, the door opening and closing by the swinging of the crank arms which are carried by tracks on which the door slides, a program plate slidably mounted on the door and having slots therein, door latching assemblies, and means including pins received in the slots for causing sequenced unlatching and door opening and sequenced door closing and latching as said program plate is reciprocated by a cylinder controlled by a hydraulic pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1979
    Inventor: Robert E. Owen