Patents by Inventor Robert Mark Neal

Robert Mark Neal 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: 9903934
    Abstract: A dimensional measuring device sends a beam of light to a remote probe having a retroreflector and a pitch/yaw sensor. The pitch/yaw sensor passes the light through an aperture and a lens to a position sensor that generates an electrical signal indicative of the position of the received light. A processor uses the electrical signal to determine a pitch angle and a yaw angle of the remote probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: FARO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Mathieu Antoina, Lawrence B. Brown, Jonathan R. Day, Matthew Frederick Evans, Ricardo Martins, Jacob J. Mertz, John Mountney, Robert Mark Neal, James Schloss, Quintin Stotts, Ding Wang, Robert E. Bridges
  • Publication number: 20170003372
    Abstract: A dimensional measuring device sends a beam of light to a remote probe having a retroreflector and a pitch/yaw sensor. The pitch/yaw sensor passes the light through an aperture and a lens to a position sensor that generates an electrical signal indicative of the position of the received light. A processor uses the electrical signal to determine a pitch angle and a yaw angle of the remote probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Mathieu Antoina, Lawrence B. Brown, Jonathan R. Day, Matthew Frederick Evans, Ricardo Martins, Jacob J. Mertz, John Mountney, Robert Mark Neal, James Schloss, Quintin Stotts, Ding Wang, Robert E. Bridges
  • Publication number: 20150377604
    Abstract: A device including a zoom-camera assembly having a first lens group, a magnifier lens group, a beam splitter, an imaging sensor, a motor, and an illuminator, the illuminator generating a first beam of light and cooperating with the beam splitter to send the beam of light through the first lens group to a retroreflector, the first lens group receiving the second beam of light and cooperating with the beam splitter to pass the received second beam of light through the magnifier lens group onto the imaging sensor, the motor adjusting a spacing between the first lens group and the magnifier lens group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Robert E. Bridges, Lawrence B. Brown, Robert Mark Neal
  • Publication number: 20140340750
    Abstract: A target and method of manufacturing the target is provided. The method of manufacturing includes providing the cube cornered retroreflector, the cube cornered retroreflector including a first, second and third planar reflectors. Each planar reflector capable of reflecting light, each planar reflector perpendicular to the other two planar reflectors, each planar reflector intersecting the other two planar reflectors in a common vertex, and each planar reflector having two intersection junctions. Each intersection junction shared with an adjacent planar reflector for a total of three intersection junctions within the cube corner retroreflector. The method further including the step of directing ions from a focused ion beam etching (FIBE) device onto the first intersection junction defined by the first planar reflector and second planar reflector. A first material is removed from at least a first portion of the first intersection junction to define a first non-reflecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: FARO Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Mark Neal, Lawrence B. Brown, Peter G. Cramer, Jonathan Robert Day, Matthew Frederick Evans, Aurelian Mavrodin