Patents by Inventor Robert Weeks

Robert Weeks 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: 11958551
    Abstract: A swage tool includes a plurality of swage projections that each defines an angular circumferential extent, and the sum of each of these angular circumferential extents is at least 290 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Isaac Jones, Stan Robert Parrott, Allen J. Weeks, George H. Meiner, IV, Scott A. Hudson
  • Patent number: 11264767
    Abstract: A power pedestal is described. The power pedestal includes a plurality of receptacles that are configured to connect to external devices. The plurality of receptacles includes a first receptacle and a second receptacle of the plurality of receptacles. The first receptacle and the second receptacle are electrically interlocked with one another. The power pedestal includes a first circuit breaker connected to the first receptacle and a second circuit breaker connected to the second receptacle, and a shunt trip circuit that is configured to trip the first circuit breaker to disable power to the first receptacle of the power pedestal, responsive to the second circuit breaker associated with the second receptacle of the power pedestal being in an active state. Related devices and methods are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Cory Robert Weeks, Jason D. Easton, Jeffery Scott Kuykendall, Michel Rivas, Paul D. Seff
  • Patent number: 11163015
    Abstract: A printed circuit board assembly is for a ground fault indication system of a power pedestal. The power pedestal includes a housing. The ground fault indication system has a number of ground fault input devices each structured to be coupled to the housing. The printed circuit board assembly includes an enclosure, a number of terminals each coupled to the enclosure, at least one of the number of terminals being structured to be electrically connected with one of the number of ground fault input devices, and a printed circuit board enclosed by the enclosure and electrically connected to the number of terminals. The printed circuit board has an indication apparatus structured to provide an indication of circuit status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Cory Robert Weeks, Paul D. Seff, Jason D. Easton, Nilesh Ankush Kadam
  • Publication number: 20210091515
    Abstract: A power pedestal is described. The power pedestal includes a plurality of receptacles that are configured to connect to external devices. The plurality of receptacles includes a first receptacle and a second receptacle of the plurality of receptacles. The first receptacle and the second receptacle are electrically interlocked with one another. The power pedestal includes a first circuit breaker connected to the first receptacle and a second circuit breaker connected to the second receptacle, and a shunt trip circuit that is configured to trip the first circuit breaker to disable power to the first receptacle of the power pedestal, responsive to the second circuit breaker associated with the second receptacle of the power pedestal being in an active state. Related devices and methods are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Cory Robert Weeks, Jason D. Easton, Jeffery Scott Kuykendall, Michel Rivas, Paul D. Seff
  • Publication number: 20200292628
    Abstract: A printed circuit board assembly is for a ground fault indication system of a power pedestal. The power pedestal includes a housing. The ground fault indication system has a number of ground fault input devices each structured to be coupled to the housing. The printed circuit board assembly includes an enclosure, a number of terminals each coupled to the enclosure, at least one of the number of terminals being structured to be electrically connected with one of the number of ground fault input devices, and a printed circuit board enclosed by the enclosure and electrically connected to the number of terminals. The printed circuit board has an indication apparatus structured to provide an indication of circuit status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: CORY ROBERT WEEKS, PAUL D. SEFF, JASON D. EASTON, NILESH ANKUSH KADAM
  • Patent number: 10705156
    Abstract: A printed circuit board assembly is for a ground fault indication system of a power pedestal. The power pedestal includes a housing. The ground fault indication system has a number of ground fault input devices each structured to be coupled to the housing. The printed circuit board assembly includes an enclosure, a number of terminals each coupled to the enclosure, at least one of the number of terminals being structured to be electrically connected with one of the number of ground fault input devices, and a printed circuit board enclosed by the enclosure and electrically connected to the number of terminals. The printed circuit board has an indication apparatus structured to provide an indication of circuit status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Cory Robert Weeks, Paul D. Seff, Jason D. Easton, Nilesh Ankush Kadam
  • Patent number: 10483726
    Abstract: Power pedestals configured with a skeleton tower assembly that has a skeleton tower frame that supports electronic components and a first wall panel with a plurality of external power receptacles and an outer sleeve coupled to the skeleton tower frame to avoid the use of doors and provide an efficient assembly process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Paul D. Seff, Tyler D. Young, Jeffery Kuykendall, Jason D. Easton, Cory Robert Weeks
  • Patent number: 10211608
    Abstract: Levering-in systems, particularly suitable for electrical apparatus such as switchgears, have a motor that can drive a drive shaft during a powered operation and include a mechanical coupling assembly that can physically disconnect or decouple the drive shaft from a drivetrain coupled to the motor to allow manual levering-in with a reduced user crank force and/or to inhibit damage to components of the motorized drive system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Cory Robert Weeks, David Andrew Schreiber, Hongbin N. Wang, Raymond Peter Gundy, II, Bryant-Douglas Harris
  • Publication number: 20180342857
    Abstract: Levering-in systems, particularly suitable for electrical apparatus such as switchgears, have a motor that can drive a drive shaft during a powered operation and include a mechanical coupling assembly that can physically disconnect or decouple the drive shaft from a drivetrain coupled to the motor to allow manual levering-in with a reduced user crank force and/or to inhibit damage to components of the motorized drive system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Cory Robert Weeks, David Andrew Schreiber, Hongbin N. Wang, Raymond Peter Gundy, II, Bryant-Douglas Harris
  • Publication number: 20170287654
    Abstract: A circuit breaker installation including a frame assembly and a circuit breaker assembly is provided. The frame assembly includes a conductor assembly and the frame assembly defines an enclosed space. The frame assembly conductor assembly includes a primary contact assembly and a movable secondary contact assembly. The circuit breaker assembly is movably disposed in the frame assembly enclosed space. The contact assemblies are configurable electrical components. The configurable electrical components move between a connect configuration, a test configuration, and, a disconnect configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Eaton Corporation
    Inventors: Koustubh Ashtekar, Daniel Evan Palmieri, James Jeffrey Benke, Brad Robert Leccia, Ronald Dale Hartzel, Douglas Michael Brandt, David Andrew Schreiber, Hongbin Wang, Cory Robert Weeks
  • Patent number: 9779891
    Abstract: A circuit breaker installation including a frame assembly and a circuit breaker assembly is provided. The frame assembly includes a conductor assembly and the frame assembly defines an enclosed space. The frame assembly conductor assembly includes a primary contact assembly and a movable secondary contact assembly. The circuit breaker assembly is movably disposed in the frame assembly enclosed space. The contact assemblies are configurable electrical components. The configurable electrical components move between a connect configuration, a test configuration, and, a disconnect configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventors: Koustubh Ashtekar, Daniel Evan Palmieri, James Jeffrey Benke, Brad Robert Leccia, Ronald Dale Hartzel, Douglas Michael Brandt, David Andrew Schreiber, Hongbin Wang, Cory Robert Weeks
  • Patent number: 8407368
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer readable medium is provided for tracking processes using a socket object. The processes are utilized to execute an application program. Initially, a process list for the socket object is created, such that the process list contains a process identifier for a first process using the socket object. If a second process is using the socket object, the process list is updated to include the process identifier for the second process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Linus Bauman, Paul Richard Chmielewski, Christopher Thomas Gloe, Dawn Marie May, Jay Robert Weeks
  • Patent number: 8393273
    Abstract: Bullets, including lead-free bullets with frangible cores, are described herein. In some embodiments, a bullet includes a jacket having an inner surface defining a cavity having an open end and a closed end. The bullet also includes a lead-free core positioned within the cavity and extending from the closed end to a first intermediate portion of the cavity. The core includes a plurality of particles that are compacted within the cavity to form the core. The bullet also includes a seal positioned within the cavity and extending from the first intermediate portion to a second intermediate portion of the cavity. The seal abuts the inner surface of the jacket, thereby substantially sealing off the core within the cavity. The bullet may also include a polymeric tip having a forward portion projecting forward from the open end and a rearward portion extending rearward into the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Nosler, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Weeks, Robert Nosler, Mike Lake
  • Patent number: 7840849
    Abstract: In a computing system environment, methods and architecture relate to debugging software programs. The programs, regardless of size, are culled for substantially all memory and register writes (and flow control). An indexing and compression occurs so that upon a later query, and decompression (and display), a user can find and diagnose defects in the software program. To efficiently reconstruct the contents of any memory location or register, backwards tracing of events is comprehensively known for all time, not just select periods. Efficiencies in the indexing function include bunching, replacing actual memory locations with pattern(s) representative of same and dividing an execution history of the software program into manageable sections. Nuances for memory or register effects are also contemplated. Still other embodiments contemplate stand-alone computer program products (on computer-readable media or as a download, or other) or those working in conjunction with other debugging programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Weeks O'Callahan
  • Patent number: 7823005
    Abstract: A method for the monitoring and modification of communications in a communications system and a related communications system with a number of intercommunicating first nodes in which the intercommunication comprises desired communications and may comprise undesired communications; in which the system also comprises a further node for monitoring and modifying the communications; in which the further node comprises means for modifying the undesired communications and/or introducing further communications to change the operation of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Ericsson AB
    Inventor: Robert Weeks
  • Patent number: 7822814
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for acquiring a buffer after data from a remote sender (e.g., client) has been received by a local machine (e.g., server). Because the client data has already been received when the buffer is acquired, the buffer may be sized exactly to the size of the client data. In general, the buffer may be caller supplied or system supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Linus Bauman, Bob Richard Cernohous, Kent L. Hofer, John Charles Kasperski, Steven John Simonson, Jay Robert Weeks
  • Publication number: 20100175576
    Abstract: Bullets, including lead-free bullets with frangible cores, are described herein. In some embodiments, a bullet includes a jacket having an inner surface defining a cavity having an open end and a closed end. The bullet also includes a lead-free core positioned within the cavity and extending from the closed end to a first intermediate portion of the cavity. The core includes a plurality of particles that are compacted within the cavity to form the core. The bullet also includes a seal positioned within the cavity and extending from the first intermediate portion to a second intermediate portion of the cavity. The seal abuts the inner surface of the jacket, thereby substantially sealing off the core within the cavity. The bullet may also include a polymeric tip having a forward portion projecting forward from the open end and a rearward portion extending rearward into the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Nosler, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Weeks, Robert Nosler, Mike Lake
  • Publication number: 20080229243
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer readable medium is provided for tracking processes using a socket object. The processes are utilized to execute an application program. Initially, a process list for the socket object is created, such that the process list contains a process identifier for a first process using the socket object. If a second process is using the socket object, the process list is updated to include the process identifier for the second process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Mark Linus Bauman, Paul Richard Chmielewski, Christopher Thomas Gloe, Dawn Marie May, Jay Robert Weeks
  • Patent number: D931227
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Paul D. Seff, Tyler D. Young, Jason D. Easton, Jeffery Kuykendall, Cory Robert Weeks
  • Patent number: D1023973
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul D. Seff, Tyler D. Young, Jason D. Easton, Jeffery Kuykendall, Cory Robert Weeks