Patents by Inventor Ronald J. Ness

Ronald J. Ness 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).

  • Rescue support apparatus
    Patent number: 5644294
    Abstract: A disaster support apparatus provides a compact enclosure within which a power supply energizes a circuit providing emergency lighting, radio wave and audible beacons activated by violent earthquake motion, a low level illumination for those attempting to find the apparatus in case of a flood or cave-in, a series of prerecorded medical advice statements activated at the press of a selector switch, a radio receiver, air sampling sensors, tied into the audible alarm, and storage capacity for medical and sustenance supplies and other equipment. The unit provides a wall attachment feature for mounting the unit in its standby mode, but the unit may be removed for portable use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1997
    Inventor: Ronald J. Ness
  • Method of operating an emergency power unit
    Patent number: 4934136
    Abstract: An aircraft emergency power unit having a high pressure air storage tank, an aviation fuel storage tank, and a combustor which combusts pressurized air and aviation fuel in a stoichiometrically fuel rich ratio to produce a motive combustion gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: Allied-Signal Inc.
    Inventors: Francis K. Weigand, Ronald J. Ness, Michael S. Koerner
  • Emergency power unit
    Patent number: 4898000
    Abstract: An aircraft emergency power unit having a high pressure air storage tank, an aviation fuel storage tank, and a combustor which combusts pressurized air and aviation fuel in a stoichiometrically fuel rich ratio to produce a motive combustion gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1990
    Assignee: Allied-Signal Inc.
    Inventors: Francis K. Weigand, Ronald J. Ness, Michael S. Koerner
  • Emergency power unit
    Patent number: 4777793
    Abstract: An aircraft emergency power unit having a high pressure air storage tank, an aviation fuel storage tank, and a combustor which combusts pressurized air and aviation fuel in a stochiometrically fuel rich ratio to produce a motive combustion gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: Allied-Signal Inc.
    Inventors: Francis K. Weigand, Ronald J. Ness, Michael S. Koerner
  • No-back gas generator and method
    Patent number: 4505105
    Abstract: An emergency power unit with a gas generator having a locking means which compensates for compaction and degradation in the catalyst bed to reduce destructive oscillatory vibration in the gas generator, thereby substantially extending the life and assuring dependable performance of the gas generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventor: Ronald J. Ness