Patents by Inventor Timothy Howard Johnson
Timothy Howard Johnson 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: 10843250Abstract: A processing system employs a processing tool to process workpieces, for example cold working holes and/or installing expandable members into holes. Sensors sense various aspects of the processing. Information regarding performance of the process and/or materials may be stored, for example a hole-by-hole or a workpiece-by-workpiece basis, allowing validation of processing. Information also allows dynamic operation of the processing tool. Analysis of response relationships (e.g., pressure or force versus position or distance) may provide insights into the process and materials, and/or facilitate the real-time feedback including control, alerts, ordering replacement for consumable components.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: FATIGUE TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: James Ryunoshin Ross, Timothy Howard Johnson, Doug R. Bakken, Kevin J. Dooley
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Publication number: 20190070654Abstract: A processing system employs a processing tool to process workpieces, for example cold working holes and/or installing expandable members into holes. Sensors sense various aspects of the processing. Information regarding performance of the process and/or materials may be stored, for example a hole-by-hole or a workpiece-by-workpiece basis, allowing validation of processing. Information also allows dynamic operation of the processing tool. Analysis of response relationships (e.g., pressure or force versus position or distance) may provide insights into the process and materials, and/or facilitate the real-time feedback including control, alerts, ordering replacement for consumable components.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventors: James Ryunoshin Ross, Timothy Howard Johnson, Doug R. Bakken, Kevin J. Dooley
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Patent number: 10130985Abstract: A processing system employs a processing tool to process workpieces, for example cold working holes and/or installing expandable members into holes. Sensors sense various aspects of the processing. Information regarding performance of the process and/or materials may be stored, for example a hole-by-hole or a workpiece-by-workpiece basis, allowing validation of processing. Information also allows dynamic operation of the processing tool. Analysis of response relationships (e.g., pressure or force versus position or distance) may provide insights into the process and materials, and/or facilitate the real-time feedback including control, alerts, ordering replacement for consumable components.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: FATIGUE TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: James Ryunoshin Ross, Timothy Howard Johnson, Doug Bakken, Kevin J. Dooley
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Patent number: 9114449Abstract: A nut plate assembly includes a nut retainer and a bushing for expanding a tubular body of the retainer. The retainer assembly is used to cold work an opening of a workpiece in order to fix the nut retainer assembly relative to the workpiece. A nut can be snapped into the retainer. A method of installation includes passing a mandrel through the bushing to radially expand the bushing into a tubular body of the retainer. The tubular body is compressed between the workpiece and bushing as the bushing is displaced radially causing corresponding radial displacement of the tubular body. The expanded bushing applies pressure to the tubular body for a desired fit between the nut retainer and workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2012Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Fatigue Technology, Inc.Inventors: James Ryunoshin Ross, Timothy Howard Johnson, Scott Harlow Gulick
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Patent number: 8938886Abstract: A processing system employs a processing tool to process workpieces, for example cold working holes and/or installing expandable members into holes. Sensors sense various aspects of the processing. Information regarding performance of the process and/or materials may be stored, for example a hole-by-hole or a workpiece-by-workpiece basis, allowing validation of processing. Information also allows dynamic operation of the processing tool. Analysis of response relationships (e.g., pressure or force versus position or distance) may provide insights into the process and materials, and/or facilitate the real-time feedback including control, alerts, ordering replacement for consumable components.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Fatigue Technology, Inc.Inventors: James Ryunoshin Ross, Timothy Howard Johnson, Doug Bakken, Kevin J. Dooley
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Patent number: 8647035Abstract: A nut plate assembly includes a nut retainer and a bushing for expanding a tubular body of the retainer. The retainer assembly is used to cold work an opening of a workpiece in order to fix the nut retainer assembly relative to the workpiece. A nut can be snapped into the retainer. A method of installation includes passing a mandrel through the bushing to radially expand the bushing into a tubular body of the retainer. The tubular body is compressed between the workpiece and bushing as the bushing is displaced radially causing corresponding radial displacement of the tubular body. The expanded bushing applies pressure to the tubular body for a desired fit between the nut retainer and workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Fatigue Technology, Inc.Inventors: Doug Bakken, Mark Weiss, Doug Glenn, Ethan Lake, Joy Ransom, James Ryunoshin Ross, Timothy Howard Johnson
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Publication number: 20130239399Abstract: At least one embodiment generally relates to an installation assembly for an opening in a workpiece that includes a swaged collar, an inner member, and an outer member. The swaged collar has a first end, a second end, and a main body extending between the first end and the second end. The main body includes an inner surface defining a passageway through the collar. The inner member has a mandrel section for expanding the outer member. The inner member is used to expand the outer member and to keep the outer member in an expanded state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2012Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: FATIGUE TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Leonard Frederick Reid, Timothy Howard Johnson, James Ryunoshin Ross
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Patent number: 8506222Abstract: A nut plate assembly includes a nut retainer and a bushing for expanding a tubular body of the retainer. The retainer assembly is used to cold work an opening of a workpiece in order to fix the nut retainer assembly relative to the workpiece. A nut member can be snapped into the retainer. A method of installation includes passing a mandrel through the bushing to radially expand the bushing into a tubular body of the retainer. The tubular body is compressed between the workpiece and bushing as the bushing is displaced radially causing corresponding radial displacement of the tubular body. The expanded bushing applies pressure to the tubular body for a desired fit between the nut retainer and workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2009Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Fatigue Technology, Inc.Inventors: Leonard Frederick Reid, Timothy Howard Johnson, James Ryunoshin Ross
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Publication number: 20130192331Abstract: A processing tool to process workpieces, for example cold working holes and/or installing expandable members into holes includes an expansion assembly with a plurality of elongated expansion segments. A first band and a second band couple the expansion segments into an array with the expansion segments circumferentially distributed about a longitudinal axis, with a passageway extending between the arrayed segments. The processing tool may include a tuning assembly that allows a radial expansion amount of the expansion assembly to be adjusted without altering a stroke length of a drive member of the processing tool. Sensors may sense various aspects of the processing performed by the processing tool to enable analysis and storage of information regarding performance of the process and/or materials processed by the processing tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: FATIGUE TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: James Ryunoshin Ross, Timothy Howard Johnson, Doug Bakken, Kevin J. Dooley, Scott Harlow Gulick
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Publication number: 20120317787Abstract: A nut plate assembly includes a nut retainer and a bushing for expanding a tubular body of the retainer. The retainer assembly is used to cold work an opening of a workpiece in order to fix the nut retainer assembly relative to the workpiece. A nut can be snapped into the retainer. A method of installation includes passing a mandrel through the bushing to radially expand the bushing into a tubular body of the retainer. The tubular body is compressed between the workpiece and bushing as the bushing is displaced radially causing corresponding radial displacement of the tubular body. The expanded bushing applies pressure to the tubular body for a desired fit between the nut retainer and workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: FATIGUE TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: James Ryunoshin Ross, Timothy Howard Johnson, Scott Harlow Gulick
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Patent number: 8312606Abstract: At least one embodiment generally relates to an installation assembly for an opening in a workpiece that includes a swaged collar, an inner member, and an outer member. The swaged collar has a first end, a second end, and a main body extending between the first end and the second end. The main body includes an inner surface defining a passageway through the collar. The inner member has a mandrel section for expanding the outer member. The inner member is used to expand the outer member and to keep the outer member in an expanded state.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2008Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Fatigue Technology, Inc.Inventors: Leonard Frederick Reid, Timothy Howard Johnson, James Ryunoshin Ross
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Publication number: 20110182692Abstract: A nut plate assembly includes a nut retainer and a bushing for expanding a tubular body of the retainer. The retainer assembly is used to cold work an opening of a workpiece in order to fix the nut retainer assembly relative to the workpiece. A nut member can be snapped into the retainer. A method of installation includes passing a mandrel through the bushing to radially expand the bushing into a tubular body of the retainer. The tubular body is compressed between the workpiece and bushing as the bushing is displaced radially causing corresponding radial displacement of the tubular body. The expanded bushing applies pressure to the tubular body for a desired fit between the nut retainer and workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2009Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: Fatigue Technology, Inc.Inventors: Leonard Frederick Reid, Timothy Howard Johnson, James Ryunoshin Ross
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Publication number: 20110150599Abstract: A nut plate assembly includes a nut retainer and a bushing for expanding a tubular body of the retainer. The retainer assembly is used to cold work an opening of a workpiece in order to fix the nut retainer assembly relative to the workpiece. A nut can be snapped into the retainer. A method of installation includes passing a mandrel through the bushing to radially expand the bushing into a tubular body of the retainer. The tubular body is compressed between the workpiece and bushing as the bushing is displaced radially causing corresponding radial displacement of the tubular body. The expanded bushing applies pressure to the tubular body for a desired fit between the nut retainer and workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: Fatigue Technology, Inc.Inventors: Doug Bakken, Mark Weiss, Doug Glenn, Ethan Lake, Joy Ransom, James Ryunoshin Ross, Timothy Howard Johnson
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Publication number: 20110038688Abstract: An expandable kit (110) that includes an inner member (114), an outer collar (116), and an expandable member (112). The expandable member can be used to cold work an opening of a workpiece (130) and induce expansion of the outer collar in order to retain the outer collar. A method of installing the kit that includes passing a tapered portion of a mandrel through the expandable member to radially expand the expandable member into the structural workpiece. The outer collar is moved axially over the expandable member until the workpiece is compressed or captured between the expanded portion of the outer collar and a retaining end of the expandable member. The inner member is pulled into the expandable member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2008Publication date: February 17, 2011Inventors: Timothy Howard Johnson, James Ryunoshin Ross, Leonard Frederick Reid
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Publication number: 20090178262Abstract: At least one embodiment generally relates to an installation assembly for an opening in a workpiece that includes a swaged collar, an inner member, and an outer member. The swaged collar has a first end, a second end, and a main body extending between the first end and the second end. The main body includes an inner surface defining a passageway through the collar. The inner member has a mandrel section for expanding the outer member. The inner member is used to expand the outer member and to keep the outer member in an expanded state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2008Publication date: July 16, 2009Applicant: Fatigue Technology, Inc.Inventors: Leonard Frederick Reid, Timothy Howard Johnson, James Ryunoshin Ross