Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Francis L. Conte
  • Patent number: 8172175
    Abstract: A pivot arrangement for a thrust reverser door of a gas turbine engine, the pivot fitting having a base and a shaft projecting from a main side of the base. The shaft receives a preferably curved pivot arm of the door to provide a low profile arrangement which improves performance when the doors are stowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: The NORDAM Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Lair
  • Patent number: 8162542
    Abstract: A cargo container includes a cargo box affixed atop a hollow base, with the base including forklift tunnels extending therethrough with elongate bays disposed parallel thereto. Each bay includes a removable tray for receiving electrical batteries. And, a temperature control system is disposed on a sidewall adjoining the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Tednologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Edward Harman, Kyle Mathias Taylor
  • Patent number: 8127530
    Abstract: The thrust reverser comprises sections, such as arms and skins, which may be connected along joints to provide a thrust reverser body. A plurality of fittings may be integrally formed on a surface of each arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: The NORDAM Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Lair, Paul Weaver
  • Patent number: 8091827
    Abstract: A thrust reverser door provides in one aspect a separation of structural and aerodynamic functions through the provision of individual structures. In some embodiments, an aerodynamic element is adjustable in position, while in other embodiments, the relative positions are fixed. An exemplary aerodynamic element extends radially into the reverser flow to redirect the flow away from the door surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: The NORDAM Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Lair
  • Patent number: 8057624
    Abstract: A pair of laminated panels are simultaneously manufactured in a single panel press. A thermal band is stacked between two panel sets and then the two panel sets are simultaneously heated and compressed together in a common stack with the band, with the band being separately heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: The NORDAM Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Bryan Keith Martin
  • Patent number: 8051639
    Abstract: The thrust reverser is used with an aircraft gas turbine engine and includes upper and lower doors pivotable between a stowed position and a deployed position. When deployed, the doors redirect a portion of the efflux to generate a nose-down pitching moment on an aircraft to improve handling during thrust reversing on a runway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: The NORDAM Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Lair
  • Patent number: 8052086
    Abstract: A thrust reverser door is provided, in one configuration, with a plurality of peripherally-disposed frames circumferentially spaced apart from one another and projecting radially inwardly on an interior side of the door to thereby provide a channel for redirecting thrust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: The NORDAM Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Lair
  • Patent number: 8052085
    Abstract: The thrust reverser includes, in one aspect, an interior flow deflector which defines a portion of a substantially continuous and uninterrupted nozzle interior surface with the interior of a jet pipe when the door is in a stowed position, thereby reducing aerodynamic losses and improving efficiency. In another aspect, improved sealing arrangement between the jet pipe and the door provides increased performance when the doors are stowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: The NORDAM Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Lair
  • Patent number: 8015797
    Abstract: The thrust reverser comprises a first reverser door and a second reverser door asymmetrically pivotable between a stowed position and a deployed position, one having a pivot axis closer to the central axis than the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Lair
  • Patent number: 7988094
    Abstract: An erosion shield for an aircraft window includes an annular band having a radially outer brim and a radially inner clip. The shield is sized to cover a composite window frame having an outer rim and an inner sash around a central aperture in which is mounted a window pane. The clip is asymmetrical around the central aperture to protect the sash and permit assembly of the shield thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Inventors: Scott Ernest Ostrem, Kevin Steven Jackson, Stephen Frederick Joseph Wallace, Bobby Jack Ainsworth, Richard William Brigman
  • Patent number: 7588811
    Abstract: A label roll includes a web having front and back surfaces wound in a roll. The back surface includes adhesive patches aligned in a column along the running axis of the web. The front surface includes a release strip behind the column of patches and laminated thereto in successive layers in the roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Paul C. Blank, Mark E. Keeton
  • Patent number: 7424852
    Abstract: A slitting machine includes a stand for supporting a web which is slit into multiple ribbons by a plurality of blades, with the ribbons being wound on corresponding cores supported on an arbor. A common ink roller is mounted across the feedpath of the web and has a printing surface configured to print an end-of-roll warning stripe in a universal pattern bridging adjacent ribbons irrespective of individual width thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: John Dempster, Blair Boudreau, Dianne Bateman
  • Patent number: 7396048
    Abstract: A postage sheet includes a face sheet adhesively bonded to a release liner. The face sheet includes a removable internet stamp having a diecut perimeter. A visible security indicium is disposed on the front side of the stamp and has a different color than the face sheet, and is not reproducible by photocopying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Jason Janetzke, David L. Christianson
  • Patent number: 7264203
    Abstract: A thrust reverser includes reverser doors circumferentially spaced around a nacelle. An arcuate yoke is disposed coaxially around the nacelle. An actuator is mounted tangentially to the yoke for rotary movement thereof. Actuator rods join the doors to the yoke for simultaneous deployment of the doors as the yoke is rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: The Nordam Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Lair
  • Patent number: 7241357
    Abstract: A web is dispensed from a roll and includes first and second bands adjoining along a fold line. A pattern of release is applied to the front side of the web along the first band, and a pattern of adhesive is applied to the front side of the web along the second band. The web is folded along the fold line to bond together the first and second bands in a laminate, and exposing back sides of the bands on opposite sides of the laminate. The second band is cut to define a removable label therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph D. Roth, Paul C. Blank
  • Patent number: 7157130
    Abstract: A stack of alternating sheets includes repeating diecuts offset among the sheets. The sheets may be made from a continuous web using a die to cut the repeating diecuts along the running axis of the web. Individual sheets are cut from the web and stacked with the diecuts offset from each other in turn. The stack of sheets may be loaded into a printer and fed individually therethrough, with the offset diecuts preventing interlocking therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: David E. Bostdorf
  • Patent number: 7146796
    Abstract: A thrust reverser includes reverser doors pivotally mounted in a nacelle. Each door includes a latch pin mounted at a distal end thereof. A complementary latch hook is pivotally mounted in the nacelle for engagement with the pin to latch closed the reverser door. A rotary retainer adjoins the hook for blocking rotation of the hook to latch closed the door, and selectively unblock rotation of the hook to permit the pin to disengage the hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: The Nordam Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Lair
  • Patent number: 7127880
    Abstract: A turbofan nacelle includes forward and aft cowls adjoining at a joint, and including an exhaust duct having a main outlet for discharging exhaust. A variable nozzle surrounds the exhaust duct and includes a secondary outlet around the main outlet. A thrust reverser bridges the forward and aft cowls upstream from the variable nozzle. The variable nozzle is inductively powered and controlled across the closed joint, and is uncoupled inductively from the forward cowl when the joint is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: The Nordam Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Lair, Gregory Thomas Wolters
  • Patent number: 7093793
    Abstract: An exhaust nozzle includes an exhaust duct with an outlet and a row of radial apertures upstream therefrom. A radial frame surrounds the duct upstream from the apertures. A row of flaps are hinged to the frame to selectively cover and uncover the apertures for controlling exhaust flow discharged therethrough. An arcuate unison bar surrounds the duct adjacent to the frame and includes circumferentially spaced apart cam followers engaging corresponding cams affixed to the flaps. An actuator is joined to the bar for selective rotation thereof between opposite first and second directions to pivot open and closed the flaps atop the apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: The NORDAM Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Lair
  • Patent number: 7048308
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical script includes a face sheet laminated to a liner by an adhesive therebetween. The face sheet includes a removable label defined by a perimeter diecut. The label includes an excisable tab spaced inboard from a surrounding rim. The tab includes a slit along one edge thereof. And, the label and tab are removable together from the liner to expose adhesive on the label rim, without adhesive being exposed on the tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Paul C. Blank