Patents Represented by Attorney Nicholas E. Westman
  • Patent number: 5731507
    Abstract: An air data sensing probe adapted for mounting to an aerodynamically-shaped airfoil or strut attached to an air vehicle. An inlet port located near the leading edge of the strut admits fluid, to a first cavity and then, in turn, to a second cavity, so that the total temperature of the fluid may be measured and a signal related thereto conveyed to suitable flight control gear. A first exhaust port located generally opposite the inlet port allows entrained particles to exit the probe and boundary layer fluid evacuation apertures formed through the strut across the interface between the two cavities permit only a substantially particle-free core sample of fluid on the temperature sensing element. The secondary cavity couples to the primary cavity at an angle so that inertial separation of entrained particles results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Rosemount Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Floyd W. Hagen, Gregg A. Hohenstein, Pennelle J. Trongard
  • Patent number: 5404085
    Abstract: A wiper control system which includes dual wiper control circuits operating from a single rotary control switch, which is mounted in a cockpit of an aircraft remote from the rest of the wipers and system components which are mounted near an aircraft windscreen in a housing from which a motor converter drive shaft protrudes generally normal to a portion of the airframe surface. The drive shaft is connected to one end of a wiper arm and the second end of the wiper arm is rotatably attached to the wiper blade. The dual wiper control circuits are electrically isolated from each other. The rotary switch includes dual voltage dividers and a single axial rotating member to create an analog voltage output signal representative of the control switch position which is interpreted by a controller circuit. The rotary switch speed selections include a HIGH speed, a LOW speed, an INTERMITTENT delay selection, and also a selection for PARK and OFF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Rosemount Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: William Resch, Roger R. Benson
  • Patent number: 4144615
    Abstract: A pan cleaning apparatus for use with bun and roll pans in bakeries which will use a combined air blast and vacuum action to loosen seeds, crumbs or the like as well as other foreign material which may be lodged in a bun pan after use. The device may include brushes arranged to brush all of the corners and recesses of the pan adequately for loosening material with the air blast-vacuum hood which removes debris from the pan used as a final cleaning stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1979
    Inventor: Douglas R. Hanson