Patents Assigned to Airtrax
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Publication number: 20080087484Abstract: Omni-directional vehicles and wheels therefore including methods of constructing same. In alternative embodiments, omni-direction wheel modules for imparting omni-directional locomotional capabilities to vehicles and objects. In further alternative embodiments, apparatus and methods for transporting and loading and off-loading munitions utilizing specialized, omni-directional capable vehicles for improved efficiency and/or safety.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2007Publication date: April 17, 2008Applicant: AIRTRAX, INC.Inventors: Nicholas Fenelli, Robert Mullowney
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Patent number: 7314103Abstract: A re-locatable operator station device designed to be used to control walk-behind or stationary machinery and to be repositioned by an operator while maintaining a constant orientation with respect to the machinery. This means that the X and Y axis of the operating station remains the same as the X and Y axis of the vehicle. Such re-locatable operator station is being suitable for use on machinery such as pallet trucks, long load transporters, aircraft engine handling devices, scissors lifts, and other industrial machinery, especially omni or multi-directional machinery or vehicles, as well as with fixed machines in applications places where the operator cannot or does not remain in a single location or is better served at another location.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2003Date of Patent: January 1, 2008Assignee: Airtrax, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Edward Fenelli, Donald B. Harris, Robert Alan Mullowney
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Patent number: 6547340Abstract: An omni-directional wheel for an omni-directional vehicle that exhibits constant ride height, low vibration, and reduced maximum ground contact pressure is disclosed. The invention consists of a wheel assembly rotatably connected to the omni-directional vehicle chassis. The wheel assembly includes a hub on which free spinning rollers are rotatably mounted at an angle to the wheel axis. Constant ride height and low vibration operation are accomplished by configuring the rollers with an exterior profile, thickness, material properties and surface grooving to achieve constant deflection of the roller contact surface at all wheel rotation angles.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2001Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Airtrax CorporationInventor: Donald Barnett Harris
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Publication number: 20030034687Abstract: An omni-directional wheel for an omni-directional vehicle that exhibits constant ride height, low vibration, and reduced maximum ground contact pressure is disclosed. The invention consists of a wheel assembly rotatably connected to the omni-directional vehicle chassis. The wheel assembly comprises a hub on which free spinning rollers are rotatably mounted at an angle to the wheel axis. Constant ride height and low vibration operation are accomplished by configuring the rollers with an exterior profile, thickness, material properties and surface grooving to achieve constant deflection of the roller contact surface at all wheel rotation angles.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2002Publication date: February 20, 2003Applicant: Airtrax CorporationInventor: Donald Barnett Harris
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Patent number: 6394203Abstract: An omni-directional wheel for an omni-directional vehicle that exhibits constant ride height, low vibration, and reduced maximum ground contact pressure is disclosed. The invention consists of a wheel assembly rotatably connected to the omni-directional vehicle chassis. The wheel assembly comprises a hub on which free spinning rollers are rotatably mounted at an angle to the wheel axis. Constant ride height and low vibration operation are accomplished by configuring the rollers with an exterior profile, thickness, material properties and surface grooving to achieve constant deflection of the roller contact surface at all wheel rotation angles.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2001Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Airtrax CorporationInventor: Donald Barnett Harris
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Publication number: 20020057010Abstract: An omni-directional wheel for an omni-directional vehicle that exhibits constant ride height, low vibration, and reduced maximum ground contact pressure is disclosed. The invention consists of a wheel assembly rotatably connected to the omni-directional vehicle chassis. The wheel assembly comprises a hub on which free spinning rollers are rotatably mounted at an angle to the wheel axis. Constant ride height and low vibration operation are accomplished by configuring the rollers with an exterior profile, thickness, material properties and surface grooving to achieve constant deflection of the roller contact surface at all wheel rotation angles.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2001Publication date: May 16, 2002Applicant: Airtrax CorporationInventor: Donald Barnett Harris
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Publication number: 20020046888Abstract: An omni-directional wheel for an omni-directional vehicle that exhibits constant ride height, low vibration, and reduced maximum ground contact pressure is disclosed. The invention consists of a wheel assembly rotatably connected to the omni-directional vehicle chassis. The wheel assembly comprises a hub on which free spinning rollers are rotatably mounted at an angle to the wheel axis. Constant ride height and low vibration operation are accomplished by configuring the rollers with an exterior profile, thickness, material properties and surface grooving to achieve constant deflection of the roller contact surface at all wheel rotation angles.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2001Publication date: April 25, 2002Applicant: Airtrax CorporationInventor: Donald Barnett Harris
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Patent number: 6340065Abstract: An omni-directional wheel for an omni-directional vehicle that exhibits constant ride height, low vibration, and reduced maximum ground contact pressure is disclosed. The invention consists of a wheel assembly rotatably connected to the omni-directional vehicle chassis. The wheel assembly comprises a hub on which free spinning rollers are rotatably mounted at an angle to the wheel axis. Constant ride height and low vibration operation are accomplished by configuring the rollers with an exterior profile, thickness, material properties and surface grooving to achieve constant deflection of the roller contact surface at all wheel rotation angles.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2000Date of Patent: January 22, 2002Assignee: Airtrax CorporationInventor: Donald Barnett Harris
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Patent number: 5646675Abstract: Unique digital codes are encoded on a video signal, the codes are retrieved at receivers and precise information concerning the time of occurrence, length, nature and quality of a monitored broadcast at a frame by frame level, is generated. The codes are inserted on scan lines of the video, and vary either on a field-to-field or fame-to-frame basis. The code has a repeating first part having a unique program material identifier indicating the time, date and place of encoding, and has a second portion that varies in a predetermined non-repeating sequence which varies along the entire length of the tape, thereby uniquely identifying each frame of the video program material. Also encoded upon successive frames is a cyclic counter code with a count corresponding to the sequence of the identifier data on successive frames.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1994Date of Patent: July 8, 1997Assignee: AirtraxInventors: Robert C. Copriviza, Arnold M. Dubin, Edward B. Ackerman, Jackson B. Wood, Jeffrey S. Eakins, David D. Harmon
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Patent number: 5319453Abstract: Unique digital codes are encoded on a video signal, the codes are retrieved at receivers and precise information concerning the time of occurrence, length, nature and quality of a monitored broadcast at a frame by frame level, is generated. The codes are inserted on scan lines of the video, and vary either on a field-to-field or frame-to-frame basis. The code has a repeating first part having a unique program material identifier indicating the time, date and place of encoding, and has a second portion that varies in a predetermined non-repeating sequence which varies along the entire length of the tape, thereby uniquely identifying each frame of the video program material. Also encoded upon successive frames is a cyclic counter code with a count corresponding to the sequence of the identifier data on successive frames.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1989Date of Patent: June 7, 1994Assignee: AirtraxInventors: Robert C. Copriviza, Arnold M. Dubin, Edward B. Ackerman, Jackson B. Wood, Jeffrey S. Eakins, David D. Harmon