Patents Assigned to The Unites States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
  • Patent number: 9700744
    Abstract: A method for extending the service life of a Collective Protection (CP) filter includes: providing at least one CP fitter comprising a filter bed; and passing an airstream through a supplemental bed configured to enhance the filter bed by promoting reactions that facilitate the removal of one or more of chemical warfare agents and toxic threat compounds. An apparatus for extending the service life of a Collective Protection (CP) filter, the apparatus including: a CP filter comprising a filter bed; and a supplemental bed configured so as to enhance the filter bed by promoting reactions that facilitate the removal of chemical warfare agents and toxic chemicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: The Unites States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Gregory W. Peterson, Micheal A. Pompeii, Jopseph A. Rossin, Micheal J. Knapke
  • Patent number: 9061101
    Abstract: A method for providing decision-assist to medical staff resuscitating a burn patient includes receiving patient information, calculating an infusion rate, outputting the infusion rate, obtaining a urinary output, calculating a new infusion rate using infusion rate model based constants, and outputting the new infusion rate. In some embodiments, the method includes notifying medical staff when problems arise, displaying information regarding the resuscitation, and setting limits regarding the infusion rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignees: The Unites States of America as represented by The Secretary of the Army, Board of Regents of the University of Texas System
    Inventors: Jose Salinas, George C. Kramer, Leopoldo C. Cancio, Kevin Chung, Elizabeth Mann, Steven E. Wolf, Drew A. Guy
  • Patent number: 8079459
    Abstract: A transporter may move a payload along a linear path. The transporter may include a stationary base and a first arm assembly. The first arm assembly may include a first gear coupled to the stationary base, an idler gear that meshes with the first gear, and a second gear that meshes with the idler gear. The transporter may include a driver for rotating the first arm assembly around the axis of the first gear. A second arm assembly may be rigidly coupled to the second gear such that rotation of the second gear rotates the second arm assembly around the axis of the second gear. The second arm assembly may include a third axis that is parallel to the axes of the first and second gears. A payload engager may be disposed at the third axis, for engaging and disengaging the payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: The Unites States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventor: William Burgermeister
  • Patent number: 8006423
    Abstract: An improved magazine follower for use in existing magazines such as a 30 round magazine comprises a follower plate, a base plate, and a spring. The follower plate comprises a top plate, a convex follower leg, and a concave follower leg. The external shapes of the top plate, the convex follower leg, and the concave follower leg mirror the interior profile of the magazine, constraining the motion of the follower plate to a well-defined path within the magazine. The method of attaching the spring to the follower plate and the base plate in addition to the shape of the spring keeps the spring from “wobbling” or moving off a vertical axis of the spring as rounds of ammunition are loaded or dispensed. Consequently, the present system reduces binding or jams within the magazine, improving performance and life of the magazine follower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: The Unites States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Ronny Alzamora, John Heinsohn, Adam Foltz
  • Patent number: 5972366
    Abstract: A surgical implant or external wound dressing which functions as both a hemostat and a device to safely and effectively deliver any of a number of pharmaceuticals to targeted tissue at a controlled rate is disclosed. The device generally comprises a carrier in the form of fibers, sutures, fabrics, cross-linked solid foams or bandages, a pharmaceutical in solid micoparticulate form releasably bound to the carrier fibers, and a lipid adjuvant which aids the binding of the microparticles to the fibers as well as their function in the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: The Unites States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Duncan H. Haynes, Ben H. Bodeker, Mark D. Kline
  • Patent number: 5163220
    Abstract: A method is provided of enhancing the electrical conductivity of indium-toxide electrode stripes in thin film electroluminescent display panels by using an electronic grade glass substrate for the thin film electroluminescent display panels and by the incorporation of a narrow and thick metal bus bar of high electrical conductivity trenched into and coplanar with the surface of the glass substrate and in electrical continuity with the indium-tin-oxide electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1992
    Assignee: The Unites States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Robert J. Zeto, Otto J. Gregory, Richard C. Piekarz
  • Patent number: 4798094
    Abstract: A controlled clearance piston load cell consisting of a piston and pressure acketed cylinder that has integral to its structure a system of hydrostatic bearings which provide centering of the piston in the cylinder and alignment of the piston-to-cylinder interface. Also, the geometry of the cylinder and pressure jacket is such as to provide the controlled clearance constriction at a predetermined location. When used with a controlled clearance dead weight piston gage, this self-aligning load cell can be utilized as a primary force standard in the calibration of force-measuring devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1989
    Assignee: The Unites States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Donald H. Newhall, Charles D. Bullock, James O. Pilcher
  • Patent number: 4524674
    Abstract: Add-on armor protection for a military tank having an externally mounted n gun. Horizontal armor plates are attached to existing upstanding gun cradle wall structure to provide enhanced protection for the driver and commander; an additional armor plate can be mounted at the rear ends of the gun cradle wall structure to protect ammunition stored in rear areas of the hull. The add-on armor components are particularly designed to protect against top attack munitions. Some or all of the armor components can be swingably adjustable to provide alternate protection against enemy ground fire attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1985
    Assignee: The Unites States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventor: Jaunutis B. Gilvydis
  • Patent number: 4498179
    Abstract: The intracavity modulated laser includes a main cavity and an adjacent coed cavity with a gain cell in the main cavity and an electro-optic modulator in the coupled cavity, the cavities being coupled in such a way that the energy level in the coupled cavity during laser operation is much lower than that in the main cavity, and whereby the modulator can selectively affect the polarization of energy in accordance with a voltage applied thereto to selectively couple energy out of both cavities in a desired manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1985
    Assignee: The Unites States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Robert J. Wayne, Lanny M. Laughman, Robert J. Mongeon, Peter P. Chenausky
  • Patent number: 4132150
    Abstract: A detent device that is applicable to rocket launch systems where the rocs must be positively retained on the launcher prior to the time of launch. The device engages a detent groove in the rocket and restrains the rocket from any forward motion until launch at which time a cam lifts the detent out of the groove thereby releasing the rocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1979
    Assignee: The Unites States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventor: Donald J. Conn
  • Patent number: 3953129
    Abstract: Processes for the accurate, rapid and inexpensive testing and inspecting of oncave and convex lens surfaces through holographic means requiring no beamsplitters, mirrors or overpower optics, and wherein a hologram formed in accordance with one aspect of the invention contains the entire interferometer and serves as both a master and illuminating source for both concave and said convex surfaces to be so tested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1976
    Assignee: The Unites States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventor: Bernard P. Hildebrand