Patents by Inventor Alan A. Shepherd
Alan A. Shepherd 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: 11254449Abstract: A method and portable apparatus for servicing a shock absorber on a landing gear assembly of an aircraft in a weight-on-wheels state is disclosed. The shock absorber includes at least one chamber containing both hydraulic fluid and a gas in fluid communication with each other. The apparatus includes a source of gas and a source of hydraulic fluid. The amount of hydraulic fluid in the chamber is corrected, preferably such that the chamber is then filled with a known amount of degassed hydraulic fluid. A pre-set mass of gas is then delivered into the chamber under the control of a gas delivery system of the portable apparatus. More accurate servicing of a shock absorber may thus be provided since account is additionally taken of gas dissolved in hydraulic fluid. By delivering a pre-set mass of gas into the chamber, there is no need to rely on a measure of gas pressure or H-dimension (h) when servicing the shock absorber.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITEDInventors: Oliver Pountney, Alan Shepherd
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Patent number: 11254448Abstract: A method and apparatus for servicing a shock absorber on a landing gear assembly of an aircraft in a weight-on-wheels state is disclosed. The shock absorber includes at least one chamber containing both hydraulic fluid and a gas in fluid communication with each other. The apparatus includes a source of gas and a source of hydraulic fluid. The amount of hydraulic fluid in the chamber is corrected, preferably such that the chamber is then filled with a known amount of degassed hydraulic fluid. The process may be at least semi-automatically performed, for example under the control of a control unit. By delivering a pre-set mass of gas into the chamber, there is no need to rely on a measure of gas pressure or H-dimension (h) when servicing the shock absorber, and more accurate servicing of a shock absorber may thus be provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITEDInventors: Oliver Pountney, Alan Shepherd
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Publication number: 20190329908Abstract: A method and portable apparatus for servicing a shock absorber on a landing gear assembly of an aircraft in a weight-on-wheels state is disclosed. The shock absorber includes at least one chamber containing both hydraulic fluid and a gas in fluid communication with each other. The apparatus includes a source of gas and a source of hydraulic fluid. The amount of hydraulic fluid in the chamber is corrected, preferably such that the chamber is then filled with a known amount of degassed hydraulic fluid. A pre-set mass of gas is then delivered into the chamber under the control of a gas delivery system of the portable apparatus. More accurate servicing of a shock absorber may thus be provided since account is additionally taken of gas dissolved in hydraulic fluid. By delivering a pre-set mass of gas into the chamber, there is no need to rely on a measure of gas pressure or H-dimension (h) when servicing the shock absorber.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Oliver POUNTNEY, Alan SHEPHERD
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Patent number: 10358236Abstract: A method and portable apparatus for servicing a shock absorber on a landing gear assembly of an aircraft in a weight-on-wheels state is disclosed. The shock absorber includes at least one chamber containing both hydraulic fluid and a gas in fluid communication with each other. The apparatus includes a source of gas and a source of hydraulic fluid. The amount of hydraulic fluid in the chamber is corrected, preferably such that the chamber is then filled with a known amount of degassed hydraulic fluid. A pre-set mass of gas is then delivered into the chamber under the control of a gas delivery system of the portable apparatus. More accurate servicing of a shock absorber may thus be provided since account is additionally taken of gas dissolved in hydraulic fluid. By delivering a pre-set mass of gas into the chamber, there is no need to rely on a measure of gas pressure or H-dimension (h) when servicing the shock absorber.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITEDInventors: Oliver Pountney, Alan Shepherd
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Publication number: 20190152622Abstract: A method and apparatus for servicing a shock absorber on a landing gear assembly of an aircraft in a weight-on-wheels state is disclosed. The shock absorber includes at least one chamber containing both hydraulic fluid and a gas in fluid communication with each other. The apparatus includes a source of gas and a source of hydraulic fluid. The amount of hydraulic fluid in the chamber is corrected, preferably such that the chamber is then filled with a known amount of degassed hydraulic fluid. The process may be at least semi-automatically performed, for example under the control of a control unit. By delivering a pre-set mass of gas into the chamber, there is no need to rely on a measure of gas pressure or H-dimension (h) when servicing the shock absorber, and more accurate servicing of a shock absorber may thus be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2019Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Oliver POUNTNEY, Alan SHEPHERD
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Patent number: 10260994Abstract: A method for servicing a landing gear strut in service supporting an aircraft including: determining a current amount of damping fluid in the landing gear strut; determining a required amount of the damping fluid for correct servicing of the landing gear strut; and adjusting the current amount of damping fluid in the landing gear strut so that the current amount of damping fluid complies with the required amount of damping fluid.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Airbus Operations LimitedInventors: Alan Shepherd, Julian Duncan
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Patent number: 10232958Abstract: A method and apparatus for servicing a shock absorber on a landing gear assembly of an aircraft in a weight-on-wheels state is disclosed. The shock absorber includes at least one chamber containing both hydraulic fluid and a gas in fluid communication with each other. The apparatus includes a source of gas and a source of hydraulic fluid. The amount of hydraulic fluid in the chamber is corrected, preferably such that the chamber is then filled with a known amount of degassed hydraulic fluid. The process may be at least semi-automatically performed, for example under the control of a control unit. By delivering a pre-set mass of gas into the chamber, there is no need to rely on a measure of gas pressure or H-dimension (h) when servicing the shock absorber, and more accurate servicing of a shock absorber may thus be provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITEDInventors: Oliver Pountney, Alan Shepherd
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Patent number: 9846068Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for measuring the volume of fluid in a variable volume vessel.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITEDInventors: Alan Shepherd, Julian Duncan
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Patent number: 9776992Abstract: 1-Oxo-1,2-dihydroisoquinolin-7-yl-(5-substituted-thiophen-2-yl)-sulfonamide compounds, formulations containing those compounds, and their use as AICARFT inhibitors.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Eli Lilly and CompanyInventors: Harold Burns Brooks, Robert Dean Dally, Timothy Barrett Durham, Kevin Robert Fales, Kwame Frimpong, Jefferson Ray McCowan, Frank George Njoroge, Timothy Alan Shepherd, Chong Si, Kenneth Jeff Thrasher, James Lee Toth, Zhipei Wu
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Publication number: 20170233378Abstract: 1-Oxo-1,2-dihydroisoquinolin-7-yl-(5-substituted-thiophen-2-yl)-sulfonamide compounds, formulations containing those compounds, and their use as AICARFT inhibitors.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2015Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: Eli Lilly and CompanyInventors: Harold Burns BROOKS, Robert Dean DALLY, Timothy Barrett DURHAM, Kevin Robert FALES, Kwame FRIMPONG, Jefferson Ray MCCOWAN, Frank George NJOROGE, Timothy Alan SHEPHERD, Chong SI, Kenneth Jeff THRASHER, James Lee TOTH, Zhipei WU
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Publication number: 20170016792Abstract: A load measuring sensor set on an aircraft is used under the control of a control unit on the aircraft. The load measuring sensor set is calibrated and there is calibration data associated with it. A code is retrieved which identifies uniquely the sensor set, so that a remote database can be interrogated using the code to retrieve the correct calibration data for the sensor set, for use by the control unit. The sensor set may utilise an optical-fibre having a Fibre Bragg Grating arrangement which provides optical signature characteristics that provide the unique code and having a Fibre Bragg Grating arrangement configured to measure loads.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Alan SHEPHERD, Mark HEALEY
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Publication number: 20170008647Abstract: A method and apparatus for servicing a shock absorber on a landing gear assembly of an aircraft in a weight-on-wheels state is disclosed. The shock absorber includes at least one chamber containing both hydraulic fluid and a gas in fluid communication with each other. The apparatus includes a source of gas and a source of hydraulic fluid. The amount of hydraulic fluid in the chamber is corrected, preferably such that the chamber is then filled with a known amount of degassed hydraulic fluid. The process may be at least semi-automatically performed, for example under the control of a control unit. By delivering a pre-set mass of gas into the chamber, there is no need to rely on a measure of gas pressure or H-dimension (h) when servicing the shock absorber, and more accurate servicing of a shock absorber may thus be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Oliver POUNTNEY, Alan SHEPHERD
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Publication number: 20170008648Abstract: A method and portable apparatus for servicing a shock absorber on a landing gear assembly of an aircraft in a weight-on-wheels state is disclosed. The shock absorber includes at least one chamber containing both hydraulic fluid and a gas in fluid communication with each other. The apparatus includes a source of gas and a source of hydraulic fluid. The amount of hydraulic fluid in the chamber is corrected, preferably such that the chamber is then filled with a known amount of degassed hydraulic fluid. A pre-set mass of gas is then delivered into the chamber under the control of a gas delivery system of the portable apparatus. More accurate servicing of a shock absorber may thus be provided since account is additionally taken of gas dissolved in hydraulic fluid. By delivering a pre-set mass of gas into the chamber, there is no need to rely on a measure of gas pressure or H-dimension (h) when servicing the shock absorber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Oliver POUNTNEY, Alan SHEPHERD
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Publication number: 20160101877Abstract: A method for servicing a landing gear strut in service supporting an aircraft including: determining a current amount of damping fluid in the landing gear strut; determining a required amount of the damping fluid for correct servicing of the landing gear strut; and adjusting the current amount of damping fluid in the landing gear strut so that the current amount of damping fluid complies with the required amount of damping fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2014Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Alan SHEPHERD, Julian DUNCAN
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Publication number: 20150101403Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for measuring the volume of fluid in a variable volume vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2013Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: Airbus Operations LimitedInventors: Alan Shepherd, Julian Duncan
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Patent number: 8495398Abstract: An information handling system (IHS) remote input/output (I/O) connection system includes an enclosure having a power button, a communication bus connection point, and an audio connection point. A cable dongle extends from the enclosure. The cable dongle has a first end and a second end. The cable dongle also includes a connection from the power button on the enclosure on the first end to a communication connection point plug on the second end, which mates with a connection point plug on a remote I/O device card that enables a parallel (ACPI) S5-capable power button from the IHS to exist on the enclosure. The cable dongle further includes a communication cable coupled to the communication bus connection point on the first end and having a communication connection point plug on the second end. In addition, the cable dongle includes an audio cable coupled to the audio connection point on the first end and having an audio connection point plug on the second end.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Robyn Reed McLaughlin, Douglas Evan Messick, Jason Alan Shepherd
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Patent number: 8217032Abstract: The present invention relates to a selective estrogen receptor modulator of formula I or Ia: (I) (Ia); or a pharmaceutical acid addition salt thereof; useful for treating vasomotor symptoms, in particular hot flashes, night sweats and other symptoms that affect women around menopause.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2011Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Eli Lilly and CompanyInventors: Robert Dean Dally, Jeffrey Alan Dodge, Scott Alan Frank, Ronald Jay Hinklin, Timothy Alan Shepherd, Owen Brendan Wallace
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Patent number: 8148387Abstract: The present invention provides AKT and p70 S6 kinase inhibitors of the formula: The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I, uses of compounds of Formula I and methods of using compounds of Formula I.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2009Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Eli Lilly and CompanyInventors: Timothy Alan Shepherd, Robert Dean Dally, Sajan Joseph
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Publication number: 20120071490Abstract: The present invention provides p70 S6 kinase inhibitors of the formula: pharmaceutical formulations comprising them, and methods for their use.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: ELI LILLY AND COMPANYInventors: Robert Dean Dally, Jianping Huang, Sajan Joseph, Timothy Alan Shepherd, Christian L. Holst
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Patent number: D783094Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Inventor: Gerry Alan Shepherd