Patents by Inventor Alan Lowell Houp

Alan Lowell Houp 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).

  • Patent number: 9294088
    Abstract: Inductive adjustment of the core-fitted coil (16) of an eddy-current distance sensor (11) can be avoided if the coil (16) fills a physically predetermined annular space between the winding support (17) of the plastic coil former (15) and its flanges (18-19) as well as the wall (21) of a pot (20) composed of ferromagnetic material, which is placed over the rearward, smaller flange (18) and whose end face (21) rests against an annular area of the front, larger flange (19) with the same diameter as the pot (20). The ferromagnetic coil core (31) which engages coaxially in the winding support (17) can therefore be arranged on the base (24) in the pot (20) and can therefore be mounted as part of the pot (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: DIEHL AEROSPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Lothar Trunk, Norbert Heitefuss, Alan Lowell Houp
  • Patent number: 9231586
    Abstract: The invention relates, in particular, to an inductive proximity or distance sensor. The invention proposes that a core 9 of an inductive sensor unit 5 of the proximity sensor 1, which projects into a coil carrier 7, have a rectangular cross-sectional profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: DIEHL AEROSPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Lothar Trunk, Alan Lowell Houp
  • Publication number: 20120268110
    Abstract: The invention relates, in particular, to an inductive proximity or distance sensor. The invention proposes that a core 9 of an inductive sensor unit 5 of the proximity sensor 1, which projects into a coil carrier 7, have a rectangular cross-sectional profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: DIEHL AEROSPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Lothar TRUNK, Alan Lowell HOUP
  • Publication number: 20120119728
    Abstract: Inductive adjustment of the core-fitted coil (16) of an eddy-current distance sensor (11) can be avoided if the coil (16) fills a physically predetermined annular space between the winding support (17) of the plastic coil former (15) and its flanges (18-19) as well as the wall (21) of a pot (20) composed of ferromagnetic material, which is placed over the rearward, smaller flange (18) and whose end face (21) rests against an annular area of the front, larger flange (19) with the same diameter as the pot (20). The ferromagnetic coil core (31) which engages coaxially in the winding support (17) can therefore be arranged on the base (24) in the pot (20) and can therefore be mounted as part of the pot (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: DIEHL AEROSPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Lothar Trunk, Norbert Heitefuss, Alan Lowell Houp