Patents by Inventor Arthur A. Roberts

Arthur A. Roberts 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).

  • Publication number: 20220183472
    Abstract: An orientable seating device includes a seat, the orientation of which can be controlled to dynamically affect a desired of yaw, pitch and roll. The seating device can be used to reorient and/or to simulate motion for a seated person for use with video games, virtual reality headsets or goggles, land, water, air or space vehicle simulation, or wireless airborne drones, for example. The device includes a seat mounted on a carriage, which is received in a carriage pedestal. Within the pedestal, a drive wheel positioned under the carriage supports and rotates the carriage by driving an outer sphere-shaped surface of the carriage. The drive wheel can be reoriented around a vertical axis such that any combination of pitch and roll can be achieved by rotating the wheel against the sphere-shaped surface. Yaw can be controlled by a rotatable platform upon which the carriage pedestal can be mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventor: Arthur A. Roberts
  • Patent number: 11266249
    Abstract: An orientable seating device includes a seat, the orientation of which can be controlled to dynamically affect a desired of yaw, pitch and roll. The seating device can be used to reorient and/or to simulate motion for a seated person for use with video games, virtual reality headsets or goggles, land, water, air or space vehicle simulation, or wireless airborne drones, for example. The device includes a seat mounted on a carriage, which is received in a carriage pedestal. Within the pedestal, a drive wheel positioned under the carriage supports and rotates the carriage by driving an outer sphere-shaped surface of the carriage. The drive wheel can be reoriented around a vertical axis such that any combination of pitch and roll can be achieved by rotating the wheel against the sphere-shaped surface. Yaw can be controlled by a rotatable platform upon which the carriage pedestal can be mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventor: Arthur A. Roberts
  • Publication number: 20210282622
    Abstract: An orientable seating device includes a seat, the orientation of which can be controlled to dynamically affect a desired of yaw, pitch and roll. The seating device can be used to reorient and/or to simulate motion for a seated person for use with video games, virtual reality headsets or goggles, land, water, air or space vehicle simulation, or wireless airborne drones, for example. The device includes a seat mounted on a carriage, which is received in a carriage pedestal. Within the pedestal, a drive wheel positioned under the carriage supports and rotates the carriage by driving an outer sphere-shaped surface of the carriage. The drive wheel can be reoriented around a vertical axis such that any combination of pitch and roll can be achieved by rotating the wheel against the sphere-shaped surface. Yaw can be controlled by a rotatable platform upon which the carriage pedestal can be mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventor: Arthur A. Roberts
  • Publication number: 20190320873
    Abstract: An orientable seating device includes a seat, the orientation of which can be controlled to dynamically affect a desired of yaw, pitch and roll. The seating device can be used to reorient and/or to simulate motion for a seated person for use with video games, virtual reality headsets or goggles, land, water, air or space vehicle simulation, or wireless airborne drones, for example. The device includes a seat mounted on a carriage, which is received in a carriage pedestal. Within the pedestal, a drive wheel positioned under the carriage supports and rotates the carriage by driving an outer sphere-shaped surface of the carriage. The drive wheel can be reoriented around a vertical axis such that any combination of pitch and roll can be achieved by rotating the wheel against the sphere-shaped surface. Yaw can be controlled by a rotatable platform upon which the carriage pedestal can be mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventor: Arthur A. Roberts
  • Patent number: 10342356
    Abstract: An orientable seating device includes a seat, the orientation of which can be controlled to dynamically affect a desired of yaw, pitch and roll. The seating device can be used to reorient and/or to simulate motion for a seated person for use with video games, virtual reality headsets or goggles, land, water, air or space vehicle simulation, or wireless airborne drones, for example. The device includes a seat mounted on a carriage, which is received in a carriage pedestal. Within the pedestal, a drive wheel positioned under the carriage supports and rotates the carriage by driving an outer sphere-shaped surface of the carriage. The drive wheel can be reoriented around a vertical axis such that any combination of pitch and roll can be achieved by rotating the wheel against the sphere-shaped surface. Yaw can be controlled by a rotatable platform upon which the carriage pedestal can be mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Inventor: Arthur A. Roberts
  • Patent number: 4496245
    Abstract: A combined proportioning valve and mixer usable in a liquid chromatography system for mixing solvents in predetermined ratios, includes a magnetically driven stirrer rotatably disposed in a central chamber. Plural inlet lines allow solvents to enter the chamber at spaced positions. The chamber also communicates with outlet lines and is provided with means for preventing air bubbles from being entrapped in the stirrer and blocking flow through the system. Selectively controlled valve members control the flow of solvents through the inlet lines so as to achieve the preselected ratio of solvent mixing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1985
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick L. Conrad, Louis R. Palmer, Arthur A. Roberts