Patents by Inventor Benjamin Clements

Benjamin Clements 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: 11815202
    Abstract: A tubing nut fastener having elements that are partially rotatable with respect to each other. In between the rotatable elements, engagement members (e.g., balls) are captured within interior channels. The partially rotatable elements include permanent markings or other non-removable visual indicators, which varies spatially depending on whether the tubing nut fastener is in a torqued state or an un-torqued state, thereby providing a visual indication of the status of the tubing nut fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Donald Wayne Coffland, Ryan Kody Coello, Andrew Benjamin Clements, Ronald Lawrence Clements, Christian James Tom, David James Linnenkamp
  • Publication number: 20220136627
    Abstract: A tubing nut fastener having elements that are partially rotatable with respect to each other. In between the rotatable elements, engagement members (e.g., balls) are captured within interior channels. The partially rotatable elements include permanent markings or other non-removable visual indicators, which varies spatially depending on whether the tubing nut fastener is in a torqued state or an un-torqued state, thereby providing a visual indication of the status of the tubing nut fastener.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Donald Wayne Coffland, Ryan Kody Coello, Andrew Benjamin Clements, Ronald Lawrence Clements, Christian James Tom, David James Linnenkamp
  • Patent number: 8988251
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and method which allows information representing a state or condition or an action to be performed as part of a control system to be present to one or more users. The information is selected and generated in a manner which removes or at least reduces the risk of potentially catastrophic error occurring which would be possible if, for example, the information is corrupt or lost during subsequent transmission, remote processing and/or displaying. One such use of the apparatus and method of the invention is in relation to transport vehicles and the control of the movement of said vehicles along predefined geographical paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Park Signalling Limited
    Inventor: Benjamin Clements
  • Publication number: 20120280837
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and method which allows information representing a state or condition or an action to be performed as part of a control system to be present to one or more users. The information is selected and generated in a manner which removes or at least reduces the risk of potentially catastrophic error occurring which would be possible if, for example, the information is corrupt or lost during subsequent transmission, remote processing and/or displaying. One such use of the apparatus and method of the invention is in relation to transport vehicles and the control of the movement of said vehicles along predefined geographical paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventor: Benjamin Clements
  • Publication number: 20110167637
    Abstract: An apparatus for assembling a heat exchanger core matrix has a tube feed means for feeding heat exchanger tubes to a support surface upon which the heat exchanger is assembled and fin feed means for feeding heat exchanger fins to the same support surface. Both the tube feed means and the fin feed means are located above the support surface and, in use, the apparatus is operable to sequentially and vertically feed the tubes and fins to the support surface via a common feed guide. This arrangement enables the manufacture of large format heat exchanger cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: Emerson & Renwick Limited
    Inventors: Ian Westwell, Colin Hargreaves, Benjamin Clements