Patents by Inventor Bonnie A. Keefe

Bonnie A. Keefe 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).

  • Fluid dynamic vent dam
    Patent number: 9382014
    Abstract: The disclosure provides in one embodiment for a vent dam for use in a vent stringer in a fuel vent system. The vent dam is configured to mount to and within the vent stringer The vent dam has a contoured guiding surface for guiding fuel flow into and out of an interior of the vent stringer, wherein the vent dam, the vent stringer, and a tube attached to the vent stringer are in fluid communication with one or more fuel tanks. The vent dam further has one or more side flanges extending from the contoured guiding surface for providing attachment of the vent dam to one or more interior portions of the vent stringer, wherein the contoured guiding surface and the one or more side flanges are formed as one piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Brook, Bonnie A. Keefe
  • Fluid Dynamic Vent Dam
    Publication number: 20150239570
    Abstract: The disclosure provides in one embodiment for a vent dam for use in a vent stringer in a fuel vent system. The vent dam is configured to mount to and within the vent stringer The vent dam has a contoured guiding surface for guiding fuel flow into and out of an interior of the vent stringer, wherein the vent dam, the vent stringer, and a tube attached to the vent stringer are in fluid communication with one or more fuel tanks. The vent dam further has one or more side flanges extending from the contoured guiding surface for providing attachment of the vent dam to one or more interior portions of the vent stringer, wherein the contoured guiding surface and the one or more side flanges are formed as one piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Brook, Bonnie A. Keefe
  • Fluid dynamic vent dam
    Patent number: 9010689
    Abstract: The disclosure provides in one embodiment for a vent dam for use in a vent stringer in a fuel vent system. The vent dam comprises a contoured guiding surface for guiding fluid flow in a vent stringer. The vent dam further comprises one or more side flanges extending from the contoured guiding surface for providing attachment of the vent dam within the vent stringer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Brook, Bonnie Keefe