Patents by Inventor Brett Allen Hansen

Brett Allen Hansen 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).

  • Component locating apparatus and method for alignment of components on opposite sides of a structural wall
    Patent number: 10524400
    Abstract: A component locating apparatus for alignment of components on opposite sides of a structural wall includes a source magnet and a clone magnet. The source magnet has a magnetic centroid positioned relative to a locating feature and is successively held against the first side of the structural wall at a plurality of spaced apart source positions. The clone magnet has a marking opening at a magnetic centroid and is magnetically held against the second side of the structural wall by an attractive magnetic force at clone positions corresponding to the source positions. The magnetic centroids are aligned by the attractive magnetic force and the marking opening allows an operator to mark the second side of the structural wall at the magnetic centroid of the clone magnet at each of the clone positions to mirror, on the second side, the source positions corresponding to the component locating template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Steve Duane Switzer, Brett Allen Hansen
  • COMPONENT LOCATING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALIGNMENT OF COMPONENTS ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF A STRUCTURAL WALL
    Publication number: 20190182998
    Abstract: A component locating apparatus for alignment of components on opposite sides of a structural wall includes a source magnet and a clone magnet. The source magnet has a magnetic centroid positioned relative to a locating feature and is successively held against the first side of the structural wall at a plurality of spaced apart source positions. The clone magnet has a marking opening at a magnetic centroid and is magnetically held against the second side of the structural wall by an attractive magnetic force at clone positions corresponding to the source positions. The magnetic centroids are aligned by the attractive magnetic force and the marking opening allows an operator to mark the second side of the structural wall at the magnetic centroid of the clone magnet at each of the clone positions to mirror, on the second side, the source positions corresponding to the component locating template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Steve Duane Switzer, Brett Allen Hansen