Patents by Inventor Brian Cole

Brian Cole 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: 20240372202
    Abstract: A battery module housing includes a bottom wall and a pair of sidewalls. At least one of the bottom wall, and the pair of sidewalls is a wall comprising a plurality of fluid channels extending an entire length of the wall, each of the plurality of fluid channels ending in a fluid-routing mechanism formed by an endplate that fluidly couples a first channel of the plurality of fluid channels to a second channel of the plurality of fluid channels via a coolant channel connection formed at a first end of the wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Dustin Irvin LANDWEHR, David YOKELL, Brian COLE, Bhavin Nareshkumar MEHTA, Richu GHEEVARGHESE SAMUEL, Narayanaswamy KUDITHIPATI, Tyler MULLEN
  • Patent number: 11920323
    Abstract: A counterweight assembly for a work machine includes a structure, support studs, a first side wall, and a second side wall. The structure is coupled to a frame of the work machine and defines through holes, a first side end, and a second side end. The support studs are coupled to the frame and correspondingly received into the through holes to support the structure against the frame. The first side wall extends from the first side end and defines a first eyelet. The second side wall extends from the second side end and defines a second eyelet. A work machine guard rail is received between the first side wall and second side wall. One or more of the first eyelet and the second eyelet receive a lifting assembly for lifting the work machine, and the support studs transfer a lifting force from the counterweight assembly to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Allen Matousek, Brian Cole Howson, Scott Andrew McGregor
  • Publication number: 20230218403
    Abstract: Systems and methods here include a meniscal allograft with a bone block and a technique for making a desired shape in the bone block to be used to implant in a patient. A clamp and/or jig arrangement are disclosed that are able to secure the tissue and allow three corresponding cuts to the tissue using the clamp as a guide to a saw to obtain the desired shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: ARTHREX, INC.
    Inventors: Shane NOBLE, Robert BENEDICT, G. Joshua KARNES, Anthony OROZCO, Brian COLE
  • Publication number: 20230134847
    Abstract: A counterweight assembly for a work machine includes a structure, support studs, a first side wall, and a second side wall. The structure is coupled to a frame of the work machine and defines through holes, a first side end, and a second side end. The support studs are coupled to the frame and correspondingly received into the through holes to support the structure against the frame. The first side wall extends from the first side end and defines a first eyelet. The second side wall extends from the second side end and defines a second eyelet. A work machine guard rail is received between the first side wall and second side wall. One or more of the first eyelet and the second eyelet receive a lifting assembly for lifting the work machine, and the support studs transfer a lifting force from the counterweight assembly to the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Allen Matousek, Brian Cole Howson, Scott Andrew McGregor
  • Patent number: 11552868
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for processing messages from agents of a network environment including the use of collectors. Collectors can use configurable pipelines to improve processing of messages received from the agents. In one example of the disclosed technology, a number of networked agents are configured to gather data describing operational aspects of an agent's computing host. A collector is configured to receive reports from the agent and send the gathered data to one or more destination agent data consumers designated by augmentation information in the reports. In some examples, the collector transforms data using one or more stage selector rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Tripwire, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Cole, Patrick Campion, Paul Lamb
  • Patent number: 10690459
    Abstract: A fuze booster includes a first explosive charge having a cavity with an annular portion of the first explosive charge encircling a first axial portion of the cavity and a semi-annular portion partially encircling a second axial portion of the cavity. The annular portion abuts the semi-annular portion. An explosively-inert material abuts the semi-annular portion, abuts the annular portion, and partially encircles the second axial portion of the cavity. A second explosive charge abuts the explosively-inert material, abuts the semi-annular portion, and partially encircles the second axial portion of the cavity. The second axial portion of the cavity is thus completely encircled by a combination of the semi-annular portion, the explosively-inert material, and the second explosive charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Mary H. Sherlock, Brian A. Cole, Kyle M. Beckett, Joshua E. Felts, Forrest R. Svingala, Reid M. McKeown, Harold W. Sandusky
  • Patent number: 10378415
    Abstract: A reductant delivery system includes an electronic control unit coupled with each of an electronically controlled reductant injector and an electronically controlled pump, and structured to mitigate obstruction of a reductant injector in an exhaust system of an engine. The electronic control unit is further structured to receive data indicative of a pump duty cycle, and calculate a diagnostic value based on pump duty cycle associated with injection of different amounts of reductant, compare the diagnostic value with a threshold value, and output an error signal to trigger an obstructed-injector mitigation action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Cole, Sanket Yeole, Darin McCoy, Johnathan Trundt, Wayne Davey
  • Publication number: 20190063296
    Abstract: A reductant delivery system includes an electronic control unit coupled with each of an electronically controlled reductant injector and an electronically controlled pump, and structured to mitigate obstruction of a reductant injector in an exhaust system of an engine. The electronic control unit is further structured to receive data indicative of a pump duty cycle, and calculate a diagnostic value based on pump duty cycle associated with injection of different amounts of reductant, compare the diagnostic value with a threshold value, and output an error signal to trigger an obstructed-injector mitigation action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Cole, Sanket Yeole, Darin McCoy, Johnathan Trundt, Wayne Davey
  • Publication number: 20180115551
    Abstract: A computer process includes, but is not limited to, obtaining cloud credential data for accessing one or more cloud accounts of a cloud computing system having one or more computing resources available for provisioning to one or more client machines; establishing at least one proxy account associated with the one or more cloud accounts of the cloud computing system, the at least one proxy account including at least proxy credential data and access to at least one provisioning policy, the at least one provisioning policy including one or more provisioning constraints with respect to provisioning the one or more computing resources which one or more provisioning constraints are not present in the one or more cloud accounts; and applying the one or more provisioning constraints of the at least one provisioning policy with respect to all provisioning requests of the one or more client machines that originate via the at least one proxy account to limit provisioning of the one or more computing resources that would
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventor: Brian Cole
  • Patent number: 9657628
    Abstract: A method for purging a reductant supply system for an engine is provided. The reductant supply system includes a reservoir to store a reductant. The reductant supply system further includes an injector to inject reductant in an exhaust conduit of the engine. The reductant supply system also includes a conduit coupled between the reservoir and the injector to supply the reductant. The method for purging the reductant supply system includes initiating purging of the injector and the conduit such that the reductant in the injector and conduit flows to the reservoir. The method further includes monitoring of the dilution of the reductant during purging and indicating a completion of the purging when the dilution of the reductant in the reservoir reaches a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Cole, Kevin L Dea, Johnathan Trundt, Dirk DeDecker
  • Patent number: 9650932
    Abstract: An insulated reductant tank that is arranged so that it has an insulated upper portion and a tapered lower portion, the reductant tank configured to allow frozen reductant to move into the insulated upper portion and reduce the damage that frozen reductant can cause to a reductant tank when the frozen reductant expands. The insulated reductant tank can include at least one header configured to draw reductant from the reductant tank and supply the reductant to an exhaust aftertreatment system, an insulation layer lining an upper portion of the reductant tank, a tapered lower portion, and at least one baffle configured to control a flow of reductant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Theron Cassidy, Umakanth Sakaray, Brian Cole
  • Patent number: 9512763
    Abstract: A dosing system for dosing diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) into an inlet of a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) aftertreatment module of a diesel engine is described. The dosing system may comprise a DEF supply line configured to deliver the DEF from a pump to a first injector and a second injector at the inlet. The DEF supply line may include a tri-axis connector configured to split the DEF from the pump into two portions each exiting one of a first outlet port and a second outlet port, a first delivery conduit configured to deliver the DEF exiting the first outlet port to the first injector, and a second delivery conduit configured to deliver the DEF exiting the second outlet port to the second injector. The first injector and the second injector may dose the same quantity of the DEF into the inlet of the aftertreatment module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Hudgens, Matthew Fahrenkrug, Theron Cassidy, Brian Cole, Kevin Dea
  • Publication number: 20160273430
    Abstract: A reductant filling assembly includes a first end and a second end, the first end adapted to connect from an interior side of a machine to a supply port attached to a receiver extending to an exterior side of the machine; a housing extending between the first end and the second end of the reductant filling assembly, the housing extending from a first housing end to a second housing end; a reductant supply conduit, a first circulating conduit, and a second circulating conduit extending through the housing from the first end to the second end. At least the first circulating conduit is in thermal communication with a wall of the reductant supply conduit, such that a heating fluid flowing through the first circulating conduit in a first direction transfers heat to a reductant fluid in the reductant supply conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Cole, Xiaohui Gong, Dustin Landwehr
  • Publication number: 20160177799
    Abstract: An insulated reductant tank that is arranged so that it has an insulated upper portion and a tapered lower portion, the reductant tank configured to allow frozen reductant to move into the insulated upper portion and reduce the damage that frozen reductant can cause to a reductant tank when the frozen reductant expands. The insulated reductant tank can include at least one header configured to draw reductant from the reductant tank and supply the reductant to an exhaust aftertreatment system, an insulation layer lining an upper portion of the reductant tank, a tapered lower portion, and at least one baffle configured to control a flow of reductant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Theron Cassidy, Umakanth Sakaray, Brian Cole
  • Publication number: 20160160725
    Abstract: A dosing system for dosing diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) into an inlet of a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) aftertreatment module of a diesel engine is described. The dosing system may comprise a DEF supply line configured to deliver the DEF from a pump to a first injector and a second injector at the inlet. The DEF supply line may include a tri-axis connector configured to split the DEF from the pump into two portions each exiting one of a first outlet port and a second outlet port, a first delivery conduit configured to deliver the DEF exiting the first outlet port to the first injector, and a second delivery conduit configured to deliver the DEF exiting the second outlet port to the second injector. The first injector and the second injector may dose the same quantity of the DEF into the inlet of the aftertreatment module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Hudgens, Matthew Fahrenkrug, Theron Cassidy, Brian Cole, Kevin Dea
  • Patent number: 9271532
    Abstract: A garment has a pocket with an opening located at the waistband of the garment. A strap includes a stretchy membrane and at least one of the opposite ends of the strap extends into openings in the garment to form a horizontal pocket opening. The strap may be made of an elastic material. A fabric can conceal part of the strap and may surround or be attached to the strap. The pocket lining has front and rear walls attached together, with top horizontal portions of the front and rear wall attached behind an exposed portion of the strap. The walls of the pocket lining may be attached to two join seams of the garment. Stretching the strap outwards will open the pocket thus accessing belongings stored therein. When the pocket is closed, the elastic material of the strap provides stretch and recoil, securing any belongings safely inside the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Inventor: Brian Cole
  • Publication number: 20150283508
    Abstract: A reductant dosing system for an engine is disclosed. The disclosed reductant dosing system includes a reservoir of reductant fluid that is connected to an inlet of a reductant pump. The pump has an outlet that is fluidly connected to the reservoir, an inlet of a pressure regulator and an inlet of an injector. The pressure regulator includes a reductant pressure control valve that fluidly connects the outlet of the reductant pump to the reservoir when the reductant pressure control valve is in an open position. A compressed gas source is fluidly connected to an air supply control valve that fluidly connects the compressed gas source to the reservoir when the air supply control valve is in an open position. The air supply control valve also has a closed position and is shifted between the open and closed positions by a controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Edward Nelson, Kevin L. Dea, Brian Cole
  • Patent number: 9140166
    Abstract: A reductant dosing system for an engine is disclosed. The disclosed reductant dosing system includes a reservoir of reductant fluid that is connected to an inlet of a reductant pump. The pump has an outlet that is fluidly connected to the reservoir, an inlet of a pressure regulator and an inlet of an injector. The pressure regulator includes a reductant pressure control valve that fluidly connects the outlet of the reductant pump to the reservoir when the reductant pressure control valve is in an open position. A compressed gas source is fluidly connected to an air supply control valve that fluidly connects the compressed gas source to the reservoir when the air supply control valve is in an open position. The air supply control valve also has a closed position and is shifted between the open and closed positions by a controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Edward Nelson, Kevin L. Dea, Brian Cole
  • Publication number: 20150260069
    Abstract: A fluid delivery system includes a reservoir, a pump, an injector, and a pressure regulator. The reservoir encloses a fluid and includes a reservoir body forming a reservoir volume that encloses the fluid. The reservoir includes a draw conduit and a return conduit. The pump has an inlet connected to the draw conduit and provides fluid at the operating pressure and at a desired flow to a pressure line that is fluidly connected to an outlet of the pump. The injector selectively opens to allow an injected fluid flow to pass therethrough. The return orifice fluidly connects the pressure line with the return conduit, and the pressure regulator provides a regulated fluid flow to the fluid reservoir. During operation, the desired fluid flow is equal to a sum of the injected fluid flow, the return fluid flow and the regulated fluid flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin L. Dea, Brian Cole
  • Patent number: D734584
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Inventor: Kevin Brian Cole