Patents by Inventor Brian Matthew Logan
Brian Matthew Logan 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).
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Patent number: 7468655Abstract: An aircraft tire condition monitoring system includes a reader mounted in the fuselage of an aircraft and an antenna that defines a peripheral boundary proximate the circumference of a tire of the aircraft. The antenna is electrically coupled to the reader to facilitate the communication of signals from a transponder located within the tire. The antenna may be located within the tire, or it may be located on the aircraft fuselage.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2006Date of Patent: December 23, 2008Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventor: Brian Matthew Logan
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Patent number: 7453407Abstract: Antenna constructions for electronic devices and methods of manufacturing such antenna constructions. The electronic device comprises a transponder and an antenna electrically coupled with the transponder. The antenna has a core of a first material and a coating of a second material on the core. The second material has a higher electrical conductivity than the first material and/or a lower permeability than the first material. The coating on the core also has a predetermined thickness. The electronic devices may be used in tires.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2006Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Brian Matthew Logan, Robert Leon Benedict
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Publication number: 20080158072Abstract: Antenna constructions for electronic devices and methods of manufacturing such antenna constructions. The electronic device comprises a transponder and an antenna electrically coupled with the transponder. The antenna has a core of a first material and a coating of a second material on the core. The second material has a higher electrical conductivity than the first material and/or a lower permeability than the first material. The coating on the core also has a predetermined thickness. The electronic devices may be used in tires.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2006Publication date: July 3, 2008Inventors: Brian Matthew Logan, Robert Leon Benedict
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Publication number: 20080083482Abstract: A method for attaching an object against a tire inner liner by means of an adhesive, including: applying uncured adhesive between the tire inner liner and the object; selecting at least one adhesion enhancing agent from the group: air pressure, steam, moisture, heat, radiation; adding the adhesion enhancing agent to the interior of the tire while the adhesive is in an at least partially uncured state; and curing the adhesive. Air pressurization of the tire cavity may be employed as an adhesion enhancing agent to press the object against the inner liner as the adhesive cures. The air pressure operational parameters may be predetermined and selected to complement adhesive cure properties and the air pressure of the tire cavity may be varied during at least part of the adhesive cure cycle. The adhesive may be a layer of rubber patch material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2006Publication date: April 10, 2008Inventor: Brian Matthew Logan
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Publication number: 20080055060Abstract: An aircraft tire condition monitoring system includes a reader mounted in the fuselage of an aircraft and an antenna that defines a peripheral boundary proximate the circumference of a tire of the aircraft. The antenna is electrically coupled to the reader to facilitate the communication of signals from a transponder located within the tire. The antenna may be located within the tire, or it may be located on the aircraft fuselage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2006Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventor: Brian Matthew Logan
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Patent number: 7332047Abstract: A bond of a rubbery component to a virgin surface of a tire's cured innerliner which virgin surface has never been contaminated by the remnants of a release agent left after buffing with a wire brush and solvent-cleaning the cured innerliner, is unexpectedly stronger than a bond of the component to the contaminated but “cleaned surface”, cleaned as indicated. As an alternative, buffing with a wire brush results in a textured surface that impairs adhesion of a balance pad. Therefore, a pneumatic tire is provided with a virgin surface protected against contamination by a release agent at the curing temperature of the tire; protection is provided by a self-supporting barrier film of sulfur non-vulcanizable, expandable, thermoformable synthetic resinous material; and, a method is provided for maintaining a virgin cured surface within all or part of either the exterior or interior of a pneumatic tire's rubber carcass which is conventionally cured.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2002Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Ramendra Nath Majumdar, Brian Matthew Logan, Lewis Timothy Lukich
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Patent number: 7295103Abstract: An integrated tire monitoring system for an agricultural vehicle control system comprises at lease one sensor integrally coupled to at least one tire on a farm vehicle; an external reader for obtaining tire revolution speed data from the sensor during each revolution of the tire; input means for delivering the tire revolution speed data to a vehicle control unit, the vehicle control unit calculating vehicle speed based on the inputted tire revolution speed data and outputting at least one control signal. The reader may input tire pressure data from the sensor into the vehicle control unit for the calculation of pressure adjusted vehicle speed. The sensor may store tire specific identification data accessible by the external reader and one or more control signals from the vehicle ECU may be used to control speed between a plurality of vehicle wheels; engine speed; wheel slippage; and/or tire air pressure.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2004Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Eric Michel Paul Muller, Gregory William Camarato, Brian Matthew Logan
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Patent number: 7180410Abstract: An antenna conductor is electrically coupled to a transponder and antenna conductor ends are spliced. The antenna conductor and the transponder are formed into a ring assembly and at least partially embedded within an adhesive material. The annular assembly affixes to a tire by means of the adhesive material.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2004Date of Patent: February 20, 2007Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Brian Matthew Logan, Robert Leon Benedict, Joseph Carmine Lettieri, James Michael Hart
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Patent number: 7084750Abstract: An annular antenna and transponder are affixed to a tire using the transponder as a counterweight to offset tire imbalance. The annular antenna is attached to an inner tire surface and is coupled electrically to a transponder device and is fixed relative to a housing in which the transponder device is packaged. The mass of the transponder housing is used specifically to counterbalance tire imbalance by first ascertaining the position at which a counterbalance would prove to be beneficial and then affixing the annular assembly to the tire so as to position the mass of the transponder housing at the optimal location for counterbalancing benefit.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2004Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Gregory Scott Johanning, Joseph Carmine Lettieri, Brian Matthew Logan, Gary Edwin Tubb, James Michael Hart
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Patent number: 7028555Abstract: Apparatus and method for measuring adhesion capability in a tire liner, the apparatus including a film strip attaching to the tire liner and having a through opening and an attachment interface distanced from the opening; an adhesive backed cover member attaching to the film strip in covering relationship to the strip opening and a cover member surface portion establishing an adhesive bond with the tire liner through the film strip opening; means attached to the strip attachment interface for exerting a directional peeling force upon the strip sufficient to unitarily peel the film strip and the cover member from the tire liner; and means for measuring the directional peeling force.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2004Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Brian Matthew Logan, Bruce Raymond Hahn, Martin Lamar Sentmanat, Gary Edwin Tubb, Joseph Carmine Lettieri
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Patent number: 6772505Abstract: A method of assembling the annular antenna and transponder tag includes formation of the antenna wire with an insulating cover therearound; cutting the covered antenna to length; stripping antenna wire ends; threading one antenna wire end through the transponder; splicing the antenna wire ends together; and injecting an insulating composition around the transponder tag and spliced antenna ends.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2003Date of Patent: August 10, 2004Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Brian Matthew Logan, Robert Charles Schisler, James William Prentis, David Scott Persinger, Timothy Joseph Severt
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Publication number: 20040103967Abstract: A bond of a rubbery component to a virgin surface of a tire's cured innerliner which virgin surface has never been contaminated by the remnants of a release agent left after buffing with a wire brush and solvent-cleaning the cured innerliner, is unexpectedly stronger than a bond of the component to the contaminated but “cleaned surface”, cleaned as indicated. As an alternative, buffing with a wire brush results in a textured surface that impairs adhesion of a balance pad. Therefore, a pneumatic tire is provided with a virgin surface protected against contamination by a release agent at the curing temperature of the tire; protection is provided by a self-supporting barrier film of sulfur non-vulcanizable, expandable, thermoformable synthetic resinous material; and, a method is provided for maintaining a virgin cured surface within all or part of either the exterior or interior of a pneumatic tire's rubber carcass which is conventionally cured.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2002Publication date: June 3, 2004Inventors: Ramendra Nath Majumdar, Brian Matthew Logan, Lewis Timothy Lukich
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Publication number: 20040016488Abstract: An annular antenna loop is electrically coupled to a transponder. The antenna and the transponder are at least partially embedded into a non-conductive carrier strip to form a ring assembly to render the antenna and transponder package unitarily transportable. The annular assembly affixes to a tire in a post-manufacture attachment procedure and at a location that minimizes exposure of the annular apparatus to strain and to electromagnetic interference from the metallic wheel rim.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2002Publication date: January 29, 2004Inventors: Robert Leon Benedict, Franz Josef Hillenmayer, Brian Matthew Logan, Anthony William Parsons, Christian Johann Karl Josef Schneider, Gary Edwin Tubb