Patents by Inventor Charles A. Kingsley

Charles A. Kingsley 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: 20120177230
    Abstract: A unitary sound management device including an analog amplification system (36) for amplifying an analog sound signal and electronic equipment for the storage and manipulation of digital data, and at least one speaker (6). The analog amplification system (36) is directly connected to the at least one speaker (6) and is also connected to the electronic equipment which, in turn, is connected to the at least one speaker (6). The analog amplification system (36) and the electronic equipment are both provided in a casing and are adapted to be used in combination with each other to provide improved recordal and post-production of sound signals or can be used independently from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: ORANGE MUSIC ELECTRONIC COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Charles Kingsley Cooper
  • Patent number: 4765601
    Abstract: A hydraulic-elastomeric vehicle engine mount basically comprising a pair of rigid mounting members, a hollow elastomeric body connecting the members, an elastomeric diaphragm cooperating with the body to form a closed cavity that is filled with a liquid, a partition dividing the cavity into a chamber enclosed by the body and a chamber enclosed by the diaphragm, a damping orifice connecting the chambers so as to provide hydraulic damping as one mounting member is forced to vibrate relative to the other in opposite directions, and a damping decoupler mounted for limited movement on the partition so as to effect cyclic volume change in the chambers and thereby permit vibratory amplitudes without hydraulic damping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: John W. Miller, Linn A. Peterson, Charles A. Kingsley
  • Patent number: 4308841
    Abstract: In an emission control system for a vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine, the purge of fuel vapor from a canister containing fuel vapor is effected through a purge valve operated by a control vacuum signal, as controlled by operation of a thermal vacuum switch, which signal is also applied to an exhaust gas recirculating valve, acting on one side of a diaphragm in the purge valve, the diaphragm being operative to control flow of fuel vapor supplied to a compartment on the opposite side of the diaphragm via a restricted inlet passage from the canister to a passage having a positive crankcase ventilation vacuum signal applied thereto with flow through the passage controlled by movement of the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1982
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Charles A. Kingsley
  • Patent number: 4203401
    Abstract: An evaporative emission canister, for use with the fuel system for an internal combustion engine, includes a canister housing defined by a cylindrical outer wall, a closed lower end wall, an upper end wall and a cylindrical inner wall depending from the upper end wall. An air-vapor permeable support means is positioned within the housing above the lower end wall in abutment against the lower free end of the inner wall to define with the lower end wall an air chamber in flow communication with the atmosphere and to define with the outer wall and the inner wall, an outer canister chamber and an inner canister chamber, respectively, that contain fuel vapor adsorbing material. The inner canister chamber is connected by a fuel bowl vent valve so as to receive vapors emitted from the float bowl of the carburetor of the engine when the engine is not in operation and the outer canister chamber is connected to receive vapors emitted from the fuel in the fuel tank for the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1980
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Charles A. Kingsley, James R. Spaulding, William E. Gifford
  • Patent number: 4134378
    Abstract: As part of an evaporative emission control system for an automotive vehicle, the fuel bowl of the carburetor for the internal combustion engine of the vehicle is provided with an internal vent passage for venting fuel vapor from the fuel bowl to the air cleaner, for example, for induction through the induction passage in the carburetor for flow to the engine during engine operation and, with an external vent passage for venting fuel vapor from the fuel bowl to a vapor storage canister when the engine is not in operation, as during hot soak, the internal vent passage having a cross sectional flow area at least two times larger than the minimum cross sectional flow area of the external vent passage whereby changes in pressure at the canister will tend to result in air cleaner depression changes with minimal differential pressures between the carburetor fuel bowl and air cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Charles A. Kingsley