Patents by Inventor Chris Nixon
Chris Nixon 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: 11235879Abstract: A retaining assembly secures an equipment item within an aircraft galley compartment. The retaining assembly may include a turn button assembly including a turn button connected to a front edge of the galley compartment to secure the equipment item within the galley compartment. The turn button rotates between a first position for allowing insertion or release of the equipment item from the galley compartment and a second position for securing the equipment item within the galley compartment. A turn button recess on an inner surface of a panel door that is coupled to an edge of an opening for the galley compartment receives the turn button of the turn button assembly when the turn button is in the second position to allow the panel door to fully close over the opening for the galley compartment.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2017Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Neil R. Elshaw, Chris Nixon, Elizabeth M. Payne
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Patent number: 10875649Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a modular galley monument for an aircraft cabin includes a first side panel, a second side panel, and an upper surface connecting the first side panel and the second side panel. The modular galley monument may include dividers partitioning the monument into a number of compartments. The monument may include an upper monument portion and a lower monument portion connected at a periphery via a seal allowing for vertical deflection between the first monument portion and the second monument portion of at least one inch while maintaining contact with both. The monument may include an integrated heating appliance for a compartment, including an insulation shell, a heated compartment positioned within the insulation shell, an electrical heating unit disposed within the insulation shell and configured to provide heat energy to the heated compartment. And a door assembly rotatably connected about an opening of the heated compartment.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Brown, Donna C. Brownlie, Neil Elshaw, Sam Foster, Peter Griffiths, Shahmaan Khan, Richard Morris, Venkata Prasanth Suman Neti, Chris Nixon, Elizabeth M. Payne
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Patent number: 10112141Abstract: A purification column is provided in which fluid is purified by flow through a purifying component. The column includes an annular wall defining a bore which, in use, contains the purifying component. The column further includes an inlet port to the bore comprising a first aperture through the annular wall, the inlet port being adjacent one end of the column. The column further includes an outlet port from the bore comprising a second aperture through the annular wall, the outlet port being adjacent the same end of the column as the inlet port. The column further includes a flow guidance device within the bore and removably connected to the inlet and outlet ports for guiding the fluid to the purifying component from the inlet port and for guiding the fluid from the purifying component to the outlet port. The flow guidance device maintains separation of the fluid flows to and from the purifying component.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: WALKER FILTRATION LTDInventors: Brian Walker, Simon Wise, Peter Carney, Peter McHugh, Chris Nixon
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Publication number: 20180147524Abstract: A purification column is provided in which fluid is purified by flow through a purifying component. The column includes an annular wall defining a bore which, in use, contains the purifying component. The column further includes an inlet port to the bore comprising a first aperture through the annular wall, the inlet port being adjacent one end of the column. The column further includes an outlet port from the bore comprising a second aperture through the annular wall, the outlet port being adjacent the same end of the column as the inlet port. The column further includes a flow guidance device within the bore and removably connected to the inlet and outlet ports for guiding the fluid to the purifying component from the inlet port and for guiding the fluid from the purifying component to the outlet port. The flow guidance device maintains separation of the fluid flows to and from the purifying component.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Brian WALKER, Simon WISE, Peter CARNEY, Peter MCHUGH, Chris NIXON
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Patent number: 9895639Abstract: A filter assembly for collecting material entrained in a fluid stream includes a filter element having a tubular filter and an end cap providing a flow conduit which extends between first and second conduit openings communicating with the internal void of the tubular filter. A housing for the filter element has inlet and outlet ports for the fluid stream, a housing bowl in which the tubular filter is located, and a housing head which provides at least one of the ports as a docking port for the first conduit opening. The housing head and end cap are arranged such that the end cap is inserted into the housing head, and then rotated relative to the housing head about an axis perpendicular to the axis of the tubular filter and to the axis of the first conduit.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: WALKER FILTRATION LTDInventors: Brian Walker, Chris Nixon, Simon Wise, Peter Carney
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Patent number: 9604173Abstract: A purification column is provided in which fluid is purified by flow through a purifying component. The column includes an annular wall defining a bore which, in use, contains the purifying component. The column further includes an inlet port to the bore comprising a first aperture through the annular wall, the inlet port being adjacent one end of the column. The column further includes an outlet port from the bore comprising a second aperture through the annular wall, the outlet port being adjacent the same end of the column as the inlet port. The column further includes a flow guidance device within the bore and removably connected to the inlet and outlet ports for guiding the fluid to the purifying component from the inlet port and for guiding the fluid from the purifying component to the outlet port. The flow guidance device maintains separation of the fluid flows to and from the purifying component.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: WALKER FILTRATION LTDInventors: Brian Walker, Simon Wise, Peter Carney, Peter McHugh, Chris Nixon
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Publication number: 20150209711Abstract: A purification column is provided in which fluid is purified by flow through a purifying component. The column includes an annular wall defining a bore which, in use, contains the purifying component. The column further includes an inlet port to the bore comprising a first aperture through the annular wall, the inlet port being adjacent one end of the column. The column further includes an outlet port from the bore comprising a second aperture through the annular wall, the outlet port being adjacent the same end of the column as the inlet port. The column further includes a flow guidance device within the bore and removably connected to the inlet and outlet ports for guiding the fluid to the purifying component from the inlet port and for guiding the fluid from the purifying component to the outlet port. The flow guidance device maintains separation of the fluid flows to and from the purifying component.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2015Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Brian WALKER, Simon WISE, Peter CARNEY, Peter MCHUGH, Chris NIXON
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Publication number: 20150128546Abstract: A filter assembly for collecting material entrained in a fluid stream includes a filter element having a tubular filter and an end cap providing a flow conduit which extends between first and second conduit openings communicating with the internal void of the tubular filter. A housing for the filter element has inlet and outlet ports for the fluid stream, a housing bowl in which the tubular filter is located, and a housing head which provides at least one of the ports as a docking port for the first conduit opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2014Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Brian WALKER, Chris NIXON, Simon WISE, Peter CARNEY
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Patent number: 4208759Abstract: A windshield wiper attachment disclosed comprises an elongated wiper blade member and a carriage member including a pivot arm for supporting the blade member at a first end of the pivot arm. The attachment further comprises an adaptor assembly including a bracket pivotally connected to a second end of the pivot arm and an adaptor pivotally connected to the bracket, the adaptor being adapted for connection with a wiper arm member. When the adaptor is connected to an arm member, the adaptor, the arm member, the bracket, the first end of the pivot arm and the blade member are aligned.A second windshield wiper attachment also disclosed comprises the same elongated upper blade member and adaptor of the first windshield wiper attachment. A second carriage member of the second attachment includes a disk member for supporting the blade element by flanges integrally formed therewith at a position spaced from a central pivot axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1978Date of Patent: June 24, 1980Inventors: Raymond F. Nixon, Chris Nixon
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Patent number: D834499Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventor: Chris Nixon