Patents by Inventor Christopher B. Hill

Christopher B. Hill 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).

  • Patent number: 10793126
    Abstract: An electro-hydraulic brake system includes a first brake input that generates a first brake input signal and a second brake input that generates a second brake input signal. The system also includes a first valve that releases hydraulic fluid to control a first brake and a second valve that releases the hydraulic fluid to control a second brake. The system includes a speed sensor that generates a speed signal indicative of a speed of a work vehicle. A controller receives the speed signal, the first brake input signal, and the second brake input signal, determines the speed of the work vehicle based on the speed signal, and compares the speed of the work vehicle to a threshold speed. The controller synchronizes actuation of the first and second valves in response to the speed being in excess of the threshold speed to control the first and second valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Christopher B. Hill, Jerry L. Brinkley, David Dean Flamme, Kenneth Rolette McCabe
  • Publication number: 20190184952
    Abstract: An electro-hydraulic brake system includes a first brake input that generates a first brake input signal and a second brake input that generates a second brake input signal. The system also includes a first valve that releases hydraulic fluid to control a first brake and a second valve that releases the hydraulic fluid to control a second brake. The system includes a speed sensor that generates a speed signal indicative of a speed of a work vehicle. A controller receives the speed signal, the first brake input signal, and the second brake input signal, determines the speed of the work vehicle based on the speed signal, and compares the speed of the work vehicle to a threshold speed. The controller synchronizes actuation of the first and second valves in response to the speed being in excess of the threshold speed to control the first and second valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Christopher B. Hill, Jerry L. Brinkley, David Dean Flamme, Kenneth Rolette McCabe
  • Patent number: 4851339
    Abstract: A method of extracting carotenoid, tetrapyrrole and porphyrin from vegetable sources of such pigments, especially algae, as described. The method entails production of water soluble and oil soluble extracts and includes an extractive procedure for rendering carotenoids water soluble. The pigment extracts can be used as nutritional or medicinal compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Inventor: Christopher B. Hills
  • Patent number: 4473970
    Abstract: The present invention is an improved method of growing a biomass in an aquaculture medium comprising enclosing the aquaculture medium containing seed amounts of a biomass in an enclosure in which the medium containing the biomass fills one-half of the enclosure and a CO.sub.2 and air gaseous layer is above the medium and fills the other one half, growing the biomass in the medium within the enclosure in a predetermined growing cycle enhancing growth of the biomass in the medium by exposing it to continuous agitation by agitation means heat, by heating means, and illumination by a light source capable of causing photosynthesis in the biomass, and whereby CO.sub.2 consumed from the medium and gaseous layer during photosynthesis in the biomass is continuously replenished by a CO.sub.2 enrichment means and oxygen produced to the medium and gaseous layer during photosynthesis is extracted by extraction means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1984
    Inventor: Christopher B. Hills