Patents by Inventor Christopher Carpenter

Christopher Carpenter 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: 20250393140
    Abstract: A protective device, system, and method are disclosed. The protective device is designed to enhance the security of an object or place by safeguarding the access control. The protective device may generally include a cover configured to surround the access control. The cover may include a frame with a cover or the cover may be a magnetic cover. The protective device may include a sensor disposed on an inside portion of the cover. The sensor may be configured to send an alert to the user when the access control is exposed, when the cover is tampered with, and when the cover is moving from the closed position to the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2025
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Inventor: Christopher Carpenter
  • Publication number: 20250389476
    Abstract: A refrigerator storage system includes a storage bin, rails, a protrusion, and a container. The rails define a space below the storage bin. The protrusion extends into the space. The container engages the rails to facilitate movement of the container into and out of the space. The protrusion is operable to engage the container to force the container downward. The rails are sloped downward to bias the container into the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2025
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Inventors: Brent Burgess, Christopher Carpenter, Christopher Hartnett, Luis Yahir Macias, Douglas Pohl, Steven Schatz, Shekhar Shetty
  • Patent number: 12429277
    Abstract: A refrigerator bin system includes a receptacle, at least one rail, and a secondary container. The receptacle has a top side defining a plurality of orifices of varying sizes configured to receive primary containers of varying sizes. The at least one rail is disposed below receptacle. The secondary container is configured to engage the at least one rail for securing and removing the secondary container onto and from the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Brent Burgess, Christopher Carpenter, Christopher Hartnett, Luis Yahir Macias, Douglas Pohl, Steven Schatz, Shekhar Shetty
  • Publication number: 20250012506
    Abstract: A refrigerator bin system includes a receptacle, at least one rail, and a secondary container. The receptacle has a top side defining a plurality of orifices of varying sizes configured to receive primary containers of varying sizes. The at least one rail is disposed below receptacle. The secondary container is configured to engage the at least one rail for securing and removing the secondary container onto and from the receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Brent Burgess, Christopher Carpenter, Christopher Hartnett, Luis Yahir Macias, Douglas Pohl, Steven Schatz, Shekhar Shetty
  • Patent number: 8596666
    Abstract: A ground engaging machine includes a first and a second frame unit, and an articulation hitch coupling together the first and second frame units. The articulation hitch includes a pin, a first and a second bearing positioned about the pin, and abutting a first and a second axial side of an annular protrusion of a hitch plate in one of the first and second frame units. A clamping mechanism of the articulation hitch clamps the first and second bearings between first and second clamping components, such that they are preloaded against the annular protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew T. Hansen, Brian C. Howson, Christopher Carpenter, David R. Shields
  • Publication number: 20130313806
    Abstract: A ground engaging machine includes a first and a second frame unit, and an articulation hitch coupling together the first and second frame units. The articulation hitch includes a pin, a first and a second bearing positioned about the pin, and abutting a first and a second axial side of an annular protrusion of a hitch plate in one of the first and second frame units. A clamping mechanism of the articulation hitch clamps the first and second bearings between first and second clamping components, such that they are preloaded against the annular protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew T. Hansen, Brian C. Howson, Christopher Carpenter, David R. Shields
  • Publication number: 20060265916
    Abstract: A wear assembly includes an adapter with a nose, a wear member with a socket to receive the nose, and a lock to secure the wear member to the adapter. The nose and socket include complementary rails and grooves that vertically diverge as they extend from the front of the nose. The lock can have a tapered construction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Applicant: ESCO Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Carpenter, Robert Fleck, Terry Briscoe, Daniel Danks, Venkat Gaurav, Larren Jones
  • Publication number: 20060117613
    Abstract: A wear assembly provided with a tapered opening and a complementary tapered lock wherein the lock can be pried into and from the opening to thereby eliminate the need for hammering. The lock is formed with a body and a latch that is movable between a hold position where the latch is engageable with a stop in the opening to releasably retain the lock in the opening and a release position where the latch disengages the stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2006
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Applicant: ESCO Corporation
    Inventors: Larren Jones, Christopher Carpenter, David Graf
  • Patent number: 6275358
    Abstract: A conductor trace array includes an electrically insulative support substrate and a plurality of pairs of electrical signal conductor traces and a plurality of pairs of passive electrical conductor traces. All of the traces are formed along substantially parallel paths in a single layer on the substrate. Each pair of the electrical signal conductor traces is arranged on the support substrate such that they are positioned in a space defined between each pair of passive electrical conductor traces. As a result, each pair of signal conductor traces has a passive electrical conductor trace positioned immediately adjacent thereto. The passive conductor traces generally follow a geometry of the signal conductor traces and thereby form a capacitive coupling relationship therebetween. This capacitive coupling relationship increases the characteristic impedance of the signal conductor traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Maxtor Corporation
    Inventors: Arun Balakrishnan, Christopher Carpenter
  • Patent number: 5794878
    Abstract: A conventional webbing-locking inertia reel is modified by integration of a device for the prevention of slap-back lock of the inertia reel upon excessively rapid retraction of the webbing worn by a seat occupant as a safety belt and/or harness. The device also slows the retraction of the webbing enough to prevent a hard collision of the webbing stop at the inertia reel. This is accomplished by interacting the reel shaft with a specially designed damping disk so that both the shaft and the damping disk rotate counter-clockwise when an external force pulls the webbing from its rotatable spool, while simultaneously the shaft also interacts with a conventional housed return spring, causing it to wind and build up a rewinding force, which, when the external force is removed or ceases, causes rotation of the shaft, spool, and damping disk clockwise and rewinds the webbing on the spool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Am-Safe, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Carpenter, Lindsay P. Zollinger, Michael J. Freeman, James C. Warrick, Willard F. Hagan
  • Patent number: D941685
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Carpenter, Andrew Grose, Mark Schulz, Brian Witlin
  • Patent number: D1019428
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Carpenter, Andrew Grose, Mark Schulz, Brian Witlin
  • Patent number: D1116864
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Carpenter, Andrew Grose, Mark Schulz, Brian Witlin