Patents by Inventor Cory A. Brown
Cory A. Brown 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: 11957551Abstract: Absorbent articles herein may provide a topsheet, a backsheet, an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core may comprise at least one channel having a shape. The backsheet graphics may substantially match the shape.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Rodrigo Rosati, Carsten Heinrich Kreuzer, Hans Adolf Jackels, Blanca Arizti, Ernesto G. Bianchi, Donald Carroll Roe, Darrell Ian Brown, Sarah Ann Sanborn, Theodore Cory Fites
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Patent number: 11840993Abstract: A fuel injector assembly for a fuel-actuated fuel injector includes an injector body, and an injection control valve assembly. The injector body includes therein a low-pressure fuel passage extending from a clamping face to an armature cavity to convey spent actuating fuel to the armature cavity. The fuel injector assembly also includes a flushing drain formed by the injector body and fluidly connected to at least one of a valve pin bore in the injector body or the armature cavity. The flushing drain forms, together with the low-pressure fuel passage and the armature cavity, a cooling circuit for the spent actuating fuel. The flushing drain extends to a drain opening formed in an outer body surface of the injector body. Related methodology is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2023Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Cory A. Brown, Sana Mahmood, Glenn B. Cox, Zhenyu Li
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Patent number: 11828530Abstract: A shelf assembly for a refrigerator includes a shelf; a base member defining a channel; a link member coupling the shelf to the base member such that the shelf is movable relative to the base member between a first position and a second position; a first pin pivotably coupling the link member to the base member; and a second pin pivotably coupling the link member to the shelf. The channel of the base member receives the second pin in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.Inventors: Cory Brown, Elki Spino, Kwa'shun Jackson, Mitchell Madsen, Emmett Kornfeld, Nathanael Andersen
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Patent number: 11692520Abstract: A fuel injector includes an injector body and a valve stack within the injector body that includes a valve seat plate. The valve seat plate includes a pressure control passage for controlling fuel injection, and a valve seat positioned fluidly between the pressure control passage and a low-pressure drain. The valve seat plate includes a pressure-limiting annular groove that extends circumferentially around the valve seat and axially inward from a side of the valve seat plate where the valve seat is located. The groove enables deformation in response to pressure differences across the valve seat plate in a manner that limits stress concentrations.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: Cory A. Brown
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Publication number: 20230175766Abstract: A shelf assembly for a refrigerator includes a shelf; a base member defining a channel; a link member coupling the shelf to the base member such that the shelf is movable relative to the base member between a first position and a second position; a first pin pivotably coupling the link member to the base member; and a second pin pivotably coupling the link member to the shelf. The channel of the base member receives the second pin in the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Cory Brown, Elki Spino, Kwa'shun Jackson, Mitchell Madsen, Emmett Kornfeld, Nathanael Andersen
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Publication number: 20210394209Abstract: A dry fogging system includes a control device including a control device inlet configured to couple to a gas source, a first control device outlet, and a second control device outlet configured to couple to a first tank. The dry fogging system further includes a first spray device including a first spray device inlet configured to couple to the first tank, a second spray device inlet configured to couple to the first control device outlet, and a spray device outlet configured to provide dry fogging.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventor: Cory Brown
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Patent number: 11105304Abstract: A fuel injector includes an injector body, and a stack within the injector body, and having a nozzle supply passage therein. The stack includes a solenoid assembly having a solenoid housing piece with a fuel bore formed therein that includes a segment of the nozzle supply passage. The solenoid housing piece includes a solenoid housing material in a base state, and a solenoid housing material in a residual compressive stressed state, with the fuel bore being formed by the solenoid housing material in the residual compressive stressed state. Residual stresses may be imparted by ballizing, nitriding, carburizing, autofrettage, or still another technique.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Hoisan Kim, Victor Iskander Yacoub, Sridhar Thangaswamy, Cory Brown, Robert Joseph Smith
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Patent number: 10941742Abstract: An engine head assembly includes a plurality of fuel injectors each positioned within a fuel injector bore in the engine head, and each being fluidly coupled with a fluid conduit. Each fuel injector includes a valve assembly positioned within a fuel injector case that includes an elongate body having an opening. A filter sleeve having a particle-blocking perforation array structured to block particles is press fit on the fuel injector case to form a fluid flow path from the fluid conduit into the fuel injector case.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Aaron Michael Brown, Cory A Brown
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Publication number: 20200370522Abstract: A fuel injector includes an injector body and a valve stack within the injector body that includes a valve seat plate. The valve seat plate includes a pressure control passage for controlling fuel injection, and a valve seat positioned fluidly between the pressure control passage and a low-pressure drain. The valve seat plate includes a pressure-limiting annular groove that extends circumferentially around the valve seat and axially inward from a side of the valve seat plate where the valve seat is located. The groove enables deformation in response to pressure differences across the valve seat plate in a manner that limits stress concentrations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: Cory A. Brown
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Patent number: 10781777Abstract: A fuel injector includes an injector body and a valve stack within the injector body that includes a valve seat plate. The valve seat plate includes a pressure control passage for controlling fuel injection, and a valve seat positioned fluidly between the pressure control passage and a low-pressure drain. The valve seat plate includes a pressure-limiting annular groove that extends circumferentially around the valve seat and axially inward from a side of the valve seat plate where the valve seat is located. The groove enables deformation in response to pressure differences across the valve seat plate in a manner that limits stress concentrations.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: Cory A. Brown
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Publication number: 20200173408Abstract: A fuel injector includes an injector body, and a stack within the injector body, and having a nozzle supply passage therein. The stack includes a solenoid assembly having a solenoid housing piece with a fuel bore formed therein that includes a segment of the nozzle supply passage. The solenoid housing piece includes a solenoid housing material in a base state, and a solenoid housing material in a residual compressive stressed state, with the fuel bore being formed by the solenoid housing material in the residual compressive stressed state. Residual stresses may be imparted by ballizing, nitriding, carburizing, autofrettage, or still another technique.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2018Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Hoisan Kim, Victor Iskander Yacoub, Sridhar Thangaswamy, Cory Brown, Robert Joseph Smith
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Patent number: 10612295Abstract: According to some embodiments, a multi-panel door system includes a fixed panel and an active panel. Both panels are secured to the astragal of the door frame by securement members driven into and through hinges connected to the active panel, through the astragal, and into the fixed panel. The securement members are driven through a middle portion of the astragal stem in order to align the fixed and active panels in a recessed position with respect to the door frame. The fixed panel and the active panel are coplanar. Hinge support plates are placed between the hinges and the astragal and communicate forces transmitted through the securement members into deeper portions of the astragal.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: PELLA CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph A. Ritzert, Andrew Morse, Earl J. Ratcliff, Cory Brown
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Patent number: 10544769Abstract: A fuel system is disclosed for use with an engine, including a fuel injector assembly fluidly coupled with a low-pressure fuel conduit, an accumulator, and a cap within an opening in the accumulator. The fuel injector assembly may be structured to draw in low-pressure fuel, pressurize the fuel, and store the pressurized fuel in the accumulator for injection to a combustion chamber. The cap has a pressure sensor and a pressure relief valve therein, and drains fuel leaked past fluid seals between the cap and each of the pressure sensor, the pressure relief valve, and the accumulator by way of a common drain line.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Aaron M. Brown, Cory A. Brown, Sridhar Thangaswamy, Alan R. Stockner, Victor I. Yacoub, Zhenyu Li, Lifeng Wang, Satya Naga Deepak Pillarisetti, Scott Shafer, Robert Michael Campion, George Kodikulam Joseph
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Publication number: 20190309719Abstract: An engine head assembly includes a plurality of fuel injectors each positioned within a fuel injector bore in the engine head, and each being fluidly coupled with a fluid conduit. Each fuel injector includes a valve assembly positioned within a fuel injector case that includes an elongate body having an opening. A filter sleeve having a particle-blocking perforation array structured to block particles is press fit on the fuel injector case to form a fluid flow path from the fluid conduit into the fuel injector case.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2018Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Aaron Michael Brown, Cory A. Brown
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Patent number: 10423061Abstract: A multilayer photochromic article can include a photochromic substrate, which may include a first photochromic layer defining a surface of the substrate, and a second photochromic layer positioned between the surface of the photochromic substrate and a source of actinic radiation, and in which the photochromic substrate and the second photochromic layer are selected such that the fade half-life of the photochromic substrate or the half-life of the first photochromic layer defining the surface of the substrate are greater than the fade half-life of the second photochromic layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Transitions Optical, Inc.Inventors: Massimiliano Tomasulo, Cory Brown, Elizabeth Ann Zezinka
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Patent number: 10273955Abstract: A hydraulic piston pump includes a reciprocal piston disposed in a blind housing bore of a piston housing to generate a pumping action. To accommodate the piston, a piston cartridge is installed in each of the housing bores. The piston cartridge includes a piston sleeve having an inner sleeve periphery, a first outer sleeve periphery, and a second outer sleeve periphery. The inner sleeve periphery is configured to establish sliding contact with the piston. The first outer sleeve periphery has a first outer sleeve diameter that is larger than a second outer sleeve diameter of the second outer sleeve periphery. To seal against the blind housing bore, a liner cap having a cylindrical liner wall and an axial liner cover is disposed over the first outer sleeve periphery. The axial liner cover abuts a housing bore ceiling of the blind housing bore and can receive hydraulic fluid there through.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Sunil J. Bean, Cory A. Brown
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Patent number: D934298Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Victor Iskander Yacoub, Cory A. Brown, Satya Naga Deepak Pillarisetti, Kevin J. Schreader, Hoisan Kim, Jianhua Zhang
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Patent number: D934299Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Victor Iskander Yacoub, Cory A. Brown, Satya Naga Deepak Pillarisetti, Kevin J. Schreader, Hoisan Kim, Jianhua Zhang
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Patent number: D949923Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Victor Iskander Yacoub, Cory A. Brown, Satya Naga Deepak Pillarisetti, Kevin J. Schreader, Hoisan Kim, Jianhua Zhang
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Patent number: D950608Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Victor Iskander Yacoub, Cory A. Brown, Satya Naga Deepak Pillarisetti, Kevin J. Schreader, Hoisan Kim, Jianhua Zhang