Patents by Inventor Cory Brown

Cory 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).

  • Patent number: 11828530
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Brown, Elki Spino, Kwa'shun Jackson, Mitchell Madsen, Emmett Kornfeld, Nathanael Andersen
  • Publication number: 20230175766
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Cory Brown, Elki Spino, Kwa'shun Jackson, Mitchell Madsen, Emmett Kornfeld, Nathanael Andersen
  • Publication number: 20210394209
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventor: Cory Brown
  • Patent number: 11105304
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Hoisan Kim, Victor Iskander Yacoub, Sridhar Thangaswamy, Cory Brown, Robert Joseph Smith
  • Publication number: 20200173408
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Hoisan Kim, Victor Iskander Yacoub, Sridhar Thangaswamy, Cory Brown, Robert Joseph Smith
  • Patent number: 10612295
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: PELLA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph A. Ritzert, Andrew Morse, Earl J. Ratcliff, Cory Brown
  • Patent number: 10423061
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Transitions Optical, Inc.
    Inventors: Massimiliano Tomasulo, Cory Brown, Elizabeth Ann Zezinka
  • Publication number: 20180210330
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Massimiliano Tomasulo, Cory Brown, Elizabeth Ann Zezinka
  • Publication number: 20170138114
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Joseph A. Ritzert, Andrew Morse, Earl J. Ratcliff, Cory Brown
  • Patent number: 9556665
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Pella Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Ritzert, Andrew Morse, Earl J. Ratcliff, Cory Brown
  • Patent number: 9359985
    Abstract: An actuator for a valve assembly includes a body having an internal surface defining a bore therein, the internal surface including a first body shoulder at least partly facing a longitudinal direction defined along a longitudinal axis of the bore; a first armature disposed within the bore, the first armature being configured to generate a force in response to a first electromagnetic field acting thereon; a first stem operatively coupled to the first armature and a first valve of the valve assembly; a first pair of shoulders disposed on the first stem, the first pair of shoulders at least partly facing one another and defining a first stem circumferential groove therebetween; and a first valve travel spacer disposed about the first stem circumferential groove, and disposed in interference with the first body shoulder along the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Brown, Adam Stecklein, Adrienne Brasche
  • Publication number: 20160069312
    Abstract: An actuator for a valve assembly includes a body having an internal surface defining a bore therein, the internal surface including a first body shoulder at least partly facing a longitudinal direction defined along a longitudinal axis of the bore; a first armature disposed within the bore, the first armature being configured to generate a force in response to a first electromagnetic field acting thereon; a first stem operatively coupled to the first armature and a first valve of the valve assembly; a first pair of shoulders disposed on the first stem, the first pair of shoulders at least partly facing one another and defining a first stem circumferential groove therebetween; and a first valve travel spacer disposed about the first stem circumferential groove, and disposed in interference with the first body shoulder along the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Brown, Adam Stecklein, Adrienne Brasche
  • Patent number: 9181886
    Abstract: A compression ignition engine is fueled from common rail fuel injectors that predominately inject natural gas fuel that is compression ignited with a small pilot injection of liquid diesel fuel. Before and after a rapid fueling increase transient, the liquid and gaseous rail pressures are controlled toward respective pressures based upon engine speed and load. During the transient, the liquid rail pressure is controlled toward an elevated liquid pressure in order to cause a surge in the supply of gaseous fuel to the gaseous fuel common rail to proactively satisfy the increased gaseous fuel injection rate while obviating a substantial pressure deficit in the gaseous fuel common rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Thomas Grant, Frank Lombardi, Daniel R. Puckett, Cory Brown
  • Publication number: 20150233171
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Joseph A. Ritzert, Andrew Morse, Earl J. Ratcliff, Cory Brown
  • Publication number: 20140331963
    Abstract: A compression ignition engine is fueled from common rail fuel injectors that predominately inject natural gas fuel that is compression ignited with a small pilot injection of liquid diesel fuel. Before and after a rapid fueling increase transient, the liquid and gaseous rail pressures are controlled toward respective pressures based upon engine speed and load. During the transient, the liquid rail pressure is controlled toward an elevated liquid pressure in order to cause a surge in the supply of gaseous fuel to the gaseous fuel common rail to proactively satisfy the increased gaseous fuel injection rate while obviating a substantial pressure deficit in the gaseous fuel common rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Caterpillar, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Thomas Grant, Frank Lombardi, Daniel R. Puckett, Cory Brown
  • Publication number: 20070190359
    Abstract: Compounds comprising phosphorescent metal complexes comprising cyclometallated imidazo[1,2-f]phenanthridine and diimidazo[1,2-a:1?,2?-c]quinazoline ligands, or isoelectronic or benzannulated analogs thereof, are described. Organic light emitting diode devices comprising these compounds are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: David Knowles, Chun Lin, Peter MacKenzie, Jui-Yi Tsai, Robert Walters, Scott Beers, Cory Brown, Walter Yeager
  • Publication number: 20070092426
    Abstract: Often NOx selective catalysts that use ammonia to reduce NOx within exhaust to a harmless gas require on-board storage of ammonia which can be hazardous and inconvenient. In order to generate ammonia in exhaust, the present disclosure increases a NOx concentration in exhaust from at least one combustion chamber, at least in part, by injecting fuel in a predetermined increased NOx generation sequence that includes a first injection during non-auto ignition conditions and a second injection during auto ignition conditions. At least a portion of the NOx is converted to ammonia by passing at least a portion of the exhaust with the increased NOx concentration over an ammonia-producing catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2005
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Inventors: Josh Driscoll, Wade Robel, Cory Brown, Roger Urven
  • Publication number: 20070088167
    Abstract: Organic light emitting materials and devices comprising phosphorescent metal complexes comprising ligands comprising aryl or heteroaryl groups substituted at both ortho positions are described. An organic light emitting device, comprising: an anode; a hole transport layer; an organic emissive layer comprising an emissive layer host and an emissive dopant; an electron impeding layer; an electron transport layer; and a cathode disposed, in that order, over a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventors: Chun Lin, Peter Mackenzie, Robert Walters, Jui-Yi Tsai, Cory Brown, Jun Deng
  • Publication number: 20070034188
    Abstract: A method of operating an engine system should produce relatively low concentrations of various emissions without compromising a desired power output of the system. In order to operate an engine system of the present disclosure, a predetermined total amount of fuel injected into at least one combustion chamber is apportioned into at least a first amount and a second amount of fuel. The first amount of fuel is injected into the at least one combustion chamber during non-auto ignition conditions. The second amount of fuel is injected into the at least one combustion chamber during auto-ignition conditions. When the engine system is in a mid-low engine load range, the second amount of fuel is one of equal to or less than 15% of the predetermined total amount of fuel. When the engine system is in a high engine load range, the second amount of fuel is greater than 15% of the predetermined total amount of fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Kevin Duffy, Roger Urven, Cory Brown, Mary Kesse
  • Publication number: 20070028890
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a turbocharged internal combustion engine and a method of operating the same. The method includes operating the engine in a first mode wherein fuel in injected prior to autoignition conditions in at least one cylinder of the engine. The method further includes selectively operating the engine in a second operating mode that includes fuel injection after autoignition conditions, where a value indicative of turbocharger boost pressure meets a predetermined criterion, such as boost pressure being too low. The internal combustion engine of the present disclosure includes an article have a computer readable medium with a control algorithm recorded thereon. The control algorithm includes first means for operating the engine in a homogeneous charge mode, and second means for selectively operating the engine in a mixed homogeneous charge and conventional mode, where a value indicative of a turbocharger boost pressure meets a predetermined criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Inventors: Cory Brown, Roger Urven, Anthony Rodman