Patents by Inventor Douglas Gerard Meyer

Douglas Gerard Meyer 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: 7204329
    Abstract: An engine air intake system includes an engine air intake device and a plenum cooling compartment that is separate from the engine compartment by a baffle. A fan draws outside ambient air into the plenum cooling compartment and out of the plenum cooling area via a heat exchanger. The cooling compartment is designed such that a distance between the heat exchanger and the baffle provides a gap from which the engine air intake device removes ambient air as a source for engine air. An option is provide for the system to withdraw outside ambient air from an area external to the plenum cooling compartment in high debris environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Jesse Lee Pfohl, Christopher James Maifield, Douglas Gerard Meyer, Daniel Joseph Huegerich, Gregory Keith Werner
  • Patent number: 6431661
    Abstract: A work vehicle is provided with a brake system actuated by depressing either the left pedal or the right pedal. The brake system comprises two parallel brake circuits. The first brake circuit has a first brake actuator, a first hydraulic line, a first flow regulating portion of a tandem brake valve and a first accumulator. The second brake circuit has a second brake actuator, a second hydraulic line, a second flow regulating portion of the tandem brake valve and a second accumulator. To equalize the hydraulic pressure applied to the first and second brake actuators, an equalizer hydraulic line having an orifice extends between the first and second hydraulic lines. A force feedback hydraulic circuit is hydraulically positioned between the first and second hydraulic lines. The force feedback circuit comprises a first force feedback hydraulic line, a second force feedback hydraulic line and a force feedback hydraulic actuator. The first feedback line extends between the first and second hydraulic lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Douglas Gerard Meyer
  • Patent number: D500056
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: James Thomas DeYoung, Gregory Keith Werner, Kathryn Elizabeth Ehrke, Douglas Gerard Meyer, Thomas Howard Ward, Stephen Henry Kaminski