Patents by Inventor Edward BYRNE
Edward BYRNE 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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Publication number: 20240099212Abstract: The present invention relates to novel methods for increasing recombination so that the resulting plant or plant material has an increased rate of recombination. In particular, the present invention provides methods for increase of recombination in agricultural plants. Increased recombination is achieved by a controlled temperature treatment by aligning meiosis progression in a specific treatment window to macroscopically or microscopically detectable characteristics. Furthermore, the methods described herein are also useful to shift meiotic recombination to regions in the genome which usually show a reduced amount of recombination. The resulting plants can for example be used to introduce new genetic variations into breeding pools and breeding populations, as the methods can be performed without a significant loss in fertility usually going along with uncontrolled heat/cold treatments.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: KWS SAAT SE & CO. KGAAInventors: Nicola KETTLES, Edward BYRNE, Sybille MITTMANN, Rui MO, Claire MEADE, Mikel ARRIETA, Luke RAMSAY, Isabelle COLAS, Robbie WAUGH
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Publication number: 20240013598Abstract: The present invention discloses smart IoT end devices (500,502,503, etc.) system (100) supervised by a smart gateway device (400) at a secure site and secure methods of operating the system. An AI module (204), connected to a server (200) in the system (100), polls a quality of service of a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) (300), the smart gateway, the smart IoT devices communication links (200,LR,SR), cellular (10,20) and any available network (including an IoT (302) at the secure site) and selects an optimal security level of operation according to any one of access scenarios A-E; access scenario A is endowed with the highest security level, whilst access scenario E is for off-line emergency operation. In all scenarios of operations, the gateway (400) and the smart IoT devices (500) are monitored at the server (200) ensuring 24-hours 7-days a week supervision.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Alan HOGG, Joseph Choon Koon TEY, Basil Edward BYRNE
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Patent number: 9555880Abstract: A rotor hub assembly for a helicopter includes a rotor hub operably connectable to a shaft of a helicopter. One or more flex beams extend through the rotor hub, with each end of each flex beam operably connectable to a rotor blade. One or more inner bearings are located at the rotor hub to spherically support the one or more flex beams in the rotor hub. A rotor assembly for a helicopter includes a rotor hub operably connectable to a shaft of a helicopter. One or more flex beams extending through the rotor hub and one or more inner bearings are located at the rotor hub to spherically support the one or more flex beams in the rotor hub. A plurality of rotor blades are operably connected to the ends of the one or more flex beams.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2012Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: David H. Hunter, Ryan Thomas Casey, Francis Edward Byrnes
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Patent number: 9505491Abstract: A composite spar for a helicopter blade includes two or more layers of unidirectional laminate material. One or more upper plies of bi-directional laminate extend from an upper airfoil portion of the spar disposed between adjacent layers of the two or more layers of unidirectional laminate material. One or more lower plies of bi-directional laminate material extend from a lower airfoil portion of the spar disposed between adjacent layers of the two or more layers of unidirectional material. The upper plies and the lower plies overlap defining a crackstopper layer configured to prevent propagation of defects in the spar.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Francis Edward Byrnes, Jacob A. Fehrman
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Patent number: 8956529Abstract: Oil-water dispersions and emulsions derived from petroleum industry operations are demulsified and clarified using anionic polymers. Formation of such oil-water dispersion and emulsions is inhibited and mitigated using the anionic polymers. The anionic polymers comprise: A) 2-80% by weight of at least one C3-C8 ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer; B) 15-80% by weight of at least one nonionic, copolymerizable ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated monomer; C) 1-50% by weight of one or more of the following monomers: C1) at least one nonionic vinyl surfactant ester; or C2) at least one nonionic, copolymerizable ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated monomer having longer polymer chains than monomer B), or C3) at least one nonionic urethane monomer; and, optionally, D) 0-5% by weight of at least one crosslinker.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2010Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Rohm and Haas CompanyInventors: Norman Edward Byrne, Joseph Manna, Somil Chandrakant Mehta, Peter Rozowski
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Patent number: 8911153Abstract: An elastomeric spherical bearing includes a multiple of shims, at least two of which have different thicknesses. In one exemplary embodiment, each of the shims has a different thickness with a generally equivalent stress on each shim.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Sikorsky Aircraft CorporationInventors: Robert Cunningham, Francis Edward Byrnes
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Patent number: 8511997Abstract: An elastomeric spherical bearing includes a multiple of elastomeric layers with an essentially equivalent fatigue life.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2007Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Sikorsky Aircraft CorporationInventors: Robert Cunningham, Francis Edward Byrnes
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Publication number: 20120314982Abstract: An elastomeric spherical bearing includes a multiple of shims, at least two of which have different thicknesses. In one exemplary embodiment, each of the shims has a different thickness with a generally equivalent stress on each shim.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Inventors: Robert Cunningham, Francis Edward Byrnes
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Patent number: 8275585Abstract: An elastomeric spherical bearing includes a multiple of shims, at least two of which have different thicknesses. In one exemplary embodiment, each of the shims has a different thickness with an essentially equivalent stress on each shim.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2008Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Sikorsky Aircraft CorporationInventors: Robert Cunningham, Francis Edward Byrnes
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Publication number: 20120201678Abstract: A rotor hub assembly for a helicopter includes a rotor hub operably connectible to a shaft of a helicopter. One or more flex beams extend through the rotor hub, with each end of each flex beam operably connectible to a rotor blade. One or more inner bearings are located at the rotor hub to spherically support the one or more flex beams in the rotor hub. A rotor assembly for a helicopter includes a rotor hub operably connectible to a shaft of a helicopter. One or more flex beams extending through the rotor hub and one or more inner bearings are located at the rotor hub to spherically support the one or more flex beams in the rotor hub. A plurality of rotor blades are operably connected to the ends of the one or more flex beams.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: David H. Hunter, Ryan Thomas Casey, Francis Edward Byrnes
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Publication number: 20120045344Abstract: A composite spar for a helicopter blade includes two or more layers of unidirectional laminate material. One or more upper plies of bi-directional laminate extend from an upper airfoil portion of the spar disposed between adjacent layers of the two or more layers of unidirectional laminate material. One or more lower plies of bi-directional laminate material extend from a lower airfoil portion of the spar disposed between adjacent layers of the two or more layers of unidirectional material. The upper plies and the lower plies overlap defining a crackstopper layer configured to prevent propagation of defects in the spar.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2011Publication date: February 23, 2012Applicant: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Francis Edward Byrnes, Jacob A. Fehrman
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Publication number: 20110031163Abstract: Oil-water dispersions and emulsions derived from petroleum industry operations are demulsified and clarified using anionic polymers. Formation of such oil-water dispersion and emulsions is inhibited and mitigated using the anionic polymers. The anionic polymers comprise: A) 2-80% by weight of at least one C3-C8 ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer; B) 15-80% by weight of at least one nonionic, copolymerizable ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated monomer; C) 1-50% by weight of one or more of the following monomers: C1) at least one nonionic vinyl surfactant ester; or C2) at least one nonionic, copolymerizable ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated monomer having longer polymer chains than monomer B), or C3) at least one nonionic urethane monomer; and, optionally, D) 0-5% by weight of at least one crosslinker.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Inventors: Norman Edward Byrne, Joseph Manna, Somil Chandrakant Mehta, Peter Rozowski
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Publication number: 20090268997Abstract: An elastomeric spherical bearing includes a multiple of shims, at least two of which have different thicknesses. In one exemplary embodiment, each of the shims has a different thickness with a generally equivalent stress on each shim.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2008Publication date: October 29, 2009Inventors: Robert Cunningham, Francis Edward Byrnes
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Publication number: 20090162201Abstract: An elastomeric spherical bearing includes a multiple of elastomeric layers with an essentially equivalent fatigue life.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2007Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: Robert Cunningham, Francis Edward Byrnes
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Patent number: 6902768Abstract: The cylinder walls of light metal engine blocks are thermally spray coated with a ferrous-based coating including aluminum using an HVOF device. A ferrous-based wire is fed to the HVOF device to locate a tip end of the wire in a high temperature zone of the device. Jet flows of oxygen and gaseous fuel are fed to the high temperature zone and are combusted to generate heat to melt the tip end. The oxygen is oversupplied in relation to the gaseous fuel. The excess oxygen reacts with and burns a fraction of the ferrous-based feed wire in an exothermic reaction to generate substantial supplemental heat to the HVOF device. The molten/combusted metal is sprayed by the device onto the walls of the cylinder by the jet flow of gases.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2002Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: John Robert Smith, David Rudolph Sigler, Richard Earl Teets, Larry Edward Byrnes, Martin Stephen Kramer
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Patent number: 6886757Abstract: A nozzle assembly for a HVOF thermal metallic spray coating system includes an inner tube, a middle tube and an outer tube which are concentrically arranged about an axis of the nozzle assembly and are spaced to provide annular, concentric gas flow passages for oxygen and gaseous fuel along with a central wire feed passage in an efficient, compact arrangement. A slotted nib and plug are fitted to the discharge end at the assembly and defined, together with the middle tube, an annular premix chamber for the combustible gases, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced mixing slots and a downstream mix end portion of the nib where complete mixing of the gases occurs prior to entry into the combustion chamber provided in an air cap. An annular passage between the air cap and outer tube communicates with a high pressure air source for establishing an envelope of air against the inside surface of the air cap to serve as a protective barrier layer from the atomized metal.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2002Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignees: General Motors Corporation, Sandia National LaboratoriesInventors: Larry Edward Byrnes, Leslie K. Sumner, Peter J. Toth, Martin Stephen Kramer, William L. Oberkampf, Richard Earl Teets, Charles D. Valerius, II
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Patent number: 6715767Abstract: An engine piston compression ring designed to reduce the negative effects of ring end butting and reduce blowby. The compression ring has a gap forming an angle with a longitudinal axis of the ring or with a radius drawn from the axis. A relieved portion is provided along the upper or inner side of the ring adjacent one end, depending upon the direction of the gap angle. The relieved portion slopes along the upper or inner side toward the one end where the longitudinal thickness of the ring is smallest.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2002Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Paul Richard Meernik, Thomas Arthur Perry, Martin Stephen Kramer, Larry Edward Byrnes
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Publication number: 20040051252Abstract: An engine piston compression ring designed to reduce the negative effects of ring end butting and reduce blowby. The compression ring has a gap forming an angle with a longitudinal axis of the ring or with a radius drawn from the axis. A relieved portion is provided along the upper or inner side of the ring adjacent one end, depending upon the direction of the gap angle. The relieved portion slopes along the upper or inner side toward the one end where the longitudinal thickness of the ring is smallest.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2002Publication date: March 18, 2004Inventors: Paul Richard Meernik, Thomas Arthur Perry, Martin Stephen Kramer, Larry Edward Byrnes
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Publication number: 20030160109Abstract: A nozzle assembly for a HVOF thermal metallic spray coating system includes an inner tube, a middle tube and an outer tube which are concentrically arranged about an axis of the nozzle assembly and are spaced to provide annular, concentric gas flow passages for oxygen and gaseous fuel along with a central wire feed passage in an efficient, compact arrangement. A slided nib and plug are fitted to the discharge end at the assembly and defined, together with the middle tube, an annular premix chamber for the combustible gases, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced mixing slots and a downstream mix end portion of the nib where complete mixing of the gases occurs prior to entry into the combustion chamber provided in an air cap. An annular passage between the air cap and outer tube communicates with a high pressure air source for establishing an envelope of air against the inside surface of the air cap to serve as a protective barrier layer from the atomized metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2002Publication date: August 28, 2003Inventors: Larry Edward Byrnes, Leslie K. Sumner, Peter J. Toth, Martin Stephen Kramer, William L. Oberkampf, Richard Earl Teets, Charles D. Valerius
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Patent number: 6610369Abstract: The cylinder walls of light metal engine blocks are thermally spray coated with a ferrous-based coating using an HVOF device. A ferrous-based wire is fed to the HVOF device to locate a tip end of the wire in a high temperature zone of the device. Jet flows of oxygen and gaseous fuel are fed to the high temperature zone and are combusted to generate heat to melt the tip end. The oxygen is oversupplied in relation to the gaseous fuel. The excess oxygen reacts with and burns a fraction of the ferrous-based feed wire in an exothermic reaction to generate substantial supplemental heat to the HVOF device. The molten/combusted metal is sprayed by the device onto the walls of the cylinder by the jet flow of gases.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2001Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignees: General Motors Corporation, Sandia National LaboratoriesInventors: Larry Edward Byrnes, Martin Stephen Kramer, Richard A. Neiser