Patents by Inventor Eric J. Jumper

Eric J. Jumper 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: 8096507
    Abstract: An aircraft turret and fairing assembly for facilitating transmission of a directed energy beam from a directed energy device includes a turret section for directing an energy beam. The assembly also includes a fairing section aft of and adjacent to the turret section. Each of the turret section and the aft fairing section are coupled to an aircraft. The assembly also includes at least one sensor for detecting air speed of the aircraft and air pressure. The turret section and the aft fairing section are configured and positioned relative to one another to direct airflow for generating an aeroacoustic resonance within a desired frequency range in an area aft of the turret section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignees: Innovative Technology Applications, University of Notre Dame Du Lac
    Inventors: Alan B. Cain, Eric J. Jumper, Donald J. Wittich, III, Edward J. Kerschen, David Cavalieri, T. Terry Ng
  • Publication number: 20090242702
    Abstract: An aircraft turret and fairing assembly for facilitating transmission of a directed energy beam from a directed energy device includes a turret section for directing an energy beam. The assembly also includes a fairing section aft of and adjacent to the turret section. Each of the turret section and the aft fairing section are coupled to an aircraft. The assembly also includes at least one sensor for detecting air speed of the aircraft and air pressure. The turret section and the aft fairing section are configured and positioned relative to one another to direct airflow for generating an aeroacoustic resonance within a desired frequency range in an area aft of the turret section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Alan B. Cain, Eric J. Jumper, Donald J. Wittich, III, Edward J. Kerschen, David Cavalieri, T. Terry Ng
  • Patent number: 7380756
    Abstract: A single dielectric barrier aerodynamic plasma actuator apparatus based on the dielectric barrier discharge phenomenon is disclosed and suggested for application to aerodynamic uses for drag reduction, stall elimination and airfoil efficiency improvement. In the plasma actuator apparatus non-uniform in time and space, partially ionized gasses are generated by one or more electrode pairs each having one electrically encapsulated electrode and one air stream exposed electrode and energization by a high-voltage alternating current waveform. The influence of electrical waveform variation, electrode polarity, electrode size and electrode shape on the achieved plasma are considered along with theoretical verification of achieved results. Light output, generated thrust, ionizing current waveform and magnitude and other variables are considered. Misconceptions prevailing in the present day plasma generation art are addressed and are believed-to-be corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Carl L. Enloe, Thomas E. McLaughlin, Eric J. Jumper, Thomas C. Corke
  • Patent number: 5666518
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for replacing the traditional amplifications by rime delays in a neural network that can be trained to analyze temporally-related patterns. Time delays comprise the synapses between feeder and stimulus cells in the network. The result is a multi-temporal trainable delay neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Eric J. Jumper