Patents by Inventor Eric L. Eagen

Eric L. Eagen 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).

  • Method and system for reducing drag on the movement of bluff bodies through a fluid medium and increasing heat transfer
    Patent number: 6098198
    Abstract: A method and system for reducing drag on the movement of the human body through air or other fluid mediums and improving heat transfer including a placement of trip mechanisms at predisposed locations on the human body with the mechanisms constituting elongated protrusions adapted to intercept the laminar flow of fluid across the body and prematurely trip the laminar flow into turbulence whereby the downstream pressure on the body is increased allowing the body to move more freely through the fluid medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Inventors: David L. Jacobs, Eric L. Eagen, Jeffrey J. Rogers
  • Method and system for reducing drag on the movement of bluff bodies through a fluid medium and increasing heat transfer
    Patent number: 5836016
    Abstract: A method and system for reducing drag on the movement of the human body through air or other fluid mediums and improving heat transfer including a placement of trip mechanisms at predisposed locations on the human body with the mechanisms constituting elongated protrusions adapted to intercept the laminar flow of fluid across the body and prematurely trip the laminar flow into turbulence whereby the downstream pressure on the body is increased allowing the body to move more freely through the fluid medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Inventors: David L. Jacobs, Eric L. Eagen, Jeffrey J. Rogers
  • Method and system for reducing drag on the movement of bluff bodies through a fluid medium and increasing heat transfer
    Patent number: 5809567
    Abstract: A method and system for reducing drag on the movement of the human body through air or other fluid mediums and improving heat transfer including a placement of trip mechanisms at predisposed locations on the human body with the mechanisms constituting elongated protrusions adapted to intercept the laminar flow of fluid across the body and prematurely trip the laminar flow into turbulence whereby the downstream pressure on the body is increased allowing the body to move more freely through the fluid medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Inventors: David L. Jacobs, Eric L. Eagen, Jeffrey J. Rogers