Patents by Inventor Eric Whewell

Eric Whewell 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).

  • Failure compensating lace tension devices and methods
    Patent number: 9681705
    Abstract: A reel for tightening an article includes a housing and a spool positioned within the housing. A knob is coupled with the spool to cause the spool to rotate within the housing and thereby wind a tension member about a central post of the spool. A load holding mechanism is coupled with the spool and the housing and includes a first friction element and a second friction element that are frictionally engageable to prevent rotation of the spool in a second direction to prevent unwinding of the tension member from the spool's central post. Rotation of the knob in a first direction reduces frictional engagement of the friction elements to enable rotation of the spool in the first direction and tension in the tension member biases the spool toward rotation in the second direction which increases the frictional engagement of the friction elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Boa Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Trudel, Eric Craig Irwin, Eric Whewell
  • FAILURE COMPENSATING LACE TENSION DEVICES AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20150076272
    Abstract: A reel for tightening an article includes a housing and a spool positioned within the housing. A knob is coupled with the spool to cause the spool to rotate within the housing and thereby wind a tension member about a central post of the spool. A load holding mechanism is coupled with the spool and the housing and includes a first friction element and a second friction element that are frictionally engageable to prevent rotation of the spool in a second direction to prevent unwinding of the tension member from the spool's central post. Rotation of the knob in a first direction reduces frictional engagement of the friction elements to enable rotation of the spool in the first direction and tension in the tension member biases the spool toward rotation in the second direction which increases the frictional engagement of the friction elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Trudel, Eric Craig Irwin, Eric Whewell
  • Golf shoe
    Patent number: D755496
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Sven Tulowitzki, Michael Hesterberg, Eric Whewell
  • Lace tightening device
    Patent number: D758061
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Boa Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Whewell