Patents by Inventor Eugene H. Cook
Eugene H. Cook 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: 20230076161Abstract: Methods for fabricating MEMS tuning fork gyroscope sensor system using silicon wafers. This provides the possibly to avoid glass. The sense plates can be formed in a device layer of a silicon on insulator (SOI) wafer or in a deposited polysilicon layer in a few examples.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Eugene H. Cook, Jonathan J. Bernstein, Mirela G. Bancu, Marc Steven Weinberg, William Sawyer
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Patent number: 11530917Abstract: Methods for fabricating MEMS tuning fork gyroscope sensor system using silicon wafers. This provides the possibly to avoid glass. The sense plates can be formed in a device layer of a silicon on insulator (SOI) wafer or in a deposited polysilicon layer in a few examples.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.Inventors: Eugene H. Cook, Jonathan J. Bernstein, Mirela G. Bancu, Marc Steven Weinberg, William Sawyer
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Patent number: 11237335Abstract: MEMS-actuated optical switches can be implemented on photonic chips. These switches are compact, essentially planar, simple to implement and include only one moving MEMS component per switch. The switches exhibit low optical loss, require low power to operate, and are simple to control and easy to integrate with other optical devices. Each switch has two optical waveguides that are optically coupled in an ON switch state and not coupled in an OFF switch state. An end or a medial section of one of the two waveguides may translate between the ON and OFF states to affect the coupling. Alternatively, a coupling frustrator may translate between the ON and OFF states to affect the coupling.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.Inventors: Michael G. Moebius, Steven J. Spector, Eugene H. Cook, Jonathan J. Bernstein
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Patent number: 11048053Abstract: An optical system includes a laser source that provides a beam of light, a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) with an input aperture, and an alignment fixture that has at least one actuator. The alignment fixture may be mounted on the PIC. The optical system is aligned such that the beam of light travels from the laser source to the alignment fixture and from the alignment fixture to the input aperture of the PIC. The alignment fixture can move in at least one direction upon actuation of the at least one actuator to adjust coupling between the laser source and the PIC. The at least one actuator may be a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) structure actuated by an electrical signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.Inventors: Michael G. Moebius, Steven J. Spector, Eugene H. Cook, Sean P. O'Connor
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Publication number: 20210157067Abstract: An optical system includes a laser source that provides a beam of light, a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) with an input aperture, and an alignment fixture that has at least one actuator. The alignment fixture may be mounted on the PIC. The optical system is aligned such that the beam of light travels from the laser source to the alignment fixture and from the alignment fixture to the input aperture of the PIC. The alignment fixture can move in at least one direction upon actuation of the at least one actuator to adjust coupling between the laser source and the PIC. The at least one actuator may be a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) structure actuated by an electrical signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Michael G. Moebius, Steven J. Spector, Eugene H. Cook, Sean P. O'Connor
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Patent number: 10823913Abstract: MEMS-actuated optical switches can be implemented on photonic chips. These switches are compact, essentially planar, simple to implement and include only one moving MEMS component per switch. The switches exhibit low optical loss, require low power to operate, and are simple to control and easy to integrate with other optical devices. Each switch has two optical waveguides that are optically coupled in an ON switch state and not coupled in an OFF switch state. An end or a medial section of one of the two waveguides may translate between the ON and OFF states to affect the coupling. Alternatively, a coupling frustrator may translate between the ON and OFF states to affect the coupling.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.Inventors: Michael G. Moebius, Steven J. Spector, Eugene H. Cook, Jonathan J. Bernstein
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Patent number: 10791779Abstract: A mold for casting a micro-scale structure includes an upper surface including a first cavity having a first depth. A negative pattern for an array of micro-scale structures is defined in a surface of the first cavity. The mold includes at least one second cavity having a second depth defined in the cavity outside of the negative pattern for the array of micro-scale structures. The at least one second cavity defines a negative pattern for a standoff of the micro-scale structure. A fabric retaining frame is disposed in the first cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.Inventors: David J. Carter, Tirunelveli S. Sriram, Parshant Kumar, Clayton Morris, William W. McFarland, Eugene H. Cook, John LeBlanc, Alla Gimbel
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Publication number: 20200096336Abstract: Methods for fabricating MEMS tuning fork gyroscope sensor system using silicon wafers. This provides the possibly to avoid glass. The sense plates can be formed in a device layer of a silicon on insulator (SOI) wafer or in a deposited polysilicon layer in a few examples.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Eugene H. Cook, Jonathan J. Bernstein, Mirela G. Bancu, Marc Steven Weinberg, William Sawyer
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Patent number: 10585150Abstract: Aspects and embodiments are generally directed to magnetic field detector systems and methods. In one example, a magnetic field detector system includes a proof-mass including a magnetic dipole source, a plurality of supports, each individual support of the plurality supports being coupled to the proof-mass, a plurality of sensors, each individual sensor of the plurality of sensors positioned to measure a resonant frequency of a corresponding support of the plurality of supports, and a controller coupled to each individual sensor of the plurality of sensors, the controller configured to measure a characteristic of a magnetic field imparted on the proof-mass based on at least a first resonant frequency of the measured resonant frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.Inventors: James A. Bickford, Marc S. Weinberg, Jonathan J. Bernstein, John Le Blanc, Eugene H. Cook
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Patent number: 10520331Abstract: According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a whole angle gyroscope comprising a central point, at least one mass arranged symmetrically about the central point, a plurality of transducers, each configured to perform at least one of driving and sensing motion of the at least one mass, and a processor coupled to the plurality of transducers, the processor configured to operate the plurality of transducers to drive the at least one mass in at least a first vibratory mode and a second vibratory mode, identify a rate dead zone of the whole angle gyroscope, and operate the plurality of transducers to apply a force to the at least one mass to reduce the identified rate dead zone of the whole angle gyroscope.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.Inventors: Marc Steven Weinberg, Ralph Cohn, Eugene H. Cook
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Patent number: 10345332Abstract: An environmental physical sensor is provided that includes a power input terminal, a sensor output terminal, and a resonant switch. The resonant switch includes a mechanical element that is responsive to an environmental stimulus and is coupled to an electrical switch. The electrical switch is operable between an open position and a closed position and electrically connects the power input terminal to the sensor output terminal when in the closed position. The mechanical element is configured to intermittently actuate the electrical switch into the closed position responsive to the environmental stimulus.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignees: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC., NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYInventors: Jonathan J. Bernstein, Marc S. Weinberg, Amy Duwel, Paul A. Ward, Nicol E. McGruer, Matteo Rinaldi, Eugene H. Cook
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Patent number: 10317210Abstract: According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a gyroscope comprising an axially symmetric structure, and a plurality of transducers, each configured to perform at least one of driving and sensing motion of the axially symmetric structure, wherein the plurality of transducers is configured to drive the axially symmetric structure in at least a first vibratory mode and a second vibratory mode, and wherein the gyroscope is implemented on a hexagonal crystal-based substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignees: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC., The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Francis J. Kub, Karl D. Hobart, Eugene Imhoff, Rachael Myers-Ward, Eugene H. Cook, Marc S. Weinberg, Jonathan J. Bernstein
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Patent number: 10113873Abstract: According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a gyroscope comprising a central anchor, a plurality of internal flexures, a plurality of masses, each mass coupled to the central anchor via at least one of the plurality of internal flexures and configured to translate in a plane of the gyroscope, and a plurality of mass-to-mass couplers, each mass-to-mass coupler coupled between two adjacent masses of the plurality of masses, and a plurality of transducers, each configured to perform at least one of driving and sensing motion of a corresponding one of the plurality of masses, wherein the plurality of transducers is configured to drive the plurality of masses in at least a first vibratory mode and a second vibratory mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.Inventors: Eugene H. Cook, Marc S. Weinberg, Jonathan J. Bernstein
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Publication number: 20180264687Abstract: A method of forming a metal mold for casting a micro-scale dry adhesive structure includes securing a master patch of material including a micro-scale dry adhesive structure on a plating fixture, electroforming the metal mold on the patch of material, and removing the metal mold from the plating fixture and patch of material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2015Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: David J. Carter, Tirunelveli S. Sriram, Parshant Kumar, Clayton Morris, William W. McFarland, Eugene H. Cook, John LeBlanc, Alla Epshteyn, W. Dennis Slafer, B. Diane Martin
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Publication number: 20180245946Abstract: According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a whole angle gyroscope comprising a central point, at least one mass arranged symmetrically about the central point, a plurality of transducers, each configured to perform at least one of driving and sensing motion of the at least one mass, and a processor coupled to the plurality of transducers, the processor configured to operate the plurality of transducers to drive the at least one mass in at least a first vibratory mode and a second vibratory mode, identify a rate dead zone of the whole angle gyroscope, and operate the plurality of transducers to apply a force to the at least one mass to reduce the identified rate dead zone of the whole angle gyroscope.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Marc Steven Weinberg, Ralph Cohn, Eugene H. Cook
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Patent number: 10020219Abstract: A method of fabricating ultra-thin semiconductor devices includes forming an array of semiconductor dielets mechanically suspended on a frame with at least one tether connecting each semiconductor dielet of the array of semiconductor dielets to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.Inventors: Eugene H. Cook, Amy Duwel, David J. Carter, Gayatri E. Perlin
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Patent number: 10014204Abstract: A method of fabricating ultra-thin semiconductor devices includes forming an array of semiconductor dielets mechanically suspended on a frame with at least one tether connecting each semiconductor dielet of the array of semiconductor dielets to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.Inventors: Eugene H. Cook, Amy Duwel, David J. Carter, Gayatri E. Perlin
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Publication number: 20180033670Abstract: A method of fabricating ultra-thin semiconductor devices includes forming an array of semiconductor dielets mechanically suspended on a frame with at least one tether connecting each semiconductor dielet of the array of semiconductor dielets to the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Eugene H. Cook, Amy Duwel, David J. Carter, Gayatri E. Perlin
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Publication number: 20180012786Abstract: A method of fabricating ultra-thin semiconductor devices includes forming an array of semiconductor dielets mechanically suspended on a frame with at least one tether connecting each semiconductor dielet of the array of semiconductor dielets to the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: Eugene H. Cook, Amy Duwel, David J. Carter, Gayatri E. Perlin
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Publication number: 20170367418Abstract: A mold for casting a micro-scale structure includes an upper surface including a first cavity having a first depth. A negative pattern for an array of micro-scale structures is defined in a surface of the first cavity. The mold includes at least one second cavity having a second depth defined in the cavity outside of the negative pattern for the array of micro-scale structures. The at least one second cavity defines a negative pattern for a standoff of the micro-scale structure. A fabric retaining frame is disposed in the first cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2015Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: David J. Carter, Tirunelveli S. Sriram, Parshant Kumar, Clayton Morris, William W. McFarland, Eugene H. Cook, John LeBlanc, Alla Gimbel