Patents by Inventor Frederick L. Baker

Frederick L. Baker 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 apparatus for mitigating undesired fluid vibration
    Patent number: 8701712
    Abstract: A water hammer mitigation device includes an inlet, an outlet, an expansion housing, and a deflector. The inlet receives fluid from a source. The outlet passes the fluid to a destination. The expansion housing is disposed between the inlet and the outlet. The expansion housing defines an internal expansion chamber having an expansion volume sufficient to hold a plurality of volume units of the fluid. Each volume unit is defined by a fluid flow volume over a duration of time. The deflector is disposed within the expansion chamber. The deflector substantially redirects a backward energy pulse, which enters the expansion chamber through the outlet, away from the inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Coorstek, Inc.
    Inventors: Rusty Denney, Frederick L. Baker, Jr.
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING UNDESIRED FLUID VIBRATION
    Publication number: 20110186166
    Abstract: A water hammer mitigation device includes an inlet, an outlet, an expansion housing, and a deflector. The inlet receives fluid from a source. The outlet passes the fluid to a destination. The expansion housing is disposed between the inlet and the outlet. The expansion housing defines an internal expansion chamber having an expansion volume sufficient to hold a plurality of volume units of the fluid. Each volume unit is defined by a fluid flow volume over a duration of time. The deflector is disposed within the expansion chamber. The deflector substantially redirects a backward energy pulse, which enters the expansion chamber through the outlet, away from the inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventors: Rusty Denney, Frederick L. Baker, JR.
  • Collapsible steering shaft assembly
    Patent number: 5853194
    Abstract: A steering shaft (32) has a stress riser (70) which is inelastically deformable under stress induced by a predetermined vehicle crash force so as to initiate inelastic deflection of the shaft (32) under the crash force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: TRW Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick L. Baker, Phillip S. Peterson, Timothy M. Lowney, Richard J. Eckhart
  • Specimen holder and technique employed to effect a continuous maximum concentration gradient in critical point drying
    Patent number: 4003135
    Abstract: The present device and technique enables a small specimen to be subject to a continuous maximum concentration gradient by continually replenishing the fluid coming in contact with the specimen. Accordingly, the diffusion rate from the specimen to the fluid in contact is maintained at a high level, and the fluid-exchange steps are completed quickly. Further, the device is designed to hold a plurality of specimens so that a number of specimens can be "dried" simultaneously and quickly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1977
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Frederick L. Baker, Lambertus H. Princen