Patents by Inventor Gordon Peter Worgan

Gordon Peter Worgan 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).

  • Carbon fiber drive shaft
    Patent number: 4089190
    Abstract: Lightweight tubular drive shafts having noise and vibration dampening characteristics, and capable of operating at high speeds without significant misalignment between their geometric axes and their axes of rotation, are prepared by forming the shafts so that the walls thereof are a composite of a plurality of layers of carbon fibers in a solid resin matrix wherein the fibers are disposed circumferentially and helically about the longitudinal axis of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1978
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon Peter Worgan, Derek Reginald Smith