Patents by Inventor Guy D. Granger

Guy D. Granger 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).

  • Dynamic shape maintenance of aerospace subsystems using tuned mass dampers
    Patent number: 10801574
    Abstract: A vibration damping system employs a component having a directionally sensitive element thereon, mounted to an aircraft, which experiences dynamic excitation that induces bending deflection in the component that will reorient the directionally sensitive element. At least one tuned mass damper is mounted on the component in an orientation in which an internal mass of the tuned mass damper is moveable such that the tuned massed damper absorbs and attenuates at least a portion of the deflective motion, to thereby suppress bending deflection of the component in the particular axial direction and generally maintain the linearity of the directionally sensitive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Steven F. Griffin, Guy D. Granger
  • DYNAMIC SHAPE MAINTENANCE OF AEROSPACE SUBSYSTEMS USING TUNED MASS DAMPERS
    Publication number: 20160319895
    Abstract: A vibration damping system employs a component having a directionally sensitive element thereon, mounted to an aircraft, which experiences dynamic excitation that induces bending deflection in the component that will reorient the directionally sensitive element. At least one tuned mass damper is mounted on the component in an orientation in which an internal mass of the tuned mass damper is moveable such that the tuned massed damper absorbs and attenuates at least a portion of the deflective motion, to thereby suppress bending deflection of the component in the particular axial direction and generally maintain the linearity of the directionally sensitive element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Steven F. Griffin, Guy D. Granger