Patents by Inventor H. Lynn Turner

H. Lynn Turner 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).

  • Ballast delivery and computation system and method
    Patent number: 9175998
    Abstract: A method, performed by a computer having a processor and system memory, for calibrating a tie height of a ballast profiling rail vehicle having a remote sensing system, includes traversing the rail vehicle along a first calibration section of railroad track at a calibration speed, detecting, using the remote sensing system, a plurality of height to tie measurements in the first calibration section, establishing a rolling median average of the height to tie measurements, and determining a calibration tie height relative to the rail vehicle based upon the rolling median average.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Georgetown Rail Equipment Company
    Inventors: H. Lynn Turner, Nathan Bachman, William C. Shell, Brian Van Voorst, David Rozacky, Carlos Martinez, Charles W. Aaron, John Shackleton, Joel Scott Howard, Jonathan Paul Schewe
  • BALLAST DELIVERY AND COMPUTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20150057851
    Abstract: A method, performed by a computer having a processor and system memory, for calibrating a tie height of a ballast profiling rail vehicle having a remote sensing system, includes traversing the rail vehicle along a first calibration section of railroad track at a calibration speed, detecting, using the remote sensing system, a plurality of height to tie measurements in the first calibration section, establishing a rolling median average of the height to tie measurements, and determining a calibration tie height relative to the rail vehicle based upon the rolling median average.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: H. LYNN TURNER, NATHAN BACHMAN, WILLIAM C. SHELL, BRIAN VAN VOORST, DAVID ROZACKY, CARLOS MARTINEZ, CHARLES W. AARON, JOHN SHACKLETON, JOEL SCOTT HOWARD, JONATHAN PAUL SCHEWE
  • Ballast delivery and computation system and method
    Patent number: 8875635
    Abstract: A method for delivering ballast to a section of railroad track includes measuring an existing ballast profile of a section of railroad track using a remote sensing system, and providing a signal indicative thereof to a first computer. Using the first computer, the existing ballast profile is compared with an ideal ballast profile to compute a track file representing a volume of additional ballast needed as a function of linear position along the section of railroad track, and data representing the track file is transmitted to a second computer of an automatic ballast dump train. Ballast is dumped along the section of railroad track according to the track file under control of the second computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Georgetown Rail Equipment Company
    Inventors: H. Lynn Turner, William C. Shell, Brian Roger VanVoorst, David Rozacky, Carlos Martinez, Charles W. Aaron, John Joseph Shackleton, Jr., Joel Scott Howard
  • BALLAST DELIVERY AND COMPUTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20120222579
    Abstract: A method for delivering ballast to a section of railroad track includes measuring an existing ballast profile of a section of railroad track using a remote sensing system, and providing a signal indicative thereof to a first computer. Using the first computer, the existing ballast profile is compared with an ideal ballast profile to compute a track file representing a volume of additional ballast needed as a function of linear position along the section of railroad track, and data representing the track file is transmitted to a second computer of an automatic ballast dump train. Ballast is dumped along the section of railroad track according to the track file under control of the second computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Inventors: H. Lynn Turner, William C. Shell, Brian Roger VanVoorst, David Rozacky, Carlos Martinez, Charles W. Aaron, John Joseph Shackleton, JR., Joel Scott Howard