Patents by Inventor Harold L. Castle

Harold L. Castle 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).

  • Patent number: 8901797
    Abstract: A rotor for a brushless motor is resistant to degradation in alternative fuels and has desirable magnetic properties. A stator for a brushless DC motor includes coils wound both clockwise and counterclockwise around teeth of a back iron. Pairs of the coils are electrically connected in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Harold L. Castle, David M. Dokas
  • Patent number: 8049376
    Abstract: A rotor for a brushless motor is resistant to degradation in alternative fuels and has desirable magnetic properties. A stator for a brushless DC motor includes coils wound both clockwise and counterclockwise around teeth of a back iron. Pairs of the coils are electrically connected in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David M. Dokas, Brian J. Cardwell, Harold L. Castle
  • Publication number: 20090189466
    Abstract: A rotor for a brushless motor is resistant to degradation in alternative fuels and has desirable magnetic properties. A stator for a brushless DC motor includes coils wound both clockwise and counterclockwise around teeth of a back iron. Pairs of the coils are electrically connected in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicants: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, VISTEON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: David M. Dokas, Brian J. Cardwell, Harold L. Castle
  • Publication number: 20090189473
    Abstract: A rotor for a brushless motor is resistant to degradation in alternative fuels and has desirable magnetic properties. A stator for a brushless DC motor includes coils wound both clockwise and counterclockwise around teeth of a back iron. Pairs of the coils are electrically connected in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Harold L. Castle, David M. Dokas
  • Patent number: 7559315
    Abstract: A rotodynamic fuel pump in a fuel delivery system for an internal combustion engine including a pump housing, a pump inlet channel extending through the housing allowing fuel to be drawn into the pump, a purge orifice extending through the housing and spaced away from the pump inlet channel, the purge orifice allowing fuel vapor to exit the pump, the purge orifice including a purge inlet, a purge outlet, and a purge channel, where the purge inlet is axially offset from the purge outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dequan Yu, Sheven Sharp, Harold L. Castle, Stephen T. Kempfer, Robert Joseph Pyle
  • Patent number: 7045983
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system for controlling the speed of a motor by altering the magnetic field of the motor. The system includes field modification module, and a motor having field windings and a rotor. The field windings are configured to receive a driving signal that generates a magnetic field causing a rotation of the rotor. The field modification module is proximate the motor and alters the magnetic field in response to an input signal thereby controlling the speed and torque of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Harold L. Castle, DeQuan Yu, Stephen T. Kempfer, Norman N. Krieger, Paul E. Fisher, Sheven Sharp, James L. Thompson
  • Publication number: 20040101427
    Abstract: The present invention involves a gear assembly of a fuel pump for improved supply of fuel to an automotive engine from a fuel tank. The assembly includes an inner gear and an outer gear matingly cooperating with the inner gear for rotation about an axis. The assembly further includes a pump cover including a cover surface adjacent the inner and outer gears and a pump body including a body surface adjacent the inner and outer gears opposite the pump cover. The cover surface has a primary inlet porting and a secondary outlet porting formed thereon and separated between seal areas. The body surface of the pump body includes a primary outlet porting and a secondary inlet porting separated between seal areas. In use, the inlet portings and the outlet portings of the pump body and the pump cover cooperate together, respectively, such that fuel entering through the inlet portings pass therethrough at a rate at which the gear assembly moves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Applicant: Visteon Global Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: DeQuan Yu, Harold L. Castle, Stephen T. Kempfer
  • Patent number: 5551835
    Abstract: An automotive fuel pump housing for a fuel pump encases a rotary pumping element. The housing has two portions, a cover and a bottom. The cover has an inlet port which defines a directional control surface having an inclined frustoconical portion and an inclined planar portion conjoined therewith and laterally extending therefrom such that fuel flowing over the inclined frustoconical portion accelerates primarily radially and combines with fuel flowing primarily axially over the inclined planar portion, whereby the combined flow is smoothly directed to an annular cover channel. The bottom has an annular bottom channel which, when the cover and bottom are assembled, the annular cover channel and annular bottom channel cooperate to form the inlet channel. A transition section is located at the beginning of the inlet channel and extends along a portion of the arc of the inlet channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Dequan Yu, Harold L. Castle