Patents by Inventor James A. McKnight
James A. McKnight 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).
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Patent number: 11518349Abstract: An electronic control unit (ECU) is disclosed. The ECU may detect an emergency stopping event associated with a vehicle. The ECU may determine, based on detecting the emergency stopping event, that electro-hydraulic brakes of the vehicle are in a disabled mode. The ECU may determine, based on determining that the electro-hydraulic brakes are in the disabled mode, a position of a brake pedal of the vehicle. The ECU may override, based on the position of the brake pedal, the disabled mode to engage the electro-hydraulic brakes during the emergency stopping event.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: James McKnight, James L. Williamson
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Publication number: 20220069464Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide a system having a lens antenna system configured to simultaneously form beams centered at different angles in space within a field of view (FOV) to provide angle of arrival information for each of the beams. The beam data is encoded and combined and digitized. The data is then split into channels for each of the beams and decoded processed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Thomas Comberiate, James McKnight
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Publication number: 20200384961Abstract: An electronic control unit (ECU) is disclosed. The ECU may detect an emergency stopping event associated with a vehicle. The ECU may determine, based on detecting the emergency stopping event, that electro-hydraulic brakes of the vehicle are in a disabled mode. The ECU may determine, based on determining that the electro-hydraulic brakes are in the disabled mode, a position of a brake pedal of the vehicle. The ECU may override, based on the position of the brake pedal, the disabled mode to engage the electro-hydraulic brakes during the emergency stopping event.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2019Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: James McKNIGHT, James L. WILLIAMSON
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Patent number: 10766411Abstract: An electronic control unit (ECU) is disclosed. The ECU may receive a command associated with a vehicle. The ECU may actuate one or more lights on the vehicle in a first mode based on receiving the command. The ECU may transmit, while actuating the one or more lights in the first mode, the command to a vehicle controller associated with the vehicle. The ECU may actuate the one or more lights in a second mode based on receiving an acknowledgement of the command from the vehicle controller.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: James McKnight, David Bumpus
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Patent number: 10597585Abstract: A method of producing normally solid, normally liquid and optionally normally gaseous hydrocarbons involves contacting a gas mixture comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide with a catalyst under elevated temperature and pressure, to convert at least part of the hydrogen and carbon monoxide into hydrocarbons. An effluent is withdrawn from the reactor and subjected to a separation step to form at least a heavy fraction and a light fraction. The heavy fraction comprises normally solid hydrocarbons, while the light fraction comprises unconverted syngas and normally liquid and optionally normally gaseous hydrocarbons. The light fraction is sent to a light ends stripper operating at a temperature of maximally 200° C. to obtain a hydrocarbons fraction comprising normally liquid hydrocarbons. The heavy fraction is subjected to flash evaporation or steam stripping to obtain a hydrocarbon stream of normally solid hydrocarbons (comprising mainly C10+ hydrocarbons).Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANYInventors: Gerrit Leendert Bezemer, Hans Michiel Huisman, Tyrone James McKnight, Wilhelmus Johannes Franciscus Scholten, Wenping Yang
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Publication number: 20190276747Abstract: A method of producing normally solid, normally liquid and optionally normally gaseous hydrocarbons involves contacting a gas mixture comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide with a catalyst under elevated temperature and pressure, to convert at least part of the hydrogen and carbon monoxide into hydrocarbons. An effluent is withdrawn from the reactor and subjected to a separation step to form at least a heavy fraction and a light fraction. The heavy fraction comprises normally solid hydrocarbons, while the light fraction comprises unconverted syngas and normally liquid and optionally normally gaseous hydrocarbons. The light fraction is sent to a light ends stripper operating at a temperature of maximally 200° C. to obtain a hydrocarbons fraction comprising normally liquid hydrocarbons. The heavy fraction is subjected to flash evaporation or steam stripping to obtain a hydrocarbon stream of normally solid hydrocarbons (comprising mainly C10+ hydrocarbons).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2017Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Gerrit Leendert BEZEMER, Hans Michiel HUISMAN, Tyrone James MCKNIGHT, Wilhelmus Johannes Franciscus SCHOLTEN, Wenping YANG
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Publication number: 20050055106Abstract: A modular expandable irrigation controller has controls for manual entry or selection of a watering program and a memory for storing the watering program. A processor executes the stored watering program and controls one or more station modules each including a station module circuit for energizing at least one solenoid actuated valve in accordance with the watering program. The irrigation controller has a plurality of receptacles for each removably receiving a station module and for providing an operative connection to the processor. A manually movable locking member is grasped and moved between UNLOCKED and LOCKED positions to positively secure each station module in a corresponding receptacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2004Publication date: March 10, 2005Inventors: Matthew Beutler, Ronald Anuskiewicz, James McKnight, Santo Uccello
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Patent number: 4831604Abstract: Range finding equipment is employed in a nuclear reactor to monitor the spacing between structural components (22, 24) of the reactor which are under stress. A manipulator (32) carries a pair of send-receive ultrasonic transducers (30) arranged back to back so as to direct ultrasound signals towards reflectors (26, 28) associated with the structural components to be monitored. The transducers are pulsed with signals derived by gating a few cycles of a sustained reference signal of sine wave form and the resulting echo signals can be used to provide transit time and phase displacement information from which the spacing between the relectors (26, 28) can be derived with a high degree of precision.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1986Date of Patent: May 16, 1989Assignee: United Kingdom Atomic Energy AuthorityInventors: James A. McKnight, Leslie M. Barrett
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Patent number: 4655992Abstract: Temperature, or temperature noise, is measured by employing an ultrasonic beam which strikes at least one pair of points (10A, 10B) which are a known distance apart and the time interval between the two points is resolved and related to the distance to give a measure of temperature of the medium between the two points. The point pairs may be naturally occurring, such as the diametrically opposed edges of a fuel element channel in a sodium-cooled nuclear reactor, or specifically provided. The beam may be at glancing incidence on a number of point pairs in line and, in this situation, the beam is wider in the direction transverse to its path than it is along its path.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1985Date of Patent: April 7, 1987Assignee: United Kingdom Atomic Energy AuthorityInventors: James A. McKnight, Iain D. Macleod, Eric J. Burton