Patents by Inventor James E. Rau

James E. Rau 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).

  • Publication number: 20030137059
    Abstract: A slotted file is created by connecting two side walls and a back wall. The side walls have etched grooves facing directly across from each other. The platelet has flanges that fit into the grooves. In one embodiment, a completed cube is formed when the platelets fill the slotted file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Gerard J. Sullivan, James E. Rau, Larry R. Adkins, A. James Hughes
  • Patent number: 4307690
    Abstract: A speed regulator or governor for an engine. The governor utilizes the approximate digital equivalent of a lead and a lag feedback network in combination with a stored, digital, nonlinear look-up table, or other nonlinear means, to control engine speed. The governor controls the engine at different fixed engine speeds in response to demand, or at continuously variable engine speeds in response to demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1981
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventors: James E. Rau, Rogell VanWyk
  • Patent number: 3967862
    Abstract: In an anti-skid type control system for automotive vehicles, apparatus for maintaining wheel slip in a region of values associated with a maximum coefficient of road friction. Periodic modulation of the wheel brake torque in conjunction with wheel acceleration measurement are employed to determine the variation of the coefficient of road friction from an optimum value, while integral-plus-proportional control of the pulse modulation allows compensatory variation of the wheel torque and slip condition to a condition providing the optimum coefficient of road friction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1976
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon E. Hunter, James E. Rau, Rogell Van Wyk
  • Patent number: 3930688
    Abstract: An anti-skid control system for decreasing braking distance performance of a braked wheeled vehicle while maintaining the lateral stability thereof. The system is comprised of a digital data logic processor responsive to only wheel deceleration and wheel velocity of the braked vehicle for iteratively or alternatively preselectively attenuating and restoring an applied brake fluid pressure, so as to cause the brake system performance to track the knee of the road-torque versus wheel velocity envelope as a function of time. The only parameters employed are wheel deceleration, wheel velocity and mode time for mode-switching between the several control modes (selective brake pressure attenuation and restoration) employed, while the modes themselves include preselective time-scheduling of the respective brake pressure attenuation and restoration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1976
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventors: James E. Rau, Rogell Van Wyk, George A. Watson