Patents by Inventor James H. Rooney, III
James H. Rooney, III 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: 9440717Abstract: A hull cleaning robot includes at least one cleaning apparatus for cleaning the hull of a vessel, at least one drive track holding the robot on the hull as the robot maneuvers about the hull, and at least one turbine actuatable by water flowing past the hull for operating the at least one drive track and, optionally, the cleaning apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2008Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: James H. Rooney, III, Jonathan T. Longley, Joel N. Harris, Fraser Smith, Stephen C. Jacobsen
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Patent number: 9254898Abstract: A hull robot includes a turbine subsystem actuatable by fluid moving past the hull, a drive subsystem for maneuvering the robot about the hull, and an adjustment subsystem for either the turbine subsystem or the drive subsystem. A controller is configured to operate the adjustment subsystem to adjust the position of the turret subsystem relative to the drive subsystem until fluid flowing past the hull results in an optimal flow of fluid with respect to the turbine subsystem.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2009Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: James H. Rooney, III, Timothy I. Mann, Howard R. Kornstein, Joel N. Harris, Jonathan T. Longley, Scott H. Allen
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Patent number: 9233724Abstract: A hull robot includes a robot body, at least one drive module for maneuvering the robot about the hull, an on-board power source, and a motive subsystem for the drive module powered by the on-board power source. A plurality of permanent magnet elements are associated with the drive module and each are switchable between a non-shunted state when adjacent the hull and a shunted state when not adjacent the hull.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Howard R. Kornstein, James H Rooney, III, Jeremy C. Hermann, Jonathan T. Longley, Joel N. Harris, Wen-te Wu
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Patent number: 8771201Abstract: A bolus for insertion in a body fluid includes a housing, a chamber in the housing admitting body fluid therein, and a transducer in the housing providing a signal through the body fluid for measuring the pH level and/or temperature of the body fluid. The transducer also generates a signal in response to vibrations to detecting one or more additional physiological parameters.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2010Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Vital Herd, Inc.Inventors: Karim M. Gabriel, James H. Rooney, III, Charles M. Ciany, Robert L. Lescanec
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Publication number: 20140090906Abstract: A hull robot includes a robot body, at least one drive module for maneuvering the robot about the hull, an on-board power source, and a motive subsystem for the drive module powered by the on-board power source. A plurality of permanent magnet elements are associated with the drive module and each are switchable between a non-shunted state when adjacent the hull and a shunted state when not adjacent the hull.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Howard R. Kornstein, James H. Rooney, III, Jeremy C. Hermann, Jonathan T. Longley, Joel N. Harris, Wen-te Wu
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Patent number: 8393421Abstract: A hull robot includes a robot body, at least one drive module for maneuvering the robot about the hull, an on-board power source, and a motive subsystem for the drive module powered by the on-board power source. A plurality of permanent magnet elements are associated with the drive module and each are switchable between a non-shunted state when adjacent the hull and a shunted state when not adjacent the hull.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Howard R. Kornstein, James H. Rooney, III, Jeremy C. Hermann, Jonathan T. Longley, Joel N. Harris, Wen-Te Wu
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Patent number: 8393286Abstract: A vessel hull robot garage includes a stowage compartment for stowing a hull robot and a rotation system for rotating the stowage compartment relative to the vessel between a launch/recovery attitude and a stowed position.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: James H. Rooney, III, Jonathan T. Longley, Brian R. Boule
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Patent number: 8386112Abstract: A vessel hull robot navigation subsystem and method for a robot including a drive subsystem onboard the robot for driving the robot about the hull. A sensor subsystem onboard the robot outputs data combining robot and vessel motion. A memory onboard the robot includes data concerning the configuration of the hull and a desired path of travel for the robot. A fix subsystem communicates position fix data to the robot. A navigation processor onboard the robot is responsive to the memory data, the sensor subsystem, the position fix data, and the data concerning vessel motion. The navigation processor is configured to determine the position of the robot on the hull by canceling, form the sensor subsystem output data combining both robot and vessel motion, the determined vessel motion.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: James H. Rooney, III, Stephen C. Jacobsen, Fraser Smith
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Patent number: 8342281Abstract: A robot drive system preferably used for a vessel hull cleaning and/or inspection robot includes a first frame portion rotatably supporting a first axle with a first wheel thereon, and a second frame portion rotatably supporting a second axle with a second wheel thereon. A joint connects the first frame portion to the second frame portion and defines an expendable and contractible portion between the first frame portion and second frame portion. An actuator subsystem is configured expand and contract the expandable and contractible portion to move the first frame portion relative to the second frame portion at the joint to angle the first axle relative to the second axle to steer the robot.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: James H. Rooney, III, Jonathan T. Longley, Scott Allen
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Publication number: 20110301437Abstract: A bolus for insertion in a body fluid includes a housing, a chamber in the housing admitting body fluid therein, and a transducer in the housing providing a signal through the body fluid for measuring the pH level and/or temperature of the body fluid. The transducer also generates a signal in response to vibrations to detecting one or more additional physiological parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2010Publication date: December 8, 2011Inventors: Karim M. Gabriel, James H. Rooney, III, Charles M. Ciany, Robert L. Lescanec
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Publication number: 20110282536Abstract: A vessel hull robot navigation subsystem and method for a robot including a drive subsystem onboard the robot for driving the robot about the hull. A sensor subsystem onboard the robot outputs data combining robot and vessel motion. A memory onboard the robot includes data concerning the configuration of the hull and a desired path of travel for the robot. A fix subsystem communicates position fix data to the robot. A navigation processor onboard the robot is responsive to the memory data, the sensor subsystem, the position fix data, and the data concerning vessel motion. The navigation processor is configured to determine the position of the robot on the hull by canceling, form the sensor subsystem output data combining both robot and vessel motion, the determined vessel motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2010Publication date: November 17, 2011Inventor: James H. Rooney, III
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Publication number: 20110083599Abstract: A hull robot includes a robot body, at least one drive module for maneuvering the robot about the hull, an on-board power source, and a motive subsystem for the drive module powered by the on-board power source. A plurality of permanent magnet elements are associated with the drive module and each are switchable between a non-shunted state when adjacent the hull and a shunted state when not adjacent the hull.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2009Publication date: April 14, 2011Inventors: Howard R. Kornstein, James H. Rooney, III, Jeremy C. Hermann, Jonathan T. Longley, Joel N. Harris, Wen-Te Wu
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Publication number: 20110067615Abstract: A vessel hull robot garage includes a stowage compartment for stowing a hull robot and a rotation system for rotating the stowage compartment relative to the vessel between a launch/recovery attitude and a stowed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2009Publication date: March 24, 2011Inventors: James H. Rooney, III, Jonathan T. Longley, Brian R. Boule
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Publication number: 20100219003Abstract: A robot drive system preferably used for a vessel hull cleaning and/or inspection robot includes a first frame portion rotatably supporting a first axle with a first wheel thereon, and a second frame portion rotatably supporting a second axle with a second wheel thereon. A joint connects the first frame portion to the second frame portion and defines an expendable and contractible portion between the first frame portion and second frame portion. An actuator subsystem is configured expand and contract the expandable and contractible portion to move the first frame portion relative to the second frame portion at the joint to angle the first axle relative to the second axle to steer the robot.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Inventors: James H. Rooney, III, Jonathan T. Longley, Scott Allen
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Publication number: 20100131098Abstract: A hull robot includes a turbine subsystem actuatable by fluid moving past the hull, a drive subsystem for maneuvering the robot about the hull, and an adjustment subsystem for either the turbine subsystem or the drive subsystem. A controller is configured to operate the adjustment subsystem to adjust the position of the turret subsystem relative to the drive subsystem until fluid flowing past the hull results in an optimal flow of fluid with respect to the turbine subsystem.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2009Publication date: May 27, 2010Inventors: James H. Rooney, III, Timothy I. Mann, Howard R. Kornstein, Joel N. Harris, Jonathan T. Longley, Scott H. Allen
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Publication number: 20100126403Abstract: A hull cleaning robot includes at least one cleaning apparatus for cleaning the hull of a vessel, at least one drive track holding the robot on the hull as the robot maneuvers about the hull, and at least one turbine actuatable by water flowing past the hull for operating the at least one drive track and, optionally, the cleaning apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2008Publication date: May 27, 2010Inventors: James H. Rooney, III, Jonathan T. Longley, Joel N. Harris, Fraser Smith, Stephen C. Jacobsen
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Patent number: 7486591Abstract: Low probability of marine mammal impact (LPMMI) sound signals have a modulation component selected to reduce a behavioral response from a marine mammal from that which would occur when transmitting another sound signal having approximately the same time duration component, approximately the same bandwidth component, and approximately the same center frequency component as the LPMMI waveform but having a modulation component comprising a frequency modulation.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2006Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: James H. Rooney, III, Jesse T. Gratke, Ryan J. Lewis, Michael F. Janik, Thomas B. Pederson, William C. Zurawski, James H. Miller
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Patent number: 4220115Abstract: An apparatus for spray marking lumber boards with paint at predetermined locations while they are being conveyed past the device for further processing. A tachometer and a photoelectric unit are employed for determining the location and speed of the board. A solenoid-operated paint sprayer is used to deliver the paint to the boards. Electronic control circuitry is provided to activate the paint sprayer and properly coordinate the operation of paint sprayer with the location and speed of the board so the board is marked at the desired locations.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1978Date of Patent: September 2, 1980Assignee: Armstrong Cork CompanyInventors: William C. Brossman, Joseph G. McElhaney, James H. Rooney, III