Patents by Inventor James Hanks

James Hanks 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: 12348066
    Abstract: A charger including a vertical section including a first surface, the first surface facing a front direction and including an attachment portion configured to a receive a battery pack, and a horizontal section configured to protrude, in the front direction, from a bottom portion of the vertical section. The charger further including a second surface disposed on the horizontal section, the second surface facing an upward direction, and a fan disposed proximate the horizontal surface, the fan configured to cool the battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Techtronic Cordless GP
    Inventors: Ece Polat, Adam Zwilling, Nicolas James Hanks, Shiyi Zhang, Krishna Sai Teja Kalavala, John Robert Lyons
  • Publication number: 20240235226
    Abstract: A charger including a vertical section including a first surface, the first surface facing a front direction and including an attachment portion configured to a receive a battery pack, and a horizontal section configured to protrude, in the front direction, from a bottom portion of the vertical section. The charger further including a second surface disposed on the horizontal section, the second surface facing an upward direction, and a fan disposed proximate the horizontal surface, the fan configured to cool the battery pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Ece Polat, Adam Zwilling, Nicolas James Hanks, Shiyi Zhang, Krishna Sai Teja Kalavala
  • Publication number: 20240136836
    Abstract: A charger including a vertical section including a first surface, the first surface facing a front direction and including an attachment portion configured to a receive a battery pack, and a horizontal section configured to protrude, in the front direction, from a bottom portion of the vertical section. The charger further including a second surface disposed on the horizontal section, the second surface facing an upward direction, and a fan disposed proximate the horizontal surface, the fan configured to cool the battery pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Ece Polat, Adam Zwilling, Nicolas James Hanks, Shiyi Zhang, Krishna Sai Teja Kalavala
  • Patent number: 10744725
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for utilizing support tools for forming laminates. One embodiment is a system that includes a pair of dies that hold a multi-layer laminate over a gap, a male die that presses the laminate into the gap causing the laminate to change shape, and a support tool inserted into the gap beneath the laminate. The support tool includes a base that extends in a lengthwise direction, struts fixedly attached to the base that project upward from the base and are distributed along the lengthwise direction, and a cap that is slidably attached to the struts, and that covers the struts to form an upper surface of the support tool. Each of the struts rises from the base to the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Dennis James Hanks
  • Patent number: 10696232
    Abstract: A split deck rail system including a front railing section and a rear railing section. The front railing section may include at least two vertical posts and at least two horizontal rail segments that extend to termination ends having attachment tabs. The rear railing section includes at least one vertical post, an angled rail segment, and at least two horizontal rail segments that also extend to termination end having attachment tabs. The attachment tabs may be attached to a boom rest. For instance, the boom rest may also include tabs that the various attachments tabs can be attached to. The split deck rail system can also include corresponding deck sections that an operator can stand on. Additionally, the split deck rail may include a ladder that an operator can walk up to get to the deck sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Blaine A. Schwalbe, James Hanke
  • Patent number: 10473258
    Abstract: A locking stand for use with a boom associated with an agricultural machine. The locking stand includes a stand base and a locking arm that is movably attached to the stand base. The stand base may include a stand body with a stand base lower section and a stand base upper section. The lower section is configured to engage a support surface and the upper section supports the sprayer boom arm. The locking arm is movable between an open position for locking the sprayer boom in the locking boom stand. A hook arrangement associated with both the locking arm and the stand base upper section may be used to lock the boom stand relative to the boom. More specifically, the hook arrangement may include a stand base hook associated with the stand base upper section and a locking arm hook associated with the locking arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Brian Pilney, Josh Perrone, James Hanke
  • Publication number: 20190154189
    Abstract: A locking stand for use with a boom associated with an agricultural machine. The locking stand includes a stand base and a locking arm that is movably attached to the stand base. The stand base may include a stand body with a stand base lower section and a stand base upper section. The lower section is configured to engage a support surface and the upper section supports the sprayer boom arm. The locking arm is movable between an open position for locking the sprayer boom in the locking boom stand. A hook arrangement associated with both the locking arm and the stand base upper section may be used to lock the boom stand relative to the boom. More specifically, the hook arrangement may include a stand base hook associated with the stand base upper section and a locking arm hook associated with the locking arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Brian Pilney, Josh Perrone, James Hanke
  • Publication number: 20190143902
    Abstract: A split deck rail system including a front railing section and a rear railing section. The front railing section may include at least two vertical posts and at least two horizontal rail segments that extend to termination ends having attachment tabs. The rear railing section includes at least one vertical post, an angled rail segment, and at least two horizontal rail segments that also extend to termination end having attachment tabs. The attachment tabs may be attached to a boom rest. For instance, the boom rest may also include tabs that the various attachments tabs can be attached to. The split deck rail system can also include corresponding deck sections that an operator can stand on. Additionally, the split deck rail may include a ladder that an operator can walk up to get to the deck sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Blaine A. Schwalbe, James Hanke
  • Publication number: 20170348919
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for utilizing support tools for forming laminates. One embodiment is a system that includes a pair of dies that hold a multi-layer laminate over a gap, a male die that presses the laminate into the gap causing the laminate to change shape, and a support tool inserted into the gap beneath the laminate. The support tool includes a base that extends in a lengthwise direction, struts fixedly attached to the base that project upward from the base and are distributed along the lengthwise direction, and a cap that is slidably attached to the struts, and that covers the struts to form an upper surface of the support tool. Each of the struts rises from the base to the cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventor: Dennis James Hanks
  • Patent number: 9738011
    Abstract: A fiber preform is infused with two differing resin systems concurrently using stacked resin delivery assemblies located along one edge of the preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Dennis James Hanks, Hugh A. Yap
  • Patent number: 9579873
    Abstract: An area of a structure is reworked from one side of the structure using resin infusion of a dry fiber patch. Entrapped air and excess resin is removed from the patch during the infusion process by inserting a vacuum device into the patch, and forcing the area resin through the vacuum device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Dennis James Hanks, Jack A. Woods
  • Publication number: 20150336294
    Abstract: A fiber preform is infused with two differing resin systems concurrently using stacked resin delivery assemblies located along one edge of the preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Dennis James Hanks, Hugh A. Yap
  • Patent number: 8945321
    Abstract: An area of a structure is reworked using resin infusion of a fiber preform. A resin flow hole is formed through the structure from a first side of the structure to a second side of the structure. The fiber preform is placed on the first side of the structure and substantially saturated with resin by flowing resin into the preform and out through the resin flow hole to the second side of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Dennis James Hanks, Jack Allen Woods, Gregory Robert Gleason
  • Publication number: 20130302547
    Abstract: A material comprises a first layer that includes a thermoplastic polymer having a microstructure that includes a plurality of closed cells, each cell containing a void and each cell having a maximum dimension extending across the void within the cell that ranges between 1 micrometer and 200 micrometers long. The material also includes a second layer including a thermoplastic polymer having a microstructure that includes a plurality of closed cells, each cell containing a void and each cell having a maximum dimension extending across the void within the cell that ranges between 1 micrometer and 200 micrometers long. The material also includes an interface layer formed by fusion bonding the first layer to the second layer, the interface layer having a microstructure that includes a plurality of closed cells, each cell containing a void and each cell having a maximum dimension extending across the void within the cell that is at least 100 micrometers long.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Krishna V. Nadella, Vipin Kumar, Xiaoxi Wang, James Hanks
  • Patent number: 8469597
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the preload of duplex rolling element bearings systems under various temperatures is described. A spacer or a plurality of spacers may be located adjacent to the rings of the duplex rolling element bearings. The spacer or spacers may be heated or cooled to increase or decrease the axial dimension of the spacer or spacers. Changing the axial dimension of the spacers changes the preload of the duplex rolling element bearing system. The preload of the system may be estimated by receiving an input from a sensor or sensors located on the duplex rolling element bearings system. The sensor may be a temperature sensor or a force transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Wayne Smith, James Hanks
  • Publication number: 20120305169
    Abstract: An area of a structure is reworked using resin infusion of a fiber preform. A resin flow hole is formed through the structure from a first side of the structure to a second side of the structure. The fiber preform is placed on the first side of the structure and substantially saturated with resin by flowing resin into the preform and out through the resin flow hole to the second side of the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Dennis James Hanks, Jack Allen Woods, Gregory Robert Gleason
  • Publication number: 20090263062
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the preload of duplex rolling element bearings systems under various temperatures is described. A spacer or a plurality of spacers may be located adjacent to the rings of the duplex rolling element bearings. The spacer or spacers may be heated or cooled to increase or decrease the axial dimension of the spacer or spacers. Changing the axial dimension of the spacers changes the preload of the duplex rolling element bearing system. The preload of the system may be estimated by receiving an input from a sensor or sensors located on the duplex rolling element bearings system. The sensor may be a temperature sensor or a force transducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Dennis Wayne Smith, James Hanks
  • Publication number: 20060042697
    Abstract: A valve is provided for use on a control moment gyroscope (CMG) having a housing separating an internal environment from an external environment. The valve includes a valve housing, a valve element, and bellows. The valve housing is configured to couple to the CMG housing and includes an inner surface defining a cavity, an outer surface, and an opening extending therebetween. The valve element is disposed within the valve housing cavity and is movable between a closed position, in which fluid is prevented from flowing through the valve housing opening, and an open position, in which fluid may flow through the valve housing opening. The bellows is disposed within the valve housing and coupled to the valve element and has an internal chamber. The bellows selectively moves the valve element closed and open in response to a differential pressure between the bellows internal chamber and the valve housing cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Gary Gisler, James Hanks, Carlos Stevens, Robert Winkel