Patents by Inventor John D. Reid
John D. Reid 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: 10914044Abstract: A highway crash attenuation system having an improved breakaway guardrail post. An improved upper section of Post 1 has an anchor bearing plate with a cooperating stabilizing bolt engaging with the upstream face of the upper post section. The downstream side of the upper post section is provided with split, spaced-apart strut sections which do not obstruct the rear cable pass through notch.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Safety By Design, Inc.Inventors: John R. Rohde, Dean L. Sicking, King K. Mak, John D. Reid
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Patent number: 10857959Abstract: A crash attenuation system having an improved, controlled axle release mechanism for a truck trailer mounted attenuator. The axle release mechanism has an axle release insert disposed within an outer bursting tube which is urged downstream by a mandrel resulting in controlled shearing of the fasteners passing through different size elongated slots in the insert and retaining the insert within the bursting tube. Differential shear forces cause the fasteners to shear at different times as the insert is urged downstream resulting in a controlled release of the breakaway axle assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Safety By Design, CoInventors: Dean L. Sicking, John R. Rohde, King K. Mak, John D. Reid
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Publication number: 20200217028Abstract: A barrier system (100) includes first and second barrier segments (102) connected to one another such that crash energy is absorbed. The connection between the segments includes a pair of wedge-shaped connectors (202) disposed between angled faces (118) formed at the opposing ends of the segments. Elastic pads (700) are sandwiched between the respective segment faces and connectors (202).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: NUtech Ventures, Inc.Inventors: Scott Kenneth Rosenbaugh, Jennifer Dawn Rasmussen, Ronald Keith Faller, Robert W. Bielenberg, James C. Holloway, Karla Ann Lechtenberg, John D. Reid
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Publication number: 20200130617Abstract: A crash attenuation system having an improved, controlled axle release mechanism for a truck trailer mounted attenuator. The axle release mechanism has an axle release insert disposed within an outer bursting tube which is urged downstream by a mandrel resulting in controlled shearing of the fasteners passing through different size elongated slots in the insert and retaining the insert within the bursting tube. Differential shear forces cause the fasteners to shear at different times as the insert is urged downstream resulting in a controlled release of the breakaway axle assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Dean L. Sicking, John R. Rohde, King K. Mak, John D. Reid
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Publication number: 20190338478Abstract: A highway crash attenuation system having an improved breakaway guardrail post. An improved upper section of Post 1 has an anchor bearing plate with a cooperating stabilizing bolt engaging with the upstream face of the upper post section. The downstream side of the upper post section is provided with split, spaced-apart strut sections which do not obstruct the rear cable pass through notch.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2018Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: John R. Rohde, Dean L. Sicking, King K. Mak, John D. Reid
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Patent number: 10119231Abstract: A highway crash attenuation system having W-beam rail elements attached to a plurality of vertical posts. An impact terminal with a feeder chute guides one or more of the W-beam rail elements through the impact terminal. The feeder chute has an impact shield extending along a traffic-facing side of the chute from an upstream-most end to a downstream-most end of the chute closing the traffic-facing side of the chute. The system also has an anchor cable release mechanism for releasing the cable downstream of the first vertical post and an improved first breakaway post. An improved upper section of Post 1 has an anchor bearing plate with a cooperating stabilizing bolt engaging with the upstream face of the upper post section. The downstream side of the upper post section is provided with split, spaced-apart strut sections which do not obstruct the rear cable pass through notch.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Inventors: John R. Rohde, Dean L. Sicking, King K. Mak, John D. Reid
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Patent number: 9976266Abstract: A structural assembly may include a first prefabricated structural element having a first angled face at an end of the first prefabricated structural element; a second prefabricated structural element having a second angled face at an end of the second prefabricated structural element, the end of the second precast barrier segment connected to the end of the first prefabricated structural element; and a coupling assembly connecting the first angled face of the first prefabricated structural element to the second angled face of the second prefabricated structural element. The coupling assembly provides shear and moment continuity across the first and second prefabricated structural elements. This allows for a variable gap due to manufacturing tolerances, construction tolerances, and/or expansion or contraction.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2016Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: NUTECH VENTURESInventors: Scott K. Rosenbaugh, Jennifer D. Schmidt, Robert Bielenberg, Ronald K. Faller, Karla A. Lechtenberg, John D. Reid, James C. Holloway
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Patent number: 9963844Abstract: A highway crash attenuation system having W-beam rail elements attached to a plurality of vertical posts. An impact terminal with a feeder chute guides one or more of the W-beam rail elements through the impact terminal. The feeder chute has an impact shield extending along a traffic-facing side of the chute from an upstream-most end to a downstream-most end of the chute closing the traffic-facing side of the chute. The system also has an anchor cable release mechanism for releasing the cable downstream of the first vertical post and an improved first breakaway post.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Inventors: John R. Rohde, Dean L. Sicking, King K. Mak, John D. Reid
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Publication number: 20170275837Abstract: A highway crash attenuation system having W-beam rail elements attached to a plurality of vertical posts. An impact terminal with a feeder chute guides one or more of the W-beam rail elements through the impact terminal. The feeder chute has an impact shield extending along a traffic-facing side of the chute from an upstream-most end to a downstream-most end of the chute closing the traffic-facing side of the chute. The system also has an anchor cable release mechanism for releasing the cable downstream of the first vertical post and an improved first breakaway post.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: John R. Rohde, Dean L. Sicking, King K. Mak, John D. Reid
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Patent number: 9732484Abstract: A highway crash attenuation system having W-beam rail elements attached to a plurality of vertical posts. An impact terminal with a feeder chute guides one or more of the W-beam rail elements through the impact terminal. The feeder chute has an impact shield extending along a traffic-facing side of the chute from an upstream-most end to a downstream-most end of the chute closing the traffic-facing side of the chute. The system also has an anchor cable release mechanism for releasing the cable downstream of the first vertical post and an improved first breakaway post.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Inventors: John R. Rohde, John D. Reid, King K. Mak, Dean L. Sicking
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Publication number: 20160265177Abstract: A highway crash attenuation system having W-beam rail elements attached to a plurality of vertical posts. An impact terminal with a feeder chute guides one or more of the W-beam rail elements through the impact terminal. The feeder chute has an impact shield extending along a traffic-facing side of the chute from an upstream-most end to a downstream-most end of the chute closing the traffic-facing side of the chute. The system also has an anchor cable release mechanism for releasing the cable downstream of the first vertical post and an improved first breakaway post.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: Safety By Design, Inc.Inventors: John R. Rohde, John D. Reid, King K. Mak, Dean L. Sicking
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Publication number: 20130256617Abstract: A highway guardrail terminal having horizontally extending guardrail elements mounted on a plurality of vertical posts. An anchor cable release mechanism having a cable release bracket attached to a W-beam rail element by cable release bolts has an arrangement of tapered slots and elongated openings to quickly release the cable release bracket from the W-beam rail element upon end-on vehicular impact to the terminal. The tapered slots have a geometry which lifts the bracket away from and out of a parallel alignment with the W-beam rail element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Inventors: John R. Rohde, Dean L. Sicking, King K. Mak, John D. Reid
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Publication number: 20110127480Abstract: An energy-absorbing post for absorbing the impact energy of an errant vehicle wherein the impact energy is absorbed by out-of-place deformation in the material of the post. Out-of-plane deformation is provided by utilizing a through bolt extending through a splice connection between upper and lower posts sections. Alternatively, out-of-plane deformation is provided by leaving an axial gap on a splice bolts. For terminal applications, a single through-bolt is utilized to allow the upper post section to pivot during end on impacts. Bolt. tear out facilitators, including stress concentrators and pre-buckles, or an angled through-bolt decrease any initially high tear-out forces.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2010Publication date: June 2, 2011Inventors: Dean L. Sicking, John R. Rohde, John D. Reid, King K. Mak
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Publication number: 20100314595Abstract: A guardrail system having a standard length-of-need section and a terminal end, the terminal end having a high effective flare rate of at least 5:1 is provided with two independent and cooperating cable anchor systems. One of the cable anchor systems is a side impact releasing mechanism which may include a strut connecting a first and a second breakaway post; a strut anchor release affixed at a first end to a first breakaway post and at a second end to the rail element; a strut with a plug weld anchor release; a strut with a shear bolt anchor release; and a strut with an angled plate anchor release.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2007Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: John D. Reid, Dean L. Sicking, John R. Rohde, King K. Mak
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Patent number: 7690687Abstract: A trailer mounted crash attenuation system has an impact head assembly, a bursting tubular trailer frame member, and a breakaway axle assembly. Upon impact by a vehicle, the head assembly is urged forward bursting the tubular frame of the trailer. As the impact continues, the head assembly contacts an axle accelerator rod which results in the disengagement of the axle, trailer tire, and fenders from the trailer frame member. Impact energy is dissipated by the controlled deceleration of the vehicle as it moves forward through the attenuator system.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2005Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Safety By Design Co.Inventors: John D. Reid, John R. Rohde, King K. Mak, Dean L. Sicking
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Publication number: 20090242863Abstract: An energy-absorbing post for absorbing the impact energy of an errant vehicle wherein the impact energy is absorbed by out-of-place deformation in the material of the post. Out-of-plane deformation is provided by utilizing a through bolt extending through a splice connection between upper and lower posts sections. Alternatively, out-of-plane deformation is provided by leaving an axial gap on a splice bolts. For terminal applications, a single through-bolt is utilized to allow the upper post section to pivot during end on impacts. Bolt tear out facilitators, including stress concentrators and pre-buckles, or an angled through-bolt decrease any initially high tear-out forces.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Inventors: Dean L. Sicking, John R. Rohde, John D. Reid, King K. Mak
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Publication number: 20080230760Abstract: An energy-absorbing post for absorbing the impact energy of an errant vehicle wherein the impact energy is absorbed by out-of-place deformation in the material of the post. Out-of-plane deformation is provided by utilizing a through bolt extending through a splice connection between upper and lower posts sections. Alternatively, out-of-plane deformation is provided by leaving an axial gap on a splice bolts. For terminal applications, a single through-bolt is utilized to allow the upper post section to pivot during end on impacts. Bolt tear out facilitators, including stress concentrators and pre-buckles, or an angled through-bolt decrease any initially high tear-out forces.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2008Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventors: Dean L. Sicking, John R. Rohde, John D. Reid, King K. Mak
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Patent number: 7410320Abstract: A high-impact, energy-absorbing vehicle barrier system generally includes a substantially rigid outer containment wall coupled via strap assemblies with an energy-absorbing inner impact wall, and energy-absorbing cartridges strategically positioned between the impact wall and containment wall. The impact wall is constructed of a number of tubes coupled with one another to present a substantially smooth, uniform surface to passing vehicles. The energy-absorbing cartridges generally consist of a foam member or a number of foam sheets which compress and crush between the containment wall and impact wall to absorb energy from an errant vehicle striking the face of the impact wall, while the deflection and deformation of the impact wall tubes dissipates additional energy to reduce peak decelerations and mitigate the severity of high-energy vehicular impacts.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2005Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Board of Regents of University of NebraskaInventors: Ronald K. Faller, Dean L. Sicking, John R. Rohde, John D. Reid, Robert W. Bielenberg, James C. Holloway, Karla A. Polivka
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Patent number: 7147088Abstract: A single-sided crash attenuation cushion system having an impact head and three stage energy absorption mechanism. The energy absorbing mechanism has a mandrel for deforming thin-walled tubes in a controlled collapse to absorb impact forces from a colliding vehicle. The third stage of the absorption mechanism includes an additional deformable compressible tube between the fixed-object hazard and the thin walled tubes.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2005Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Inventors: John D. Reid, John R. Rohde, Dean L. Sicking
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Patent number: 7100752Abstract: A crash cushion system to envelop at least one bridge pier. The system has two impact heads, one facing one traffic flow direction and the other facing an opposite traffic flow direction. The heads are connected to multi-stage box beam energy absorbers which are in turn connected to a tubular frame structure which envelops the bridge piers. The frame is spaced apart from the face of the pier sufficiently to avoid an impacting vehicle's snagging the frame and contacting the pier structure. Anchorage cables to stiffen and support the sides of the envelope are positioned inside the frame's parallelogram shape.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2004Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Safety By Design Co.Inventors: John D. Reid, John R. Rohde, Dean L. Sicking, King K. Mak