Patents by Inventor John H. Atkinson

John H. Atkinson 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: 20080257672
    Abstract: A single unit of the new deployment system includes a housing to which an electric drive motor is externally mounted. The deployment system for each vehicle requires at least a pair of deployment units: one each for right and left wheels. Each unit includes a reversable electric drive motor having an armature shaft; an intermediate drive shaft; a worm axially affixed to the intermediate drive shaft; an output shaft; a shock damper affixed to the output shaft; a worm gear affixed to the shock damper, the worm gear meshing with the worm, and providing rotational locking for said output shaft; and a deployment arm coupled to the output shaft, the deployment arm having rotatably mounted thereto a friction drive disc, said friction drive disc having peripherally attached thereto a plurality of chain segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Fred P. Smith, John H. Atkinson
  • Patent number: 5079431
    Abstract: A simulator and method of testing a sensor wherein an electron gun mounted n a vacuum chamber directs a stream of electronic onto a target plate made up of a heat sink backing sheet and a heat insulating coating sheet adhered to the backing layer to form small hot spots on the coating sheet. The target plate may be a sheet of copper to which is adhered a coating layer of glass or a sheet of aluminum to which is adhered a coating layer of aluminum oxide. Infrared radiation from the hot spots is collimated and passed through an optical system which forms an image of the hot spots on the sensor to be tested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: John H. Atkinson, Robert L. Caswell
  • Patent number: 4189602
    Abstract: In the copper catalysed oxidation of p-toluic acid to meta-cresol at an elevated temperature the problem of acid sublimation is avoided by oxidizing the para-toluic acid in admixture with benzoic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1980
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
    Inventor: John H. Atkinson