Patents by Inventor Joseph Alan Incavo
Joseph Alan Incavo 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: 10737539Abstract: A method for making a compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10 has the steps of co-extruding a barrier strip 9 of non-sealant elastomeric material with a plurality of projecting linear extending walls 9c and a sealant strip 11 wherein the sealant strip 11 is formed on one side of the barrier strip 9 filling the space between the plurality of projecting walls 9c to form a plurality of linearly extending rows of sealant 11 across the transverse width of the co-extrusion to form the compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10. The step of co-extruding may further include the step of: forming the projecting walls 9c on an inclined angle relative to a plane perpendicular to the width of the assembly 10.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Michael Charles Ruegg, Jr., Ernest Wilford Looman, Jr., Donald Edward Helle, Patrick David Marks, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Joseph Alan Incavo, James Earl Koerner, Terrence Lee Parsons, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Warren James Busch, Timothy Patrick Lovell
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Patent number: 10190380Abstract: Embodiments of a method for monitoring an annular packer are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for monitoring a sealing element of a blowout preventer may include providing a fluid to a chamber disposed within a blowout preventer to actuate a piston disposed within the chamber, wherein the actuation of the piston causes a reduction of an inner diameter of a sealing element; measuring one or more parameters of the fluid via a sensor; receiving data relating to the one or more parameters from the sensor; determining a stiffness of the sealing element utilizing the data relating to the one or more parameters; and determining an amount of degradation of the sealing element by comparing the determined stiffness of the sealing element to a known data profile.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2014Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Deepak Trivedi, William Lyle Carbaugh, Gregory Ronald Gillette, Joseph Alan Incavo, Weina Ge
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Publication number: 20180079264Abstract: A method for making a compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10 has the steps of co-extruding a barrier strip 9 of non-sealant elastomeric material with a plurality of projecting linear extending walls 9c and a sealant strip 11 wherein the sealant strip 11 is formed on one side of the barrier strip 9 filling the space between the plurality of projecting walls 9c to form a plurality of linearly extending rows of sealant 11 across the transverse width of the co-extrusion to form the compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10. The step of co-extruding may further include the step of: forming the projecting walls 9c on an inclined angle relative to a plane perpendicular to the width of the assembly 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Michael Charles Ruegg, Ernest Wilford Looman, Donald Edward Helle, Patrick David Marks, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Joseph Alan Incavo, James Earl Koerner, Terrence Lee Parsons, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Warren James Busch, Timothy Patrick Lovell
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Patent number: 9844982Abstract: A method for making a compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10 has the steps of co-extruding a barrier strip 9 of non-sealant elastomeric material with a plurality of projecting linear extending walls 9c and a sealant strip 11 wherein the sealant strip 11 is formed on one side of the barrier strip 9 filling the space between the plurality of projecting walls 9c to form a plurality of linearly extending rows of sealant 11 across the transverse width of the co-extrusion to form the compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10. The step of co-extruding may further include the step of: forming the projecting walls 9c on an inclined angle relative to a plane perpendicular to the width of the assembly 10.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Michael Charles Ruegg, Jr., Ernest Wilford Looman, Jr., Donald Edward Helle, Patrick David Marks, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Joseph Alan Incavo, James Earl Koerner, Terrence Lee Parsons, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Warren James Busch, Timothy Patrick Lovell
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Patent number: 9616713Abstract: A composite material comprises a plurality of springs forming a structure embedded within a polymer. Each spring is interwoven with at least one other spring thereby forming an entirely polymer-coated structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Joseph Carmine Lettieri, James Alfred Benzing, II, Cheng-Hsiung Lin, Joseph Alan Incavo, Robert Bruce Coleman
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Patent number: 9580988Abstract: A variable ram packer has an elastomeric body having a central semi-cylindrical recess and wings extending from opposite lateral sides of the recess. Inserts are positioned around the recess, each having an upper plate, a lower plate and a web joining the plates. Inserts at the junction with the wings have barrier plates between and parallel with the upper and lower plates. Upper and lower wing plates are located on upper and lower surfaces of the wings. An adhesive layer on an outer portion of each of the wing plates bonds the wing plates to the elastomer of the body. Each wing plate has an inner portion in abutment with the elastomer and free of the adhesive layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: HYDRIL USA DISTRIBUTION LLCInventors: Julia Anne Bleck, Aaron John Mashue, Joseph Alan Incavo, Wayne Harvey, Deepak Trivedi
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Publication number: 20150115535Abstract: Embodiments of a seal having a variable elastic modulus are provided herein. In one embodiment, a seal having a variable elastic modulus includes: a body fabricated from an elastomeric material; a channel formed within the body; a tube disposed within the channel, the tube comprising a plurality of interwoven fibers; and an inlet formed in an outer surface of the body, the inlet fluidly coupled to an inner volume of the tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Deepak Trivedi, Gregory Ronald Gillette, Joseph Alan Incavo
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Publication number: 20150053324Abstract: The present invention relates to pneumatic tires having a laminated innerliner with reinforced splice. The laminated innerliner is a pre-formed laminate comprised of an innerliner film which contains an RFL adhesive coating on both sides for which the innerliner film is cohesively bonded through the RFL adhesive to an uncured tire rubber carcass ply. The uncured splice is comprised of overlapping end portions of the uncured laminated innerliner cohesively bonded together through the RFL adhesive which provides building tack. The uncured splice is reinforced by a an uncured rubber strip cohesively bonded to the laminate by the building tack-providing RFL adhesive for which the strip abridges, the overlapping end portions of the splice, or is sandwiched between the overlapped end portions of the splice, to form a cohesively bonded composite. The assembly, or composite, thereof is cured to adhesively bond the splice and rubber strip together.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Byoung Jo Lee, John Fleming Brainerd, II, Philip Alan Dunker, Joseph Alan Incavo, Brandon Clifford Goad
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Publication number: 20140183381Abstract: A variable ram assembly for use in a blowout preventer (BOP) stack includes a packer element. The packer element includes an elastomeric body having a contact surface configured with a curved recess for sealing engaging a tubular. Fibers are included in the body adjacent the contact surface that exert a restraining force to prevent extrusion of the elastomeric body when it is forced against the tubular. The fibers are integrally formed in the body and may be woven into a fabric, which is disposed into a packer element mold along with uncured elastomer before forming the body. The fabric can be coated with an elastomer to bond with the body during the forming process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Hydril USA Manufacturing LLCInventors: William L. Carbaugh, Joseph Alan Incavo, Arturo Caballero
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Publication number: 20140183382Abstract: A variable ram assembly for use in a blowout preventer (BOP) stack includes a packer element. The packer element includes an elastomeric body having a contact surface configured with a curved recess for sealing engaging a tubular. At least a portion of the body adjacent the contact surface is reinforced to define a reinforced area. The reinforced area exerts a restraining force to prevent extrusion of the elastomeric body when it is forced against the tubular. The reinforced area is integrally formed with the body using a molding process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Hydril USA Manufacturing LLCInventors: William L. Carbaugh, Joseph Alan Incavo, Arturo Caballero, Eugene Chauviere
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Publication number: 20140060718Abstract: A method for making a compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10 has the steps of co-extruding a barrier strip 9 of non-sealant elastomeric material with a plurality of projecting linear extending walls 9c and a sealant strip 11 wherein the sealant strip 11 is formed on one side of the barrier strip 9 filling the space between the plurality of projecting walls 9c to form a plurality of linearly extending rows of sealant 11 across the transverse width of the co-extrusion to form the compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10. The step of co-extruding may further include the step of: forming the projecting walls 9c on an inclined angle relative to a plane perpendicular to the width of the assembly 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Michael Charles Ruegg, JR., Ernest Wilford Looman, JR., Donald Edward Helle, Patrick David Marks, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Joseph Alan Incavo, James Earl Koerner, Terrence Lee Parsons, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Warren James Busch, Timothy Patrick Lovell
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Patent number: 8617334Abstract: A method for making a compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10 has the steps of co-extruding a barrier strip 9 of non-sealant elastomeric material with a plurality of projecting linear extending walls 9c and a sealant strip 11 wherein the sealant strip 11 is formed on one side of the barrier strip 9 filling the space between the plurality of projecting walls 9c to form a plurality of linearly extending rows of sealant 11 across the transverse width of the co-extrusion to form the compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Michael Charles Ruegg, Jr., Ernest Wilford Looman, Jr., Donald Edward Helle, Patrick David Marks, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Joseph Alan Incavo, James Earl Koerner, Terrence Lee Parsons, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Warren James Busch, Timothy Patrick Lovell
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Patent number: 8597449Abstract: A method for recovering uncured rubber from unused electron beam pre-cured rubber stock used in the manufacture of pneumatic tires. A first layer of the pre-cured rubber stock having cured rubber is skived with a band knife cutter blade from a second layer of the pre-cured rubber stock having uncured rubber. The band knife cutter blade is lubricated so as to avoid adhesion of the uncured rubber to a leading cutting edge of the cutter blade. After the first layer of cured rubber is removed from the pre-cured rubber stock, the uncured rubber in the second layer is reworked into at least one tire component.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Joseph Alan Incavo, Kathleen Marie Deren, Warren James Busch
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Publication number: 20130269851Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to pneumatic tires having a pre-formed multi-layered air barrier layer innerliner.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventor: Joseph Alan Incavo
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Patent number: 8534331Abstract: The present invention relates to a tire containing a layered composite of sealant and air permeation resistant film, particularly a non-elastomeric film.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Laurent Roger André Dubos, Annette Lechtenbochmer, Giorgio Agostini, Joseph Alan Incavo
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Publication number: 20130146195Abstract: The present invention relates to a tire containing a layered composite of sealant and air permeation resistant film, particularly a non-elastomeric film.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Inventors: Laurent Roger Andre Dubos, Annette Lechtenbochmer, Giorgio Agostini, Joseph Alan Incavo
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Patent number: 8430142Abstract: An assembly for use in or on a tire. The assembly comprises an electronic device having a body and an adhesive coating on at least the body of the electronic device. The body is at least partially made of a plastic material or a fiber reinforced plastic (FRP). The adhesive coating comprises an imide-based adhesive. The adhesive coating may have a polymer bonding group comprising at least one of natural rubber, butyl rubber, a chlorinated elastomer, polybutadiene, synthetic polyisoprene, or styrene-butadiene rubber or a combination thereof. In one embodiment, the assembly further comprises a first elastomeric layer and a second elastomeric layer. The adhesive coating secures the body to the first and the second elastomeric layers. The first and second elastomeric layers may comprise a butyl-containing compound or natural rubber compound. In one embodiment, the electronic device is a radio frequency identification tag having the body and an antenna.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Joseph Alan Incavo, Warren James Busch, Gary Edwin Tubb
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Publication number: 20130061995Abstract: A method for making a compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10 has the steps of co-extruding a barrier strip 9 of non-sealant elastomeric material with a plurality of projecting linear extending walls 9c and a sealant strip 11 wherein the sealant strip 11 is formed on one side of the barrier strip 9 filling the space between the plurality of projecting walls 9c to form a plurality of linearly extending rows of sealant 11 across the transverse width of the co-extrusion to form the compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANYInventors: Michael Charles Ruegg, JR., Ernest Wilford Looman, JR., Donald Edward Helle, Patrick David Marks, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Joseph Alan Incavo, James Earl Koerner, Terrence Lee Parsons, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Warren James Busch, Timothy Patrick Lovell
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Publication number: 20120279626Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to pneumatic tires having a pre-formed multi-layered air barrier layer innerliner.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Inventor: Joseph Alan Incavo
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Patent number: 8293049Abstract: The present invention relates to a tire puncture sealant and a pneumatic tire containing such puncture sealant as a built-in puncture sealant. The sealant composition contains silica reinforcement and butyl rubber depolymerized in the presence of a balanced and cooperative combination of organoperoxides comprised of a minor amount of 4,4-di(tertiary butylperoxy) valerate depolymerization initiator and a major amount of dicumyl peroxide depolymerization propagator, the combination of which has been observed to have a synergistic effect.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventor: Joseph Alan Incavo