Patents by Inventor Kenneth J. Freeman

Kenneth J. Freeman 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: 9815569
    Abstract: A computer apparatus and method to determine aircraft fuel mileage performance. The computer apparatus including a memory and a processor disposed in communication with the memory and configured to issue a plurality of instructions stored in the memory. The instructions issue signals to receive real-time aircraft data during aircraft flight and process the real-time data to determine real-time aircraft mass data. A calculation is performed to determine the real-time fuel mileage performance for the aircraft based upon determined real-time aircraft mass data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Rosemount Aerospace Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Horsager, Michael Haukom, William Baumgarten, Matthew J. Hansen, Kenneth J. Freeman
  • Publication number: 20160349745
    Abstract: A computer apparatus and method to determine aircraft fuel mileage performance. The computer apparatus including a memory and a processor disposed in communication with the memory and configured to issue a plurality of instructions stored in the memory. The instructions issue signals to receive real-time aircraft data during aircraft flight and process the real-time data to determine real-time aircraft mass data. A calculation is performed to determine the real-time fuel mileage performance for the aircraft based upon determined real-time aircraft mass data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas J. Horsager, Michael Haukom, William Baumgarten, Matthew J. Hansen, Kenneth J. Freeman
  • Patent number: 8979048
    Abstract: An assembly includes an adapter portion configured for attachment to a rear surface of an electronic display device and a base portion configured to be mounted to a fixed structure in the cockpit of an aircraft. The adapter portion has a cylindrical barrel portion having a plurality of circumferentially disposed radially outwardly extending keys, a first radially inwardly extending recess corresponding to a landscape position of the display device and a second radially inwardly extending recess corresponding to a portrait position of the display device. The base portion includes an upper surface with a circular reception port formed therein for receiving the barrel portion of the adapter portion, and the reception port has a plurality of radially outwardly extending circumferentially disposed keyways formed therein for receiving the plurality of keys on the barrel portion of the adapter portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Rosemount Aerospace Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew A. Tschann, Kenneth J. Freeman
  • Publication number: 20140346296
    Abstract: An assembly includes an adapter portion configured for attachment to a rear surface of an electronic display device and a base portion configured to be mounted to a fixed structure in the cockpit of an aircraft. The adapter portion has a cylindrical barrel portion having a plurality of circumferentially disposed radially outwardly extending keys, a first radially inwardly extending recess corresponding to a landscape position of the display device and a second radially inwardly extending recess corresponding to a portrait position of the display device. The base portion includes an upper surface with a circular reception port formed therein for receiving the barrel portion of the adapter portion, and the reception port has a plurality of radially outwardly extending circumferentially disposed keyways formed therein for receiving the plurality of keys on the barrel portion of the adapter portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Matthew A. Tschann, Kenneth J. Freeman
  • Patent number: 7031871
    Abstract: A temperature sensor is provided with at least two thermometers or temperature sensing elements that have different recovery factors, and which are in the same airflow. The recovery factors for the respective thermometers are determined for the sensor and stored in a memory of a processor. The temperature measured by each of the thermometers is provided to the processor, and the processor establishes ratios using the recovery factors and measured temperatures to determine total temperature and static temperature of the airflow in which the thermometers are placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Rosemount Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: John A. Severson, Kenneth J. Freeman, Dennis J. Cronin
  • Patent number: 5362243
    Abstract: An air data module connector and filter that provides a shielded housing 12 for supporting a standard air data signal carrying cable connector 22 on an exterior wall thereof, and having an access opening that has a cover plate 34 on an opposite wall from the mounting wall for the connector. The cover plate 34 has a plurality of tubular filters 36 installed therein with pins 40 extending into the housing toward the cable connector. A flexible circuit board 44 has opposite ends which fit on the pins of the connector 23, and the pins 40 of the filters 36 extending through the cover plate, respectively, so that the flexible circuit board 44 can be installed on the cable connector 23 and on the pins 40 for the filters on the cover plate 34 prior to assembly of the cable connector and the cover plate 34 in the housing 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Inventors: Charles G. Huss, Kenneth J. Freeman
  • Patent number: 5140135
    Abstract: An ice detector circuit controls heating of a probe detecting ice. The circuit generates an icing output as a function of a temperature output generated by the probe. A control circuit cyclically controls a start time of the heating. A time measurement circuit measures a warm-up time to a first temperature threshold below the melting temperature, and measuring a melting time to a second temperature above the melting temperature. A comparator compares the melting time to a stored comparison parameter adjusted by the warm-up time and provides the icing output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Rosemount Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Freeman