Patents by Inventor Kenneth W. Kaiser

Kenneth W. Kaiser 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: 20040075585
    Abstract: A tactical surveillance sensor projectile system includes a propellant and primer chamber, a firing device, a sensor device, a signal processor, and a fiber optic cable; the firing device fires the primer and propellant to establish a powered phase of flight followed by a ballistic phase of flight to clear an obstacle; the sensor device generates surveillance signals representative of ambient characteristics beyond the obstacle at least during the ballistic phase of flight; the signal processor is responsive to the sensor device for converting the signals representative of ambient conditions to an optical data stream; and the fiber optic cable delivers the optical data stream to a ground station at least during the ballistic phase of flight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Kaiser, Robert L. Faiz, Sean George
  • Patent number: 6695794
    Abstract: A light weight, wearable, and balanced active tremor control system including a mount; a proof mass frame moveable with respect to the mount; at least one actuator on the proof mass frame for imparting a force on the mount; a motion sensor for detecting movement of the mount due to tremors; and a controller for driving the actuator in response to the motion sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Kaiser, Gary E. Hall
  • Publication number: 20030006357
    Abstract: A light weight, wearable, and balanced active tremor control system including a mount; a proof mass frame moveable with respect to the mount; at least one actuator on the proof mass frame for imparting a force on the mount; a motion sensor for detecting movement of the mount due to tremors; and a controller for driving the actuator in response to the motion sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Kaiser, Gary E. Hall
  • Patent number: 6234045
    Abstract: An active tremor control system for stabilizing against alternating perturbations includes: an inertial sensor for sensing angular motion about a first axis of an object induced by alternating perturbations; an inertial mass independent of the object; and an actuator coupled to the object and the mass and responsive to the inertial sensor for selectively applying a torque to the object representative of the sensed angular motion such that the angular motion about the first axis induced by the perturbation is cancelled, the actuator concurrently applying a reactive torque, equal and opposite to the to the applied torque, to the mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth W. Kaiser