Patents by Inventor Kevin Dillinger

Kevin Dillinger 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: 11933517
    Abstract: A regulating flap reduction gear for an electrically driven regulating flap for regulating a gas or liquid volume flow includes two parallel bearing plates between which gear parts are rotatably arranged. A plurality of spacers keep the two bearing plates at a distance from one another. The plurality of spacers are designed as tabs of one, first bearing plate, which are bent by 90° from the plane of the first bearing plate and have at least one lateral projection. The tabs are inserted with their free tab ends into plug-in openings of the other second bearing plate until their at least one lateral projection rests against the second bearing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Gruner AG
    Inventors: Kevin Dillinger, Wolfgang Spreitzer
  • Publication number: 20230392815
    Abstract: A volumetric-flow controller for adjusting a control flap is movably mounted within a flow channel. A measurement channel has a channel inlet and outlet for connection to the flow channel forming a separate bypass channel branched from the flow channel. A differential pressure sensor arranged in the measurement channel measures a differential pressure prevailing in the flow channel and outputs a corresponding electrical measurement signal. A control unit for electrically activating a flap drive in dependence on the electrical measurement signal outputted by the differential pressure sensor sets a desired volumetric flow rate in the flow channel. At least one air quality sensor arranged in the measurement channel measures an air quality prevailing in the flow channel and outputs a corresponding electrical measurement signal. The control unit electrically activates the flap drive in dependence on the electrical measurement signal outputted by the at least one air quality sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Gruner AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Spreitzer, Kevin Dillinger, Wolfgang Moser
  • Publication number: 20210396424
    Abstract: A regulating flap reduction gear for an electrically driven regulating flap for regulating a gas or liquid volume flow includes two parallel bearing plates between which gear parts are rotatably arranged. A plurality of spacers keep the two bearing plates at a distance from one another. The plurality of spacers are designed as tabs of one, first bearing plate, which are bent by 90° from the plane of the first bearing plate and have at least one lateral projection. The tabs are inserted with their free tab ends into plug-in openings of the other second bearing plate until their at least one lateral projection rests against the second bearing plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Gruner AG
    Inventors: Kevin Dillinger, Wolfgang Spreitzer
  • Patent number: 8260736
    Abstract: An intelligent system manager system and method for managing and controlling a platform may comprise a management component providing intelligent decision support and managing platform functions responsive to data representative of the platform and equipment thereof; an execution and monitor component for causing execution of commands controlling the platform and equipment thereof, and monitoring the execution of the commands and the status of platform sensors and platform equipment; a display component providing information representative of the current state of the platform and receiving input; and a common services component providing processing services to the management component, to the execution and monitor component and to the display component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Michael T. Lear, Lawrence J. Kolankiewicz, Jr., John J. Curry, III, Jacob Christensen, John R. Goetz, Kevin Dillinger, James Prosser, Charles Johnson-Bey, Joseph W. Mills