Patents by Inventor Kyle Webb
Kyle Webb 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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Publication number: 20240426432Abstract: An on-tank valve for fitting to a tank to supply stored gas to a consumer and the tank to be replenished with gas from a filling station. The valve has a valve body defining at least two flow passages in communication with the tank. A first flow passage incorporates a solenoid valve to control the flow of gas from the tank to the consumer and the second incorporates a manually operable bleed valve for stored gas to be supplied to the consumer while bypassing the solenoid valve. The bleed valve is a combination valve movable manually between two states. In the first state stored gas is permitted to flow from the tank to the consumer and in the second state the second passage incorporates a non-return valve to permit the tank to be replenished from the filling station without the replenishment gas passing through the solenoid valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: Metier Ventures LimitedInventors: Robert Lees, Kyle Webb
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Publication number: 20240271551Abstract: A yoke-type phaser is disclosed having a drive member and a driven member rotatable about a common axis and coupled to one another by means of a yoke that is movable, in a plane normal to the common axis, to vary the relative phase of the drive and driven members, by interaction between at least two contact elements and a contoured surface, one of (i) the contact elements and (ii) the contoured surface being connected for rotation with the drive member and the other being mounted on the yoke, each contact element comprising a roller in surface contact with a part-cylindrical recess in a carrier, wherein the carrier of at least one of the contact elements is either appropriately sized or adjustably mounted, to set the clearances between the rollers and the contoured surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicant: Mechadyne International LTDInventors: Mark Walton, Jon Aspinall, Kyle Webb, Robert Lees
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Patent number: 11047267Abstract: A summation rocker system is disclosed for acting on the end of a stem of a poppet valve (16) in dependence upon the combined lifts of a first and a second cam profile defined by different cam lobes (14, 22) of a concentric camshaft (46). The system comprises a first rocker (12) mounted on a pivot shaft (18) and having a first follower (44) to contact the first cam profile and an end acting on the valve (16) to displace the valve (16) by an amount dependent upon the lift of the first cam profile, a rocker shaft (24) to be fixedly mounted on the engine, and a second rocker (20) pivotable about the rocker shaft (24), the second rocker (20) having a second follower (48) to contact the second cam profile and acting to displace the pivot shaft (18) of the first rocker (12) in dependence of the lift of second cam profile.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Mechadyne International Ltd.Inventors: Ian Methley, Timothy Mark Lancefield, Kyle Webb
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Publication number: 20200340373Abstract: A summation rocker system is disclosed for acting on the end of a stem of a poppet valve (16) in dependence upon the combined lifts of a first and a second cam profile defined by different cam lobes (14, 22) of a concentric camshaft (46). The system comprises a first rocker (12) mounted on a pivot shaft (18) and having a first follower (44) to contact the first cam profile and an end acting on the valve (16) to displace the valve (16) by an amount dependent upon the lift of the first cam profile, a rocker shaft (24) to be fixedly mounted on the engine, and a second rocker (20) pivotable about the rocker shaft (24), the second rocker (20) having a second follower (48) to contact the second cam profile and acting to displace the pivot shaft (18) of the first rocker (12) in dependence of the lift of second cam profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Ian Methley, Timothy Mark Lancefield, Kyle Webb
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Patent number: 10519821Abstract: A valve system for an engine includes two cams each having a follower, a summation lever coupled to the followers, a lash adjuster, a valve actuating rocker pivotably coupled to the summation lever and resting on the lash adjuster, a control spring urging the summation lever to compress the lash adjuster, a stop limiting an expansion of the control spring, a bore, a plunger which moves in the bore, and an abutment surface. The control spring acts on the summation lever via the plunger. A plunger end engages with the summation lever. A point of contact between the plunger and the summation lever is displaced in a direction transverse to a plunger axis during a pivoting movement of the summation lever. A plunger shoulder is arranged a distance from the plunger end to contact the abutment surface to limit a plunger displacement in a direction compressing the lash adjuster.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: MECHADYNE INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventors: Ian Methley, Timothy Mark Lancefield, Mark Walton, Kyle Webb
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Publication number: 20190360369Abstract: A valve system for an engine includes two cams each having a follower, a summation lever coupled to the followers, a lash adjuster, a valve actuating rocker pivotably coupled to the summation lever and resting on the lash adjuster, a control spring urging the summation lever to compress the lash adjuster, a stop limiting an expansion of the control spring, a bore, a plunger which moves in the bore, and an abutment surface. The control spring acts on the summation lever via the plunger. A plunger end engages with the summation lever. A point of contact between the plunger and the summation lever is displaced in a direction transverse to a plunger axis during a pivoting movement of the summation lever. A plunger shoulder is arranged a distance from the plunger end to contact the abutment surface to limit a plunger displacement in a direction compressing the lash adjuster.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: MECHADYNE INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventors: IAN METHLEY, TIMOTHY MARK LANCEFIELD, MARK WALTON, KYLE WEBB
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Publication number: 20140131905Abstract: Intraocular implants and methods of making intraocular implants are provided. The intraocular implant can include a mask adapted to increase depth of focus. The method of making the intraocular implant can include suspending the mask along an optical axis of the intraocular implant using a centration tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Inventor: Kyle Webb
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Publication number: 20120203239Abstract: This application describes apparatuses and techniques for identifying and marking a position corresponding to the intersection of a patient's line of sight with the anterior surface of the human cornea to aid centration of an ocular implant. The apparatus can include a first optical subsystem configured to project a first light through an aperture and along an instrument axis such that the patient will observe an annulus around a disc when the patient's visual axis is substantially collinear with the instrument axis and the patient will not observe the annulus when the visual axis is not substantially collinear with the instrument axis. The apparatus may also include a second optical subsystem configured to project a second light along the instrument axis such that the second light appears to a clinician to be an annulus around the first light.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2010Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: ACUFOCUS,INC.Inventors: John Allan Vukich, Kyle Webb
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Publication number: 20110172675Abstract: The present application describes an ocular inlay delivery system that can include a loader, forceps, and tray system. The loader can be configured to receive an ocular inlay, protect it during handling and shipment, and present it for removal during surgery, receive jaws of surgical forceps and align the jaws in relation to the inlay allowing the forceps to grip the inlay in a proper orientation. Forceps can be configured to fit within the channel of the loader, grip the inlay using a clamping motion, maintain a grip on the inlay during transfer to the eye of a patient, deposit the inlay in the eye of a patient, and release the inlay using a sliding motion. The tray can be configured to restrict movement of the loader mechanism during shipment and handling.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2011Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: ACUFOCUS, INC.Inventors: Randall C. Danta, Kyle Webb