Patents by Inventor Larry A. Nelson
Larry A. Nelson 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: 20100127930Abstract: A system and method for providing a spectrally compact modulation of a tracking signal for directional beam scanning systems is presented. The system and method scans a tracking signal to produce a modulation of the tracking signal. When an impairment is anticipated, the system and method modifies the scan path to avoid the impairment and maintains the spectral compactness of the modulation of the tracking signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2008Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventor: Larry A. Nelson
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Publication number: 20100126768Abstract: A sealing assembly having a flexible sleeve and a means for sealing a top portion of the sleeve around a plurality of cables, such as by a hook and loop type fastener attached at the top portion of the sleeve. The sleeve is configured to receive at least one cable therethrough and a bottom portion of the sleeve is configured to be secured to a surface. The sleeve can also be electrically conductive such that the sleeve dissipates static electricity from the cable to the surface. The sealing assembly can also have a grommet positioned adjacent the bottom portion of the sleeve. The grommet has a first wall having a plurality of apertures for connecting the grommet to a surface and a second wall that extends substantially perpendicular to the first wall and is configured to extend through an aperture in the surface. The second wall is flexible to protect the cable from sharp edges associated with the aperture in the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2010Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Joseph Allen Dukes, Kevin Larry Nelson, Rhonda Johnson
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Patent number: 7722378Abstract: A block-out cover is installed in a jack module to prevent entry of undesirable objects. The block-out cover includes at least one window and at least one locking arm. The locking arm secures the cover to the jack module. The window receives a removal tool designed to remove the cover from the jack module. The removal tool includes a body, a lever secured to the body to engage the cover and a prong with a cam surface. The cam surface of the prong deflects the cover from locking engagement with the jack module allowing the removal tool to remove the block-out cover.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventors: David Scott Morrison, Marc Russell Obenshain, Kevin Larry Nelson
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Patent number: 7723622Abstract: A sealing assembly having a flexible sleeve and a means for sealing a top portion of the sleeve around a plurality of cables, such as by a hook and loop type fastener attached at the top portion of the sleeve. The sleeve is configured to receive at least one cable therethrough and a bottom portion of the sleeve is configured to be secured to a surface. The sleeve can also be electrically conductive such that the sleeve dissipates static electricity from the cable to the surface. The sealing assembly call also have a grommet positioned adjacent the bottom portion of the sleeve. The grommet has a first wall having a plurality of apertures for connecting the grommet to a surface and a second wall that extends substantially perpendicular to the first wall and is configured to extend through an aperture in the surface. The second wall is flexible to protect the cable from sharp edges associated with the aperture in the surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2007Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Joseph Allen Dukes, Kevin Larry Nelson, Rhonda Johnson
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Patent number: 7661632Abstract: A mounting device securable to a structure comprising a channel comprises a plate, a cable management member and an engagement member for securing the device to the structure. The mounting device may be secured to the structure by inserting an installation tool into the geometric opening and rotating the mounting device. The engagement member may comprise opposing retaining tabs extending from a bottom surface of the plate or opposing depressions formed in a top surface of the plate. The cable management member may comprise a pair of bridge arms that form a geometric opening.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2007Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignees: Panduit Corp., Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventors: Jack E Caveney, Kevin Larry Nelson
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Patent number: 7600724Abstract: A mounting device and apparatus for use with a stud comprising a channel comprises a mount and opposing flanges or an engagement member. The engagement member may geometrically conform to the shape of the channel for engaging the mounting device within the channel. The mount may comprise a socket for receiving and holding a cable management member. The engagement member may comprise an uneven surface to create an interference fit with internal portions of the stud that define the channel. The apparatus may further comprise a cable tie receiving device comprising a plurality of apertures for receipt of cable ties to organize cable bundles.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Kevin Larry Nelson, James Thomas Pykett
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Publication number: 20090088027Abstract: A block-out cover is installed in a jack module to prevent entry of undesirable objects. The block-out cover includes at least one window and at least one locking arm. The locking arm secures the cover to the jack module. The window receives a removal tool designed to remove the cover from the jack module. The removal tool includes a body, a lever secured to the body to engage the cover and a prong with a cam surface. The cam surface of the prong deflects the cover from locking engagement with the jack module allowing the removal tool to remove the block-out cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: Panduit Corp.Inventors: David Scott Morrison, Marc Russell Obenshain, Kevin Larry Nelson
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Patent number: 7508342Abstract: A system and method for automatically positioning an antenna aperture on a mobile platform in a manner to avoid blockages created by other components/subsystems on the mobile platform between the line of sight of the antenna aperture and a satellite and to avoid interference with other systems that share the mobile platform. In one embodiment, one or more linear support elements are moved by one or more corresponding motors to allow the antenna aperture to be re-positioned between a plurality of different positions. Methods for creating and using a blockage database are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2005Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Larry A Nelson
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Patent number: 7503528Abstract: A cable mount for receiving and carrying cable bundles comprises a shaft and a cable tie receiving member. The shaft comprises a top end portion and a bottom end portion and first and second adjacent projections spaced apart along a longitudinal axis of the shaft. The adjacent projections extend radially from the shaft and are circumferentially displaced about the longitudinal axis relative to one another. The cable tie receiving member comprises a top surface and opposing sidewalls defining a slot to receive a cable tie. The cable tie receiving member is positioned at the top end portion of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2007Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Michael Scott Adams, Kevin Larry Nelson
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Publication number: 20090017169Abstract: A method for making a hard pretzel product that effectively absorbs a seasoning slurry, such as an oil-based seasoning added after baking. In a preferred embodiment, three dough strands extruded simultaneously are cut and formed into a triad arrangement of three dough rods. Several process steps are used singly or in combination to promote the formation of a stress cracking at the intersection between these three rods in the triad formation. During the final drying stage and a seasoning stage in a seasoning tumbler, this stress cracking is sufficient to allow separation of the three rods into individual pretzel sticks. Each of these pretzel sticks has a longitudinal surface area in the proximity of the original stress fracturing which effectively absorbs a seasoning slurry.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2007Publication date: January 15, 2009Inventors: Kimberly Nicole ASSAAD, Donald Casimir Bernard, Larry Nelson Elliott, Michael Allen Oates
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Publication number: 20080290611Abstract: A sealing assembly having a flexible sleeve and a means for sealing a top portion of the sleeve around a plurality of cables, such as by a hook and loop type fastener attached at the top portion of the sleeve. The sleeve is configured to receive at least one cable therethrough and a bottom portion of the sleeve is configured to be secured to a surface. The sleeve can also be electrically conductive such that the sleeve dissipates static electricity from the cable to the surface. The sealing assembly can also have a grommet positioned adjacent the bottom portion of the sleeve. The grommet has a first wall having a plurality of apertures for connecting the grommet to a surface and a second wall that extends substantially perpendicular to the first wall and is configured to extend through an aperture in the surface. The second wall is flexible to protect the cable from sharp edges associated with the aperture in the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2007Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Joseph Allen Dukes, Kevin Larry Nelson, Rhonda Johnson
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Publication number: 20080290610Abstract: A sealing assembly having a flexible sleeve and a means for sealing a top portion of the sleeve around a plurality of cables, such as by a hook and loop type fastener attached at the top portion of the sleeve. The sleeve is configured to receive at least one cable therethrough and a bottom portion of the sleeve is configured to be secured to a surface. The sleeve can also be electrically conductive such that the sleeve dissipates static electricity from the cable to the surface. The sealing assembly call also have a grommet positioned adjacent the bottom portion of the sleeve. The grommet has a first wall having a plurality of apertures for connecting the grommet to a surface and a second wall that extends substantially perpendicular to the first wall and is configured to extend through an aperture in the surface. The second wall is flexible to protect the cable from sharp edges associated with the aperture in the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2007Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: PANDUIT CORP.Inventors: Joseph Allen Dukes, Kevin Larry Nelson, Rhonda Johnson
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Patent number: 7451841Abstract: A trailer loading or hitching device for moving a trailer between a storage position and attachment of a tongue of the trailer to a tow vehicle, comprising a vertical lifting column selectively extendable and retractable by a mover and pivotally connected to a drive wheel chassis by a mount for a steering shaft operatively engaged to the lifting column, the drive wheel chassis having opposing drive wheels selectively operable for moving the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2004Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Inventor: Larry Nelson
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Patent number: 7382327Abstract: A vibration isolation system for the antenna of a vehicle, such as a maritime vessel. The vibration isolation system has a staged construction that slidably attaches the maritime antenna to a maritime vessel along up to three independent axes of translation. This staged construction is adapted for independently decreasing movement of the antenna along the independent axes of translation. Accordingly, the staged construction prevents the antenna from rotating due to induced translational vibration and thus enhances the pointing performance for the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2005Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Larry A. Nelson
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Publication number: 20080035801Abstract: A cable mount for receiving and carrying cable bundles comprises a shaft and a cable tie receiving member. The shaft comprises a top end portion and a bottom end portion and first and second adjacent projections spaced apart along a longitudinal axis of the shaft. The adjacent projections extend radially from the shaft and are circumferentially displaced about the longitudinal axis relative to one another. The cable tie receiving member comprises a top surface and opposing sidewalls defining a slot to receive a cable tie. The cable tie receiving member is positioned at the top end portion of the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2007Publication date: February 14, 2008Applicant: PANDUIT CORP.Inventors: Michael Scott Adams, Kevin Larry Nelson
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Publication number: 20070295237Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for controlling the launch and burst of pyrotechnic projectiles in a pyrotechnic, or “fireworks”, display.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2007Publication date: December 27, 2007Inventors: George Bossarte, Glenn Dillon, Paul McKinley, Wayne Haase, Larry Nelson
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Publication number: 20070257158Abstract: A mounting device securable to a structure comprising a channel comprises a plate, a cable management member and an engagement member for securing the device to the structure. The mounting device may be secured to the structure by inserting an installation tool into the geometric opening and rotating the mounting device. The engagement member may comprise opposing retaining tabs extending from a bottom surface of the plate or opposing depressions formed in a top surface of the plate. The cable management member may comprise a pair of bridge arms that form a geometric opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2007Publication date: November 8, 2007Applicant: PANDUIT CORP.Inventors: Jack E. Caveney, Kevin Larry Nelson
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Publication number: 20070257159Abstract: An mounting device and apparatus for use with a stud comprising a channel comprises a mount and opposing flanges or an engagement member. The engagement member may geometrically conform to the shape of the channel for engaging the mounting device within the channel. The mount may comprise a socket for receiving and holding a cable management member. The engagement member may comprise an uneven surface to create an interference fit with internal portions of the stud that define the channel. The apparatus may further comprise a cable tie receiving device comprising a plurality of apertures for receipt of cable ties to organize cable bundles.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2007Publication date: November 8, 2007Applicants: PANDUIT CORP., BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBHInventors: Kevin Larry Nelson, James Thomas Pykett
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Patent number: 7258226Abstract: A modular drive system for a self-stacking conveyor belt adapted to travel at least along one non-linear path segment includes at least one drive cassette adapted to removably engage sidelinks on an edge of the conveyor belt, and preferably at least a first drive cassette engaging the conveyor belt sidelinks at an inner curve of the segment and at least a second drive cassette engaging the conveyor belt sidelinks at an outer curve of the segment.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2004Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: The BOC Group, Inc.Inventors: Larry Nelson, Daniel E. Flanagan, Robert Muscato
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Patent number: RE40276Abstract: A biological safety cabinet is provided that includes a frame. The frame defines a protected work area and encloses the work area on all but one side. A sash is coupled to the frame that at least partially encloses the side that is not enclosed by the frame. A blower is coupled to the frame generally above the work area. The blower is adapted to circulate air through the work area to make the work area a negative pressure area so that harmful materials are confined. A sash grill is coupled to the frame generally below the sash that has a curved top surface. The curved sash grill provides a superior and less turbulent air-flow into the work area, thereby better containing any harmful materials. The curved sash grill is perforated, and the curvature and perforations of the sash grill compensate for partial blockage by such things as the user's arms and other objects.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2004Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: Labconco CorporationInventors: Jim Hunter, Kevin Gilkison, Larry Nelson, Burt Rhea, Jerry O'Dell, Greg Krueger, Gary Roepke, Gerhard W. Knutson, Mary Ellen Kennedy