Patents by Inventor Larry Kriener

Larry Kriener 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: 20050234581
    Abstract: Interfaces are provided which integrate mistake-proofing concepts in a way easily understandable by the operator and easily configured by a manufacturing engineer. As mistake-proofing concepts are developed tables are populated and associated with specific assembly processes. Sensors are employed to monitor parts selection and tool usage. Sensors used for tool use and parts selection, error messages and actions to be performed or monitored are all defined and related in the tables and in turn to specific assembly orders. The tables are also populated with logic pointers, which are referenced by a Process Logic Control (PLC) unit that has been programmed to recall and carry out infinitely variable monitoring or control of the assembly process. For example when a particular order has been identified to the PLC by way of a scanned barcode or other means, a bill of material and assembly sequence is provided to the operator by appropriate means such as a CRT monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Vern Hoppes, Larry Kriener, Matthew Pipho, Joshua Edgin, James Mitchell, Ibrahim Shehata, Anthony Rath, Robert Mills, Michael Osborn, Mark Smith, Terry Phillips, Kevin Bortolazzo, David Sink, Joel Myers, Kenneth Kresser, Gary Miner, Lesley McNaught
  • Publication number: 20050222702
    Abstract: Interfaces are provided which integrate mistake-proofing concepts in a way easily understandable by the operator and easily configured by a manufacturing engineer. As mistake-proofing concepts are developed tables are populated and associated with specific assembly processes. Sensors are employed to monitor parts selection and tool usage. Sensors used for tool use and parts selection, error messages and actions to be performed or monitored are all defined and related in the tables and in turn to specific assembly orders. The tables are also populated with logic pointers, which are referenced by a Process Logic Control (PLC) unit that has been programmed to recall and carry out infinitely variable monitoring or control of the assembly process. For example when a particular order has been identified to the PLC by way of a scanned barcode or other means, a bill of material and assembly sequence is provided to the operator by appropriate means such as a CRT monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Vern Hoppes, Larry Kriener, Matthew Pipho, Joshua Edgin, James Mitchell, Ibrahim Shehata, Anthony Rath, Robert Mills, Michael Osborn, Mark Smith, Terry Phillips, Kevin Bortolazzo, Dave Sink, Joel Myers, Kenneth Kresser, Gary Miner, Lesley McNaught
  • Publication number: 20050222703
    Abstract: Interfaces are provided which integrate mistake-proofing concepts in a way easily understandable by the operator and easily configured by a manufacturing engineer. As mistake-proofing concepts are developed tables are populated and associated with specific assembly processes. Sensors are employed to monitor parts selection and tool usage. Sensors used for tool use and parts selection, error messages and actions to be performed or monitored are all defined and related in the tables and in turn to specific assembly orders. The tables are also populated with logic pointers, which are referenced by a Process Logic Control (PLC) unit that has been programmed to recall and carry out infinitely variable monitoring or control of the assembly process. For example when a particular order has been identified to the PLC by way of a scanned barcode or other means, a bill of material and assembly sequence is provided to the operator by appropriate means such as a CRT monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Vern Hoppes, Larry Kriener, Matthew Pipho, Joshua Edgin, James Mitchell, Ibrahim Shehata, Anthony Rath, Robert Mills, Michael Osborn, Mark Smith, Terry Phillips, Kevin Bortolazzo, Dave Sink, Joel Myers, Kenneth Kresser, Gary Miner, Lesley McNaught
  • Publication number: 20050209724
    Abstract: Interfaces are provided which integrate mistake-proofing concepts in a way easily understandable by the operator and easily configured by a manufacturing engineer. As mistake-proofing concepts are developed tables are populated and associated with specific assembly processes. Sensors are employed to monitor parts selection and tool usage. Sensors used for tool use and parts selection, error messages and actions to be performed or monitored are all defined and related in the tables and in turn to specific assembly orders. The tables are also populated with logic pointers, which are referenced by a Process Logic Control (PLC) unit that has been programmed to recall and carry out infinitely variable monitoring or control of the assembly process. For example when a particular order has been identified to the PLC by way of a scanned barcode or other means, a bill of material and assembly sequence is provided to the operator by appropriate means such as a CRT monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Inventors: Vern Hoppes, Larry Kriener, Matthew Pipho, Joshua Edgin, James Mitchell, Ibrahim Shehata, Anthony Rath, Robert Mills, Michael Osborn, Mark Smith, Terry Phillips, Kevin Bortolazzo, Dave Sink, Joel Myers, Kenneth Kresser, Gary Miner, Lesley McNaught
  • Publication number: 20050193964
    Abstract: A piston cooling spray jet, installation tool there for, and method for the installation of the spray jet in an engine cylinder block are provided. A piston cooling nozzle has a hollow main body portion adapted to be press fit into a through bore of the engine cylinder block. A first end of the through bore is located in a piston gallery and a second end of the through bore is located in the main bearing journal. The through bore intersects with an oil circuit in the cylinder block. The main body portion of the nozzle has an orientation feature. An installation tool has a main body portion adapted to mateably engage a surface of the main bearing journal. A cap screw extends through an aperture in the main body portion, and an orientation key affixed to the main body portion partially surrounds the cap screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Inventors: Dominic Kemp, Larry Kriener, Stanley Jagodzinski, Craig Lohmann
  • Publication number: 20050092265
    Abstract: A cooling nozzle assembly includes a mounting plate, a pin body and a nozzle tube. The mounting plate has a pin aperture and a fastener aperture. The pin body has a head portion and a shaft portion. The shaft portion of the pin body has a blind bore that extends from an open first end of the shaft portion to the head portion. The shaft portion of the pin body is fitted into the pin aperture of the plate and affixed to the plate. A hole is cross-drilled in the assembly to intersect the blind bore of the shaft portion of the pin body. The nozzle has an interior passage. The nozzle tube is mounted to the plate and pin body assembly by fitting it into the hole. The interior passage is in fluid communication with the blind bore of the pin body. An engine cylinder block includes a cylinder with a piston assembly disposed therein. A mounting surface is provided in the cylinder block for mounting the cooling nozzle assembly proximal to the cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Stephen Dunbar, Paul Wynthein, Larry Kriener, Mark Sanborn, Mohammed Qureshi