Patents by Inventor Mark Haynie

Mark Haynie 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: 20240345015
    Abstract: A moisture sensing system is configured to determine the moisture level in granulate materials, such as, but not limited to, plastic resin pellets and agricultural grains. The system is configured to measure various parameters relating to the environment around the granulate material, and to determine additional characteristics of the granulate material based on these parameters. In some embodiments, the system is configured as a multi-sensor array with the computational and communicative capabilities to process the acquired measurements and provide outputs to a process device, such as a dryer, to help optimize the drying or other processes performed on the granulate material after the moisture measurements and other data are acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Novatec, Inc.
    Inventors: Conrad BESSEMER, Gregory Michael Washburn, Frederick W. EICHHORN, II, Diego Ruben BARRETTINO, Ryan ISMIRLIAN, Kevin Shipley, Perry Jordan, Mark Haynie, Sean P. Healy
  • Patent number: 11364657
    Abstract: An apparatus for drying granular resin material in a hopper including a first sub-system, including a membrane and a heater receiving drying gas from the membrane to be heated, the first sub-system supplying dried heated gas to a first portion of the hopper; and a second sub-system, including a mixing device and a heater for receiving drying gas from the mixing device to be heated, the mixing device inducing withdrawal of gas from the hopper and mixing the withdrawn gas with gas supplied from the first subsystem, the mixed gases being heated and supplied to a second portion of the hopper, the improvement comprising a gas separation membrane for separating inert gases from air supplied to the apparatus and providing the separated inert gas in the first subsystem; a heater for heating air supplied to the apparatus; and a thermostat for controlling the heater and thereby maintaining the supplied air at a selected temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Novatec, Inc.
    Inventors: Conrad Bessemer, Mark Haynie
  • Patent number: 11203133
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for drying granular resin material by heating compressed air to a temperature prescribed for gas separation membrane operation, presenting the heated compressed air to a membrane separating out oxygen-size and smaller molecules to provide a stream of gas molecules of at least nitrogen-size at a pressure substantially that of the compressed air, heating the stream of gas molecules of at least nitrogen-size to a temperature at which dew point of the stream is no higher than ?40 degrees F., and introducing the heated stream of gas molecules into a chamber for upward flow to atmosphere through granular resin material in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Novatec, Inc.
    Inventors: Conrad Bessemer, Mark Haynie, Gregory Michael Washburn, Thomas Trevor Bludis
  • Patent number: 10739120
    Abstract: An explosive separation joint system having an expandable tube containing a mild detonating fuse (MDF) in separable portions of the joint. The MDF extends into a detonation manifold at a first port, an end of the MDF having booster bonded thereto. An external initiating ordnance transfer line enters the manifold at an initiating ordnance (IO) port, has an IO end tip and provides a detonation impulse train where each detonating component is axially aligned within a passageway with the next detonating component. In embodiments, particular detonating components of the detonation train are fixed in place where other detonating components are movable. Each detonating component that is not in direct contact with a preceding detonating component in the detonation train is in direct linear access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David Bruce Cohen, John Thomas Doyle, Richard Mark Haynie, Paul Jesse Harrington, Gary Ronald Burnside
  • Patent number: 10525615
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for drying thermoplastic resin prior to molding into plastic parts comprises a continuous loop liquid circuit for furnishing liquid at a prescribed temperature to a mold in which the plastic parts are fabricated; a continuous loop air circuit for passing heated dry air through a hopper containing the thermoplastic resin thereby drying the thermoplastic resin to a prescribed level of dryness; and a coupling thermally connecting the two circuits for heat transfer from the liquid to the drying air; the liquid is selected from the group comprising water and ethylene glycol; microprocessor control facilitates generation and retention of custom water temperature and resin dryness/temperature optionally based on machine learning principles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Novatec, Inc.
    Inventors: Conrad Bessemer, Thomas Trevor Bludis, James Zinski, Mark Haynie
  • Publication number: 20190128653
    Abstract: An explosive separation joint system having an expandable tube containing a mild detonating fuse (MDF) in separable portions of the joint. The MDF extends into a detonation manifold at a first port, an end of the MDF having booster bonded thereto. An external initiating ordnance transfer line enters the manifold at an initiating ordnance (IO) port, has an IO end tip and provides a detonation impulse train where each detonating component is axially aligned within a passageway with the next detonating component. In embodiments, particular detonating components of the detonation train are fixed in place where other detonating components are movable. Each detonating component that is not in direct contact with a preceding detonating component in the detonation train is in direct linear access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: David Bruce Cohen, John Thomas Doyle, Richard Mark Haynie, Paul Jesse Harrington, Gary Ronald Burnside
  • Publication number: 20050196234
    Abstract: An automatic barricade includes a trench across a road that is covered by a grate allowing vehicular traffic during normal dry weather. Inside the trench is a series of barricade elements, each of which includes a float. When rising water fills the trench to a predetermined level, each float rises and elevates the elements above the road. The barricade elements are sufficiently robust and intimidating to deter motorists from driving over them but are spaced apart to be light enough to be easily actuated by the float. The barricade elements are sufficiently close together that vehicles cannot pass between them. In another embodiment, a sensor is adjacent the trench to detect rising water and communicates with a motor connected to the barricade elements for raising them to a traffic blocking position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Inventor: Mark Haynie
  • Patent number: 4439213
    Abstract: A PSA (pressure swing adsorber) system for producing high purity nitrogen from compressed air containing a pressure swing dryer to dry the compressed air arranged for regeneration by oxygen enriched desorption effluent gasses from the PSA towers.A product nitrogen purge assists in desorption of the PSA towers and leads to improved yield.The system is characterized by capability for yields of 99.5% nitrogen plus argon to exceed about 25% and an efficiency of about 60 volumes of the 99.5% product per volume of adsorbent per hour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1984
    Assignee: The C. M. Kemp Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: Bill Frey, Mark Haynie, John Psaras