Patents by Inventor Mark T. Grimm

Mark T. Grimm 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: 8608834
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for removing matter from a filtering device of a work machine includes a gas pressurization assembly. An element of the gas pressurization assembly is removably attachable to a first orifice of the filtering device without removing the filtering device from a work machine to which the filtering device is connected. The system also includes a heat source fluidly connected to the gas pressurization assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Cheryl Lynn Sellers, David Thaler, Mark T. Grimm, Jeremy Trethewey, Natalie Noel Vanderspiegel, Richard A. Crandell, Dong Fei, Roger A. Hudson, Mark Alan Gasper, Herbert DaCosta, Eric Charles Fluga, Hemant Prasad Mallampalli, Bruce Frazier, Matthew Fletcher
  • Publication number: 20120318134
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for removing matter from a filtering device of a work machine includes a gas pressurization assembly. An element of the gas pressurization assembly is removably attachable to a first orifice of the filtering device without removing the filtering device from a work machine to which the filtering device is connected. The system also includes a heat source fluidly connected to the gas pressurization assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Cheryl Lynn Sellers, David Thaler, Mark T. Grimm, Jeremy Trethewey, Natalie Noel Vanderspiegel, Richard A. Crandell, Dong Fei, Roger A. Hudson, Mark Alan Gasper, Herbert DaCosta, Eric Charles Fluga, Hemant Prasad Mallampalli, Bruce Frazier, Matthew Fletcher
  • Patent number: 8252093
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for removing matter from a filtering device of a work machine includes a gas pressurization assembly. An element of the gas pressurization assembly is removably attachable to a first orifice of the filtering device without removing the filtering device from a work machine to which the filtering device is connected. The system also includes a heat source fluidly connected to the gas pressurization assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Inventors: Cheryl Lynn Sellers, David Thaler, Mark T. Grimm, Jeremy Trethewey, Natalie Noel Vanderspiegel, Richard A. Crandell, Dong Fei, Roger A. Hudson, Mark Alan Gasper, Herbert DaCosta, Eric Charles Fluga, Hemant Prasad Mallampalli, Bruce Frazier, Matthew Fletcher
  • Publication number: 20090000471
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for removing matter from a filtering device of a work machine includes a gas pressurization assembly. An element of the gas pressurization assembly is removably attachable to a first orifice of the filtering device without removing the filtering device from a work machine to which the filtering device is connected. The system also includes a heat source fluidly connected to the gas pressurization assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Cheryl Lynn Sellers, David Thaler, Mark T. Grimm, Jeremy Trethewey, Natalie Noel Vanderspiegel, Richard A. Crandell, Dong Fel, Roger A. Hudson, Mark Alan Gasper, Herbert DaCosta, Eric Charles Fluga, Hemant Prasad Malhampatti, Bruce Frazier, Matthew Fletcher
  • Patent number: 7410529
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for removing matter from a filtering device of a work machine includes a gas pressurization assembly. An element of the gas pressurization assembly is removably attachable to a first orifice of the filtering device without removing the filtering device from a work machine to which the filtering device is connected. The system also includes a heat source fluidly connected to the gas pressurization assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Cheryl Lynn Sellers, David Thaler, Mark T. Grimm, Jeremy Trethewey, Natalie Noel Vanderspiegel, Richard A. Crandell, Dong Fei, Roger A. Hudson, Mark Alan Gasper, Herbert DaCosta, Eric Charles Fluga, Hemant Prasad Mallampalli, Bruce Frazier, Matthew Fletcher
  • Patent number: 7201184
    Abstract: A valve is provided having a housing with an inlet and an outlet. Within the confines of the housing is a fluid flow path that allows for fluid communication between the inlet and the outlet. The valve includes a valve element that is movable to and from a position where it blocks fluid communication along the fluid flow path, thereby closing the valve. The valve also includes a resilient member provided in a chamber of the valve that is fluidly sealed from the fluid flow path. The resilient member urges the valve element to move to the position for closing the valve. When the pressure of fluid entering the inlet exceeds a preselected amount, the pressure of the fluid overcomes the urging of the resilient member and the valve element moves towards a position that allows fluid communication along the fluid flow path, thereby opening the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Paccar Inc
    Inventors: Jereme C. Morrow, Waikhew Ung, Eddie D. Huckaby, Mark T. Grimm
  • Patent number: 6447023
    Abstract: An air management apparatus and method is provided which includes both a pass-through air passage and a manifold air passage in a single, compact structure useful for controlling air transfer necessary for pneumatically controlled systems and instruments. The air management apparatus has a base plate with a device for removably attaching the air management apparatus to a firewall or other structure, and also has at least one pass-through air passage and at least one manifold air passage formed in the base plate. At least one exhaust air passage, which is a type of pass-through air passage, can also be formed in the base plate. The pass-through air passage receives air into a single inlet port and expels air out of a single outlet port, while the manifold air passage receives air into a single inlet port and expels air out at least two outlet ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Paccar Inc
    Inventor: Mark T. Grimm
  • Patent number: 5195800
    Abstract: An enclosed trailer for towing by an over the road truck is provided having increased internal width for a given external width. The side walls of the trailer are constructed from a series of vertically extending, spaced apart, rigid plates, preferably metallic plates, and metallic reinforcing members which have an inwardly projecting, vertically extending rib that is positioned between the adjacent edges of adjacent pairs of plates. The reinforcing members are riveted or otherwise rigidly secured to the outside of a pair of plates. Furthermore, the plates and reinforcing members are also rigidly secured to vertically extending flanges of the longitudinally extending top and bottom beams which form the juncture between the side walls and the top wall, and the side walls and the bottom wall, respectively. Because all elements of the trailer side walls are rigidly joined to the top and bottom beams, the overall strength and rigidity of the trailer is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Assignee: Fruehauf Trailer Corporation
    Inventors: Brian K. Stafford, Donald M. Brown, Jr., Gregory Radanovic, Mark T. Grimm, Roger L. Niebuhr