Patents by Inventor Martin Andrew Brogley

Martin Andrew Brogley 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).

  • Rapidly making complex castings
    Patent number: 6446697
    Abstract: Method of rapidly making casting, comprising: designing a computer graphic model of the casting; sectioning the graphic model into graphic members which are at least one of blocks and slabs; carving a solid member for each of the graphic members, the solid members being (i) constituted of a meltable or evaporative solid material (i.e. wax or polystyrene), (ii) proportional to and enveloping its corresponding graphic member, and the carving being carried out by accessing two or more sides of each solid member to at least essentially duplicate the corresponding graphic member; forming a mold around the pattern, and casting metal within the mold while removing the pattern from such mold either by evaporation during pouring of the molten metal thereinto or by melting prior thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Furqan Zafar Shaikh, Martin Andrew Brogley, Craig Edward Burch, Neal James Corey, Thomas John Heater, Gary Allan Vrsek
  • Rapidly making a contoured part
    Patent number: 5872714
    Abstract: Method of rapidly producing a contoured part, comprising: designing a computer graphic model of the part, sectioning the graphic model into graphic members which are at least one of blocks or slabs, carving a solid member (14-150 mm in thickness) for each of the graphic members, the solid member being proportion to and enveloping such graphic members, the carving being carried out by accessing two or more sides (opposite sides) of such solid member to at least essentially duplicate the corresponding graphic member, and securing the carved solid members together to replicate the graphic model as a usable unitary part.The method can be modified to make castings by carving wax or foam solid members which are assembled to form an investment pattern, the was pattern being used in a shell mold casting steps and the foam pattern being used in evaporative casting steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Furqan Zafar Shaikh, Gregory Hugh Smith, Michael Raymond Rigley, Craig Edward Burch, Martin Andrew Brogley, Robert Francis Novak, Robert Walter Grenkowitz, Gerald A. Grab
  • Rapidly making a contoured part
    Patent number: 5847958
    Abstract: Method of rapidly producing a contoured part, comprising: designing a computer graphic model of the part, sectioning the graphic model into graphic members which are at least one of blocks or slabs, carving a solid member (14-150 mm in thickness) for each of the graphic members, the solid member being proportion to and enveloping such graphic members, the carving being carried out by accessing two or more sides (opposite sides) of such solid member to at least essentially duplicate the corresponding graphic member, and securing the carved solid members together to replicate the graphic model as a usable unitary part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, INc.
    Inventors: Furgan Zafar Shaikh, Martin Andrew Brogley, Craig Edward Burch, Gerry A. Grab, Robert Walter Grenkowitz, Robert Francis Novak, Michael Raymond Rigley