Patents by Inventor Michael Allan Long

Michael Allan Long 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: 20250085195
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining pressure data and temperature data for gas in respective ones of shock struts of a plurality of landing gear. The method includes determining, for each shock strut for a first time corresponding to an end of a first change in gas pressure due to movement of a piston of the shock strut during loading or unloading of the aircraft, a friction value associated with the shock strut based on a gas pressure and a gas temperature at the first time. The method also includes computing, for a particular time before the loading or the unloading of the aircraft causes a second change in gas pressure of one or more of the shock struts, a weight of the aircraft based on the gas pressures of the shock struts at the first times and the friction values associated with the shock struts at the first times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventor: Michael Allan Long
  • Publication number: 20220330766
    Abstract: The currently described embodiments of the invention relate to an ice and snow scraper device that is designed to have dual functionality. One of the scraper blades is sized, shaped and dimensioned to scrape ice and snow from a vehicle windscreen of from vehicle windows. The other end is sized, shaped and dimensioned to fit between the glass of vehicle windows and the weather stripping so as to be able to free up frozen vehicle windows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventor: Michael Allan LONG
  • Patent number: 8523107
    Abstract: A landing gear for an aircraft. The landing gear may have a wheel/truck assembly, an oleo strut/support frame for supporting the wheel/truck assembly, and a retraction assembly attached to the oleo strut/support frame, the retraction assembly for moving the landing gear between a deployed position and a retracted position. The retraction assembly may have a pivoting trunnion brace attached to the oleo strut/support frame and to a fuselage of the aircraft for positioning the wheel/truck assembly, the oleo strut/support frame and the retraction assembly at least substantially fully within the fuselage of the aircraft in the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: James Jason Salmon, Sergey D. Barmichev, Michael Allan Long
  • Publication number: 20120168561
    Abstract: A landing gear for an aircraft. The landing gear may have a wheel/truck assembly, an oleo strut/support frame for supporting the wheel/truck assembly, and a retraction assembly attached to the oleo strut/support frame, the retraction assembly for moving the landing gear between a deployed position and a retracted position. The retraction assembly may have a pivoting trunnion brace attached to the oleo strut/support frame and to a fuselage of the aircraft for positioning the wheel/truck assembly, the oleo strut/support frame and the retraction assembly at least substantially fully within the fuselage of the aircraft in the retracted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: James Jason Salmon, Sergey D. Barmichev, Michael Allan Long
  • Patent number: 5862890
    Abstract: Axial and rotational movement of the torque tube foot of an aircraft's disc brake assembly is restrained to substantially dampen or eliminate the short interval high frequency vibration previously experienced on brake application. Restraining means is employed to restrain the torque tube foot and includes an annular flange member mounted to the axle by an axle sleeve and positioned adjacent a first side of the torque tube foot to stop lateral movement of the torque tube foot in the direction of the first side. Wheel spacer means is also provided containing a cylindrical passage for mounting the wheel spacer means to the axle opposite the annular flange member and on the opposite side of the torque tube foot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: McDonnell Douglas Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Allan Long, Wilfred Earl Boehringer, Carl Edward Trustee