Patents by Inventor Nicholas Ryan Farrell
Nicholas Ryan Farrell 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).
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Patent number: 11759828Abstract: A method of cleaning a surface includes steps of: urging brushes of a cleaning device against the surface; providing solvent to the surface via a solvent supply that passes through a housing of the cleaning device; rotating a drive gear about a drive-gear rotational axis to drive driven gears about corresponding driven-gear rotational axes inside the housing to rotate the brushes; and evacuating material from the surface via a vacuum tube, passing through the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: John Walter Pringle, IV, Nicholas Ryan Farrell, Raul Tomuta
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Publication number: 20210237125Abstract: A method of cleaning a surface includes steps of: urging brushes of a cleaning device against the surface; providing solvent to the surface via a solvent supply that passes through a housing of the cleaning device; rotating a drive gear about a drive-gear rotational axis to drive driven gears about corresponding driven-gear rotational axes inside the housing to rotate the brushes; and evacuating material from the surface via a vacuum tube, passing through the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: John Walter Pringle, IV, Nicholas Ryan Farrell, Raul Tomuta
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Patent number: 11020773Abstract: A cleaning device comprises a housing. The cleaning device also comprises a drive gear that rotates about a drive-gear rotational axis. The cleaning device further comprises driven gears, driven by a drive gear and rotatable about corresponding driven-gear rotational axes inside the housing. The cleaning device further comprises brushes, located outside the housing and each rotatable together with a corresponding one of the driven gears. The cleaning device also comprises a vacuum tube, passing through the drive gear. The cleaning device additionally comprises a solvent supply, passing through the housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: John Walter Pringle, IV, Nicholas Ryan Farrell, Raul Tomuta
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Patent number: 10953481Abstract: A combination cutting and burnishing orbital drilling tool may include an elongate tool body including a cutting end and extending along a longitudinal axis. The tool body may include a burnishing portion spaced from the cutting end and configured to induce residual stress in a side wall of a hole without removing material. The tool body may further include a cutting portion interposed between the cutting end and the burnishing portion. The cutting portion may be configured to remove material from a workpiece, thereby creating the hole, during an orbital drilling process.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Nicholas Ryan Farrell, Branko Sarh, Michael L. Caldarera, Gary Lipczynski, Wesley Edward Holleman, James Darryl Gamboa
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Publication number: 20200206785Abstract: A cleaning device (100) comprises a housing (112). The cleaning device (100) also comprises a drive gear (114) that rotates about a drive-gear rotational axis (115). The cleaning device (100) further comprises driven gears (116), driven by a drive gear (114) and rotatable about corresponding driven-gear rotational axes (117) inside the housing (112). The cleaning device (100) further comprises brushes (140), located outside the housing (112) and each rotatable together with a corresponding one of the driven gears (116). The cleaning device (100) also comprises a vacuum tube (120), passing through the drive gear (114). The cleaning device (100) additionally comprises a solvent supply (130), passing through the housing (112).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: John Walter Pringle, IV, Nicholas Ryan Farrell, Raul Tomuta
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Patent number: 10058933Abstract: A cutting tool for use in an orbital drilling machine may include a cutting-tool body having a longitudinal axis and a plurality of cutting edges supported on the cutting-tool body and distributed circumferentially around the cutting-tool body. Each cutting edge may extend along the longitudinal axis in a respective helix. A circumferential spacing may be defined between each pair of circumferentially adjacent cutting edges for each position of the longitudinal axis along which the cutting edges extend. The circumferential spacing between at least first and second cutting edges of the plurality of cutting edges may be different at spaced-apart first and second positions along the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2015Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Nicholas Ryan Farrell, Wesley Edward Holleman, Gary Alan Lipczynski, William P. Zanteson
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Publication number: 20180099368Abstract: A debris removal apparatus for a milling machine. In one embodiment, the debris removal apparatus includes a hollow, cylindrical suction member that attaches to a tool shaft which holds an end mill to rotate with the tool shaft. The debris removal apparatus further includes a nonrotating canister that applies a suction force to the suction member. The suction member is dimensioned to fit within a hole being cut by the end mill as the end mill is fed into the hole, and to extract debris created by the end mill via the suction force.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2016Publication date: April 12, 2018Inventors: Wesley E. Holleman, Nicholas Ryan Farrell, Gary Lipczynski
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Patent number: 9937599Abstract: A debris removal apparatus for a milling machine. In one embodiment, the debris removal apparatus includes a hollow, cylindrical suction member that attaches to a tool shaft which holds an end mill to rotate with the tool shaft. The debris removal apparatus further includes a nonrotating canister that applies a suction force to the suction member. The suction member is dimensioned to fit within a hole being cut by the end mill as the end mill is fed into the hole, and to extract debris created by the end mill via the suction force.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Wesley E. Holleman, Nicholas Ryan Farrell, Gary Lipczynski
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Publication number: 20170259355Abstract: A combination cutting and burnishing orbital drilling tool may include an elongate tool body including a cutting end and extending along a longitudinal axis. The tool body may include a burnishing portion spaced from the cutting end and configured to induce residual stress in a side wall of a hole without removing material. The tool body may further include a cutting portion interposed between the cutting end and the burnishing portion. The cutting portion may be configured to remove material from a workpiece, thereby creating the hole, during an orbital drilling process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2016Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Nicholas Ryan Farrell, Branko Sarh, Michael L. Caldarera, Gary Lipczynski, Wesley Edward Holleman, James Darryl Gamboa
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Publication number: 20160288222Abstract: A cutting tool for use in an orbital drilling machine may include a cutting-tool body having a longitudinal axis and a plurality of cutting edges supported on the cutting-tool body and distributed circumferentially around the cutting-tool body. Each cutting edge may extend along the longitudinal axis in a respective helix. A circumferential spacing may be defined between each pair of circumferentially adjacent cutting edges for each position of the longitudinal axis along which the cutting edges extend. The circumferential spacing between at least first and second cutting edges of the plurality of cutting edges may be different at spaced-apart first and second positions along the longitudinal axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Nicholas Ryan Farrell, Wesley Edward Holleman, Gary Alan Lipczynski, William P. Zanteson