Patents by Inventor Norman F. Willett

Norman F. Willett 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: 5261300
    Abstract: A wrench for installing or removing an electrical connector having a collar s provided. The wrench comprises two handles, an elongated sleeve, a shaft, a cam, and a grip. One end of the elongated sleeve slidably attaches to a hub of the grip while the other end slidably attaches to the first handle. The grip further comprises a semicircular-shaped claw which engages the collar of the electrical connector. The shaft is rotatably disposed within the interior of the sleeve. One end of the shaft is eccentrically connected to the cam and the other end is connected to the second handle. The second handle is positioned within an aperture of the first handle. During operation of the wrench, the user grasps both handles and maneuvers the wrench between a series of cables on one side of an electric terminal assembly having a plurality of interconnected cables until the grip is positioned over the collar of a connector of a selected electrical cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: The United states of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Norman F. Willett
  • Patent number: 4446363
    Abstract: A target for optically activated seekers and trackers (TOAST) which provi for calibrated and variable target characteristics such as size, intensity, spatial position, color and interfering background. The TOAST has a first ilumination system providing a target light beam through an adjustable iris which controls image size. The target beam passes through a collimator lens which focuses the light at infinity. With the target beam focused at infinity, the motion of an elevation plate lengthens or shortens the distance from the collimator lens to a one motion mirror. The target beam is attenuated by a variable filter driven by a servo-motor, and a color selection process is provided by passing the beam through spectral filters. A focusing lens and attendant mirror lengthen or shorten the distance from the one motion mirror to the focusing lens and mirror, which is orthogonal with the one motion mirror, thus providing an X-Y movement of the target image formed by the focusing lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Charles T. Lakin, Norman F. Willett
  • Patent number: H226
    Abstract: Improved manually operable and remotely controlled tool for selectively rving or installing connector ends of a clustered arrangement of interconnected cables of an electric terminal assembly. The tool is generally made up of hub means and opposed jaw means. One end of elongated sleeve means is affixed to the hub means while the other end is connected to first handle means. Shaft means is rotatably disposed in the sleeve means with one end of the shaft means affixed to cam means and the other end to second handle means that is freely disposed in an aperture of the first handle means. During tool use, the user normally grips both handle means and maneuvers the hub and jaw means between a series of cables on one side of an electric terminal assembly having a plurality of interconnected cables until the jaw means are disposed about a selected cable of the series of cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1987
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Norman F. Willett