Patents by Inventor Paul H. Collins

Paul H. Collins 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).

  • DRIVE SYSTEM FOR A POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT PUMP
    Publication number: 20240125313
    Abstract: A drive system for a pump includes a housing and a fluid displacer and a reciprocator configured to mechanically displace the fluid displacer through respective suction strokes. The housing and fluid displacer define an internal pressure chamber configured to be filled with a working fluid having a charge pressure. The internal pressure chamber is configured such that the working fluid exerts the charge pressure on the fluid displacer during both the suction stroke and a pressure stroke of the fluid displacer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Bradley H. Hines, Brian W. Koehn, Jeffrey A. Earles, Paul W. Scheierl, Adam K. Collins
  • Pyramid socket suspension
    Patent number: 7416910
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for flexibly suspending a sensing mechanism between a pair of cover plates, including a sensing mechanism formed in a crystalline silicon substrate; a pair of cover plates formed in crystalline silicon substrates; a first plurality of complementary interfaces in fixed relation between the sensing mechanism and a first one of the cover plates; and a second plurality of complementary interfaces flexibly suspended between the sensing mechanism and a second one of the cover plates with one or more of the flexibly suspended interfaces being a complementary male and female interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Steven A. Foote, Paul H. Collins, J. Christopher Milne
  • Pyramid socket suspension
    Patent number: 7150191
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for flexibly suspending a sensing mechanism between a pair of cover plates, including a sensing mechanism formed in a crystalline silicon substrate; a pair of cover plates formed in crystalline silicon substrates; a first plurality of complementary interfaces in fixed relation between the sensing mechanism and a first one of the cover plates; and a second plurality of complementary interfaces flexibly suspended between the sensing mechanism and a second one of the cover plates with one or more of the flexibly suspended interfaces being a complementary male and female interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Honeywell Int'l Inc.
    Inventors: Steven A. Foote, Paul H. Collins, J. Christopher Milne
  • Pyramid socket suspension
    Patent number: 7107840
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for flexibly suspending a sensing mechanism between a pair of cover plates, including a sensing mechanism formed in a crystalline silicon substrate; a pair of cover plates formed in crystalline silicon substrates; a first plurality of complementary interfaces in fixed relation between the sensing mechanism and a first one of the cover plates; and a second plurality of complementary interfaces flexibly suspended between the sensing mechanism and a second one of the cover plates with one or more of the flexibly suspended interfaces being a complementary male and female interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Steven A. Foote, Paul H. Collins, J. Christopher Milne
  • Pyramid socket suspension
    Patent number: 7073380
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for flexibly suspending a sensing mechanism between a pair of cover plates, including a sensing mechanism formed in a crystalline silicon substrate; a pair of cover plates formed in crystalline silicon substrates; a first plurality of complementary interfaces in fixed relation between the sensing mechanism and a first one of the cover plates; and a second plurality of complementary interfaces flexibly suspended between the sensing mechanism and a second one of the cover plates with one or more of the flexibly suspended interfaces being a complementary male and female interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven A. Foote, Paul H. Collins, J. Christopher Milne
  • Compensation of second-order non-linearity in sensors employing double-ended tuning forks
    Patent number: 6718292
    Abstract: A method for designing a sensor using a dual double-ended tuning forks which provides composite cancellation of second-order non-linearity terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Graeme A. Blake, Paul H. Collins, Steven A. Foote, Ronald B. Leonardson
  • Compensation of second-order non-linearity in sensors employing double-ended tuning forks
    Patent number: 6282959
    Abstract: A method for designing a sensor using a dual double-ended tuning forks which provides composite cancellation of second-order non-linearity terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: AlliedSignal
    Inventors: Graeme A. Blake, Paul H. Collins, Steven A. Foote, Ronald B. Leonardson