Patents by Inventor Paul Weaver

Paul Weaver 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: 20240102421
    Abstract: The gas turbine engine can have an engine core; a core output shaft drivable by the engine core; a power output shaft; an auxiliary power shaft; and a reduction gearbox having gears, the gears drivingly connecting the core output shaft to the auxiliary power shaft. The gears can include an epicyclic gearing drivingly connecting the core output shaft and the auxiliary power shaft to the power output shaft. The gas turbine engine can further have a second auxiliary power shaft interconnected to the auxiliary power shaft, the power output shaft, and the core output shaft by the gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Bruno CHATELOIS, Michel DESJARDINS, Paul WEAVER, Eric DUROCHER
  • Publication number: 20240047046
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with indicating physical progress of a clinician through patient locations are described. In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a workflow of locations of patients within a clinical care environment that a clinician is to visit on a schedule. The method includes sensing that the clinician is at a current location within the clinical care environment using a location sensor carried by the clinician. The method includes detecting that the current location corresponds to one of the locations in the workflow. The method includes, in response to the detection, generating in a display an indication of physical progress of the clinician through the workflow as of the current location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Paul WEAVER, Jay Christopher VAGLIO, Anna-Therese FOWLER, Alex LENDE, Eric A. WILSON, Mayur RAJENDRAN, Grant Taylor FLOYD, Matt Ryan ANDERSON
  • Publication number: 20240018783
    Abstract: A method for changing the color and texture of ceramic roofing tiles, including the steps of identifying a damaged tile to be replaced, cleaning the damaged tile, optically measuring the damaged tile to yield a color determination, and selecting a replacement tile of the same shape and general color, immersing the replacement tile in a quantity of acid, removing the tile from the acid after a first predetermined length of time has passed to yield an acid-treated replacement tile, rinsing the acid-treated replacement tile to remove remaining acid, measuring the color of the acid-treated replacement tile, and washing the acid-treated replacement tile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: William M. Carty, Hyojin Lee, Elizabeth Walsh, J. Paul Weaver
  • Patent number: 11867126
    Abstract: The gas turbine engine can have an engine core; a core output shaft drivable by the engine core; a power output shaft; an auxiliary power shaft; and a reduction gearbox having gears, the gears drivingly connecting the core output shaft to the auxiliary power shaft. The gears can include an epicyclic gearing drivingly connecting the core output shaft and the auxiliary power shaft to the power output shaft. The gas turbine engine can further have a second auxiliary power shaft interconnected to the auxiliary power shaft, the power output shaft, and the core output shaft by the gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Bruno Chatelois, Michel Desjardins, Paul Weaver, Eric Durocher
  • Patent number: 11817205
    Abstract: Systems and methods for employing virtual environmental augmentation in clinical care environments to enhance a clinician's in-the-moment knowledge, leverage past experiences of the clinician and others, and improve the quality of patient care are provided. Such virtual environmental augmentation may align with prior-established, evidence-based clinical processes and enhance the clinician's in-the-moment knowledge by extracting relevant data from one or more clinical sources and presenting a virtual representation of at least a portion of the extracted data (or a summary, exemplification, or interpretation thereof) in the clinician's field-of-view while the clinician is present in a clinical care environment and is utilizing an environmental augmentation device. Such environmental augmentation additionally may facilitate real-time documentation enabling more complete clinical records and ultimately improving the quality of patient care.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Weaver, Jay Christopher Vaglio, Anna-Therese Fowler, Alex Lende, Eric A. Wilson, Mayur Rajendran, Grant Taylor Floyd, Matt Ryan Anderson
  • Patent number: 11674449
    Abstract: The relative position and orientation between an auxiliary gearbox and a casing of an aircraft engine can be set including engaging a localizing feature of the accessory gearbox with a localizing feature of the casing; and a load path between auxiliary gearbox can subsequently be defined including securing at least two brackets between the accessory gearbox and casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Paul Weaver, Krzysztof Gajowniczek, Mélanie Brillant
  • Patent number: 11674414
    Abstract: The gas turbine engine can have a casing, a rotor rotatable around a rotation axis relative the casing, the casing extending along and around the rotation axis, a first component mounted externally to the casing by a first mount, the first mount defining a torsion axis extending along a vertical radial orientation normal the rotation axis, the first component having a center of gravity located on a first side relative the torsion axis, a second component mounted externally to the casing on the second side, extending along the vertical radial orientation from a bottom portion to a top portion, a second mount structurally connecting the bottom portion to the casing, and a structure connecting the top portion to the first component on the second side relative the torsion axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Krzysztof Gajowniczek, Paul Weaver, Melanie Brillant
  • Patent number: 11638889
    Abstract: A fluid filter arrangement, with protection against external contamination, the filter arrangement comprising: a fluid circulating system; a filter cartridge having an exterior surface; a housing having an internal fluid chamber surrounding the exterior surface of the filter cartridge, an open end through which the filter cartridge can pass along a housing axis; and a cover sealed over the open end of the housing in a closed position, the cover in an open position exposing the open end of the housing, the cover including a fluid passage in communication with the internal fluid chamber in the closed position, the cover fluid passage being in communication with the fluid circulating system in the closed position and in the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Paul Weaver, Rose Beaulieu, Pierre Gauvin, Louis Brillon
  • Patent number: 11635024
    Abstract: A turboprop gas turbine engine mountable to an aircraft has an engine core and a gearbox driving a propeller, the engine core and the gearbox being enclosed within a nacelle. The propeller is located rearward of the gearbox and the engine core relative to a direction of travel of the aircraft. An air intake is disposed within the nacelle and formed to direct ambient air into the engine core. The air intake includes an air inlet duct, having a forward-facing intake inlet receiving the ambient air, with an upstream section and a downstream section. The upstream section is in fluid communication with the intake inlet and extends downstream from the intake inlet. The downstream section fluidly connects to and directs air from the upstream section into the engine air inlet. A second air outlet duct is located within the nacelle and directs air into an air-cooled-oil-cooler (ACOC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Laurent Letourneau, Keith Morgan, John Wilson, Paul Weaver, Eric Durocher
  • Publication number: 20230016164
    Abstract: The gas turbine engine can have an engine core; a core output shaft drivable by the engine core; a power output shaft; an auxiliary power shaft; and a reduction gearbox having gears, the gears drivingly connecting the core output shaft to the auxiliary power shaft. The gears can include an epicyclic gearing drivingly connecting the core output shaft and the auxiliary power shaft to the power output shaft. The gas turbine engine can further have a second auxiliary power shaft interconnected to the auxiliary power shaft, the power output shaft, and the core output shaft by the gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Bruno CHATELOIS, Michel DESJARDINS, Paul WEAVER, Eric DUROCHER
  • Patent number: 11480212
    Abstract: An assembly comprising: a nut having a cylindrical body with a threaded external surface, an axially extending interior tool socket, and a radially outwardly extending flange at a proximal end of the cylindrical body; a first component including a hollow cylindrical tube with a connector end having a radially inwardly extending shoulder, the radially inwardly extending shoulder abutting the radially outwardly extending flange of the nut in an assembled position; and a second component including an annular hub with a threaded internal surface matching the threaded external surface of the nut, and an annular mounting surface abutting the connector end of the propeller shaft in the assembled position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Paul Weaver, John Wilson, Michel Desjardins, Herve Turcotte
  • Publication number: 20220333381
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to deployable structures, to methods and apparatus for deployment of deployable structures, and to associated manufacturing methods. Such deployable structures suitably comprise components for space structures, such supports for solar arrays, antennas or other similar systems. The deployable structure comprises a lattice element arrangeable in a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration. The lattice element (200) comprises a pre-stressed strip arranged in a clockwise helix (306, FIG. 3a), a pre-stressed strip arranged in an anticlockwise helix (308, FIG. 3a), and a plurality of fasteners (310, FIG. 3a) for rotatably coupling the strips to one another at a plurality of positions distributed along the length of the strips. The fasteners are provided at unequal spacings along the length of the strips such that on deployment the lattice element bends to a curved deployed configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Ciarán MCHALE, Paul WEAVER, Robert TELFORD
  • Publication number: 20220298930
    Abstract: The gas turbine engine can have a casing, a rotor rotatable around a rotation axis relative the casing, the casing extending along and around the rotation axis, a first component mounted externally to the casing by a first mount, the first mount defining a torsion axis extending along a vertical radial orientation normal the rotation axis, the first component having a center of gravity located on a first side relative the torsion axis, a second component mounted externally to the casing on the second side, extending along the vertical radial orientation from a bottom portion to a top portion, a second mount structurally connecting the bottom portion to the casing, and a structure connecting the top portion to the first component on the second side relative the torsion axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Krzysztof GAJOWNICZEK, Paul WEAVER, Mélanie BRILLANT
  • Publication number: 20220290615
    Abstract: The relative position and orientation between an auxiliary gearbox and a casing of an aircraft engine can be set including engaging a localizing feature of the accessory gearbox with a localizing feature of the casing; and a load path between auxiliary gearbox can subsequently be defined including securing at least two brackets between the accessory gearbox and casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Paul WEAVER, Krzysztof GAJOWNICZEK, Mélanie BRILLANT
  • Publication number: 20220289406
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to deployable structures, to methods and apparatus for deployment of deployable structures, and to associated manufacturing methods. Such deployable structures suitably comprise components for space structures, such supports for solar arrays, antennas or other similar systems. The deployable structure (500) comprises a first lattice (514) arrangeable in a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration. The deployable structure also comprises a second lattice (516) arrangeable in a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration, wherein with the lattices arranged in the stowed configuration the second lattice (516) nests in the first lattice (514).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Ciarán MCHALE, Paul WEAVER, Robert TELFORD
  • Publication number: 20220184898
    Abstract: A spreading apparatus for use with fibre-reinforced composite tapes, and related methods are disclosed. The spreading apparatus comprises an input side to receive an incoming tape to be spread, and an output side from which tape is delivered after spreading. The apparatus further comprises a tape heater (150, 250, 650) to in use apply heat to a tape; and a tape spreader (100, 1, 200, 600) to in use to apply contact pressure to the heated tape to thereby spread the tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Gearóid CLANCY, Ronan O'HIGGINS, Paul WEAVER
  • Publication number: 20220028531
    Abstract: Systems and methods for employing virtual environmental augmentation in clinical care environments to enhance a clinician's in-the-moment knowledge, leverage past experiences of the clinician and others, and improve the quality of patient care are provided. Such virtual environmental augmentation may align with prior-established, evidence-based clinical processes and enhance the clinician's in-the-moment knowledge by extracting relevant data from one or more clinical sources and presenting a virtual representation of at least a portion of the extracted data (or a summary, exemplification, or interpretation thereof) in the clinician's field-of-view while the clinician is present in a clinical care environment and is utilizing an environmental augmentation device. Such environmental augmentation additionally may facilitate real-time documentation enabling more complete clinical records and ultimately improving the quality of patient care.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Paul Weaver, Jay Christopher Vaglio, Anna-Therese Fowler, Alex Lende, Eric A. Wilson, Mayur Rajendran, Grant Taylor Floyd, Matt Ryan Anderson
  • Patent number: 11139071
    Abstract: Systems and methods for employing virtual environmental augmentation in clinical care environments to enhance a clinician's in-the-moment knowledge, leverage past experiences of the clinician and others, and improve the quality of patient care are provided. Such virtual environmental augmentation may align with prior-established, evidence-based clinical processes and enhance the clinician's in-the-moment knowledge by extracting relevant data from one or more clinical sources and presenting a virtual representation of at least a portion of the extracted data (or a summary, exemplification, or interpretation thereof) in the clinician's field-of-view while the clinician is present in a clinical care environment and is utilizing an environmental augmentation device. Such environmental augmentation additionally may facilitate real-time documentation enabling more complete clinical records and ultimately improving the quality of patient care.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Weaver, Jay Christopher Vaglio, Anna-Therese Fowler, Alex Lende, Eric A. Wilson, Mayur Rajendran, Grant Taylor Floyd, Matt Ryan Anderson
  • Publication number: 20210086110
    Abstract: A fluid filter arrangement, with protection against external contamination, the filter arrangement comprising: a fluid circulating system; a filter cartridge having an exterior surface; a housing having an internal fluid chamber surrounding the exterior surface of the filter cartridge, an open end through which the filter cartridge can pass along a housing axis; and a cover sealed over the open end of the housing in a closed position, the cover in an open position exposing the open end of the housing, the cover including a fluid passage in communication with the internal fluid chamber in the closed position, the cover fluid passage being in communication with the fluid circulating system in the closed position and in the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Paul WEAVER, Rose BEAULIEU, Pierre GAUVIN, Louis BRILLON
  • Publication number: 20210070423
    Abstract: An assembly comprising: a nut having a cylindrical body with a threaded external surface, an axially extending interior tool socket, and a radially outwardly extending flange at a proximal end of the cylindrical body; a first component including a hollow cylindrical tube with a connector end having a radially inwardly extending shoulder, the radially inwardly extending shoulder abutting the radially outwardly extending flange of the nut in an assembled position; and a second component including an annular hub with a threaded internal surface matching the threaded external surface of the nut, and an annular mounting surface abutting the connector end of the propeller shaft in the assembled position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Paul WEAVER, John WILSON, Michel DESJARDINS, Herve TURCOTTE