Patents by Inventor Peter C. Woods
Peter C. Woods 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: 11944263Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure include methods and systems for attaching an articulation section. In an embodiment, a medical instrument includes a first tubular member including a first end. The medical instrument also includes a second tubular member including a first end. The second tubular member includes a plurality of layers including an inner layer and a first layer including a fluorinated material. The inner layer includes a first section disposed under the first layer and a second section extending out from under the first layer. A portion of the first tubular member overlaps and is bonded to at least a portion of the second section of the inner layer of the second tubular member.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Sean P. Fleury, Gary S. Kappel, Norman C. May, Dane T. Seddon, Mark D. Wood, Peter L. Dayton
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Patent number: 10203180Abstract: Apparatus and methods relating to a missile canister that utilizes a variable obturator assembly. The variable obturator assembly can include a plurality of gates that adjust based upon canister pressure at a base plate. In a maximum pressure situation experienced during successful missile egress from the canister, one or more of the gates can open in response to canister flyout pressure so as to increase flow area through the base plate, thereby reducing canister pressure. In a restrained firing scenario, the plurality of gates remain closed thereby preventing missile exhaust gases from flow up past the base plate which could lead to heating of a rocket motor and warhead. The variable obturator assembly can have multiple individual gates that are mounted to the base plate with a hinge assembly, with the gates held in a closed position against the base plate with a spring assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: BAE Systems Land & Armaments L.P.Inventors: Mark J. Miller, Peter C. Woods
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Publication number: 20190017780Abstract: Apparatus and methods relating to a missile canister that utilizes a variable obturator assembly. The variable obturator assembly can include a plurality of gates that adjust based upon canister pressure at a base plate. In a maximum pressure situation experienced during successful missile egress from the canister, one or more of the gates can open in response to canister flyout pressure so as to increase flow area through the base plate, thereby reducing canister pressure. In a restrained firing scenario, the plurality of gates remain closed thereby preventing missile exhaust gases from flow up past the base plate which could lead to heating of a rocket motor and warhead. The variable obturator assembly can have multiple individual gates that are mounted to the base plate with a hinge assembly, with the gates held in a closed position against the base plate with a spring assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2017Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventors: Mark J. Miller, Peter C. Woods
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Patent number: 9874420Abstract: Apparatus and methods relating to a missile canister that utilizes a variable obturator assembly. The variable obturator assembly can include a plurality of gates that adjust based upon canister pressure at a base plate. In a maximum pressure situation experienced during successful missile egress from the canister, one or more of the gates can open in response to canister flyout pressure so as to increase flow area through the base plate, thereby reducing canister pressure. In a restrained firing scenario, the plurality of gates remain closed thereby preventing missile exhaust gases from flow up past the base plate which could lead to heating of a rocket motor and warhead. The variable obturator assembly can have multiple individual gates that are mounted to the base plate with a hinge assembly, with the gates held in a closed position against the base plate with a spring assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: BAE Systems Land & Armaments, L.P.Inventors: Mark J. Miller, Peter C. Woods
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Publication number: 20160178318Abstract: Apparatus and methods relating to a missile canister that utilizes a variable obturator assembly. The variable obturator assembly can include a plurality of gates that adjust based upon canister pressure at a base plate. In a maximum pressure situation experienced during successful missile egress from the canister, one or more of the gates can open in response to canister flyout pressure so as to increase flow area through the base plate, thereby reducing canister pressure. In a restrained firing scenario, the plurality of gates remain closed thereby preventing missile exhaust gases from flow up past the base plate which could lead to heating of a rocket motor and warhead. The variable obturator assembly can have multiple individual gates that are mounted to the base plate with a hinge assembly, with the gates held in a closed position against the base plate with a spring assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2014Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Mark J. Miller, Peter C. Woods
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Publication number: 20120266069Abstract: A TV Internet browser is described. The TV Internet browser includes features which facilitate the browsing of the Internet from a television including, for example, support for 3D pointing, scrolling and zooming/panning mode control, adaptations to support entry of text into text boxes, searching, and other features.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2010Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: HILLCREST LABORATORIES, INC.Inventors: Negar Moshiri, William A. Rouady, Ahmed K. Zubair, Richard J. Vary, Peter C. Wood, Bradley S. Dyer
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Patent number: 5484056Abstract: A display hanger for an article such as a screwdriver includes a body having an aperture for receiving a hanger hook, and a downwardly depending tongue. The tongue includes a pair of arch-shaped pockets which are open at a rear face of the body. An elastomeric grommet is installable into the body. The grommet is formed of one piece and includes two arch-shaped sections and an integral web interconnecting the sections to define a hinge. The grommet sections include respective holes which can be brought into alignment by folding the grommet about the hinge. The sections of the folded grommet can be inserted simultaneously into the pockets and held therein by friction and/or rib-and-groove couplings. The screwdriver is inserted vertically through both holes of the grommet and retained therein by friction fit.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1994Date of Patent: January 16, 1996Assignee: Cooper Industries, Inc.Inventor: Peter C. Wood
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Patent number: 4303961Abstract: Static charges and agglomeration of particles in a fluidized bed system are minimized by maintaining in at least part of the bed a radio frequency glow discharge. This approach is eminently suitable for processes in which the conventional charge removing agents, i.e., moisture or conductive particle coatings, cannot be used. The technique is applied here to the disproportionation of calcium peroxide diperoxyhydrate to yield calcium superoxide, an exceptionally water and heat sensitive reaction.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1979Date of Patent: December 1, 1981Inventors: Robert A. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with respect to an invention of Frosch, Theodore Wydeven, Peter C. Wood, Edward V. Ballou, Leroy A. Spitze
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Patent number: 4101644Abstract: Calcium superoxide is prepared in high yields by spreading a quantity of calcium peroxide diperoxyhydrate on the surface of a container over an area of 18 to 300 cm.sup.2 per gram of diperoxyhydrate; positioning said container in a vacuum chamber on a support structure through which a coolant fluid can be circulated; partially evacuating said vacuum chamber, allowing the temperature of the diperoxyhydrate to reach to a level within the range of about 0.degree. to about 40.degree.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1977Date of Patent: July 18, 1978Inventors: Robert A. Acting Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with respect to an invention of Frosch, E. Vernon Ballou, Peter C. Wood, Theordore J. Wydeven, Jr., LeRoy A. Spitze
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Patent number: D559926Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2007Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Inventor: Peter C. Wood
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Patent number: D658196Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2010Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Peter C. Wood, Ahmed Khalid Zubair, William A. Rouady, Bradley S. Dyer, Negar Moshiri, Richard J. Vary