Patents by Inventor Peter Rook

Peter Rook 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: 5631444
    Abstract: An effective grounding of electrical equipment, electrical cables, housings, and the like, is accomplished by grounding lugs that are initially formed as an integral part, for example, of a grounding sleeve of electrically conducting material that surrounds a protective cable casing of electrically conducting material in a crimping manner. The lugs are only bent out of the sleeve when needed. A grounding conductor is then secured to the lug. The grounding lugs may be incorporated in all systems that are provided for protection against surge currents or excessive voltages produced by a thunderstorm, especially in a vehicle or a craft, e.g. an aircraft. A cable connector includes a hollow support body that reaches with an inner end into the grounding sleeve to provide a backing for holding an end of the cable casing clamped between the grounding sleeve and the inner end of the support body. The outer end of the support body carries a coupling nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1997
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Rook
  • Patent number: 5418330
    Abstract: An effective grounding of electrical equipment, electrical cables, housings, and the like, is accomplished by connector lugs that are initially formed as an integral part, for example, of a connecting sleeve that surrounds a protective casing or an envelope of a cable in a crimping manner. The lugs are only bent out of the sleeve or housing portion or the like when needed. A grounding conductor is then secured to the lug, for example, by a screw connection or by a plug-in connection or the like. The present lugs may be incorporated in all systems that are provided for protection against surge currents or excessive voltages produced by a thunderstorm, especially in a vehicle or a craft, e.g. an aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Assignee: Deutsche Aerospace Airbus GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Rook
  • Patent number: 5001882
    Abstract: A metal roofing clip member having a base portion, which is rigidly attachable to a roof purlin, a separate upper clip portion attached to the upper part of the base portion, the upper clip portion including means for allowing rotational and articulating movement of the upper clip portion relative to the stationary base member; a third lower portion, secured against the clip member, the lower portion including a first outwardly extending flange, and a pair of inward extending flange members, the pair of flange members defining a single plain wherein the upper level of the roofing seam rests thereupon, the lower member while being secured to the base member and the upper clip member allows rotational and translational movement of the member both relative to the movable clip member and the stationary base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1991
    Inventors: Neil A. Watkins, Peter Rook, Robert Bowers