Patents by Inventor POTTER ALFRED MARK

POTTER ALFRED MARK 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: 20160199913
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for producing a conduit system (10) for use on-board a vehicle (3). The method comprises: identifying a plurality of source apparatuses (4) located on-board the vehicle (3) and from which a resource is to be transferred via the conduit system (10); for each identified source apparatus (4), identifying one or more sink apparatuses (6) located on-board the vehicle (3) and to which that source apparatus (4) is to transfer, via the conduit system (10), a resource; using relative locations of the identified source and sink apparatuses, producing a digital model (62) for the conduit system (10) including specifying conduits (12-24) for coupling the source apparatuses (4) to the sink apparatuses (6) and arranging the conduits (12-24) such that each conduit (12-24) shares a common conduit wall with at one other conduit (12-24); and, using the digital model (62), producing the conduit system (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventor: POTTER ALFRED MARK