Patents by Inventor Ralph Michael
Ralph Michael 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: 11340633Abstract: A method of adjusting a center of gravity (CG) of an aircraft includes: inputting at least one load parameter into a flight computer, determining, via a processer of the flight computer, the CG of the aircraft. Responsive to a determination by the processor that the CG is outside of a CG envelope, moving at least a first movable ballast of a plurality of movable ballasts from a first ballast dock to a second ballast dock to move the CG toward the CG envelope. Each of the first and second ballast docks may include a housing and a first ballast tray secured within the housing and comprising a plurality of channels.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.Inventors: Derek William Heard, Richard Theodore Perryman, Nathan Craig Clark, Joshua Andrew Emrich, Yann Lavallee, Ralph Michael Gannarelli
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Publication number: 20220106612Abstract: Disclosed herein is a recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector comprising (a) a variant AAV2 capsid protein, wherein the variant AAV2 capsid protein comprises at least four amino acid substitutions with respect to a wild type AAV2 capsid protein; wherein the at least four amino acid substitutions are present at the following positions in an AAV2 capsid protein sequence: 457, 492, 499 and 533; and (b) a heterologous nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a gene product.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventor: Ralph Michael LINDEN
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Patent number: 11148786Abstract: A movable ballast system for an aircraft includes first and second ballast docks secured to the aircraft. The first ballast dock includes a first housing and a first ballast tray and a first stop plate secured within the first housing. The first ballast tray includes a plurality of channels. The second ballast dock is positioned aft of a CG of the aircraft and includes a second housing and a second ballast tray and a second stop plate secured within the second housing. The second ballast tray includes a plurality of channels. The movable ballast system includes a plurality of movable ballasts, each movable ballast of the plurality of movable ballasts being configured to fit within at least one channel of each of the plurality of channels of the first and second ballast trays.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Bell Textron Inc.Inventors: Derek William Heard, Richard Theodore Perryman, Nathan Craig Clark, Joshua Andrew Emrich, Yann Lavallee, Ralph Michael Gannarelli
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Publication number: 20210316843Abstract: A movable ballast system for an aircraft includes first and second ballast docks secured to the aircraft. The first ballast dock includes a first housing and a first ballast tray secured within the first housing. The first ballast tray includes a plurality of channels. The second ballast dock is positioned aft of a CG of the aircraft and includes a second housing and a second ballast tray secured within the second housing. The second ballast tray includes a plurality of channels. The movable ballast system includes a plurality of movable ballasts, each movable ballast of the plurality of movable ballasts being configured to fit within at least one channel of each of the plurality of channels of the first and second ballast trays.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: Bell Textron Inc.Inventors: Derek William HEARD, Richard Theodore PERRYMAN, Nathan Craig CLARK, Joshua Andrew EMRICH, Yann LAVALLEE, Ralph Michael GANNARELLI
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Patent number: 11142904Abstract: According to one embodiment, an insulated structure includes a frame comprising a plurality of wall studs coupled together and a plurality of foam boards attached to the frame to form a continuous insulative wall. A plurality of fasteners attaches the foam boards to the frame. Each fastener includes an elongate shaft and a cap. The elongate shaft is configured to penetrate through a foam board and into a wall stud to couple the components together. The cap is configured to be positioned atop a foam board to distribute a load relatively evenly to the foam board. A sealing tape is applied across seams between adjacent foam boards and over the fasteners' caps to seal the wall. A sealing caulk is applied to secondary fasteners and penetrations to seal the wall. In some embodiments, the structure has a fastener density of about 1 fastener per 243 in2 of foam board.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Johns ManvilleInventors: Kathryn Fink Miks, Ralph Michael Fay, Thomas S Calzavara, Francis John Babineau, Jr.
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Patent number: 11143353Abstract: A fiber reinforced insulation product may include a first layer of fiber reinforced aerogel composite and a second layer of fiber reinforced aerogel composite. The first layer may include entangled fibers, aerogel particles dispersed within the entangled fibers, and a first binder that may form a first binding framework that bonds the entangled fibers and the aerogel particles of the first layer together. The second layer may include entangled fibers, aerogel particles dispersed within the entangled fibers, and a second binder that may form a second binding framework that bonds the entangled fibers and the aerogel particles of the second layer together. The fiber reinforced insulation product may further include a third binder that may form a third binding framework that bonds the first layer and the second layer together. The third binder may be dispersed throughout the first layer and the second layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Johns ManvilleInventors: Ralph Michael Fay, Stanislav Kukatin
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Patent number: 11124185Abstract: A secondary system operates on a vehicle to avoid a collision when a problem occurs with a primary system. For example, the secondary system may operate independently from the primary system to take over control of the vehicle from the primary system when the secondary system detects a potential collision, when an error occurs with the primary system, and so on. In examples, the primary system may implement first techniques, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, to understand an environment around the vehicle and/or instruct the vehicle to move within the environment. In examples, the secondary system may implement second techniques that are based on positioning, velocity, acceleration, etc. of the vehicle and/or objects around the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Lewis King, Ralph Michael Kling, Yu Liu, Andreas Christian Reschka, Robert Edward Somers, Chuang Wang
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Publication number: 20210238631Abstract: Disclosed herein is a recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector comprising (a) a variant AAV2 capsid protein, wherein the variant AAV2 capsid protein comprises at least four amino acid substitutions with respect to a wild type AAV2 capsid protein; wherein the at least four amino acid substitutions are present at the following positions in an AAV2 capsid protein sequence: 457, 492, 499 and 533; and (b) a heterologous nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a gene product.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventor: Ralph Michael Linden
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Publication number: 20210230865Abstract: A polyiso foam wall board includes a polyisocyanurate foam core produced from an isocyanate and a polyol. The wall board also includes a facer material applied to an outer surface of the polyisocyanurate foam core and an intumescent coating applied to the facer material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2020Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Diana Fisler, Ralph Michael Fay, Stanislav Kukatin
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Patent number: 11001373Abstract: A movable ballast system for an aircraft includes first and second ballast docks secured to the aircraft. The first ballast dock includes a first housing and a first ballast tray secured within the first housing. The first ballast tray includes a plurality of channels. The second ballast dock is positioned aft of a CG of the aircraft and includes a second housing and a second ballast tray secured within the second housing. The second ballast tray includes a plurality of channels. The movable ballast system includes a plurality of movable ballasts, each movable ballast of the plurality of movable ballasts being configured to fit within at least one channel of each of the plurality of channels of the first and second ballast trays.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Bell Textron Inc.Inventors: Derek William Heard, Richard Theodore Perryman, Nathan Craig Clark, Joshua Andrew Emrich, Yann Lavallee, Ralph Michael Gannarelli
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Publication number: 20210061448Abstract: A movable ballast system for an aircraft includes first and second ballast docks secured to the aircraft. The first ballast dock includes a first housing and a first ballast tray and a first stop plate secured within the first housing. The first ballast tray includes a plurality of channels. The second ballast dock is positioned aft of a CG of the aircraft and includes a second housing and a second ballast tray and a second stop plate secured within the second housing. The second ballast tray includes a plurality of channels. The movable ballast system includes a plurality of movable ballasts, each movable ballast of the plurality of movable ballasts being configured to fit within at least one channel of each of the plurality of channels of the first and second ballast trays.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: Bell Textron Inc.Inventors: Derek William HEARD, Richard Theodore PERRYMAN, Nathan Craig CLARK, Joshua Andrew EMRICH, Yann LAVALLEE, Ralph Michael GANNARELLI
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Publication number: 20210064061Abstract: A method of adjusting a center of gravity (CG) of an aircraft includes: inputting at least one load parameter into a flight computer, determining, via a processer of the flight computer, the CG of the aircraft. Responsive to a determination by the processor that the CG is outside of a CG envelope, moving at least a first movable ballast of a plurality of movable ballasts from a first ballast dock to a second ballast dock to move the CG toward the CG envelope. Each of the first and second ballast docks may include a housing and a first ballast tray secured within the housing and comprising a plurality of channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: Bell Textron Inc.Inventors: Derek William HEARD, Richard Theodore PERRYMAN, Nathan Craig CLARK, Joshua Andrew EMRICH, Yann LAVALLEE, Ralph Michael GANNARELLI
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Publication number: 20210061447Abstract: A movable ballast system for an aircraft includes first and second ballast docks secured to the aircraft. The first ballast dock includes a first housing and a first ballast tray secured within the first housing. The first ballast tray includes a plurality of channels. The second ballast dock is positioned aft of a CG of the aircraft and includes a second housing and a second ballast tray secured within the second housing. The second ballast tray includes a plurality of channels. The movable ballast system includes a plurality of movable ballasts, each movable ballast of the plurality of movable ballasts being configured to fit within at least one channel of each of the plurality of channels of the first and second ballast trays.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: Bell Textron Inc.Inventors: Derek William HEARD, Richard Theodore PERRYMAN, Nathan Craig CLARK, Joshua Andrew EMRICH, Yann LAVALLEE, Ralph Michael GANNARELLI
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Patent number: 10889981Abstract: Systems and methods for making a waterproofed concrete wall assembly, such as for a basement wall. A form is constructed. At least a first side of the form is made of one or more boards having a polymer foam and a fibrous facer. At least some of the boards have perimeter edges shaped such that some adjacent boards overlap at the shaped perimeter edges. Concrete is poured into the gap between the sides of the form, and is allowed to harden. The other side of the form may be removed, while leaving the boards of the first side of the form in place adjacent the hardened concrete. Some of the concrete is infused into the fibrous facers of at least some of the boards.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Johns ManvilleInventors: Diana Fisler, Zebonie Sukle, ChangQing Shen, Guodong Zheng, Duane Paradis, Ralph Michael Fay
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Patent number: 10889096Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a facer used as protective covering for an insulation product. The facer may include a metallic foil layer, a scrim layer, and a paper layer positioned adjacent the scrim layer. The facer may also include a polypropylene material forming a polypropylene layer positioned adjacent the paper layer and heat bonded to an exposed major surface of the paper layer such that a portion of the polypropylene extends into pores of the paper layer to assist in coupling the polypropylene material to the paper layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Johns ManvilleInventors: Ralph Michael Fay, Anthony Edward Moore, Edward Albert Bright
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Patent number: 10889023Abstract: A method for producing an insulation product may include providing an aqueous solution. The aqueous solution may include coarse glass fibers, glass microfibers, aerogel particles, and a binder. The coarse glass fibers, the glass microfibers, the aerogel particles, and the binder may be uniformly dispersed in the aqueous solution and may form a slurry. The method may further include removing at least a portion of water from the slurry such that the coarse glass fibers, the glass microfibers, the aerogel particles, and the binder may form a wet laid mixture. The method may also include curing the wet laid mixture to cure the binder and bond the coarse glass fibers, the glass microfibers, and the aerogel particles together to form a fiberglass reinforced aerogel composite. The fiberglass reinforced aerogel composite may include between about 50 wt. % and about 75 wt. % of the aerogel particles.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Johns ManvilleInventors: Ralph Michael Fay, Guodong Zheng, Stanislav Kukatin, Luke S Weith
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Patent number: 10836073Abstract: A method for producing an insulation product may include providing an aqueous solution. The aqueous solution may include coarse glass fibers, glass microfibers, aerogel particles, and a binder. The coarse glass fibers, the glass microfibers, the aerogel particles, and the binder may be uniformly dispersed in the aqueous solution and may form a slurry. The method may further include removing at least a portion of water from the slurry such that the coarse glass fibers, the glass microfibers, the aerogel particles, and the binder may form a wet laid mixture. The method may also include curing the wet laid mixture to cure the binder and bond the coarse glass fibers, the glass microfibers, and the aerogel particles together to form a fiberglass reinforced aerogel composite. The fiberglass reinforced aerogel composite may include between about 50 wt. % and about 75 wt. % of the aerogel particles.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Johns ManvilleInventors: Ralph Michael Fay, Guodong Zheng, Stanislav Kukatin, Luke S Weith
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Publication number: 20200353642Abstract: A method for producing an insulation product may include providing an aqueous solution. The aqueous solution may include coarse glass fibers, glass microfibers, aerogel particles, and a binder. The coarse glass fibers, the glass microfibers, the aerogel particles, and the binder may be uniformly dispersed in the aqueous solution and may form a slurry. The method may further include removing at least a portion of water from the slurry such that the coarse glass fibers, the glass microfibers, the aerogel particles, and the binder may form a wet laid mixture. The method may also include curing the wet laid mixture to cure the binder and bond the coarse glass fibers, the glass microfibers, and the aerogel particles together to form a fiberglass reinforced aerogel composite. The fiberglass reinforced aerogel composite may include between about 50 wt. % and about 75 wt. % of the aerogel particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Ralph Michael Fay, Guodong Zheng, Stanislav Kukatin, Luke S. Weith
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Patent number: 10781976Abstract: An insulation product for a pipe or vessel having at least one aerogel insulation layer, an additional insulation layer positioned around the at least one aerogel insulation layer, and a protective cladding layer surrounding the at least one aerogel insulation layer and the additional insulation layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Johns ManvilleInventors: Ralph Michael Fay, Jason J Koravos, Dennis A Kopp
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Patent number: 10774976Abstract: A vapor-barrier stop pre-treated piping insulation system including an insulation segment, a vapor-barrier stop, and a sealant. The insulation segment includes a cylindrical exterior surface, a cylindrical exterior surface, a first end surface, a second end surface, at least two ledge surfaces, and a wall extending between the cylindrical exterior surface and the cylindrical interior surface. The vapor-barrier stop is applied prior to installation of the insulation segment and extends, starting from at least the first end surface, over the cylindrical interior surface, the cylindrical exterior surface, the at least two ledge surfaces, and the first end surface along the insulation segment towards the second end surface. The vapor-barrier stop is configured to impede vapor-exchange through the vapor-barrier stop.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Johns ManvilleInventor: Ralph Michael Fay