Patents by Inventor Ralph S. Norman

Ralph S. Norman 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: 8727658
    Abstract: A pinless device for orienting a motorcycle stabilizer wiper, such device having a platform adapted for stable attachment to a motorcycle; projections extending, preferably upward, from the platform in order to create a channel; an arm having a first end adapted for attachment to a shaft from a wiper of a motorcycle stabilizer and also having a second end of such dimensions that the second end can fit in the channel between the projections; and a means, such as a set screw, for releasably and securely fastening the second end of the arm in the channel between the projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Inventor: Ralph S. Norman
  • Publication number: 20130306418
    Abstract: A fluidic dampening device having a housing containing a rotatably mounted wiper that sealingly moves within the housing. The housing contains a bypass channel. In a first embodiment, a control shaft is rotatably mounted within the housing. The control shaft has discrete indentations of varying sizes and is so located in the housing that either no indentation or only one indentation lies within the bypass channel at a given time. A second embodiment differs from the first in that a continuous indentation is cut around the shaft in such a manner that for a first area there is no cut in the shaft and then the indentation commences and becomes increasingly deeper as it progress around the shaft until the continuous indentation stops upon reaching the first area. The bypass channel is completely open when the deepest point of the indentation has been rotated into the bypass channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventors: Ralph S. Norman, Dennis Patterson
  • Publication number: 20110097143
    Abstract: A pinless device for orienting a motorcycle stabilizer wiper, such device having a platform adapted for stable attachment to a motorcycle; projections extending, preferably upward, from the platform in order to create a channel; an arm having a first end adapted for attachment to a shaft from a wiper of a motorcycle stabilizer and also having a second end of such dimensions that the second end can fit in the channel between the projections; and a means, such as a set screw, for releasably and securely fastening the second end of the arm in the channel between the projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2007
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventor: Ralph S. Norman
  • Publication number: 20100326779
    Abstract: An improved fluidic dampening device having a first clamp attached to the housing of a fluidic dampening device near the left side of such housing and a second clamp attached to such housing near the right side of the housing to create apertures for accommodating handlebars. Each upper segment is releasably connected to each respective lower segment, although a first end of each upper segment may be rotatably connected to each respective lower segment while a second end is releasably connected. The housing is preferably so attached to the first clamp and to the second clamp that the uppermost portion of the housing is lower the lowermost portion of the apertures. Preferably, the lower segments are attached to the top of a triple clamp; but neither the attachment of the first clamp to the housing nor the attachment of the second clamp to the housing involves the triple clamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventor: Ralph S. Norman
  • Patent number: 7789207
    Abstract: An improved stabilizer for the steering of a vehicle. The stabilizer comprises a housing containing one or more sector-shaped chambers with a wiper rotatably mounted in the housing. For each chamber a paddle extends from the rotor of the wiper into the chamber. The wiper moves sealingly past the housing. For each paddle a bypass channel allows fluid on one side of the paddle to move to the other side of the paddle. A valve in the bypass channel controls the degree of damping produced by the stabilizer. The valve has a control shaft in the center of the rotor, and on the shaft there is a continuous indentation around such shaft with there being no indentation in a first area of the shaft and then the indentation commencing and having an increasingly larger cross-sectional area as the indentation progress around the control shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Inventor: Ralph S. Norman
  • Publication number: 20090260936
    Abstract: A fluidic stabilizer with remote control having every portion of the circuit which connects the housing and the remote control valve within a range that will permit fluid placed in the circuit to flow freely at high speed but that will also create the fluid pressure necessary for effective damping. Furthermore, the cross-sectional area for every portion of the circuit is maintained within such range, preferably by constructing all portions of the circuit between the housing and the remote control valve with stainless steel braided line. And an attachment structure combined with a depression in the bottom of the rotatable wiper contained within the housing except with an aperture exposing the bottom of the rotatable wiper to the outside facilitates mounted the housing below the handlebars of a vehicle since the depression is constructed with such dimensions as to accommodate a stem nut at the top of a steering shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventor: Ralph S. Norman
  • Patent number: 7510063
    Abstract: A fluidic stablilizer with remote control having every portion of the circuit which connects the housing and the remote control valve within a range that will permit fluid placed in the circuit to flow freely at high speed but that will also create the fluid pressure necessary for effective damping. Furthermore, the cross-sectional area for every portion of the circuit is maintained within such range, preferably by constructing all portions of the circuit between the housing and the remote control valve with stainless steel braided line. And an attachment structure combined with a depression in the bottom of the rotatable wiper contained within the housing except with an aperture exposing the bottom of the rotatable wiper to the outside facilitates mounted the housing below the handlebars of a vehicle since the depression is constructed with such dimensions as to accommodate a stem nut at the top of a steering shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Inventor: Ralph S. Norman
  • Publication number: 20080105506
    Abstract: An improved stabilizer for the steering of a vehicle. The stabilizer comprises a housing containing one or more sector-shaped chambers with a wiper rotatably mounted in the housing. For each chamber a paddle extends from the rotor of the wiper into the chamber. The wiper moves sealingly past the housing. For each paddle a bypass channel allows fluid on one side of the paddle to move to the other side of the paddle. A valve in the bypass channel controls the degree of damping produced by the stabilizer. The valve has a control shaft in the center of the rotor, and on the shaft there is a continuous indentation around such shaft with there being no indentation in a first area of the shaft and then the indentation commencing and having an increasingly larger cross-sectional area as the indentation progress around the control shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventor: Ralph S. Norman
  • Publication number: 20030136621
    Abstract: A fluidic dampening device having a housing containing a rotatably mounted wiper that sealingly moves past the side walls, bottom, and peripheral wall of the housing as well as a faceplate attached to the top of the housing. The housing contains a bypass channel that has a first port in the first side wall of the chamber and a second port in the second side wall of the chamber. In a first embodiment, a control shaft is rotatably mounted within the housing. The control shaft has indentations of varying sizes formed at distinct points around the shaft with areas having no indentation between each consecutive pair of indentations and is so located in the housing that either no indentation or only one indentation lies within the bypass channel at a given time. When no indentation has been rotated into the bypass channel, the control shaft completely blocks the bypass channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventors: Ralph S. Norman, Dennis Patterson
  • Patent number: 6401884
    Abstract: A fluidic dampening device having a housing containing a rotatably mounted wiper that sealingly moves past the side walls, bottom, and peripheral wall of the housing as well as a faceplate attached to the top of the housing. The housing contains a bypass channel that has a first port in the first side wall of the chamber and a second port in the second side wall of the chamber. A control shaft is rotatably mounted within the housing. The control shaft has indentations of varying sizes formed at distinct points around the shaft with areas having no indentation between each consecutive pair of indentations and is so located in the housing that either no indentation or only one indentation lies within the bypass channel at a given time. When no indentation has been rotated into the bypass channel, the control shaft completely blocks the bypass channel. Optionally, channels exist in the bottom of the faceplate or in the portion of the housing which forms the bottom of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Inventors: Ralph S. Norman, Dennis Patterson
  • Publication number: 20020007992
    Abstract: A fluidic dampening device having a housing containing a rotatably mounted wiper that sealingly moves past the side walls, bottom, and peripheral wall of the housing as well as a faceplate attached to the top of the housing. The housing contains a bypass channel that has a first port in the first side wall of the chamber and a second port in the second side wall of the chamber. A control shaft is rotatably mounted within the housing. The control shaft has indentations of varying sizes formed at distinct points around the shaft with areas having no indentation between each consecutive pair of indentations and is so located in the housing that either no indentation or only one indentation lies within the bypass channel at a given time. When no indentation has been rotated into the bypass channel, the control shaft completely blocks the bypass channel. Optionally, channels exist in the bottom of the faceplate or in the portion of the housing which forms the bottom of the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Ralph S. Norman, Dennis Patterson
  • Patent number: 4947781
    Abstract: Small marine pleasure craft, such as jet skis, which have a tendency to "porpoise" or pitch fore and aft at cruising speeds, are provided at the aft end of the hull thereof with a ride plate and , pursuant to the invention, with a downwardly and rearwardly inclined lift or hydroplane surface on the ride plate which effectively eliminates the "porpoising" or pitching motion at cruising speeds and also enhances maneuverability and steerability of the craft at such speeds. The angle of downward inclination of the lift or hydroplane surface is quite critical, residing within a range in the order from about 3.degree. to about 6.degree.. The preferred embodiment comprises an accessory device substantially universally adaptable to existing jet skis, which is characterized by a plate having a mounting surface adapted to be secured to a jet ski ride plate and a downwardly and rearwardly inclined lift or hydroplane surface having a preferred universal angle of declination in the order of about 4.degree..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Inventor: Ralph S. Norman
  • Patent number: D571275
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Inventor: Ralph S. Norman
  • Patent number: D587631
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Inventor: Ralph S. Norman
  • Patent number: D609625
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Inventor: Ralph S. Norman
  • Patent number: D613206
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Inventor: Ralph S. Norman
  • Patent number: D615002
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Inventor: Ralph S. Norman
  • Patent number: D621773
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Inventor: Ralph S. Norman