Patents by Inventor Randall A. Reeves

Randall A. Reeves 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: 9863989
    Abstract: A system includes a bottle, a first wire, a second wire, a current probe and an output line. The bottle holds a dielectric liquid therein. The first wire is disposed longitudinally on the bottle and generates a first oscillating electrical current in response to an electromagnetic wave, wherein the first oscillating electrical current thereby generates a corresponding first oscillating magnetic field. The second wire is disposed in parallel with the first wire on the bottle and generates a second oscillating electrical current in response to the electromagnetic wave, wherein the second oscillating electrical current thereby generating a corresponding second oscillating magnetic field. The current probe is arranged to surround the bottle such that the bottle is rotatable within the current probe or such that the current probe is rotatable around the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Daniel W. Tam, Marcus L. Maurer, Randall A. Reeves
  • Patent number: 9000776
    Abstract: A method for estimating the characteristic impedance of a structure comprising the following steps: providing a current probe comprising a magnetic core having an aperture therein and a primary winding wrapped around the core; measuring, with a calibrated vector network analyzer (VNA), the impedance (Zop) of the current probe while in an open configuration wherein nothing but air occupies the aperture and the current probe is isolated from a ground; measuring, with the VNA, the impedance (Zsh) of the current probe while in a short configuration, wherein the current probe is electrically shorted; measuring, with the VNA, the impedance (Zin) of the current probe while the current probe is mounted to the structure such that the structure extends through the aperture; and calculating an estimated characteristic impedance (Z?mast) of the structure according to the following equation: Z?mast=(Zin?Zsh)(Zop?Zsh)/(Zop?Zin).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Daniel W. Tam, Randall A. Reeves, John H. Meloling
  • Patent number: 5941624
    Abstract: A refrigerator door assembly has an outer door member with a rectangular front panel surrounded by a rearward projecting peripheral rim around its perimeter to form a cavity. A body of insulation foamed-in-place in the cavity includes a rib of predetermined external cross-section that projects rearward along the rim. An inner door member includes a rectangular base panel with a hollow peripheral wall structure projecting rearward around its perimeter. The wall structure has an internal cross-section complimentary to the external cross-section of the rib. When the inner door member is mounted on the outer door member the rib is received within the wall structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Allen Pfeffer, John Randall Reeves