Patents by Inventor Ray Porter
Ray Porter 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: 12027950Abstract: An improved counter-rotating (CR) differential electric motor assembly is utilized to power an aircraft vehicle or fan for moving a gas and includes two oppositely rotating propellers that may be mounted to horizontal flight and vertical lift-off aircraft or a fan housing in spaces similar in size to mounting spaces for traditional motors having only one propeller and includes a hollow central shaft and slip ring assembly that is mounted either within, slight above, or total above oppositely rotating components and around the hollow central shaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: CR FLIGHT L.L.C.Inventors: Randell J. Wishart, Jonathan D. Emigh, Jason Emigh, Ray Porter
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Patent number: 11942739Abstract: A high current and RPM-capable slip ring assembly for use in a selected application for transferring electricity between an exterior environment and an interior environment that includes a non-rotating electrical power member with concentric electrically conducting power transmission cylinders with wiring and a rotating electrical power member with concentric electrically conducting power transmission cylinders with wiring and a housing that surrounds both the non-rotating electrical power member and rotating electrical power member to align the first set of concentric electrically conducting power transmission cylinders and the second set of concentric electrically conducting power transmission cylinders to slide on paired inside and outside surfaces during rotationally operation of the slip ring assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: CR FLIGHT L.L.C.Inventors: Jonathan D. Emigh, Ray Porter
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Patent number: 11923646Abstract: A high current and RPM-capable slip ring assembly for use in a selected application for transferring electricity between an exterior environment and an interior environment that includes a non-rotating electrical power member with concentric electrically conducting power transmission bands with wiring and a rotating electrical power member with concentric electrically conducting power transmission bands with wiring and a housing that surrounds both the non-rotating electrical power member and rotating electrical power member to align the first set of concentric electrically conducting power transmission bands and the second set of concentric electrically conducting power transmission bands to slide on one another during rotationally operation of the slip ring assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: CR FLIGHT L.L.C.Inventors: Jonathan D. Emigh, Ray Porter, James M. Ritchey
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Patent number: 11776741Abstract: A rotary transformer for transferring electrical current between a stationary location and a rotating location utilizes paired electrically conducting sintered disks, one stationary and one rotating, wherein the rotating sintered disk rotates on the stationary one and are lubricated with a boundary layer conductor that is a triacylglyceride.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: CR FLIGHT L.L.C.Inventors: Jonathan Emigh, Randell J. Wishart, Jason Emigh, Ray Porter
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Patent number: 11701570Abstract: A snow sport shock absorbing system includes: a snow sport device and a shock absorbing device, which is configured to attach to the snow sport device, such that the shock absorbing device absorbs shocks incurred from using the snow sport shock absorbing system for movement on a ground surface. The shock absorbing device includes an upper mounting structure, a lower mounting structure, and a shock absorber which is connected between the upper lower mounting structures.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Inventor: Daniel Ray Porter
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Publication number: 20230102299Abstract: A rotary transformer for transferring electrical current between a stationary location and a rotating location utilizes paired electrically conducting sintered disks, one stationary and one rotating, wherein the rotating sintered disk rotates on the stationary one and are lubricated with a boundary layer conductor that is a triacylglyceride.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: CR FLIGHT L.L.C.Inventors: Jonathan Emigh, Randell J. Wishart, Jason Emigh, Ray Porter
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Publication number: 20230084788Abstract: A snow sport shock absorbing system includes: a snow sport device and a shock absorbing device, which is configured to attach to the snow sport device, such that the shock absorbing device absorbs shocks incurred from using the snow sport shock absorbing system for movement on a ground surface. The shock absorbing device includes an upper mounting structure, a lower mounting structure, and a shock absorber which is connected between the upper lower mounting structures.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventor: Daniel Ray Porter
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Publication number: 20220239201Abstract: A rotational slip ring assembly for an improved counter-rotating (CR) differential electric motor assembly is utilized to power an aircraft vehicle or fan for moving a gas and includes two oppositely rotating propellers that may be mounted to horizontal flight and vertical lift-off aircraft or a fan housing in spaces similar in size to mounting spaces for traditional motors having only one propeller and includes a hollow central shaft and slip ring assembly that is mounted either within, slight above, or total above oppositely rotating components and around the hollow central shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: CR FLIGHT L.L.C.Inventors: Randell J. Wishart, Jonathan D. Emigh, Jason Emigh, Ray Porter
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Publication number: 20220239187Abstract: An improved counter-rotating (CR) differential electric motor assembly is utilized to power an aircraft vehicle or fan for moving a gas and includes two oppositely rotating propellers that may be mounted to horizontal flight and vertical lift-off aircraft or a fan housing in spaces similar in size to mounting spaces for traditional motors having only one propeller and includes a hollow central shaft and slip ring assembly that is mounted either within, slight above, or total above oppositely rotating components and around the hollow central shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: CR FLIGHT L.L.C.Inventors: Randell J. Wishart, Jonathan D. Emigh, Jason Emigh, Ray Porter
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Publication number: 20220109277Abstract: A high current and RPM-capable slip ring assembly for use in a selected application for transferring electricity between an exterior environment and an interior environment that includes a non-rotating electrical power member with concentric electrically conducting power transmission cylinders with wiring and a rotating electrical power member with concentric electrically conducting power transmission cylinders with wiring and a housing that surrounds both the non-rotating electrical power member and rotating electrical power member to align the first set of concentric electrically conducting power transmission cylinders and the second set of concentric electrically conducting power transmission cylinders to slide on paired inside and outside surfaces during rotationally operation of the slip ring assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: CR FLIGHT L.L.C.Inventors: Jonathan D. Emigh, Ray Porter
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Publication number: 20220109278Abstract: A high current and RPM-capable slip ring assembly for use in a selected application for transferring electricity between an exterior environment and an interior environment that includes a non-rotating electrical power member with concentric electrically conducting power transmission bands with wiring and a rotating electrical power member with concentric electrically conducting power transmission bands with wiring and a housing that surrounds both the non-rotating electrical power member and rotating electrical power member to align the first set of concentric electrically conducting power transmission bands and the second set of concentric electrically conducting power transmission bands to slide on one another during rotationally operation of the slip ring assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: CR FLIGHT L.L.C.Inventors: Jonathan D. Emigh, Ray Porter, James M. Ritchey
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Patent number: 7632445Abstract: A vehicle bumper (20) integrates rigid and flexible components into a single co-injection molded structure. In a preferred embodiment, a flexible fascia (58) is provided with integrated rigid fastener brackets (62, 66, 70, 71), energy absorption structure and head lamp brackets and housings (62). A method for manufacturing such a bumper provides for the injection of two different plastic materials during the same molding process. The flexible plastic material first injected into the mold. Then, the rigid plastic material is injected at gates located where the rigid material is desired. In one embodiment, the rigid material is completely contained within the flexible material. The rigid material may be either a higher stiffness plastic or a fiber reinforced plastic.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2005Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Conix CorporationInventors: Marshall Ray Porter, Norman E. Guschewski, Michael B. Smith, Keith Korte, Todd C. Parker, Russell R. York
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Patent number: 6998174Abstract: A vehicle bumper (20) integrates rigid and flexible components into a single co-injection molded structure. In a preferred embodiment, a flexible fascia (58) is provided with integrated rigid fastener brackets (62, 66, 70, 71), energy absorption structure and head lamp brackets and housings (62). A method for manufacturing such a bumper provides for the injection of two different plastic materials during the same molding process. The flexible plastic material first injected into the mold. Then, the rigid plastic material is injected at gates located where the rigid material is desired. In one embodiment, the rigid material is completely contained within the flexible material. The rigid material may be either a higher stiffness plastic or a fiber reinforced plastic.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2001Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Conix CorporationInventors: Marshall Ray Porter, Norman E. Guschewski, Michael B. Smith, Keith Korte, Todd C. Parker, Russell R. York
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Patent number: 6843954Abstract: The present invention provides processes and an apparatus for injection-molding an article with a fluid channel formed therein. The process includes providing at least first and second resin streams within a mold cavity, causing the flow fronts (16) of the resin streams to meet at a longitudinal point in the mold cavity to form a first layer of solidified resin on a peripheral surface of the mold, the first layer having a knit line (20) at the longitudinal point where the resin streams meet; and introducing a fluid into the molten resin in the mold to form a fluid channel (50) and a second layer (32) of solidified resin, the second layer between the fluid channel and the first layer of solidified resin, wherein the second layer is devoid of a knit line at the longitudinal point in the mold cavity where the first and second flow fronts meet.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2001Date of Patent: January 18, 2005Assignee: Conix CorporationInventor: Marshall Ray Porter
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Patent number: 6767502Abstract: A bumper beam extension for a bumper beam having left and right bumper beam extensions and a method for manufacturing the bumper beam extensions to provide impact crush resistance is disclosed. The bumper beam extensions include an insert end contoured and sized to fit in the end of the bumper beam and a main body portion having substantially a rearwardly facing saddle shape that includes an upper wing and a lower wing joined at a bight section. The main body portion is blow molded to configure the bight section to taper from a preselected distance from a forward wall of the main body portion until it is face to face with the forward wall. For increased stiffness, the bumper beam may be welded to a frame of a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2001Date of Patent: July 27, 2004Assignee: Conix CorporationInventor: Marshall Ray Porter
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Patent number: 6692064Abstract: The present invention provides a blow-molded vehicle part and a blow-molding process for generating a one-piece vehicle part with improved strength, aesthetic appearance and reduced weight and cost. The blow-molded vehicle part includes a front vehicle part portion and a back vehicle part portion, wherein the front vehicle part and the back vehicle part have at least an outer unreinforced layer of a thermoplastic that forms a smooth outer surface of the vehicle part and a reinforced inner layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2002Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Conix CorporationInventor: Marshall Ray Porter
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Publication number: 20030211311Abstract: A vehicle bumper (20) integrates rigid and flexible components into a single co-injection molded structure. In a preferred embodiment, a flexible fascia (58) is provided with integrated rigid fastener brackets (62, 66, 70, 71), energy absorption structure and head lamp brackets and housings (62). A method for manufacturing such a bumper provides for the injection of two different plastic materials during the same molding process. The flexible plastic material first injected into the mold. Then, the rigid plastic material is injected at gates located where the rigid material is desired. In one embodiment, the rigid material is completely contained within the flexible material. The rigid material may be either a higher stiffness plastic or a fiber reinforced plastic.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2002Publication date: November 13, 2003Inventors: Marshall Ray Porter, Norman E Guschewski, Michael B Smith, Keith Korte, Todd C Parker, Russell R York
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Publication number: 20030209841Abstract: The present invention provides processes and an apparatus for injection-molding an article with a fluid channel formed therein. The process includes providing at least first and second resin streams within a mold cavity, causing the flow fronts (16) of the resin streams to meet at a longitudinal point in the mold cavity to form a first layer of solidified resin on a peripheral surface of the mold, the first layer having a knit line (20) at the longitudinal point where the resin streams meet; and introducing a fluid into the molten resin in the mold to form a fluid channel (50) and a second layer (32) of solidified resin, the second layer between the fluid channel and the first layer of solidified resin, wherein the second layer is devoid of a knit line at the longitudinal point in the mold cavity where the first and second flow fronts meet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2002Publication date: November 13, 2003Inventor: Marshall Ray Porter
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Publication number: 20030211307Abstract: The present invention provides a co-injection molded, multiphase vehicle component having a microsphere enhanced region, as well as a method for constructing such a vehicle component. The vehicle component has an outer portion or phase that is formed by first injecting a preselected quantity of a desired thermoplastic material into a preselected mold (402) in a manner to achieve a first layer of the thermoplastic material in a cavity of the mold. Then, a microsphere enhanced inner portion or phase is formed by injection of a micrsophere enhanced core material (404) to fill a remaining portion of the cavity. The resulting vehicle component typically has a lower density, and thus a lower weight, is generally less costly, and maintains the desired strength by selection of suitable microspheres, typically substantially hollow, and a suitable proportion of microspheres per unit volume of core material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2002Publication date: November 13, 2003Inventor: Marshall Ray Porter
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Patent number: 6555039Abstract: A method and mold (10) for manufacturing a vehicle component such as a bumper beam (52) or body panel (62). The component is manufactured by: 1) injecting molten material into a parison cavity of a mold (10) to form a parison (40), wherein the mold has at least two sections (14, 18) that are moveable between a first position defining the parison cavity and an expanded second position defining predetermined blow cavities; 2) retracting the at least two sections (14, 18) to the expanded second position, and 3) injecting a gas into the parison (40) to expand the parison (40) to form blown part (44).Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2000Date of Patent: April 29, 2003Inventor: Marshall Ray Porter