Patents by Inventor Richard Eugene Whitfield

Richard Eugene Whitfield 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: 7004275
    Abstract: An operator station is for a compacting vehicle having a frame and at least one compacting drum connected with the frame. The station includes a base plate rotatably connected with the frame and an operator cab slidably connected with the base plate. The cab includes a housing bounding an interior chamber and an operator seat disposed within the chamber. A first actuator is configured to linearly displace the housing with respect to the base plate along a horizontal axis and a second actuator is configured to rotatably displace the base plate about a vertical axis. The cab is linearly displaceable along the horizontal axis between most proximal and most distal positions with respect to the vertical axis and the base plate is rotatably displaceable between a first position where a front wall faces toward a vehicle front and a second position where the front wall faces toward a vehicle side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventors: Christopher L. Junga, Chad L. Fluent, Richard Eugene Whitfield
  • Patent number: D886672
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Club Car, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Eugene Whitfield, Dean J. Long