Patents by Inventor Rob Daniels

Rob Daniels 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).

  • Integrated turbocharger casting
    Patent number: 10273827
    Abstract: A bearing housing, or integrated turbocharger housing, with the oil, and optionally air and water galleries, included as as-cast features, thereby avoiding the problems, design limitations and expense associated with conventional post-casting machining. The method of casting preferably uses lost foam casting, or a technique similar to lost foam casting but in which a ceramic shell is formed on the foam form prior to metal casting, but can use any of a variety of casting techniques or a combination of two or more techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Malins, Sean Rylance, James Finley, Rob Daniels
  • Turbocharger bearing housing with cast-in pipes
    Patent number: 10006468
    Abstract: Conventionally, turbocharger bearing housings are cast, and then oil passageways are drilled or bored into the casting. As a result, bores are limited to straight lines extending from drill access points. Greater design flexibility is provided by pre-staging in a mold a collection of metal pipes which will define one or more of oil, air and water galleries, and then casting a bearing housing around the pipes. This provides almost unlimited freedom in shaping and locating the oil bores and other features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Fischer, Martin Bihy, Sean Rylance, Rob Daniels, James Finley
  • TURBOCHARGER BEARING HOUSING WITH CAST- IN PIPES
    Publication number: 20150330405
    Abstract: Conventionally, turbocharger bearing housings are cast, and then oil passageways are drilled or bored into the casting. As a result, bores are limited to straight lines extending from drill access points. Greater design flexibility is provided by pre-staging in a mold a collection of metal pipes which will define one or more of oil, air and water galleries, and then casting a bearing housing around the pipes. This provides almost unlimited freedom in shaping and locating the oil bores and other features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Michael Fischer, Martin Bihy, Sean Rylance, Rob Daniels, James Finley
  • INTEGRATED TURBOCHARGER CASTING
    Publication number: 20140369811
    Abstract: A bearing housing, or integrated turbocharger housing, with the oil, and optionally air and water galleries, included as as-cast features, thereby avoiding the problems, design limitations and expense associated with conventional post-casting machining. The method of casting preferably uses lost foam casting, or a technique similar to lost foam casting but in which a ceramic shell is formed on the foam form prior to metal casting, but can use any of a variety of casting techniques or a combination of two or more techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Malins, Sean Rylance, James Finley, Rob Daniels