Patents by Inventor Robert Alexander Blanch

Robert Alexander Blanch 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: 8873214
    Abstract: A wind turbine hub (8) and nacelle (4) assembly including lightning conducting means (26, 30, 32, 40) for conducting lightning between the hub (8) and the nacelle (4), the hub (8) being mounted for rotation relative to the nacelle (4) and being adapted to support turbine blades, the hub (8) including a hub conductor (26) for connection to a turbine blade supported by the hub (8), the lightning conducting means including a conductive track (40) and a terminal (30, 32) which confront and are displaceable relative to each other, one of the conductive track (40) and the terminal (30, 32) being mounted on the hub (8) and being electrically connected to the hub conductor (26) and the other of the conductive track (40) and the terminal (30, 32) being mounted on the nacelle (4), the terminal (30, 32) including a terminal main body (30) which is spaced from the conductive track (40) and a sacrificial conductive terminal extension (32) extending from the terminal main body (30) towards the track (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics UK Limited
    Inventors: Jonathan Catchpole, Robert Alexander Blanch
  • Publication number: 20110036616
    Abstract: A power cable (10), especially a jumper cable, comprising a self-supporting, fiber-reinforced polymer substrate (12) such as fiber glass coupled to a metal conductor (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Inventors: Jonathan Catchpole, Jonathan Mark Eyles, Robert Alexander Blanch, Stewart Topliss