Patents by Inventor Robert Allen Baumann

Robert Allen Baumann 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: 6068251
    Abstract: An apparatus that supports a load and limits shock force from being transmitted through the four elongated struts that are positioned to support the load. The struts are aligned at an acute angle relative to a base when no shock force is applied to the load. The struts pivot to a second smaller acute angle relative to the base when a shock force is applied to the load. A pair of leaf-springs, which may consist of a stack of several leaf-springs, is associated with each pair of struts so that when a shock force is applied to the load, the leaf-springs apply a return force that drives the struts back to the first acute angle alignment with the base. Restraint members coupled to the struts are used to align them at the first angle relative to said base when no shock force is applied to the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Allen Baumann, Robert Arthur Deike, Denis Allen LaCroix