Patents by Inventor Robert Elmer
Robert Elmer 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: 10933976Abstract: A leading edge high-lift device, that may be deployable from a wing of an aircraft, may include a leading edge and a trailing edge. A lower surface and an upper surface may both extend between the leading edge and the trailing edge. A trailing edge region may be defined by the trailing edge and an adjacent region thereto. A shaping device may be disposed at the trailing edge region and may be movable between a non-activated position and an activated position.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Ronald Tatsuji Kawai, Daniel Michael Tompkins, Robert Hauschild Liebeck, Kevin Robert Elmer, Eric David Dickey
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Publication number: 20190002084Abstract: A leading edge high-lift device, that may be deployable from a wing of an aircraft, may include a leading edge and a trailing edge. A lower surface and an upper surface may both extend between the leading edge and the trailing edge. A trailing edge region may be defined by the trailing edge and an adjacent region thereto. A shaping device may be disposed at the trailing edge region and may be movable between a non-activated position and an activated position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Ronald Tatsuji Kawai, Daniel Michael Tompkins, Robert Hauschild Liebeck, Kevin Robert Elmer, Eric David Dickey
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Patent number: 10036495Abstract: A fitting for sealingly and fixedly coupling to a component that includes a body having a first insertion end that defines a first end face and a cavity. The cavity has an interior surface. A first seal is adapted to engage a first component when the first component is inserted through the insertion end and into the cavity. The seal extends into the cavity from the interior surface of the cavity. A band of sealant is located about a perimeter of the cavity. The band of sealant is adapted to seal the interior surface and the first component. The body is crimped around the first component to secure the fitting to the first component and seal the interior surface to the first component.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: Mueller Industries, Inc.Inventors: Charles A. Stout, Christopher A. Mueller, Tommy L. Jamison, Marcus Robert Elmer
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Patent number: 9851028Abstract: An assembly having a fitting body, a structure, an annular cavity within the fitting body, a grip ring, a seal element, and a spacing element. The structure has an end that is received in the fitting body. The annular cavity is disposed within the fitting body between an interior surface of the fitting body and an exterior surface of the structure. The grip ring, seal element, and spacing element are disposed in the annular cavity in a side-by-side relationship. The grip ring includes a plurality of first teeth that engage the exterior surface of the structure. Both the seal element and the spacing element extend radially across a height of the annular cavity such that the seal element and the spacing element each contact and sealingly engage the exterior surface of the structure and the interior surface of the fitting body.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Mueller Industries, Inc.Inventors: Charles A. Stout, Marcus Robert Elmer, Christopher A. Mueller, Tommy L. Jamison
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Publication number: 20170152018Abstract: A leading edge high-lift device, that may be deployable from a wing of an aircraft, may include a leading edge and a trailing edge. A lower surface and an upper surface may both extend between the leading edge and the trailing edge. A trailing edge region may be defined by the trailing edge and an adjacent region thereto. A shaping device may be disposed at the trailing edge region and may be movable between a non-activated position and an activated position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Ronald Tatsuji Kawai, Daniel Michael Tompkins, Robert Hauschild Liebeck, Kevin Robert Elmer, Eric David Dickey
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Publication number: 20150354737Abstract: A fitting for sealingly and fixedly coupling to a component that includes a body having a first insertion end that defines a first end face and a cavity. The cavity has an interior surface. A first seal is adapted to engage a first component when the first component is inserted through the insertion end and into the cavity. The seal extends into the cavity from the interior surface of the cavity. A band of sealant is located about a perimeter of the cavity. The band of sealant is adapted to seal the interior surface and the first component. The body is crimped around the first component to secure the fitting to the first component and seal the interior surface to the first component.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2015Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: Charles A. Stout, Christopher A. Mueller, Tommy L. Jamison, Marcus Robert Elmer
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Publication number: 20150285420Abstract: An assembly is disclosed having a fitting body, a structure, an annular cavity within the fitting body, a grip ring, a seal element, and a spacing element. The structure has an end that is received in the fitting body. The annular cavity is disposed within the fitting body between an interior surface of the fitting body and an exterior surface of the structure. The grip ring, seal element, and spacing element are disposed in the annular cavity in a side-by-side relationship. The grip ring includes a plurality of first teeth that engage the exterior surface of the structure. Both the seal element and the spacing element extend radially across a height of the annular cavity such that the seal element and the spacing element each contact and sealingly engage the exterior surface of the structure and the interior surface of the fitting body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventors: Charles A. Stout, Marcus Robert Elmer, Christopher A. Mueller, Tommy L. Jamison
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Patent number: 8925978Abstract: An assembly may include a fitting, a first pipe, and a first seal. The fitting may include an annular body having a first insertion end and an inner diametrical surface having a first knurled portion disposed adjacent the first insertion end. The first pipe may include a first end portion that is received into the first insertion end of the body and an outer diametrical surface including knurls formed thereon. The knurls of the outer diametrical surface may engage the first knurled portion of the fitting. The first seal element may be disposed within the fitting and may sealingly engage the first pipe and the fitting body. The engagement between the inner diametrical surface of the fitting and the outer diametrical surface of the pipe may a press fit and/or an interference fit.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2013Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Mueller Industries, Inc.Inventors: Tommy L. Jamison, Kevin Neil Young, Robert McKenzie, Marcus Robert Elmer
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Publication number: 20130119655Abstract: An assembly may include a fitting, a first pipe, and a first seal. The fitting may include an annular body having a first insertion end and an inner diametrical surface having a first knurled portion disposed adjacent the first insertion end. The first pipe may include a first end portion that is received into the first insertion end of the body and an outer diametrical surface including knurls formed thereon. The knurls of the outer diametrical surface may engage the first knurled portion of the fitting. The first seal element may be disposed within the fitting and may sealingly engage the first pipe and the fitting body. The engagement between the inner diametrical surface of the fitting and the outer diametrical surface of the pipe may a press fit and/or an interference fit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2013Publication date: May 16, 2013Inventors: Tommy L. Jamison, Kevin Neil Young, Robert McKenzie, Marcus Robert Elmer
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Publication number: 20050204003Abstract: Described is a system and method for filtering messages received by a message-handling program, that leverage the existing message-handling architecture of computer devices to trigger events and perform other actions instead of (or in addition to) displaying the messages to users. One or more rule clients, e.g., COM objects, register for processing messages. When an appropriate message is received, the message-handling mechanism passes the message to a rule client. Depending on how that rule client responds, the message-handling mechanism determines what to do with the message, e.g., discontinue the message. Messages that are not discontinued are passed to another rule client, if any, or displayed in the user interface, if not. Rule clients may be read only, or may have write access, to modify messages. Messages may be hidden from a user by a rule client, modified before being display to a user, or left intact.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2004Publication date: September 15, 2005Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Garrett Vargas, Steven Cover, Gregory Burgess, Robert Elmer, Tadd Giles
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Patent number: 6604420Abstract: A method is provided for nondestructive adhesion testing of a coating on a component surface through ultrasonic cavitation. The disclosed method includes submerging a tip end of a vibratory horn in a liquid medium and operating a converter, coupled to the vibratory horn, at a frequency and an amplitude to generate a cavitation field within the liquid medium. A first portion of a component having an adhered coating on at least a portion of the component is moved into the cavitation field. Areas of the coating that are poorly adhered to the component are located by the removing areas of the coating that are poorly adhered, while not removing areas of the coating that are properly adhered to the component.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2001Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Assignee: Caterpillar IncInventors: Robert Elmer Hawbaker, Leonard George Wheat, Jason William Sanders, Poh Heng Teh
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Publication number: 20030115961Abstract: A method is provided for nondestructive adhesion testing of a coating on a component surface through ultrasonic cavitation. The disclosed method includes submerging a tip end of a vibratory horn in a liquid medium and operating a converter, coupled to the vibratory horn, at a frequency and an amplitude to generate a cavitation field within the liquid medium. A first portion of a component having an adhered coating on at least a portion of the component is moved into the cavitation field. Areas of the coating that are poorly adhered to the component are located by the removing areas of the coating that are poorly adhered, while not removing areas of the coating that are properly adhered to the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2001Publication date: June 26, 2003Inventors: Robert Elmer Hawbaker, Leonard George Wheat, Jason William Sanders, Poh Heng Teh
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Patent number: 6447157Abstract: Disclosed is an agitator assembly which comprises an agitator and means for mounting the agitator assembly on top of a tank. The agitator comprises a shaft, a propeller fixed to one end of the shaft, and means for rotating the shaft to provide an axial discharge from the propeller of at least 4.0 m/sec with a flow equivalent of at least 0.2 tank volumes/minute. The agitator is mounted on top of the tank so that the shaft enters the tank at an angle a to the longitudinal axis of the tank of between about 30 and about 60 degrees and at an angle &bgr; to the transverse vertical axis of the tank of less than about 50 degrees. Also disclosed is a method of shipping solids that are soluble in a solvent. The solids are placed in a tank on which the agitator assembly has been mounted. The quantity of solids placed in the tank exceeds the amount that will dissolve when the tank is filled with the solvent. The tank is transported to the location where the solids are to be removed from the tank.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2000Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Occidental Chemical CorporationInventors: Robert Elmer Running, Richard Anderson McBraye, Gregory Nash Latham, Riley F. West, Jr.
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Patent number: 6284977Abstract: A splice connector includes a first coupling electrically connected to a first cable or conductor and a second coupling electrically connected to a second cable or conductor. Both couplings include at least one electrically conductive spade. The second coupling engages the first coupling so that the respective spades contact each other, thereby electrically connecting the two cables or conductors. Due to its construction and mass, this connector can be used in high temperature, high-G environments.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2000Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Marcus Preston Boron, Harold John Jenkins, Raymond Alan White, Richard John Keck, Robert Elmer Sundell, Walter Whipple, III, Kamlesh Mundra
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Patent number: 6276825Abstract: Disclosed is an agitator assembly which comprises an agitator and means for mounting the agitator assembly on top of a tank. The agitator comprises a shaft, a propeller fixed to one end of the shaft, and means for rotating the shaft to provide an axial discharge from the propeller of at least 4.0 m/sec with a flow equivalent of at least 0.2 tank volumes/minute. The agitator is mounted on top of the tank so that the shaft enters the tank at an angle a to the longitudinal axis of the tank of between about 30 and about 60 degrees and at an angle &bgr; to the transverse vertical axis of the tank of less than about 50 degrees. Also disclosed is a method of shipping solids that are soluble in a solvent. The solids are placed in a tank on which the agitator assembly has been mounted. The quantity of solids placed in the tank exceeds the amount that will dissolve when the tank is filled with the solvent. The tank is transported to the location where the solids are to be removed from the tank.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 1999Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: Occidental Chemical CorporationInventors: Robert Elmer Running, Richard Anderson McBrayer, Gregory Nash Latham, Riley F. West, Jr.
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Publication number: 20010002182Abstract: Disclosed is an agitator assembly which comprises an agitator and means for mounting the agitator assembly on top of a tank. The agitator comprises a shaft, a propeller fixed to one end of the shaft, and means for rotating the shaft to provide an axial discharge from the propeller of at least 4.0 m/sec with a flow equivalent of at least 0.2 tank volumes/minute. The agitator is mounted on top of the tank so that the shaft enters the tank at an angle &agr; to the longitudinal axis of the tank of between about 30 and about 60 degrees and at an angle &bgr; to the transverse vertical axis of the tank of less than about 50 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 1999Publication date: May 31, 2001Applicant: ROBERT RUNNINGInventors: ROBERT ELMER RUNNING, RICHARD ANDERSON MCBRAYER, GREGORY NASH LATHAM, RILEY F. WEST
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Patent number: 5996428Abstract: An apparatus (9) for testing the efficiency of a thermal oxidizer (200) is described. The apparatus provides for a test chemical to be directed into a thermal oxidizer so that the entry and exit flow rates of test chemical through the termal oxidizer may be accurately measured. In a portable version, the apparatus is formed of a platform (10), a tank (26) for holding liquid test chemical to test chemical vapor, and a device (94) to measure the flow rate that liquid test chemical enters the vaporizer from the tank. Methodology employing the apparatus, which provides numerical data useful in determining the efficiency of a thermal oxidizer, is described.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1997Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: SmithKline Beecham CorporationInventor: Robert Elmer Koster
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Patent number: 5736707Abstract: Electric resistance welding provides localized heating for simultaneous upset welding of the copper bars and copper end rings of an electric motor cage rotor assembly. Rapid application of an axial force completes the upset welds. The localized heating is in high current, low voltage pulses for which a homopolar welding generator is utilized.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1996Date of Patent: April 7, 1998Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Herman Arthur Nied, Robert Elmer Sundell
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Patent number: 5720190Abstract: A transmission for driving an agitator in a washing machine includes a housing, an input shaft for being driven by a motor, and an output shaft for driving the agitator. The input shaft includes a crank disposed in the housing, and the output shaft includes a pinion disposed in the housing adjacent to the crank. A yoke is slidably mounted in the housing between the crank and pinion, and includes a rack operatively engaging the pinion along a pitchline, and a slot having a slot axis disposed perpendicularly to the pitchline which receives therein a slider rotatably joined to the crank. Rotation of the crank sinusoidally reciprocates the rack as the slider reciprocates in the slot, and reciprocation of the rack sinusoidally oscillates the pinion for driving the output shaft with minimum peak torque and drive power.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1996Date of Patent: February 24, 1998Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Roger Neal Johnson, Sudhir Dattatraya Savkar, Robert Elmer Sundell
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Patent number: 5655389Abstract: A transmission for driving an agitator in a washing machine includes a housing, an input shaft for being driven by a motor, and an output shaft for driving the agitator. The input shaft includes a crank disposed in the housing, and the output shaft includes a pinion disposed in the housing adjacent to the crank. A yoke is slidably mounted in the housing between the crank and pinion, and includes a rack operatively engaging the pinion along a pitchline, and a slot having a slot axis disposed perpendicularly to the pitchline which receives therein a slider rotatably joined to the crank. Rotation of the crank sinusoidally reciprocates the rack as the slider reciprocates in the slot, and reciprocation of the rack sinusoidally oscillates the pinion for driving the output shaft with minimum peak torque and drive power.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1995Date of Patent: August 12, 1997Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Roger Neal Johnson, Sudhir Dattatraya Savkar, Robert Elmer Sundell