Patents by Inventor Robert G. Holmes
Robert G. Holmes 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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Publication number: 20230292729Abstract: An insect repeller system for installation as a fixed base unit or a plurality of linked units includes a repeller station and a mounting structure. A hub controller provides power for operation of the stations and command instructions to control the operation of the repeller station for emission of vaporized repellent fluid and/or lighting of the units.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Thermacell Repellents, Inc.Inventors: Adam Chojnacki, Robert G. Holmes, Steven M. Bourque, Justin Michael Thomas
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Publication number: 20160145865Abstract: A protective panel and methods are disclosed wherein the panel includes a ballistic rear face and hard points in an arrangement at or proximate a front face. A foam core retains the arrangement of hard points and spaces the hard points from the ballistic rear face.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2015Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Justin Trent Shackelford, James A. Carter, Robert G. Holmes, JR., Scott Paul Quigley
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Publication number: 20150000085Abstract: A patching system for a net in a frame with hard points at select nodes of the net includes a patching device with a pair of spaced sockets each configured to receive a hard point therein. A member interconnects the pair of spaced sockets and is configured to properly space the hard points. Another patching device is for reconnecting hard points to the net frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2013Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: FOSTER-MILLER, INC.Inventors: Robert G. Holmes, Jr., Brian A. Coppola
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Patent number: 8910349Abstract: A patching system for a net in a frame with hard points at select nodes of the net includes a patching device with a pair of spaced sockets each configured to receive a hard point therein. A member interconnects the pair of spaced sockets and is configured to properly space the hard points. Another patching device is for reconnecting hard points to the net frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2013Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Foster Miller, Inc.Inventors: Robert G. Holmes, Jr., Brian A. Coppola
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Patent number: 8783156Abstract: An ordinance, such as a rocket propelled grenade, shield includes a net with hard points at select nodes of the net and cable guides on the side of the net. Cables under tension extend through the cable guides supporting the net typically in conjunction with a top cross bar, spaced top struts, and spaced bottom struts. This framis design facilitates entering and exiting the vehicle or structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Foster-Miller, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Vincent Malone, Nicole Jean Baird, Scott Robert Albin, Robert G. Holmes, Jr.
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Publication number: 20140196598Abstract: An ordinance, such as a rocket propelled grenade, shield includes a net with hard points at select nodes of the net and cable guides on the side of the net. Cables under tension extend through the cable guides supporting the net typically in conjunction with a top cross bar, spaced top struts, and spaced bottom struts. This framis design facilitates entering and exiting the vehicle or structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: QinetiQ North America, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Vincent Malone, Nicole Jean Baird, Scott Robert Albin, Robert G. Holmes, JR.
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Patent number: 8677882Abstract: A protection system includes a net with lines connected at nodes and hard points attached to at least select nodes. A frame supports the net and positions it in a spaced relationship with respect to a vehicle or structure. The frame preferably includes select adjacent tubular members connected via a flexure to prevent damage to the frame when impacted.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: QinetiQ North America, Inc.Inventors: Justin Trent Shackelford, Robert G. Holmes, Jr.
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Patent number: 8615851Abstract: A patching system for a net in a frame with hard points at select nodes of the net includes a patching device with a pair of spaced sockets each configured to receive a hard point therein. A member interconnects the pair of spaced sockets and is configured to properly space the hard points. Another patching device is for reconnecting hard points to the net frame.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Foster-Miller, Inc.Inventors: Robert G. Holmes, Jr., Brian A. Coppola
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Patent number: 8468927Abstract: An ordinance, such as a rocket propelled grenade, shield includes a net with hard points at select nodes of the net and cable guides on the side of the net. Cables under tension extend through the cable guides supporting the net typically in conjunction with a top cross bar, spaced top struts, and spaced bottom struts. This framis design facilitates entering and exiting the vehicle or structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: QinetiQ North America, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Vincent Malone, Nicole Jean Baird, Scott Robert Albin, Robert G. Holmes, Jr.
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Publication number: 20130032026Abstract: A protection system includes a net with lines connected at nodes and hard points attached to at least select nodes. A frame supports the net and positions it in a spaced relationship with respect to a vehicle or structure. The frame preferably includes select adjacent tubular members connected via a flexure to prevent damage to the frame when impacted.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2012Publication date: February 7, 2013Inventors: Justin Trent Shackelford, Robert G. Holmes, JR.
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Publication number: 20120011993Abstract: An ordinance, such as a rocket propelled grenade, shield includes a net with hard points at select nodes of the net and cable guides on the side of the net. Cables under tension extend through the cable guides supporting the net typically in conjunction with a top cross bar, spaced top struts, and spaced bottom struts. This framis design facilitates entering and exiting the vehicle or structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2011Publication date: January 19, 2012Inventors: Joseph Vincent Malone, Nicole Jean Baird, Scott Robert Albin, Robert G. Holmes, JR.
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Publication number: 20110192014Abstract: A patching system for a net in a frame with hard points at select nodes of the net includes a patching device with a pair of spaced sockets each configured to receive a hard point therein. A member interconnects the pair of spaced sockets and is configured to properly space the hard points. Another patching device is for reconnecting hard points to the net frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Robert G. Holmes, JR., Brian A. Coppola
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Patent number: 6747178Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided a method of carrying out a chemical reaction between at least two fluids, the method comprising providing respective flow paths for the at least two fluids, said flow paths communicating with each other in a region in which the at least two fluids may contact each other, and flowing the at least two fluids along said flow paths such that in said region the at least two fluids contact each other and a chemical reaction occurs between them, said region having a width perpendicular to the direction of flow in the range 10-10,000 micrometers. It has been found that using a so-called “microreactor”, that is a reactor having dimensions perpendicular to the flow direction of less than 10,000 micrometers, according to the present method, improved control over a fluid chemical reaction can be achieved, which can result in significant improvements in reaction product yield and/or purity, as well as other benefits.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2000Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: British Nuclear Fuels plcInventors: Paul Harston, Malcolm John Atherton, Robert G. Holmes, Richard Dickinson Chambers, Robert Spink
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Patent number: 5656903Abstract: Both a pneumatic, linear actuator operating as a slave actuator and a master linear actuator formed by an electric motor driven screw mechanism are linked to drive a load. The high accuracy master linear actuator has a conventional control system which dominates the control of load position or other control variable. A force sensor detects the force applied to the load by the master actuator or the force is calculated by a computer and the sensed force signal is applied to a slave actuator control to cause the slave to apply a supplemental force, typically considerably greater than the master actuator force, to the load as a function of the master actuator force. This obtains the high accuracy characteristic of the master actuator system simultaneously with the high force characteristic of the slave actuator.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1996Date of Patent: August 12, 1997Assignee: The Ohio State University Research FoundationInventors: Fang Shui, Robert G. Holmes
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Patent number: 4936678Abstract: An apparatus for detecting the relative position of a remote object, such as a vehicle, upon a construction or agricultural site in cartesian, polar or other coordinates. A laser light beam is scanned in a circular path from a selected reference point at the site through a generally horizontal plane above the site. A pair of photo detectors which are spaced a selected distance are mounted to the remote object in the plane of the scanning beam. The beam is scanned at a constant velocity and the time of its alignment along a reference radial, and its interception with each of the two spaced photo detectors is detected and used to compute the position of the remote object.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1988Date of Patent: June 26, 1990Assignee: The Ohio State UniversityInventors: Gregory P. Gordon, Robert G. Holmes
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Patent number: 4533066Abstract: A seed planter comprises a seed transport member having a porous surface and an air jet directed normally to this surface. The porous surface is moved past a plurality of seeds, whereupon the air jet retains a single seed on the porous surface, and the seed transport member carries this retained seed to a seed unloading station, where the impingement of the air jet upon the surface is interrupted, thus allowing the retained seed to fall from the porous surface. The planter is capable of metering both flat and spherical seeds very accurately at metering rates of about 40 seeds per second and can be made of small width so that a single row of planters on a planter assembly can plant closely spaced rows. A planter assembly capable of planting multiple rows of seeds is provided by mounting a plurality of the seed planters on a frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1982Date of Patent: August 6, 1985Assignee: Ohio Agricultural Research & Development CenterInventors: Robert G. Holmes, Scott A. Shearer
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Patent number: 4515291Abstract: A seed planter comprises a seed transport member, usually in the form of a disc, having a number of depressions provided with ramp surfaces sloping downwardly from the surface of the seed transport member into the depression. Air is fed into the deepest portion of the depression and a single seed is trapped in this portion by the low pressure region which forms between the seed and the walls of the depression. Ejection of the seed from the depression is accomplished by increasing the pressure in this low pressure region. The planter is capable of metering spherical seeds very accurately at metering rates of about 40 seeds per second and can be made of small width so that a single row of planters on a planter assembly can plant closely spaced rows. The planter can also be used for sorting seed, for example by distinguishing spherical seeds from flat seeds. A planter assembly capable of planting multiple rows of seeds is provided by mounting a plurality of the seed planters on a frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1982Date of Patent: May 7, 1985Assignee: The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development CenterInventor: Robert G. Holmes
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Patent number: RE31660Abstract: Method and apparatus for sorting objects exhibiting identifiable dynamic response to vibrational phenomena, such objects including potatoes, onions, tomatoes and other comestibles. The system utilizes an elongate sorting zone incorporating a surface which oscillates at a predetermined frequency and amplitude which varies from a minimum at the input of the zone to a maximum value at the output thereof. The objects to be sorted move along the zone supported from two positions for a coding interval promoting their dynamic reaction with the oscillatory surface. Objects with higher resilience characteristic are rejected from the zone, while those exhibiting a lesser resilience are transported therethrough. The oscillatory surface is dynamically balanced and readily mounted upon field harvesting devices. .[.By adjustment of frequency of the sorting zone oscillatory surfaces, a multi-stage sorting system is made available..].Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1981Date of Patent: September 4, 1984Assignee: Ohio Agricultural Research and Development CenterInventor: Robert G. Holmes
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Patent number: D946107Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Thermacell Repellents, Inc.Inventors: Adam Chojnacki, Robert G. Holmes, Jr., Steven M. Bourque
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Patent number: D995706Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Thermacell Repellents, Inc.Inventors: Adam Chojnacki, Robert G. Holmes, Jr., Steven M. Bourque