Patents by Inventor Robert H. Collins, III

Robert H. Collins, III 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: 4157247
    Abstract: This process removes water and at least some of an impurity from a fluid stream which contains a product fluid. The impurity includes a halogenated hydrocarbon. The process includes removing substantially all of the water from the fluid stream to provide a substantially dehydrated fluid stream and introducing the dehydrated fluid stream to an adsorption zone to adsorb the halogenated hydrocarbon from the dehydrated fluid stream to provide the product fluid. The adsorption zone is regenerated by passing a hot regeneration gas through it to remove the halogenated hydrocarbon. The heat from the hot regeneration gas cracks the halogenated hydrocarbon to provide a gaseous impurity component containing hydrogen and at least one halogen. The gaseous impurity component is removed from the regeneration gas at a location outside the adsorption zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1979
    Assignee: Reserve Synthetic Fuels, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert H. Collins, III, Donald L. Love
  • Patent number: 4053929
    Abstract: The tracker tracks on a center of contrast on a selected target while trang gates are adjusted automatically to fit the target contrast area's shape and size. The appropriate bright or dark contrast detector is adjusted to allow discrimination of the target contrast from its background, thus allowing a tracking window to encompass the selected contrast area. Orthogonal error signals are provided for servoing a vidicon camera to maintain the viewed field centered on the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1969
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Robert H. Collins, III, William J. Steele, Albert L. Thomas, Jr.