Patents by Inventor Robert H. Slater

Robert H. Slater 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: 11961401
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting a potential event via sensors on a transport, sending data related to the potential event to other transports within a predefined distance, storing the data at the transports and a server, and performing a transport operation response on the transports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
  • Patent number: 5701733
    Abstract: A combustor mount joins a mounting arm of a combustor to a conical nozzle support of a turbine nozzle. The mounting arm includes a conical mounting flange having first and second axially spaced apart radial lands and a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart outer holes. The nozzle support includes a conical seat having first and second axially spaced apart radial rabbets and a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart inner holes. The first and second lands are disposed on respective ones of the first and second rabbets, with the outer and inner holes being aligned. A plurality of fasteners extend through respective pairs of the aligned holes for clamping together the mounting flange to the seat to mount the combustor to the nozzle support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric A. Lewis, Robert H. Slater