Patents by Inventor Robert Hick
Robert Hick 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: 20220206157Abstract: A detection device which includes a LiDAR sensing device, a housing enclosing the LiDAR sensing device, and at least one cover lens. A portion of the cover lens is made of a glass sheet having an absorption coefficient lower than 5 m?1 in the wavelength range from 750 to 1650 nm, preferably in the range of 750 to 1050 nm. The cover lens is fixed to the protective housing and is encapsulated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventors: Sébastien DELNEUFCOURT, Jean MASSON, Robert HICK, Frank BEKAERT, Yannick SARTENAER, Quentin FRASELLE
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Patent number: 11365597Abstract: An artificial lift assembly and method relating thereto is designed to prevent inadvertent electrical discharge caused by fluids flowing through an electrical submersible pumping system, which is part of the assembly. The assembly uses a rupture disc to prevent fluid flow during introduction of the assembly into a wellbore and a dart and sleeve to prevent fluid flow during removal of the assembly from the wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: IPI TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Robert Hicks, Josh Prather
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Publication number: 20220161740Abstract: A method for manufacturing a molded vehicle trim element including the following steps: (i) providing a carrier plate in a mold for injection molding including a mobile core of the mold and cavity of the mold to give the final shape of the vehicle trim element, (ii) providing a glass panel in the mold having at least a first region to be bent, (iii) cold bending the glass panel inside the mold in a requested shape, (iv) injecting a soft material to form the vehicle trim element made of bent carrier plate and glass panel fixed together via the molding material, and (v) removing the vehicle trim element from the mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventor: Robert HICK
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Publication number: 20220049779Abstract: A two-way injection valve having a primary flow path to allow chemical injection into an annulus area surrounding production tubing and a secondary flow path to allow chemical injection into the inside of the production tubing via a tubular member of the production tubing. A method of using the two-way injection valve includes the step of injecting chemical into an annulus area via a two-way injection valve. The method also includes the step of injecting chemical inside of production tubing via the two-way injection valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Robert Hicks, Joshua Prather
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Publication number: 20220025980Abstract: A jetted check valve includes a body with an upper opening and a lower opening. The jetted check valve also includes a primary poppet slidably disposed in the body to allow the flow of fluid from the lower opening and out of the upper opening and prevent the flow of fluid from the upper opening through the lower opening. The jetted check valve further includes a secondary poppet slidably disposed at least partially within the primary poppet to allow the flow of fluid from the lower opening and out of the upper opening and prevent the flow of fluid from the upper opening through the lower opening. A method of removing debris from above a jetted check valve and permitting production fluids to flow up hole through the jetted check valve. The method includes creating a secondary flow path in the jetted check valve to remove debris that settled up hole of the jetted check valve when production of an oil and gas well has been halted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Robert Hicks, Joshua Prather
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Patent number: 11125873Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described using radar systems to avoid vehicle collisions. An example radar system can include antennas mounted on an aircraft, where each antenna has a different orientation facing a different direction away from the aircraft. The radar system can include one or more processing devices and a computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processing devices, cause the radar system to coordinate digital beam steering and digital beam forming with the antennas to produce a radar coverage area that includes a portion of an airspace around the aircraft; detect, based a signal transmitted by the antennas using the digital beam steering and digital beam forming, an object within the radar coverage area; and generate collision avoidance information including an indication of the object detected within the radar coverage area and/or an instruction for avoiding a collision with the object.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: FORTEM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Adam Eugene Robertson, Matthew Robertson Morin, Bryan Alan Davis, Bruce Alexander Carpenter, Matthew Elliott Argyle, James David Mackie, Eric Richard Grover, Brandon Robert Hicks, David Preece, Mikko Valimaki
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Publication number: 20210213816Abstract: A window unit for windows in motor vehicles and the like, including a glazing panel and a frame with a profile that encompasses at least partially the peripheral sides of the glazing panel. The frame includes a primary part which is in the form of a hard component and features an exterior profile where the primary part has at least one inner profile line with at least one notch and/or one protrusion extending from the peripheral side of the glazing panel to the center of the window unit. The primary part is capable of being fixed onto another object like a car body, a decorative object, a building, a door frame, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2019Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventors: Robert HICK, Roman HYNEK, Jiri MACHACEK, Antonin CHALOUPECKY
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Publication number: 20210164307Abstract: An artificial lift assembly and method relating thereto is designed to prevent inadvertent electrical discharge caused by fluids flowing through an electrical submersible pumping system, which is part of the assembly. The assembly uses a rupture disc to prevent fluid flow during introduction of the assembly into a wellbore and a dart and sleeve to prevent fluid flow during removal of the assembly from the wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Robert Hicks, Josh Prather
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Publication number: 20210028542Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for combining digital and analog beamsteering in a channelized antenna array. In some examples, a method can include receiving one or more signals at each of a plurality of groups of antenna elements, each group of antenna elements defining a respective channel from a plurality of channels, and steering, by each respective channel and using analog steering, the one or more signals in a respective direction to yield a steered analog signal pattern. The method can further include converting the steered analog signal pattern associated with each respective channel into a respective digital signal and, based on the respective digital signal, generating, using digital steering, digital signal patterns steered within the steered analog signal pattern associated with the respective digital signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Matthew Robertson MORIN, Brandon Robert HICKS, James David MACKIE, Bryan Alan DAVIS
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Patent number: 10890116Abstract: A fuel injector comprises a fuel feed arm and a fuel injector head and the fuel injector head has a fuel passage. The fuel feed arm has a fuel supply passage in fluid communication with the fuel passage in the fuel injector head. A first light guide extends through the fuel feed arm and has a distal end arranged to direct light into the fuel passage in the fuel injector head. A light source is arranged to supply light into a proximal end of the first light guide. A second light guide extends through the fuel feed arm and has a distal end arranged to receive transmitted light in the fuel passage in the fuel injector head and a light receiver is arranged to collect light at a proximal end of the second light guide.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLCInventor: Robert A Hicks
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Publication number: 20200348024Abstract: An annular combustor for a gas turbine engine including inner and outer combustor walls, wherein each wall defines an annulus and the inner wall is radially inward of the outer wall. The combustor includes a primary zone where the inner and outer combustor walls converge in a downstream direction, and a secondary zone downstream of the primary zone. In the secondary zone, the inner and outer walls are arranged to converge at a different rate to the primary zone, are non-convergent or are divergent in a downstream direction, a rate of change of radial width of the combustor is different in the zones. A transition is provided from the primary zone to the secondary zone. A plurality of combustor cooling tiles lines the inner and outer walls. One or more of the tiles are arranged to extend from the primary to secondary zone and across the transition from the zones.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventor: Robert HICKS
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Publication number: 20200307363Abstract: The invention relates to an element (100) for fastening trim (1) to a peripheral seal (10) of a window (11) of a vehicle, comprising at least one assembly of the clip type formed by a base (6) bearing, on the face intended to receive the trim, one or more semi-rigid clips (7), said clips comprising at least two arms between which a lug element (4) of the trim is introduced, characterized in that the fastening element (100) is formed of one piece enclosed in the peripheral seal during the moulding thereof to the window.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2018Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventors: Xavier CARNOY, Frank BEKAERT, Robert HICK, Joel GLADY
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Patent number: 10767864Abstract: A gas turbine engine may include a combustor having an inner wall and an outer wall defining a combustion chamber there between. The inner wall and the outer wall may each have at least one opening into the combustion chamber. The gas turbine engine may also include at least one mobile conduit through which a cooling fluid may flow. The mobile conduit may pass through the combustion chamber from the at least one opening in the outer wall to the at least one opening in the inner wall. The gas turbine engine may further include a first joint and a second joint fluidly connecting the mobile conduit to the at least one opening in the inner wall and the at least one opening in the outer wall, respectively. The first joint and the second joint may enable multiple degrees of freedom of the mobile conduit within the combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignees: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC, ROLLS-ROYCE CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Clegg, Robert A. Hicks
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Patent number: 10761923Abstract: A method includes transmitting, by a controller of a storage device, a first bit on a data line. The method further includes responsive to transmitting the first bit on the data line, determining, by the controller, a line level of the data line. The method further includes responsive to determining the line level of the data line, determining, by the controller, whether the line level of the data line corresponds to the first bit and responsive to determining that the line level of the data line does not correspond to the first bit, determining, by the controller, that a collision has occurred on the data line.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Mark Robert Hicks, George Christopher Sneed
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Publication number: 20190292996Abstract: A fuel injector comprises a fuel feed arm and a fuel injector head and the fuel injector head has a fuel passage. The fuel feed arm has a fuel supply passage in fluid communication with the fuel passage in the fuel injector head. A first light guide extends through the fuel feed arm and has a distal end arranged to direct light into the fuel passage in the fuel injector head. A light source is arranged to supply light into a proximal end of the first light guide. A second light guide extends through the fuel feed arm and has a distal end arranged to receive transmitted light in the fuel passage in the fuel injector head and a light receiver is arranged to collect light at a proximal end of the second light guide.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventor: Robert A. HICKS
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Patent number: 10344977Abstract: A combustion chamber arrangement has an annular outer wall and an annular inner wall having an upstream row of tiles and a downstream row of tiles. The outer wall has a concave bend which is less than 175°. The downstream end of the upstream tiles and the upstream end of the downstream tiles are adjacent the concave bend. The downstream ends of the upstream tiles are spaced at a greater distance from the inner surface of the annular outer wall than the upstream end of the downstream tiles. The upstream tiles have curved lips extending in a downstream direction which overlap but are spaced radially from the upstream ends of the downstream tiles. The outer wall has a row of apertures to direct coolant onto the outer surfaces of the curved lips and the upstream tiles has a row of apertures extending to the inner surfaces of the curved lips.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventors: Thomas G Mulcaire, Robert A Hicks, Marcus Foale
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Publication number: 20190127841Abstract: Nano-multilayered coatings and fabrication methods are disclosed. By exemplary disclosure, a nano-multilayered coating fabricated from sequential depositions on a substrate from an atmospheric-plasma chemical vapor deposition (AP-CVD) source is disclosed. The coating includes a vapor precursor fed to the deposition source, an amorphous oxide layer deposited from the deposition source onto the substrate, and a nanoparticle layer deposited onto the substrate on top of the amorphous oxide layer. A nano-multilayered coating of the amorphous oxide and nanoparticle layers is fabricated from alternating deposition coatings of the amorphous oxide layer and the nanoparticle layer onto the substrate two or more times.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: Nanocoatings, Inc.Inventors: Francis M. Kustas, Andrew Benjamin Kustas, Thomas Scott Williams, Robert Hicks
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Publication number: 20180304825Abstract: Method for fixing a glass interior trim element into a motor vehicle The invention relates to method for fixing a glass trim element into a motor vehicle's interior characterized in that the method comprises a step of fixation of the glass element to a support to provide an assembly that is integrated to motor vehicle's interior body.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2016Publication date: October 25, 2018Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventors: Claire MATTELET, Pierre HUMBLET, Philippe MUYLKENS, Robert HICK
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Publication number: 20180307552Abstract: A method includes transmitting, by a controller of a storage device, a first bit on a data line. The method further includes responsive to transmitting the first bit on the data line, determining, by the controller, a line level of the data line. The method further includes responsive to determining the line level of the data line, determining, by the controller, whether the line level of the data line corresponds to the first bit and responsive to determining that the line level of the data line does not correspond to the first bit, determining, by the controller, that a collision has occurred on the data line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Mark Robert HICKS, George Christopher SNEED
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Publication number: 20180208036Abstract: The invention relates to a division set (1) for sealing a first retractable frameless window (6) of a car (3) and a second window (2) of the car, adjacent to the first one (6), including a profile (9), to be secured to the second window (2), and a gasket (10) for sealing the two windows (2, 6). According to the present invention, the gasket (10) of a desired shape is (5) made of a TPE material encapsulated with the profile (9) of the division set (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2016Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventors: Philippe MUYLKENS, Robert HICK, Jiri MACHACEK, Roman HYNEK