Patents by Inventor Robert J. Lad

Robert J. Lad 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).

  • Publication number: 20230167867
    Abstract: A brake disc for an aircraft wheel brake including: a temperature sensing device comprising a surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensor element and a sensor antenna, wherein the temperature sensing device is attached to the brake disc by means of a ceramic adhesive and one or more ceramic bolts. A method of attaching a temperature sensing device to a brake disc of an aircraft wheel brake.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Mauricio Pereira DA CUNHA, Robert J. LAD, Ian WHITE, Kurt BRUGGEMANN, Richard DOWNING, Maud CONSOLA
  • Publication number: 20230168132
    Abstract: A temperature sensing device for sensing aircraft wheel brake temperature, the temperature sensing device including: a surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensor element having an interdigital transducer that has electrodes disposed along the surface of a substrate forming a periodic structure. The electrodes having a thickness, in a direction perpendicular to the surface, of between 120 and 190 nanometres.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Mauricio Pereira DA CUNHA, Robert J. LAD, Ian WHITE, Kurt BRUGGEMANN, Richard DOWNING, Maud CONSOLA
  • Publication number: 20230166834
    Abstract: A cable structure to carry signals to and from a component of a temperature sensing arrangement in an aircraft wheel brake is disclosed including elongate elements including a plurality of cables and/or wires, one or more ceramic spacer layers, a ceramic cover layer and a metallic layer surrounding the one or more ceramic spacer layers and the ceramic cover layer. Also disclosed is an aircraft wheel brake comprising the cable structure and an aircraft comprising the aircraft wheel brake.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Mauricio Pereira DA CUNHA, Robert J. LAD, Ian WHITE, Kurt BRUGGEMANN, Richard DOWNING, Maud CONSOLA
  • Publication number: 20230168133
    Abstract: A temperature sensing device for sensing aircraft wheel brake temperature is disclosed including a sensor antenna electrically coupled to a surface acoustic wave, SAW, sensor element, wherein: the sensor antenna comprises a conductive loop disposed on a surface of a substrate, the conductive loop surrounding an attachment region of the substrate, the attachment region having substantially no conductor material thereon. Also disclosed is a brake disc for an aircraft wheel brake comprising the temperature sensing device, and aircraft comprising the brake disc and a method of manufacturing a temperature sensing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Mauricio Pereira DA CUNHA, Robert J. LAD, Ian WHITE, Kurt BRUGGEMANN, Richard DOWNING, Maud CONSOLA
  • Publication number: 20230168134
    Abstract: A temperature sensing device to sense aircraft wheel brake temperature is disclosed including a sensing device substrate; and one or more package layers attached to the sensing device substrate, wherein: the sensing device substrate carries one or more electronic components for sensing temperature. Also disclosed is a wireless relay device to wirelessly transmit an interrogation signal to a temperature sensing device and wirelessly receive an output signal from the temperature sensing device, the temperature sensing device to sense aircraft wheel brake temperature, the wireless relay device comprising: a relay substrate; and one or more package layers attached to the relay substrate, wherein: the relay substrate carries one or more electronic components of the wireless relay device. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing a temperature sensing device to sense aircraft wheel brake temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Mauricio Pereira DA CUNHA, Robert J. LAD, Ian WHITE, Kurt BRUGGEMANN, Richard DOWNING, Maud CONSOLA
  • Publication number: 20230166835
    Abstract: A temperature sensing device for sensing aircraft wheel brake temperature, the temperature sensing device including a surface acoustic wave, SAW, sensor element with a resonant frequency within a frequency range between 175 megahertz and 190 megahertz at a predetermined temperature. The temperature sensing system also includes a wireless relay device, a method for sensing temperature of a wheel brake of an aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Mauricio Pereira DA CUNHA, Robert J. LAD, Ian WHITE, Kurt BRUGGEMANN, Richard DOWNING, Maud CONSOLA
  • Publication number: 20230168130
    Abstract: A holder for a wireless relay device is disclosed including a rigid hollow arm member to be received in a groove in a torque tube spline of an aircraft wheel brake; and a support member to support the wireless relay device, the support member mechanically coupled to the rigid hollow arm member towards a first end of the rigid hollow arm member, wherein: the rigid hollow arm member provides a conduit for a communications cable to couple to the wireless relay device. Also disclosed is an aircraft wheel brake comprising the holder and an aircraft comprising the aircraft wheel brake.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Mauricio Pereira DA CUNHA, Robert J. LAD, Ian WHITE, Kurt BRUGGEMANN, Richard DOWNING, Maud CONSOLA
  • Patent number: 7888842
    Abstract: An ultra-thin film electrode including at least one electrically conductive layer disposed upon an adhesive layer that is carried by a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: University of Maine System Board of Trustees
    Inventors: Mauricio Pereira da Cunha, Robert J. Lad, David Joseph Frankel, George Paul Bernhardt, IV, Thomas Moonlight
  • Publication number: 20100181869
    Abstract: An ultra-thin film electrode including at least one electrically conductive layer disposed upon an adhesive layer that is carried by a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventors: Mauricio Pereira da Cunha, Robert J. Lad, David Joseph Frankel, George Paul Bernhardt, IV, Thomas Moonlight