Patents by Inventor Robert Kyle

Robert Kyle 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: 20160327114
    Abstract: A hydraulic shock absorber having an inner housing portion slidably coupled to an outer housing portion to define a variable size chamber for containing shock absorber fluid and a dynamic seal having a sealing face adjacent to the inner housing portion for confining shock absorber fluid to the chamber. The shock absorber fluid includes a colloidal suspension of inorganic particles in liquid, the colloidal suspension comprising 1-25% by weight inorganic particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventor: Robert Kyle Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20160305456
    Abstract: A hydraulic actuator having a body defining a chamber, a piston rod including an annular groove and a piston head slidably housed within the chamber, the piston head having a number of segments each of which has a base portion mounted within the annular groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Kyle Schmidt, Matthew Hilliard
  • Publication number: 20160298714
    Abstract: A hydraulic shock absorber having an inner housing portion slidably coupled to an outer housing portion to define a variable size chamber for containing shock absorber fluid. The region where the inner and outer housing portions overlap defines an annulus between adjacent surfaces of the inner and outer housing portions which varies in size in accordance with the extension state of the shock absorber. A dynamic seal is coupled to a surface of the shock absorber within the annulus for confining shock absorber fluid to the chamber. The shock absorber fluid is an electro-rheological or magneto-rheological fluid and the shock absorber includes a device for generating a magnetic or electric control field within the chamber at a region adjacent dynamic seal in order to increase the viscosity of the shock absorber fluid adjacent to the dynamic seal to inhibit passage of the shock absorber fluid beyond the dynamic seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Kyle Schmidt, Matthew Baxter
  • Publication number: 20160272309
    Abstract: An aircraft landing gear shock absorber having an inner housing portion slidably coupled within an outer housing portion, and a chamber which defines a sealed fluid volume for containing shock absorber fluid within the shock absorber. The chamber includes a moveable wall portion arranged to move between a first position and a second position, and in the second position the effective volume of the chamber is decreased such that the shock absorber fluid pressure increases, to provide a bump to the shock absorber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Robert Kyle Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20160272303
    Abstract: An aircraft landing gear assembly includes a bi-stable, split line tube biased to assume a tubular condition to serve in place of a lock link or side stay and an actuator configured to radially enlarge the tube at a region for folding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: ROBERT KYLE SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20160272305
    Abstract: An aircraft landing gear assembly includes a fibre composite leaf spring arranged as a down lock spring to make the lock link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Robert Kyle Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20160264235
    Abstract: A brake rod assembly for an aircraft landing gear. The brake rod assembly includes a support member, a first brake rod having a first pivot point and a second pivot point, and a second brake rod. The support member is coupled to the first pivot point, the second brake rod is coupled to the second pivot point, and the first and second pivot points are longitudinally spaced apart along a first portion of the first brake rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Matthew Sexton, Robert Kyle Schmidt, Thomas Halford
  • Publication number: 20160107747
    Abstract: An aircraft landing gear assembly having a main strut and an axle on which wheel and brake assemblies are mounted. An adaptor member is mounted on a mounting pin and arranged to define a brake rod anchor point. The adaptor member is coupled to a part of the landing gear assembly so as to react brake torque and can be formed from a different material than a portion of the main strut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Matthew Sexton, Robert Kyle Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9310014
    Abstract: A method for restoring a degraded pipeline, the method comprising: removing a degraded part of an inner flow pipe of a pipeline leaving a space between two spaced-apart sections of the inner flow pipe; positioning a new pipe in the space; connecting the new pipe to the two spaced-apart sections of the inner flow pipe thereby re-establishing a flow channel through the inner flow pipe; the new pipe having a core pipe with a first strengthening wrap thereon, a second strengthening wrap around the first strengthening wrap, and a protective outer wrap on the second strengthening wrap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: SMART PIPE COMPANY L.P.
    Inventors: Aron Robert Ekelund, Stephen Crockett Catha, Kenneth Ray Charboneau, Justin Michael Reed, Robert Kyle Bethel
  • Publication number: 20160076561
    Abstract: An actuator arranged to be movable between an extended condition and a compressed condition and being biased to an intermediate condition between and distinct from the extended condition and the compressed condition. The actuator includes a damping device arranged to define the damping coefficient of the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Christopher Green, Robert Kyle Schmidt, David Smart
  • Patent number: 9227724
    Abstract: An aircraft landing gear having a strut having an upper portion for mechanically coupling to an aircraft and a lower portion movably mounted with respect to the upper portion. A bogie beam is pivotally coupled to the lower strut. A bogie control linkage is mechanically coupled to the bogie at a first connection point, and to the strut at a second connection point. The bogie control linkage has: an actuator including a locking system that inhibits actuation of the actuator; a sensor linkage mechanically coupled to the lower strut and arranged to change between first and second conditions in accordance with movement of the upper strut relative to the lower strut; and an actuator control linkage arranged to operate the locking system when the sensor linkage is in the first condition and arranged not to operate the locking system when the sensor linkage is in the second condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Messier-Dowty Limited
    Inventor: Robert Kyle Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20150324542
    Abstract: Systems and methods configured for estimating safety-related risks associated with adverse events and poor patient outcomes associated with the use of medical products and treatment (e.g., drugs, vaccines, medications, dietary supplements, and medical devices) are provided. More particularly, the present description relates to a method and system for estimating the downstream medical costs and therefore the risk (e.g., using a safety risk score, ranking, designation, estimate, or the like) associated with the use of an individual medical treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Keith B. Hoffman, Brian M. Overstreet, Colin B. Erdman, Robert Kyle
  • Patent number: 9141844
    Abstract: The system includes a 3D feature detection module and 3D recognition module 202. The 3D feature detection module processes 3D surface map of a biometric object, wherein the 3D surface map includes a plurality of 3D coordinates. The 3D feature detection module determines whether one or more types of 3D features are present in the 3D surface map and generates 3D feature data including 3D coordinates and feature type for the detected features. The 3D recognition module compares the 3D feature data with biometric data sets for identified persons. The 3D recognition module determines a match between the 3D feature data and one of the biometric data sets when a confidence value exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Inventors: Veeraganesh Yalla, Colby B. Boles, Raymond Charles Daley, Robert Kyle Fleming
  • Patent number: 9108746
    Abstract: A method of protecting an aircraft undercarriage (1) while it is being towed by means of a tow bar (13) hitched to a steerable bottom portion of the undercarriage, the method including the step of generating an alarm when a towing force imposed by the tow bar on the undercarriage reaches or exceeds a predetermined force threshold. The threshold is caused to vary as a function of an orientation of the steerable bottom portion of the undercarriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: MESSIER-BUGATTI-DOWTY
    Inventors: Robert Kyle Schmidt, Jean-Luc Alleau
  • Publication number: 20150203195
    Abstract: A shock absorber assembly having a wheel assembly including first and second coupling points, and first and second shock absorber elements. Each shock absorber element includes a housing portion defining a bore, and a rod slidably coupled within the bore such that the shock absorber element has a variable length. Each rod is coupled to a respective coupling point of the wheel assembly. The shock absorber assembly is arranged to maintain the relative positions of the first and second housing portions such that the longitudinal axis of the first bore has a generally fixed relationship with respect to the longitudinal axis of the second bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Andraz Vatovec, Robert Kyle Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20150135789
    Abstract: A tube bending machine for bending a length of a tubular workpiece and an associated tube feeder assembly are disclosed. The tube feeder assembly has a carriage assembly slidably mounted along a rail. A clamp assembly is reversibly mounted to and carried by the carriage assembly. The clamp assembly is adapted to be releasably secured to the workpiece. The clamp assembly and carriage assembly are configurable to align the workpiece central axis along the rail, whereby sliding of the carriage assembly with the workpiece mounted in the clamp assembly carries the workpiece along the rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventor: Robert Kyle Hughes, JR.
  • Publication number: 20150041587
    Abstract: A landing gear for an aircraft having a main fitting arranged to be coupled to the aircraft and arranged to move between a stowed condition and a deployed condition and a trailing arm movably coupled to the main fitting. A torsion spring is coupled to the trailing arm such that the movement of the trailing arm causes torsion loading of the torsion spring. A stay assembly is provided which comprises the torsion spring, the stay assembly having a first condition in which it is arranged to react axial loading thereof so as to maintain the main fitting in the deployed condition and a second condition in which it is arranged to permit the main fitting to move between the stowed condition and the deployed condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Robert Kyle Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20140374538
    Abstract: An aircraft landing gear having a strut having an upper portion for mechanically coupling to an aircraft and a lower portion movably mounted with respect to the upper portion. A bogie beam is pivotally coupled to the lower strut. A bogie control linkage is mechanically coupled to the bogie at a first connection point, and to the strut at a second connection point. The bogie control linkage has: an actuator including a locking system that inhibits actuation of the actuator; a sensor linkage mechanically coupled to the lower strut and arranged to change between first and second conditions in accordance with movement of the upper strut relative to the lower strut; and an actuator control linkage arranged to operate the locking system when the sensor linkage is in the first condition and arranged not to operate the locking system when the sensor linkage is in the second condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Messier-Dowty Limited
    Inventor: Robert Kyle Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20140358576
    Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods used to estimate safety-related risks associated with the use of medical products, treatments, and interventions (e.g., drugs, vaccines, medications, dietary supplements, and medical devices). More particularly, the present description relates to a method and system for estimating the risk (e.g., using a safety risk score, ranking, designation, estimate, or the like) associated with the use of an individual medical intervention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Keith B. Hoffman, Brian M. Overstreet, Colin B. Erdman, Robert Kyle
  • Patent number: 8863510
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrohydraulic actuator comprising a body (1) that defines a cylindrical cavity (2) in which a piston (3) slides in leaktight manner and divides an inside volume of the cavity into two chambers (A, B) of variable volume, the piston being associated with at least one rod (4) passing in leaktight manner through an end wall of the cavity, the actuator including a bidirectional pump (5) having two ports (P1, P2), each connected to one of the chambers, an electric motor (8) for selectively driving the pump in one direction or the other, the pump being placed inside the piston of the actuator so as to move together therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Messier-Bugatti-Dowty
    Inventor: Robert Kyle Schmidt