Patents by Inventor Robert L. Carman, Jr.

Robert L. Carman, Jr. 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: 20090113427
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a system and method for consistently evaluating program management effectiveness against established or historical benchmarks, involving defining specific performance areas by subfactors, weighting the subfactors, scoring the subfactors, and totaling all weighted subfactor scores to obtain a performance area score. By evaluating all performance area scores, a composite score for an evaluated program may be obtained. Scores may be compared to historical values and optimized based on such values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Glenn Brady, Nicholas Sanders, Robert L. Carman, JR., Scott Elliot, Ben Balzer, William K. Klimack
  • Patent number: 5267841
    Abstract: This invention relates to an injector in which fluid is injected into a reaction region 30 after pressurization and translation in traveling cells 20 between crests 46 of traveling waves of one or more waveplates 12 made of shear transducer material. Multiple phases of applied electrical stimulation cause electrical segments of the waveplate to form traveling waves by shearing in a predetermined sequence of amplitudes. Inlet wave amplitude taper 14 provides a prescribed state of inlet fluid acceleration. Outlet wave amplitude taper 18 predetermines the degree of mixing of two or more exiting fluids. Self filtering, valve action, high pressure, and high mass flow are provided with few and relatively benign modes of apparatus degradation due to friction. High system efficiency results from absence of rubbing and the recirculation of stored energy. The fluid delivery rate is smooth, continuous, and electrically variable. Balance of the mass flow rate of two or more fluids is electrically controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1993
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon W. Culp, Robert L. Carman, Jr.