Patents by Inventor Robert Laine
Robert Laine 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: 20210154753Abstract: An indexable piercing tip mounts to a nose portion of one of the jaws of a heavy-duty demolition shears so as to enclose and protect top, bottom, front, and two opposing side surfaces of the nose portion during use of the shears. The piercing tip has a first operative position in which a first set of piercing and shearing edges of the piercing tip are presented for use. When the first set gets dull or worn, the piercing tip can be rotated/indexed 180° degrees so as to present a second set of piercing and shearing edges of the piercing tip for use.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Karl JOHNSON, Clayton SEDERBERG, Shane BUBACZ, Matthew George MECKLIN, Robert Laine BLETTNER
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Patent number: 9279876Abstract: A transmitting beacon (4) having at least two transmitting current loops (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) that are mutually orthogonal and capable of transmitting electromagnetic waves (5.1, 5.2, 5.3), as well as means (7) for supplying power to the transmitting current loops (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) in series is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2011Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: ASTRIUM SASInventor: Robert Laine
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Patent number: 9145215Abstract: An aircraft having propulsion units for both conventional aircraft flight in the atmosphere and for high-altitude operation as a rocket. The aircraft is divided into a payload compartment and a compartment containing rocket propulsion unit propellant or fuel, and includes a long transverse wing with a small back-sweep to favor lift in the dense layers of the atmosphere and to thus make it possible to climb to high altitudes at a subsonic speed before using the rocket propulsion units. The return flight portion is performed by gliding or controlled as for a conventional aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2013Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: ASTRIUM SASInventors: Christophe Chavagnac, Jerome Bertrand, Hugues Laporte-Weywada, Olivier Poulain, Philippe Matharan, Robert Laine
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Patent number: 9081077Abstract: The system comprises terminals that are mounted onto a predetermined number of feeder vessels, comprises means for detecting identification signals sent by surrounding ships, and moreover comprises means for recording identification information that include the detected identification signals and the current position of the feeder vessel. Said system also comprises a system for transmitting data via satellites, said data transmitting system making it possible to transmit data between the terminals and a monitoring center, said monitoring center including a means for generating requests intended for the terminals in order to ask said terminals to provide the recorded identification information. Said monitoring center also includes a means for analyzing the received identification information.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2010Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Astrium SASInventor: Robert Laine
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Publication number: 20140110530Abstract: An aircraft having propulsion units for both conventional aircraft flight in the atmosphere and for high-altitude operation as a rocket. The aircraft is divided into a payload compartment and a compartment containing rocket propulsion unit propellant or fuel, and includes a long transverse wing with a small back-sweep to favour lift in the dense layers of the atmosphere and to thus make it possible to climb to high altitudes at a subsonic speed before using the rocket propulsion units. The return flight portion is performed by gliding or controlled as for a conventional aircraft.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Astrium SASInventors: Christophe Chavagnac, Jerome Bertrand, Hugues Laporte-Weywada, Olivier Poulain, Philippe Matharan, Robert Laine
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Patent number: 8702041Abstract: An aircraft having propulsion units for both conventional aircraft flight in the atmosphere and for high-altitude operation as a rocket. The aircraft is divided into a payload compartment and a compartment containing rocket propulsion unit propellant or fuel, and includes a long transverse wing with a small back-sweep to favor lift in the dense layers of the atmosphere and to thus make it possible to climb to high altitudes at a subsonic speed before using the rocket propulsion units. The return flight portion is performed by gliding or controlled as for a conventional aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2007Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Astrium, S.A.SInventors: Christophe Chavagnac, Jérôme Bertrand, Hugues Laporte-Weywada, Olivier Poulain, Philippe Matharan, Robert Laine
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Publication number: 20130241773Abstract: According to the invention, a transmitting beacon (4) comprises at least two transmitting current loops (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) which are mutually orthogonal and capable of transmitting electromagnetic waves (5.1, 5.2, 5.3), as well as means (7) for supplying power to said transmitting current loops (6.1, 6.3) in series.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2011Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: ASTRIUM SASInventor: Robert Laine
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Publication number: 20130002476Abstract: The system comprises terminals that are mounted onto a predetermined number of feeder vessels, comprises means for detecting identification signals sent by surrounding ships, and moreover comprises means for recording identification information that include the detected identification signals and the current position of the feeder vessel. Said system also comprises a system for transmitting data via satellites, said data transmitting system making it possible to transmit data between the terminals and a monitoring center, said monitoring center including a means for generating requests intended for the terminals in order to ask said terminals to provide the recorded identification information. Said monitoring center also includes a means for analyzing the received identification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2010Publication date: January 3, 2013Inventor: Robert Laine
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Patent number: 8163004Abstract: A stent graft for reinforcement of a vascular abnormalities and an associated method are provided. According to one embodiment, the stent graft includes a flexible tubular structure comprising a proximal end and a distal end and having an expanded heat set configuration. The tubular structure is configured to be constrained to a smaller diameter than the expanded heat set configuration, and the tubular structure is heat set such that at least a portion of the proximal and/or distal ends is configured to fold over on itself when unconstrained.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: AGA Medical CorporationInventors: Kurt Amplatz, Robert Laine
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Patent number: 8106815Abstract: Disclosed is a system for positioning a terrestrial user. The system includes navigation satellites placed in medium altitude orbits, management satellites placed in high orbits, able to manage the navigation satellites and communicate with the Earth. The management satellites can include a set of at least three management satellites each placed in a high orbit, having a plane that is inclined with respect to the plane of the terrestrial equator and cuts the equator along a diametral straight intersection line with respect to the Earth. Two external diametral straight intersection lines can form an angle of longitude of at least 90 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Astrium SASInventor: Robert Laine
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Publication number: 20100276545Abstract: This aircraft comprises both propulsion units (7, 16, 17) for conventional aircraft flight in the atmosphere and for high-altitude operation as a rocket. It is divided into a payload compartment (8) and a compartment (13) essentially containing rocket propulsion unit ergols. It comprises a long transverse wing (3) with a small back-sweep to favour the lift in the dense layers of the atmosphere and make it possible to climb to high altitudes at a subsonic speed before using the rocket propulsion units. The return is performed by gliding or controlled as for a conventional aircraft.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2007Publication date: November 4, 2010Inventors: Christophe Chavagnac, Jérôme Bertrand, Hugues Laporte-Weywada, Olivier Poulain, Philippe Matharan, Robert Laine
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Publication number: 20100182192Abstract: According to the invention, navigation satellites (1) are at least partially managed by at least three management satellites (3.1 to 3.3) positioned on high orbits inclined in relation to the equator (E). Said high orbits intersect the equatorial plane along intersecting diametrical straight lines (5.1 to 5.3), such that the two outer intersecting diametrical lines (5.2, 5.3) form therebetween an angle of longitude (2?) that is at least equal to 90°.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2008Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: Astrium SASInventor: Robert Laine
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Publication number: 20090210047Abstract: A stent graft for reinforcement of a vascular abnormalities and an associated method are provided. According to one embodiment, the stent graft includes a flexible tubular structure comprising a proximal end and a distal end and having an expanded heat set configuration. The tubular structure is configured to be constrained to a smaller diameter than the expanded heat set configuration, and the tubular structure is heat set such that at least a portion of the proximal and/or distal ends is configured to fold over on itself when unconstrained.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2008Publication date: August 20, 2009Applicant: AGA Medical CorporationInventors: Kurt Amplatz, Robert Laine
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Patent number: 6910339Abstract: A system for extracting including a cooled condenser apparatus in contact with the volume of pressurized air being dehumidified, the condensed water being transferred into collection areas by means of capillary attraction; an evaporation chamber in thermal contact with the condenser apparatus having an inlet connected to the collection areas by means of a first valve device and an outlet connected by means of a second valve device to a space wherein the pressure is lower than that of the volume of pressurized air; and a control device for controlling the valve devices in order to carry out a control cycle with a first phase for placing the evaporation chamber under negative pressure in relation to the volume of pressurized air, and a second phase for suctioning the condensed water in the collection areas towards the decompression chamber, until the pressure in the decompression chamber reaches a predefined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2003Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: Agence Spatiale EuropeenneInventors: Robert Laine, Primo Tamburini
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Publication number: 20040123607Abstract: A system for extracting including a cooled condenser apparatus in contact with the volume of pressurized air being dehumidified, the condensed water being transferred into collection areas by means of capillary attraction; an evaporation chamber in thermal contact with the condenser apparatus having an inlet connected to the collection areas by means of a first valve device and an outlet connected by means of a second valve device to a space wherein the pressure is lower than that of the volume of pressurized air; and a control device for controlling the valve devices in order to carry out a control cycle with a first phase for placing the evaporation chamber under negative pressure in relation to the volume of pressurized air, and a second phase for suctioning the condensed water in the collection areas towards the decompression chamber, until the pressure in the decompression chamber reaches a predefined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Inventors: Robert Laine, Primo Tamburini
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Patent number: 6449826Abstract: The invention provides a method of assembling an optical assembly having first and second longitudinal ends and comprising N coaxial shells forming individual mirrors, each of which extends between said first and second ends and presents a first diameter at said first end and a second diameter that is greater than the first at said opposite, second end, the method comprising: 1) putting the first end of the first shell situated outermost in the optical assembly into place on a support; 2) putting the first end of the second shell which is immediately adjacent thereto in the optical assembly into place on the support inside the first shell; . . . ; and N) putting the first end of the Nth shell which is situated innermost in the optical assembly into place on the support.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2000Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Assignees: Agence Spatiale Europeenne, Universite DeliegeInventors: Robert Laine, Daniel Pelletier De Chambure, Claude Jamar, Jean-Paul Collette, Yvan Stockman, Jean-Philippe Tock
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Patent number: 6252690Abstract: A system for transmitting data inside a satellite comprises senders and receivers of digital signals containing the data interconnected by non-directional infra-red links.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1995Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Alcatel EspaceInventor: Robert Laine
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Patent number: 4412851Abstract: The invention relates to cryogenic apparatus of the open cycle kind comprising a reservoir 1 for storing cryogenic fluid in liquid-vapor phase equilibrium and a phase separator 2 presenting an inlet 3 communicating with the inside of the reservoir and an outlet 4 for liberating gas, the inlet including an obturator 6.The technical problem is to provide an apparatus of simple operation with minimal dissipated energy.According to the invention, the phase separator 2 comprises a transfer chamber 9 with a constriction 5 at its inlet, and a further obturator 8 at its outlet, the two obturators 6,8 being operated alternately by a control unit 10.The invention is particularly applicable to zero-gravity operation, especially for space missions.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1982Date of Patent: November 1, 1983Assignee: Agence Spatiale EuropeeneInventor: Robert Laine