Patents by Inventor Robert Lee Cardenas

Robert Lee Cardenas 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: 20090266227
    Abstract: A vehicle and structure shield includes a flexible net subsystem including an array of rods or hard points supported by the net subsystem and configured to impact a projectile striking the net. A frame includes mounting brackets attached thereto positioning the frame in a spaced relationship with respect to the vehicle or structure. A first releasable fastener subsystem releasably secures the net subsystem to the frame and a second releasable fastener subsystem releasably secures the mounting brackets of the frame to a vehicle or structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Michael D. Farinella, Robert Lee Cardenas, William R. Lawson, Brendan LaBrecque, Frances Rush, David Hoadley, Michael Wheaton, Michael Anderson, Thomas Mann, Abed Kanaan, Patrick Callahan
  • Publication number: 20090038530
    Abstract: A watercraft drogue system including a line deployable in the water to be intercepted by the lower unit of the watercraft's engine, at least a first drogue on one end of the line, a length of stretchable line adjacent the drogue, and at least a first length of slack line secured by a frangible tie. The frangible tie of the watercraft drogue system is designed to break when the drogue is deployed. The length of stretchable line of the drogue system expands in length in order to reduce the tension in the line to prevent kick up of the lower unit of the watercraft's engine and thus arrest the watercraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Thieu Truong, Robert Lee Cardenas, Loren Hazard Howard
  • Patent number: 5988036
    Abstract: A ballistically deployed restraining net system including a cartridge receivable within a barrel, the cartridge having a base and an opposing open end. There is a restraining net packaged in the cartridge and a set of weights attached to the restraining net and packaged within the cartridge between the base of the cartridge and the restraining net. A deployment charge ejects the restraining net and the set of weights out of the barrel and out of the cartridge and a spreader charge deploys the weights after the net and the set of weight exit the cartridge so that the weights overtake the net in flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Foster-Miller, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnis Mangolds, Michael David Farinella, Daniel Rene Deguire, Robert Lee Cardenas
  • Patent number: 5898125
    Abstract: A ballistically deployed restraining net system including a cartridge receivable within a barrel, the cartridge having a base and an opposing open end. There is a restraining net packaged in the cartridge and a set of weights attached to the restraining net and packaged within the cartridge between the base of the cartridge and the restraining net. A deployment charge ejects the restraining net and the set of weights out of the barrel and out of the cartridge and a spreader charge deploys the weights after the net and the set of weight exit the cartridge so that the weights overtake the net in flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Foster-Miller, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnis Mangolds, Michael David Farinella, Daniel Rene Deguire, Robert Lee Cardenas
  • Patent number: 5750918
    Abstract: A ballistically deployed restraining net system including a projectile, a net packaged in the projectile, a net deployment device for unfurling the net in flight, and a fuze for triggering the net deployment device upon the occurrence of a preestablished criteria such as the impact of the projectile with an object, the expiration of a preestablished time period after launch or upon the projectile reaching a predetermined distance to an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Foster-Miller, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnie Mangolds, Michael David Farinella, Daniel Rene Deguire, Robert Lee Cardenas