Patents by Inventor Robert M. Cox

Robert M. Cox 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).

  • Method and article of manufacture for determining warhead fragmentation performance
    Patent number: 8285528
    Abstract: A method and a computer program product for estimating and predicting the performance of fragmentation devices such as, for example, warheads that are often incorporated as part of a weapon system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Edwin W. Szymanski, Robert M. Cox
  • Method and apparatus for preventing contamination of a rotating magnetic disc
    Patent number: 4249221
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for preventing contamination of a rotating magnetic disc by particles outgassed from or through the bearings upon which the disc is mounted for rotation. This is accomplished by maintaining a differential pressure aross the bearing nearest the magnetic disc compartment with the higher pressure inside the compartment so that any particles outgassed from the bearing or bearing chamber are constrained to migrate toward a region of lower pressure within the bearing chamber and therefore away from the magnetic disc compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1981
    Assignee: SLI Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Cox, Dan L. Kilmer, Adam Kolkowski