Patents by Inventor Ronald W. McKinney

Ronald W. McKinney 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).

  • Patent number: 4773349
    Abstract: A boat dock bumper including an elongated vertical plate having an inner face and an outer face. A spring steel strap attached to the inner face of the plate and disposed to bow away from the inner face. The strap is attached at one end of the plate by a sliding attachment and at the other end of the plate by a pivoting attachment. Means are provided by way of a plate for attaching the strap to a boat dock such that the outer face of the plate will contact the hull of an approaching watercraft. The plate is movable between an at-rest position and a compressed position when contacted by a watercraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Inventor: Ronald W. McKinney
  • Patent number: 4630018
    Abstract: A current transformer is provided for the electronic trip unit of a molded case circuit breaker. The current transformer has a core with a winding encoiled about the core and a bus spiraled about the core. The spiral bus establishes a current path from one end of the bus to the other which will conduct current through the core in a spiral fashion. The spiral bus design effectively rotates the bus 90 degrees achieving a narrow transformer design which fits into the electronic trip unit without increasing the width of the trip unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1986
    Assignee: Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc.
    Inventors: William E. May, Ronald W. McKinney, James S. Wells