Patents by Inventor Roy Macnaughton
Roy Macnaughton 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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Patent number: 11530713Abstract: A mounting system, a clamp and method for mounting to a structural component. The mounting system includes a bracket with a mounting projection, the mounting projection has a mounting opening which extends between side walls of the mounting projection. A clamp has a mounting portion and a clamping portion, the mounting portion has a projection receiving opening which receives the mounting projection therein. A latching mechanism extends from the clamping portion, the latching mechanism has a securing which is movable between an unlocked position and a locked position.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH, TYCO ELECTRONICS UK LTD.Inventors: Roy MacNaughton, Tyler Weber
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Patent number: 11054063Abstract: Clamping device includes a clamp frame that is configured to move between an open configuration, in which the clamp frame is configured to receive at least one longitudinal element, and a closed configuration, in which the clamp frame wraps around and holds the at least one longitudinal element. The clamp frame includes a coupling end having an inner surface and a coupling base having an outer surface. The inner and outer surfaces have profiles that form a locked engagement to hold the clamp frame in the closed configuration. The clamping device also includes a secondary locking mechanism that secures the coupling end and the coupling base to each other. The secondary locking mechanism is activated after the clamp frame is held in the closed configuration by the locked engagement.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION, TYCO ELECTRONICS UK LTD.Inventors: Thomas D. Ratzlaff, Paul Craig Tally, Jonathan Mark Eyles, Roy MacNaughton, Nicholas John Swatko
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Publication number: 20210180625Abstract: A mounting system, a clamp and method for mounting to a structural component. The mounting system includes a bracket with a mounting projection, the mounting projection has a mounting opening which extends between side walls of the mounting projection. A clamp has a mounting portion and a clamping portion, the mounting portion has a projection receiving opening which receives the mounting projection therein. A latching mechanism extends from the clamping portion, the latching mechanism has a securing which is movable between an unlocked position and a locked position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Roy MACNAUGHTON, Tyler WEBER
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Patent number: 10766678Abstract: A cable tie includes a belt, a head connected to the belt and having a passageway for receiving the belt, and a lock disposed in the head. The lock is displaceable parallel to a plane of the passageway along a stroke and has a protrusion configured to lock the belt.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd.Inventors: Roy MacNaughton, Jonathan Mark Eyles, Philip Hammond
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Patent number: 10622796Abstract: A mounting assembly for mounting a cable on an electrically conductive structure comprises a mounting bracket and a cover mounted on the mounting bracket and movable with respect to the mounting bracket between a bracket mounting position and a cable mounting position. The mounting bracket has a mounting element receptacle and a cable holding device receptacle. The mounting element receptacle receives a mounting element that attaches the mounting bracket to the electrically conductive structure. The cable holding device receptacle receives a cable holding device that holds the cable. The mounting element receptacle is accessible from a cover side of the mounting bracket and the cable holding device receptacle is covered by the cover in the bracket mounting position. The mounting element receptacle is covered by the cover and the cable holding device receptacle is accessible from the cover side of the mounting bracket in the cable mounting position.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Tyco Electronics UK LtdInventors: Roy MacNaughton, Tomasz Kopinski
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Publication number: 20180362231Abstract: A cable tie comprises a belt, a head connected to the belt and having a passageway for receiving the belt, and a lock disposed in the head. The lock is displaceable parallel to a plane of the passageway along a stroke and has a protrusion configured to lock the belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd.Inventors: Roy MacNaughton, Jonathan Mark Eyles, Philip Hammond
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Publication number: 20180274699Abstract: Clamping device includes a clamp frame that is configured to move between an open configuration, in which the clamp frame is configured to receive at least one longitudinal element, and a closed configuration, in which the clamp frame wraps around and holds the at least one longitudinal element. The clamp frame includes a coupling end having an inner surface and a coupling base having an outer surface. The inner and outer surfaces have profiles that form a locked engagement to hold the clamp frame in the closed configuration. The clamping device also includes a secondary locking mechanism that secures the coupling end and the coupling base to each other. The secondary locking mechanism is activated after the clamp frame is held in the closed configuration by the locked engagement.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Thomas D. Ratzlaff, Paul Craig Tally, Jonathan Mark Eyles, Roy MacNaughton, Nicholas John Swatko
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Publication number: 20180278035Abstract: A mounting assembly for mounting a cable on an electrically conductive structure comprises a mounting bracket and a cover mounted on the mounting bracket and movable with respect to the mounting bracket between a bracket mounting position and a cable mounting position. The mounting bracket has a mounting element receptacle and a cable holding device receptacle. The mounting element receptacle receives a mounting element that attaches the mounting bracket to the electrically conductive structure. The cable holding device receptacle receives a cable holding device that holds the cable. The mounting element receptacle is accessible from a cover side of the mounting bracket and the cable holding device receptacle is covered by the cover in the bracket mounting position. The mounting element receptacle is covered by the cover and the cable holding device receptacle is accessible from the cover side of the mounting bracket in the cable mounting position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: Tyco Electronics UK LtdInventors: Roy MacNaughton, Tomasz Kopinski
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Patent number: 9951889Abstract: A cable tie system has a cable tie member and a cable retaining member. The cable tie member has a base with an inner facing surface and an outer facing surface, a pair of cable tie strips connected to the base and projecting outward from the inner facing surface, and a locking member connected to the base and projecting outward from outer facing surface. The cable retaining member has a retainer housing with a top surface, a bottom surface, a pair of tie strip receiving passageways complimentary to the cable tie strips, a resilient tie strip engaging arm positioned in each tie strip receiving passageway and in releasable contact with one of the cable tie strips when the cable tie strips are positioned in the tie strip receiving passageways, and a release member connected to an end of each resilient tie strip engaging arm.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Tyco Electronics UK LtdInventors: Martyn Reed, Roy MacNaughton
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Patent number: 9859630Abstract: The invention relates to a conductive connection assembly (5), a method for manufacturing the same and a kit for a body (23) comprising carbon fibre-reinforced material, e.g. for a vehicle comprising a carbon fibre-reinforced body (23), with an electrical structural network for conducting electric discharges. The conductive connection assembly (5) includes a conductive interconnection element (1) with a conductive braid material (B). Furthermore, a kit is provided, the kit including at least two conductive connection assemblies (5) that are provided with differently shaped interconnection elements (1). Finally, a method that comprises the step of reshaping longitudinal ends (3, 4) of a braid material (B) is provided according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2013Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd.Inventors: Roy MacNaughton, Matthew Stubbs
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Publication number: 20150226354Abstract: A cable tie system has a cable tie member and a cable retaining member. The cable tie member has a base with an inner facing surface and an outer facing surface, a pair of cable tie strips connected to the base and projecting outward from the inner facing surface, and a locking member connected to the base and projecting outward from outer facing surface. The cable retaining member has a retainer housing with a top surface, a bottom surface, a pair of tie strip receiving passageways complimentary to the cable tie strips, a resilient tie strip engaging arm positioned in each tie strip receiving passageway and in releasable contact with one of the cable tie strips when the cable tie strips are positioned in the tie strip receiving passageways, and a release member connected to an end of each resilient tie strip engaging arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS UK LTDInventors: Martyn Reed, Roy MacNaughton
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Patent number: 9095246Abstract: A cleaning appliance of the canister type, including a separating apparatus for separating dirt from a dirt-bearing fluid flow, a support for supporting the separating apparatus on the appliance, a duct having a fluid inlet for receiving the fluid flow from a fluid outlet of the separating apparatus, and a handle connected to the duct. The duct is pivotable between a raised position in which the separating apparatus can be removed from the appliance and a lowered position in which the duct is connected to the separating apparatus. The handle may be used for moving the duct between the first and second positions and for carrying the appliance.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventor: Roy MacNaughton
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Publication number: 20140374138Abstract: The invention relates to a conductive connection assembly (5), a method for manufacturing the same and a kit for a body (23) comprising carbon fibre-reinforced material, e.g. for a vehicle comprising a carbon fibre-reinforced body (23), with an electrical structural network for conducting electric discharges. In order to improve durability of the body (23) with the electrical structural network, the invention provides that the conductive connection assembly (5) comprises a conductive interconnection element (1) with a conductive braid material (B). Furthermore, in order to simplify installing the electrical structural network to the body (23), a kit is provided, the kit comprising at least two conductive connection assemblies (5) that are provided with differently shaped interconnection elements (1). Finally, a method that comprises the step of reshaping longitudinal ends (3, 4) of a braid material (B) is provided according to the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Roy MacNaughton, Matthew Stubbs
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Publication number: 20140075715Abstract: A cleaning appliance of the canister type, including a separating apparatus for separating dirt from a dirt-bearing fluid flow, a support for supporting the separating apparatus on the appliance, a duct having a fluid inlet for receiving the fluid flow from a fluid outlet of the separating apparatus, and a handle connected to the duct. The duct is pivotable between a raised position in which the separating apparatus can be removed from the appliance and a lowered position in which the duct is connected to the separating apparatus. The handle may be used for moving the duct between the first and second positions and for carrying the appliance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: DYSON TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventor: Roy MACNAUGHTON
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Patent number: 8347521Abstract: A drying apparatus has a casing, a cavity formed in the casing for receiving an object, a fan located in the casing and creating an airflow, and at least one slot-like opening communicating with the fan and arranged in the casing so as to direct an airflow transversely across the cavity. The slot-like opening has a maximum width which is no greater than 0.8 mm. This produces a very narrow, high velocity, high pressure airflow which is capable of drying an object efficiently and quickly and is suitable for use in a hand dryer.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: John Churchill, James Dyson, Peter David Gammack, Paul Cedric Campbell Hackwell, Frederic Nicolas, Roy Macnaughton
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Publication number: 20100242216Abstract: A cleaning appliance of the canister type, including separating apparatus for separating dirt from a dirt-bearing fluid flow, a support for supporting the separating apparatus on the appliance, a duct having a fluid inlet for receiving the fluid flow from a fluid outlet of the separating apparatus, and a mechanism for urging together the fluid inlet of the duct and the fluid outlet of the separating apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: DYSON TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventor: Roy MACNAUGHTON
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Publication number: 20090113746Abstract: A drying apparatus has a casing, a cavity formed in the casing for receiving an object, a fan located in the casing and creating an airflow, and at least one slot-like opening communicating with the fan and arranged in the casing so as to direct an airflow transversely across the cavity. The slot-like opening has a maximum width which is no greater than 0.8 mm. This produces a very narrow, high velocity, high pressure airflow which is capable of drying an object efficiently and quickly and is suitable for use in a hand dryer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2006Publication date: May 7, 2009Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: John Churchill, James Dyson, Peter David Gammack, Paul Cedric Campbell Hackwell, Frederic Nicolas, Roy Macnaughton
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Patent number: 6768293Abstract: Measurements are obtained of a signal within each one of multiple ranges of a parameter. For each range a representative measurement value is derived together with the extent of the range. A respective graphical display element is defined for each range of the parameter, a first dimension of each display element (such as its height) being indicative of the representative measurement value for the respective range of the parameter, and a second dimension of the display element (such as its width) being indicative of the extent of that respective range of the parameter. A display of the measured signal throughout the multiple ranges of the parameter is generated, with the graphical display elements superimposed at positions corresponding to the respective ranges of the parameter.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2001Date of Patent: July 27, 2004Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Stuart Snaddon, Robert Schuller, Roy Macnaughton
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Publication number: 20030102856Abstract: Measurements are obtained of a signal within each one of multiple ranges of a parameter. For each range a representative measurement value is derived together with the extent of the range. A respective graphical display element is defined for each range of the parameter, a first dimension of each display element (such as its height) being indicative of the representative measurement value for the respective range of the parameter, and a second dimension of the display element (such as its width) being indicative of the extent of that respective range of the parameter. A display of the measured signal throughout the multiple ranges of the parameter is generated, with the graphical display elements superimposed at positions corresponding to the respective ranges of the parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2001Publication date: June 5, 2003Applicant: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Stuart Snaddon, Roy Schuller, Roy Macnaughton