Patents by Inventor Russell Scott Miller
Russell Scott Miller 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: 11259577Abstract: A brace for a part of a body includes a first conductive fiber associated with a first polarity, and a second conductive fiber associated with a second polarity different from the first polarity. The second fiber is woven together with the first fiber and insulated from the first fiber. The brace also includes a selectively electrically activated cross-linking agent between the first and second fibers. The agent is constructed to cross-link in a first active mode when the first and second fibers are electrified and is constructed to not cross-link in a second inactive mode when the first and second fibers are not electrified. The brace surrounds a body part, such as a knee or neck. The agent can include an ER fluid and/or EAP. A brace system includes a selectively electrically activated brace for the part of the body.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SoftArmour LLCInventors: David Amos Ben-Meir, Allan Sanford, Christen Egan, Gibran Esquenazi, Richard Hutchison, Nathaniel Mowell, Russell Scott Miller
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Publication number: 20160174630Abstract: A brace for a part of a body includes a first conductive fiber associated with a first polarity, and a second conductive fiber associated with a second polarity different from the first polarity. The second fiber is woven together with the first fiber and insulated from the first fiber. The brace also includes a selectively electrically activated cross-linking agent between the first and second fibers. The agent is constructed to cross-link in a first active mode when the first and second fibers are electrified and is constructed to not cross-link in a second inactive mode when the first and second fibers are not electrified. The brace surrounds a body part, such as a knee or neck. The agent can include an ER fluid and/or EAP. A brace system includes a selectively electrically activated brace for the part of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2016Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: SoftArmour LLCInventors: David Amos Ben-Meir, Allan Sanford, Christen Egan, Gibran Esquenazi, Richard Hutchison, Nathaniel Mowell, Russell Scott Miller
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Patent number: 9271858Abstract: A brace for a part of a body includes a first conductive fiber associated with a first polarity, and a second conductive fiber associated with a second polarity different from the first polarity. The second fiber is woven together with the first fiber and insulated from the first fiber. The brace also includes a selectively electrically activated cross-linking agent between the first and second fibers. The agent is constructed to cross-link in a first active mode when the first and second fibers are electrified and is constructed to not cross-link in a second inactive mode when the first and second fibers are not electrified. The brace surrounds a body part, such as a knee or neck. The agent can include an ER fluid and/or EAP. A brace system includes a selectively electrically activated brace for the part of the body.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: SOFTARMOUR LLCInventors: David Amos Ben-Meir, Allan Sanford, Christen Egan, Gibran Esquenazi, Richard Hutchison, Nathaniel Mowell, Russell Scott Miller
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Publication number: 20150018733Abstract: A brace for a part of a body includes a first conductive fiber associated with a first polarity, and a second conductive fiber associated with a second polarity different from the first polarity. The second fiber is woven together with the first fiber and insulated from the first fiber. The brace also includes a selectively electrically activated cross-linking agent between the first and second fibers. The agent is constructed to cross-link in a first active mode when the first and second fibers are electrified and is constructed to not cross-link in a second inactive mode when the first and second fibers are not electrified. The brace surrounds a body part, such as a knee or neck. The agent can include an ER fluid and/or EAP. A brace system includes a selectively electrically activated brace for the part of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: SOFTARMOUR LLCInventors: David Amos Ben-Meir, Allan Sanford, Christen Egan, Gibran Esquenazi, Richard Hutchison, Nathaniel Mowell, Russell Scott Miller
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Patent number: 6358297Abstract: A method for controlling electromagnetic flux concentration in a discharge guide tube for a metal refining apparatus is provided. The discharge guide tube comprises a base plate, an extension, a central orifice that extends through the extension from a source of liquid metal to an outlet in the discharge guide tube for directing a stream of metal therethrough, and an interior discharge guide tube flux concentration configuration; an induction heater system that generates an electromagnetic field in the discharge guide tube, the induction heater system being disposed on the extension with a gap defined therebetween, the induction heater system and the discharge guide tube being capable of relative vertical movement and subsequent positions with respect to each other with the gap being essentially constant.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1999Date of Patent: March 19, 2002Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert John Zabala, Howard Roscoe Hart, Jr., Mark Gilbert Benz, Bruce Alan Knudsen, William Thomas Carter, Jr., Russell Scott Miller
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Patent number: 6289258Abstract: The flowrate of a stream discharged from a drain in a vessel is measured by imaging the stream, measuring a diameter of the stream image, and calculating the flowrate based on the measured diameter. A video camera may be aimed below the drain for imaging the stream. A computer is joined to the camera for measuring the diameter of the stream and calculating a corresponding flowrate therefor.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1998Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Thomas Carter, Jr., Russell Scott Miller, Mark Gilbert Benz, Robert John Zabala, Bruce Alan Knudsen
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Patent number: 6243408Abstract: A consumable electrode is suspended by a stub. The stub includes upper and lower hangers between which is vertically mounted a loadcell for weighing the electrode attached to the lower hanger. An electrical conductor is joined between the upper and lower hangers for carrying electrical current therebetween to power the electrode without damaging the loadcell.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1998Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bruce Alan Knudsen, Russell Scott Miller, William Thomas Carter, Jr., Mark Gilbert Benz, Robert John Zabala
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Patent number: 6219372Abstract: A guide tube structure for flux concentration is provided. The discharge guide tube comprises a central orifice that extends from a source of metal to an outlet in the discharge guide tube for directing a stream of melt therethrough; a structure that generates an electromagnetic field in the discharge guide tube; and an interior discharge guide tube flux concentration configuration that is capable of concentrating at least one of heat, electromagnetic field, and electromagnetic flux onto the stream of melt that flows through the central orifice. The electromagnetic field is applied at a substantially constant level.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1999Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert John Zabala, Howard Roscoe Hart, Jr., Mark Gilbert Benz, Bruce Alan Knudsen, William Thomas Carter, Jr., Russell Scott Miller
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Patent number: 6043445Abstract: An apparatus for sorting fragments of titanium-based sponge on the basis of color is disclosed. The apparatus captures at least one color image of each fragment, inserts relevant color values from the image into an automated color-sorting system to determine the color of the fragment, and segregates the fragments according to color or range-of-color, by way of a physical segregation apparatus controlled by the color sorting system. The color sorting systems usually involve the conversion of color images from the fragments into color signals, which are in turn transformed into color values. The color images are usually represented by a pattern of pixels. The color values are automatically compared to values, which are part of a look-up table based on data sets, which embrace acceptable or rejectable color values. Comparison of color values determined for the fragments with those in the look-up table results in the acceptance or rejection of each fragment.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1999Date of Patent: March 28, 2000Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Michael Francis Xavier Gigliotti, Jr., Mark Gilbert Benz, Russell Scott Miller
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Patent number: 5924575Abstract: A method for sorting fragments of titanium-based sponge on the basis of color is disclosed. The method involves the steps of capturing at least one color image of each fragment, inserting relevant color values from the image into an automated color-sorting system to determine the color of the fragment, and segregating the fragments according to color or range-of-color, by way of a physical segregation apparatus controlled by the color sorting system. A related apparatus for sorting moving fragments of titanium-based sponge on the basis of color is also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 1997Date of Patent: July 20, 1999Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Michael Francis Xavier Gigliotti, Jr., Mark Gilbert Benz, Russell Scott Miller
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Patent number: 5843232Abstract: This invention relates to novel apparatuses for measuring deposit thickness during composite materials production. More particularly, this invention uses a composite's emission signature or a composite's reflectance signature, to measure deposit thickness.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 1995Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Sudhir Dattatraya Savkar, Robert David Lillquist, Russell Scott Miller
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Patent number: 5809057Abstract: A melt guide is provided for enclosing a bottom of an electroslag refining crucible containing a melt of electroslag refined metal. A base plate is sized to have a perimeter to engage the crucible bottom for attachment thereto. The base plate includes an upper surface for defining with the crucible a reservoir for receiving the melt, and a lower surface spaced therebelow. A central drain extends through the base plate for draining by gravity the melt from the reservoir. A plurality of circumferentially spaced apart slots extend radially outwardly from the drain toward the base plate perimeter and extend vertically through the base plate. Induction heating coils are mounted below the base plate lower surface for heating the melt through the slots. The base plate may take various forms including a flat plate, with or without a cooperating and removable insert.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1996Date of Patent: September 15, 1998Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mark Gilbert Benz, William Thomas Carter, Jr., Paul Leonard Dupree, Howard Roscoe Hart, Jr., Bruce Alan Knudsen, Janel Koca Browning, Russell Scott Miller, Robert John Zabala
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Patent number: 5656061Abstract: Close-coupled atomization methods employing non-axisymmetric fluid flow geometries have demonstrated superior efficiency in the production of fine superalloy powder, such as, for example, nickel base superalloys compared to conventional close-coupled atomization utilizing an axisymmetric gas orifice and an axisymmetric melt nozzle. It is believed that the principal physical mechanisms leading to non-axisymmetric atomization system fine powder yield improvement are atomization plume spreading, the at least lessening of the melt pinch down at the interaction point between the atomization liquid and the liquid melt and improved melt film formation at the melt guide tube tip. The greatest fine powder yield improvement occurred when the non-axisymmetric atomization systems are operated with atomization parameters that result in the formation of multiple atomization plumes.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 1995Date of Patent: August 12, 1997Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Steven Alfred Miller, Russell Scott Miller