Patents by Inventor Ryan Scott Carruthers

Ryan Scott Carruthers 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).

  • Diagonal pressure deck
    Patent number: 11479336
    Abstract: Pressure decks, aircraft that incorporate the pressure decks, and methods of manufacturing the pressure decks, where the pressure decks include a planar center deck section configured to be attached to a keel beam of the aircraft and a pair of diagonal deck panels each extending inwardly and downwardly from a front wing spar to the planar center deck section. The pressure deck attaches the front wing spar to the keel beam at positions selected to minimize deflection stresses on the pressure deck exerted by relative movement between the front wing spar and the keel beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: David Leibov, Ryan Scott Carruthers, Mark Ronald McLaughlin, Daniel Cox
  • DIAGONAL PRESSURE DECK
    Publication number: 20210188418
    Abstract: Pressure decks, aircraft that incorporate the pressure decks, and methods of manufacturing the pressure decks, where the pressure decks include a planar center deck section configured to be attached to a keel beam of the aircraft and a pair of diagonal deck panels each extending inwardly and downwardly from a front wing spar to the planar center deck section. The pressure deck attaches the front wing spar to the keel beam at positions selected to minimize deflection stresses on the pressure deck exerted by relative movement between the front wing spar and the keel beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: David Leibov, Ryan Scott Carruthers, Mark Ronald McLaughlin, Daniel Cox