Patents by Inventor Sean Vaughan

Sean Vaughan 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).

  • Publication number: 20080110312
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating and manipulating a high-pressure fluid jet includes an assembly coupled to a motion assembly that imparts motion to the assembly along one or more axes. The motion assembly includes two motors coupled together to form a gimbal wrist, each motor having an axis of rotation. The two axes of rotation of the two motors can be perpendicular to each other, but are not necessarily aligned with the manipulator's axes of motion. The high-pressure fluid assembly incorporates a swivel that can rotate about two axes which may be parallel to the two motors' axes of rotation, allowing the high-pressure tubing contained therein to follow the motion imparted by the gimbal wrist of the motion assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Applicant: FLOW INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Knaupp, Charles Burnham, Mohamed Hashish, Robert Mann, Mira Sahney, C. Bader, Andreas Meyer, Sean Vaughan, Thomas Pesek, Jonathan Stewart