Patents by Inventor Stephen James Collins

Stephen James Collins 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: 12234837
    Abstract: A fan assembly includes a fan body, a motor-driven impeller contained within the fan body and arranged to generate an air flow, a nozzle including a nozzle body having an air inlet arranged to receive the air flow from the fan body, and one or more air outlets arranged to emit the airflow from the fan assembly. The fan assembly further includes a nozzle retaining mechanism for releasably retaining the nozzle on the fan body, and a rotation mechanism for rotating the nozzle body relative to the fan body. The nozzle rotation mechanism includes a rotation motor arranged to drive a drive member and a driven member that is arranged to be driven by the drive member to rotate around a rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Steven Eduard Peet, Neil Andrew Stewart, Robert James Fryer, Adam Daniel Jouques, Victoria Anne Dorothy Gibson-Robinson, Harriet Rebecca White, Stephen Andrew Baker, Thomas Greer Duvall, Jack David Collins
  • Patent number: 10495090
    Abstract: A rotor for a compressor system includes a rotor body having a coolant manifold with an inlet runner and a plurality of coolant supply conduits extending from the inlet runner toward an inner heat exchange surface. The coolant supply conduits may have a circumferential and axial distribution, and extend through struts enhancing stiffness in the rotor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventors: James Christopher Collins, Willie Dwayne Valentine, Stephen James Collins
  • Patent number: 9683569
    Abstract: A compressor includes a rotor having an outer compression surface and a plurality of inner heat exchange surfaces. A coolant supply manifold fluidly connects with a coolant inlet in a first axial end of the rotor, and delivers coolant fluid by way of conduits having an axial distribution in the rotor so as to deliver coolant fluid to the heat exchange surfaces. The coolant may be a refrigerant that undergoes a phase change within the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventors: James Christopher Collins, Willie Dwayne Valentine, Stephen James Collins
  • Publication number: 20170058901
    Abstract: A rotor for a compressor system includes a rotor body having a coolant manifold with an inlet runner and a plurality of coolant supply conduits extending from the inlet runner toward an inner heat exchange surface. The coolant supply conduits may have a circumferential and axial distribution, and extend through struts enhancing stiffness in the rotor body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: James Christopher Collins, Willie Dwayne Valentine, Stephen James Collins
  • Publication number: 20170058896
    Abstract: A compressor includes a rotor having an outer compression surface and a plurality of inner heat exchange surfaces. A coolant supply manifold fluidly connects with a coolant inlet in a first axial end of the rotor, and delivers coolant fluid by way of conduits having an axial distribution in the rotor so as to deliver coolant fluid to the heat exchange surfaces. The coolant may be a refrigerant that undergoes a phase change within the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: James Christopher Collins, Willie Dwayne Valentine, Stephen James Collins