Patents by Inventor Steven Milette
Steven Milette 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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Publication number: 20250146855Abstract: Provided is a diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) sensor adapter. The sensor adapter may include two chambers. The first chamber may include a tortuous pathway for fluid and/or air flow. The second chamber may be fluidly sealed or separated from the first chamber and may house electrical components. The tortuous pathway may include varying stepped segments having a decreasing diameter from a proximal toward a distal end. For example, a first segment at the proximal end may have a larger diameter than a second, middle segment. An entrance to a third segment from the second segment may have a greatly reduced size. The tortuous pathway may further include a vent inlet positioned at approximately the same height as the entrance but requiring an approximate 180° turn therebetween. The inlet may extend into two opposite substantially horizontal portions that each lead to a vent outlet on opposite sides of the sensor adapter. The turn from the inlet to the substantially horizontal portions may be approximately 90°.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Inventors: Feroz MOHAMMED, Steven MILETTE
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Publication number: 20250093193Abstract: A housing assembly for a fluid sensor assembly includes a housing having a first and second sensing volumes. A fluid port attached to the housing has a porous membrane covering first and second fluid apertures. The first sensing volume included a vertically-oriented waveguide and is fluidly coupled to an exterior of the housing through the first fluid aperture, where the first aperture port has an area smaller than an area of a cross section of the waveguide. The second sensing volume is coupled to the exterior of the housing through the second fluid aperture, the second fluid aperture having an area larger than a cross section of the second sensing volume. While the first sensing volume and the second sensing volume are both in fluid communication with an exterior of the housing, the fluid port and porous membrane internally isolate the first sensing volume from the second sensing volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Bryan KUIECK, Christopher GODFREY, Steven MILETTE, Michael O'HARA, Christian BRAUN, Sree Hyma Sudhakar PARUCHURI
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Patent number: 12181321Abstract: Provided is a diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) sensor adapter. The sensor adapter may include two chambers. The first chamber may include a tortuous pathway for fluid and/or air flow. The second chamber may be fluidly sealed or separated from the first chamber and may house electrical components. The tortuous pathway may include varying stepped segments having a decreasing diameter from a proximal toward a distal end. For example, a first segment at the proximal end may have a larger diameter than a second, middle segment. An entrance to a third segment from the second segment may have a greatly reduced size. The tortuous pathway may further include a vent inlet positioned at approximately the same height as the entrance but requiring an approximate 180° turn therebetween. The inlet may extend into two opposite substantially horizontal portions that each lead to a vent outlet on opposite sides of the sensor adapter. The turn from the inlet to the substantially horizontal portions may be approximately 90°.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: SHAW DEVELOPMENT, LLCInventors: Feroz Mohammed, Steven Milette
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Publication number: 20240271980Abstract: Provided is a diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) sensor adapter. The sensor adapter may include two chambers. The first chamber may include a tortuous pathway for fluid and/or air flow. The second chamber may be fluidly sealed or separated from the first chamber and may house electrical components. The tortuous pathway may include varying stepped segments having a decreasing diameter from a proximal toward a distal end. For example, a first segment at the proximal end may have a larger diameter than a second, middle segment. An entrance to a third segment from the second segment may have a greatly reduced size. The tortuous pathway may further include a vent inlet positioned at approximately the same height as the entrance but requiring an approximate 180° turn therebetween. The inlet may extend into two opposite substantially horizontal portions that each lead to a vent outlet on opposite sides of the sensor adapter. The turn from the inlet to the substantially horizontal portions may be approximately 90°.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Feroz MOHAMMED, Steven MILETTE
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Patent number: 11965768Abstract: A housing assembly for a fluid sensor assembly includes a housing having a first and second sensing volumes. A fluid port attached to the housing has a porous membrane covering first and second fluid apertures. The first sensing volume included a vertically-oriented waveguide and is fluidly coupled to an exterior of the housing through the first fluid aperture, where the first aperture port has an area smaller than an area of a cross section of the waveguide. The second sensing volume is coupled to the exterior of the housing through the second fluid aperture, the second fluid aperture having an area larger than a cross section of the second sensing volume. While the first sensing volume and the second sensing volume are both in fluid communication with an exterior of the housing, the fluid port and porous membrane internally isolate the first sensing volume from the second sensing volume.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SHAW DEVELOPMENT, LLCInventors: Bryan Kuieck, Christopher Godfrey, Steven Milette, Michael O'Hara, Christian Braun, Sree Hyma Sudhakar Paruchuri
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Publication number: 20210239509Abstract: A housing assembly for a fluid sensor assembly includes a housing having a first and second sensing volumes. A fluid port attached to the housing has a porous membrane covering first and second fluid apertures. The first sensing volume included a vertically-oriented waveguide and is fluidly coupled to an exterior of the housing through the first fluid aperture, where the first aperture port has an area smaller than an area of a cross section of the waveguide. The second sensing volume is coupled to the exterior of the housing through the second fluid aperture, the second fluid aperture having an area larger than a cross section of the second sensing volume. While the first sensing volume and the second sensing volume are both in fluid communication with an exterior of the housing, the fluid port and porous membrane internally isolate the first sensing volume from the second sensing volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2019Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Bryan KUIECK, Christopher GODFREY, Steven MILETTE, Michael O'HARA, Christian BRAUN, Sree Hyma Sudhakar PARUCHURI
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Patent number: 10005009Abstract: A service port for a tank that receives a fluid, the service port including a body having a first end and a second end, the body defining a bore that opens at the first end and second end of the body; a strainer attached to the second end of the body, the strainer including a strainer element that has a first end and a second end, and a pair of sides; wherein the strainer element is closed at the first end and open at the second end defining a strainer volume therebetween; the strainer element being permeable to liquid; wherein the second end of the strainer element is attached about the bore and wherein a wall of the strainer element extending from the second end of the strainer element toward the first end of the strainer element is oriented generally parallel to a flow direction of fluid.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Shaw Development, LLCInventors: Abdul Faheem Qureshi, Sree Hyma Sudhakar Paruchuri, Steven Milette
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Patent number: 9879829Abstract: The combination of a reservoir having an interface defining an aperture, the interface including a wall extending into the reservoir, the reservoir having a recessed groove in an upper surface about the aperture, the recessed groove including a plurality of recesses thereon: a head unit having an exterior shape complementary to the shape of the aperture, the head unit being positioned within the aperture; the head unit having an inwardly extending rim corresponding to the aperture circular wall, the head unit including a lug, the head unit lug engaging one of recesses, the head unit having a seal ring about an outer periphery of the head unit inwardly extending rim, the seal ring engaging the aperture wall and the head unit inwardly extending rim.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Shaw Development, LLCInventors: Nicholas C. Delihas, Steven Milette, John R. Koonce, Donald G. Gardner
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Publication number: 20160193553Abstract: A service port for a tank that receives a fluid, the service port including a body having a first end and a second end, the body defining a bore that opens at the first end and second end of the body, wherein the second end is downstream of the first end; a strainer attached to the second end of the body, the strainer including a strainer element that has a first end and a second end, and a pair of sides; wherein the strainer element is closed at the first end and open at the second end defining a strainer volume therebetween; the strainer element being permeable to liquid; wherein the second end of the strainer element is attached about the bore to receive fluid from the bore within the strainer volume and wherein a wall of the strainer element extending from the second end of the strainer element toward the first end of the strainer element is oriented generally parallel to a flow direction of the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2015Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Abdul Faheem Qureshi, Sree Hyma Sudhakar Paruchuri, Steven Milette
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Publication number: 20140026990Abstract: The combination of a reservoir having an interface defining an aperture, the interface including a wall extending into the reservoir, the reservoir having a recessed groove in an upper surface about the aperture, the recessed groove including a plurality of recesses thereon: a head unit having an exterior shape complementary to the shape of the aperture, the head unit being positioned within the aperture; the head unit having an inwardly extending rim corresponding to the aperture circular wall, the head unit including a lug, the head unit lug engaging one of recesses, the head unit having a seai ring about an outer periphery of the head unit inwardly extending rim, the sea! ring engaging the aperture wall and the head unit inwardly extending rim.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2011Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: SHAW DEVELOPMENT, LLCInventors: Nicholas C. Delihas, Steven Milette, John R. Koonce, Donald G. Gardner