Patents by Inventor Steven R. Autry

Steven R. Autry 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).

  • Circumferential lap splices for sections of fuselage
    Patent number: 11919617
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for splicing airframe components. One embodiment is a method for assembling an airframe of an aircraft. The method includes forming a first skin of a first circumferential section of fuselage, the first skin including a distal portion comprising a lip and a shoulder, aligning a second skin of a second circumferential section of fuselage with the shoulder such that the lip overlaps the second skin, and affixing the first skin and the second skin together via a circumferential splice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Patrick J. Macko, Byron James Autry, James R. Kendall, Samuel James Knutson, Brian T. Peters, Michael J. Bailey, Matthew S. Stauffer, Steven Wanthal, Santiago M. Mejia, Sara Murphy
  • Relief valve
    Patent number: 4142549
    Abstract: A pressure relief valve for instantaneously relieving high pressure from a chamber wherein the relief valve pressure area for exhaust is greater than the initiating pressure area and having a flow relief area that is smaller than the area gauging the pressure which initiates the relief action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1979
    Assignee: The B. F. Goodrich Company
    Inventor: Steven R. Autry