Patents by Inventor Steven Ray

Steven Ray 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).

  • Modular refueling systems for aircraft
    Patent number: 10640215
    Abstract: A modular refueling system for an aircraft includes a modular bay recessed within the aircraft. The modular bay includes a modular bay interface. The modular refueling system includes a plurality of payload modules each having a respective function and a payload interface adapted to connect to at least a portion of the modular bay interface. The plurality of payload modules includes an aerial refueling module. The payload modules are interchangeably insertable into the modular bay to enable the modular bay to support the functions of the payload modules. The aerial refueling module is insertable into the modular bay to enable the aircraft to provide fuel to recipient aircraft during flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Ray Ivans
  • WHEEL SENSORS WITHIN VEHICULAR BRAKE ASSEMBLIES
    Publication number: 20200122692
    Abstract: A drum braking system having a spindle and backing plate affixed thereto. The system includes a drum rotating on the spindle. The drum has an inside surface with integral notches that are machined or cast into the drum. When the brakes are applied, brake shoes are actuated to contact the inside surface to create drag between the drum and the spindle. A sensor is fixed with respect to the spindle or backing plate that detects the notches when the drum rotates about the spindle. A portion of the inside surface with the integral notches is shared with the brake shoes so that applying the brakes prevents buildup that could contact the sensor. The sensor is positioned radially to reduce the effect of drum endplay on detecting of the notches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: Dexter Axle Company
    Inventors: Steven Ray Bollinger, Markus Cloyd Carrison, Samuel Neil Lievore
  • SLIMLINE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200109591
    Abstract: Provided is a window system including a first window that extends in a first direction, and that partially overlaps a second window in the first direction. The second window extends in the first direction, and is offset from the first window in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. The window system includes a connector that is configured to connect the first window and the second window, and that is disposed in an area between the first window and the second window in the second direction and where the first window partially overlaps the second window in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: GOLDBRECHT INC.
    Inventors: Marcel FONTIJN, Joshua Steven RAY
  • MINIMAL MULLION FAÇADE ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20200109559
    Abstract: Provided is a curtain wall assembly including a first panel, and a second panel that is adjacent to the first panel. The curtain wall assembly includes a first attachment member attached to the first panel, and a second attachment member attached to the second panel. Each of the first attachment member and the second attachment member include at least one fin, and the first attachment member is secured to the second attachment member at the fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: GOLDBRECHT INC.
    Inventors: Marcel FONTIJN, Joshua Steven RAY
  • Inset turret assemblies for aircraft
    Patent number: 10611479
    Abstract: A nose assembly of an aircraft includes a nose airframe having a nonhorizontal mounting surface and a turret assembly mounted on the nonhorizontal mounting surface. The turret assembly includes a turret device housing rotatable relative to the nonhorizontal mounting surface. The nose airframe includes a nose skin forming a nose fairing having an apex aperture. The nose skin at least partially covers the turret assembly such that the turret assembly is at least partially inset in the apex aperture of the nose fairing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Bell Textron Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Ray Ivans
  • Automated machine for slitting and wedge cutting whole fruits and vegetables
    Patent number: 10603806
    Abstract: An automated food processing machine receives a whole fruit or vegetable and presses it through a blade set to form slices or wedges. The machine includes a controller coupled to various components including linear motion actuators, a user interface, and sensors. One motion actuator coupled to a slitting blade. Another motion actuator is coupled to a ram. In response to an input the controller activates the motion actuators in a sequence including (1) linear motion of the slitting blade to form a slit in the whole fruit or vegetable and (2) linear motion of the ram to press the whole fruit or vegetable through a blade set to form the slices or wedges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: SupraCut Systems International, Inc.
    Inventors: Barrie Alan Mann, Kevin Gerald Szakacs, Leonard Fraitag, Steven Ray Card
  • Methods of Delivering An Oral Care Active by Administering Oral Care Articles Comprising A Filament
    Publication number: 20200060984
    Abstract: A method of delivering a health care active having the steps of administering to a mammal in need of a health benefit or a treatment for a health condition a personal health care article and consuming the article. The article contains one or more filaments that contain a backbone material, a health care active and optionally aesthetic agents, extensional aids, plasticizers, and crosslinking agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Trevor John Darcy, Steven Ray Gilbert, Gregory Charles Gordon, Rajeev Chhabra, William Maxwell Allen, JR.
  • Static mixer
    Patent number: 10549246
    Abstract: A static mixer created using an additive process is disclosed. The static mixer is enabled to homogenously blend two fluids flowing in a pipe. The static mixer exhibits zero contact angle in relation to the two fluids being mixed within the pipe. The static mixer exhibits a first contact angle with the first fluid and a second contact angle with the second fluid. The first contact angle is either between 0 and 30 or greater than 85. The second contact angle is either between 0 and 30, or greater than 85.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Ray Merrigan, Aleksey Pinyayev, Billy Ray Dawson, Julie McWilliams
  • CUSTOMER INTERFACE FOR COORDINATED SERVICES
    Publication number: 20200034910
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a customer interface for coordinated services that may use parameters of purchased or selected products to determine whether to recommend use of a delivery service or a professional service such as assembly, painting or other services. The disclosed interface provides a link between a retail shopping experience and an online e-commerce service, coordinating pick up, delivery, and professional service options and may include scheduling functionality. An interface display may comprise a virtual wall with multiple user interface (UI) display regions related to various aspects of a combined on-site and virtual shopping experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Courtland J. Halbrook, Steven Ray Simpson
  • Tiltrotor Aircraft having Rotatable Wing Extensions with Winglets
    Publication number: 20200023946
    Abstract: A pylon assembly for a tiltrotor aircraft includes a rotor assembly rotatably coupled to a fixed pylon and operable to rotate between a vertical takeoff and landing orientation and a forward flight orientation. The rotor assembly includes a proprotor operable to produce a slipstream. A wing extension is rotatably disposed to the outboard end of the fixed pylon such that the rotor assembly and the wing extension are separated by at least a portion of the fixed pylon. The wing extension has a forward edge and an outboard end. A winglet is coupled to the outboard end of the wing extension and has a forward edge. The wing extension and the winglet are configured to rotate in synchrony with the rotor assembly such that the forward edges of the wing extension and the winglet remain in the slipstream of the proprotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Bryant Anderson, Steven Ray Ivans, Jeremy Robert Chavez
  • Method for making bismuth containing liquid pharmaceutical suspensions
    Patent number: 10532063
    Abstract: A method of producing a liquid pharmaceutical suspension by mixing magnesium aluminum silicate, gellan gum, bismuth subsalicylate, and methyl cellulose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Ray Gilbert, Edward Paul Fitch, V, Derrick Ho, Daniel Jerome White, Jr., Adam Michael Tunis
  • Ceramic filters
    Patent number: 10532303
    Abstract: Additively manufactured ceramic filters are disclosed. A plurality of pores, each having a uniform geometry, are arranged between an inlet surface and an outlet surface of a single unit of ceramic such that the plurality of pores change in size uniformly from the inlet surface to the outlet surface. The pores are respectively interconnected, and the size, shape, orientation, and/or interconnection of the pores are chosen to provide hydrodynamic features that provide effective filtration for a given liquid and contamination. The pores are additively manufactured with optimized precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Pyrotek Incorporated
    Inventors: Jeff Gibson, Steven Ray
  • Methods of delivering a health care active by administering personal health care articles comprising a filmament
    Patent number: 10517836
    Abstract: A method of delivering a health care active having the steps of administering to a mammal in need of a health benefit or a treatment for a health condition a personal health care article and consuming the article. The article contains one or more filaments that contain a backbone material, a health care active and optionally aesthetic agents, extensional aids, plasticizers, and crosslinking agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Trevor John Darcy, Steven Ray Gilbert, Gregory Charles Gordon, Rajeev Chhabra, William Maxwell Allen, Jr.
  • MICRONIZED PLACENTAL TISSUE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20190374584
    Abstract: Described herein are composition composed of micronized placental components and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The compositions have numerous medical applications. Methods for making and using the micronized compositions are also described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Brenda S. Morse, Somaly Sith, Randall Spencer, Steven Ray, John Daniel, Robert Tofe
  • Methods of delivering a health care active by administering personal health care articles comprising a filament
    Patent number: 10449163
    Abstract: A method of delivering a health care active having the steps of administering to a mammal in need of a health benefit or a treatment for a health condition a personal health care article and consuming the article. The article contains one or more filaments that contain a backbone material, a health care active and optionally aesthetic agents, extensional aids, plasticizers, and crosslinking agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Trevor John Darcy, Steven Ray Gilbert, Gregory Charles Gordon, Rajeev Chhabra, William Maxwell Allen, Jr.
  • Compressor
    Patent number: D883337
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Brecht Van Ham, Kristof Adrien Laura Martens, Steven Ray Maurits Laurent, Walter Josee Louis Adriaenssens, Yanni Francine Dollez
  • Compressor
    Patent number: D883338
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Brecht Van Ham, Kristof Adrien Laura Martens, Steven Ray Maurits Laurent, Walter Josee Louis Adriaenssens, Yanni Francine Dollez
  • Compressor
    Patent number: D883339
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Brecht Van Ham, Kristof Adrien Laura Martens, Steven Ray Maurits Laurent, Walter Josee Louis Adriaenssens, Yanni Francine Dollez
  • Compressor
    Patent number: D883340
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Brecht Van Ham, Kristof Adrien Laura Martens, Steven Ray Maurits Laurent, Walter Josee Louis Adriaenssens, Yanni Francine Dollez
  • Compressor
    Patent number: D883341
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Brecht Van Ham, Kristof Adrien Laura Martens, Steven Ray Maurits Laurent, Walter Josee Louis Adriaenssens, Yanni Francine Dollez