Patents by Inventor Steven Thomas Keller

Steven Thomas Keller 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).

  • Systems and methods for alternating material brake disk stack
    Patent number: 9416831
    Abstract: Dissimilar aircraft brake systems for use in, for example, an aircraft are provided herein. In this regard, a system is provided comprising a carbon/carbon (“C/C”) rotor disk adjacent to a ceramic matrix composite (“CMC”) stator disk. In various embodiments, a system is provided comprising a CMC rotor disk adjacent to a C/C stator disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Goodrich Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Dwayne Nixon, Steven Thomas Keller
  • Tire pressure indicator
    Patent number: 9193223
    Abstract: System and methods for indicating a tire pressure condition are disclosed. Some systems and methods include receiving, by a control unit comprising a processor and a tangible, non-transitory memory, a tire pressure data, determining, by the control unit, a relationship of the tire pressure data to a predetermined tire pressure, and causing, by the control unit, an output device to display a value in accordance with the relationship, wherein the output device is externally located on an aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Goodrich Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Thomas Keller, Paul L. Summers, Eric Daniel Cahill
  • TIRE PRESSURE INDICATOR
    Publication number: 20150231936
    Abstract: System and methods for indicating a tire pressure condition are disclosed. Some systems and methods include receiving, by a control unit comprising a processor and a tangible, non-transitory memory, a tire pressure data, determining, by the control unit, a relationship of the tire pressure data to a predetermined tire pressure, and causing, by the control unit, an output device to display a value in accordance with the relationship, wherein the output device is externally located on an aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven Thomas Keller, Paul L. Summers, Eric Daniel Cahill
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALTERNATING MATERIAL BRAKE DISK STACK
    Publication number: 20140251739
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for dissimilar aircraft brake systems for use in, for example, an aircraft. In this regard, a system is provided comprising a carbon/carbon (“C/C”) rotor disk adjacent to a ceramic matrix composite (“CMC”) stator disk. In various embodiments, a system is provided comprising a CMC rotor disk adjacent to a C/C stator disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Goodrich Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Dwayne Nixon, Steven Thomas Keller