Patents by Inventor Taylor Alexander
Taylor Alexander 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: 11975446Abstract: A robotic gripping device is provided. The robotic gripping device includes a palm and a plurality of digits coupled to the palm. The robotic gripping device also includes a time-of-flight sensor arranged on the palm such that the time-of-flight sensor is configured to generate time-of-flight distance data in a direction between the plurality of digits. The robotic gripping device additionally includes an infrared camera, including an infrared illumination source, where the infrared camera is arranged on the palm such that the infrared camera is configured to generate grayscale image data in the direction between the plurality of digits.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jeffrey Bingham, Taylor Alexander, Bianca Homberg, Joseph DelPreto, Alex Shafer
-
Patent number: 11958787Abstract: The disclosure describes braze tape coatings and technique to form articles with differing physical properties in different layers or regions of the article. An example method includes forming a braze tape defining at least one layer that includes a first segment and a second segment. A portion of the second segment in the plane is adjacent to a portion of the first segment in a plane of the layer. The method also includes positioning the braze tape on a surface of a substrate, the plane of the layer of the braze tape being parallel to the surface of the substrate. The method also includes heating the braze tape to melt a constituent of at least one of the first coating material and the second coating material to form a densified coating on the surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce High Temperature Composites, Inc.Inventors: Robert Alexander Sean Golden, Sungbo Shim, Li Li, Taylor K. Blair
-
Publication number: 20240068363Abstract: A drilling assembly for downhole to surface communications is provided. The drilling assembly includes a series of pipe segments coupled in fluid communication between a slip ring assembly and an end pipe portion. The slip ring assembly is coupled in data and fluid communication with the pipe segments. A surface communications link is in data communication with the drilling assembly via the slip ring assembly. An end pipe portion is coupled with the drilling assembly that includes an electronics assembly with electronic components for transferring data to the slip ring assembly via the drilling assembly. A drill bit is operably coupled with the end pipe portion for drilling a borehole. Each pipe segment includes an outer conductor portion, a hollow inner conductor portion, and a dielectric portion for electrical isolation between the outer conductor portion and the inner conductor portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Jiann-Cherng Su, Jason P. Krein, John Joseph Borchardt, Richard Ellis Robey, Andrew Alexander Wright, Joseph Samuel Pope, Taylor Anthony Myers, Mark C. Grubelich, Douglas A. Blankenship
-
Patent number: 11752625Abstract: A method is provided that includes controlling a robotic gripping device to cause a plurality of digits of the robotic gripping device to move towards each other in an attempt to grasp an object. The method also includes receiving, from at least one non-contact sensor on the robotic gripping device, first sensor data indicative of a region between the plurality of digits of the robotic gripping device. The method further includes receiving, from the at least one non-contact sensor on the robotic gripping device, second sensor data indicative of the region between the plurality of digits of the robotic gripping device, where the second sensor data is based on a different sensing modality than the first sensor data. The method additionally includes determining, using an object-in-hand classifier that takes as input the first sensor data and the second sensor data, a result of the attempt to grasp the object.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jeffrey Bingham, Taylor Alexander, Bianca Homberg, Joseph DelPreto
-
Publication number: 20220339803Abstract: A robotic gripping device is provided. The robotic gripping device includes a palm and a plurality of digits coupled to the palm. The robotic gripping device also includes a time-of-flight sensor arranged on the palm such that the time-of-flight sensor is configured to generate time-of-flight distance data in a direction between the plurality of digits. The robotic gripping device additionally includes an infrared camera, including an infrared illumination source, where the infrared camera is arranged on the palm such that the infrared camera is configured to generate grayscale image data in the direction between the plurality of digits.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Jeffrey Bingham, Taylor Alexander, Bianca Homberg, Joseph DelPreto, Alex Shafer
-
Patent number: 11407125Abstract: A robotic gripping device is provided. The robotic gripping device includes a palm and a plurality of digits coupled to the palm. The robotic gripping device also includes a time-of-flight sensor arranged on the palm such that the time-of-flight sensor is configured to generate time-of-flight distance data in a direction between the plurality of digits. The robotic gripping device additionally includes an infrared camera, including an infrared illumination source, where the infrared camera is arranged on the palm such that the infrared camera is configured to generate grayscale image data in the direction between the plurality of digits.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Jeffrey Bingham, Taylor Alexander, Bianca Homberg, Joseph DelPreto, Alex Shafer
-
Patent number: 11204031Abstract: A crescent internal gear pump includes a front cover, an end cover, a ring gear and a pinion gear disposed within a gear housing in an eccentric, intermeshing relationship. The housing is disposed intermediate the front cover and the end cover. A crescent is disposed radially intermediate the ring gear and the pinion gear. The crescent partially extends into a correspondingly shaped slot in the end cover. The gear housing, the ring gear, and the pinion gear can have substantially the same thickness. A shim can be disposed intermediate the end cover and the gear housing for establishing a desired clearance therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: CIRCOR PUMPS NORTH AMERICA, LLCInventors: Patrick Wilson Duncan, Colette Doll Greene, Philip Taylor Alexander
-
Publication number: 20200391378Abstract: A method is provided that includes controlling a robotic gripping device to cause a plurality of digits of the robotic gripping device to move towards each other in an attempt to grasp an object. The method also includes receiving, from at least one non-contact sensor on the robotic gripping device, first sensor data indicative of a region between the plurality of digits of the robotic gripping device. The method further includes receiving, from the at least one non-contact sensor on the robotic gripping device, second sensor data indicative of the region between the plurality of digits of the robotic gripping device, where the second sensor data is based on a different sensing modality than the first sensor data. The method additionally includes determining, using an object-in-hand classifier that takes as input the first sensor data and the second sensor data, a result of the attempt to grasp the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Jeffrey Bingham, Taylor Alexander, Bianca Homberg, Joseph DelPreto
-
Patent number: 10792809Abstract: A method is provided that includes controlling a robotic gripping device to cause a plurality of digits of the robotic gripping device to move towards each other in an attempt to grasp an object. The method also includes receiving, from at least one non-contact sensor on the robotic gripping device, first sensor data indicative of a region between the plurality of digits of the robotic gripping device. The method further includes receiving, from the at least one non-contact sensor on the robotic gripping device, second sensor data indicative of the region between the plurality of digits of the robotic gripping device, where the second sensor data is based on a different sensing modality than the first sensor data. The method additionally includes determining, using an object-in-hand classifier that takes as input the first sensor data and the second sensor data, a result of the attempt to grasp the object.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Jeffrey Bingham, Taylor Alexander, Bianca Homberg, Joseph DelPreto
-
Publication number: 20200262089Abstract: A robotic gripping device is provided. The robotic gripping device includes a palm and a plurality of digits coupled to the palm. The robotic gripping device also includes a time-of-flight sensor arranged on the palm such that the time-of-flight sensor is configured to generate time-of-flight distance data in a direction between the plurality of digits. The robotic gripping device additionally includes an infrared camera, including an infrared illumination source, where the infrared camera is arranged on the palm such that the infrared camera is configured to generate grayscale image data in the direction between the plurality of digits.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Jeffrey Bingham, Taylor Alexander, Bianca Homberg, Joseph DelPreto, Alex Shafer
-
Patent number: 10682774Abstract: A robotic gripping device is provided. The robotic gripping device includes a palm and a plurality of digits coupled to the palm. The robotic gripping device also includes a time-of-flight sensor arranged on the palm such that the time-of-flight sensor is configured to generate time-of-flight distance data in a direction between the plurality of digits. The robotic gripping device additionally includes an infrared camera, including an infrared illumination source, where the infrared camera is arranged on the palm such that the infrared camera is configured to generate grayscale image data in the direction between the plurality of digits.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Jeffrey Bingham, Taylor Alexander, Bianca Homberg, Joseph DelPreto, Alex Shafer
-
Publication number: 20200102952Abstract: A crescent internal gear pump includes a front cover, an end cover, a ring gear and a pinion gear disposed within a gear housing in an eccentric, intermeshing relationship. The housing is disposed intermediate the front cover and the end cover. A crescent is disposed radially intermediate the ring gear and the pinion gear. The crescent partially extends into a correspondingly shaped slot in the end cover. The gear housing, the ring gear, and the pinion gear can have substantially the same thickness. A shim can be disposed intermediate the end cover and the gear housing for establishing a desired clearance therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: CIRCOR PUMPS NORTH AMERICA, LLCInventors: Patrick Wilson Duncan, Colette Doll Greene, Philip Taylor Alexander
-
Patent number: 10544788Abstract: A pump includes a housing, a drive shaft, a centrifugal pump portion having an impeller, and a gear pump portion having first and second gears. The impeller and one of the first and second gears are mounted to the drive shaft to drive the centrifugal pump portion and the gear pump portion at the same rotational speed. The gear pump can be a crescent internal gear (CIG) pump. The drive shaft can be rotated by a magnetic drive. The drive shaft can include a longitudinal bore in fluid communication with a cavity in the magnetic drive and with a discharge of the centrifugal pump portion to circulate working fluid through the magnetic drive to cool the drive. An impeller can be coupled to an inlet of the centrifugal pump portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2015Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: CIRCOR PUMPS NORTH AMERICA, LLCInventors: Patrick Wilson Duncan, Philip Taylor Alexander, Charles Hinckley
-
Patent number: 10514032Abstract: A crescent internal gear pump includes a front cover, an end cover, a ring gear and a pinion gear disposed within a gear housing in an eccentric, intermeshing relationship. The housing is disposed intermediate the front cover and the end cover. A crescent is disposed radially intermediate the ring gear and the pinion gear. The crescent partially extends into a correspondingly shaped slot in the end cover. The gear housing, the ring gear, and the pinion gear can have substantially the same thickness. A shim can be disposed intermediate the end cover and the gear housing for establishing a desired clearance therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2015Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: CIRCOR PUMPS NORTH AMERICA, LLCInventors: Patrick Wilson Duncan, Colette Doll Greene, Philip Taylor Alexander
-
Patent number: 10408212Abstract: A pump includes a front plate, a gear plate and a rear plate. A drive shaft has a drive gear, an arbor has a driven gear engaged with the drive gear, and first and second bearings are disposed in the gear plate. The first and second bearings receive the drive shaft and the arbor. The rear plate has drain ports adjacent ends of the drive shaft and the arbor. The arbor has an opening such that media that passes between the first bearing and an outer surface of the arbor is directed to the second drain port via the opening. A drain bushing is positioned against the front plate, and includes an opening for the drive shaft. The drain bushing has a chamber and a radial port. When pumped media passes between the first bearing and the drive shaft it is directed to the chamber and out the radial port.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Circor Pumps North America, LLCInventors: Justin A. Craig, Philip Taylor Alexander
-
Publication number: 20190176348Abstract: A robotic gripping device is provided. The robotic gripping device includes a palm and a plurality of digits coupled to the palm. The robotic gripping device also includes a time-of-flight sensor arranged on the palm such that the time-of-flight sensor is configured to generate time-of-flight distance data in a direction between the plurality of digits. The robotic gripping device additionally includes an infrared camera, including an infrared illumination source, where the infrared camera is arranged on the palm such that the infrared camera is configured to generate grayscale image data in the direction between the plurality of digits.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Jeffrey Bingham, Taylor Alexander, Bianca Homberg, Joseph DelPreto, Alex Shafer
-
Publication number: 20190176326Abstract: A method is provided that includes controlling a robotic gripping device to cause a plurality of digits of the robotic gripping device to move towards each other in an attempt to grasp an object. The method also includes receiving, from at least one non-contact sensor on the robotic gripping device, first sensor data indicative of a region between the plurality of digits of the robotic gripping device. The method further includes receiving, from the at least one non-contact sensor on the robotic gripping device, second sensor data indicative of the region between the plurality of digits of the robotic gripping device, where the second sensor data is based on a different sensing modality than the first sensor data. The method additionally includes determining, using an object-in-hand classifier that takes as input the first sensor data and the second sensor data, a result of the attempt to grasp the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Jeffrey Bingham, Taylor Alexander, Bianca Homberg, Joseph DelPreto
-
Patent number: 10197056Abstract: A sealing arrangement is disclosed for use in a pump. The sealing arrangement can include a first pump component having a first face surface. The first face surface can have a sealing protrusion thereon. A second pump component can have a second face surface positioned in confronting relation to the first face surface. The second pump component can define a sealing cavity for holding a fluid under pressure. The sealing protrusion is positioned to engage the second face surface when the first face surface is pressed against the second face surface so that the sealing protrusion seals against the second face surface to prevent movement of the fluid from the sealing cavity past the sealing protrusion. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: CICOR PUMPS NORTH AMERICA, LLCInventors: Philip Taylor Alexander, Robert E. Oehman
-
Publication number: 20180023560Abstract: A crescent internal gear pump includes a front cover, an end cover, a ring gear and a pinion gear disposed within a gear housing in an eccentric, intermeshing relationship. The housing is disposed intermediate the front cover and the end cover. A crescent is disposed radially intermediate the ring gear and the pinion gear. The crescent partially extends into a correspondingly shaped slot in the end cover. The gear housing, the ring gear, and the pinion gear can have substantially the same thickness. A shim can be disposed intermediate the end cover and the gear housing for establishing a desired clearance therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2015Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicant: IMO Industries, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Wilson Duncan, Colette Doll Greene, Philip Taylor Alexander
-
Publication number: 20170211577Abstract: A pump includes a housing, a drive shaft, a centrifugal pump portion having an impeller, and a gear pump portion having first and second gears. The impeller and one of the first and second gears are mounted to the drive shaft to drive the centrifugal pump portion and the gear pump portion at the same rotational speed. The gear pump can be a crescent internal gear (CIG) pump. The drive shaft can be rotated by a magnetic drive. The drive shaft can include a longitudinal bore in fluid communication with a cavity in the magnetic drive and with a discharge of the centrifugal pump portion to circulate working fluid through the magnetic drive to cool the drive. An impeller can be coupled to an inlet of the centrifugal pump portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: IMO Industries, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Wilson Duncan, Philip Taylor Alexander, Charles Hinckley