Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Hershberger
Thomas A. Hershberger 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: 20210355640Abstract: Hollow composite dowel bar assemblies, their manufacture, and apparatus for manufacture. The dowel bar assemblies may include an elongate and hollow core, a protective jacket coating at least the sidewall exterior of the core, and a sealing structure coupled with each end of the combined core and jacket, that are configured to protect the core from the environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: Composite Rebar Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Thomas A. Hershberger, Nicholas K. Cray
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Patent number: 10858789Abstract: Hollow composite dowel bar assemblies, their manufacture, and apparatus for manufacture. The dowel bar assemblies may include an elongate and hollow core, a protective jacket coating at least the sidewall exterior of the core, and a sealing structure coupled with each end of the combined core and jacket, that are configured to protect the core from the environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Composite Rebar Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Thomas A. Hershberger, Nicholas K. Cray
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Publication number: 20180080181Abstract: Hollow composite dowel bar assemblies, their manufacture, and apparatus for manufacture. The dowel bar assemblies may include an elongate and hollow core, a protective jacket coating at least the sidewall exterior of the core, and a sealing structure coupled with each end of the combined core and jacket, that are configured to protect the core from the environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: Composite Rebar Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Thomas A. Hershberger, Nicholas K. Cray
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Publication number: 20170218630Abstract: A rebar structure for concrete reinforcement may include an elongate tubular central wall portion having an inside surface and an outside surface. The central wall portion may be formed circumferentially around a core axis and may include glass or carbon fibers mostly being oriented longitudinally parallel to the core axis. The rebar structure may include an inner wall portion bonded to the inside surface of the central wall portion. The inner wall portion may include glass or carbon fibers and may have a higher percentage of fibers oriented non-parallel to the core axis as compared to the central wall portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2017Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: Composite Rebar Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert C. Gibson, Thomas S. Ohnstad, Thomas A. Hershberger, Gregory A. Zjaba, Richard A. Schulte, Sean Walsh
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Patent number: 9624667Abstract: A rebar structure for concrete reinforcement may include an elongate tubular central wall portion having an inside surface and an outside surface. The central wall portion may be formed circumferentially around a core axis and may include glass or carbon fibers mostly being oriented longitudinally parallel to the core axis. The rebar structure may include an inner wall portion bonded to the inside surface of the central wall portion. The inner wall portion may include glass or carbon fibers and may have a higher percentage of fibers oriented non-parallel to the core axis as compared to the central wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Composite Rebar Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert C. Gibson, Thomas S. Ohnstad, Thomas A. Hershberger, Gregory A. Zjaba, Richard A. Schulte, Sean Walsh
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Publication number: 20160076249Abstract: A rebar structure for concrete reinforcement may include an elongate tubular central wall portion having an inside surface and an outside surface. The central wall portion may be formed circumferentially around a core axis and may include glass or carbon fibers mostly being oriented longitudinally parallel to the core axis. The rebar structure may include an inner wall portion bonded to the inside surface of the central wall portion. The inner wall portion may include glass or carbon fibers and may have a higher percentage of fibers oriented non-parallel to the core axis as compared to the central wall portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicant: Composite Rebar Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert C. Gibson, Thomas S. Ohnstad, Thomas A. Hershberger, Gregory A. Zjaba, Richard A. Schulte, Sean Walsh
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Patent number: 9162399Abstract: Elongate, composite-material, hollow rebar structure, along with associated components, related fabrication apparatus, and apparatus-implemented, rebar-structure-making methodology. The rebar structure has a long axis, and includes (a) an elongate, hollow core centered on that long axis, (b) an elongate, hollow sleeve having inner and outer surfaces, circumsurrounding the core along the core's length, with the sleeve's inner surface bonded to the core's outer surface along the length thereof, and (c) longitudinally distributed, radial-dimensionality, external-purchase-enhancing structure formed unitarily with the sleeve's outer surface along the length thereof. The bond existing between the core and the sleeve takes the form of a single-cure, reverse-temperature-gradient-cure, plastic-material, molecular bond.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Composite Rebat Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert C. Gibson, Thomas S. Ohnstad, Matthew H. Noble, Trent J. Garber, Thomas A. Hershberger, John R. Hillman
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Patent number: 9156210Abstract: Apparatus possessing elongate, long-axially aligned componentry for making hollow, composite-material rebar including (a) a hollow mandrel disposed upstream in the apparatus, (b) a hollow pultrusion die circumsurrounding the mandrel for forming a composite-material hollow core in the space between it and the mandrel, and (c) a hollow, continuous-transfer-molding die spaced downstream from the pultrusion die, having a central long axis about which it is rotatable, operable to form, along the length of a core which has been formed in the pultrusion die, (1) an elongate, composite-material, core-circumsurrounding, hollow sleeve having an outer surface, and (2), unitarily with the sleeve, and in a manner distributed along the length of the sleeve's outer surface, an external-purchase-enhancing structure possessing radial-dimensionality.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Composite Rebar Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert C. Gibson, Thomas S. Ohnstad, Matthew H. Noble, Trent J. Garber, Thomas A. Hershberger
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Publication number: 20150286599Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a chassis on which a plurality of daughter cards (circuits) can be implemented. The chassis includes a backplane; a plurality of slots attached to the backplane, the plurality of slots being configured to interface with a corresponding number of daughter cards; a switch attached to the backplane, the switch being configured to provide control inputs to each of the plurality of slots, wherein a subset of the plurality of slots are directly connected to the switch; and a processor attached to the backplane and connected to the switch, the processor being connected to a portion of the plurality of slots which are not directly connected to the switch, the processor being configured to receive a signal from the switch, modulate the signal, and transmit the modulated signal to a target slot of the portion of the plurality of slots to uniquely identify a daughter card in the target slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventor: Steven Thomas Hershberger
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Patent number: 9149993Abstract: A method of making an elongate, composite-material, hollow rebar structure including (a) forming an elongate, composite-material, hollow core, (b) in association with such forming, preparing along the core's length an elongate, composite-material, core-circumsurrounding, hollow sleeve having inner and outer surfaces, (c) in association with such preparing, creating, unitarily with the sleeve, and in a manner distributed along the length of the sleeve's outer surface, an external-purchase-enhancing structure possessing radial-dimensionality, and (d) bonding the inner surface of the sleeve to the outer surface of the core.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Composite Rebar Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert C. Gibson, Thomas S. Ohnstad, Matthew H. Noble, Trent J. Garber, Thomas A Hershberger
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Publication number: 20140335217Abstract: Apparatus possessing elongate, long-axially aligned componentry for making hollow, composite-material rebar including (a) a hollow mandrel disposed upstream in the apparatus, (b) a hollow pultrusion die circumsurrounding the mandrel for forming a composite-material hollow core in the space between it and the mandrel, and (c) a hollow, continuous-transfer-molding die spaced downstream from the pultrusion die, having a central long axis about which it is rotatable, operable to form, along the length of a core which has been formed in the pultrusion die, (1) an elongate, composite-material, core-circumsurrounding, hollow sleeve having an outer surface, and (2), unitarily with the sleeve, and in a manner distributed along the length of the sleeve's outer surface, an external-purchase-enhancing structure possessing radial-dimensionality.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Robert C. Gibson, Thomas S. Ohnstad, Matthew H. Noble, Trent J. Garber, Thomas A. Hershberger
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Publication number: 20140332158Abstract: A method of making an elongate, composite-material, hollow rebar structure including (a) forming an elongate, composite-material, hollow core, (b) in association with such forming, preparing along the core's length an elongate, composite-material, core-circumsurrounding, hollow sleeve having inner and outer surfaces, (c) in association with such preparing, creating, unitarily with the sleeve, and in a manner distributed along the length of the sleeve's outer surface, an external-purchase-enhancing structure possessing radial-dimensionality, and (d) bonding the inner surface of the sleeve to the outer surface of the core.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Robert C. Gibson, Thomas S. Ohnstad, Matthew H. Noble, Trent J. Garber, Thomas A. Hershberger
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Publication number: 20120066994Abstract: Elongate, composite-material, hollow rebar structure, along with associated components, related fabrication apparatus, and apparatus-implemented, rebar-structure-making methodology. The rebar structure has a long axis, and includes (a) an elongate, hollow core centered on that long axis, (b) an elongate, hollow sleeve having inner and outer surfaces, circumsurrounding the core along the core's length, with the sleeve's inner surface bonded to the core's outer surface along the length thereof, and (c) longitudinally distributed, radial-dimensionality, external-purchase-enhancing structure formed unitarily with the sleeve's outer surface along the length thereof. The bond existing between the core and the sleeve takes the form of a single-cure, reverse-temperature-gradient-cure, plastic-material, molecular bond.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: Composite Rebar Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert C. Gibson, Thomas S. Ohnstad, Matthew H. Noble, Trent J. Garber, Thomas A. Hershberger, John R. Hillman
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Publication number: 20120059961Abstract: A system and method for interfacing multiple SoCs (System on a Chip) to a single, shared memory device are provided. The system and method of the present disclosure provides for controlling the downloading of operating code to two or more SoC controller circuits sharing a memory containing the operating code and a common communications bus, where each controller is a master controller of the communications bus in normal operation. The system and method involves sequentially controlling access of each of the controller circuits to the communications bus to allow each device to separately download the common operating code. The system and method utilize a separate initializing circuit or device along with chaining the controllers together in a series such that each controller be held in a reset state to prevent communications bus access until the previous controller in the chain has completed its code download.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2010Publication date: March 8, 2012Inventors: Steven Thomas Hershberger, Ronald Douglas Johnson
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Patent number: 5418045Abstract: A process for making nonwoven fabric including the steps of meltspinning continuous multicomponent polymeric filaments, drawing the multicomponent filaments, at least partially quenching the multicomponent filaments so that the multicomponents have latent helical crimp, activating the latent helical crimp, and thereafter, forming the crimped continuous multicomponent filaments into a first nonwoven fabric web. By crimping the filaments before the web formation, shrinkage of the web after formation is substantially reduced and the resulting fabric is substantially stable and uniform. In addition, the resulting fabric can have a relatively high loft. The crimp activating step can include heating the multicomponent filaments and preferably includes drawing the multicomponent filaments with a flow of heated air to activate the latent helical crimp.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1994Date of Patent: May 23, 1995Assignee: Kimberly-Clark CorporationInventors: Richard D. Pike, Kurtis L. Brown, Sharon W. Gwaltney, Thomas A. Hershberger, Scott D. Siegel