Patents by Inventor Thomas L. Hampton

Thomas L. Hampton 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: 4060981
    Abstract: A valve for controlling the fluid flow between two generally coannular ducts. The valve is provided with a pair of back-to-back, mutually facing flow mixers of the daisy variety, each associated with a section of the coannular ducts. Each mixer transists the two coannular duct passages into a plurality of circumferentially separated chute passages communicating alternatively with the inner and outer ducts, the mixers being indexed with respect to each other by half a chute width. A stage of radially extending, pivotable vanes cooperates with the chutes of both mixers and allows both the inner and outer upstream duct flows to be directed to either the inner or outer downstream duct, depending upon the orientation of the vanes. Alternatively, either or both of the fluid streams can be blocked off entirely. Complete flexibility for flow inversion is obtained without turning or indexing the flow through the vanes by more than half a chute width, thereby maintaining high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Thomas L. Hampton
  • Patent number: D682287
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Meso Scale Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xinri Cong, Thomas L. Hampton, Carl Stevens, Michael Vock, Edmund Wong
  • Patent number: D748115
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Meso Scale Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xinri Cong, Thomas L. Hampton, Carl Stevens, Michael Vock, Edmund Wong
  • Patent number: D807902
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Meso Scale Technologies, LLC.
    Inventors: Xinri Cong, Thomas L. Hampton, Carl Stevens, Michael Vock, Edmund Wong