Patents by Inventor Wayne Francis Bickford

Wayne Francis Bickford 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).

  • Antenna compensation for differential thermal expansion rates
    Patent number: 5896112
    Abstract: An antenna (1) has a radome (2) and a conducting ground plane (6) bridging between conducting end caps (4), a circuit board (5) supported on the ground plane (6), rf antenna elements (7) on the circuit board (5), opposite ends of the ground plane (6) being slidable relative to respective end caps (4) in response to thermal expansion of the ground plane (6), and the circuit board (5) being slidable relative to the ground plane (6) in response to thermal expansion of the ground plane (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Wayne Francis Bickford, Albert David Kozlovski, Thomas Paul Lashua
  • Center contact for RF cable
    Patent number: 5807147
    Abstract: An electrical contact for terminating a cable conductor is constructed with; a conductor terminating portion (27) in the form of a metal strip (28) in the shape of a cylinder (33) and multiple cantilever spring fingers (32) projecting inward from the cylinder (33) for gripping a conductor of an electrical cable, and tips (38) on the spring fingers (32) being bent with a corresponding twist to form respective converging sides of a funnel shaped receptacle (39) to terminate varying sizes of an electrical conductor of a cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventor: Wayne Francis Bickford