Patents by Inventor William Barry

William Barry 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: 12065967
    Abstract: A turbofan engine has a fan portion in fluid communication with a core stream and a bypass stream of air separated by splitters disposed both upstream and downstream of the fan portion. A blade splitter (shroud) on the fan partially spans the fan blade thus separating the core and bypass streams downstream while leaving a gap upstream for communication between the flows. The communication gap expands the operational range of the fan over fans without the communication gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: William Barry Bryan
  • Patent number: 11771385
    Abstract: A surgical or exam table includes a radiolucent patient support surface; and a shelf beneath the patient support surface, wherein an X-ray panel may be supported on said shelf for X-raying a human or animal subject resting on the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: William Barry Canon
  • Publication number: 20230133478
    Abstract: A turbofan engine has a fan portion in fluid communication with a core stream and a bypass stream of air separated by splitters disposed both upstream and downstream of the fan portion. A blade splitter (shroud) on the fan partially spans the fan blade thus separating the core and bypass streams downstream while leaving a gap upstream for communication between the flows. The communication gap expands the operational range of the fan over fans without the communication gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE NORTH AMERICAN TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: William Barry Bryan
  • Patent number: 11542864
    Abstract: A turbofan engine has a fan portion in fluid communication with a core stream and a bypass stream of air separated by splitters disposed both upstream and downstream of the fan portion. A blade splitter (shroud) on the fan partially spans the fan blade thus separating the core and bypass streams downstream while leaving a gap upstream for communication between the flows. The communication gap expands the operational range of the fan over fans without the communication gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE NORTH AMERICAN TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: William Barry Bryan
  • Patent number: 11534116
    Abstract: A surgical or exam table includes a radiolucent patient support surface; and a shelf beneath the patient support surface, wherein an x-ray panel may be supported on said shelf for x-raying a human or animal subject resting on the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventor: William Barry Canon
  • Patent number: 11300049
    Abstract: A system includes a housing for a gas turbine engine, and a fan disposed in the housing to rotate coaxially with a gas turbine included in the housing. The system also includes an inlet guide vane disposed in the housing in axial alignment with the fan and configured to have an open position where a first flow of air is received by the fan through the inlet guide vane, and a closed position where airflow through the inlet guide vane is obstructed. The system further includes a heat exchanger disposed in a supply passage in fluid communication with a second flow of air received by the fan. The second flow of air is received by the fan via the supply passage with the inlet guide vane in the open position or in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE NORTH AMERICAN TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Douglas David Dierksmeier, Douglas Boyd, Douglas J. Snyder, Graham Burkholder, William Barry Bryan
  • Patent number: 11207794
    Abstract: Cards may be manufactured in a lamination process, such that interior portions of the cards may be visible. Punch alignment queues within the card may be scanned by a punch machine and rendered onto a display of the punch machine. The punch alignment queues may be aligned with targets also rendered onto the display so that the card may be properly aligned within a punch machine to prepare the card for a trimming process. A Venturi system may temporarily adhere the card to a punch of the punch machine while the punch is engaged with a die to trim the card. The cutting surface of the die may be offset with respect to a surface of the punch, so that the card may be sequentially trimmed along a perimeter of the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: DYNAMICS INC.
    Inventor: William Barry Brown
  • Publication number: 20210277827
    Abstract: A system includes a housing for a gas turbine engine, and a fan disposed in the housing to rotate coaxially with a gas turbine included in the housing. The system also includes an inlet guide vane disposed in the housing in axial alignment with the fan and configured to have an open position where a first flow of air is received by the fan through the inlet guide vane, and a closed position where airflow through the inlet guide vane is obstructed. The system further includes a heat exchanger disposed in a supply passage in fluid communication with a second flow of air received by the fan. The second flow of air is received by the fan via the supply passage with the inlet guide vane in the open position or in the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas David Dierksmeier, Douglas Boyd, Douglas J. Snyder, Graham Burkholder, William Barry Bryan
  • Publication number: 20200340400
    Abstract: A turbofan engine has a fan portion in fluid communication with a core stream and a bypass stream of air separated by splitters disposed both upstream and downstream of the fan portion. A blade splitter (shroud) on the fan partially spans the fan blade thus separating the core and bypass streams downstream while leaving a gap upstream for communication between the flows. The communication gap expands the operational range of the fan over fans without the communication gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: William Barry Bryan
  • Publication number: 20200271060
    Abstract: A system and method for meeting take off noise requirements in a gas turbine engine with a multi-stage fan, comprising an inlet passage, a core passage, a bypass passage and a mid-stage offtake passage; the core passage comprising a core inlet, high pressure compressor, combustor, high pressure turbine, low pressure turbine and a core exhaust; the bypass passage comprising a primary bypass inlet and a primary bypass exit; the mid-stage offtake passage comprising an offtake inlet and offtake exit; a first stage comprising a first rotor, and a second stage comprising a second rotor; and a variable guide vane located axially between the first rotor and the second rotor; an actuator coupled to and selectively varying the variable guide vane between two or more orientations; a variable offtake exit thrust nozzle; and, wherein a gas stream exiting the inlet passage enters one of the core, bypass or mid-stage off take passages as a function of the two or more orientations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicants: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Hall, William Barry Bryan
  • Patent number: 10160123
    Abstract: A corrugated sign modification kit that includes a handheld cutting device with a handle with a first end, a second end, and a handle length separating the first and second ends, a first blade member, and a blade guide member. The first blade member is coupled to the handle and has a cutting edge that faces in a longitudinal direction of the handle, extends outwardly away from the handle, and has a width of less than approximately 1 inch separating its proximal and distal ends. The blade guide member is coupled to the distal end of the first blade member, is orientated in a substantially parallel direction to the longitudinal direction of the handle, and has a distal end protruding to a point in front of the cutting edge so as to define a channel to guide inserted objects within the channel to the cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventor: William Barry Cepek
  • Patent number: 9830271
    Abstract: Embodiments present a virtual disk image to applications such as virtual machines (VMs) executing on a computing device. The virtual disk image corresponds to one or more subparts of binary large objects (blobs) of data stored by a cloud service, and is implemented in a log structured format. Grains of the virtual disk image are cached by the computing device. The computing device caches only a subset of the grains and performs write operations without blocking the applications to reduce storage latency perceived by the applications. Some embodiments enable the applications that lack enterprise class storage to benefit from enterprise class cloud storage services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Phelan, Erik Cota-Robles, David William Barry, Adam Back
  • Patent number: 9593559
    Abstract: A sand control device for restricting flow of particles from a subsurface formation into a tubular body within a wellbore, the device being divided into compartments along its length, each compartment comprises a base pipe. The base pipe defines an elongated tubular body having a permeable section and an impermeable section within each compartment, also comprising a first filtering conduit and a second filtering conduit. The filtering conduits are arranged so that the first filtering conduit is adjacent to the non-permeable section of the base pipe, while the second filtering conduit is adjacent to the permeable section of the base pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Charles S. Yeh, Tracy J. Moffett, Ted A. Long, Andrey A. Troshko, Michael D. Barry, Michael T. Hecker, David A. Howell, Annabel Green, Stephen McNamee, Rodney S. Royer, Robert F. Hodge, Peter Olenick, Henry Nguyen, William Barry Fisher
  • Publication number: 20170058831
    Abstract: An apparatus for the control of fluid flow in a gas turbine engine comprises a first plurality of inlet guide vanes disposed upstream of a fan, a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine; at least one airflow splitter adapted to split air admitted through the first plurality of inlet guide vanes into a core airflow which flows through the fan, the compressor, the combustor, and the turbine and a bypass airflow which flows through the fan; wherein the first plurality of inlet guide vanes comprise a radially-inward first portion adapted to direct air admitted through the first plurality of inlet guide vanes to the core airflow and a radially-outward second portion adapted to direct air admitted through the first plurality of inlet guide vanes to the bypass airflow, and wherein the first portion comprises a fixed vane and the second portion comprises a variable vane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: William Barry Bryan, Edward C. Rice, Douglas David Dierksmeier, Kyle Jameson Martin, Charles L. McNeil
  • Patent number: 9294436
    Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, there are provided a method, system and apparatus for determining validity of location information in a packet-switched network. A method for determining if location information associated with an endpoint in a packet-switched network is valid, the location information having been stored in a memory, comprises obtaining an access device identifier associated with an access device responsible for handling a communication session between the endpoint and the packet-switched network. The access device identifier is then compared with a last known access device identifier associated with the endpoint to enable determining if the location information is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: BCE INC.
    Inventors: Guy Caron, Jerome Grenier, Stephane Maxime Francois Fortier, Martin Langlois, William Barry Crago
  • Patent number: 9211247
    Abstract: A sprayable alcohol-based sunscreen comprises an alcohol carrier, at least one sunscreen additive, and a film forming polymer comprising shellac.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Mantrose-Haeuser Company, Inc.
    Inventors: William Barrie, Stephen A. Santos
  • Patent number: 9210273
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for provisioning a communication client. The method comprises receiving via a communication network a request from the communication client. The method further comprises determining a positioning object associated with the communication client. The method further comprises, based on the positioning object, determining a subscription profile associated with the communication client. The method further comprises, based on the subscription profile, compiling a configuration file, which is released. The configuration file comprises data for enabling said communication client to log into a communication service provided by a network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: BCE Inc.
    Inventors: David William Clark, Nathan Gerald Archer, Matthew Rose, William Barry Crago, Yannick Lessard
  • Publication number: 20150194079
    Abstract: A corrugated sign modification kit that includes a handheld cutting device with a handle with a first end, a second end, and a handle length separating the first and second ends, a first blade member, and a blade guide member. The first blade member is coupled to the handle and has a cutting edge that faces in a longitudinal direction of the handle, extends outwardly away from the handle, and has a width of less than approximately 1 inch separating its proximal and distal ends. The blade guide member is coupled to the distal end of the first blade member, is orientated in a substantially parallel direction to the longitudinal direction of the handle, and has a distal end protruding to a point in front of the cutting edge so as to define a channel to guide inserted objects within the channel to the cutting edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventor: William Barry Cepek
  • Patent number: 8984783
    Abstract: A method of increasing the stability of a corrugated display apparatus defining a plurality of lower openings and having a plurality of walls at least partially defining a plurality of channels, each with a channel width, spanning from one of the plurality of lower openings toward an upper end of the display apparatus, the method including providing a cutting device with a handle length and a blade member coupled along the handle length, cutting a portion of at least one of the plurality of walls with the blade member to combine two of the plurality of channels adjacent to the cut portion of the at least one of the plurality of walls to create an enlarged channel, and inserting a post-like member into the enlarged channel, the post-like member securely retained within the enlarged channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Inventor: William Barry Cepek
  • Publication number: 20150007471
    Abstract: A method of increasing the stability of a corrugated display apparatus defining a plurality of lower openings and having a plurality of walls at least partially defining a plurality of channels, each with a channel width, spanning from one of the plurality of lower openings toward an upper end of the display apparatus, the method including providing a cutting device with a handle length and a blade member coupled along the handle length, cutting a portion of at least one of the plurality of walls with the blade member to combine two of the plurality of channels adjacent to the cut portion of the at least one of the plurality of walls to create an enlarged channel, and inserting a post-like member into the enlarged channel, the post-like member securely retained within the enlarged channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventor: William Barry Cepek