Richard H Cummings

US Patent:

7140803, Nov 28, 2006

Filed:

Feb 10, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/055502

Inventors:

Richard Cummings - Coldwater MI, US
Aaron Cummings - Coldwater MI, US

International Classification:

E01F 9/04
G01S 13/00

US Classification:

404 12, 404 14, 404 94, 342 70

Abstract:

A system and process for detecting a traffic lane boundary before it is potentially violated by a moving vehicle traveling in the lane. Passive RF tags or labels are embedded in a paint stripe running along pavement. A sensor in the vehicle emits an RF signal at a frequency to which the tags or labels are responsive. When the emitted signal is incident on a tag or label with strength indicative of straying of the vehicle from the lane toward incipient violation of the lane boundary defined by the stripe, the tag or label issues a return signal that is received by the sensor for on-board signaling of the potential violation to alter the driver so that corrective action can be taken.

US Patent:

7151468, Dec 19, 2006

Filed:

Oct 4, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/958110

Inventors:

Richard Cummings - Coldwater MI, US
Aaron Cummings - Coldwater MI, US

International Classification:

B60Q 1/00
G08G 1/01
G08G 1/09
G08G 1/095
G08G 1/14
G08G 1/16

US Classification:

340903, 340905, 340907, 3409322, 340933, 340936, 340435, 340436

Abstract:

An on-site roadway warning system for alerting a driver of an approaching vehicle of a need to brake the vehicle. A transceiver radiates electromagnetic energy toward the approaching vehicle and receives reflected energy from the vehicle. A processor processes data about the reflected energy in relation to data about the radiated energy to yield data disclosing both range of the approaching vehicle from the transceiver and rate at which the vehicle is approaching the transceiver. The processor processes the data disclosing range of the approaching vehicle from the transceiver and rate at which the vehicle is approaching the transceiver in relation to the stored data, and activates a signaling device to signal the approaching vehicle when the data disclosing range of the approaching vehicle from the transceiver and rate at which the vehicle is approaching the transceiver correlates with stored data that identifies a potentially dangerous combination of range and rate.

US Patent:

20070071549, Mar 29, 2007

Filed:

Nov 27, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/604632

Inventors:

Richard Cummings - Coldwater MI, US
Aaron Cummings - Coldwater MI, US

International Classification:

E01F 9/08

US Classification:

404012000

Abstract:

Various embodiments of detectable passive markings are disclosed for application to a roadway pavement surface. Also disclosed are a system and method, using the markings, for warning cross-traffic on a roadway not having the right of way at an intersection of approaching traffic on a roadway that has the right-of-way at the intersection.

US Patent:

53818334, Jan 17, 1995

Filed:

Nov 12, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/152909

Inventors:

Richard Cummings - Coldwater MI
Lee J. Gee - Midland MI
John Warren - Midland MI

International Classification:

F16L 300

US Classification:

138107

Abstract:

This invention is a pipe support for a pipe covered by a cylindrical bat of insulation. The insulated pipe is suspended by a pipe hanger having a clevis extending round and beneath the pipe. The pipe support comprises an upwardly concave saddle engageable with the underside of the pipe within the insulation. A pipe support base is secured to the clevis and comprises a bracket fixedly secured to the clevis by a lock bolt; alternatively, a portion of the clevis may serve as the pipe support base. Top and bottom ends of a vertical connector are secured respectively to the saddle and to the support base. A vertical connector extends through the insulation at the bottom of the pipe. The ends of the connector are fixedly secured respectively to the saddle and to the support base. In one embodiment, the connector is a single shaft or rod. In another embodiment, the connector is a rod removably telescopically assembled within a hollow sleeve.