Warren Howard Robbins

US Patent:

8033261, Oct 11, 2011

Filed:

Nov 3, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/263823

Inventors:

Warren H. Robbins - Fountain Valley CA, US

International Classification:

F01L 1/18

US Classification:

123 9044, 123 9024, 123 9039

Abstract:

A valve actuation system in an internal combustion engine provides for, among other things, valve control in a single and dual camshaft “push rod” type engine without the use of a return spring mechanism. In one embodiment of the present invention, a single rocker link or “push rod” is operably connected to a bifurcated rocker valve for opening and closing a single valve.

US Patent:

51845644, Feb 9, 1993

Filed:

Mar 25, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/857646

Inventors:

Warren H. Robbins - Fountain Valley CA
Lawrence C. Smith - Montecito CA

Assignee:

Team Scarab, Inc. - Ventura CA

International Classification:

B63D 3500

US Classification:

114270

Abstract:

A boat for use with a personal watercraft type vehicle, with the vehicle having a hull with bow, side walls and stern, and with the inflatable boat having a U-shaped tube or pontoon for flotation, with a closed forward end and an open rear end, a connection system for engaging the vehicle for insertion of the vehicle into the pontoon and removal of the vehicle from the pontoon, and a transom for closing the open rear end of the pontoon. Preferably the vehicle slides into and out of the pontoon.

US Patent:

56498446, Jul 22, 1997

Filed:

Jan 22, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/589486

Inventors:

Philip C. Caricof - Costa Mesa CA
Neil A. Newman - Omro WI
Warren H. Robbins - Fountain Valley CA
Lawrence C. Smith - Santa Barbara CA

Assignee:

Hydra Drive System, Inc. - Costa Mesa CA

International Classification:

B63H 2014

US Classification:

440 75

Abstract:

A drive system for a boat having a hull with an inboard motor and two spaced drive units mounted in the hull, including a dual drive package having a housing with first and second output shafts mounted in bearings in the housing and an input shaft mounted in bearings in the housing between the output shafts, first and second drive chain sprockets mounted on and spaced axially along the input shaft, a third drive chain sprocket mounted on the first output shaft, a fourth drive chain sprocket mounted on the second output shaft, a first drive chain coupling the first and third sprockets, a second drive chain coupling the second and fourth sprockets, and arrangements for connecting the input shaft to the motor and each of the output shafts to a respective drive unit. The drive system may further include first and second torque limiters for connecting between the respective drive units.