Wayne R Jones

US Patent:

7114764, Oct 3, 2006

Filed:

Apr 22, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/829616

Inventors:

Roshdy George S. Barsoum - McLean VA, US
Rodney O. Peterson - Frederick MD, US
David P. Owen - Columbia MD, US
Wayne C. Jones - Elkridge MD, US
David E. Johnson - Severna Park MD, US

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy - Washington DC

International Classification:

B60R 21/00
F41H 7/00

US Classification:

29619307, 29618708, 89 3608, 89 3609

Abstract:

Many military land vehicles are not designed to withstand extreme forces concomitant exploding mines. A vehicle's capacity to protect its occupants is inventively enhanced by structurally augmenting the vehicle, in lower structural portions closely related to the vehicle's cabin, with both elastomeric and rigid (non-elastomeric) materials. An elastomeric layer and a rigid layer (typically embodied as a metal or composite sheet or plate) are added to the vehicle in each of seven locations, viz. , the four wheel wells (left-front, right-front, left-rear, right-rear), the two floorboards (left and right), and the intervening underside area. At each wheel well and floorboard location, the elastomer is sandwiched between the vehicle's existing rigid structure and the rigid member so as to form a tri-layer material system. At the intervening underside location, an elastomer-coated rigid member is attached with the elastomer face-down. The seven material systems are energy-dissipative and impact-deflective both locally and globally.

US Patent:

7222017, May 22, 2007

Filed:

Jun 17, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/870630

Inventors:

Samuel T. Clark - Federal Way WA, US
Wayne R. Jones - Bellevue WA, US
Michael P. Snow - Langley WA, US
Eddie J. Trujillo - Snohomish WA, US

Assignee:

The Boeing Company - Chicago IL

International Classification:

G08G 5/06
G06F 19/00

US Classification:

701120, 701 10, 701 14, 340958, 340972

Abstract:

A system and method are provided for the efficient entry and display of ground taxi routes on an electronic airport map display. The system may include a touchscreen entry device, a display device, a computer, a map database, a vehicle position sensor and a transmitter/receiver. The system may be configured to check the ground taxi entries to ensure that each successive segment is contiguous with the last or next segment, and any gaps or discontinuities in the displayed taxi instructions may be annunciated. An intelligent display of next possible segments may be incorporated into the system.

US Patent:

7552018, Jun 23, 2009

Filed:

Feb 12, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/706679

Inventors:

Aaron D. Lazarus - Baltimore MD, US
Wayne C. Jones - Catonsville MD, US

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy - Washington DC

International Classification:

G01R 15/00
G01R 23/16

US Classification:

702 75, 324752, 356432, 428336, 702 57

Abstract:

The present invention provides a baseline function, viz. , a transmission-related parameter (transmission loss, transmission coefficient, etc. ) as a function of resistance of a uniformly resistant finitely thin film—which is predicated on the theoretical behavior of electromagnetic radiation passing through a uniformly resistant infinitely thin film. This theoretical behavior is characterized by constancy of the transmission-related parameter for any frequency of the electromagnetic radiation, wherein each resistance value has associated therewith a constant transmission-related parameter. The baseline function is formed by calculating the constant transmission-related parameter value for each of plural resistance values in the theoretical model. The baseline function is correlated with an empirical function, viz. , a transmission-related parameter as a function of frequency of the electromagnetic radiation—which is formed, in empirical testing, by measuring the transmission-related parameter value for each of plural resistance values.

US Patent:

RE41396, Jun 22, 2010

Filed:

Jun 13, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/139416

Inventors:

Samuel T. Clark - Federal Way WA, US
Wayne R. Jones - Bellevue WA, US
Michael P. Snow - Langley WA, US
Eddie J. Trujillo - Snohamish WA, US

Assignee:

The Boeing Company - Chicago IL

International Classification:

G08G 5/06
G06F 19/00

US Classification:

701120, 701 10, 701 14, 340958, 340972

Abstract:

A system and method are provided for the efficient entry and display of ground taxi routes on an electronic airport map display. The system may include a touchscreen entry device, a display device, a computer, a map database, a vehicle position sensor and a transmitter/receiver. The system may be configured to check the ground taxi entries to ensure that each successive segment is contiguous with the last or next segment, and any gaps or discontinuities in the displayed taxi instructions may be annunciated. An intelligent display of next possible segments may be incorporated into the system.

US Patent:

8180562, May 15, 2012

Filed:

Jun 4, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/133114

Inventors:

Samuel T. Clark - Federal Way WA, US
Roglenda R. Bowe - Maple Valley WA, US
Wayne R. Jones - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

The Boeing Company - Chicago IL

International Classification:

G01C 21/00

US Classification:

701202, 701 7, 701 23, 342 34, 342 76

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for building, creating, or otherwise specifying an airport ground taxi navigation route for an aircraft from an input of the route is disclosed. The apparatus includes a keypad, voice recognition device, or other entry device, a processor, a display screen, and a navigation map database. A crewmember on the aircraft uses the entry device to enter all or part of the ground navigation taxi route. The entry device converts the received route information into an input text string, either with or without delimiters. The system parses the input text string by extracting characters or substrings from the input text string. A database lookup component searches the map database to find a route component that matches the character or substring. If the system finds a matching route component, it determines if the matching route component is continuous with the taxi route. The system adds the matching route component to the taxi route and displays any discontinuity.

US Patent:

20110304479, Dec 15, 2011

Filed:

Jun 15, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/815747

Inventors:

Sherwin S. Chen - Issaquah WA, US
Jean M. Crane - Seattle WA, US
Steven L. Fleiger-Holmes - Edmonds WA, US
Wayne R. Jones - Bellevue WA, US
Bruce P. Samuels - Shoreline WA, US
Bechara J. Mallouk - Mukilteo WA, US

Assignee:

THE BOEING COMPANY - Chicago IL

International Classification:

G08G 5/00

US Classification:

340951

Abstract:

A method, apparatus, and computer program product for displaying information about runways. A runway for an aircraft is identified when the aircraft is within a selected distance of the runway. A number of graphical indicators are displayed on a display in a flight deck. The number of graphical indicators corresponds to a number of features of the runway present in a field of view for an eye reference point in the flight deck.

US Patent:

48354694, May 30, 1989

Filed:

Jul 24, 1987

Appl. No.:

7/077648

Inventors:

Wayne R. Jones - Alderwood Manor WA
Daniel J. Voss - Seattle WA

Assignee:

John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. - Everett WA

International Classification:

G01R 104
G01R 106

US Classification:

324158F

Abstract:

In a system for troubleshooting a unit containing microprocessor-based digital circuitry including a bus, wherein the system includes a digital test apparatus that emulates the microprocessor of the unit to test components on the bus and a device for interfacing signals between the test apparatus and the microprocessor comprises a clip that mounts to the microprocessor in electrical contact with the microprocessor leads. The clip preferably is of a type adapted to attach resiliently to the leads of all four sides of a soldered-in microprocessor in a leaded chip carrier housing. A connector to couple the clip to the test apparatus through a wire harness is mounted on a printed circuit board carrying pins corresponding to the lines of the microprocessor bus and the clip, and cables extending from the circuit board to the clip are coupled to the pins of the circuit board and clip by push connectors. A rod interconnecting the clip and the circuit board maintains the distance between the clip and circuit board fixed to prevent the push connectors from "backing off" the pins as the clip is manually operated. A pair of "flying leads", extending from the circuit board, carries probes that clip to terminals of the unit under test.

US Patent:

56052529, Feb 25, 1997

Filed:

Apr 10, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/419473

Inventors:

David P. Owen - Pasadena MD
Wayne C. Jones - Baltimore MD
David E. Johnson - Arnold MD
George V. Nagle - Belcamp MD

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy - Washington DC

International Classification:

B67D 530

US Classification:

222 1

Abstract:

Apparatus and method for accurately and efficiently metering at least one compressible fluid and at least one incompressible fluid for mixing, whereby pressure and therefore density is regulated with regard to each compressible fluid, and volume is regulated with regard to each compressible fluid as well as each incompressible fluid. Compressible fluids in particular are metered more accurately because the mass of each fluid is used as the variable measurement standard, both the density and the volume of each fluid being maintained at controlled and predictable levels. For some embodiments, synchronously interdependent, hydraulically independent regulation of the flow rates of the fluids serves not only to optimize metering accuracy but metering efficiency as well by accounting for relative compressibilities and viscosities between or among the fluids, therby permitting minimization of lag times between or among the flows of the fluids, in this way furthering integration of the individual metering processes of all the fluids into one coordinated system whereby the flows of all the fluids are mutually and/or concurrently controlled.