Alice C Smith

US Patent:

6636814, Oct 21, 2003

Filed:

Aug 22, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/111926

Inventors:

Curtis W. McCullers - Scottdale PA
Kenneth A. Karg - Belle Vernon PA
Dean J. Campbell - Jefferson Hills PA
Andreas H. Etzel - Karlsruhe, DE
Alice E. Smith - Auburn AL

Assignee:

Bombardier Transportation GmbH - Berlin

International Classification:

B61B 1300

US Classification:

702 34, 701 19, 700 83, 709318

Abstract:

Disclosed is a light rail vehicle having a predictive diagnostic system for a motor driven automated door ( ) to enable condition-based maintenance. The light rail vehicle ( ) has an automated door system ( ), at least one data acquisition board ( ), a data collection program ( ), an exponential smoothing algorithm ( ), and a neural network ( ). The need for maintenance is identified through the collection of various door system ( ) parameters, calculating current energy and time consumption from these parameters, and determining the rate of degradation based on current energy and time consumption of the door system ( ) as compared with historical energy and time consumption. From the rate of degradation, maintenance can be scheduled as needed.

US Patent:

52577210, Nov 2, 1993

Filed:

Nov 4, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/971388

Inventors:

Dulany S. Smith - Palm Harbor FL
Alice G. Smith - Palm Harbor FL

International Classification:

B05L 1700

US Classification:

220533

Abstract:

A painter's box or artist's sketch box has a removable lid, a reversible palette, movable partitions enabling the changing of the compartments of the box, a detachably mounted brush holder, a detachably mounted charcoal holder, and support legs that support the box when its lid is closed and which relieve stress on the hinges that interconnect the main body of the box and the lid when the lid is fully open. The hinges are of the pull-apart slip hinge type and include pins of differing lengths to facilitate reattachment of the lid to the main body of the box, and a groove is centered along the parting line of the lid and the main body to accommodate the hinge barrels to further facilitate alignment of the lid and the main body of the box. A thumb hole formed in the palette enables it to be held easily when separated from the box and provides an access opening for a jar of mineral spirits when the palette is not held. The peripheral edges of the palette are held within palette-accommodating recesses, formed in upstanding walls of the box, by the box lid when the lid is closed so that the palette can not move or make a rattling sound when the box is being transported.

Author:

Alice Kimball Smith

ISBN #:

0674776054

Author:

Alice Kimball Smith

ISBN #:

0804726205

Author:

Alice Smith

ISBN #:

0674776062

Author:

Alice Smith

ISBN #:

0830720707

Author:

Alice Smith

ISBN #:

0830731075

Author:

Alice Smith

ISBN #:

0830732896

Author:

Alice Smith

ISBN #:

0830743812

Author:

Alice Smith

ISBN #:

0870200968