Michael J Mcmahon

US Patent:

6883638, Apr 26, 2005

Filed:

Mar 16, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/936629

Inventors:

Peter Maxwell - Missouri City TX, US
Lawrence P. Behn - Houston TX, US
Eugene D. Bednar - Austin TX, US
Jeffery C. Gannon - Houston TX, US
Michael Arthur Corrigan - The Woodlands TX, US
Glen Ragan - Sugar Land TX, US
Dale J. Lambert - Mandeville LA, US
Henry Thomas Polk - Houston TX, US
Steven L. Roche - Sugar Land TX, US
Wilfred Roy Bertrand - Meadows Place TX, US
David Wilson - Missouri City TX, US
Byron Lee Cain - Houston TX, US
Michael George McMahon - Stafford TX, US
John C. Downey Jr. - Houston TX, US
Keith Elder - Richmond TX, US

Assignee:

Input/Output, Inc. - Stafford TX

International Classification:

G01V001/40

US Classification:

181102, 181108, 181112, 181139, 367 14, 367 32, 367117, 34087005, 73 101, 73 137, 73570, 73579

Abstract:

Method for operating and testing a sensor assembly (). The sensor assembly () preferably includes accelerometers with axes of sensitivity orthogonal to each other. The method preferably includes determining sensor tilt angle, determining the position of the sensor, and synchronizing the operation of the sensor.

US Patent:

20070024078, Feb 1, 2007

Filed:

Sep 7, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/570688

Inventors:

Oswaldo Mino - Houston TX, US
Michael McMahon - Palatine IL, US
Stanley Piotrowski - Addison IL, US
Doug Miller - Kingwood TX, US

International Classification:

B60R 13/01

US Classification:

296039100

Abstract:

A bulk container liner assembly for use in conjunction with a bulk material cargo container comprises structure incorporated therein such that restraint forces are impressed upon or transmitted to the back or rear wall member of the bulk material cargo container liner, along linearly seamed loci, so as to effectively prevent the back or rear wall member of the bulk material cargo container liner from experiencing or undergoing any outward bulging thereof under the influence of the hydrostatic head load forces generated internally within the bulk material cargo container liner as a result of the charging of bulk cargo material into the interior portion of the bulk material cargo container liner.

US Patent:

20070267410, Nov 22, 2007

Filed:

May 10, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/798134

Inventors:

Oswaldo Mino - Houston TX, US
Michael McMahon - Palatine IL, US
Stanley Piotrowski - Addison IL, US

International Classification:

B65D 88/00

US Classification:

220001600

Abstract:

An external reinforcing strap system for a bulk material cargo container liner comprises a plurality of vertically spaced, horizontally oriented reinforcing straps, or a plurality of horizontally spaced, vertically oriented reinforcing straps and a plurality of vertically spaced, horizontally oriented reinforcing straps, to have their tension levels individually adjusted in an independent manner in order to provide selected sections of the external reinforcing strapping system with requisites amount of tension. In addition, a substantially U-shaped reinforcing gusset system is also disclosed which provides the necessary reinforcement for the rear wall member of the bulk material cargo container liner but with a simplified structure effectively eliminating the aforenoted strapping system.