Kevin L Roe

US Patent:

6454302, Sep 24, 2002

Filed:

Oct 4, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/970735

Inventors:

Xiaoyu Li - Saginaw MI
David Michael Byers - Saginaw MI
Kevin Lawrence Roe - Lafayette IN

Assignee:

Delphi Technologies, Inc. - Troy MI

International Classification:

B62D 119

US Classification:

280777, 74492

Abstract:

An actively variable energy absorber including a convex anvil on a steering column housing, a flat metal strap attached to a steering column support and slidably engaging the convex anvil on an active surface area of the convex anvil, and a control apparatus for actively varying the geometric relationship between the flat metal strap and the convex anvil in response to changes in a control variable thereby to adjust the magnitude of the active surface area. Adjusting the magnitude of the active surface area changes the severity of plastic deformation of the flat metal strap and the magnitude of the friction between the flat metal strap and the convex anvil thereby to adjust the force resisting linear translation of the steering column housing. In some embodiments of the actively variable energy absorber, the flat metal strap is plastically deformed by being pulled over a single convex anvil during linear translation of the steering column housing. In other embodiments of the actively variable energy absorber, the flat metal strap is plastically deformed by being pulled across a plurality of convex anvils or by being pulled edgewise between a pair convex anvils.

US Patent:

7227472, Jun 5, 2007

Filed:

Jun 2, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/143830

Inventors:

Kevin Roe - San Jose CA, US

International Classification:

G08B 23/00
B32B 5/02
G01N 1/22

US Classification:

340576, 3405731, 340632, 422 84, 180272, 600532

Abstract:

Methods and systems to screen equipment operators for impairments, such as intoxication, physical impairment, medical impairment, or emotional impairment, to selectively test the equipment operators and control the equipment if impairment of the equipment operator is determined. One embodiment is a method to screen an equipment operator for intoxication. A second embodiment is a method to screen an equipment operator for impairment, such as intoxication, physical impairment, medical impairment, or emotional impairment. A third embodiment is an equipment operator screening system to determine impairment, such as intoxication, physical impairment, medical impairment, or emotional impairment.

US Patent:

7394392, Jul 1, 2008

Filed:

Jun 10, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/150746

Inventors:

Kevin Roe - San Jose CA, US

International Classification:

G08B 23/00

US Classification:

340576, 340500, 3405731, 180272

Abstract:

Methods and systems using one or more expert systems to screen equipment operators for impairments, such as intoxication, physical impairment, medical impairment, or emotional impairment, to selectively test the equipment operators and control the equipment (e. g. , automobiles, trucks, industrial vehicles, public transportation vehicles, such as buses, subways, trains, planes, and ships, and dangerous machinery in general) if impairment of the equipment operator is determined. One embodiment is a method to screen an equipment operator for intoxication, using one or more expert systems. A second embodiment is a method to screen an equipment operator for impairment, such as intoxication, physical impairment, medical impairment, or emotional impairment, using one or more expert systems. A third embodiment is an equipment operator screening system to determine impairment, such as intoxication, physical impairment, medical impairment, or emotional impairment, using one or more expert systems.

US Patent:

7667609, Feb 23, 2010

Filed:

Apr 16, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/787494

Inventors:

Kevin Roe - San Jose CA, US

International Classification:

G08B 23/00
B32B 5/02
G01N 1/22

US Classification:

340576, 3405731, 340632, 422 84, 180272, 600532

Abstract:

Methods and systems using one or more expert systems to screen equipment operators for impairments, such as chemical impairment, physical impairment, medical impairment, or emotional impairment, to selectively test the equipment operators and rescue the equipment operator and control the equipment (e. g. , automobiles, trucks, industrial vehicles, public transportation vehicles, such as buses, subways, trains, planes, ships, watercraft, sport vehicles, and dangerous or potentially dangerous machinery in general) if impairment of the equipment operator is determined. One embodiment is a method to screen and rescue an equipment operator having a chemical impairment, using one or more expert systems. A second embodiment is a method to screen and rescue an equipment operator having an impairment, such as chemical impairment, physical impairment, medical impairment, or emotional impairment, using one or more expert systems. A third embodiment is an equipment operator screening system to determine impairment, such as chemical impairment, physical impairment, medical impairment, or emotional impairment, using one or more expert systems, and rescue the equipment operator and control the equipment.

US Patent:

8447553, May 21, 2013

Filed:

Jul 22, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/841552

Inventors:

Kevin Roe - San Jose CA, US

International Classification:

G01P 21/00

US Classification:

702108, 702 57, 702117, 702189

Abstract:

Methods and systems using one or more expert systems to increase electronic device reliability. One embodiment is a method to screen an electronic device by one or more expert systems to detect a potential failure of the electronic device, selectively testing the electronic device when the screening indicates a potential failure, and providing one or more outputs if the selective testing of the electronic device indicates a failure. A second embodiment is a system to screen an electronic device by one or more expert systems to detect a potential failure, selectively testing the electronic device when the screening indicates a potential failure and providing one or more outputs if the selective testing of the electronic device indicates the failure.

US Patent:

8044772, Oct 25, 2011

Filed:

Jul 18, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/176149

Inventors:

Kevin Roe - San Jose CA, US

International Classification:

G08B 5/22
G08B 23/00
H04Q 1/30

US Classification:

340 75, 340576, 3405731, 340632, 422 84, 180272, 600532

Abstract:

Methods and systems using one or more expert systems to quickly assist (e. g. , advise and/or rescue) persons in danger at a location (e. g. , buildings, tunnels, bridges, factories, refineries, recreational areas, such as parks, golf courses, ski-slopes, public transportation vehicles, such as buses, subways, trains, planes, ships, and equivalents), to screen and selectively test the location and/or person and assist the person if danger to the person is determined. One embodiment is a method to advise a person in danger, possibly having an impairment, using one or more expert systems. A second embodiment is a method to assist people in danger, possibly having an impairment, such as chemical impairment, physical impairment, medical impairment, or emotional impairment, using one or more expert systems. A third embodiment is a system to assist a person, if the system determines a danger at a location and/or if the system determines if a person has an impairment, such as chemical impairment, physical impairment, medical impairment, or emotional impairment, using one or more expert systems.

US Patent:

20130064850, Mar 14, 2013

Filed:

Dec 30, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/341281

Inventors:

Kevin Roe - San Jose CA, US

International Classification:

A61K 39/02
A61P 31/04
A61K 35/74
A61P 37/04
C12N 15/63
A61K 35/66

US Classification:

4242341, 435440, 424 932

Abstract:

Methods of suppressing at least one species of micro-organism that is pathological to an organism. A first embodiment includes a method of suppressing at least one species of micro-organism that is pathological to an organism. A second embodiment includes a method of suppressing at least one species of micro-organism that is pathological to a mammal. A third embodiment includes a method of suppressing at least one species of bacteria that is pathological to a mammal.

US Patent:

60193913, Feb 1, 2000

Filed:

May 4, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/072236

Inventors:

Richard Thomas Stuedemann - Hemlock MI
Leroy L. Gatz - Midland MI
Xiaoyu Li - Saginaw MI
Floyd E. Eschenbacher - Saginaw MI
Kevin Lawrence Roe - Saginaw MI
Kevin Carlton Ross - Hemlock MI

Assignee:

General Motors Corporation - Detroit MI

International Classification:

B62D 116

US Classification:

280779

Abstract:

A steering column for a motor vehicle having a gear box of an electric power assist apparatus in front of the steering column. The steering column includes a rigid mast jacket consisting of a short tubular sleeve and a bracket attached to the tubular sleeve having a pair of laterally separated guides straddling the gear box. A pair of lugs on the gear box cooperate with a pair of elongated slots in the guides in connecting the mast jacket to the gear box for vertical pivotal movement and for linear translation. A longitudinally collapsible steering shaft is rotatably supported on the tubular sleeve with a steering hand wheel at one end and a flexible coupling at the other end connecting the steering shaft to an input shaft on the gear box. The tubular sleeve is connected to the vehicle body by a clamp which releases the tubular sleeve for a collapse stroke of the mast jacket. The mast jacket protects the steering shaft against beam bending during the collapse stroke.