Larry A Kidd

US Patent:

55909477, Jan 7, 1997

Filed:

Oct 2, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/538282

Inventors:

Larry W. Kidd - Laurel MD

International Classification:

B62J 600

US Classification:

362 72

Abstract:

A windscreen for use with a motorcycle hiring. This windscreen incorporates a plurality of light bulbs adjacent a lower edge portion of the windscreen, which portion is attached to the motorcycle fairing, in order to illuminate the windscreen, making it glow with light conducted through windscreen material. The light bulbs are securely positioned in slots formed in the windscreen by clips which clip onto the windscreen.

US Patent:

6390028, May 21, 2002

Filed:

Mar 12, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/804555

Inventors:

John P. Langmead - Reston VA
Jacob H. Hall - Montgomery AL
Larry D. Kidd - Nashville MI

Assignee:

The Water Heater Industry Joint Research and Development Consortium - Reston VA

International Classification:

F22B 504

US Classification:

122 142, 122 1421

Abstract:

A fuel-fired heating appliance, representatively a gas-fired water heater, has a combustion chamber in a lower end portion thereof, and fuel burner apparatus having main and pilot burner portions is operatively disposed in the combustion chamber. During operation of the water heater combustion air is supplied to the burner apparatus only via a duct structure having an inlet elevated relative to the floor or other horizontal support surface upon which the water heater rests. A flammable vapor sensor is mounted on the lower end portion of the water heater, externally of the combustion air supply duct structure and at an elevation lower than that of its elevated inlet, and is operatively connected to burner control circuitry which, in turn, is coupled to the burner apparatus. In the event flammable vapors are generated near the floor adjacent the water heater, the vapor sensor operates to detect such vapors and responsively disables the burner apparatus via the control circuitry. The difference in elevation between the vapor sensor and the elevated combustion air inlet gives the sensor additional time to detect and respond to flammable vapors before they upwardly reach the elevated combustion air inlet.