ROBERT C SYKES
Engineering in Burlington, MA

6409618, Jun 25, 2002

Jun 15, 2000

09/594980

Daniel P. Touhey - Lee MA
Brian P. Feeney - East Windsor CT
Joseph E. Stahl - Southampton MA
Neil T. Amundsen - Minneapolis MN
Louis F. Polk - Excelsior MN
Joseph J. Schachtner - Deer Park WI
Kenneth V. Schomburg - Wayzata MN
George D. Stickler - Shorewood MN
Richard F. Terrazzano - Salem NH
Eric K. Litscher - Hopkinton MA
Andrew C. Harvey - Waltham MA
Malcolm E. Taylor - Pepperell MA
Peter M. de Bakker - Hudson MA
Robert C. Sykes - Burlington MA
Charles Keane - Hingham MA

Spalding Sports Worldwide,Inc. - Chicopee MA

A63B 3700

473593

An inflatable sport ball, such as a basketball, a football, a soccer ball, a volley ball or a playground ball, is provided with a self-contained inflation mechanism for inflating or more likely adding pressure to the ball. The mechanism is a pump which is inside of the ball and which is operable from outside of the ball to pump ambient air into the ball.

6422960, Jul 23, 2002

Jun 14, 2000

09/594547

Daniel P. Touhey - Lee MA
Brian Feeney - Enfield CT
Joseph E. Stahl - Southampton MA
Richard F. Terrazzano - Salem NH
Eric K. Litscher - Hopkinton MA
Andrew C. Harvey - Waltham MA
Malcolm E. Taylor - Pepperell MA
Robert C. Sykes - Burlington MA

Spalding Sports Worldwide, Inc. - Chicopee MA

A63B 3700

473593

An inflatable sport ball, such as a basketball, a football, a soccer ball, a volley ball or a playground ball, is provided with self-contained inflation means for inflating or more likely adding pressure to the ball. The inflation means is a vessel inside of the ball containing a high pressure gas which may be bled form the vessel into the interior of the ball surrounding the vessel such as by valve means operable from the outside of the ball.

6491595, Dec 10, 2002

Nov 14, 2000

09/712116

Brian P. Feeney - East Windsor CT
Joseph E. Stahl - Southampton MA
Richard F. Terrazzano - Salem NH
Eric K. Litscher - Hopkinton MA
Andrew C. Harvey - Waltham MA
Malcolm E. Taylor - Pepperell MA
Peter M. de Bakker - Hudson MA
Robert C. Sykes - Burlington MA
Charles Keane - Hingham MA

Spalding Sports Worldwide, Inc. - Chicopee MA

A63B 3700

473593

A method of manufacturing a sport ball includes providing a fluid impervious bladder, providing apparatus for penetrating the bladder and including apparatus for receiving an object in sealing engagement, providing a plug dimensioned and configured to engage in sealing relationship the apparatus for receiving in sealing engagement, inserting the plug into the apparatus for receiving, inflating the bladder, and forming additional layers of material on the bladder that is part of a complete sport ball. Thereafter, the method includes providing a self-contained inflation mechanism dimensioned and configured to be disposed within the envelope of the sport ball and dimensioned and configured to engage the apparatus for receiving, removing the plug from the apparatus for receiving, and placing the inflation mechanism into the apparatus for receiving. In some forms of the invention the step of forming additional layers includes adding reinforcing windings, molding a layer of rubber on the windings, and laminating composite panels onto the ball and setting the panels in a molding process.

6450906, Sep 17, 2002

Jun 14, 2000

09/594180

Daniel P. Touhey - Lee MA
Brian Feeney - East Windsor CT
Joseph E. Stahl - Southampton MA
Neil T. Amundsen - Minneapolis MN
Joseph J. Schachtner - Deer Park WI
Kenneth V. Schomburg - Wayzata MN
George D. Stickler - Shorewood MN
Richard F. Terrazzano - Salem NH
Eric K. Litscher - Hopkinton MA
Andrew C. Harvey - Waltham MA
Malcolm E. Taylor - Pepperell MA
Peter M. de Bakker - Hudson MA
Robert C. Sykes - Burlington MA
Charles Keane - Hingham MA

Spalding Sports Worldwide, Inc. - Chicopee MA

A63B 4112

473593, 473604

An inflatable sport ball, such as a basketball, a football, a soccer ball, a volley ball or a playground ball, is provided with a self-contained inflation mechanism for inflating or more likely adding pressure to the ball. The mechanism is a self-contained, manually operable pumping chamber which is inside of the ball and which is operable from outside of the ball to compress the chamber and. pump ambient air into the ball.

5036871, Aug 6, 1991

Feb 22, 1989

7/314091

Steven K. Ruggieri - Marlborough MA
Stephen Jens - Ashland MA
Robert Sykes - Burlington MA

Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

B08B 302

134167R

A flexible lance and drive system (10) extends through manhole (12) into blow down lane (14) of a pressurized water reactor (PWR) steam generator secondary side assembly (16). The system (10) includes a support rail (18) passing through the manhole (12) and along the blow down lane (14). A transporter (20) is suspended for locomotion along the support rail (18). A flexible lance (24) extends through the transporter (20) and can be driven by the transporter into tube bundle (26) to a greater or lesser extent as required to observe and/or clean sludge deposits (28) within the tube bundle (26). High pressure hoses (34), nitrogen purge line (36) and Fiber optics cable (32) is supported by a spacerless hosebar structure (38). The hosebar structure (38) is integrally formed from a flexible plastic material in a single piece.

5191166, Mar 2, 1993

Jun 10, 1991

7/712935

Martin E. Smirlock - Concord MA
Robert C. Sykes - Burlington MA
Anthony L. Alesi - Wayland MA
Joseph J. Prifti - Arlington MA

Foster-Miller, Inc. - Waltham MA

F41H 5013, F41H 504

89 3602

An applique armor system includes a plurality of armor tiles, each armor tile being a composite armor member with a sheet ceramic armor component, an impedance match enhancing sheet member of material such of metal or polymer material adhered to the surface of the ceramic sheet member remote from the anticipated direction of attack, and a compliant separable fastener component of extended area type secured to a surface of the composite armor tile, the ceramic sheet member preferably having a thickness at least ten times the thickness of the impedance match enhancing sheet member.

5131696, Jul 21, 1992

May 30, 1991

7/707459

Robert C. Sykes - Burlington MA
Patsy A. Coppola - Bedford MA
Paul R. Belkus - Whitinsville MA

Gas Research Institute - Chicago IL

F16L 2106, F16L 1314

285382

A tube joint for annular corrugated tubing includes a body having a sleeve for receiving the end of an annular corrugated tube; at least one circumferential raised lobe on the sleeve for engaging an annular corrugation of the tube; and a collar for engaging the body and including a swaging section having a first camming surface for compressing the lobe radially inwardly to engage a corrugation of the tube.

8087339, Jan 3, 2012

Dec 5, 2007

11/999345

Thomas Mann - Littleton MA, US
Denise Mahnken - Lunenburg MA, US
Martin Edward Smirlock - Concord MA, US
Ronald E. Lundin - Handover MA, US
Michael Coltrane - Andover KS, US
Rick Scheer - Goddard KS, US
Robert C. Sykes - Burlington MA, US

Foster-Miller, Inc. - Waltham MA

F41H 5/04

89 3602, 89904

An armor system and method for the interior of a structure to be protected wherein releasable fastener material is secured to an inside wall of the structure and at least a first armor panel includes, in one example, a spacer layer, a ceramic hard face layer behind the spacer layer, a ballistic material behind the ceramic energy absorber layer, an encapsulant about the spacer layer, the ceramic energy absorber layer, and the ballistic material. Releasable fastener material is on the encapsulant adjacent the spacer layer for mating the panel to the inside wall of the structure.

8596182, Dec 3, 2013

Jun 20, 2007

11/820692

Thomas Mann - Littleton MA, US
Denise Mahnken - Lunenburg MA, US
Martin Edward Smirlock - Concord MA, US
Robert C. Sykes - Burlington MA, US

Foster-Miller, Inc. - Waltham MA

F41H 5/06

89 3608, 89 3611, 244121

A spall liner including a first plurality of flexible fabric plies of a first dimension secured together and secured to a first tie layer of a second, larger dimension. At least a second plurality of flexible fabric plies are secured together and secured to a second tie layer. The first and second tie layers are secured together. A cover includes separable fastener structure of a first type for removeably securing the liner to the inside hull of a vehicle equipped with separable fastener structure of a second type.