WILLIAM PETER KLASSEN
Pilots at Navajo St, Davis, CA

6692319, Feb 17, 2004

Mar 29, 2002

10/109933

Gregory J. Collier - Davis CA
William P. Klassen - Davis CA

Alstom Shilling Robotics - Davis CA

B63H 118

440 66, 440 38

A thruster for use in underwater applications, including a stator assembly having an encapsulated set of coils and a rotor assembly having an encapsulated set of permanent magnets. Two ring-shaped rotor bearings, incorporating both thrust bearing surfaces and journal bearing surfaces, are mounted on the rotor assembly, for bearing engagement with corresponding bearing surfaces of ring-shaped bearing assemblies mounted on the stator assembly. The rotor bearings include radial grooves that form a centrifugal pump for drawing sea water through a filter assembly, which then directs the filtered water past the stator coils, for cooling, and past the bearing surfaces, for cooling and lubrication. The stator bearing assemblies are made up of a number of arc-shaped segmental bearings having specially configured cantilevered arms that facilitate the creation of a lubricating film of filtered sea water between the bearing surfaces. The rotor assembly has a shaftless configuration, with a ring-shaped rotor body with a set of inwardly projecting, symmetrically shaped blades.

6520068, Feb 18, 2003

Mar 8, 2000

09/520562

Greg Collier - Davis CA 95616
William Klassen - Davis CA 95616
Andy Lyons - Davis CA 95616
Chris McIlwain - Davis CA 95616
Jeff Prince - Davis CA 95616
Tyler Schilling - Davis CA 95616
Pat Whelan - Davis CA 95616

F01C 900

92124, 92125

Disclosed herein is a rotary vane actuator device with sealing assembly. The device includes a housing and a sealing assembly. The housing has a center opening defining a chamber. The housing includes opposing end plates for surrounding a stator. The stator having an aligned center opening and a rotor within the chamber. Within the chamber there are two openings, one serving as an inlet, the other serving as an outlet for rotational fluid. The rotor includes a vane assembly fixedly connected thereto. When the fluid enters the chamber, the fluid contacts the vane and moves the rotationally in the same direction. Each of the stator and the vane include seal packs. The end plates include sealing members which contact the stator and vane seal packs whether in the static or dynamic condition of the rotor. The combination of the seal packs and the end plate seal form the sealing assembly.

6590158, Jul 8, 2003

Mar 15, 2002

10/099524

Tyler Schilling - Woodland CA
William P. Klassen - Davis CA
David Davis - Sacramento CA

Alstom Schilling Robotics - Davis CA

H05K 506

174 523, 361752

A container for housing electrical and fiber-optic components in a controlled internal environment is provided. The container is configured to define a first chamber having a first pressure which substantially differs from a second pressure in a pressure region external to the sealed chamber and that is configured to transmit signals between the sealed container and the pressure region. The container has a housing that defines the first chamber and has two spaced-apart, confronting walls extending from the first chamber to a pressure region external to the first chamber. The container further has a seal assembly positioned between the confronting walls. The seal assembly includes a planar substrate; a conductive element attached to the planar substrate and extending between the first chamber and the pressure region external to the first chamber, for conducting a signal between the first chamber and the pressure region; and sealing material positioned on opposite sides of the insulating substrate and adapted to sealably interface with the parallel confronting walls of the housing. The container further includes one or more securement members that compress the confronting walls of the housing against the seal assembly, to seal the first chamber and thereby define a boundary between the first chamber and the pressure region. The housing and the seal assembly are configured to withstand a pressure differential between the first chamber and the pressure region.

6719578, Apr 13, 2004

Feb 6, 2002

10/071830

William Klassen - Davis CA
Tyler Schilling - Woodland CA
Jeff Kroll - Davis CA

Schilling Robotics - Davis CA

H01R 1328

439289, 439 20

A submersible electrical cable connector having a cable-side connector assembly and a receptacle-side connector assembly. The cable-side connector assembly including a flex-circuit having a circular head with a plurality of pins arranged in a symmetrically shaped configuration. The receptacle-side connector assembly including a molded contact conductor having a number of concentric conductive rings with insulating material positioned between each ring. Each concentric conductive ring makes a physical and electrical connection with at least one the pins in the symmetrically shaped configuration when the cable-side connector assembly and the receptacle-side connector assembly are coupled together.

7749008, Jul 6, 2010

Aug 21, 2008

12/196103

William P. Klassen - Davis CA, US
A. Tyler Schilling - Davis CA, US
Jeffery D. Kroll - Davis CA, US
Stacy L. Wright - Davis CA, US

Schilling Robotics, Inc. - Davis CA

H01R 4/64

439201, 439205, 439 22, 439372

The present invention is embodied in a submersible electrical cable connector having a cable-side connector assembly and a receptacle-side connector assembly. In a preferred embodiment, the cable-side connector assembly includes a generally circular printed circuit board having individual pin assemblies, each pin assembly having its own spring-loaded mechanism. The pin assemblies provide for an electrical connection between the cable-side connector assembly and the receptacle-side connector assembly. The printed circuit board also includes an oil valve that allows oil to flow between the cable-side connector assembly and the receptacle-side connector assembly when the two connector assemblies are coupled together. The cable-side connector assembly additionally includes a cap having a bleed valve that allows a user to remove air trapped within the submersible electrical cable connector when it is filled with oil.

2003012, Jul 10, 2003

Oct 19, 2002

10/277179

Greg Collier - Davis CA, US
William Klassen - Davis CA, US
Andy Lyons - Davis CA, US
Chris Mcllwain - Sacramento CA, US
Jeff Prince - Kennewick WA, US
Tyler Schilling - Davis CA, US
Pat Whelan - Vacaville CA, US

Alstom

F01C009/00

092/120000

Disclosed herein is a rotary vane actuator device with sealing assembly. The device includes a housing and a sealing assembly. The housing has a center opening defining a chamber. The housing includes opposing end plates for surrounding a stator. The stator having an aligned center opening and a rotor within the chamber. Within the chamber there are two openings, one serving as an inlet, the other serving as an outlet for rotational fluid. The rotor includes a vane assembly fixedly connected thereto. When the fluid enters the chamber, the fluid contacts the vane and moves the rotationally in the same direction. Each of the stator and the vane include seal packs. The end plates include sealing members which contact the stator and vane seal packs whether in the static or dynamic condition of the rotor. The combination of the seal packs and the end plate seal form the sealing assembly.