Darrell Horner
38Patents
6h-index
67Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 21, 2002 → Aug 21, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7096657B2 | Gas turbine engine electromechanical variable inlet guide vane actuation system | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 34 | Expired |
| US8376818B2 | Thrust recovery, or other valve, containing two independently actuated doors and control system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 19 | Active |
| US8500526B2 | Variable set point all-electric pressure relief valve and control, independent from the automatic cabin pressure control system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 18 | Active |
| US6737988B2 | Instrumentation and control circuit having multiple, dissimilar sources for supplying warnings, indications, and controls and an integrated cabin pressure control system valve incorporating the same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 12 | Expired |
| US6979257B2 | Cabin pressure control method and apparatus using all-electric control without outflow valve position feedback | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US6945278B2 | Fully integrated aircraft cabin pressure control system valve | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 10 | Expired |
| US7008314B2 | Aircraft modular cabin pressure regulator | Performing Operations; Transporting | 5 | Expired |
| US6962324B2 | Cabin pressure outflow control valve having non-linear flow control characteristics | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 5 | Expired |
| US7462098B2 | Cabin pressure control system and method that accommodates aircraft take-off with and without a cabin pressurization source | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Expired |
| US7571742B2 | Butterfly outflow valve | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Expired |
| US6761628B2 | Control system and method for implementing fixed cabin pressure rate of change during aircraft climb | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Expired |
| US7686680B2 | Closed-loop cabin pressure control system test method with actual pressure feedback | Performing Operations; Transporting | 3 | Active |
| US9783306B2 | Bi-fold thrust recovery outflow valve with a ram air flap | Performing Operations; Transporting | 3 | Active |
| US8694181B2 | Cabin pressure control system with multiple outflow valves and method of calibrating the outflow valve position feedback during flight | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 3 | Active |
| US8632381B2 | Lightweight cabin pressure thrust recovery outflow valve | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 3 | Active |
| US10988262B2 | Cabin pressure control system architecture using cabin pressure air for inlet to APU core compressor | Performing Operations; Transporting | 2 | Active |
| US7101277B2 | Control system and method for controlling aircraft cabin altitude during aircraft operations above maximum certified aircraft altitude | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 2 | Expired |
| US10106263B2 | Wireless aircraft cabin pressure control system utilizing smart pressure sensors | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 2 | Active |
| US7032884B2 | Outflow valve butterfly plate retention pin | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 2 | Expired |
| US8864559B2 | Multiple outflow valve cabin pressure control system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 2 | Active |
| US8808072B2 | Cabin pressure control system dual valve control and monitoring architecture | Performing Operations; Transporting | 2 | Active |
| US7472885B2 | Compact, lightweight cabin pressure control system butterfly outflow valve with redundancy features | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1 | Active |
| US9096320B2 | Cabin pressure thrust recovery outflow valve with single door | Performing Operations; Transporting | 1 | Active |
| US8382035B2 | Poppet valve for cabin pressure control systems | Performing Operations; Transporting | 1 | Active |
| US7549916B2 | Cabin pressure control system and method that implements high-speed sampling and averaging techniques to compute cabin pressure rate of change | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.