New Axial Force Prony Brake Dynamometer Patent

 Dyno Tech would like to announce that Aaron has added a couple new patents to his list. Having already received his first utility patent in 2018 for the radial force prony brake used in our 21^st Century high horsepower DT843 and DT526 dynamometers , Aaron has received a second and third utility patent for an axial force prony brake used in our new series of 21^st century utility tractor dynamometers.

 He states that this simple prony brake concept will provide the utility tractor market an economical alternative to having to buy larger expensive dynamometers to satisfy their testing requirements. 

 Most people have heard of a patent, but do they really understand what a patent is? A patent is intellectual property which provides the legal owner the rights to exclude others from making or selling an invention. Within a patent there are claims. Claims are technical terms used to define subject matter protected within a patent, the more claims the stronger the patent. 

 Patents themselves have two different designations as to their type, either a utility patent or a design patent. Patents classified as utility, are wrote with technical meanings and functional aspects pertaining to the invention, while a design patent only protects things like the shape or an ornamental appearance of an article. Furthermore, there is a breakdown of the invention into different classes within its art. Utility patents provide twenty years of intellectual property protection from the time of application, while design patents cover a fourteen-year period.

 Aaron’s 50+ years of firsthand experience in dynamometers, which use frictional prony brakes for an absorption unit, plus spending thousands of hours in design engineering gave him the knowledge in producing these utility patents. He should be receiving his third patent within the next couple of months, stay tuned. 

 If you would like further reading on his patents, click on any of the links below.