Patent 6,553,580 Awarded for “Method of Protecting a Helmet and Interrupting Airflow” which reduces motorcycle buffeting due to turbulence.
April 2003: Dale Henson, of San Jose CA, invented a simple add-on device that breaks up the laminar air flow over a helmet through shapes that act as both a spoiler and a vortex generator. Features normally associated with aircraft to improve stall characteristics are now used to reduce helmet buffeting due to flow around […]
Fiber Winder Developed for use in creating Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers
January 2002: Engineering By Design, of San Jose CA, combined a standard respooling process with a level-winding traverse and tension control system to make winding of fiber amplifiers into a production process. Selectable fiber length or number of turns control improve product manufacturing consistency.
Megapixel Industrial Camera Packaged for use with C-Mount lenses
September 2001: Engineering By Design, of San Jose CA, took a custom design CCD with circuitry and packaged it into an industrial housing that integrates critical chip heat sinking with precise positioning to meet the “C-Mount” specs.
Automatic Scanning & Sorting System developed to detect missing machined features in pressure tanks used in air bag systems.
December 2000: Engineering By Design, of San Jose CA, used a 2-camera vision system to detect missing machined features in pressure tanks manufactures for powering modern auto air bag systems. Specially designed lighting was used to enhance the edge features by allowing only far-edge light to create shadows around the machined notches. A cone filter […]
First automatic filament servo tensioning system used on an EBD coil winder
November 1999: Engineering By Design, of San Jose CA, develops a mandrel coil winder that used closed-loop servos to allow programmable tension control that can be changed as a function of process steps. Dual servo loops linking the load cell to the dancer torque and the dancer position to the supply spool drive made this […]
Patent Number 5,746,252 Awarded for a “Three-Way Hot Air Divert Valve” that makes process changes easier on extrusion lines
May 1998: Dale Henson, of San Jose Ca, invented a 3-way valve that can withstand the high temperatures associated with in-line process heating (up to 1,000o F). When an air heating process has to interrupt air flow in response to a line stoppage the heater can burn up unless the power is turned off. It […]
10-Axis Automatic Grinding System installed at Fukushima Nuclear plant in support of reactor shroud replacement
June 1997: Engineering By Design, of San Jose CA, developed an automatic system to precisely finish fillet welds inside piping supports required to replace a damaged reactor shroud. The high radiation environment made hand finishing impossible and the extreme environment conditions made the machinery design a challenge. Special materials and custom miniaturize drive systems were […]
Engineering By Design parent company, Henson Tech, Inc., incorporated in California
August 1996, Henson Tech, Inc., of Santa Clara CA, in response to growing business and involvement in complex proprietary projects has formed a C corporation while still doing business as (DBA) Engineering By Design. Dale Henson, founder, is named as President and Judy Henson is named CFO.
Underwater Fuel Packing machine developed by EBD instrumental in completion of Nuclear fuel transfer from Shoreham to Limerick ahead of schedule
December 1993: Engineering by Design, of San Jose CA, after being involved with multiple underwater reactor servicing projects was approached with a challenging problem. How to get a series of fuel rod shipping separators back into place when they were never designed to be reused. When the Shoreham, Long Island NY, nuclear plant was shut […]
Wet Disc Handling Robot System Completed to transferring Hard Drive Discs between submerged cassettes and surfacing spindles.
May 1990: Engineering By Design, of San Jose CA, develops a robotic positioning system that uses two air cylinders to move a rotary head into the three positions necessary to transfer hard discs between wet storage cassettes and a surfacing spindle. With two discs held in the rotary head grippers it was possible to remove […]
