Jeffrey Peebles

Title: Jeffrey Peebles and Robot Collision Safety

Introduction

Jeffrey Peebles is an inventor associated with Mesa, Arizona, and The Boeing Company. His patent work addresses a practical challenge in robotics: detecting collisions and helping prevent or reduce their impact.

Latest Patents

The available information identifies one patent associated with Peebles: Apparatus and Methods to Reduce Impact of Robot Collision and/or Avoid Robot Collision. The invention describes a collision-detection device with a housing attached to an automated robot, a sensor, a relay connected to the robot’s safety circuit, and circuitry that evaluates sensor signals. When the measured parameter meets a specified threshold, the circuitry activates the relay to stop the robot. This approach is intended to support safer operation by responding to potential collisions.

Career Highlights

Peebles’s identified patent reflects work on safety mechanisms for automated systems. The disclosed device combines sensing, threshold-based evaluation, and a relay-triggered stop function to address collision risks. The available information lists 1 patent for him.

Collaborations

The provided information names Michael R. Mercer as a coworker and The Boeing Company as Peebles’s company affiliation. These details offer context for his professional environment, though they do not establish specific roles in the patent’s development.

Conclusion

Jeffrey Peebles’s identified invention focuses on detecting robot collisions and triggering a stop when sensor readings reach a defined threshold, contributing to the broader effort to improve safety in automated systems.