Patents Represented by Attorney Joseph J. Christian
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Patent number: 8342819Abstract: A mounting apparatus for a cooling device is disclosed. The mounting apparatus includes a plurality of connectors extending outwardly from the cooling device. The mounting apparatus also includes at least one mounting post coupled to the plurality of connectors and configured to mount the cooling device on a substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mehmet Arik, Charles Erklin Seeley, Yogen Vishwas Utturkar, William Edward Burdick, Jr., Kunal Ravindra Goray, Stanton Earl Weaver, Jr.
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Patent number: 8345949Abstract: A method of automatic defect recognition includes receiving a initial set of inspection image data of a scanned object from a scanning machine; applying a first image analysis algorithm to this set of inspection image data; then removing from the set of inspection image data any defect-free image regions, so as to retain a set of analyzed inspection image data; applying an additional image analysis algorithm(s) to the set of analyzed inspection image data, wherein the additional algorithm(s) has a higher computational cost than the first image analysis algorithm; and based on the applying of the additional image analysis algorithm(s), removing from the first set of inspection image data a second set of defect-free image regions, thereby retaining a set of twice-analyzed inspection image data.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Fei Zhao, Robert August Kaucic, Paulo Ricardo Mendonca
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Patent number: 8327247Abstract: The present techniques provide systems and methods for decoding an optical data signal returned from an optical disc to retrieve source information. The decoding method is based on a 16 state trellis diagram, and may decode an optical data signal encoded through a modulation code where the input-to-output relationship is not convolutional, such as the 17 Parity Preserve/Prohibit (17pp) modulation code. A trellis diagram may enable non-convolutional trellis-modulated data to be more efficiently decoded. Further, the 16 state trellis diagram of the present techniques provides a unique path for each input-to-output bit pair, such that no information about input bits may be lost on parallel paths in a trellis diagram.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: John Anderson Fergus Ross, Aria Pezeshk
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Patent number: 8313111Abstract: Systems and methods for weight transfer in a vehicle are provided. One system includes a plurality of springs and a plurality of movable spring seats configured to adjust a length of the plurality of springs. Additionally, a pneumatic actuator is provided that is connected to the plurality of movable springs and configured to move the movable spring seats to adjust the length of the plurality of springs. Further, a controller is provided that is coupled to the pneumatic actuator to control the pneumatic actuator to adjust the length of the plurality of springs.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Munishwar Ahuja, Nikhil Subhashchandra Tambe, Bret Worden, Mandyam Sridhar
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Patent number: 8294023Abstract: A radioisotope power sources that includes radioisotope nanoparticles and scintillator materials. An embodiment of the radioisotope power source includes radioisotope nanoparticles suspended within a polycrystalline scintillator; additional polycrystalline scintillator at least partially surrounding the polycrystalline scintillator with the radioisotope nanoparticles; and a photovoltaic device in light communication with the surrounding polycrystalline scintillator. A system that employs the radioisotope power source and a method of generating an electrical current are also disclosed. The present invention has been described in terms of specific embodiment(s), and it is recognized that equivalents, alternatives, and modifications, aside from those expressly stated, are possible and within the scope of the appending claims.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Brent Allen Clothier, Matthew Christian Nielsen, Todd Ryan Tolliver, Allen Lawrence Garner
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Patent number: 8288911Abstract: An electrical machine including a winding made of a conductive material is disclosed. The electrical machine also includes an insulating layer disposed around at least a portion of the winding having a dielectric constant that varies as a function of voltage.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2006Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Qi Tan, Patricia Chapman Irwin, Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Yang Cao, Abdelkrim Younsi, Michael Francis Ciccarelli, Christina Lea McHugh
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Patent number: 8275490Abstract: A system for determining instances when a vehicle's indicated speed exceeds a governing speed includes a receiver to receive information from which a vehicle's location envelope, indicated direction of travel, and indicated speed can be derived, and a processor. The processer is configured to ascertain a location envelope in which the vehicle is located, an indicated speed of the vehicle, and a direction of travel of the vehicle at a sample time. It is also configured to select the governing speed for the vehicle at the sample time, which includes ascertaining possible road segments with at least a portion within the location envelope, eliminating road segments with a road segment direction of travel inconsistent with the indicated direction of travel, and selecting as the governing speed a speed associated with a remaining road segment. The processor will then determine if the indicated speed exceeds the governing speed.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Roman Brusilovsky, Joseph James Salvo, John William Carbone, Daniel John Messier, Douglas Peters, Ben Nielsen, Matthew John Englund
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Patent number: 8273495Abstract: An electrochemical cell structure is provided which includes an anode, a cathode spaced apart from said anode, an electrolyte in ionic communication with each of said anode and said cathode and a nonconductive frame. The nonconductive frame includes at least two components that support each of said anode, said cathode and said electrolyte and define at least one flowpath for working fluids and for products of electrochemical reaction.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2007Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Louis Andrew Schick, Cara Suzanne Libby, John Henry Bowen, Richard Scott Bourgeois
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Patent number: 8273832Abstract: A polyester block terpolymer comprising an amorphous block comprising a polystyrene dicarboxylate; a crystallizable block comprising a polyethylene glycol; and an aliphatic diol block; wherein the amorphous block is a continuous phase and the crystallizable block is a dispersed phase, and wherein the dispersed phase is less than about 200 nanometers in size.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2009Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Patrick Joseph McCloskey, Amitabh Bansal, Julia Lam Lee, Warren William Reilly
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Patent number: 8271209Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for identifying components of an unknown mixture using spectral analysis techniques. The method includes comparing the spectrum of the unknown mixture with the spectra of library compounds to obtain candidate mixture combinations. A model is generated for each of the candidate mixture combinations based on a modeling metric. A residual spectrum is computed corresponding to each of the candidate mixture combinations by removing the spectrum of each of the compounds of the candidate mixture combination from the spectrum of the unknown mixture. One or more potential compounds are identified by comparing the residual spectrum with the spectrum of library compounds. The potential compounds are added to the candidate mixture combinations to generate an updated list of the candidate mixture combinations. The search algorithm repeats the steps described above on the updated candidate mixture combinations, until a first termination condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Sridhar Venkataraman Dasaratha, Thirukazhukundram Subrahmaniam Vignesh, William Scott Sutherland, Young Kyo Lee
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Patent number: 8265228Abstract: A method of making an anti-scatter X-ray grid device, and the X-ray grid device made therefrom, includes providing a substrate made of a material substantially non-absorbent of X-rays that includes channels therein; applying a layer, also of a substantially non-absorbent of X-rays material, onto a sidewall(s) of the channels, wherein the layer comprises a second material; and then applying a material substantially absorbent of X-rays into a portion of the channels, so as to define a plurality of X-ray absorbing elements. The present invention has been described in terms of specific embodiment(s), and it is recognized that equivalents, alternatives, and modifications, aside from those expressly stated, are possible and within the scope of the appending claims.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2010Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Jon Shaw, Kevin Matthew Durocher
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Patent number: 8254235Abstract: A system for processing information is provided. The system includes multiple micro-holograms contained in multiple volumes arranged along multiple tracks in one or more storage mediums. Each of the micro-hologram includes a data. The system also includes one or more pick-up head devices with optical lenses for directing laser beams on the multiple tracks. Further, the system includes a subsystem for arranging the one or more pick-up head devices for recording and retrieving of the data from the one or more storage mediums.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Xiaolei Shi, John Erik Hershey, John Anderson Fergus Ross, Brian Lee Lawrence, Xuefeng Wang, Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov, Erik Solhjell, Rolf Jahren
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Patent number: 8248755Abstract: A polyimide resin is provided. The polyimide resin comprises the reaction product of a polyimide resin and an amine comprising a C1-10 hydrocarbon substituted with CN, F, SO2, SO, S, SO3, SO3?, PO, PO2H, PO3H, PO2?, PO3?2, CO, CO2?, CO2H, CONH, CONH2, NHCOHN, OCONH, OCO2, N, NH, NH2, NO2, CSNH, CSNH2, NHCSNH, OTi(OR4)3, or OSi(OR4)3 or combinations of these, wherein R4 is a C1-10 aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon. The resin may be used to provide a thin film that in turn, may advantageously be used to form, wholly or in part, articles such as capacitors, sensors, batteries, flexible printed circuit boards, keyboard membranes, motor/transformer insulations, cable wrappings, industrial tapes, interior coverage materials, and the like. In particular, a capacitor comprising the thin film and methods of making the same are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2010Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Gary William Yeager, Norberto Silvi, Patricia Chapman Irwin, Robert Colin McTigue
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Patent number: 8238988Abstract: A superconducting magnet assembly and method of cooling a superconducting magnet assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Ernst Wolfgang Stautner
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Patent number: 8229170Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a method for detecting a signal structure from a moving vehicle. The method for detecting signal structure includes capturing an image from a camera mounted on the moving vehicle. The method further includes restricting a search space by predefining candidate regions in the image, extracting a set of features of the image within each candidate region and detecting the signal structure accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2008Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Thomas Baby Sebastian, Peter Henry Tu
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Patent number: 8217751Abstract: An article is provided that includes a plurality of layers. Each layer includes a sinterable mass having a sinter temperature that is less than about 1000 degrees Celsius, and an inner electrode proximate to the sinterable mass. The inner electrode includes a material having a melting point that is within a determined temperature range of about 10 degrees Celsius to about 200 degrees Celsius relative to the sintering temperature. A method to make the article is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2008Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Daniel Qi Tan, Patricia Chapman Irwin, Abdelkrim Younsi
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Patent number: 8207813Abstract: A varistor pre-assembly includes an electrode formable structure and a sinterable mass proximate to electrode formable structure. The electrode formable structure includes a material having a melting point that may be within a determined temperature relative to a sintering temperature of the sinterable mass. The electrode formable structure and sinterable mass may form a varistor when simultaneously subjected to the sintering temperature, which may be less than about 1000 degrees Celsius. A method to make the article is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2008Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Daniel Qi Tan, Patricia Chapman Irwin, Abdelkrim Younsi, Yingneng Zhou
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Patent number: 8202606Abstract: An insulation board for a resistor grid and a method of constructing the same are disclosed. The insulation board includes one or more longitudinal voids. Longitudinal structural members are disposed within the longitudinal voids, wherein the cross section of the longitudinal structural members conforms to the profile of the longitudinal voids. The insulation board also includes one or more rows of transverse pin holes for engaging one or more resistive elements of the resistor grid, disposed along the length of the insulation board.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2010Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: John Raymond Krahn
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Patent number: 8185263Abstract: A computer readable storage medium has a sequence of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to acquire a plurality of actual train speed measurements from at least one sensor during a journey and acquire a train power parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of actual train speed measurements. The sequence of instructions further causes the processor to estimate a plurality of resistance parameters from the plurality of actual train speed measurements and the corresponding train power parameters.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2008Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Krishnamoorthy Kalyanam, Paul K. Houpt, Manthram Sivasubramaniam
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Patent number: 8177145Abstract: A feed injector system comprises a movable central member, a first member substantially concentric with the central member to define a first channel for conveying a first fluid oxidizer stream, a second member substantially concentric with the first member to define a second channel for conveying a fuel feed, and a third member substantially concentric with the second member to define a third channel for conveying a second fluid oxidizer steam. The first member and the second member are configured to enhance instability in the fuel feed emanating from the second channel.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Shailesh Singh Bhaisora, Dustin Wayne Davis, Ravindra Gopaldas Devi