Patents Represented by Attorney Ziolkowski Patent Solutions Group, SC
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Patent number: 8163596Abstract: An apparatus comprises a first chip layer comprising a first component coupled to a first side of a first flex layer, the first component comprising a plurality of electrical pads. The first chip layer also comprises a first plurality of feed-thru pads coupled to the first side of the first flex layer and a first encapsulant encapsulating the first component, the first encapsulant having a portion thereof removed to form a first plurality of cavities in the first encapsulant and to expose the first plurality of feed-thru pads by way of the first plurality of cavities.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christopher James Kapusta, James Sabatini
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Patent number: 8163574Abstract: A system and method for measuring voltage of a medium to high voltage line conductor is disclosed. The system includes an electrical insulator having a surface and an edge, the surface having an opening therein to allow passage of a line conductor therethrough in a direction generally perpendicular to the surface. The system also includes first and second electrodes positioned about the opening on the surface of the electrical insulator and spaced apart from one another to provide a common capacitive divider signal indicative of a voltage potential of the line conductor.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Eaton CorporatonInventors: Mark Allan Juds, Paul J. Rollmann, Xin Zhou, James J. Benke, Birger Pahl, Francois Marchand
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Patent number: 8159002Abstract: A heterostructure device includes a semiconductor multi-layer structure that has a first region, a second region and a third region. The first region is coupled to a source electrode and the second region is coupled to a drain electrode. The third region is disposed between the first region and the second region. The third region provides a switchable electrically conductive pathway from the source electrode to the drain electrode. The third region includes iodine ions. A system includes a heterostructure field effect transistor that includes the device.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Vinayak Tilak, Alexei Vertiatchikh, Kevin Sean Matocha, Peter Micah Sandvik, Siddharth Rajan
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Patent number: 8154149Abstract: A propulsion system is provided that includes an energy system, wherein the energy system comprises a first energy storage system electrically coupled to a direct current (DC) link, a bi-directional boost converter electrically coupled to the first energy storage system and to the DC link, and a second energy storage system electrically coupled to the bi-directional boost converter. The propulsion system further comprises an electric drive coupled to the DC link, an auxiliary energy source coupled to the energy system; and a system controller, wherein the system controller is configured to determine an operational status of the first energy storage system and an operational status of the second energy storage system, and if the first and second energy storage systems are determined to be non-operational, then the system controller causes energy from the auxiliary energy source to be supplied to the first energy storage system.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2009Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Robert Dean King
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Patent number: 8154151Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method, the apparatus includes an intelligent energy transfer system including a configurable switching system electrically coupleable to a vehicle. The vehicle includes one of an electric vehicle and a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. The configurable switching system is configured to convey a first direct current (DC) energy from a first energy source to an energy storage system of the vehicle, receive a first alternating current (AC) energy conveyed to the vehicle, convey a second DC energy from the vehicle to a first DC powered load, and convey a second AC energy from the vehicle to a first AC powered load. Each of the first energy source, the first AC powered load, and the first DC powered load are located remotely from the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Dean King, Zhi Zhou
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Patent number: 8155265Abstract: A computed tomography (CT) detector array includes a central region substantially symmetric about a central axis thereof and includes a first plurality of x-ray detector cells configured to acquire CT data from a first number of detector rows during a scan, wherein the central axis is in a channel direction of the CT detector array and transverse to a slice direction of the CT detector array. A first wing is coupled to a first side of the central region, and a second wing is coupled to a second side of the central region opposite the first side. The first and second wings include respective second and third pluralities of x-ray detector cells and are each configured to acquire CT data from a number of detector rows that is less than the first number of detector rows. The CT detector array is asymmetric about the central axis of the central region.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2010Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man, Abdelaziz Ikhlef, Jiang Hsieh, Jeffrey Alan Kautzer, Robert F. Senzig, Paavana Sainath, Xiaoye Wu, Jed Douglas Pack
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Patent number: 8155408Abstract: A method for detecting a disease state is presented. In accordance with aspects of the present technique, a method for detecting a disease state is presented. The method includes creating a normal standardized data repository, where the normal standardized data repository includes one or more normal reference surface projections, where the normal reference surface projections include anatomical information obtained from one or more groups at different phases corresponding to one or more regions of interest in a normal organ, where each of the one or more groups includes one or more subjects having normal organs, and where the normal standardized data repository may be configured to aid in the detection of a disease state. Systems and computer-readable medium that afford functionality of the type defined by this method are also contemplated in conjunction with the present technique.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ramakanth Vengala Ranga, Gopal Biligeri Avinash, Shibu Prabhakaran Pillai, Peter Lehel, Saad Sirohey
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Patent number: 8155729Abstract: Motion data is acquired simultaneously and in real-time with image data. The motion data provides accurate and near-instant information as to the state and position of an object prone to motion. The present invention is particularly applicable for cardiac CT or MR imaging and other physiologically gated acquisitions. In the context of cardiac imaging, the motion data includes information regarding size and location of the heart during the cardiac phases (diastole, systole, etc.) during each cardiac cycle.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jiang Hsieh, Michael John Barber, Brian J. Kost, William R. Clarke, Michael A. Juhl, Anne Lindsay Hall
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Patent number: 8154293Abstract: An apparatus and method of MR imaging is disclosed. The apparatus and method comprises segmenting acquisition of an echo train into separate odd and even acquisition blades in k-space, wherein the odd and even acquisition blades extend orthogonally through a common reference point in a central region of k-space. A segment of MR data is acquired using a quadratic phase modulation scheme, wherein a first set of MR echo signals occurring after odd-numbered RF refocusing pulses are stored in the odd acquisition blade, and a second set of MR echo signals occurring after even-numbered RF refocusing pulses are stored in the even acquisition blade. This acquisition and segmentation is repeated until a sufficient number of blades are acquired to fill k-space. Finally, an image is reconstructed from the acquisition blades.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2009Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Zhiqiang Li, Ken-Pin Hwang, Ajeetkumar Gaddipati, Xiaoli Zhao
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Patent number: 8131133Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for modifying a television broadcast signal. In one embodiment, the system includes a memory that stores an alternate commercial signal, and a controller that is coupled to the memory and receives the broadcast signal. The broadcast signal includes a program signal and commercial signals. The controller substitutes the alternate commercial signal for one of the commercial signals upon determining that a first condition has been met, for example, upon the sensing two video/audio blank periods in the broadcast signal separated by a predetermined time period. In another embodiment, a broadcast signal including a series of screen signals alternating with a series of blanking signals is embedded, at an upstream location, with additional information relating to alternate commercials or commands during the blanking signals. At a downstream location, a controller processes the additional information and modifies the broadcast signal in response.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2002Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Inventor: David A. Roth
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Patent number: 8126115Abstract: An x-ray tube includes an anode, a first chamber enclosing the anode and having a first pressure therein, a cathode, and a second chamber enclosing the cathode and having a second pressure therein. A separator is positioned between the first and second chambers and has a conductance limiter therein.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2010Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Carey Shawn Rogers, Richard Michael Roffers
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Patent number: 8120908Abstract: A thermal management system for an embedded environment is described. The thermal management system includes a pleumo-jet that has at least one wall defining a chamber, at least one piezoelectric device on the at least one wall, and a compliant material within the at least one wall and encompassing the chamber. The compliant material has at least one opening providing fluid communication between said chamber and the embedded environment. A cooling system is also described. A method for making a pleumo-jet is also described.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mehmet Arik, Charles Franklin Wolfe, Yogen Vishwas Utturkar, Charles Erklin Seeley, David Shannon Slaton, William Henry Lueckenbach
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Patent number: 8118237Abstract: A vehicle includes a power connector configured to mate with an electrical power grid receptacle and receive a grid power therefrom and a heating and cooling system electrically connected to the power connector to receive grid power therefrom and configured to modify a temperature the vehicle cabin. The vehicle also includes a temperature control loop configured to selectively activate and control the heating and cooling system and a controller configured to receive a first input signal comprising a desired vehicle activation time and a second input signal comprising a starting vehicle cabin temperature and a desired vehicle cabin temperature. The controller determines a temperature control loop activation time based on the first and second input signals that is prior to the desired vehicle activation time and transmits an activation signal to the temperature control loop at the temperature control loop activation time to activate the heating and cooling system.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2009Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Parag Vyas, Oliver Mayer, Marko Klaus Baller, Jan Hemmelmann, Robert Roesner, Michal-Wolfgang Waszak, Manon Engelmann, Alexander Felix Fiseni, Stefan Schroeder, Yaru Mendez Hernandez, Mark R. Lynass, Joerg Stromberger
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Patent number: 8121259Abstract: An apparatus includes an electron collector includes a body having an internal bore formed therethrough along a first direction and a window side having an aperture formed in a first portion thereof along a second direction different from the first direction. The apparatus also includes a cover plate having a bottom surface coupled to a second portion of the first surface of the electron collector, and an x-ray transmission window coupled to the cover plate and aligned with the aperture along the second direction, wherein a recess is formed along the second direction in one of the first portion of the first surface of the electron collector and a portion of the bottom surface of the cover plate, and wherein a gap is formed between the bottom surface of the cover plate and the first surface of the electron collector.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Michael Scott Hebert, Gregory Alan Steinlage, Madhusudhana T. Subraya, Donald Robert Allen, James J. Van Bogart
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Patent number: 8121248Abstract: A method includes performing an x-ray focal spot deflection to generate two complete projections from two different channels of an x-ray detector, wherein the channels are purposefully different from each other in some respect other than being different channels.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2010Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Abdelaziz Ikhlef, Charles Hugh Shaughnessy
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Patent number: 8116432Abstract: A target for generating x-rays includes a target substrate comprising at least one layer of a target material, a track comprising at least one layer of a track material, the track configured to generate x-rays from high-energy electrons impinging thereon, and a braze joint attaching the target substrate to the track.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Gregory Alan Steinlage, Michael Hebert
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Patent number: 8115434Abstract: An electric machine is disclosed comprising a first energy source, a second energy source, and a stator which comprises a first set of windings and a second set of windings. The electric machine has a rotor and a controller, the controller configured to control the first energy source to supply a first current to the first set of windings and control the second energy source to supply a second current to the second set of windings. The controller also detects an angular position of the rotor, detects the first current, detects the second current, and determines an optimum phase shift angle of the first current based on the angular position of the rotor, the first current, and the second current. The controller controls the first energy source based on the optimum phase shift angle to modify the first current supplied to the first set of windings.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ahmed Mostafa El-Antably, Robert Dean King, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie
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Patent number: 8115117Abstract: A system and method of forming a patterned conformal structure for an electrical system is disclosed. The conformal structure includes a dielectric coating positioned on an electrical system having circuit components mounted thereon, the dielectric coating shaped to conform to a surface of the electrical system and having a plurality of openings therein positioned over contact pads on the surface of the electrical system. The conformal structure also includes a conductive coating layered on the dielectric coating and on the contact pads such that an electrical connection is formed between the conductive coating and the contact pads. The dielectric coating and the conductive coating have a plurality of overlapping pathway openings formed therethrough to isolate a respective shielding area of the conformal structure over desired circuit components or groups of circuit components.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2009Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christopher James Kapusta, Donald Paul Cunningham
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Patent number: 8114708Abstract: A system and method for forming an embedded chip package is disclosed. The embedded chip package includes a first chip portion having a plurality of pre-patterned re-distribution layers joined together to form a pre-patterned lamination stack, with the pre-patterned lamination stack having a die opening extending therethrough. The embedded chip package also includes a die positioned in the die opening and a second chip portion having at least one uncut re-distribution layer, with the second chip portion affixed to each of the first chip portion and the die and being patterned to be electrically connected to both of the first chip portion and the die.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Paul McConnelee, Donald Cunningham, Kevin Durocher
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Patent number: 8115485Abstract: A method of calibrating an imaging sequence includes the application of a pre-scan pulse sequence to acquire MR signals from a region-of-interest to be imaged with an imaging pulse sequence. The pre-scan pulse sequence is interrupted to acquire pre-scan data in a low bandwidth acquisition window. A frequency spectrum is generated from the pre-scan data and displayed to interactively allow a user to establish scan parameters for the imaging pulse sequence.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2006Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Joseph K. Maier, Hari Hariharan