Patents by Inventor Charles Max Byrd

Charles Max Byrd has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7969734
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for cooling an electronics package. The system includes a fluid pump and a microcooler assembly. The system utilizes one or more cooling layers interspersed with layers of electronics in the electronics package. Each cooling layer has an array of cooling channels formed in a substrate, an input manifold through which cooling fluid is provided for distribution through the array of cooling channels, and an output manifold which collects fluid from the array of cooling channels. The elements of the cooling system are integrated by conduits including a package conduit for passage of fluid from the fluid pump to the electronics package, a cooler conduit for passage of fluid from the electronics package to the microcooler assembly, and a pump conduit for passage of fluid from the microcooler assembly to the fluid pump. Also disclosed is a method for cooling the electronics package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mehmet Arik, Chellappa Balan, Todd Garrett Wetzel, Stephen Adam Solovitz, Charles Max Byrd, Stanton Earl Weaver, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20080310981
    Abstract: A positive displacement flow separator contains a rotor portion positioned inside a casing portion to act as a least area rotor which captures a volume and moves the volume along the length of the separator. The rotor portion contains a plurality of lobes which interact with grooves in the casing portion, such that the interaction of the lobes and grooves create barriers which capture the volume The creation of the volume creates a flow barrier between a downstream end of the separator and an upstream end of the separator. The flow separator is coupled to a combustion portion to provide a flow of material to the combustion portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: James Fredric Wiedenhoefer, Adam Rasheed, Pierre Francois Pinard, Anthony John Dean, Charles Max Byrd
  • Publication number: 20080156462
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for cooling an electronics package. The system includes a fluid pump and a microcooler assembly. The system utilizes one or more cooling layers interspersed with layers of electronics in the electronics package. Each cooling layer has an array of cooling channels formed in a substrate, an input manifold through which cooling fluid is provided for distribution through the array of cooling channels, and an output manifold which collects fluid from the array of cooling channels. The elements of the cooling system are integrated by conduits including a package conduit for passage of fluid from the fluid pump to the electronics package, a cooler conduit for passage of fluid from the electronics package to the microcooler assembly, and a pump conduit for passage of fluid from the microcooler assembly to the fluid pump. Also disclosed is a method for cooling the electronics package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Mehmet Arik, Chellappa Balan, Todd Garrett Wetzel, Stephen Adam Solovitz, Charles Max Byrd, Stanton Earl Weaver
  • Patent number: 7347049
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for generating energy, comprising a first heat exchanger in communication with a first heat source; wherein the first heat exchanger contacts a transfer fluid that comprises a working fluid and an associating composition; and a first energy conversion device comprising a moving surface, wherein the first heat exchanger is in communication with the moveable surface of the first energy conversion device; and wherein a dissociation of the transfer fluid in the first heat exchanger generates a vapor of the working fluid that contacts the moving surface of the first energy conversion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Veera Palanivelu Rajendran, Chellappa Balan, Charles Max Byrd, Bahram Keramati, Todd Garrett Wetzel
  • Patent number: 7331179
    Abstract: A technique is disclosed for a system and method for combined production of power and hydrogen utilizing the heat from a first working fluid heated by a geothermal energy source using a steam generator and an electrolyzer designed to receive the steam produced by the steam generator for the production of hydrogen and oxygen using electrolysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Chellappa Balan, Michael John Bowman, Daniel Preston Smith, Charles Max Byrd
  • Patent number: 7124584
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for generating energy from a geothermal heat source. The system includes a fluid injection system configured for injecting fluid into a subterranean formation and a fluid extraction system configured for extracting fluid from the subterranean formation after being heated by the formation. The system further includes a heat transformer configured to receive a first fluid heated by the geothermal heat source at a first temperature and adapted to heat a second fluid to a second temperature via a series of chemical reactions. Furthermore, the system includes an energy generation unit configured to receive heated the second fluid at the second temperature from the heat transformer to increase the temperature of a third fluid which is used to generate energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Todd Garrett Wetzel, Chellappa Balan, Charles Max Byrd, Veera Palanivelu Rajendran