Patents by Inventor Donald E. Welch

Donald E. Welch 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: 6941785
    Abstract: A pump diagnostic system and method comprising current sensing probes clamped on electrical motor leads of a pump for sensing only current signals on incoming motor power, a signal processor having a means for buffering and anti-aliasing current signals into a pump motor current signal, and a computer having a means for analyzing, displaying, and reporting motor current signatures from the motor current signal to determine pump health using integrated motor and pump diagnostic parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventors: Howard D. Haynes, Daryl F. Cox, Donald E. Welch
  • Publication number: 20040230384
    Abstract: A pump diagnostic system and method comprising current sensing probes clamped on electrical motor leads of a pump for sensing only current signals on incoming motor power, a signal processor having a means for buffering and anti-aliasing current signals into a pump motor current signal, and a computer having a means for analyzing, displaying, and reporting motor current signatures from the motor current signal to determine pump health using integrated motor and pump diagnostic parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventors: Howard D. Haynes, Daryl F. Cox, Donald E. Welch
  • Patent number: 6460012
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for the detection, through nonlinear manipulation of data, of an indicator of imminent failure due to crack growth in structural elements. The method is a process of determining energy consumption due to crack growth and correlating the energy consumption with physical phenomena indicative of a failure event. The apparatus includes sensors for sensing physical data factors, processors or the like for computing a relationship between the physical data factors and phenomena indicative of the failure event, and apparatus for providing notification of the characteristics and extent of such phenomena.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: U.T. Battelle, LLC,
    Inventors: Donald E. Welch, Lee M. Hively, Ray F. Holdaway
  • Patent number: 4761609
    Abstract: A tachometer signal conditioner circuit functions to accept a wide range of input signals and produces a digital pulse signal which indicates a gear shaft phase reference position. Tachometer input signals of either a true 1/revolution or an N/revolution signal with a single pulse or N pulses of different amplitude than the other pulses during the same shaft revolution can be used. The circuit comprises tachometer signal conditioner circuitry for amplifying and filtering the input from the tachometer, tachometer signal detector circuitry to produce digital pulses synchronous with the tachometer signal cycles and to detect the occurrence of a tachometer signal with a different amplitude during each 1/revolution or N/revolution period, a blanking signal generator which prevents tachometer signal noise from generating spurious 1/rev pulses during operation in the N/rev mode, and an output driver which produces signals to the remaining signal circuitry and to a front panel indicator lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1988
    Assignee: Mechanical Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard A. Dorman, Donald E. Welch
  • Patent number: D261913
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1981
    Inventor: Donald E. Welch
  • Patent number: D269362
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1983
    Inventor: Donald E. Welch