Patents by Inventor Ernest Thompson

Ernest Thompson 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: 11268989
    Abstract: A dual feeder circuit system for supplying electrical power can include one or more feeder groups, each feeder having a first wire and a second wire connected between a source terminal and a load terminal to carry the same electrical signal on both wires. The system can include one or more current transformers disposed on one or more of the feeders groups such that the current transformer is disposed around both the first wire and the second wire. The first wire can be passed directly through a first side of the current transformer to allow current to travel through the current transformer in a first direction, and the second wire can include a loop and be passed through a second side of the current transformer to allow current to travel through the current transformer in an second direction opposite the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Ernest Thompson, Dwight D. Schmitt, Jef William Good
  • Patent number: 11190729
    Abstract: A digital jukebox allows for playback of a first offering and a second offering. The contents of each offering are individually licensed for public performance at a particular location where the jukebox is found. The jukebox displays advertisements that are selected in response to user interaction with the jukebox or a number of other factors. The jukebox features a screen that allows user to interact with the jukebox to select offerings, but also to respond to advertising. Jukebox can function in cooperation with a server, but in the alternate, can function as an independent and stand-alone device when connection to server is not available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Thompson Cappello Stanisz Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Cappello, Mariusz Stanisz, Ernest Thompson
  • Publication number: 20200336698
    Abstract: A digital jukebox allows for playback of a first offering and a second offering. The contents of each offering are individually licensed for public performance at a particular location where the jukebox is found. The jukebox displays advertisements that are selected in response to user interaction with the jukebox or a number of other factors. The jukebox features a screen that allows user to interact with the jukebox to select offerings, but also to respond to advertising. Jukebox can function in cooperation with a server, but in the alternate, can function as an independent and stand-alone device when connection to server is not available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Paul Cappello, Mariusz Stanisz, Ernest Thompson
  • Publication number: 20200251981
    Abstract: A converter implementing a dual-reference three-level pulse width modulation (PWM) technique for constraining a midpoint duty cycle is provided. The converter includes a phase leg that includes upper, mid-upper, mid-lower, and lower switches. The upper, mid-upper, mid-lower, and lower switches are connected in series between direct current (DC) positive and negative leads, with an alternating current (AC) output lead connected at a junction of the mid-upper and mid-lower switches. The phase leg includes a first clamping diode connected to the junction of the switch and mid-upper switches and connected to a DC midpoint lead and a second clamping diode connected between the DC midpoint lead and connected to the junction of the mid-lower and lower switches. The converter is electrically coupled to and operatively associated with a controller to receive control signals to drive the converter to constrain the midpoint duty cycle between the DC midpoint and AC output leads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Ernest Thompson, Adam Michael White, Dwight D. Schmitt
  • Patent number: 10694143
    Abstract: A digital jukebox (14) allows for playback of a first offering and a second offering. The contents of each offering are individually licensed for public performance at a particular location where the jukebox is found. The jukebox (14) displays advertisements that are selected in response to user interaction with the jukebox or a number of other factors. The jukebox (14) features a screen (18 and 20) that allows user to interact with the jukebox to select offerings, but also to respond to advertising. Jukebox can function in cooperation with a server (12), but in the alternate, can function as an independent and stand-alone device when connection (16) to server (12) is not available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Thompson Cappello Stanisz Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Cappello, Mariusz Stanisz, Ernest Thompson
  • Patent number: 10658919
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide for a system, method, and controller for operating a harmonic regulator with loop delay compensation. Some embodiments include receiving, at a controller, voltage feedback from a power system, and applying a harmonic regulator to each distortion frequency to be compensated. Embodiments also include applying a predetermined delay to an output of the harmonic regulator, scaling the delayed output and adding it to a power source voltage reference waveform, and providing condition power to a load, using the conditioned power source voltage reference waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ernest Thompson, Adam Michael White
  • Publication number: 20200141982
    Abstract: A dual feeder circuit system for supplying electrical power can include one or more feeder groups, each feeder having a first wire and a second wire connected between a source terminal and a load terminal to carry the same electrical signal on both wires. The system can include one or more current transformers disposed on one or more of the feeders groups such that the current transformer is disposed around both the first wire and the second wire. The first wire can be passed directly through a first side of the current transformer to allow current to travel through the current transformer in a first direction, and the second wire can include a loop and be passed through a second side of the current transformer to allow current to travel through the current transformer in an second direction opposite the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Ernest Thompson, Dwight D. Schmitt, Jef William Good
  • Patent number: 10491138
    Abstract: A method of controlling an inverter includes generating a neutral-phase reference waveform, generating a neutral-phase midpoint compensation waveform using the neutral-phase reference waveform, and generating a neutral-phase compensated duty cycle waveform using the neutral-phase midpoint compensation waveform. Neutral-phase switch command signals are generated for switches of a neutral-phase of the inverter using the neutral-phase compensated duty cycle waveform. Inverters and computer program products are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ernest Thompson, Adam Michael White
  • Publication number: 20190141284
    Abstract: A digital jukebox (14) allows for playback of a first offering and a second offering. The contents of each offering are individually licensed for public performance at a particular location where the jukebox is found. The jukebox (14) displays advertisements that are selected in response to user interaction with the jukebox or a number of other factors. The jukebox (14) features a screen (18 and 20) that allows user to interact with the jukebox to select offerings, but also to respond to advertising. Jukebox can function in cooperation with a server (12), but in the alternate, can function as an independent and stand-alone device when connection (16) to server (12) is not available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Paul Cappello, Mariusz Stanisz, Ernest Thompson
  • Patent number: 10194116
    Abstract: A digital jukebox (14) allows for playback of a first offering and a second offering. The contents of each offering are individually licensed for public performance at a particular location where the jukebox is found. The jukebox (14) displays advertisements that are selected in response to user interaction with the jukebox or a number of other factors. The jukebox (14) features a screen (18 and 20) that allows user to interact with the jukebox to select offerings, but also to respond to advertising. Jukebox can function in cooperation with a server (12), but in the alternate, can function as an independent and stand-alone device when connection (16) to server (12) is not available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Thompson Cappello Stanisz IP, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Cappello, Mariusz Stanisz, Ernest Thompson
  • Patent number: 10028409
    Abstract: An immersion cooling arrangement includes a housing containing a liquid coolant. An electrical device is submerged within the liquid coolant. A printed wiring board is seated on the housing and separates the coolant from the environment external to the housing to provide penetration-free electrical communication between a power source and the electrical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Mark W. Metzler, John Huss, Ernest Thompson
  • Publication number: 20180199461
    Abstract: Potted electronic assemblies are disclosed along with methods of making and cooling them. The electronic assemblies include a conductive heat transfer medium disposed between and in contact with an electronic component and a heat sink. The conductive heat transfer medium has a hardened fluid polymer material that includes boron nitride nanotubes dispersed therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: John Huss, Alan Kasner, Mark W. Metzler, Ernest Thompson, Debabrata Pal, Charles Patrick Shepard
  • Publication number: 20180199465
    Abstract: An immersion cooling arrangement includes a housing containing a liquid coolant. An electrical device is submerged within the liquid coolant. A printed wiring board is seated on the housing and separates the coolant from the environment external to the housing to provide penetration-free electrical communication between a power source and the electrical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Mark W. Metzler, John Huss, Ernest Thompson
  • Publication number: 20150296172
    Abstract: A digital jukebox (14) allows for playback of a first offering and a second offering. The contents of each offering are individually licensed for public performance at a particular location where the jukebox is found. The jukebox (14) displays advertisements that are selected in response to user interaction with the jukebox or a number of other factors. The jukebox (14) features a screen (18 and 20) that allows user to interact with the jukebox to select offerings, but also to respond to advertising. Jukebox can function in cooperation with a server (12), but in the alternate, can function as an independent and stand-alone device when connection (16) to server (12) is not available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Paul Cappello, Mariusz Stanisz, Ernest Thompson
  • Patent number: 9013969
    Abstract: A digital jukebox (14) allows for playback of a first offering and a second offering. The contents of each offering are individually licensed for public performance at a particular location where the jukebox is found. The jukebox (14) displays advertisements that are selected in response to user interaction with the jukebox or a number of other factors. The jukebox (14) features a screen (18 and 20) that allows user to interact with the jukebox to select offerings, but also to respond to advertising. Jukebox can function in cooperation with a server (12), but in the alternate, can function as an independent and stand-alone device when connection (16) to server (12) is not available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Thompson Cappello Stanisz Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Cappello, Mariusz Stanisz, Ernest Thompson
  • Publication number: 20130044995
    Abstract: A digital jukebox (14) allows for playback of a first offering and a second offering. The contents of each offering are individually licensed for public performance at a particular location where the jukebox is found. The jukebox (14) displays advertisements that are selected in response to user interaction with the jukebox or a number of other factors. The jukebox (14) features a screen (18 and 20) that allows user to interact with the jukebox to select offerings, but also to respond to advertising. Jukebox can function in cooperation with a server (12), but in the alternate, can function as an independent and stand-alone device when connection (16) to server (12) is not available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Inventors: Paul Cappello, Mariusz Stanisz, Ernest Thompson
  • Patent number: 8325571
    Abstract: A digital jukebox (14) allows for playback of a first offering and a second offering. The contents of each offering are individually licensed for public performance at a particular location where the jukebox is found. The jukebox (14) displays advertisements that are selected in response to user interaction with the jukebox or a number of other factors. The jukebox (14) features a screen (18 and 20) that allows user to interact with the jukebox to select offerings, but also to respond to advertising. Jukebox can function in cooperation with a server (12), but in the alternate, can function as an independent and stand-alone device when connection (16) to server (12) is not available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Inventors: Paul Cappello, Mariusz Stanisz, Ernest Thompson
  • Publication number: 20070086280
    Abstract: A digital jukebox (14) allows for playback of a first offering and a second offering. The contents of each offering are individually licensed for public performance at a particular location where the jukebox is found. The jukebox (14) displays advertisements that are selected in response to user interaction with the jukebox or a number of other factors. The jukebox (14) features a screen (18 and 20) that allows user to interact with the jukebox to select offerings, but also to respond to advertising. Jukebox can function in cooperation with a server (12), but in the alternate, can function as an independent and stand-alone device when connection (16) to server (12) is not available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventors: Paul Cappello, Mariusz Stanisz, Ernest Thompson
  • Publication number: 20060058153
    Abstract: A command assembly for controlling a splitter in a transmission allows shifting between first and reverse-low gears while the splitter is engaged without requiring the splitter to cycle during the shift. The command assembly creates a signal path for a split enable signal that keeps the transmission in the split mode as long as the transmission engages a low rail of a main drive box. By creating a separate signal path for the split enable signal when the transmission is operating in split mode, the splitter does not need to be cycled when the driver shifts between first and reverse-low gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Patrick Chaney, Ernest Thompson
  • Patent number: 6152450
    Abstract: A banking type wagering game for play between several players, an object of the game being player advancement along a sequence of locations or bases, the game being conducted by a single dealer. The game includes a dealer position, at least three player positions, each having a series of sequential base positions. A set of distinctive buttons or markers are used for marking the sequential base advancement of the player at that player position. Additionally, at least one distinctively marked placing a bet is included between the dealer position and each of the player positions, so that the dealer and a remote camera can monitor a game amongst several players.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Inventors: Ernest Thompson Boudreaux, Marc Hoesel, Brian O'Donnel