Patents by Inventor Eugene Joseph Orlowski, Jr.

Eugene Joseph Orlowski, Jr. 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).

  • Protection system for power distribution systems
    Patent number: 7043340
    Abstract: A protection system for a power distribution system is provided. The protection system includes a central computer, a plurality of data modules, and a data network. The data modules are each in communication with a different circuit breaker of the power distribution system. The data network communicates between the central computer and the plurality of data modules. The central computer sends an instruction to the plurality of data modules over the data network to aid in synchronization of sampling of a power condition at the plurality of data modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas F. Papallo, Indra Purkayastha, Emad Andarawis Andarawis, Ertugrul Berkcan, Scott Charles Evans, Rahul Gore, Mingxiao Jiang, Shobhana Mani, Daniel Lawrence Morrill, Eugene Joseph Orlowski, Jr., Marc Robert Pearlman, William James Premerlani, Ramakrishna Rao, Samantha Rao, Austars Raymond Schnore, Jr., Charles Scott Sealing, Daniel White Sexton, Somashekhar Basavaraj, Terry Michael Topka
  • Method and apparatus for node electronics unit architecture
    Patent number: 6999291
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for operating a power distribution system circuit breaker is provided. The circuit breaker includes an associated node electronics unit wherein a node electronics unit redundancy requirement is predetermined. The method includes monitoring electrical system parameters associated with the circuit breaker with the node electronics unit, communicating the electrical system parameters over a digital network to at least one central control processing unit, receiving commands and actions from the at least one central control processing unit over the digital network, determining circuit breaker actuation commands based at least partially on the received commands and actions, and operating the circuit breaker based on the circuit breaker actuation commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Emad Andarawis Andarawis, Daniel White Sexton, Austars Raymond Schnore, Jr., Ertugrul Berkcan, Changting Wang, Samantha Rao, Ramakrishna Rao, Eugene Joseph Orlowski, Jr., Somashekhar Basavaraj, Rahul Gore, Marc Robert Pearlman
  • Spread spectrum communication system with frequency-separated message and reference signals
    Patent number: 6061388
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for implementing a spread spectrum communication system of the "transmitted reference" type provides both multipath and interference protection with little complexity. Need for a local reference is avoided by transmitting a reference that the receiver can use to perform despreading. In general, the transmitted reference system sends both a message signal and a reference signal to the receiver. The message signal contains the information to be communicated, which has been spread through multiplication with a wide band "spreading waveform". The reference signal consists of the spreading waveform itself which the receiver call use to despread the message signal and recover the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gary Jude Saulnier, Eugene Joseph Orlowski, Jr., John Anderson Fergus Ross