Patents by Inventor Frank W. Santucci, Jr.

Frank W. Santucci, 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).

  • Method of designing a multi-winding device
    Patent number: 8200460
    Abstract: A method for designing a transformer using three secondary winding phase shift angles and a minimized core cross-sections. The method includes receiving an indication of an acceptable level of total harmonic distortion (THD) for the transformer, identifying a desired number of secondary windings per output phase of the transformer, simulating performance of various models for the transformer various potential phase shift angles, wherein each of the various models includes a set of phase shift angles for the secondary windings of the transformer. The method further includes identifying, based on the simulation, a transformer model that both has no more than three unique phase shift angles in the set and exhibits a primary side THD that is within the acceptable level, identifying an optimized core cross-sections, and reporting the identified transformer model having the three unique phase shift angle and the optimized core cross-sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: Mukul Rastogi, Marc F. Aiello, Frank W. Santucci, Jr., Edward Alan Cheesman
  • METHOD OF DESIGNING A MULTI-WINDING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20100023896
    Abstract: A method for designing a transformer using three secondary winding phase shift angles and a minimized core cross-sections. The method includes receiving an indication of an acceptable level of total harmonic distortion (THD) for the transformer, identifying a desired number of secondary windings per output phase of the transformer, simulating performance of various models for the transformer various potential phase shift angles, wherein each of the various models includes a set of phase shift angles for the secondary windings of the transformer. The method further includes identifying, based on the simulation, a transformer model that both has no more than three unique phase shift angles in the set and exhibits a primary side THD that is within the acceptable level, identifying an optimized core cross-sections, and reporting the identified transformer model having the three unique phase shift angle and the optimized core cross-sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: SIEMENS ENERGY & AUTOMATION, INC.
    Inventors: Mukul Rastogi, Marc F. Aiello, Frank W. Santucci, JR., Edward Alan Cheesman