Patents by Inventor Gerard Richter
Gerard Richter 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).
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Patent number: 11142333Abstract: A system for flight control in electric aircraft includes a flight controller configured to provide an initial vehicle torque signal including a plurality of attitude commands. The system includes a mixer configured to receive the initial vehicle torque signal and a vehicle torque limit, receive prioritization data including a prioritization datum corresponding to each of the plurality of attitude command, determine a plurality of modified attitude commands as a function of the vehicle torque limit, the attitude commands, and the prioritization data, generate, as a function of modified attitude commands, an output torque command including the initial vehicle torque signal adjusted as a function of the vehicle torque limit, generate, as a function of the output torque command, a remaining vehicle torque. The system includes a display, wherein the display is configured to present, to a user, the remaining vehicle torque and the output torque command.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Timothy Gerard Richter, Andrew Giroux, Nicholas Moy
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Publication number: 20210313599Abstract: A drive circuit comprising a DC bus configured to supply power to a load, a first fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a first power output to the DC bus, and a second fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a second power output to the DC bus supplemental to the first fuel cell. The drive circuit further includes an energy storage device coupled to the DC bus and configured to receive energy from the DC bus when a combined output of the first and second fuel cells is greater than a power demand from a load, and provide energy to the DC bus when the combined output of the first and second fuel cells is less than the power demand from the load.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Dean King, Timothy Gerard Richter
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Patent number: 11075394Abstract: A drive circuit comprising a DC bus configured to supply power to a load, a first fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a first power output to the DC bus, and a second fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a second power output to the DC bus supplemental to the first fuel cell. The drive circuit further includes an energy storage device coupled to the DC bus and configured to receive energy from the DC bus when a combined output of the first and second fuel cells is greater than a power demand from a load, and provide energy to the DC bus when the combined output of the first and second fuel cells is less than the power demand from the load.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Robert Dean King, Timothy Gerard Richter
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Publication number: 20210056829Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (2) for detecting drowning individuals or individuals in a situation presenting a risk of drowning, comprising at least one program of codes that are executable on one or more processing hardware components such as a microprocessor, the program being stored in memory in at least one readable medium and implementing an artificial neural network (20) having an automatic learning architecture composed of several layers, the artificial neural network (20) being pre-trained on image data from at least one standard non-specific database, the program being characterized in that the neural network is further trained a second time by learning transfer on image data from videos of simulated or real drowning situations or situations presenting a risk of drowning, the trained program being configured by this learning transfer to identify, preferably in real time, drowning situations or situations presenting a risk of drowning based on new image data provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Clémentine NEMO, Nicolas LUTZ, Gérard RICHTER, Nicolas LEBRETON
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Publication number: 20180323450Abstract: A drive circuit comprising a DC bus configured to supply power to a load, a first fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a first power output to the DC bus, and a second fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a second power output to the DC bus supplemental to the first fuel cell. The drive circuit further includes an energy storage device coupled to the DC bus and configured to receive energy from the DC bus when a combined output of the first and second fuel cells is greater than a power demand from a load, and provide energy to the DC bus when the combined output of the first and second fuel cells is less than the power demand from the load.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Dean King, Timothy Gerard Richter
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Patent number: 10056630Abstract: A drive circuit comprising a DC bus configured to supply power to a load, a first fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a first power output to the DC bus, and a second fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a second power output to the DC bus supplemental to the first fuel cell. The drive circuit further includes an energy storage device coupled to the DC bus and configured to receive energy from the DC bus when a combined output of the first and second fuel cells is greater than a power demand from a load, and provide energy to the DC bus when the combined output of the first and second fuel cells is less than the power demand from the load.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Robert Dean King, Timothy Gerard Richter
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Patent number: 9722442Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a vehicle. The vehicle includes an energy storage device and a traction motor electrically connected to the energy storage device. The traction motor is configured to convert electrical energy supplied by the energy storage device into a mechanical output to propel the vehicle. The vehicle also includes a vehicle connecting mechanism electrically coupled to the energy storage device and being configured for electrical coupling with a second vehicle connecting mechanism of a second vehicle to establish an electrical interface between the vehicle and the second vehicle. The electrical interface enables the transfer of electric power between the vehicle and the second vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Irene Michelle Berry, Herman Lucas Norbert Wiegman, Timothy Gerard Richter, Dann Gwyn, Patrick Lee Jansen
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Publication number: 20160118828Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a vehicle. The vehicle includes an energy storage device and a traction motor electrically connected to the energy storage device. The traction motor is configured to convert electrical energy supplied by the energy storage device into a mechanical output to propel the vehicle. The vehicle also includes a vehicle connecting mechanism electrically coupled to the energy storage device and being configured for electrical coupling with a second vehicle connecting mechanism of a second vehicle to establish an electrical interface between the vehicle and the second vehicle. The electrical interface enables the transfer of electric power between the vehicle and the second vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2015Publication date: April 28, 2016Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: IRENE MICHELLE BERRY, HERMAN LUCAS NORBERT WIEGMAN, TIMOTHY GERARD RICHTER, DANN GWYN, PATRICK LEE JANSEN
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Patent number: 9248825Abstract: A method of operating a vehicle having an electric drive is provided. The method includes defining a first zone and a second zone. The first zone has an associated first characteristic and the second zone has an associated second characteristic that differs from the first characteristic. The method further includes switching an operating mode of a vehicle from a first operating mode in the first zone to a second operating mode in the second zone in response to the vehicle translating from the first zone to the second zone. Associated vehicles and systems are provided also.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Dean King, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Roland Sidney Sedziol, Lembit Salasoo, Timothy Gerard Richter
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Publication number: 20160020473Abstract: A drive circuit comprising a DC bus configured to supply power to a load, a first fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a first power output to the DC bus, and a second fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a second power output to the DC bus supplemental to the first fuel cell. The drive circuit further includes an energy storage device coupled to the DC bus and configured to receive energy from the DC bus when a combined output of the first and second fuel cells is greater than a power demand from a load, and provide energy to the DC bus when the combined output of the first and second fuel cells is less than the power demand from the load.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Inventors: Robert Dean King, Timothy Gerard Richter
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Patent number: 9148085Abstract: A drive circuit comprising a DC bus configured to supply power to a load, a first fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a first power output to the DC bus, and a second fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a second power output to the DC bus supplemental to the first fuel cell. The drive circuit further includes an energy storage device coupled to the DC bus and configured to receive energy from the DC bus when a combined output of the first and second fuel cells is greater than a power demand from a load, and provide energy to the DC bus when the combined output of the first and second fuel cells is less than the power demand from the load.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2013Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Dean King, Timothy Gerard Richter
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Publication number: 20150002056Abstract: A system includes a retarder in electrical communication through an electric link with an alternator, and a controller that compares a power measurement with an accessory load on a system during a retard event, and can reduce an electrical load on the alternator, or can remove all electrical loads from an engine, when electric power that is generated from the retarder is measured to be greater than an accessory load on the system. The system may include an alternator that provides a motor function to rotate a shaft coupled to an engine that is mechanically coupled to one or more mechanically drivable accessories. The alternator powers the mechanically drivable accessories in place of or in addition to the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Henry Todd Young, Bertrand Bastien, Wolfgang Daum, Lembit Salasoo, Ord Allen Randolph, III, Timothy Gerard Richter, Robert Dean King
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Publication number: 20140207321Abstract: A method of operating a vehicle having an electric drive is provided. The method includes defining a first zone and a second zone. The first zone has an associated first characteristic and the second zone has an associated second characteristic that differs from the first characteristic. The method further includes switching an operating mode of a vehicle from a first operating mode in the first zone to a second operating mode in the second zone in response to the vehicle translating from the first zone to the second zone. Associated vehicles and systems are provided also.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Dean King, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Roland Sidney Sedziol, Lembit Salasoo, Timothy Gerard Richter
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Publication number: 20130293175Abstract: A drive circuit comprising a DC bus configured to supply power to a load, a first fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a first power output to the DC bus, and a second fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a second power output to the DC bus supplemental to the first fuel cell. The drive circuit further includes an energy storage device coupled to the DC bus and configured to receive energy from the DC bus when a combined output of the first and second fuel cells is greater than a power demand from a load, and provide energy to the DC bus when the combined output of the first and second fuel cells is less than the power demand from the load.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Robert Dean King, Timothy Gerard Richter
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Patent number: 8486570Abstract: A drive circuit comprising a DC bus configured to supply power to a load, a first fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a first power output to the DC bus, and a second fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a second power output to the DC bus supplemental to the first fuel cell. The drive circuit further includes an energy storage device coupled to the DC bus and configured to receive energy from the DC bus when a combined output of the first and second fuel cells is greater than a power demand from a load, and provide energy to the DC bus when the combined output of the first and second fuel cells is less than the power demand from the load.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2008Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Dean King, Timothy Gerard Richter
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Patent number: 8086364Abstract: A system for operating an electric or hybrid-electric vehicle includes a computer programmed to identify a location of a vehicle, access a map and identify a plurality of links therein, pre-screen the plurality of links to identify if any of the plurality of links is within a given bounds of the current location, and if one or more possible links are identified, then match the current location of the vehicle to one of the identified links, and upload power data for the vehicle corresponding to the matched location into a database.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2010Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ya Xue, Lembit Salasoo, Timothy Gerard Richter, Weizhong Yan
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Patent number: 8024082Abstract: A system for optimizing energy storage component usage in a vehicle comprising one of a hybrid vehicle and an electric vehicle, the vehicle comprising a computer programmed to identify if a vehicle position is associated with link data in a database of historical power usage data, the link data comprising measured historical power usage data for a link of vehicle travel. If the vehicle position is associated with the link data, the computer is programmed to obtain the link data of the link from the database, the link data absent terrain information from the database. The computer is also programmed to determine an expected vehicle power usage of the vehicle based on the obtained link data and optimize the energy storage component usage based on the expected vehicle power usage and based on efficiency and life cycle costs of an energy storage component of the vehicle if the vehicle position is associated with the link data.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2009Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Timothy Gerard Richter, Weizhong Yan
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Patent number: 7992662Abstract: A parallel hybrid vehicle includes a heat engine, a transmission including an input and an output, and an electrical device. The transmission input is coupled to the engine and the transmission output is coupled to the electrical device such that substantially all of the torque generated by the heat engine is channeled through the transmission to the electrical device, and a differential, the electrical device coupled to the differential such that during a first mode of operation the electrical device functions as a motor to receive substantially all the torque generated by the engine through the transmission, and such that during a second mode of operation the electrical device functions as a generator to receive substantially all the torque generated by the vehicle through the differential. A method of retrofitting a vehicle is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2006Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Dean King, Timothy Gerard Richter, John David Dubeck
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Patent number: RE43956Abstract: A battery load leveling system for an electrically powered system in which a battery is subject to intermittent high current loading, the system including a first battery, a second battery, and a load coupled to the batteries. The system includes a passive storage device, a unidirectional conducting apparatus coupled in series electrical circuit with the passive storage device and poled to conduct current from the passive storage device to the load, the series electrical circuit coupled in parallel with the battery such that the passive storage device provides current to the load when the battery terminal voltage is less than voltage on the passive storage device, and a battery switching circuit that connects the first and second batteries in either a lower voltage parallel arrangement or a higher voltage series arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2011Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Dean King, Timothy Gerard Richter, Lembit Salasoo
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Patent number: RE45431Abstract: A battery load leveling system for an electrically powered system in which a battery is subject to intermittent high current loading, the system including a first battery, a second battery, and a load coupled to the batteries. The system includes a passive storage device, a unidirectional conducting apparatus coupled in series electrical circuit with the passive storage device and poled to conduct current from the passive storage device to the load, the series electrical circuit coupled in parallel with the battery such that the passive storage device provides current to the load when the battery terminal voltage is less than voltage on the passive storage device, and a battery switching circuit that connects the first and second batteries in either a lower voltage parallel arrangement or a higher voltage series arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Dean King, Timothy Gerard Richter, Lembit Salasoo