Patents by Inventor Richard Dudley Baertsch
Richard Dudley Baertsch 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: 6970586Abstract: A detector framing node controls generation of radiation and radioscopic image detection Radioscopic image data is acquired and communicated independently of a host computer operating system. The detector framing node controls events in real time according to an event instruction sequence and receives the image data by way of an image detection interface into a memory unit. The image data is output from the memory unit to host memory of the host computer through a computer communication interface and under the control of a control unit. The detector framing node selects a flat panel detector from a plurality of different flat panel detectors and the image data is selectively reordered according to parameters of the selected flat panel detector before communication to host memory.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2001Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Dudley Baertsch, Walter Vincent Dixon, Daniel Arthur Staver, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki
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Patent number: 6901159Abstract: An imaging system includes a programmable detector framing node controlling generation of radiation and controlling radioscopic image detection. Radioscopic image data is acquired by the detector framing node and communicated to a host memory of a host computer independently of a host computer operating system. Image data is received from a flat panel detector and is selectively reordered according to parameters of the selected flat panel detector before communication to the host memory. The detector framing node includes an image detection interface to receive the image data and a control unit to select a predetermined portion of the image data for storage into a detector memory unit before communication to the host memory.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2001Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Dudley Baertsch, Walter Vincent Dixon, Daniel Arthur Staver, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki
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Patent number: 6671148Abstract: A system for communicating with a residential electrical load center, including a residential electrical wiring system and at least one electronic communicating circuit breaker. The electronic communicating circuit breaker includes a fuse protected communications and control module. The system provides power to the fuse protected communications and control module utilizing the residential electrical wiring system, and operates the electronic communicating circuit breaker utilizing the fuse protected communications and control module regardless of whether the electronic communicating circuit breaker is in an ‘Open’ or ‘Closed’ state.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2001Date of Patent: December 30, 2003Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Scott C. Evans, Richard Dudley Baertsch
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Patent number: 6639770Abstract: A current transformer for a ground fault circuit breaker used on a circuit having at least one line conductor and a neutral conductor includes a toroidal core having a circular opening defining a center point and a multi-turn winding wound on the core. A first guide member is disposed on one side of the core, and a second guide member is disposed on another side of the core. The first and second guide members each have a hole for receiving the line conductor and a hole for receiving the neutral conductor formed therein. The guide members thus position the conductors with respect to the core. The present invention also includes a method of correcting asymmetries in the current transformer. The method includes measuring the magnitude and orientation of any asymmetries, and then altering the current transformer based on the measured magnitude and orientation of the asymmetries so as to eliminate the asymmetries.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2001Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jerome Johnson Tiemann, Richard Dudley Baertsch
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Publication number: 20030031353Abstract: An imaging system includes a programmable detector framing node controlling generation of radiation and controlling radioscopic image detection. Radioscopic image data is acquired by the detector framing node and communicated to a host memory of a host computer independently of a host computer operating system. Image data is received from a flat panel detector and is selectively reordered according to parameters of the selected flat panel detector before communication to the host memory. The detector framing node includes an image detection interface to receive the image data and a control unit to select a predetermined portion of the image data for storage into a detector memory unit before communication to the host memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2001Publication date: February 13, 2003Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Dudley Baertsch, Walter Vincent Dixon, Daniel Arthur Staver, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki
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Publication number: 20030020964Abstract: A detector framing node controls generation of radiation and radioscopic image detection. Radioscopic image data is acquired and communicated independently of a host computer operating system. The detector framing node controls events in real time according to an event instruction sequence and receives the image data by way of an image detection interface into a memory unit. The image data is output from the memory unit to host memory of the host computer through a computer communication interface and under the control of a control unit. The detector framing node selects a flat panel detector from a plurality of different flat panel detectors and the image data is selectively reordered according to parameters of the selected flat panel detector before communication to host memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2001Publication date: January 30, 2003Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Dudley Baertsch, Walter Vincent Dixon, Daniel Arthur Staver, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki
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Publication number: 20030002234Abstract: A system for communicating with a residential electrical load center, including a residential electrical wiring system and at least one electronic communicating circuit breaker. The electronic communicating circuit breaker includes a fuse protected communications and control module. The system provides power to the fuse protected communications and control module utilizing the residential electrical wiring system, and operates the electronic communicating circuit breaker utilizing the fuse protected communications and control module regardless of whether the electronic communicating circuit breaker is in an ‘Open’ or ‘Closed’ state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2001Publication date: January 2, 2003Inventors: Scott C. Evans, Richard Dudley Baertsch
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Publication number: 20020181654Abstract: A real time data acquisition system includes a personal computer and a detector framing node cooperating to control generation of radiation and control radiographic detection. Data is acquired by a detector framing node and communicated independently of a non-real time operating system running on a host computer. The detector framing node controls events in real time according to an event instruction sequence and communicates received radioscopic data to a host memory. Data is received from a selected flat panel detector of a plurality of different flat panel detectors. The data is received as single frames or continuous frames before communication to the host memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2001Publication date: December 5, 2002Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Dudley Baertsch, Walter Vincent Dixon, Daniel Arthur Staver, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki, John Eric Tkaczyk
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Patent number: 6472882Abstract: The fail-safe electronic circuit breaker includes a test circuit connected to a fault detection circuit. The test circuit selectively generates a simulated circuit fault that is supplied to the fault detection circuit. The fail-safe electronic circuit breaker also includes a trip mechanism disabler that is connected to the test circuit. The trip mechanism disabler permanently disables the fail-safe electronic circuit breaker when the fault detection circuit fails to detect the simulated circuit fault after about a predetermined amount of time.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2000Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jerome Johnson Tiemann, Richard Dudley Baertsch
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Patent number: 6470071Abstract: A real time data acquisition system includes a personal computer and a detector framing node cooperating to control generation of radiation and control radiographic detection. Data is acquired by a detector framing node and communicated independently of a non-real time operating system running on a host computer. The detector framing node controls events in real time according to an event instruction sequence and communicates received radioscopic data to a host memory. Data is received from a selected flat panel detector of a plurality of different flat panel detectors. The data is received as single frames or continuous frames before communication to the host memory.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2001Date of Patent: October 22, 2002Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Dudley Baertsch, Walter Vincent Dixon, Daniel Arthur Staver, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki, John Eric Tkaczyk
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Patent number: 6442006Abstract: A ground fault circuit breaker for use on a circuit having at least one line conductor and a neutral conductor includes a first transformer having a first toroidal core and a second transformer having a second toroidal core. The first and second cores are arranged concentrically with one another on a printed circuit board, which is disposed with a compact circuit breaker housing. The line and neutral conductors pass through both transformer cores.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1999Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Dudley Baertsch, Jerome Johnson Tiemann
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Patent number: 6414579Abstract: A current transformer for a ground fault circuit breaker used on a circuit having at least one line conductor and a neutral conductor includes a toroidal core having a circular opening defining a center point and a multi-turn winding wound on the core. A first guide member is disposed on one side of the core, and a second guide member is disposed on another side of the core. The first and second guide members each have a hole for receiving the line conductor and a hole for receiving the neutral conductor formed therein. The guide members thus position the conductors with respect to the core. Also included is a method of correcting asymmetries in the current transformer. The method includes measuring the magnitude and orientation of any asymmetries, and then altering the current transformer based on the measured magnitude and orientation of the asymmetries so as to eliminate the asymmetries.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 1999Date of Patent: July 2, 2002Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jerome Johnson Tiemann, Richard Dudley Baertsch
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Publication number: 20020057182Abstract: A current transformer for a ground fault circuit breaker used on a circuit having at least one line conductor and a neutral conductor includes a toroidal core having a circular opening defining a center point and a multi-turn winding wound on the core. A first guide member is disposed on one side of the core, and a second guide member is disposed on another side of the core. The first and second guide members each have a hole for receiving the line conductor and a hole for receiving the neutral conductor formed therein. The guide members thus position the conductors with respect to the core. The present invention also includes a method of correcting asymmetries in the current transformer. The method includes measuring the magnitude and orientation of any asymmetries, and then altering the current transformer based on the measured magnitude and orientation of the asymmetries so as to eliminate the asymmetries.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2001Publication date: May 16, 2002Inventors: Jerome Johnson Tiemann, Richard Dudley Baertsch
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Publication number: 20020057162Abstract: A current transformer for a ground fault circuit breaker used on a circuit having at least one line conductor and a neutral conductor includes a toroidal core having a circular opening defining a center point and a multi-turn winding wound on the core. A first guide member is disposed on one side of the core, and a second guide member is disposed on another side of the core. The first and second guide members each have a hole for receiving the line conductor and a hole for receiving the neutral conductor formed therein. The guide members thus position the conductors with respect to the core. Also included is a method of correcting asymmetries in the current transformer. The method includes measuring the magnitude and orientation of any asymmetries, and then altering the current transformer based on the measured magnitude and orientation of the asymmetries so as to eliminate the asymmetries.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 1999Publication date: May 16, 2002Inventors: JEROME JOHNSON TIEMANN, RICHARD DUDLEY BAERTSCH