Patents by Inventor Robert James Law

Robert James Law 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: 9533270
    Abstract: A system and method of injecting a chemical into a high pressure process stream without pumps or other active components. The system utilizes the differential pressure created by resistive losses of downstream components within a high pressure process stream. A bypass side stream is taken from an upstream pressure location and returned to the downstream side of the resistive inline process component. The chemical solution vessel is pressurized by the higher side of the pressure differential. The solution then passes through a flow controlling capillary tube exiting on the lower pressure differential side into the bypass stream. The high flow rate chemically diluted bypass stream then returns to the process stream at the lower differential process stream tie-in. The chemical solution is isolated from the process water pressuring the vessel by a movable separating device preventing mixing of the two fluids. The vessel can also be pressurized by gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Inventors: Robert James Law, Robert L Cowan, Thomas P Diaz, Samson Hettiarachchi
  • Publication number: 20140360606
    Abstract: A system and method of injecting a chemical into a high pressure process stream without pumps or other active components. The system utilizes the differential pressure created by resistive losses of downstream components within a high pressure process stream. A bypass side stream is taken from an upstream pressure location and returned to the downstream side of the resistive inline process component. The chemical solution vessel is pressurized by the higher side of the pressure differential. The solution then passes through a flow controlling capillary tube exiting on the lower pressure differential side into the bypass stream. The high flow rate chemically diluted bypass stream then returns to the process stream at the lower differential process stream tie-in. The chemical solution is isolated from the process water pressuring the vessel by a movable separating device preventing mixing of the two fluids. The vessel can also be pressurized by gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Robert James Law, Robert L. Cowan, Thomas P. Diaz, Samson Hettiarachchi
  • Patent number: 7060177
    Abstract: A method of measuring an electrochemical corrosion potential (ECP) of a material specimen using a detecting device including an ECP detecting array is provided. The method includes locating an offset spacer in close contact to a face of the ECP detecting array, locating the material specimen within the detecting device with a measurement face in close contact to the offset spacer, establishing a flow through the detecting device, and measuring an electrical potential between the detecting device ground and an electrode wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert James Law, David Phillip Siegwarth
  • Patent number: 7028701
    Abstract: A system serves to prevent or remove particle build-up in flowing systems, wherein a fluid flows in a conduit to a valve body. A mechanical shock is periodically generated in the valve body that is of a sufficient magnitude to disturb any particle attachment in the conduit or the valve body. The shock may be generated via direct impact with the valve body or passively using the fluid flowing in the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert James Law, David Phillip Siegwarth
  • Patent number: 6945268
    Abstract: A system serves to prevent or remove particle build-up in flowing systems, wherein a fluid flows in a conduit to a valve body. A mechanical shock is periodically generated in the valve body that is of a sufficient magnitude to disturb any particle attachment in the conduit or the valve body. The shock may be generated via direct impact with the valve body or passively using the fluid flowing in the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert James Law, David Phillip Siegwarth
  • Patent number: 6937686
    Abstract: Method for controlling the level of iron in feedwater of a BWR wherein an iron-containing sacrificial electrode in placed contact with the feed water dissolution of the electrode is induced at a rate which provides a desired level of iron in the feedwater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert James Law, David Phillip Siegewarth
  • Publication number: 20040188274
    Abstract: A method of measuring an electrochemical corrosion potential (ECP) of a material specimen using a detecting device including an ECP detecting array is provided. The method includes locating an offset spacer in close contact to a face of the ECP detecting array, locating the material specimen within the detecting device with a measurement face in close contact to the offset spacer, establishing a flow through the detecting device, and measuring an electrical potential between the detecting device ground and an electrode wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Robert James Law, David Phillip Siegwarth
  • Publication number: 20040154660
    Abstract: A system serves to prevent or remove particle build-up in flowing systems, wherein a fluid flows in a conduit to a valve body. A mechanical shock is periodically generated in the valve body that is of a sufficient magnitude to disturb any particle attachment in the conduit or the valve body. The shock may be generated via direct impact with the valve body or passively using the fluid flowing in the conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Robert James Law, David Phillip Siegwarth
  • Publication number: 20040062339
    Abstract: Method for controlling the level of iron in feedwater of a BWR wherein an iron-containing sacrificial electrode in placed contact with the feed water dissolution of the electrode is induced at a rate which provides a desired level of iron in the feedwater
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Robert James Law, David Phillip Siegwarth
  • Patent number: 5918272
    Abstract: A flow-through system for determining the particle size distribution of iron oxide particulate matter in a reactor water sample. The system includes a magnetic filter having a chamber through which a stream of reactor water. The chamber is surrounded by a winding which is coupled to an electrical circuit for generating a varying magnetic field which interacts with any magnetic particulates entrained in the water sample flowing through chamber. When a strong magnetic field is established, magnetic particles are filtered out of the water stream flowing through the chamber by magnetic attraction. Therefore, only particles which are non-magnetic or slightly magnetic pass through the magnetic filter. The particles which pass through the magnetic filter then enter a conventional particle distribution analyzer which counts and sizes the particles in the water stream flowing therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Dane Thomas Snyder, Robert James Law, Michel Noel Robles, Roger William Caputi
  • Patent number: 5719911
    Abstract: A system for ensuring the distribution of noble metal in the reactor circuit during plant application without measuring the reactor water for noble metal content by chemical analysis. The system performs the measurement of electrochemical corrosion potential in an autoclave or a high-flow test section that is connected to the reactor water circuit through sample lines downstream of the injection port, preferably the point in the reactor circuit which is furthest from the injection port. If the noble metal flows into the autoclave or test section at these distant points in the reactor circuit, then the noble metal will deposit on the test specimens inside the autoclave or test section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Samson Hettiarachchi, Robert Lee Cowan, II, Robert James Law, Thomas Pompilio Diaz