Patents by Inventor Sathish Kumar Ranganathan

Sathish Kumar Ranganathan 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).

  • Publication number: 20180331515
    Abstract: An aerial cable treatment system having a cable surface preparation assembly and a coating assembly. The cable treatment system is translatable along an in-situ aerial cable. The cable surface preparation assembly can remove dirt and debris, such as carbon deposit, grease, mud, fertilizers, bird droppings, fungal growth, mosses, soot, ice, and like from aerial cables with varying sizes as it translates along the cable. The coating assembly can apply a coating to the outer surface of the in-situ aerial cable it translates along the cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: William Shawn Temple, Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Gordon Carl Baker, Srinivas Siripurapu, Emmanuel Richards Stephen Joseph, Rajesh Sangalge, Sundaresan Poovalingam, Veera Venkata Ravi Kumar Geddam
  • Publication number: 20180331516
    Abstract: An aerial cable treatment system having a cable surface preparation assembly and a coating assembly. The cable treatment system is translatable along an in-situ aerial cable. The cable surface preparation assembly can remove dirt and debris, such as carbon deposit, grease, mud, fertilizers, bird droppings, fungal growth, mosses, soot, ice, and like from aerial cables with varying sizes as it translates along the cable. The coating assembly can apply a coating to the outer surface of the in-situ aerial cable it translates along the cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: William Shawn Temple, Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Gordon Carl Baker, Srinivas Siripurapu, Emmanuel Richards Stephen Joseph, Rajesh Sangalge, Sundaresan Poovalingam, Veera Venkata Ravi Kumar Geddam
  • Publication number: 20180218805
    Abstract: A cable including a conductor surrounded by a covering layer, the covering layer formed from a thermoplastic vulcanizate composition which includes a continuous phase and a dispersed phase. The continuous phase is formed of a thermoplastic polyolefin. The dispersed phase is formed of a cross-linked elastomeric polyolefin. The thermoplastic vulcanizate composition passes the Hot Creep Test at 150° C. in accordance with UL 2556 (2013) and has a dielectric loss of 3 or less. Methods of forming cables with coverings are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar RANGANATHAN, Vijay MHETAR, Sean W. CULLIGAN
  • Publication number: 20180211746
    Abstract: A coated electrical accessory includes a bare electrical accessory and a substantially inorganic and dried coating layer coating the bare electrical accessory. The coating layer includes a heat radiating agent and a binder. When the coated electrical accessory is tested in accordance with ANSI CI 19.4-2004 with an amount of imparted current, the coated electrical accessory exhibits an operating temperature that is less than an operating temperature of a bare electrical accessory tested in accordance with ANSI CI 19.4-2004 with the same amount of imparted current. Methods are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: General Cable Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Vijay Mhetar, Srinivas Siripurapu, Cody R. Davis, Michael Christopher Wright
  • Publication number: 20180118952
    Abstract: Compositions including a filler, an emissivity agent, a crosslinking facilitator, and a metal silicate binder are disclosed. The compositions can be curable at ambient conditions. Methods of coating overhead conductor and power transmission line accessories with such coating compositions are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Srinivas Siripurapu, Vitthal Abaso Sawant, Vijay Mhetar, Satish Narayan Patil, Rajendra Yashwant Chaudhari
  • Publication number: 20180112077
    Abstract: A durable coating composition includes a silicate binder, a filler, and a crosslinking agent. The coating composition can reduce ice adherence and minimize ice accumulation through inclusion of a film forming lubricant. Articles and overhead conductors coated with such coating compositions are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Srinivas Siripurapu, Vijay Mhetar
  • Publication number: 20180112078
    Abstract: A durable coating composition which reduces ice adherence and minimizes ice accumulation includes a silicate binder, a silane-modified filler, a film forming lubricant, and a crosslinking agent. Articles and overhead conductors coated with such coating compositions are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Srinivas Siripurapu, Satish Narayan Patil, Rajendra Yashwant Chaudhari
  • Publication number: 20180025817
    Abstract: Systems and methods to apply an on-demand color scheme to a cable are described. The systems and methods include the application of a plurality of colored coating fluids to an outer cable layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Xi Zhang, Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Christopher C. Boller, Alejandro Javier Soto Avello, Srinivas Siripurapu, Rogerio Silva Tocchetto, Vijay Mhetar
  • Publication number: 20180025809
    Abstract: A coated electrical accessory includes a bare electrical accessory and a substantially inorganic and dried coating layer coating the bare electrical accessory. The coating layer includes a heat radiating agent and a binder. When the coated electrical accessory is tested in accordance with ANSI C119.4-2004 with an amount of imparted current, the coated electrical accessory exhibits an operating temperature that is less than an operating temperature of a bare electrical accessory tested in accordance with ANSI C119.4-2004 with the same amount of imparted current. Methods are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Vijay Mhetar, Srinivas Siripurapu, Cody R. Davis, Michael Christopher Wright
  • Patent number: 9859038
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a surface modified overhead conductor with a coating that allows the conductor to operate at lower temperatures. The coating is an inorganic, non-white coating having durable heat and wet aging characteristics. The coating preferably contains a heat radiating agent with desirable properties, and an appropriate binder/suspension agent. In a preferred embodiment, the coating has L* value of less than 80, a heat emissivity of greater than or equal to 0.5, and/or a solar absorptivity coefficient of greater than 0.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: General Cable Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Cody R. Davis, Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Ryan Andersen, Vijay Mhetar, William S. Temple, Srinivas Siripurapu, Gordon Baker, James Freestone, Dennis L. Doss
  • Publication number: 20170321077
    Abstract: A durable coating which reduces ice adhesion and minimizes ice accumulation includes a polymeric binder and a film forming lubricant. The polymeric binder is selected from a fluoropolymer or silicone polymer having one or more reactive groups. The film forming lubricant is a lubricous fluoropolymer or silicone polymer. Methods of applying a durable coating are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Srinivas Siripurapu, Vijay Mhetar, Jeffrey P. Youngblood, John Howarter
  • Patent number: 9777206
    Abstract: Thermally conductive compositions exhibiting a thermal conductivity of 0.30 W/mK or more include a base polyolefin, a halogenated flame retardant, a non-halogenated flame retardant, and a flame retardant synergist. Cables include insulation and/or jacket layers formed of such thermally conductive compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: General Cable Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Vijay Mhetar, Srinivas Siripurapu, Jon Michael Malinoski
  • Patent number: 9741467
    Abstract: A coating composition includes a fluoroethylene vinyl ether copolymer, a cross-linking agent, and water. The coating composition reduces the operating temperature of an overhead conductor by at least about 5° C. or more compared to a similar uncoated overhead conductor when the operating temperatures of each overhead conductor are measured at about 100° C. or higher and the coating composition is substantially free of solvent. Methods for making a coating composition and for making a coated overhead conductor are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: General Cable Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Vijay Mhetar, Srinivas Siripurapu
  • Patent number: 9721701
    Abstract: A conductive composition can include a polyolefin base polymer, a high structure carbon black and a low structure carbon black. The conductive composition can exhibit two or more of a thermal conductivity of about 0.27 W/mK or more when measured at about 75° C., a volume resistivity of about 75 ohm-m or less when measured at about 90° C. and an elongation at break of about 300% or more. Cables having coverings formed of such conductive compositions and methods of making such cables are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: General Cable Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Jianmin Liu, Sean William Culligan, Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Vitthal Abaso Sawant
  • Publication number: 20170200530
    Abstract: Systems and methods of coating an installed overhead conductor with an unmanned aerial vehicle are disclosed. The unmanned aerial vehicles can attach to an installed overhead conductor and can apply a coating composition from one or more canisters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Cody R. Davis, Srinivas Siripurapu, Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Vijay Mhetar
  • Publication number: 20170169920
    Abstract: A conductive composition can include a polyolefin base polymer, a high structure carbon black and a low structure carbon black. The conductive composition can exhibit two or more of a thermal conductivity of about 0.27 W/mK or more when measured at about 75° C., a volume resistivity of about 75 ohm-m or less when measured at about 90° C. and an elongation at break of about 300% or more. Cables having coverings formed of such conductive compositions and methods of making such cables are also described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Jianmin Liu, Sean William Culligan, Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Vitthal Abaso Sawant
  • Publication number: 20170145131
    Abstract: A method of crosslinking a polyolefin resin with a silyl hydride crosslinking agent is disclosed. Crosslinkable compositions containing a polyolefin resin having about 0.9% to about 10% diene groups and a silyl hydride crosslinking agent are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Vijay Mhetar, Sean William Culligan, Srinivas Siripurapu
  • Publication number: 20170137659
    Abstract: Coating compositions including a binder agent are disclosed. The binder agent is formed of a fluorocopolymer and a non-fluorinated film-forming polymer. Methods of coating cables with the coating compositions are also described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Srinivas Siripurapu, Vijay Mhetar, Ryan M. Andersen, Kurt Arthur Wood
  • Publication number: 20160343476
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a surface modified overhead conductor with a coating that allows the conductor to operate at lower temperatures. The coating contains about 5% to about 30% of an inorganic adhesive, about 45% to about 92% of a filler, about 2% to about 20% of one or more emissivity agents, and about 1% to about 5% of a stabilizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Vijay MHETAR, Cody R. DAVIS, Sathish Kumar RANGANATHAN, John OLVER, John DILLARD
  • Publication number: 20160189829
    Abstract: A cable includes an inner layer surrounding a conductor and an outer layer surrounding the inner layer, and the outer layer is formed from an extruded outer layer composition including an at least partially cross-linked resin including a base polyolefin and a weak acid source, an inorganic flame retardant, and one more of an organic char former and a spumific agent. The cable passes the Underwriters Laboratory (“UL”) 1581 VW-1 Flame Spread Test and one or more of the UL 44 Long-Term Insulation Resistance Test at 90° C. and the ceramifying requirements of International Electrotechnical Commission (“IEC”) 60331-21. Methods of manufacturing such cables are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Eric W. Bates, Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Timothy Allen Waters