Patents Assigned to Grace Technologies, Inc.
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Patent number: 11935393Abstract: According to various features described herein, a wireless connection device facilitates providing wireless transmission of detected voltages on monitored lines, and comprises: a communication connector via which the wireless communication device receives detected voltage information for one or more monitored lines; and one or more printed circuit boards (PCB)s comprising circuitry for processing the received detected voltage information; and a wireless transceiver that transmits the processed voltage information wirelessly for presentation and storage on a remote device.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: GRACE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Charles Ronald Adkins, Jr., Gang Chen
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Patent number: 11913978Abstract: In order to mitigate a shock hazard for a user analyzing a high-voltage circuit, a system is provided that facilitates quarantining a shock-hazard high voltage within an electrical panel while providing a safe low voltage to a voltage detection indication device for visual inspection, the system comprising; a voltage conversion module (VCM) that receives input voltage from one or more monitored high voltage lines and reduces the received input voltage to below a predetermined voltage level that does not pose a shock hazard to a user; a voltage detection indication module that receives the reduced voltage and provides a visible voltage indication to the user; and a removable data transmission cable the connects the VCM to the voltage detection indication module.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: GRACE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Charles Adkins, Roger Clarke, Gang Chen
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Patent number: 11913979Abstract: An electrical safety monitor is provided. The electrical safety monitor may include a housing having a face. The electrical safety monitor further includes a plurality of line inputs for hardwiring a plurality of electrical connections. The electrical safety monitor further includes a plurality of test points with each of the test points corresponding to one of the line inputs, each of the plurality of test points accessible at the face of the housing. The electrical safety monitor further includes a line monitoring circuit having a plurality of light indicators and configured to produce light if voltage exists between any two of the line inputs to thereby indicate presence of voltage to a user. The electrical safety monitor further includes illumination areas associated with each of the test points, wherein each of the illumination areas is provided light by one or more of the plurality of light indicators.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: GRACE TECHNOLOGIES, INCInventors: Bryan P. Van Itallie, Aaron Tuttle, Connor B. Meehan, Roger S. Clarke
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Patent number: 11835933Abstract: A process for integrating an industrial automation system with an Internet of Things (IoT) system may include providing access to a cloud-based platform, the cloud-based platform having a user interface. The user interface provides for easily displaying and changing configuration parameters describing a gateway module, a data acquisition module, and a sensor data channel associated with an industrial automation system wherein the data acquisition module can collect and process data from the sensor data channel and communicate that sensor data and any related processed information to a gateway module. The gateway module may also communicate configuration information to the data acquisition module and sensor data channel. The process may use the cloud-based platform to generate a memory map of the IoT system which can be used by a PLC or similar device of the industrial automation system to configure the IoT system and display data collected from the IoT system.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: GRACE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Andrew T. Zimmerman
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Publication number: 20230389204Abstract: An assembly includes a cover receiving frame having a first hinge portion thereon, the first hinge portion having a generally c-shape and a plurality of alternating supports positioned along a bottom portion of the first hinge portion. The assembly further includes a cover having a second hinge portion thereon for interconnection with the first hinge portion. The second hinge portion includes an elongated member for fitting generally within the c-shape and a plurality of alternating cutouts positioned along the elongated member. The assembly is assembled by positioning the cover parallel to the cover receiving frame and rotating the cover until it is captive.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2022Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Grace Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Aaron E. Tuttle
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Patent number: 11709208Abstract: In order to provide an environmentally secured voltage testing interface, an electrical enclosure box comprising a front panel is herein-described, into which is mounted a voltage indicator comprising a plurality of LED indicators that indicate a status of one or more circuits coupled thereto and monitored thereby. A test point device is also mounted through the front panel and comprises an interface comprising a plurality of external measurement sockets configured to receive one or more probes for manual measurement of voltages, wherein each external measurement socket is coupled to a voltage divider that is further coupled to each of a plurality of respective wires coupled to respective LED indicators of the voltage indicator.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: GRACE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Charles Ronald Adkins, Jr., Roger Steven Clarke, Gang Chen
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Publication number: 20230184814Abstract: An electrical safety monitor is provided. The electrical safety monitor may include a housing having a face. The electrical safety monitor further includes a plurality of line inputs for hardwiring a plurality of electrical connections. The electrical safety monitor further includes a plurality of test points with each of the test points corresponding to one of the line inputs, each of the plurality of test points accessible at the face of the housing. The electrical safety monitor further includes a line monitoring circuit having a plurality of light indicators and configured to produce light if voltage exists between any two of the line inputs to thereby indicate presence of voltage to a user. The electrical safety monitor further includes illumination areas associated with each of the test points, wherein each of the illumination areas is provided light by one or more of the plurality of light indicators.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: Grace Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Bryan P. Van Itallie, Aaron Tuttle, Connor B. Meehan, Roger S. Clarke
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Patent number: 11674985Abstract: An electrical safety monitoring system is provided. The system includes an analog circuit having line inputs for hardwiring an L1, an L2, an L3, and a GND three-phase connections, the analog circuit configured to monitor if voltage exists between any two of the line inputs, a heartbeat circuit electrically connected to the analog circuit to provide a heartbeat signal indicative of voltage present on any of the line inputs, an isolated voltage source electrically connected to the heartbeat circuit to power the heartbeat circuit with a VDC+ and a VDC?, and a logic circuit in operative communication with the heartbeat circuit for monitoring input from the heartbeat circuit and decoding the input from the heart beat circuit. The isolated voltage source may be supplied by a programmable logic controller (PLC) and the logic circuit may be implemented within the same PLC as a function block.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: GRACE TECHNOLOGIES, INCInventors: Philip Brown Allen, Mark Alan Hockert
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Publication number: 20220252645Abstract: In order to mitigate a shock hazard for a user analyzing a high-voltage circuit, a system is provided that facilitates quarantining a shock-hazard high voltage within an electrical panel while providing a safe low voltage to a voltage detection indication device for visual inspection, the system comprising; a voltage conversion module (VCM) that receives input voltage from one or more monitored high voltage lines and reduces the received input voltage to below a predetermined voltage level that does not pose a shock hazard to a user; a voltage detection indication module that receives the reduced voltage and provides a visible voltage indication to the user; and a removable data transmission cable the connects the VCM to the voltage detection indication module.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: Grace Technologies, Inc.Inventors: CHARLES AKDINS, Roger Clarke, Gang Chen
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Publication number: 20220178974Abstract: An electrical safety monitoring device includes a first set of digital switches and a second set of digital switches for each of a plurality of line inputs, a first set of visual indicators, wherein each of the first set of visual indicators is electrically connected to one of the first set of digital switches and a second set of visual indicators, wherein each of the second set of visual indicators is electrically connected to one of the second set of digital switches. There is a first voltage-controlled oscillator operatively connected to the first set of digital switches for controlling a flash rate of the first set of visual indicators when the positive voltage is present and a second voltage-controlled oscillator operatively connected to the second set of digital switches for controlling a flash rate of the second plurality of visual indicators when a magnitude of the negative voltage is present.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: Grace Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Richard Haberkern, Bryan Van Itallie, José Miguel Pedraza Cruz, Edgaras Korsakas
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Publication number: 20220148392Abstract: According to various features described herein, a wireless connection device facilitates providing wireless transmission of detected voltages on monitored lines, and comprises: a communication connector via which the wireless communication device receives detected voltage information for one or more monitored lines; and one or more printed circuit boards (PCB)s comprising circuitry for processing the received detected voltage information; and a wireless transceiver that transmits the processed voltage information wirelessly for presentation and storage on a remote device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Grace Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Charles Adkins, Gang Chen
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Publication number: 20220120791Abstract: In order to provide an environmentally secured voltage testing interface, an electrical enclosure box comprising a front panel is herein-described, into which is mounted a voltage indicator comprising a plurality of LED indicators that indicate a status of one or more circuits coupled thereto and monitored thereby. A compact test point device is also mounted through the front panel and comprises an interface comprising a plurality of external measurement sockets configured to receive one or more probes for manual measurement of voltages, wherein each external measurement socket is coupled to a voltage divider that is further coupled to each of a plurality of respective wires coupled to respective LED indicators.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: Grace Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Charles Adkins, Roger Clarke, Gang Chen
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Publication number: 20220091192Abstract: In order to provide an environmentally secured voltage testing interface, an electrical enclosure box comprising a front panel is herein-described, into which is mounted a voltage indicator comprising a plurality of LED indicators that indicate a status of one or more circuits coupled thereto and monitored thereby. A test point device is also mounted through the front panel and comprises an interface comprising a plurality of external measurement sockets configured to receive one or more probes for manual measurement of voltages, wherein each external measurement socket is coupled to a voltage divider that is further coupled to each of a plurality of respective wires coupled to respective LED indicators of the voltage indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: Grace Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Charles Ronald Adkins, JR., Roger Steven Clarke, Gang Chen
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Publication number: 20210382093Abstract: An electrical safety monitoring system is provided. The system includes an analog circuit having line inputs for hardwiring an L1, an L2, an L3, and a GND three-phase connections, the analog circuit configured to monitor if voltage exists between any two of the line inputs, a heartbeat circuit electrically connected to the analog circuit to provide a heartbeat signal indicative of voltage present on any of the line inputs, an isolated voltage source electrically connected to the heartbeat circuit to power the heartbeat circuit with a VDC+ and a VDC?, and a logic circuit in operative communication with the heartbeat circuit for monitoring input from the heartbeat circuit and decoding the input from the heart beat circuit. The isolated voltage source may be supplied by a programmable logic controller (PLC) and the logic circuit may be implemented within the same PLC as a function block.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: Grace Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Philip Brown Allen, Mark Alan Hockert
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Patent number: 11150277Abstract: An electrical safety monitoring system is provided. The system includes an analog circuit having line inputs for hardwiring an L1, an L2, an L3, and a GND three-phase connections, the analog circuit configured to monitor if voltage exists between any two of the line inputs, a heartbeat circuit electrically connected to the analog circuit to provide a heartbeat signal indicative of voltage present on any of the line inputs, an isolated voltage source electrically connected to the heartbeat circuit to power the heartbeat circuit with a VDC+ and a VDC?, and a logic circuit in operative communication with the heartbeat circuit for monitoring input from the heartbeat circuit and decoding the input from the heart beat circuit. The isolated voltage source may be supplied by a programmable logic controller (PLC) and the logic circuit may be implemented within the same PLC as a function block.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Grace Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Philip Brown Allen, Mark Alan Hockert
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Patent number: 11062264Abstract: A work support system that is suitable for reducing communication loads and processing loads, and improving certainty and versatility, is provided. An AI manual server 100 generates a rule describing a determination condition of a work situation based on a manual, and transmits the rule to a smart device 300. A work situation determination apparatus 220 comprises a storage section that stores work situation information indicating a work situation in association with equipment signal information. The work situation determination apparatus 220 inputs an equipment signal from a PLC of object equipment 210, reads out the work situation information corresponding to the input equipment signal from the storage section, and transmits the readout work situation information to the smart device 300. The smart device 300 receives the rule, and stores this in the storage section 58.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: GRACE TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Yukiharu Matsumura
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Patent number: 11036729Abstract: A document creation support system that can effectively find a necessary part is provided. A manual creation support server acquires a part attribute corresponding to a manual during creation as a search key, searches, via a part attribute of a manual management table 420 corresponding to the acquired search key, a part management table 440 for a part used in a manual corresponding to the part attribute, and aggregates a part used in the manual during creation and the searched part as one part. In the part aggregation, as to aggregation object parts A and B, each difference portion from the other is determined, and the aggregation object parts A and B are aggregated as one part in which texts included in the difference portions of the aggregation object parts A and B are replaced with a variable name.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: GRACE TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Yukiharu Matsumura
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Patent number: 11030391Abstract: To provide a document creation support system that facilitates translation work. A manual creation support server replicates node information of a document in a first language as the node information of the document in a second language, and correspondingly copies a part defined in the node information as the part in the second language. In addition, when the part is updated, notification related to the update of parts in other languages corresponding to the part is performed. Furthermore, based on a part in a part management table 440 and node information of a manual management table 420, XML data in which the part is structured is generated, and a manual is generated based on the generated XML data and a layout template.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: GRACE TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Yukiharu Matsumura
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Publication number: 20210011906Abstract: A document creation support system that can effectively find a necessary part is provided. A manual creation support server acquires a part attribute corresponding to a manual during creation as a search key, searches, via a part attribute of a manual management table 420 corresponding to the acquired search key, a part management table 440 for a part used in a manual corresponding to the part attribute, and aggregates a part used in the manual during creation and the searched part as one part. In the part aggregation, as to aggregation object parts A and B, each difference portion from the other is determined, and the aggregation object parts A and B are aggregated as one part in which texts included in the difference portions of the aggregation object parts A and B are replaced with a variable name.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: Grace Technology, Inc.Inventor: Yukiharu MATSUMURA
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Patent number: D975563Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: GRACE TECHNOLOGIES, INCInventors: Brook Ann Breitsprecher, Bryan Van Itallie, Aaron Tuttle