Patents Assigned to Honeywell
  • Publication number: 20230282001
    Abstract: A vison-based landing system comprises a processor onboard an aerial vehicle, an onboard vision sensor, onboard aiding sensors, and a data storage unit. The processor hosts an adaptive feature extraction module operative to perform a method that comprises capturing an image of a landing area having a plurality of edge features; calculating an estimated slope of an expected edge feature; calculating an expected gradient direction of the expected edge feature; selecting a horizontal basis kernel for the expected edge feature along an expected horizontal gradient; selecting a vertical basis kernel for the expected edge feature along an expected vertical gradient; calculating a combined convolution kernel for the expected edge feature based on the horizontal and vertical basis kernels, the estimated slope, and the expected gradient direction; and performing a convolution operation on the image using the combined convolution kernel to obtain an edge feature image of the landing area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Nikhil Gupta, Shouvik Das
  • Publication number: 20230280472
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for providing at least one proposed alternative plan of travel of a vehicle are disclosed based upon data of at least one geographic region about at least one of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) spoofing and GNSS jamming. If a current path of travel of the vehicle intersects at least one geographic region of at least one of GNSS spoofing and GNSS jamming, then determining the at least one proposed alternative plan of travel of the vehicle. At least one of the at least one proposed alternative plan of travel includes a path of travel that does not intersect at least one geographic region of the at least one geographic region of at least one of GNSS spoofing and GNSS jamming. The determined at least one proposed alternative plan of travel is sent to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Rajeev Mohan, Vijay Kumar Shrimal, Mohan Singh Tomar, Douglas Mark Weed, Ryan N Supino
  • Patent number: 11749119
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for generating and displaying a location, time, amount of one or more transitions along a flight path of a vehicle to ensure sonic boom values remain within permissible threshold values. The method may include receiving speed data, altitude data, and flight path data, including environment data, for a flight path of the vehicle, and generating, for each of one or more transitions along the flight path of the vehicle, at least one of a transition location, of upcoming locations along the flight path, a transition time, and a transition amount, based on the received speed data, altitude data, and flight path data, and a permissible threshold boom value of the upcoming transitions along the flight path. The method may also include outputting the generated transition location, transition time, and transition amount for the one or more transitions to a display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: John Suddreth
  • Patent number: 11749097
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for a self-testing fire sensing device are described herein. One device includes an adjustable particle generator and a variable airflow generator configured to generate an aerosol density level sufficient to trigger a fire response without saturating an optical scatter chamber and the optical scatter chamber configured to measure a rate at which the aerosol density level decreases after the aerosol density level has been generated, determine an airflow rate from an external environment through the optical scatter chamber based on the measured rate at which the aerosol density level decreases, and determine whether the self-testing fire sensing device is functioning properly based on the fire response and the determined airflow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Dearden, Michael Barson, Benjamin Wolf
  • Patent number: 11747035
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product provide for improving performance of a condition monitoring system by combining rules and anomaly detection. In the context of a method, the method receives plurality of telemetry data from a monitored system. The method processes the plurality of telemetry data to generate an anomaly score set. The method also processes the plurality of telemetry data in accordance with the predefined rule data object set to generate a rule-based result set. The method determines whether the plurality of telemetry data is associated with an undetected fault of the monitored system and generates an extracted rule data object based on the telemetry data. The method also monitors performance of the machine learning anomaly detection model and determines whether retraining is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Vaclav Slimacek
  • Patent number: 11746007
    Abstract: The disclosure describes a system for generating hydrogen gas from a hydrocarbon through pyrolysis with reduced soot formation and increased carbon loading. The system includes a pyrolysis reactor configured to generate the hydrogen gas from the hydrocarbon through pyrolysis. The pyrolysis reactor includes one or more fibrous substrates configured to provide a deposition surface for carbon generated from the pyrolysis of the hydrocarbon. Each fibrous substrate has an effective void fraction between 40% and 95%, and includes a plurality of fibers configured to maintain chemical and structural stability between about 850° C. and about 1300° C. The one or more fibrous substrates may have a relatively high surface area to fiber volume of the plurality of fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M. Michalakos, Amanda Childers
  • Patent number: 11747311
    Abstract: The disclosure describes a system for generating hydrogen gas from a hydrocarbon through pyrolysis with reduced soot formation and increased carbon loading. The system includes one or more pyrolysis reactors configured to generate the hydrogen gas from the hydrocarbon through pyrolysis. Each pyrolysis reactor of the one or more pyrolysis reactors includes one or more fibrous substrates and a concentration sensor downstream of at least one fibrous substrate of the one or more fibrous substrates. Each fibrous substrate of the one or more fibrous substrates defines a deposition surface for carbon generated from the pyrolysis of the hydrocarbon and includes a plurality of fibers configured to maintain chemical and structural stability between 850° C. and 1300° C. The concentration sensor is configured to measure a concentration of at least one of a hydrocarbon byproduct or a hydrocarbon soot precursor, such as acetylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M. Michalakos, Amanda Childers, Stephen Yates, Sean Skomurski
  • Patent number: 11746843
    Abstract: An article includes a structural core, one or more friction pads, and a plurality of elongated fasteners. The structural core includes two core surfaces and a plurality of pockets extending between the core surfaces. Each friction pad includes a pad surface and a friction surface opposite the pad surface. Each pad surface includes a planar pad surface configured to contact the core surface and a plurality of bosses extending from the first planar pad surface and including a bore. Each planar pad surface is at least about 50% of a surface area of the respective first and second pad surfaces. The plurality of bosses engages with the plurality of pockets to position the respective first and second friction pads relative to the structural core. The plurality of elongated fasteners passes through bores of corresponding bosses of friction pads to fasten the friction pads to the structural core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Bourlier, William E Pajak, David R. Cole, Eric Payton
  • Patent number: 11747226
    Abstract: The load cell for measuring a force in both push and pull includes a body assembly having a body element defining a measurement chamber with a closed end and an opposite open end, a protruding member positioned within the measurement chamber and extending from the closed end toward the open end. The load cell also includes a base assembly secured at the open end of the body element, including a base element; and a sense die attached to the base element and aligned with the protruding member, where a top surface of the sense die supports a Wheatstone bridge circuit configured to generate a signal based on a force exerted by the protruding member on the sense die. The body element, the protruding member and the base element are integrally formed from a common material which has a CTE close to the CTE of the sense die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Wade
  • Patent number: 11749096
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for event device operation are described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a mobile device comprising a user interface, a memory, and a processor to execute instructions stored in the memory to receive a signal from a control panel of a control system in response to the mobile device connecting to the control panel, generate, based on the signal, an event device analysis for a number of event devices included in the control system, display, via the user interface, the event device analysis, in response to a selection of a fault corresponding to an event device from the list of event devices having faults, display a diagnostic guide to remedy the fault, and control, in response to an input to the user interface, at least one of operation of the control panel and an event device of the number of event devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Sagar Ramesh Kulkarni, Sudeep Jayakumar Duge, Anu Gopinath, Chalapathi Subramanyam
  • Patent number: 11739243
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides minimum-boiling, homogeneous azeotropic and azeotrope-like compositions of 1,2,2-trifluoro-1-trifluoromethylcyclobutane (“TFMCB”) with each of ethanol, n-pentane, cyclopentane, trans-1,2-dichloroethylene, and perfluoro(2-methyl-3-pentanone).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Stewart, Ryan J. Hulse
  • Patent number: 11741702
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation system is configured to automatically identify a suitable UAV landing site, for example, in forced-landing (e.g., emergency) scenarios. In some examples, the system receives two or more overlapping images depicting a landscape underneath an airborne unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); generates, based on the two or more overlapping images, a depth map for the landscape; identifies, based on the depth map, regions of the landscape having a depth variance below a threshold value; determines, for each of the regions of the landscape having a depth variance below the threshold value, a landing zone quality score indicative of the depth variance and a semantic type of the region of the landscape; identifies, based on the landing zone quality scores, a suitable location for landing the UAV; and causes the UAV to automatically navigate toward and land on the suitable location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Arthur Dins, Alberto Speranzon, Vijay Venkataraman, Juan Hu, Zhiyong Dai
  • Patent number: 11742932
    Abstract: Techniques for detecting the presence of interference in a channel of a VHF data radio are provided. Upon detecting a sufficient level interference, the mode of the VHF data radio is changed from VHF data link (VDL) mode 2 to VDL mode A. Optionally, the VHF data radio mode may be changed back to VDL 2 from VDL mode A departing or preparing to depart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas D. Judd, Divya Swarup Giriyappa Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 11743226
    Abstract: A method of communicating messages is provided. The method comprises receiving a message from a first station; determining whether the message requires clearance from a second station; displaying clearance intended message determined to require clearance from the second station to a consumer of the message; automatically translating the clearance intended message to a format understood by the second station; and routing the translated message to the second station upon selection of the clearance intended message by the consumer of the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Raghu Shamasundar, Willie Truong, Jon Jenkins, Wen Hua Liu
  • Publication number: 20230266748
    Abstract: An apparatus and system is disclosed connected to at least one input/output (I/O) module and to at least one controller of an industrial distributed control system. The apparatus and system comprises a control network module having a control component that uses a processor to execute operating software that implements operating configurations for the control network module. At least one I/O port is connected to the control component that is configurable by the operating software to enable port configurations to connect the at least one I/O module to the control network module. An expansion component connected to the control component has at least one expansion port connected to the at least one controller. The expansion port connects the at least one controller to the control component for communicating data and control signals to and from the at least one controller to the at least one I/O module. A security component regulates access to the apparatus based upon one or more security attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Harshal S. Haridas, Angela Lee Lordi
  • Patent number: 11733993
    Abstract: Methods and devices for usage profile based remote firmware upgrades for fire alarm system gateways are described herein. A method, includes creating a firmware upgrade package for a number of gateways of a number of fire alarm systems wherein each gateway has gateway operating firmware, panel connectivity firmware, and management firmware and wherein the firmware upgrade package has multiple parts, creating a firmware upgrade profile having information indicating the applicability of each of the multiple parts of the firmware upgrade package to one of the gateway operating firmware, panel connectivity firmware, and management firmware, comparing the firmware upgrade profile to a gateway usage profile of a particular gateway wherein the gateway usage profile contains information indicating usage characteristics for the gateway operating firmware, panel connectivity firmware, and management firmware, and selecting one or more of the multiple parts of the firmware upgrade package to download.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Jayaprakash Meruva, Vipindas E K, Rajesh Babu Nalukurthy, Akash Pachame
  • Patent number: 11735778
    Abstract: In some examples, a high-energy-density battery pack device includes a circuit board and at least two casing structures mounted on the circuit board. In some examples, the high-energy-density battery pack device also includes at least two cells electrically connected in series or in parallel through the circuit board. In some examples, each cell of the at least two cells is positioned in a casing structure of the at least two casing structures. In some examples, the respective casing structure surrounds the respective cell with an opening on one end of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: Honeywell Limited, AeroELT, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart Inkpen, Joshua Swamidas, Bill Conway, Dana Linfield, Ruth Abraham, Carl Weisser, Vic Weglarz
  • Patent number: 11733296
    Abstract: A method of testing a PIN diode for a power limiter circuit comprises measuring a reverse bias current of the PIN diode; applying a reverse bias voltage to the PIN diode; increasing the reverse bias voltage until the reverse bias current of the PIN diode reaches a threshold current indicative of a reverse voltage breakdown; and determining whether the reverse bias breakdown voltage of the PIN diode is within an acceptable range of reverse bias breakdown voltages corresponding to a power range at which the power limiter circuit would enter power limiting mode with the PIN diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Charles John Hanna, Tuan N. Nguyen, Will Schulte Plamann
  • Patent number: 11732767
    Abstract: In some examples, a brake assembly includes an actuator assembly configured to cause the translation of a piston to compress a disc stack. The actuator assembly is configured to generate a first torque around a motor axis using a motor and generate a second torque from the first torque using a harmonic drive. The actuator assembly may include a gear set configured to cause a linear actuator to translate the piston using the second torque. In some examples, the actuator is configured to translate the piston along a compression axis different from the motor axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Fangmin Deng, Bin Wang
  • Patent number: D996987
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Zhiguo Di, Yidan Zhao, Mohit Khurana