Patents by Inventor Ame Ballantine

Ame Ballantine 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).

  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING ORE USING HYDROGEN AS A REDUCING AGENT
    Publication number: 20240336986
    Abstract: A system for reducing ore includes a hydrogen supply unit configured to supply hydrogen, a furnace configured to reduce the ore using the supplied hydrogen, and a hydrogen recovery unit configured to recover hydrogen from an exhaust gas that is exhausted from the furnace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Chockkalingam KARUPPAIAH, Ame Ballantine, Muralidhar Venkatraman
  • SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR HYDROGEN PLANT CONDITION MONITORING USING A WIRELESS MODULAR SENSOR SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20240276185
    Abstract: A system for monitoring a hydrogen plant includes a plurality of wireless sensor modules, each wireless sensor module including at least one sensor configured for monitoring for at least one condition and a wireless interface configured for transmitting data concerning the at least one condition via a wireless network to a remote station when the at least one condition is detected by the at least one sensor, wherein the plurality of wireless sensor modules cooperatively extend the wireless network to an area of the hydrogen plant wider than a range of an individual wireless interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Rasool Aghatehrani, Ame Ballantine
  • Input-parallel/output-parallel inverter assembly control device and method
    Patent number: 9362815
    Abstract: A method includes controlling multiple networked input-parallel/output-parallel inverters of a fuel cell system as a single inverter assembly by a master controller. A fuel cell system includes a plurality of fuel cell segments, a plurality of DC/DC converters and at least one DC/AC inverter, where an output of each of the plurality of the fuel cell segments is connected to a pair of DC/DC converters, and each of the pair DC/DC converters is connected to an opposite polarity bus being provided to the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ranganathan Gurunathan, Aisur Gopalakrishnan Vishal Anand, Ame Ballantine, Saravanakumar Narayanasamy, Kodali Venkata Narasimha Rao
  • Fuel Cell Control Device and Method
    Publication number: 20120098336
    Abstract: A method includes controlling multiple networked input-parallel/output-parallel inverters of a fuel cell system as a single inverter assembly by a master controller. A fuel cell system includes a plurality of fuel cell segments, a plurality of DC/DC converters and at least one DC/AC inverter, where an output of each of the plurality of the fuel cell segments is connected to a pair of DC/DC converters, and each of the pair DC/DC converters is connected to an opposite polarity bus being provided to the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: Bloom Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Ranganathan Gurunathan, Aisur Gopalakrishnan VishaI Anand, Ame Ballantine, Saravanakumar Narayanasamy, Kodali Venkata Narasimha Rao