Patents by Inventor Bertrand Jeffery Williams

Bertrand Jeffery Williams 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: 10100623
    Abstract: A pumpjack is operated continuously over a sequence of two adjacent pump stroke cycles, by energizing an electric motor to operate the pumpjack over a first pump stroke cycle according to a motor speed profile over a plurality of discrete control periods within the cycle, while receiving sensory feedback from one or more sensors. In response to the feedback, and while continuing to operate the pumpjack, one or more speed adjustments are made to specific control periods, so as to alter the motor speed profile while continuing to operate the electric motor to drive the pump jack. The intra-cycle control optimizes flow while reacting to detrimental and changing conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: KLD Energy Nano-Grid Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bertrand Jeffery Williams, Victor Sauers, II
  • Publication number: 20170002805
    Abstract: A pumpjack is driven by an electric motor coupled to a gear box. A local drive controller controls the motor in accordance with a varying motor speed profile over a pumping cycle of the pumpjack. The drive controller determines, based on sensory feedback from the one or more sensors, a pumping cycle load profile, automatically determines, based on the pumping cycle load profile, a varying voltage profile, and controls the motor in accordance with the varying motor speed profile while applying the varying voltage profile to the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Bertrand Jeffery Williams, Victor Sauers, II
  • Publication number: 20170002636
    Abstract: A motor-driven pumpjack is operated continuously while receiving sensory feedback from one or more sensors. In response to feedback indicating a detrimental operating condition, and while continuing to operate the pumpjack, one or more speed adjustments are made to specific control periods within the motor pumping cycle. The automated control optimizes flow while reacting to detrimental and changing conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Bertrand Jeffery Williams, Victor Sauers, II
  • Publication number: 20170002635
    Abstract: A pumpjack is operated continuously over a sequence of two adjacent pump stroke cycles, by energizing an electric motor to operate the pumpjack over a first pump stroke cycle according to a motor speed profile over a plurality of discrete control periods within the cycle, while receiving sensory feedback from one or more sensors. In response to the feedback, and while continuing to operate the pumpjack, one or more speed adjustments are made to specific control periods, so as to alter the motor speed profile while continuing to operate the electric motor to drive the pump jack. The intra-cycle control optimizes flow while reacting to detrimental and changing conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Bertrand Jeffery Williams, Victor Sauers, II
  • Patent number: 8053929
    Abstract: A solar power array includes solar power panels, where each solar panel provides output current and voltage, separate DC-DC converters, where each solar panel is connected to a unique DC-DC converter, where each DC-DC converter is designed to maximize the power from each solar panel, and where each DC-DC converter produces a high voltage output, a high voltage DC bus coupled to the DC-DC converters that receives the high voltage output, and a DC-AC inverter that inverts the high voltage DC on the high voltage DC bus to an AC power signal for distribution to one or more AC loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Solar Power Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bertrand Jeffery Williams, Bret Allan Raymis
  • Publication number: 20100133911
    Abstract: A solar power array includes solar power panels, where each solar panel provides output current and voltage, separate DC-DC converters, where each solar panel is connected to a unique DC-DC converter, where each DC-DC converter is designed to maximize the power from each solar panel, and where each DC-DC converter produces a high voltage output, a high voltage DC bus coupled to the DC-DC converters that receives the high voltage output, and a DC-AC inverter that inverts the high voltage DC on the high voltage DC bus to an AC power signal for distribution to one or more AC loads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Bertrand Jeffery Williams, Bret Allan Raymis
  • Publication number: 20090027119
    Abstract: A radio frequency power amplifier system includes a power amplifier coupled to an input signal and configured to provide an output signal at a radio frequency; a signal cancellation system coupled to the input signal, and a first feedback signal, which is based on the output signal, and configured to provide an error signal with a reduced level of the input signal; and a feedback control system coupled to the error signal and configured to provide a correction signal that is used to reduce distortion in the output signal. A corresponding method includes amplifying in a forward path an input signal to provide an output signal at a radio frequency; combining a reference and a first feedback signal to provide an error signal with a reduced level of the input signal; providing, responsive to the error signal and in a. feedback control system that is separate from the forward path, a correction signal; and then using the correction signal to reduce distortion in the output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventors: Bertrand Jeffery Williams, Kelly Mekechuk, Thomas Johnson, Dan Huslig
  • Patent number: 6054874
    Abstract: A driver circuit is presented for producing particular output voltage levels at high speeds using a current switching technique. The circuit employs driver transistors connected in series between switchable current sources. The driver transistors switch current within the current sources through a resistor coupled between an output of the driver circuit and a reference terminal voltage. Switching the current occurs in rapid fashion within an opened loop arrangement. The switchable current sources are configured so that current is present through the current sources whenever a corresponding driver transistor is turned on. Current through the current sources, as switched through the resistor separating the reference terminal voltage and the driver output, is regulated by a closed loop replica circuit. The replica circuit may include an opamp whose output operably produces the regulated current via feedback from the current path to an input of the opamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Sua-Ki Stephanie Sculley, Bertrand Jeffery Williams