Patents by Inventor Bryan Scott Hermsen

Bryan Scott Hermsen 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 monitoring braking effort
    Patent number: 9150209
    Abstract: A method (e.g., for monitoring a braking system of a vehicle system) includes monitoring fluid pressures of a braking system and modeled braking efforts of the braking system in a vehicle system traveling along a route, identifying one or more time periods at least one of before a brake event of the braking system or after the brake event, calculating residual forces exerted on the vehicle system during the one or more time periods, and determining at least one of an estimated braking effort of the braking system or an estimated propagation rate at which the estimated braking effort is applied by the braking system using the residual forces that are calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Bryan Scott Hermsen, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Harry Kirk Matthews, Jr., John Harry Down, Brian Nedward Meyer
  • System And Method For Monitoring Braking Effort
    Publication number: 20150025737
    Abstract: A method (e.g., for monitoring a braking system of a vehicle system) includes monitoring fluid pressures of a braking system and modeled braking efforts of the braking system in a vehicle system traveling along a route, identifying one or more time periods at least one of before a brake event of the braking system or after the brake event, calculating residual forces exerted on the vehicle system during the one or more time periods, and determining at least one of an estimated braking effort of the braking system or an estimated propagation rate at which the estimated braking effort is applied by the braking system using the residual forces that are calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Bryan Scott Hermsen, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Harry Kirk Matthews, JR., John Harry Down, Brian Nedward Meyer