Patents by Inventor Christopher Ryan Holsonback

Christopher Ryan Holsonback 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).

  • Method and system for managing loads on a wind turbine
    Patent number: 9745958
    Abstract: A method and a system for managing loads on a wind turbine are provided. The method includes receiving a signal relative to a yaw misalignment of the wind turbine, generating a yaw error signal based on the yaw misalignment, and comparing the yaw error signal to a first predetermined yaw error threshold value. The method also includes regulating a speed of the rotor to a value determined by a predetermined tip speed ratio, reducing the yaw misalignment using a yaw control system, and restarting the wind turbine if the yaw error signal is reduced to less than a second predetermined yaw error threshold value within a predetermined period of time. The method further includes shutting down the wind turbine if the yaw error signal remains greater than the second predetermined yaw error threshold value beyond the predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pranav Agarwal, Charudatta Subhash Mehendale, Christopher Ryan Holsonback
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING LOADS ON A WIND TURBINE
    Publication number: 20150377215
    Abstract: A method and a system for managing loads on a wind turbine are provided. The method includes receiving a signal relative to a yaw misalignment of the wind turbine, generating a yaw error signal based on the yaw misalignment, and comparing the yaw error signal to a first predetermined yaw error threshold value. The method also includes regulating a speed of the rotor to a value determined by a predetermined tip speed ratio, reducing the yaw misalignment using a yaw control system, and restarting the wind turbine if the yaw error signal is reduced to less than a second predetermined yaw error threshold value within a predetermined period of time. The method further includes shutting down the wind turbine if the yaw error signal remains greater than the second predetermined yaw error threshold value beyond the predetermined period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Pranav Agarwal, Charudatta Subhash Mehendale, Christopher Ryan Holsonback
  • TURBINE RADIAL SENSOR MEASUREMENT
    Publication number: 20130103323
    Abstract: A method of measuring parameters of a gas turbine flow path is described. The method includes installing along one or more existing struts in the gas turbine flow path a first plurality of sensors for measuring a first parameter at one or more radial positions along the one or more struts and a second plurality of sensors for measuring a second parameter at one or more radial positions along the one or more struts. The method further includes producing an actual profile of the gas turbine flow path first parameter and second parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: David August Snider, Harold Lamar Jordan, JR., Christopher Ryan Holsonback