Patents by Inventor David Joseph Kachmarik

David Joseph Kachmarik 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).

  • Publication number: 20200025573
    Abstract: A system and method obtaining image data of a light fixture having an indicator associated with the light fixture. The indicator at least partially attenuates light generated by one or more light generating devices disposed within the light fixture. The method also includes determining one or more characteristics of the indicator based on the image data that is obtained, and one or more of determining a unique identity of the light fixture based on the one or more characteristics of the indicator that are determined or determining a location of the light fixture within a structure based on the one or more characteristics of the indicator that are determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Nina Rose SCHEIDEGGER, Phillip James ELLIS, Himamshu Viswat Prasad, David Joseph Kachmarik, Colin Drew McKibben, Jeffrey Marc NALL
  • Patent number: 8749161
    Abstract: Light sources are presented in which lamp ballast or LED driver circuitry is disposed within a base assembly using integrated boards with components embedded between board layers and/or circular flex boards with pot core magnetic components and/or ASICs and thermally conductive board core materials with thermal vias, reflective mirrors, and/or potting materials to conduct heat out through the base to facilitate reduced form factors for lamps and/or LED light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Louis Robert Nerone, Virgil A. Chichernea, David Joseph Kachmarik, Himamshu Prasad
  • Patent number: 8644998
    Abstract: A pre-programmed energy saving ballast or driver is presented, having a pre-defined energy profile to which the output power is controlled in accordance with the current time ascertained from the input power connection via simplex clock information or from received broadcast time signals, and which allows a user to select from a number of pre-programmed profiles and/or to modify and store user-defined energy profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Louis Robert Nerone, David Joseph Kachmarik, Himamshu Prasad
  • Publication number: 20120104947
    Abstract: Light sources are presented in which lamp ballast or LED driver circuitry is disposed within a base assembly using integrated boards with components embedded between board layers and or circular flex boards with pot core magnetic components and/or ASICs and thermally conductive board core materials with thermal vias, reflective mirrors, and/or potting materials to conduct heat out through the base to facilitate reduced form factors for lamps and/or LED light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Louis Robert Nerone, Virgil A. Chichernea, David Joseph Kachmarik, Himamshu Prasad
  • Publication number: 20110144821
    Abstract: A pre-programmed energy saving ballast or driver is presented, having a pre-defined energy profile to which the output power is controlled in accordance with the current time ascertained from the input power connection via simplex clock information or from received broadcast time signals, and which allows a user to select from a number of pre-programmed profiles and/or to modify and store user-defined energy profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Louis Robert Nerone, David Joseph Kachmarik, Himamshu Prasad
  • Patent number: 7908037
    Abstract: A pre-programmed energy saving ballast or driver is presented, having a pre-defined energy profile to which the output power is controlled in accordance with the current time ascertained from the input power connection via simplex clock information or from received broadcast time signals, and which allows a user to select from a number of pre-programmed profiles and/or to modify and store user-defined energy profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Louis Robert Nerone, David Joseph Kachmarik, Himamshu Prasad
  • Publication number: 20100138069
    Abstract: A pre-programmed energy saving ballast or driver is presented, having a pre-defined energy profile to which the output power is controlled in accordance with the current time ascertained from the input power connection via simplex clock information or from received broadcast time signals, and which allows a user to select from a number of pre-programmed profiles and/or to modify and store user-defined energy profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Louis Robert Nerone, David Joseph Kachmarik, Himamshu Prasad
  • Patent number: 5889373
    Abstract: A fluorescent lamp ballast utilizes a single a transformer for providing both tank inductance and current mode feedback to the ballast driver circuitry. The transformer has an "EE" core with inductor windings on the center legs and gate windings on one of the outer legs. The center leg is gapped to avoid magnetic core saturation and to adjust inductance to a desired value. Coupling can be adjusted further by gapping one or the other of the outer legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rayette Ann Fisher, David Joseph Kachmarik, William Newell Schultz, Robert James Thomas
  • Patent number: 5834884
    Abstract: A systematic configuration of compact fluorescent lamps of different power levels determines the operating parameters for normal operation of each respective lamp in a single-type ballast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Victor David Roberts, Clarence James Harsa, David Joseph Kachmarik, Spiro Vamvakas