Patents by Inventor Donald Joseph Buckley

Donald Joseph Buckley 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: 10465157
    Abstract: A sampling assembly configured to be coupled to a sample source is provided. The sampling assembly is configured to facilitate aseptic sampling at one or more instances in time. The sampling assembly includes a first conduit having a first port and a second port, where the first port is configured to be coupled to the sample source, and where the second port is configured to be hermetically sealed. The sampling assembly further includes a plurality of sub-conduits having corresponding sub-ports, where each of the plurality of sub-conduits is operatively coupled to the first conduit at respective connection points, and where each of the sub-ports is in fluidic communication with the first conduit. Moreover, the sampling assembly includes a plurality of sampling kits, where each sampling kit of the plurality of sampling kits is operatively connected to a respective sub-port of a corresponding sub-conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Chengkun Zhang, Kenneth Roger Conway, Donald Joseph Buckley, Eugene Pauling Boden, Weston Blaine Griffin, Anshika Bajaj, Reginald Donovan Smith, Zhipeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 10288539
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods and systems for rapid testing of films used in the manufacture of bioprocess bags. The methods described herein allow for determination of resistance to flexural fatigue while mimicking actual conditions in bioprocesses such as flexion and subsequent fatigue and failure of a bioprocess bag made of a film when it is placed on a rocking platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Andrew Arthur Paul Burns, Eugene Pauling Boden, Scott Michael Miller, Kathryn Amanda Misner, Terry Lee Saunders, Donald Joseph Buckley, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10281079
    Abstract: The present invention provides an insulated fluid conduit useful in facilities in which a hot fluid susceptible to deleterious phase changes in response to heat loss to a cold environment is transported. Such conduits may be particularly well suited to improve thermal control in subsea hydrocarbon production operations in which hot production fluids may undergo deleterious phase changes as a result of heat loss to the cold subsea environment. The fluid conduit includes an insulating material containing a silicone rubber and a phase change material such as octadecane. One or more barrier layers inhibit migration of the phase change material from the insulation layer and into the environment. In one or more embodiments, the phase change material is present as a microencapsulated phase change material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Huabing Zheng, Donald Joseph Buckley, Scott Michael Miller
  • Patent number: 9903525
    Abstract: The present invention provides an insulated fluid conduit useful in facilities in which a hot fluid susceptible to one or more deleterious phase changes in response to heat loss to a cold environment is transported. Such conduits may be particularly well suited to improve thermal control in subsea hydrocarbon production operations. The fluid conduit includes an inner first insulating layer containing a first polymer matrix, and a first phase change material undergoing a phase change at T1. The fluid conduit includes an outer second insulating layer containing a second polymer matrix, and a second phase change material undergoing a phase change at T2, wherein T1 is greater than T2. One or more barrier layers inhibit migration of the phase change material from the insulation layers and into the environment. In one or more embodiments, the phase change material is present as a microencapsulated phase change material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: General Electronic Company
    Inventors: Huabing Zheng, Donald Joseph Buckley, Jr., Scott Michael Miller, Chad Eric Yates, Juan Alberto Rivas Cardona
  • Publication number: 20170226306
    Abstract: In general, the present invention is directed to a continuous method of making a polymer foam by using a polymer having a first monomeric component and a second monomeric component. The method employs a tandem type extruder having a first extruder and a second extruder. The method disclosed herein can provide a foam having a desired cell size, cell density, porosity, foam density, and/or thermal conductivity, etc. In turn, the polymer foams produced according to the present method can have numerous applications, such as thermal insulation applications for appliances including ovens, freezers, refrigerators, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Norberto Silvi, Donald Joseph Buckley, JR., David Andrew Simon, Davide Louis Simone, Joseph Anthony Pavlisko
  • Patent number: 9677975
    Abstract: A sampling assembly configured to be coupled to a sample source and facilitate aseptic sampling at one or more instances in time is provided. Further, the sampling assembly includes a first conduit having first and second ports, where the first port is configured to be coupled to the sample source. The sampling assembly also includes a plurality of sub-conduits having corresponding sub-ports, where each of the plurality of sub-conduits is operatively coupled to the first conduit at respective connector junctions. Also, each of the sub-ports is in fluidic communication with the first conduit. The sampling assembly also includes a plurality of sampling kits and one or more pumping devices. Further, each sampling kit is operatively coupled to a respective sub-port of a corresponding sub-conduit. Moreover, the one or more pumping devices are operatively and aseptically coupled to the second port of the first conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Chengkun Zhang, Kenneth Roger Conway, Donald Joseph Buckley, Eugene Pauling Boden, Weston Blaine Griffin, Anshika Bajaj, Reginald Donovan Smith
  • Patent number: 9657400
    Abstract: The present techniques provide a novel electrolyzer and methods for welding components of such electrolyzers. The techniques may use conductors, such as resistance wires, placed in paths around the internal structural features and edges of the components. The conductors may be incorporated into the components during manufacture by injection molding, or other molding techniques, or may be tacked or otherwise applied to the surface of the components after manufacture. When current, a field or other excitation is applied to the conductors, the plastic surrounding the wire is melted. If this plastic is in direct contact with an adjoining component, a strong, hermetic seal may be formed between the two components, including the internal structural features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Dana Ray Swala, Richard Scott Bourgeois, Steven Paraszczak, Donald Joseph Buckley
  • Publication number: 20170108420
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods and systems for rapid testing of films used in the manufacture of bioprocess bags. The methods described herein allow for determination of resistance to flexural fatigue while mimicking actual conditions in bioprocesses such as flexion and subsequent fatigue and failure of a bioprocess bag made of a film when it is placed on a rocking platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Andrew Arthur Paul Burns, Eugene Pauling Boden, Scott Michael Miller, Kathryn Amanda Misner, Terry Lee Saunders, Donald Joseph Buckley, JR.
  • Publication number: 20170059079
    Abstract: The present invention provides an insulated fluid conduit useful in facilities in which a hot fluid susceptible to deleterious phase changes in response to heat loss to a cold environment is transported. Such conduits may be particularly well suited to improve thermal control in subsea hydrocarbon production operations in which hot production fluids may undergo deleterious phase changes as a result of heat loss to the cold subsea environment. The fluid conduit includes an insulating material containing a silicone rubber and a phase change material such as octadecane. One or more barrier layers inhibit migration of the phase change material from the insulation layer and into the environment. In one or more embodiments, the phase change material is present as a microencapsulated phase change material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Huabing Zheng, Donald Joseph Buckley, Scott Michael Miller
  • Publication number: 20170059080
    Abstract: The present invention provides an insulated fluid conduit useful in facilities in which a hot fluid susceptible to one or more deleterious phase changes in response to heat loss to a cold environment is transported. Such conduits may be particularly well suited to improve thermal control in subsea hydrocarbon production operations. The fluid conduit includes an inner first insulating layer containing a first polymer matrix, and a first phase change material undergoing a phase change at T1. The fluid conduit includes an outer second insulating layer containing a second polymer matrix, and a second phase change material undergoing a phase change at T2, wherein T1 is greater than T2. One or more barrier layers inhibit migration of the phase change material from the insulation layers and into the environment. In one or more embodiments, the phase change material is present as a microencapsulated phase change material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Huabing Zheng, Donald Joseph Buckley, JR., Scott Michael Miller, Chad Eric Yates, Juan Alberto Rivas Cardona
  • Publication number: 20160122798
    Abstract: A sampling assembly configured to be coupled to a sample source and facilitate aseptic sampling at one or more instances in time is provided. Further, the sampling assembly includes a first conduit having first and second ports, where the first port is configured to be coupled to the sample source. The sampling assembly also includes a plurality of sub-conduits having corresponding sub-ports, where each of the plurality of sub-conduits is operatively coupled to the first conduit at respective connector junctions. Also, each of the sub-ports is in fluidic communication with the first conduit. The sampling assembly also includes a plurality of sampling kits and one or more pumping devices. Further, each sampling kit is operatively coupled to a respective sub-port of a corresponding sub-conduit. Moreover, the one or more pumping devices are operatively and aseptically coupled to the second port of the first conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Chengkun Zhang, Kenneth Roger Conway, Donald Joseph Buckley, Eugene Pauling Boden, Weston Blaine Griffin, Anshika Bajaj, Reginald Donovan Smith
  • Publication number: 20160053296
    Abstract: A sampling assembly configured to be coupled to a sample source is provided. The sampling assembly is configured to facilitate aseptic sampling at one or more instances in time. The sampling assembly includes a first conduit having a first port and a second port, where the first port is configured to be coupled to the sample source, and where the second port is configured to be hermetically sealed. The sampling assembly further includes a plurality of sub-conduits having corresponding sub-ports, where each of the plurality of sub-conduits is operatively coupled to the first conduit at respective connection points, and where each of the sub-ports is in fluidic communication with the first conduit. Moreover, the sampling assembly includes a plurality of sampling kits, where each sampling kit of the plurality of sampling kits is operatively connected to a respective sub-port of a corresponding sub-conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Chengkun Zhang, Kenneth Roger Conway, Donald Joseph Buckley, Eugene Pauling Boden, Weston Blaine Griffin, Anshika Bajaj, Reginald Donovan Smith, Zhipeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140037850
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of protecting refinery equipment, the method comprising: (a) applying an uncured organic coating comprising a curable epoxy phenol novolac resin and a curing agent comprising a vicinal primary diamine moiety to a surface of refinery equipment susceptible to corrosion and/or wear; and (b) curing the uncured coating to form a cured coating having a viscosity of at least 2,000,000 centipoise; wherein the uncured organic coating has a viscosity of less than 500,000 centipoise, and wherein the uncured coating is substantially free of components comprising secondary and tertiary amine groups, and wherein the uncured coating is characterized by a latent viscosity of at least 2,000,000 when cured for 1 hour at 50° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Donald Joseph Buckley, JR., Lawrence Bernard Kool, Raul Basilio Rebak, Dennis Michael Gray, Brent Allen Clothier, Grzegorz Jan Kusinski
  • Publication number: 20120046553
    Abstract: An ultrasound catheter housing with electromagnetic shielding properties and methods of manufacturing is provided. The ultrasound catheter housing comprises a an inner thin wall polymer tube extruded using an ultrasonically transparent polymer, a thin metalized layer deposited on the outer surface of the inner tube, and an outer thin wall polymer tube, which may be the same or a different ultrasonically transparent material. In another embodiment an ultrasound catheter comprising the ultrasound catheter housing is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Donald Joseph Buckley, Douglas Glenn Wildes, Warren Lee, Weston Blaine Griffin
  • Patent number: 7822457
    Abstract: Apparatus for compressing tissue to be scanned for medical imaging is provided. The apparatus may comprise a compression membrane and a tensioning apparatus coupled to the membrane to apply a tensile force to the membrane to place the membrane in a taut condition during an imaging process. In one exemplary application that combines ultrasound scanning with X-ray mammography, the compressing apparatus enables accurate, reproducible ultrasound images reducing distortion and attenuation, which may otherwise be introduced as a consequence of such a combination of imaging processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Murtuza Lokhandwalla, Ajay Kapur, Donald Joseph Buckley, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20100256502
    Abstract: Provided herein is an ultrasound probe comprising a probe housing defining a distal end, an ultrasonic transducer array disposed within the probe housing and rotatable within said probe housing, an acoustically neutral structure bonded to a surface of the ultrasonic transducer array by an adhesive, a motor coupled to the ultrasonic transducer array, the motor being configured to rotate the ultrasonic transducer array in order to image a three-dimensional volume; and an acoustic coupling fluid disposed within free volume of the probe housing. Also provided is a method of manufacturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Donald Joseph Buckley, Douglas Glenn Wildes, Warren Lee, Weston Blaine Griffin
  • Publication number: 20100249602
    Abstract: An ultrasound catheter housing with electromagnetic shielding properties and methods of manufacturing is provided. The ultrasound catheter housing comprises a an inner thin wall polymer tube extruded using an ultrasonically transparent polymer, a thin metalized layer deposited on the outer surface of the inner tube, and an outer thin wall polymer tube, which may be the same or a different ultrasonically transparent material. In another embodiment an ultrasound catheter comprising the ultrasound catheter housing is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Donald Joseph Buckley, Douglas Glenn Wildes, Warren Lee, Weston Blaine Griffin
  • Publication number: 20090301869
    Abstract: The present techniques provide a novel electrolyzer and methods for welding components of such electrolyzers. The techniques may use conductors, such as resistance wires, placed in paths around the internal structural features and edges of the components. The conductors may be incorporated into the components during manufacture by injection molding, or other molding techniques, or may be tacked or otherwise applied to the surface of the components after manufacture. When current, a field or other excitation is applied to the conductors, the plastic surrounding the wire is melted. If this plastic is in direct contact with an adjoining component, a strong, hermetic seal may be formed between the two components, including the internal structural features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Dana Ray Swalla, Richard Scott Bourgeois, Steven Paraszczak, Donald Joseph Buckley
  • Publication number: 20080083614
    Abstract: A structural reinforcement for a pressurized plastic electrochemical cell stack is described with a first endplate and a second endplate, wherein the first endplate and the second endplate are each connected to a structural reinforcement along an axial direction such that the reinforcement extends through the first endplate and the second endplate and provides for compressing the first endplate and the second endplate against a bilithic or monolithic plastic electrochemical cell stack internal to the reinforcement, thereby sealing a gas generation cell within the reinforcement and thus providing enhanced creep resistance of the electrochemical cell stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Inventors: Dana Ray Swalla, Richard Scott Bourgeois, Donald Joseph Buckley
  • Patent number: 7021147
    Abstract: A sensor package and method are described. The sensor package includes an enclosure, a diaphragm coupled to the enclosure. The diaphragm is configured to receive vibrations from an ambient environment. Further, the sensor package includes a pressure sensing element disposed inside the enclosure, and a pressure transfer medium disposed inside the enclosure and proximate the pressure sensing element, where the pressure transfer medium includes a fluid, and a plurality of filler particles suspended in the fluid. The filler particles serve to reduce a coefficient of thermal expansion of the pressure transfer medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kanakasabapathi Subramanian, Donald Joseph Buckley, Jr., Slawomir Rubinsztajn, Arun Virupaksha Gowda, Stanton Earl Weaver, Jr., Russell William Craddock, Deborah Ann Haitko