Patents by Inventor Frank Austin
Frank Austin 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).
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Patent number: 9762014Abstract: A brush holder apparatus includes a stationary support member having at least one groove and a fork electrical connector. A brush retainment member is configured to be releasably affixed to the stationary support member. The brush retainment member has at least one rail configured to slide along the at least one groove. The brush retainment member has a knife electrical connector configured to mate with the fork electrical connector. The stationary support member is configured for electrical connection to a collector mount and the brush retainment member is configured to retain at least one brush.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Albert Eugene Steinbach, Eric Steven Buskirk, Benjamin Alber Mancuso, Frank Austin Scalzo, III, Curtis Maurice Hebert, Matthew Thomas Preston
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Patent number: 9762015Abstract: A brush holder system includes a stationary support member having at least one groove, and a fork electrical connector. A brush retainment member is configured to be releasably affixed to the stationary support member. The brush retainment member has at least one rail configured to slide along the at least one groove. The brush retainment member has a knife electrical connector configured to mate with the fork electrical connector. A radio frequency identification device (RFID) tag is mounted on the brush retainment member, and the RFID tag is configured to monitor brush wear and communicate brush wear status to a monitoring system. The stationary support member is configured for electrical connection to a collector mount and the brush retainment member is configured to retain at least one brush.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Albert Eugene Steinbach, Eric Steven Buskirk, Benjamin Alber Mancuso, Frank Austin Scalzo, III, Curtis Maurice Hebert, Matthew Thomas Preston
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Patent number: 9647404Abstract: A brush holder apparatus includes a stationary support member having at least one groove, and a fork electrical connector. The stationary support member has a conductive bar configured to pass through a portion of the stationary support member's main body. The conductive bar is configured to provide electrical conductivity with a collector mount and the fork electrical connector. A brush retainment member is configured to be releasably affixed to the stationary support member. The brush retainment member has at least one rail configured to slide along the at least one groove, and a knife electrical connector configured to mate with the fork electrical connector. The stationary support member is configured for electrical connection to a collector mount and the brush retainment member is configured to retain at least one brush.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Albert Eugene Steinbach, Frank Austin Scalzo, III
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Publication number: 20160008423Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel antifungal glycopeptide compounds and salts thereof produced by a strain of Burkholderia contaminans useful for preventing or treating fungal infection or disease in animals and plants and the bacterial strain that produces the compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: Mississippi State University Research and Technology CorporationInventors: Shien Lu, James L. Smith, Frank Austin, Ganyu Gu
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Publication number: 20150357778Abstract: A brush holder apparatus includes a stationary support member having at least one groove and a fork electrical connector. A brush retainment member has a brush restraint apparatus having a plunger brush restraint configured to restrain a brush from sliding within the brush retainment member by pressing it against the brush retainment member. The brush retainment member has at least one rail configured to slide along the at least one groove, and a knife electrical connector configured to mate with the fork electrical connector. The brush retainment member is configured to be releasably affixed to the stationary support member. The stationary support member is configured for electrical connection to a collector mount, and the brush retainment member is configured to retain at least one brush.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2014Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: Albert Eugene Steinbach, Eric Steven Buskirk, Benjamin Alber Mancuso, Frank Austin Scalzo, III, Curtis Maurice Hebert, Matthew Thomas Preston
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Publication number: 20150357780Abstract: A brush holder system includes a stationary support member having at least one groove, and a fork electrical connector. A brush retainment member is configured to be releasably affixed to the stationary support member. The brush retainment member has at least one rail configured to slide along the at least one groove. The brush retainment member has a knife electrical connector configured to mate with the fork electrical connector. A radio frequency identification device (RFID) tag is mounted on the brush retainment member, and the RFID tag is configured to monitor brush wear and communicate brush wear status to a monitoring system. The stationary support member is configured for electrical connection to a collector mount and the brush retainment member is configured to retain at least one brush.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2014Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: Albert Eugene Steinbach, Eric Steven Buskirk, Benjamin Alber Mancuso, Frank Austin Scalzo, III, Curtis Maurice Hebert, Matthew Thomas Preston
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Publication number: 20150357777Abstract: A brush holder apparatus includes a stationary support member having at least one groove and a fork electrical connector. A brush retainment member is configured to be releasably affixed to the stationary support member. The brush retainment member has at least one rail configured to slide along the at least one groove. The brush retainment member has a knife electrical connector configured to mate with the fork electrical connector. The stationary support member is configured for electrical connection to a collector mount and the brush retainment member is configured to retain at least one brush.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2014Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: Albert Eugene Steinbach, Eric Steven Buskirk, Benjamin Alber Mancuso, Frank Austin Scalzo, III, Curtis Maurice Hebert, Matthew Thomas Preston
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Publication number: 20150357779Abstract: A brush holder apparatus includes a stationary support member having at least one groove, and a fork electrical connector. The stationary support member has a conductive bar configured to pass through a portion of the stationary support member's main body. The conductive bar is configured to provide electrical conductivity with a collector mount and the fork electrical connector. A brush retainment member is configured to be releasably affixed to the stationary support member. The brush retainment member has at least one rail configured to slide along the at least one groove, and a knife electrical connector configured to mate with the fork electrical connector. The stationary support member is configured for electrical connection to a collector mount and the brush retainment member is configured to retain at least one brush.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2014Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: Albert Eugene Steinbach, Frank Austin Scalzo, III
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Patent number: 9013087Abstract: An apparatus including: a brush holder; a radio frequency identification (RFID) device affixed to the brush holder, the RFID device including: a temperature sensor system for determining temperature(s) at one or more distinct locations on the brush holder; and a transmitter for providing indication of the temperature(s).Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2014Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Earl Fish, Frank Austin Scalzo, III, Albert Eugene Steinbach
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Publication number: 20140346931Abstract: An apparatus including: a brush holder; a radio frequency identification (RFID) device affixed to the brush holder, the RFID device including: a temperature sensor system for determining temperature(s) at one or more distinct locations on the brush holder; and a transmitter for providing indication of the temperature(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Inventors: William Earl Fish, Frank Austin Scalzo, III, Albert Eugene Steinbach
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Patent number: 8836197Abstract: An apparatus including: a brush holder; a radio frequency identification (RFID) device affixed to the brush holder, the RFID device including: a temperature sensor system for determining temperature(s) at one or more distinct locations on the brush holder; and a transmitter for providing indication of the temperature(s).Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Earl Fish, Frank Austin Scalzo, III, Albert Eugene Steinbach
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Publication number: 20130249355Abstract: An apparatus including: a brush holder; a radio frequency identification (RFID) device affixed to the brush holder, the RFID device including: a temperature sensor system for determining temperature(s) at one or more distinct locations on the brush holder; and a transmitter for providing indication of the temperature(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: William Earl Fish, Frank Austin Scalzo, III, Albert Eugene Steinbach
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Patent number: 8384266Abstract: A brush wear detector system for a dynamoelectric machine is provided. The brush wear detector system includes a brush holder, and at least one brush located within the brush holder. At least one spring is in contact with the brush and the spring operates to force the brush against an electrically conductive member of the dynamoelectric machine. A wireless sensor is configured to detect when a predetermined amount of wear has occurred to the at least one brush, and is also configured to identify the brush having the predetermined amount of wear. The wireless sensor is attached to the at least one brush.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Earl Fish, Jorge Cano Casas, Frank Austin Scalzo, III, Luis Alejandro De Leon Teran, Albert Eugene Steinbach
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Publication number: 20120248929Abstract: A brush wear detector system for a dynamoelectric machine is provided. The brush wear detector system includes a brush holder, and at least one brush located within the brush holder. At least one spring is in contact with the brush and the spring operates to force the brush against an electrically conductive member of the dynamoelectric machine. A wireless sensor is configured to detect when a predetermined amount of wear has occurred to the at least one brush, and is also configured to identify the brush having the predetermined amount of wear. The wireless sensor is attached to the at least one brush.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2011Publication date: October 4, 2012Inventors: William Earl Fish, Jorge Cano Casas, Frank Austin Scalzo, III, Luis Alejandro De Leon Teran, Albert Eugene Steinbach
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Publication number: 20110136729Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel antifungal glycopeptide compounds and salts thereof produced by a strain of Burkholderia contaminans useful for preventing or treating fungal infection or disease in animals and plants and the bacterial strain that produces the compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Inventors: Shien Lu, James L. Smith, Frank Austin, Ganyu Gu
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Patent number: 7299769Abstract: A water heater is shown having a closed metal tank with an upwardly mounted combustion chamber and burner/blower assembly. Curved fire tubes convey the products of combustion from the chamber to an exterior mounted flue assembly. The closed tank is enclosed by a rotomolded jacket. A support stand with vertically arranged support legs supports the tank in a normally vertical position but also allows the tank to be pivoted to a horizontal position on the support stand for maintenance or repair operations.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2005Date of Patent: November 27, 2007Assignee: PVI Industries, LLCInventors: Michael James Hubbard, Mark Allen Ferguson, Frank Austin Myers, Paul James Bothner
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Publication number: 20060275795Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods to detect and/or determine bacterial pathogenicity and species identity based on genes that encode transcriptional regulators or putative transcriptional regulators.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2006Publication date: December 7, 2006Inventors: Dongyou Liu, Mark Lawrence, Frank Austin, A. Ainsworth, Lanny Pace
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Patent number: 6948455Abstract: A high efficiency heat exchanger is shown which can be incorporated into a finned tube water heater. The heat exchanger has a pair of flow manifolds each having a water inlet and a water outlet and a series of connecting openings. Circular flow tubes have connecting ends which fit within the connecting openings of the manifold so that the tubes are arranged in a stacked fashion to form a tube bundle. When incorporated into a water heater, a burner communicates with the interior space within the stacked tube bundle for producing products of combustion for heating water flowing in the flow tubes. The flow tubes have external fins which are crushed to form upper and lower flat stacking surfaces for stacking the tubes to form the tube bundle. The fins are also crushed to form angled baffled surfaces about a external periphery of the tubes. The baffle surfaces serve to retain heat from the products of combustion of the burner which are released into the interior space within the stacked tube bundle.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2004Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: Riverside Hydronics, LLCInventors: Mark Allen Ferguson, Frank Austin Myers, Richard Patrick Carter, Michael James Hubbard, Curtis Allan Hissam, Scott Kevin White
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Patent number: 6950717Abstract: A system for controlling the width and stitch density of a moving fabric web compacted by a fabric compaction system. The width control subsystem comprises a first camera which captures an image of a moving fabric web, and a first controller, wherein the first controller receives the captured image, calculates the width of the fabric web, and compares the calculated width to a first width set point. The stitch count control subsystem comprises a second camera that captures an image of a moving fabric web, and a second controller, wherein the second controller receives the captured image, calculates the stitch count of the fabric web, and compares the calculated stitch count to a first stitch count set point.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2004Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: Sara Lee CorporationInventors: Glenn Robert Pierce, Jimmy Franklin Plyler, Donald Frank Austin, Michael Thomas Fox, Larry Thomas Clodfeller
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Patent number: 6810836Abstract: A finned tube water heater has a pair of flow manifolds each having a water inlet and a water outlet and a series of connected openings. Circular flow tubes have connecting ends which fit within the connecting openings of the manifold so that the tubes are arranged in a stacked fashion to form a tube bundle. A burner communicates with the interior space within the stacked tube bundle for producing products of combustion for heating water flowing in the flow tubes. The flow tubes have external fins which are crushed to form upper and lower flat stacking surfaces for stacking the tubes to form the tube bundle. The fins are also crushed to form angled baffled surfaces about a external periphery of the tubes. The baffle surfaces serve to retain heat from the products of combustion of the burner which are released into the interior space within the stacked tube bundle.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2003Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: Riverside Hydronics, LLCInventors: Mark Allen Ferguson, Frank Austin Myers, Richard Patrick Carter, Michael James Hubbard, Curtis Allan Hissam, Scott Kevin White