Patents by Inventor Gary R. Lang

Gary R. Lang 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: 9273986
    Abstract: A chiller system including an evaporator for evaporating a refrigerant and a water pipe in fluid communication with the evaporator. The water pipe is configured to allow water to pass through at a flow rate and to circulate the water with the evaporator to exchange heat with the refrigerant in the evaporator. The chiller system includes a flow restrictor tube within the water pipe that is configured to allow the water to flow through the flow restrictor tube at a reduced flow rate relative to the flow rate. The chiller system also includes a measuring probe that passes through walls of the water pipe and the flow restrictor tube and includes an accuracy range of flow rates less than the flow rate. The measuring probe is configured to measure the reduced flow rate within the flow restrictor tube where the reduced flow rate is within the accuracy range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Gary R. Lange, William B. Fox
  • Publication number: 20120260692
    Abstract: A chiller system including an evaporator for evaporating a refrigerant and a water pipe in fluid communication with the evaporator. The water pipe is configured to allow water to pass through at a flow rate and to circulate the water with the evaporator to exchange heat with the refrigerant in the evaporator. The chiller system includes a flow restrictor tube within the water pipe that is configured to allow the water to flow through the flow restrictor tube at a reduced flow rate relative to the flow rate. The chiller system also includes a measuring probe that passes through walls of the water pipe and the flow restrictor tube and includes an accuracy range of flow rates less than the flow rate. The measuring probe is configured to measure the reduced flow rate within the flow restrictor tube where the reduced flow rate is within the accuracy range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: Gary R. Lange, William B. Fox
  • Patent number: 4860249
    Abstract: A reconfigurable processor array (RPA) for performing high speed operations on data arrays and eliminating I/O bottleneck. The array memory has a working side for storing arrays to be processed during a given array operation, and an I/O side for loading an array to be used during a subsequent operation and downloading an array resulting from a preceding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Assignee: Saxpy Computer Corporation
    Inventors: Mark C. Nicely, Robert Schreiber, Terry M. Parks, A. Joel Mannion, Gary R. Lang, Charles F. Patton
  • Patent number: 4839801
    Abstract: A block processing computing system includes a decomposition unit, a control circuit, a system memory, a data block path and a block processor. The decomposition unit receives externally-supplied primitive command packets and decomposes the primitive into machine language operations on computational blocks of data. The control circuitry generates control and address signals for performing the machine level operations. The data block path includes alignment circuitry for selecting data from burst-accessed blocks of data and a macropipeline for controllably storing and transferring blocks of data to and from the block processor. The block processor has interchangeable, double-buffered local zone memories and a parallel set of pipelined vector processors for performing block operations on computational blocks of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Saxpy Computer Corporation
    Inventors: Mark C. Nicely, Ronald Leavitt, Joel Mannion, Rob Schreiber, Gary R. Lang, Robert L. Papenberg, Joseph E. Straub