Patents by Inventor Gerald Peters
Gerald Peters 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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Publication number: 20160268807Abstract: A power unit including multiple generators supplies power to a load or loads that may be variable. The generators can differ, e.g., in generating capacities, rates at which their outputs can be changed, maintenance requirements, and/or different energy-conversion efficiencies. A control unit throttles the generators independently according to a digitally implemented algorithm that may, but need not, use the difference(s) in supplying power to the load. In some cases, the controller regulates monitored power delivered to the load or loads. A power combiner is connected to the outputs of the generators. If desired, a buffer can be used between the generators and the load or loads to provide energy storage that can allow for the load or loads to change at a faster rate than the generators are throttled and for peak loads that temporarily exceed the capacity of the generators.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: Green Light Industries, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Peter Jackson, Thomas J. Phillips, Joseph M. Zlotnicki
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Patent number: 9406957Abstract: Representatively, a method of separating carbon from hydrocarbon molecules, the method including: heating hydrocarbon molecules beyond their boiling point; decomposing the heated hydrocarbon molecules to generate elemental or molecular carbon and hydrogen gas; separating at least some of the elemental or molecular carbon from the hydrogen gas; chemically reacting the hydrogen gas to produce heat; and applying some of the heat in carrying out said heating.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: GREEN Light Industries, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Peter Jackson, Jason Ryan Babcock, Joseph Matthew Zlotnicki
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Patent number: 9407197Abstract: Illustratively, an electrical generator includes a photovoltaic element which converts light produced by a surface into electrical power, the surface located in thermal communication with exhaust gases produced by an exothermic chemical reaction; a heat exchanger which takes at least a majority of thermal energy in the exhaust gases, after the thermal communication, and transfers the thermal energy to air input to the reaction; a catalytic converter, inside the heat exchanger, located to ensure that at least most of the exhaust gases are communicated into the catalytic converter and that heat generated by operation of the catalytic converter is transferred to the air input to the reaction; a sensor in the heat exchanger, located to monitor the reaction before the exhaust gases are communicated into the catalytic converter; a sensor located to sense after the exhaust gases are communicated into the catalytic converter, whether the catalytic converter is functioning properly.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Green Light Industries, IncInventors: Gerald Peter Jackson, Jason Ryan Babcock, Joseph Matthew Zlotnicki
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Patent number: 9323299Abstract: A power unit including multiple generators supplies power to a load or loads that may be variable. The generators can differ, e.g., in generating capacities, rates at which their outputs can be changed, maintenance requirements, and/or different energy-conversion efficiencies. A control unit throttles the generators independently according to a digitally implemented algorithm that may, but need not, use the difference(s) in supplying power to the load. In some cases, the controller regulates monitored power delivered to the load or loads. A power combiner is connected to the outputs of the generators. If desired, a buffer can be used between the generators and the load or loads to provide energy storage that can allow for the load or loads to change at a faster rate than the generators are throttled and for peak loads that temporarily exceed the capacity of the generators.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Green Light Industries, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Peter Jackson, Thomas J. Phillips, Joseph Matthew Zlotnicki
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Patent number: 9073139Abstract: A welding torch is provided that includes a motorized arrangement for advancing continuous electrode wires during welding. The torch has a pair of rollers that contact the electrode wire to force it through the torch during welding. A force adjustment selector is provided in the torch handle that allows the operator to alter the force or pressure applied to the electrode wire. Markings on the handle, or stops provided between the selector and the handle allow for easy adjustment and verification of the proper pressure or force applied for specific types of electrode wires.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2006Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Mark Richard Christopher, Gerald Peter Piechowski
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Publication number: 20140058576Abstract: A power unit including multiple generators supplies power to a load or loads that may be variable. The generators can differ, e.g., in generating capacities, rates at which their outputs can be changed, maintenance requirements, and/or different energy-conversion efficiencies. A control unit throttles the generators independently according to a digitally implemented algorithm that may, but need not, use the difference(s) in supplying power to the load. In some cases, the controller regulates monitored power delivered to the load or loads. A power combiner is connected to the outputs of the generators. If desired, a buffer can be used between the generators and the load or loads to provide energy storage that can allow for the load or loads to change at a faster rate than the generators are throttled and for peak loads that temporarily exceed the capacity of the generators.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: Green Light Industries, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Peter Jackson, Thomas J. Phillips, Joseph Matthew Zlotnicki
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Publication number: 20130291931Abstract: Illustratively, an electrical generator includes a photovoltaic element which converts light produced by a surface into electrical power, the surface located in thermal communication with exhaust gases produced by an exothermic chemical reaction; a heat exchanger which takes at least a majority of thermal energy in the exhaust gases, after the thermal communication, and transfers the thermal energy to air input to the reaction; a catalytic converter, inside the heat exchanger, located to ensure that at least most of the exhaust gases are communicated into the catalytic converter and that heat generated by operation of the catalytic converter is transferred to the air input to the reaction; a sensor in the heat exchanger, located to monitor the reaction before the exhaust gases are communicated into the catalytic converter; a sensor located to sense after the exhaust gases are communicated into the catalytic converter, whether the catalytic converter is functioning properly.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: Green Light Industries, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Peter Jackson, Jason Ryan Babcock, Joseph Matthew Zlotnicki
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Patent number: 8509374Abstract: Method including: inducing, with antiprotons, nuclear fission in a material, such as depleted uranium; measuring leakage of radioactive byproduct produced by the fission; and producing, responsive to the measuring, a design for the nuclear fuel element. Apparatus, manufactures, and products produced by the method can be encompassed.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2006Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: HBar Technologies, LLCInventor: Gerald Peter Jackson
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Patent number: 8475751Abstract: A device, method of making, and method of using, illustratively wherein a container includes an inlet and an outlet; a catalytic converter intermediate in a path between the inlet and the outlet; at least one surface arranged to ensure at least a majority of gas received from the inlet traverses a first portion of the path from the inlet to the catalytic converter and communicates heat from the catalytic converter to the container; and an optical means arranged to transport visible light, emitted from the catalytic converter during reduction of the smog-generating chemical in the gas, to a location outside the container to indicate whether the catalytic converter is functioning properly.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Green Light Industries, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Peter Jackson, Jason Ryan Babcock, Joseph Matthew Zlotnicki
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Patent number: 8355894Abstract: Systems for predicting casting defects and microstructure in suppliers/vendors' castings for part/system durability analysis without knowing the details of the casting layout and casting gating and riser design as well as casting process parameters are provided. The systems involve the use of an integrated pore growth and interdendritic flow model. Methods of predicting casting defects and microstructures of a part without knowing the details of the casting layout and casting gating and riser design as well as casting process parameters and articles of manufacture are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2009Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Qigui Wang, Gerald Peter Backer, Daniel L. Metzger
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Patent number: 8126574Abstract: The invention provides control systems and methodologies for controlling a process having one or more motorized pumps and associated motor drives, which provide for optimized process performance according to one or more performance criteria, such as efficiency, component life expectancy, safety, emissions, noise, vibration, operational cost, or the like. More particularly, the subject invention provides for employing machine diagnostic and/or prognostic information in connection with optimizing an overall business operation over a time horizon.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2010Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Frederick M. Discenzo, Ramdas M. Pai, Gerald Peter Schaller, Michael Scott Roote, Richard James Novak, David Lee Jensen, John Crandall Ference, Bennet Ray Williams
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Patent number: 8109865Abstract: Systems and methods for using antiprotons for terminating unwanted or undesirable cells which can be used in the treatment of conditions caused by the existence and/or proliferation of such undesirable cells. Such conditions include cardiovascular ailments, Parkinson's disease, wet macular degeneration, endocrine disorders, dermatological ailments, and cancer. Because of the unique nature of antiprotons and their annihilation characteristics, the preferred antiproton delivery device (1010, 1015, 1030) embodiments further incorporate detector arrays (1050a), capable of detecting characteristic emissions in the course of treatment.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2007Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Hbar Technologies, LLCInventor: Gerald Peter Jackson
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Publication number: 20110144788Abstract: Systems for predicting casting defects and microstructure in suppliers/vendors' castings for part/system durability analysis without knowing the details of the casting layout and casting gating and riser design as well as casting process parameters are provided. The systems involve the use of an integrated pore growth and interdendritic flow model. Methods of predicting casting defects and microstructures of a part without knowing the details of the casting layout and casting gating and riser design as well as casting process parameters and articles of manufacture are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Qigui Wang, Gerald Peter Backer, Daniel L. Metzger
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Patent number: 7915426Abstract: New 1,2,3- or 1,2,3,4- or 1,2,3,4,5- substituted imidazolium salts and their uses as solvent in catalyzed organic reactions, as well as compositions containing them and a transition metal compound. They can be used in the following reactions: the telomerisation of conjugated dienes, dimerisation of olefins, the oligomerisation of olefins, polymerization of olefins, alkylation of olefins, hydrogenation of olefins, olefin metathesis, hydroformylation of olefins, ring-closing metathesis of olefins, ring-opening metathesis polymerisation of olefins, symetric or asymetric epoxidation of olefins (including heteroatom substituted olefins) and the cyclopropanation of olefins, condensation reaction, hydrogenation reaction, isomerization reaction, Suzuki cross-coupling reactions, amination reaction, partial oxidation of alkancs, kinetic resolution of racemic mixtures, hydrogenation of imines, hydrogenation of ketones, transfer hydrogenation and hydroxylation of aromatic organic compounds.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2001Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.)Inventors: Yves Chauvin, Lionel Magna, Gerald Peter Niccolai, Jean-Marie Basset
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Publication number: 20100306001Abstract: The invention provides control systems and methodologies for controlling a process having one or more motorized pumps and associated motor drives, which provide for optimized process performance according to one or more performance criteria, such as efficiency, component life expectancy, safety, emissions, noise, vibration, operational cost, or the like. More particularly, the subject invention provides for employing machine diagnostic and/or prognostic information in connection with optimizing an overall business operation over a time horizon.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Frederick M. Discenzo, Ramdas M. Pai, Gerald Peter Schaller, Michael Scott Roote, Richard James Novak, David Lee Jensen, John Crandall Ference, P.E., Bennet Ray Williams
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Patent number: 7797062Abstract: The invention provides control systems and methodologies for controlling a process having one or more motorized pumps and associated motor drives, which provide for optimized process performance according to one or more performance criteria, such as efficiency, component life expectancy, safety, emissions, noise, vibration, operational cost, or the like. More particularly, the subject invention provides for employing machine diagnostic and/or prognostic information in connection with optimizing an overall business operation over a time horizon.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2003Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Frederick M. Discenzo, Ramdas M. Pai, Gerald Peter Schaller, Michael Scott Roote, Richard James Novak, David Lee Jensen, John Crandall Ference, Bennet Ray Williams
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Publication number: 20100037938Abstract: Process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, and improvements thereto, with particular regard to generating electrical power. Representatively, the method can include: increasing temperature of a surface to produce radiation, a portion of the radiation having an infrared wavelength and a portion of the radiation having a wavelength shorter than the infrared wavelength; reflecting the infrared wavelength portion of the radiation emanating from said surface Surface back toward said surface; and collecting the shorter wavelength portion of the radiation in a photovoltaic device to generate electrical power.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2007Publication date: February 18, 2010Inventor: Gerald Peter Jackson
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Publication number: 20100035103Abstract: Representatively, a method of separating carbon from hydrocarbon molecules, the method including: heating hydrocarbon molecules beyond their boiling point; decomposing the heated hydrocarbon molecules to generate elemental or molecular carbon and hydrogen gas; separating at least some of the elemental or molecular carbon from the hydrogen gas; chemically reacting the hydrogen gas to produce heat; and applying some of the heat in carrying out said heating.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2009Publication date: February 11, 2010Inventors: Gerald Peter Jackson, Jason Ryan Babcock, Joseph Matthew Zlotnicki
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Publication number: 20100018191Abstract: A device, method of making, and method of using, illustratively wherein a container includes an inlet and an outlet; a catalytic converter intermediate in a path between the inlet and the outlet; at least one surface arranged to ensure at least a majority of gas received from the inlet traverses a first portion of the path from the inlet to the catalytic converter and communicates heat from the catalytic converter to the container; and an optical indicator arranged to indicate outside the container whether the catalytic converter is operating inside the container to reduce concentration of a smog-generating chemical with respect to the gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2009Publication date: January 28, 2010Inventors: Gerald Peter Jackson, Jason Ryan Babcock, Joseph Matthew Zlotnicki
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Publication number: 20080035626Abstract: A welding torch is provided that includes a motorized arrangement for advancing continuous electrode wires during welding. The torch has a pair of rollers that contact the electrode wire to force it through the torch during welding. A force adjustment selector is provided in the torch handle that allows the operator to alter the force or pressure applied to the electrode wire. Markings on the handle, or stops provided between the selector and the handle allow for easy adjustment and verification of the proper pressure or force applied for specific types of electrode wires.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2006Publication date: February 14, 2008Inventors: Mark Richard Christopher, Gerald Peter Piechowski