Patents by Inventor Gopal Revankar

Gopal Revankar 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: 20060087313
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method and system for detecting the position of a shaft comprises providing a shaft with defined hardened metallic regions. The shaft has a first hardened metallic region from a surface of the shaft to a first radial depth from the surface at a first longitudinal position. The shaft has a second hardened metallic region from the surface of the shaft to a second radial depth at a second longitudinal position. The second radial depth is different from the first radial depth. A sensor senses an eddy current to detect an alignment of at least one of the first hardened metallic region and the second hardened metallic region with a fixed sensing region at a respective time. A data processor determines a longitudinal position of the shaft with respect to a cylinder at the respective time based on the sensed eddy current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventors: Gopal Revankar, Keith Gray, Dale Killen
  • Publication number: 20060017323
    Abstract: Undercarriage assembly components of track-type machines having a metallurgically bonded wear-resistant coating and methods for forming such coated undercarriage assembly components is taught herein. The bodies of the undercarriage assembly components, formed of an iron-based alloy, have a hard metal alloy slurry disposed on a surface or into an undercut or channel and then fused to form a metallurgical bond with the iron-based alloy. The wear-resistant coating comprises a fused, metal alloy comprising at least 60% iron, cobalt, nickel, or alloys thereof. The portion of the outer surface of the undercarriage assembly components having the wear-resistant coating corresponds to a wear surface of the component during operation of the endless track of the track-type vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Timothy Wodrich, Todd Niemann, Gopal Revankar
  • Publication number: 20050090347
    Abstract: A sprocket has a base steel member including an outer toothed profile surface, at least a portion of the outer toothed profile surface having a wear and corrosion resistant coating disposed thereon; the coating comprising an alloy, the alloy comprising at least 60 weight % iron, cobalt, nickel, or alloys thereof. A method of producing a wear and corrosion resistant sprocket includes: (i) machining a base steel member to form an outer toothed profile surface thereon; (ii) applying a coating to at least a portion of the surface; and (iii) fusing the coating to the base steel member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Applicant: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Gopal Revankar, Timothy Wodrich, Todd Niemann
  • Publication number: 20050064095
    Abstract: A method for applying a wear and corrosion resistant coating to a cast iron part, wherein the coating process includes a fusing step, includes an initial step of decarburizing the area of the cast iron part to be coated to an effective depth for preventing adsorption of carbon into the un-fused coating when the part, together with the un-fused coating, is heated for fusing the alloy contained in the un-fused coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2003
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventor: Gopal Revankar