Patents by Inventor Gregory L. Bentley

Gregory L. Bentley 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).

  • Electrical protection device and method for a communication circuit
    Patent number: 7158041
    Abstract: A protection device for a communication circuit that includes a sensor monitoring a protection device parameter and an indication module coupled to the sensor. The indication module generates an indication output as a function of the protection device parameter indicating a protection device event. The indication module receives power from an indication power source separate from the telecommunication signal. Also a method for protecting a telecommunication signal with a protection device including sensing a protection device parameter indicating a protection device event. The method also includes powering an indication module from an indication power source that is separate from the telecommunication signal. The method further includes generating an indication output from the indication module as a function of the protection device parameter indicating the protection device event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Northern Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James N. McDonald, Jr., Gregory L. Bentley
  • Methods and systems for reducing clamp voltages in surge protection circuitry
    Patent number: 6567254
    Abstract: Arrangements for a surge protection device reduce the effects of mutual inductance and therefore, the overall inductance in electrical connections between suppression components in the device. Suppression components in surge protection devices can be oriented such that current flow through adjacent diodes are opposite in direction, thereby causing induced magnetic fields to be opposite in direction to each other. As a result, overall inductances of the surge protection devices are decreased which in turn causes clamp voltages of the surge protection devices to be decreased. In addition, multi-layered circuit boards and integrated circuits can be used to implement surge protection devices so that inductive effects of electrical connections in the surge protection devices are decreased, in order to decrease clamp voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Northern Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory L. Bentley
  • Methods and systems for reducing clamp voltages in surge protection circuitry
    Publication number: 20020159213
    Abstract: Arrangements for a surge protection device reduce the effects of mutual inductance and therefore, the overall inductance in electrical connections between suppression components in the device. Suppression components in surge protection devices can be oriented such that current flow through adjacent diodes are opposite in direction, thereby causing induced magnetic fields to be opposite in direction to each other. As a result, overall inductances of the surge protection devices are decreased which in turn causes clamp voltages of the surge protection devices to be decreased. In addition, multi-layered circuit boards and integrated circuits can be used to implement surge protection devices so that inductive effects of electrical connections in the surge protection devices are decreased, in order to decrease clamp voltages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventor: Gregory L. Bentley