Patents by Inventor Herbert Baker

Herbert Baker 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: 7733235
    Abstract: A smoke detector system employs smoke detectors that enter a “lockout period” following receipt of an alarm signal, during which time a detector will not receive a RF alarm signal and will not transmit a RF alarm signal after a certain period of time if that detector does not detect, or no longer detects, a dangerous condition. The lockout period is of sufficient duration to prevent re-transmission of a RF alarm signal by a detector even though it may have received a RF alarm signal from another detector(s). Hence, after a short period of time, no RF alarm signals will be received or transmitted and each detector resets, unless a dangerous condition is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Inventors: Herbert Baker, Shawnfatee M. Bridges, Derrick U. Hall, Joseph J. Kindler
  • Patent number: 6774614
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting currents in a three-phase power transmission system includes a first detection circuit electrically coupled to a first phase of the three-phase transmission system, a second detection circuit electrically coupled to a second phase of the three-phase transmission system different than the first phase, and an event output switch electrically coupled to the first detection circuit and the second detection circuit and configured to actuate when a subsynchronous current at least one of the first phase and the second phase exceeds a pre-selected subsynchronous current setpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Herbert Sahm, III, Stanley A. Miske, Jr., Daniel Herbert Baker, Bruce Edward English, John Michael Kern
  • Publication number: 20030160600
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting currents in a three-phase power transmission system includes a first detection circuit electrically coupled to a first the three-phase transmission system, a second detection circuit electrically coupled to a second phase of the three-phase transmission system different than the first phase, and an event output switch electrically coupled to the first detection circuit and the second detection circuit and configured to actuate when a subsynchronous current at least one of the first phase and the second phase exceeds a pre-selected subsynchronous current setpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: William Herbert Sahm, Stanley A. Miske, Daniel Herbert Baker, Bruce Edward English, John Michael Kern, Carol Conde Miske