Patents by Inventor Ian Wright

Ian Wright 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).

  • Gearboxes with compound planet gears and methods of operating thereof
    Patent number: 9920818
    Abstract: Provided are gearboxes including compound planet gear assemblies as well as methods of using such gearboxes. A gearbox includes at least a first ring gear and a second ring gear. Depending on the current gear selection, one of these ring gears may be engaged with a shifting mechanism or not engaged with any ring gears when in a neutral gear. The first ring gear may be constantly engaged with a first planet gear of a compound planet gear assembly, while the second ring gear may be constantly engaged with a second planet gear of the same compound planet gear assembly. The first planet gear may be also engaged with a sun gear coupled to a shaft. Another shaft is coupled to the shifting mechanism. Different gear selections of the gearbox engage different ring gears to the shifting mechanism thereby changing the rotational speed ratio of the two shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Wrightspeed, Inc.
    Inventor: Ian Wright
  • VEHICLE DYNAMICS CONTROL IN ELECTRIC DRIVE VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20180022230
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed toward a geared traction drive system configured to drive a wheel of a vehicle, comprising: a driveshaft for transmitting power to the wheel; an electric drive motor for driving the driveshaft, the electric drive motor configured to receive signals from a vehicle dynamic control system to command a required speed; a gear reduction component for reducing the speed of the motor by a predetermined factor to a lower speed suitable for driving the wheel; and a drive electronics component that works with the electric drive motor to drive the wheel to the speed commanded by the vehicle dynamic control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Wrightspeed, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Wright, Ryan Cash
  • DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR SPATIAL AGGREGATION OF SPECTRAL ANALYSIS FROM ELECTRON MICROSCOPES
    Publication number: 20180003651
    Abstract: An x-ray spectrum collected from a sample via excitation of the sample by an electron beam includes artifacts due to interaction volume, surface effects, contamination, or other interferences with the desired collection of representative x-rays from the sample. Inline spectral correlation, summation, averaging, other aggregation, or combinations thereof provides more precise collection of x-ray spectrum from multi-phase, unprepared, particle, or complex samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Divyesh I. Patel, Tara Lyn Nylese, Jens Rafaelsen, Stuart Ian Wright
  • Devices and systems for spatial averaging of electron backscatter diffraction patterns
    Patent number: 9791390
    Abstract: A diffraction pattern is averaged with adjacent diffraction patterns to increase a signal to noise ratio thereof and improve indexing accuracy. The pixels of a diffraction pattern image are averaged with a correlated pixel from one or more adjacent diffraction patterns. Noise artifacts are reduced in intensity, while signals present in each of the patterns reinforce one another to produce an averaged diffraction pattern which is then indexed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: EDAX, Incorporated
    Inventors: Stuart Ian Wright, Matthew McBride Nowell, Scott Perry Lindeman, Patrick Paul Camus
  • GEARBOXES WITH COMPOUND PLANET GEARS AND METHODS OF OPERATING THEREOF
    Publication number: 20170114870
    Abstract: Provided are gearboxes including compound planet gear assemblies as well as methods of using such gearboxes. A gearbox includes at least a first ring gear and a second ring gear. Depending on the current gear selection, one of these ring gears may be engaged with a shifting mechanism or not engaged with any ring gears when in a neutral gear. The first ring gear may be constantly engaged with a first planet gear of a compound planet gear assembly, while the second ring gear may be constantly engaged with a second planet gear of the same compound planet gear assembly. The first planet gear may be also engaged with a sun gear coupled to a shaft. Another shaft is coupled to the shifting mechanism. Different gear selections of the gearbox engage different ring gears to the shifting mechanism thereby changing the rotational speed ratio of the two shafts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: Wrightspeed, Inc.
    Inventor: Ian Wright
  • Gearboxes with compound planet gears and methods of operating thereof
    Patent number: 9541172
    Abstract: Provided are gearboxes including compound planet gear assemblies as well as methods of using such gearboxes. A gearbox includes at least a first ring gear and a second ring gear. Depending on the current gear selection, one of these ring gears may be engaged with a shifting mechanism or not engaged with any ring gears when in a neutral gear. The first ring gear may be constantly engaged with a first planet gear of a compound planet gear assembly, while the second ring gear may be constantly engaged with a second planet gear of the same compound planet gear assembly. The first planet gear may be also engaged with a sun gear coupled to a shaft. Another shaft is coupled to the shifting mechanism. Different gear selections of the gearbox engage different ring gears to the shifting mechanism thereby changing the rotational speed ratio of the two shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Wrightspeed, Inc.
    Inventor: Ian Wright
  • Vehicle dynamics control in electric drive vehicles
    Patent number: 9469214
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed toward a geared traction drive system configured to drive a wheel of a vehicle, comprising: a driveshaft for transmitting power to the wheel; an electric drive motor for driving the driveshaft, the electric drive motor configured to receive signals from a vehicle dynamic control system to command a required speed; a gear reduction component for reducing the speed of the motor by a predetermined factor to a lower speed suitable for driving the wheel; and a drive electronics component that works with the electric drive motor to drive the wheel to the speed commanded by the vehicle dynamic control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Wrightspeed, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Wright, Ryan Cash
  • Self-contained inertial navigation system for interactive control using movable controllers
    Patent number: 9405372
    Abstract: A movable game controller for controlling aspects of a computer controlled game display with apparatus for determining the linear and angular motion of that movable controller. The apparatus includes a plurality of self-contained inertial sensors for sensing the tri-axial linear and tri-axial angular motion of the moving controller. Each sensor is mounted at a fixed linear position and orientation with respect to the others. The linear and angular motion of the controller is computed from the correlated motion sensor readings of each of the plurality of self-contained inertial sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: AiLive, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Yen, Ian Wright, Xiaoyuan Tu, Stuart Reynolds, William Robert Powers, III, Charles Musick, Jr., John Funge, Daniel Dobson, Curt Bererton
  • DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR SPATIAL AVERAGING OF ELECTRON BACKSCATTER DIFFRACTION PATTERNS
    Publication number: 20160216219
    Abstract: A diffraction pattern is averaged with adjacent diffraction patterns to increase a signal to noise ratio thereof and improve indexing accuracy. The pixels of a diffraction pattern image are averaged with a correlated pixel from one or more adjacent diffraction patterns. Noise artifacts are reduced in intensity, while signals present in each of the patterns reinforce one another to produce an averaged diffraction pattern which is then indexed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Stuart Ian Wright, Matthew McBride Nowell, Scott Perry Lindeman, Patrick Paul Camus
  • VEHICLE DYNAMICS CONTROL IN ELECTRIC DRIVE VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20160159249
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed toward a geared traction drive system configured to drive a wheel of a vehicle, comprising: a driveshaft for transmitting power to the wheel; an electric drive motor for driving the driveshaft, the electric drive motor configured to receive signals from a vehicle dynamic control system to command a required speed; a gear reduction component for reducing the speed of the motor by a predetermined factor to a lower speed suitable for driving the wheel; and a drive electronics component that works with the electric drive motor to drive the wheel to the speed commanded by the vehicle dynamic control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: Wrightspeed, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Wright, Ryan Cash
  • Methods and systems for dynamic calibration of movable game controllers
    Patent number: 9261968
    Abstract: A video gaming system includes a wireless controller that senses linear and angular acceleration to calculate paths of controller movement over a broad range of controller motion. The system also includes an electromagnetic alignment element, such as a set of LEDS. The controller includes an additional sensor to sense light from the LEDs over a relatively restricted range of controller motion, and use this sensed light to dynamically calibrate the controller when the controller passes through the restricted range of motion over which the sensor senses the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: AiLive, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Yen, Ian Wright, Xiaoyuan Tu, Stuart Reynolds, William Robert Powers, III, Charles Musick, John Funge, Daniel Dobson, Curt Bererton
  • Battery mounting and cooling system
    Publication number: 20150244047
    Abstract: A battery system is provided in which the batteries are mounted between a pair of substrates, the system further including at least one cooling tube mounted next to the batteries, the cooling tube used to withdraw heat from the batteries via a circulating liquid coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Jeffrey B. Straubel, Eugene Berdichevsky, David Lyons, Thomas Colson, Martin Eberhard, Ian Wright, Robert Ferber
  • GOLF CLUB HEAD
    Publication number: 20150224374
    Abstract: A golf club head comprises a club head body having an external surface with a heel portion, a toe portion, a crown, a sole, and a face. The golf club head has a moment of inertia about a CG Z axis, IZZ. In some implementations, IZZ is greater than 4150 g·cm2 or greater than 4400 g·cm2. The face comprises a bulge curvature that satisfies a predetermined mathematical relationship. In some implementations, a moment of inertia about the CG X axis, Ixx, exceeds a predetermined value, and Izz is greater than Ixx. The face can comprise a roll curvature, and a ratio of the bulge curvature divided by the roll curvature, RC, can be greater than 0.28 and less than 0.75.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Brandon Woolley, Ian Wright, Todd P. Beach
  • Battery mounting and cooling system
    Patent number: 9065103
    Abstract: A battery system is provided in which the batteries are mounted between a pair of substrates, the system further including at least one cooling tube mounted next to the batteries, the cooling tube used to withdraw heat from the batteries via a circulating liquid coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey B. Straubel, Eugene Berdichevsky, David Lyons, Thomas Colson, Martin Eberhard, Ian Wright, Robert Ferber
  • Systems and methods for utilizing personalized motion control in virtual environment
    Patent number: 9050528
    Abstract: Techniques for controlling motions using motion recognizers generated in advance by users are described. According to embodiment, the motion recognizers created by end users are utilized to control virtual objects displayed in a virtual environment. By manipulating one or more motion sensitive devices, end users could command what the objects to do in the virtual environment. Motion signals from each of the motion sensitive devices are recognized in accordance with the motion recognizers created in advance by the users. One or more of the motion signals are at the same time utilized to tune the motion recognizers or create additional motion recognizers. As a result, the motion recognizers are constantly updated to be more accommodating to the user(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: AiLive Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichiro Kawano, Xiaoyuan Tu, Charles Musick, Jr., William Robert Powers, III, Stuart Reynolds, Dana Wilkinson, Ian Wright, Wei Yen
  • IMMUNOASSAY FOR DETECTION OF SPECIFIC NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES SUCH AS MIRNAS
    Publication number: 20150037797
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of detecting nucleic acid molecules by immunoassay detection. Detection of a specific nucleic acid molecule of interest is achieved by using a nucleic acid probe in solution which hybridizes in solution to the nucleic acid molecule of interest. Immunoassay detection is achieved by using an antibody specific for the hybrid formed by hybridization of the nucleic acid probe to the nucleic acid molecule of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicants: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DIAGNOSTICS INC, SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DIAGNOSTICS PRODUCTS GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Kappel, Andreas Keller, Cord Friedrich Stahler, Ian Wright, Linda Marie Anderson-Mauser, William Bedzyk, Herbert Schwarz, Michaela Wicke
  • Golf club head having movable weights
    Patent number: 8888609
    Abstract: A golf club head comprises a body and at least one self-extracting pressed weight assembly. The body comprises a face plate positioned at a forward portion of the golf club head, a sole positioned at a bottom portion of the golf club head, a crown positioned at a top portion of the golf club head and a skirt positioned around a periphery of the golf club head between the sole and the crown. The body defines an interior cavity. The weight assembly comprises at least three components and is configured for a press fit engagement with the golf club head. The assembly has a drive portion and a threaded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd P. Beach, Benoit Vincent, Ian Wright, Kraig Alan Willett, Gery Mel Zimmerman, Joseph Henry Hoffman
  • Vehicle Dynamics Control in Electric Drive Vehicles
    Publication number: 20140207320
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed toward a geared traction drive system configured to drive a wheel of a vehicle, comprising: a driveshaft for transmitting power to the wheel; an electric drive motor for driving the driveshaft, the electric drive motor configured to receive signals from a vehicle dynamic control system to command a required speed; a gear reduction component for reducing the speed of the motor by a predetermined factor to a lower speed suitable for driving the wheel; and a drive electronics component that works with the electric drive motor to drive the wheel to the speed commanded by the vehicle dynamic control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: WRIGHTSPEED, INC.
    Inventors: Ian Wright, Ryan Cash
  • BATTERY MOUNTING AND COOLING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140178722
    Abstract: A battery system is provided in which the batteries are mounted between a pair of substrates, the system further including at least one cooling tube mounted next to the batteries, the cooling tube used to withdraw heat from the batteries via a circulating liquid coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey B. Straubel, Eugene Berdichevsky, David Lyons, Thomas Colson, Martin Eberhard, Ian Wright, Robert Ferber
  • Vehicle dynamics control in electric drive vehicles
    Patent number: 8718897
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed toward a geared traction drive system configured to drive a wheel of a vehicle, comprising: a driveshaft for transmitting power to the wheel; an electric drive motor for driving the driveshaft, the electric drive motor configured to receive signals from a vehicle dynamic control system to command a required speed; a gear reduction component for reducing the speed of the motor by a predetermined factor to a lower speed suitable for driving the wheel; and a drive electronics component that works with the electric drive motor to drive the wheel to the speed commanded by the vehicle dynamic control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Wrightspeed, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Wright, Ryan Cash