Patents by Inventor James A. Bray
James A. Bray 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: 20240096159Abstract: A door system includes a corridor sized to allow humans to move through the corridor, the corridor having a first door located at a first end; a second door located at the second end; a controller operatively connected to the first and second doors for controlling the first and second doors; a first sensor oriented to detect an object on the floor, the first sensor operatively connected to the controller and a second sensor oriented to detect an object above the floor in the corridor wherein the second sensor is operatively connected to the controller and the controller is configured to one of: a) turn off the second sensor when the first sensor detects an object on the floor and b) not respond when the second sensor detects and object above the floor when the first sensor detects and object on the floor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Jason L. Ryan, Daniel Seymour, Don Bray, James W. Palmer, Federico Romero
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Patent number: 11489390Abstract: A stator assembly includes an annular body extending about a central axis and a plurality of stator teeth extending axially from the annular body and spaced circumferentially about the annular body. The stator assembly includes at least one conduction coil and at least one bobbin configured to support the at least one conduction coil. The at least one bobbin is coupled to a first stator tooth such that the at least one conduction coil extends about the first stator tooth. The stator assembly further includes at least one insulation member configured to couple to a second stator tooth and extend into a slot between the second stator tooth and the at least one conduction coil. The at least one insulation member includes an end wall configured to cover the distal end of the second stator tooth when the at least one insulation member is coupled to the second stator tooth.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Aaron Henry, Shirish Vatkar, Paul Nathanael Selking, Alan Jacob Manz, Don James Bray
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Publication number: 20220161067Abstract: A system and method for protecting against respiratory hazards, the system including: a mask for placement on a face of a user, a hood configured to cover the head of the user and interface with the mask, an air blower configured to provide air to the hood, at least one filter configured to filter air entering the hood via the air blower, at least one pressure sensor, provided to the hood, and a controller to receive data from the at least one pressure sensor and configured to control the blower to maintain a predetermined air pressure in the hood. The method includes measuring a pressure reading related to the system, increasing blower power if the pressure reading is less than a pressure limit, and decreasing blower power if the pressure reading is greater than the pressure limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Harold Alexander Angel, Jordan James Bray-Miners
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Publication number: 20220161068Abstract: A system for protecting against respiratory hazards, the system comprising a hood configured to cover a head of a user and interface with a mask, when the mask is positioned on a face of the user; an air blower connected with the hood in order to provide air to an interior of the hood; at least one pressure sensor coupled to a controller, the at least one sensor for measuring air pressure at a selected location; and the controller to receive data from the at least one pressure sensor and configured to control the air blower to dynamically adjust the air pressure in the interior of the hood to a set pressure, such that the controller configures operation of the air blower by an operational mode selected from a plurality of operational modes, such that each of the operational modes are represented by a different set of operational parameters including the set pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Harold Alexander ANGEL, Jordan James Bray-Miners
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Patent number: 10819178Abstract: An insulation member for a stator assembly includes a first portion configured to couple to a first stator tooth and a second portion movably coupled to the first portion. The insulation member has a first configuration and a second configuration. The second portion is configured to move relative to the first portion when the insulation member moves between the first configuration and the second configuration. The second portion is configured to extend adjacent a second stator tooth when the first portion is coupled to the first stator tooth and the insulation member is in the second configuration.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: REGAL BELOIT AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Joseph Aaron Henry, Shirish Vatkar, Alan Jacob Manz, Don James Bray, Steven Wilfred Post, Paul Nathanael Selking
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Publication number: 20190006901Abstract: A stator assembly includes an annular body extending about a central axis and a plurality of stator teeth extending axially from the annular body and spaced circumferentially about the annular body. The stator assembly includes at least one conduction coil and at least one bobbin configured to support the at least one conduction coil. The at least one bobbin is coupled to a first stator tooth such that the at least one conduction coil extends about the first stator tooth. The stator assembly further includes at least one insulation member configured to couple to a second stator tooth and extend into a slot between the second stator tooth and the at least one conduction coil. The at least one insulation member includes an end wall configured to cover the distal end of the second stator tooth when the at least one insulation member is coupled to the second stator tooth.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: Joseph Aaron Henry, Shirish Vatkar, Paul Nathanael Selking, Alan Jacob Manz, Don James Bray
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Publication number: 20180205280Abstract: An insulation member for a stator assembly includes a first portion configured to couple to a first stator tooth and a second portion movably coupled to the first portion. The insulation member has a first configuration and a second configuration. The second portion is configured to move relative to the first portion when the insulation member moves between the first configuration and the second configuration. The second portion is configured to extend adjacent a second stator tooth when the first portion is coupled to the first stator tooth and the insulation member is in the second configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2017Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: JOSEPH AARON HENRY, Shirish Vatkar, Alan Jacob Manz, Don James Bray, Steven Wilfred Post, Paul Nathanael Selking
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Publication number: 20180191228Abstract: In one embodiment an apparatus can include a plurality of magnetic material layers. In one embodiment, an apparatus can include one or more electrically insulating layer, wherein the plurality of magnetic material layers and the one or more electrically insulating layer define a stacked up structure, wherein an electrically insulating layer of the one or more electrically insulating layer includes thermally conductive dielectric material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2016Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: General ElectricInventors: Yong LIANG, James BRAY, Francis JOHNSON, John KRAHN, Vance ROBINSON, Manoj SHAH
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Patent number: 8436499Abstract: The present application and the resultant patent provide a superconducting electrical machine. The superconducting electrical machine may include an armature coil made of a high temperature superconducting material, a cooling system, and a field coil. The cooling system may include a cryostat surrounding the armature coil and a foam insulation surrounding the cryostat.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2011Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Tao Zhang, Evangelos Laskaris, Manoj Shah, James Bray, Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran
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Publication number: 20110285219Abstract: The present application and the resultant patent provide a superconducting electrical machine. The superconducting electrical machine may include an armature coil made of a high temperature superconducting material, a cooling system, and a field coil. The cooling system may include a cryostat surrounding the armature coil and a foam insulation surrounding the cryostat.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Tao Zhang, Evangelos Laskaris, Manoj Shah, James Bray, Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran
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Publication number: 20070240451Abstract: A cooling system for high temperature superconductor equipment comprising a cryocooler in heat exchange relationship with the high temperature superconductor equipment, and an air separation unit in heat exchange relationship with the cryocooler, the system arranged such that heat from the high temperature superconductor equipment is rejected to said air separation unit via the cryocooler.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2005Publication date: October 18, 2007Inventors: James Fogarty, Albert Steinbach, James Bray, John Urbahn, Richard Depuy
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Publication number: 20070120539Abstract: The disclosed technology is a cryogenic static exciter. The cryogenic static exciter is connected to a synchronous electric machine that has a field winding. The synchronous electric machine is cooled via a refrigerator or cryogen like liquid nitrogen. The static exciter is in communication with the field winding and is operating at ambient temperature. The static exciter receives cooling from a refrigerator or cryogen source, which may also service the synchronous machine, to selected areas of the static exciter and the cooling selectively reduces the operating temperature of the selected areas of the static exciter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2005Publication date: May 31, 2007Inventors: James Bray, Luis Garces
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Publication number: 20070108979Abstract: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system having a vacuum vessel positioned about an imaging volume, one or more high temperature superconducting coils positioned within the vacuum vessel, and a cryocooler coupled to the vacuum vessel to operate the superconducting coil at a temperature above 10 K. At least one gradient coil is positioned between an imaging volume and the superconducting coil without any thermal shielding interposed between the gradient coil and the superconducting coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2005Publication date: May 17, 2007Inventors: David Ryan, J. Ryan, Evangelos Laskaris, Kathleen Amm, Bruce Knudsen, Judson Marte, Thomas Raber, Robert Zabala, James Bray, Bruce Amm, Sergio Loureiro
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Publication number: 20070085427Abstract: A portable power system has a turbine engine generating mechanical energy. A homopolar electrical machine receives this energy. The homopolar electrical machine has a single stationary superconducting field coil configured to create a magnetic field. A homopolar rotor is configured to rotate within the magnetic field such that a rotating magnetic field is created in a stationary winding by interaction of the rotating permeance wave produced by the homopolar rotor and the magnetic field produced by the single stationary field coil. The homopolar electrical machine is configured as a generator and produces electrical power for the portable power system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2005Publication date: April 19, 2007Inventors: Kirubaharan Sivasubramaniam, Evangelos Laskaris, James Bray, James Fogarty
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Publication number: 20060182621Abstract: A fluid transfer device and a method for conveying a fluid from a fluid transfer device to a rotating member are provided. The fluid transfer device includes a housing disposed around a first rotating member extending along an axis. The housing has a first plurality of apertures extending therethrough that communicate with the fluid source. The first rotating member has a second plurality of passageways extending from a first exterior surface of the first rotating member to a third passageway extending generally axially within the first rotating member. Further, at least a portion of the second plurality of passageways communicate with at least a portion of the first plurality of apertures, wherein the fluid flows through the first plurality of apertures and the second plurality of passageways to the third passageway in the first rotating member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2005Publication date: August 17, 2006Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Evangelos Laskaris, Bharat Bagepalli, James Bray, Aniruddha Gadre
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Publication number: 20060131981Abstract: An electrical machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator has a central opening that is configured to receive the rotor. The rotor includes a generally cylindrical first section comprising a first material mounted on an axially extending shaft within the central opening. The rotor further includes a second section having a second material of a predetermined thickness that is plated integrally over at least a portion of the first section. The second material has a higher electrical conductivity relative to the first material. In certain embodiments, the electrical machine may include a stator support structure having a clamping member comprising a first material and configured to rigidly position the stator around the rotor. The stator support structure further includes an electrically conductive layer comprising a second material plated integrally over the clamping structure, wherein the second material has a higher electrical conductivity relative to the first material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2004Publication date: June 22, 2006Inventors: James Bray, Kiruba Sivasubramaniam, Manoj Shah
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Publication number: 20060119193Abstract: A superconducting coil assembly includes a plurality of circuit branches. Each circuit branch of the plurality of circuit branches is electrically connected in parallel to each other. Each circuit branch is disposed at a structural core. Each circuit branch of the plurality of circuit branches includes a coil wound from a superconducting wire and a resistive means electrically connected in series to the coil. The coil from each circuit branch forms a plurality of coils with respect to the plurality of circuit branches.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2004Publication date: June 8, 2006Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Evangelos Laskaris, James Fogarty, Xianrui Huang, James Bray
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Publication number: 20060068611Abstract: A method of manufacturing a heat transfer device including providing first and second thermally conductive substrates that are substantially atomically flat, providing a patterned electrical barrier on the first or second thermally conductive substrates and disposing a low work function material on the first or second thermally conductive substrates in an area oriented between the patterned electrical barrier in a configuration in which the first and second thermally conductive substrates are positioned opposite from one another. The method also includes bonding the first and second thermally conductive substrates in the configuration and extracting a plurality of units having opposite sections of the first and second thermally conductive substrates, each unit having a portion of the patterned electrical barrier disposed about the low work function material.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2004Publication date: March 30, 2006Inventors: Stanton Weaver, James Bray, Ahmed Elasser, Seth Taylor
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Publication number: 20060028085Abstract: A machine includes a rotatable rotor assembly having a number of salient poles. The machine further includes a stationary stator assembly having concentric inner and outer stators, at least one stationary superconducting field coil and at least one stator coil. The stationary superconducting field coil is disposed between the inner and outer stators and is mounted on at least one of the inner and outer stators. The stationary superconducting field coil and the salient poles are configured relative to each other, such that when the rotor assembly is rotated relative to the stator assembly around a predetermined axis, a rotating magnetic field is produced with an airgap flux direction substantially along the predetermined axis. The interaction between the stationary superconducting field coil and the rotating poles provides the only source of a time varying magnetic flux supplied to the stator coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2005Publication date: February 9, 2006Inventors: Ronghai Qu, James Bray
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Publication number: 20050286180Abstract: A system and method for protecting a superconductor from a quench condition. A quench protection system is provided to protect the superconductor from damage due to a quench condition. The quench protection system comprises a voltage detector operable to detect voltage across the superconductor. The system also comprises a frequency filter coupled to the voltage detector. The frequency filter is operable to couple voltage signals to a control circuit that are representative of a rise in superconductor voltage caused by a quench condition and to block voltage signals that are not. The system is operable to detect whether a quench condition exists in the superconductor based on the voltage signal received via the frequency filter and to initiate a protective action in response.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2004Publication date: December 29, 2005Inventors: Xianrui Huang, Kiruba Sivasubramaniam, James Bray, David Ryan