Patents by Inventor Jerald F. Lowry

Jerald F. Lowry 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: 6571043
    Abstract: This invention encompasses a method for the manufacture and rapid assembly of large screen fiber optic displays (1, 2) containing a very large number of individual fibers (thousands to hundreds of thousands, or more). The display surface is modularized into relatively small, thin, interchangeable, injection-molded square or rectangular tiles (3) to simplify manufacture and assembly. The hundreds of fibers (7) required for each tile (3) are machine-configured into a plurality of flat, flexible fiber optic ribbon cables (4), each cable (4) comprised of a planar geometric array of optical fibers (7) embedded in a thin adhesive matrix (8). The image emission end of each flat, flexible fiber optic cable (4) is a fiber manifold (20) joined to an injection-molded thermoplastic array of light guides (11), each fiber terminating in a single light guide or emitter (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Transvision
    Inventors: Brian C. Lowry, Jerald F. Lowry
  • Publication number: 20020105480
    Abstract: A large screen display system includes a mounting grid and an array of electro-optical display tile modules arranged to form a three-dimensional shape. The system includes a mounting frame formed into a three-dimensional configuration such as a whole or partial cylinder, sphere, cone, pyramid, box, or combinations thereof, or any other three-dimensional geometric configuration. The array of electro-optical display tile modules is in electrical communication with a computing or electronic processing device, such as a computer. The computer is equipped with a specialized video card for apportioning a composite video image into a plurality of segments and communicating each video image segment to a corresponding electro-optical display tile module such that the array of electro-optical display tile modules reconstitutes and displays the composite video image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Applicant: Transvision, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian C. Lowry, Jerald F. Lowry, Evan Wimer
  • Publication number: 20020097230
    Abstract: An apparatus for remote interface with a display includes a controlling computing or processing device and data acquisition apparatus, such as a data acquisition card housed within the controlling computer. The apparatus also includes an image projector, an input matrix, an array of display optical fibers, and an array of detection optical fibers. The apparatus further includes a display panel, a display and detection surface, a photosensor array, a plurality of light paths, and an optical pointing device for remote graphic interface with images on the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Transvision, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian C. Lowry, Jerald F. Lowry
  • Patent number: 6396985
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in contoured architectural milieus includes a contoured large screen display having a mounting means to which modular flat display tiles including, tiles of diverse or non-standard shapes and sizes are attached, each display tile having a plurality of optical fibers affixed behind the tile and communicating with a front surface of the tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Transvision, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian C. Lowry, Jerald F. Lowry
  • Publication number: 20010042014
    Abstract: A method and system for providing communication between a vendor and a client includes a large screen display connected into a network that enables client/vendor communication. Through the network, the vendor's server provides the desired content to the display. For a network of displays, the content may be the same on all displays or unique to each display. The display includes a transmitter and a receiver. Clients interact with the display using a wireless communications or computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Inventors: Brian C. Lowry, Jerald F. Lowry, Joseph Marnell, Evan Wimer
  • Publication number: 20010010745
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in contoured architectural milieus includes a contoured large screen display having a mounting means to which modular flat display tiles including, tiles of diverse or non-standard shapes and sizes are attached, each display tile having a plurality of optical fibers affixed behind the tile and communicating with a front surface of the tile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: August 2, 2001
    Inventors: Brian C. Lowry, Jerald F. Lowry
  • Patent number: 5956957
    Abstract: A cryostat having inner and outer vessels, with a containment vessel disposed in the interior of the cryostat spaced from the inner vessel wall. The containment vessel houses a superconducting coil immersed in a liquid helium bath which is prevented from contacting the inner vessel wall. Primary and secondary shielding arrangements help to intercept heat transferred by gas conduction and radiation. For relatively high power operation wherein the coil is charged and discharged frequently, the inner and outer vessels are fabricated of a non-magnetic composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventors: Jerald F. Lowry, Owen R. Christianson
  • Patent number: 5683179
    Abstract: A quench detector for determining a conductive state in an energized superconductor, including a thermoluminescent quenching sensor in thermal contact with the superconductor and producing a quenching signal corresponding to the conductive state; and a signal processor connected to the quenching sensor, the signal processor determining the conductive state, responsive to the quenching signal. Also a method for detecting a conductive state in an energized superconductor includes detecting a luminescence signal from a thermoluminescent sensor in intimate thermal contact with, and responsive to, a temperature of the energized superconductor; comparing the luminescence signal to a threshold to determine the existence of the conductive state; and responding to the conductive state with a predetermined response. The method can include activating the thermoluminescent sensor by irradiating the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventor: Jerald F. Lowry
  • Patent number: 5278380
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet coil is protected from local damage due to quenching by inductively driven heaters formed by heater strips embedded in the coil and connected in closed loops. A cold bypass diode shunting the coil winding commutates current out of the magnet when the voltage drop across the region of the coil which has gone normal exceeds the forward bias of the diode. This change in coil current induces sufficient current in the heater loops to cause the entire coil to go normal for uniform dissipation of stored energy throughout the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventor: Jerald F. Lowry
  • Patent number: 4979704
    Abstract: An apparatus for holding a superconducting cable comprising a support structure having grooves and a slot that receives the cable. The apparatus is also comprised of at least one cable retaining clip. The clip is fitted into the grooves and held thereby such that the clip retains the cable in the slot and in contact with the support structure. In a preferred embodiment, the clip and the support structure are made out of different materials with the clip made of a material that has a lower coefficient of thermal expansion that the material of which the support structure is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Jerald F. Lowry, Jeffrey T. Dederer