Patents by Inventor Jeremy A. Thomas

Jeremy A. Thomas 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).

  • SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR A TRACTION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190054930
    Abstract: Examples for a traction system are provided. In one example, the traction system includes a nozzle coupled to an air source and configured to be selectively aimed toward a determined portion of a rail surface of a rail, and a conduit configured to supply pressurized air from the air source to the nozzle, the nozzle flexibly coupled thereto. The nozzle is configured for the aim of the nozzle to be controlled to change its aiming direction in response to a change in curvature of the rail, whereby a stream of air from the nozzle impacts the determined portion during movement of the vehicle through the curvature of the rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Justin Winston, Adrian Jerzy Gorski, Bret Dwayne Worden, Brian Douglas Lawry, Matthew John Malone, Jennifer Lynn Coyne, Jeremy Thomas McGarry
  • Network Access Coordination of Load Control Devices
    Publication number: 20190006846
    Abstract: An apparatus may control the power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load, and may comprise a controllably conductive device. The apparatus may also comprise a controller that may be operatively coupled to a control input of the controllably conductive device. The apparatus may also include a first wireless communication circuit operable to communicate via a first protocol and to join a first wireless communication network operable to communicate via the first protocol. The first wireless communication circuit may be in communication with the controller. The controller may be operative to determine a first condition for communicating via the first protocol. The controller may also be operable to control the first wireless communication circuit to join the first wireless communication network upon the first condition being satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Jeremy Thomas Neyhart
  • ADVANCED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PATIENT BODY TEMPERATURE CONTROL
    Publication number: 20180325725
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for controlling the temperature of all or part of the body of a human or animal subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak, Gary A. Freeman
  • WORKING FLUID CASSETTE WITH HINGED PLENUM OR ENCLOSURE FOR INTERFACING HEAT EXCHANGER WITH INTRAVASCULAR TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT CATHETER
    Publication number: 20180311072
    Abstract: An enclosure or plenum that supports a looped pump tube is hingedly connected to a framed thin-walled heat exchange bag through which working fluid from an intravascular heat exchange catheter flows. The frame with bag can be inserted between cold plates to exchange heat with the working fluid flowing through the bag. With the framed bag between the plates, the looped pump tube from the enclosure or plenum is receivable in the raceway of a peristaltic pump, which pumps working fluid through the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Christo Petrov Pamichev, Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak
  • Systems and method for a traction system
    Patent number: 10106177
    Abstract: Examples for a traction system are provided. In one example, the traction system includes a nozzle coupled to an air source and configured to be selectively aimed toward a determined portion of a rail surface of a rail, and a conduit configured to supply pressurized air from the air source to the nozzle, the nozzle flexibly coupled thereto. The nozzle is configured for the aim of the nozzle to be controlled to change its aiming direction in response to a change in curvature of the rail, whereby a stream of air from the nozzle impacts the determined portion during movement of the vehicle through the curvature of the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Justin Winston, Adrian Jerzy Gorski, Bret Dwayne Worden, Brian Douglas Lawry, Matthew John Malone, Jennifer Lynn Coyne, Jeremy Thomas McGarry
  • Dialysis medical system with a portable control unit
    Patent number: 10086125
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to detecting fluid in medical tubing. In certain aspects, a method is performed by a data processing apparatus. The method includes controlling repetitive activation of the ultrasonic transmitter. The method also includes receiving a signal from the ultrasonic receiver during an activation of the ultrasonic transmitter. The method also includes determining that fluid is absent or present in a portion of the medical fluid tube based on a comparison between the signal and a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Nigel Wright, Samuel Ernest Magargi, III, Jeremy Thomas Harbaugh, Michael John Zang, Regis Joseph Winniewicz, Jr., Joseph Stephen Beri, Douglas Mark Zatezalo, Tom Monahan, Ronald Robert Fox
  • Network access coordination of load control devices
    Patent number: 10050444
    Abstract: An apparatus may control the power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load, and may comprise a controllably conductive device. The apparatus may also comprise a controller that may be operatively coupled to a control input of the controllably conductive device. The apparatus may also include a first wireless communication circuit operable to communicate via a first protocol and to join a first wireless communication network operable to communicate via the first protocol. The first wireless communication circuit may be in communication with the controller. The controller may be operative to determine a first condition for communicating via the first protocol. The controller may also be operable to control the first wireless communication circuit to join the first wireless communication network upon the first condition being satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: LUTRON ELECTRONICS CO., INC.
    Inventor: Jeremy Thomas Neyhart
  • DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENDOVASCULAR TEMPERATURE CONTROL
    Publication number: 20180214303
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for controlling a patient's body temperature by endovascular heat exchange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak, Jessica Megan Clayton, John Thomas Buckley, Christo Petrov Pamichev, Craig Wendell Pendry, Paul Eric Peterson, Richard Allen Smith, Sean W Yip, John William Jacobsen
  • DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENDOVASCULAR TEMPERATURE CONTROL
    Publication number: 20180214302
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for controlling a patient's body temperature by endovascular heat exchange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak, Jessica Megan Clayton, John Thomas Buckley, Christo Petrov Pamichev, Craig Wendell Pendry, Paul Eric Peterson, Richard Allen Smith, Sean W. Yip
  • MANAGING PATIENT BODY TEMPERATURE USING ENDOVASCULAR HEAT EXCHANGE IN COMBINATION WITH BODY SURFACE HEAT EXCHANGE
    Publication number: 20180207024
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes devices, systems and related methods useable for controlling a patient's body temperature by endovascular heat exchange as well as body surface heat exchange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak, Mark G. Mitchell, James D. Mazzone, Jeffrey R. Resnick
  • Working fluid cassette with hinged plenum or enclosure for interfacing heat exchanger with intravascular temperature management catheter
    Patent number: 10022265
    Abstract: An enclosure or plenum that supports a looped pump tube is hingedly connected to a framed thin-walled heat exchange bag through which working fluid from an intravascular heat exchange catheter flows. The frame with bag can be inserted between cold plates to exchange heat with the working fluid flowing through the bag. With the framed bag between the plates, the looped pump tube from the enclosure or plenum is receivable in the raceway of a peristaltic pump, which pumps working fluid through the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Zoll Circulation, Inc.
    Inventors: Christo Petrov Pamichev, Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak
  • HEAT EXCHANGE SYSTEM FOR PATIENT TEMPERATURE CONTROL WITH EASY LOADING HIGH PERFORMANCE PERISTALTIC PUMP
    Publication number: 20180128258
    Abstract: A peristaltic pump has an arcuate raceway with a partially concave inner surface extending through an arc of at least one hundred eighty degrees (180°). The arc defines a midpoint, and a rotor faces the inner surface of the raceway and is both rotatable relative to the raceway and translationally movable relative to the raceway between a pump position, wherein the rotor is spaced from the midpoint a first distance, and a tube load position, wherein the rotor is spaced from the midpoint a second distance greater than the first distance. A motor is coupled to the rotor to rotate the rotor plural are rollers arranged on the rotor to contact tubing disposed between the rotor and the raceway when the rotor is in the pump position. The motor is prevented from stopping at a predetermined angular position to facilitate loading and unloading tubing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Austin Reid Hendricks, Christo Petrov Pamichev, Venkata Vishnu Gurukula, Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak
  • Dispensing device and group of such dispensing devices
    Patent number: 9938132
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dispensing device for flowable products, the dispensing device comprising: at least a first and second plugs adapted to allow or prevent the flow of product; a first guide block comprising a guide hole adapted to guide the first plug, and a channel in communication with the guide hole, that allows the passage of maintenance fluid; a second guide block isolated from the first guide block, the second guide block comprising a guide hole able to guide the second plug, and a channel for passage of maintenance fluid, and a coupling adapted to connect in a fluidtight manner the channel of the first guide block to the channel of the second guide block, in order to allow the passage of maintenance fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: PCM TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Jeremy Thomas, Manuel Brule
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VEHICLE SYSTEM CONTROL
    Publication number: 20170369083
    Abstract: A method for controlling a vehicle system includes determining a vehicle reference speed using an off-board-based input speed and an onboard-based input speed. The off-board-based input speed is representative of a moving speed of the vehicle system and is determined from data received from an off-board device. The onboard-based input speed is representative of the moving speed of the vehicle system and is determined from data obtained from an onboard device. The method includes using the vehicle reference speed to at least one of measure wheel creep for one or more wheels of the vehicle system or control at least one of torques applied by or rotational speeds of one or more motors of the vehicle system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: David Bradley PULLIAM, Ajith Kuttannair KUMAR, Bret Dwayne WORDEN, Jeremy Thomas MCGARRY, Kevin Ray RUYBAL
  • ADHESION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20170320502
    Abstract: A system for controlling a consist of rail vehicles or other vehicles includes a control unit electrically coupled to a first rail vehicle in the consist, the control unit having a processor and being configured to receive signals representing a presence and position of one or more tractive effort systems on-board the first vehicle and other rail vehicles in the consist, and a set of instructions stored in a non-transient medium accessible by the processor, the instructions configured to control the processor to create a optimization schedule that manages the use of the one or more tractive effort systems based on the presence and position of the tractive effort systems within the consist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Bret Dwayne WORDEN, Brian Douglas LAWRY, Jeremy Thomas MCGARRY, Jennifer Lynn COYNE, Matthew John MALONE
  • Heat Exchange Catheters with Bi-Directional Fluid Flow and Their Methods of Manufacture and Use
    Publication number: 20170290701
    Abstract: Closed loop heat exchange catheters having bi-directional flow heat exchange regions and their methods of manufacture and use. The heat exchange region may be formed of expandable or non-expandable tubular conduit(s) that are configured in a series of loops or coiled configuration defining a supply flow path and a return flow path through which heat exchange medium is circulated. The individual loops of convolutions of the coiled configuration may be the same or different size. In some embodiments, the tubular conduit(s) may be passed through generally transverse bore holes formed in a catheter shaft so that the loops or convolutions of protrude from the catheter shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak
  • Heat exchange system for patient temperature control with easy loading high performance peristaltic pump
    Patent number: 9784263
    Abstract: A peristaltic pump has an arcuate raceway with a partially concave inner surface extending through an arc of at least one hundred eighty degrees (180°). The arc defines a midpoint, and a rotor faces the inner surface of the raceway and is both rotatable relative to the raceway and translationally movable relative to the raceway between a pump position, wherein the rotor is spaced from the midpoint a first distance, and a tube load position, wherein the rotor is spaced from the midpoint a second distance greater than the first distance. A motor is coupled to the rotor to rotate the rotor plural are rollers arranged on the rotor to contact tubing disposed between the rotor and the raceway when the rotor is in the pump position. The motor is prevented from stopping at a predetermined angular position to facilitate loading and unloading tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: ZOLL CIRCULATION, INC.
    Inventors: Austin Reid Hendricks, Christo Petrov Pamichev, Venkata Vishnu Gurukula, Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak
  • CATALYST MODULES AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF
    Publication number: 20170266617
    Abstract: In one aspect, catalyst modules and catalytic reactors are provided which, in some embodiments, mitigate inefficiencies and/or problems associated with fluid stream pressure drop A catalyst module comprises a layer of structural catalyst bodies arranged in a pleated format, the structural catalyst bodies forming pleat inlet faces and pleat outlet faces, wherein fluid flow channels defined by inner partition walls of the structural catalyst bodies extend from the pleat inlet faces to the pleat outlet faces. The pleat inlet faces form an angle (?) with an inlet face of the module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Chris DIFRANCESCO, Scot PRITCHARD, Eric Baker HOWELL, Jeremy Thomas FREEMAN
  • System and method of vehicle system control
    Patent number: 9751542
    Abstract: A method for controlling a vehicle system includes determining a vehicle reference speed using an off-board-based input speed and an onboard-based input speed. The off-board-based input speed is representative of a moving speed of the vehicle system and is determined from data received from an off-board device. The onboard-based input speed is representative of the moving speed of the vehicle system and is determined from data obtained from an onboard device. The method includes using the vehicle reference speed to at least one of measure wheel creep for one or more wheels of the vehicle system or control at least one of torques applied by or rotational speeds of one or more motors of the vehicle system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: David Bradley Pulliam, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Bret Dwayne Worden, Jeremy Thomas McGarry, Kevin Ray Ruybal
  • Adhesion control system and method
    Patent number: 9718480
    Abstract: A system for controlling a consist of rail vehicles or other vehicles includes a control unit electrically coupled to a first rail vehicle in the consist, the control unit having a processor and being configured to receive signals representing a presence and position of one or more tractive effort systems on-board the first vehicle and other rail vehicles in the consist, and a set of instructions stored in a non-transient medium accessible by the processor, the instructions configured to control the processor to create a optimization schedule that manages the use of the one or more tractive effort systems based on the presence and position of the tractive effort systems within the consist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Bret Dwayne Worden, Brian Douglas Lawry, Jeremy Thomas McGarry, Jennifer Lynn Coyne, Matthew John Malone