Patents by Inventor Joseph C. Winkler
Joseph C. Winkler 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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Patent number: 7711511Abstract: A railroad signal system interlocking is automatically tested. A control point interface corresponding to a predetermined function of the interlocking has an isolated section and a control section. The isolated section is connected with the interlocking and has a normal, inactivated state during operation of the interlocking, and an activated state for testing the interlocking by detecting an electrical characteristic representing the status of the predetermined function executed by the interlocking. The control section drives the isolated section to its activated state and receiving an output from the isolated section in response to the detected electrical characteristic, and delivers a status report.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2008Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Ultra-Tech Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Joseph C. Winkler, Paul J. Galburt, Donald P. Crosby, David K. Rayna, Christopher V. Traynor, George T. Briechle
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Publication number: 20080288202Abstract: A railroad signal system interlocking is automatically tested. A control point interface corresponding to a predetermined function of the interlocking has an isolated section and a control section. The isolated section is connected with the interlocking and has a normal, inactivated state during operation of the interlocking, and an activated state for testing the interlocking by detecting an electrical characteristic representing the status of the predetermined function executed by the interlocking. The control section drives the isolated section to its activated state and receiving an output from the isolated section in response to the detected electrical characteristic, and delivers a status report.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2008Publication date: November 20, 2008Inventors: Joseph C. Winkler, Paul J. Galburt, Donald P. Crosby, David K. Rayna, Christopher V. Traynor, George T. Briechle
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Patent number: 7363187Abstract: A railroad signal system interlocking is automatically tested. A control point interface corresponding to a predetermined function of the interlocking has an isolated section and a control section. The isolated section is connected with the interlocking and has a normal, inactivated state during operation of the interlocking, and an activated state for testing the interlocking by detecting an electrical characteristic representing the status of the predetermined function executed by the interlocking. The control section drives the isolated section to its activated state and receiving an output from the isolated section in response to the detected electrical characteristic, and delivers a status report.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Ultra-Tech Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Joseph C. Winkler, Paul J. Galburt, Donald P. Crosby, David K. Rayna, Christopher V. Traynor, George T. Briechle
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Patent number: 7000776Abstract: Screen assemblies for a vibratory separator and methods of using them, the screen assemblies in one aspect including a first screen portion having a first end and a second end spaced apart from the first end, a second screen portion adjacent the second end of the first screen portion, the second screen portion projecting down from the second end of the first screen portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2003Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: Varco I/P, Inc.Inventors: Joseph C. Winkler, Thomas C. Adams, Kenneth W. Seyffert, David Wayne Largent, David L. Schulte, Jr., Charles N. Grichar, Guy L. McClung, III
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Patent number: 6963202Abstract: A testing interface provides rapid, temporary connections to individual signal relays used in railroad signal systems when testing is required, and otherwise permits normal operation of railroad signal vital circuits through its connections. A connectivity block provides contacts that are used to isolate the relay from its application circuit and provide connectivity to the relay coils for testing when a connection paddle is inserted into the block. The interface allows fully automated or manual testing of installed relays without requiring removal from the relay rack.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2002Date of Patent: November 8, 2005Assignee: Ultra-Tech Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Joseph C. Winkler, Paul J. Galburt, Allan G. Swahn
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Publication number: 20040099578Abstract: Screen assemblies for a vibratory separator and methods of using them, the screen assemblies in one aspect including a first screen portion having a first end and a second end spaced apart from the first end, a second screen portion adjacent the second end of the first screen portion, the second screen portion projecting down from the second end of the first screen portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2003Publication date: May 27, 2004Inventors: Joseph C. Winkler, Thomas C. Adams, Kenneth W. Seyffert, David Wayne Largent, David L. Schulte, Charles N. Grichar, Guy L. McClung
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Publication number: 20040024555Abstract: A testing interface provides rapid, temporary connections to individual signal relays used in railroad signal systems when testing is required, and otherwise permits normal operation of railroad signal vital circuits through its connections. A connectivity block provides contacts that are used to isolate the relay from its application circuit and provide connectivity to the relay coils for testing when a connection paddle is inserted into the block. The interface allows fully automated or manual testing of installed relays without requiring removal from the relay rack.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2002Publication date: February 5, 2004Inventors: Joseph C. Winkler, Paul J. Galburt, Allan G. Swahn
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Patent number: 6290068Abstract: A screen assembly for a vibratory separator has been invented, which, in certain aspects, has at least two ridge-valley series of screening material with a plurality of alternating ridges and valleys of screening material, and at least one ridge-valley series of screening material offset from at least one other ridge-valley series of screening material. A screen assembly for a vibratory separator has been invented, which, in certain aspects, has at least one ridge-valley series of screening material, said ridge-valley series including a plurality of ridges each ridge between valleys of a plurality of valleys, and each ridge having a first end spaced apart from a second end, said first end having a top wider than a top of second end.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1999Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Tuboscope I/P, Inc.Inventors: Thomas C. Adams, Kenneth W. Seyffert, David W. Largent, David L. Schulte, Guy L. McClung, III, Jeffrey E. Walker, Hector M. Murray, James F. Maroney, III, Joseph C. Winkler
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Patent number: 6269953Abstract: A screen assembly for a vibratory separator has been invented, which, in certain aspects, has at least two ridge-valley series of screening material with a plurality of alternating ridges and valleys of screening material, and at least one flat area of screening material adjacent at least one of the ridge-valley series.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1999Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignee: Tuboscope I/P, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth W. Seyffert, Thomas W. Adams, David W. Largent, Charles N. Grichar, David L. Schulte, Jr., Guy L. McClung, III, Jeffrey E. Walker, Hector M. Murray, James F. Maroney, III, Joseph C. Winkler
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Patent number: 5455868Abstract: An amplitude responsive detection system analyzes the amplitude characteristic of a received noise and determines whether that characteristic conforms to the predictable audio signature of a gunshot. If a received noise reaches a predetermined amplitude level within a rise time that may be indicative of a gunshot, subsequent amplitude criteria are established representing the decay of the amplitude profile that is expected if the noise is a gunshot. The amplitude criteria are controlled as to both level and occurrence in time to provide a dynamic range that will accommodate near and far gunshots.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1994Date of Patent: October 3, 1995Assignee: Edward W. SergentInventors: Edward W. Sergent, Joseph C. Winkler
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Patent number: 4743908Abstract: A traffic radar unit capable of looking past the lead vehicle of oncoming traffic and discovering and identifying a violator employs master and slave antennas having diverging boresights that provide overlapping relative power density radiation patterns. The radar return signal from a target of interest is received by each antenna to produce two independent Doppler signals of the same frequency which are processed by respective master and slave signal processing channels. In the illustrated embodiment, a reference boresight is established in the overlapped patterns such that a target position along the reference boresight occurs at the time that the amplitudes of the two Doppler signals are equal. Controllable high pass filters whose passbands are shifted upwardly in response to return signals of increasing amplitude attenuate stronger, lower frequency interfering signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1985Date of Patent: May 10, 1988Assignee: M. P. H. Industries, Inc.Inventors: John R. Brassfield, Roger A. Jones, Edward W. Sergent, Joseph C. Winkler