Patents by Inventor Kenneth Gravenstede

Kenneth Gravenstede 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: 10718810
    Abstract: A Transistor Resonant Characteristic Sensor (TReCS) includes a sensing element positioned along electronic equipment so that the sensing element is electromagnetically coupled to the electronic equipment. The sensing element includes a coil. The sensing element is configured to detect magnetic oscillations associated with a characteristic signal generated by the electronic equipment. The TReCS sensor further includes an evaluation circuit connected to the sensing element for monitoring health state of the electronic equipment. The evaluation circuit includes one or more processing elements configured to diagnose health state of the electronic equipment based on extracted baseband information associated with the characteristic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Patrick W. Kalgren, Kenneth Gravenstede, Evan Grundman, John Gorton
  • Publication number: 20180180671
    Abstract: A Transistor Resonant Characteristic Sensor (TReCS) includes a sensing element positioned along electronic equipment so that the sensing element is electromagnetically coupled to the electronic equipment. The sensing element includes a coil. The sensing element is configured to detect magnetic oscillations associated with a characteristic signal generated by the electronic equipment. The TReCS sensor further includes an evaluation circuit connected to the sensing element for monitoring health state of the electronic equipment. The evaluation circuit includes one or more processing elements configured to diagnose health state of the electronic equipment based on extracted baseband information associated with the characteristic signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Patrick W. Kalgren, Kenneth Gravenstede, Evan Grundman, John Gorton
  • Publication number: 20180088004
    Abstract: A measuring system, method, and/or computer program that realizes physics-based relations between sensor readings to monitor for degradations and predict failures of power systems is provided. For example, the supply and return of fuel in a power system is provided by a fuel injection system. The fuel injection system responds to changes in loads and system conditions, such as to compensate for fuel loss due to fuel combustion, by continuously and instantaneously changing the fuel flow. This behavior by the fuel injection system creates characteristic signatures. These characteristic signatures are instantaneously detected and utilized by the measuring system, method, and/or computer program to detect healthy, degrading, failing, and failed mechanical conditions so as to monitor for degradations and predict failures of the power system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Patrick W. Kalgren, Brian Drost, Kenneth Gravenstede
  • Publication number: 20180045791
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a health state of electronic equipment is provided and includes capturing data of an operation of the electronic equipment over a sampling range of predefined length, storing captured data in a storage unit and characterizing a behavior of the operation of the electronic equipment based on an analysis of stored captured data in an event a predefined time has expired or the storage unit has reached maximum capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Patrick W. Kalgren, Kenneth Gravenstede