Patents by Inventor Kevin Walters
Kevin Walters 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: 20200036273Abstract: A linear electromagnetic machine includes a stator, a translator, and a bearing system. The bearing system maintains alignment against lateral displacement of the translator relative to the stator, as the translator reciprocates axially. More particularly, the bearing system maintains a motor air gap between the stator and a magnetic section of the translator. The stator includes a plurality of stator teeth and windings, which form a plurality of phases. The stator teeth and windings are arranged using a hoop stack with spines to form a stator bore and define the motor air gap. The bearing system can include bearing housings that are configured to form a bearing interface with a surface of the translator. The bearing interface can include a contact bearing or a non-contact bearing, such as a gas bearing. Current is controlled in the phases to convert between electrical energy and kinetic energy of the translator.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: John Lawler, John Powers, Scott Coakley, Alan Crapo, David DeGraaff, Christopher David Gadda, Andrew Hancock, Shannon Miller, Samuel Sherman, Matthew Svrcek, Kevin Walters
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Patent number: 10427304Abstract: A system and method for robotic charger alignment comprises receiving at a robotic charger, a device identification of a receiving device; retrieving a reference object (RO) of the receiving device from a database indexed by the device identification; imaging the receiving device to form at least two images having an angle therebetween with respect to a common location on the receiving device; calculating, by an alignment processing device, a stereo disparity depth map from the at least two images; acquiring an acquired point cloud (APC) from the stereo disparity depth map; generating, by the alignment processing device, rotation and translation data by aligning the RO to the APC; inferring an inlet port location from the RO; and moving the robotic charger proximal to the inlet port using the RO, Rot and T data.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: POWERHYDRANT LLCInventor: Kevin Walter Leary
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Patent number: 10385253Abstract: A friction reducing treatment solution that includes water, from 100 to 500,000 ppm of total dissolved solids, and from 0.5 to 3 gallons per thousand gallons of a water-in-oil emulsion containing a water soluble polymer. The total dissolved solids include at least 10 weight percent of a multivalent cation. The water-in-oil emulsion includes an oil phase and an aqueous phase, where the oil phase is a continuous phase containing an inert hydrophobic liquid and the aqueous phase is present as dispersed distinct particles in the oil phase and contains water, the water soluble polymer, and surfactants and an inverting surfactant. The water soluble polymer is made up of 20 to 80 weight percent of a non-ionic monomer, 0.5 to 30 weight percent of a carboxylic acid containing monomer, and 5 to 70 weight percent of a cationic monomer and makes up from 10 to 35 weight percent of the water-in-oil emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Solvay USA Inc.Inventors: Kevin Walter Frederick, Shih-Ruey Tom Chen, Randy Jack Loeffler, Kailas Sawant
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Publication number: 20190070508Abstract: A gaming system for the contemporaneous viewing of a golf broadcast and the virtual playing of the same golf course including a player window adapted for the playing of virtual golf by a virtual player and a broadcast window adapted for the showing of golf being played by a non-virtual player. The player window and the broadcast window being adapted for the contemporaneous playing of the same golf course by the virtual player and the non-virtual player.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventor: Kevin Walter Cotton
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Publication number: 20190048246Abstract: A aqueous solution that includes water, from 100,000 to 300,000 ppm of dissolved solids, from 0.5 to 3 gallons per thousand gallons of a water-in-oil emulsion, and an inverting surfactant. The water-in oil emulsion includes an oil phase and an aqueous phase where the oil phase is a continuous phase comprising an inert hydrophobic liquid and the aqueous phase is present as dispersed distinct particles in the oil phase. The aqueous phase contains water, a water soluble polymer, and surfactants. The water soluble polymer includes 30 to 50 weight percent of a non-ionic monomer, 5 to 15 weight percent of a sulfonic acid containing monomer, and 40 to 60 weight percent of a cationic monomer. The water soluble polymer makes up from 10 to 35 weight percent of the water-in-oil emulsion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: SOLVAY USA INC.Inventors: HsinChen CHUNG, Yuntao Thomas HU, Xiangnan YE, Narongsak TONMUKAYAKUL, Michael A. McCABE, Kevin Walter FREDERICK, Shih-Ruey Tom CHEN, Randy Jack LOEFFLER
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Publication number: 20190044098Abstract: A non-electrical battery can include a backing plate; a plurality of strings disposed in parallel relation on the backing plate, each string comprising a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of each string is attached to the backing plate and each string extends away from the backing plate; and a charging mechanism attached to the second end of each string to apply a force to the strings to increase a potential energy stored by the strings.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: ANDREW KOSTRZEWSKI, TOMASZ JANNSON, KANG LEE, RICHARD KOZIOL, KEVIN WALTER
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Publication number: 20190039605Abstract: An automated driving control device includes a registration unit configured to generate automated driving information used for driving a vehicle automatically based on a first image obtained by capturing an environment around the vehicle in a mode of driver driving; and a control unit configured to automatically drive the vehicle based on the automated driving information and a second image obtained by capturing the environment around the vehicle in a mode of automated driving. The registration unit includes an extraction unit configured to extract candidate feature points existing in the environment around the vehicle based on the first image; and a generation unit configured to select the candidate feature points that are determined to be structures fixed around a target position of the vehicle based on the first images captured while the vehicle moves, as feature points.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Satoshi IIO, Tetsuya TOMONAKA, Yusuke KINOUCHI, Yasuo FUJISHIMA, Kevin WALTERS
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Publication number: 20190027042Abstract: A parking support system includes a parking path planning unit that plans a trajectory of each unit path when moving a vehicle to a target parking position by repeating a movement of the unit path including one forward movement and one backward movement in succession and calculates a vehicle control signal that causes the vehicle to move along the trajectory such that a steering angle of the vehicle is substantially 0 degrees at an arrival position of each of the forward movement and the backward movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2017Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: Yasuo FUJISHIMA, Yusuke KINOUCHI, Satoshi IIO, Tetsuya TOMONAKA, Kevin WALTERS
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Publication number: 20180139850Abstract: This invention relates generally to uses of novel nanomaterial composition and the systems in which they are used, and more particularly to nanomaterial compositions generally comprising carbon and a metal, which composition can be exposed to pulsed emissions to react, activate, combine, or sinter the nanomaterial composition. The nanomaterial compositions can alternatively be utilized at ambient temperature or under other means to cause such reaction, activation, combination, or sintering to occur.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicant: NCC NANO, LLCInventors: Kurt A. Schroder, Steve McCool, Denny Hamill, Dennis Wilson, Wayne Furlan, Kevin Walter, Darrin Willauer, Karl Martin
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Patent number: 9950286Abstract: A filter housing comprising an accommodation space for accommodating a filter is disclosed, wherein the filter housing further comprises at least one connector-like coupling element configured to indirectly or directly mate with at least one mating coupling element of a mating filter housing; and wherein the coupling element is integrally formed on a portion of the filter housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbHInventors: Frank Maggiore, Robert Wright, Peter Makowenskyj, Kevin Walter, April Thelemann, Gary Dawson
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Publication number: 20180056801Abstract: A system and method for robotic charger alignment comprises receiving at a robotic charger, a device identification of a receiving device; retrieving a reference object (RO) of the receiving device from a database indexed by the device identification; imaging the receiving device to form at least two images having an angle therebetween with respect to a common location on the receiving device; calculating, by an alignment processing device, a stereo disparity depth map from the at least two images; acquiring an acquired point cloud (APC) from the stereo disparity depth map; generating, by the alignment processing device, rotation and translation data by aligning the RO to the APC; inferring an inlet port location from the RO; and moving the robotic charger proximal to the inlet port using the RO, Rot and T data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventor: Kevin Walter Leary
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Patent number: 9907183Abstract: This invention relates generally to uses of novel nanomaterial composition and the systems in which they are used, and more particularly to nanomaterial compositions generally comprising carbon and a metal, which composition can be exposed to pulsed emissions to react, activate, combine, or sinter the nanomaterial composition. The nanomaterial compositions can alternatively be utilized at ambient temperature or under other means to cause such reaction, activation, combination, or sintering to occur.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: NCC NANO, PLLCInventors: Kurt A. Schroder, Steve McCool, Denny Hamill, Dennis Wilson, Wayne Furlan, Kevin Walter, Darrin Willauer, Karl Martin
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Patent number: 9816022Abstract: Ampholyte polymeric compound that comprises at least one nonionic monomer, at least one sulfonic acid-containing monomer, and at least one cationic monomer may be useful in viscosifying treatment fluids for use in subterranean operations at a concentration of about 0.5 v/v % to about 30 v/v % of the treatment fluid. Such operations may involve introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation optionally at a pressure sufficient to create or extend at least one fracture in the subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: HsinChen Chung, Yuntao Thomas Hu, Xiangnan Ye, Narongsak Tonmukayakul, Michael A. McCabe, Kevin Walter Frederick, Shih-Ruey Tom Chen, Randy Jack Loeffler
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Patent number: 9695350Abstract: Ampholyte polymeric compounds that comprise at least one nonionic monomer, at least one sulfonic acid-containing monomer, and at least one cationic monomer may be useful as friction reducing agents in treatment fluids for use in subterranean operations at a concentration of about 0.001 v/v % to about 0.5 v/v % of the treatment fluid. Such operations may involve introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation optionally at a rate and/or a pressure sufficient to create or extend at least one fracture in the subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: HsinChen Chung, Yuntao Thomas Hu, Xiangnan Ye, Narongsak Tonmukayakul, Michael A. McCabe, Kevin Walter Frederick, Shih-Ruey Tom Chen, Randy Jack Loeffler
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Publication number: 20170027063Abstract: This invention relates generally to uses of novel nanomaterial composition and the systems in which they are used, and more particularly to nanomaterial compositions generally comprising carbon and a metal, which composition can be exposed to pulsed emissions to react, activate, combine, or sinter the nanomaterial composition. The nanomaterial compositions can alternatively be utilized at ambient temperature or under other means to cause such reaction, activation, combination, or sintering to occur.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: NCC NANO, LLCInventors: KURT A. SCHRODER, STEVE McCOOL, DENNY HAMILL, DENNIS WILSON, WAYNE FURLAN, KEVIN WALTER, DARRIN WILLAUER, KARL MARTIN
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Patent number: 9493087Abstract: An electric charger resource sharing method and system comprise a charger that supplies electrical energy to a plurality of electric vehicles. The charger includes a robotic arm that articulates to be proximal to each of the electric vehicles for supplying the electrical energy to the electric vehicles and a docking interface at a distal end of the robotic arm that couples with a receptacle on each of the electric vehicles for transferring the electrical energy from the charger to the electric vehicles. A resource management device receives a bid from each electric vehicle, and allocates a portion of the electrical energy for a predetermined period of time to an electric vehicle of the plurality of electric vehicles in response to the bid of the electric vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: PowerHydrant LLCInventor: Kevin Walter Leary
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Patent number: 9494068Abstract: This invention relates generally to uses of novel nanomaterial composition and the systems in which they are used, and more particularly to nanomaterial compositions generally comprising carbon and a metal, which composition can be exposed to pulsed emissions to react, activate, combine, or sinter the nanomaterial composition. The nanomaterial compositions can alternatively be utilized at ambient temperature or under other means to cause such reaction, activation, combination, or sintering to occur.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: NCC NANO, PLLCInventors: Kurt A. Schroder, Steve McCool, Denny Hamill, Dennis Wilson, Wayne Furlan, Kevin Walter, Darrin Willauer, Karl Martin
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Publication number: 20160017203Abstract: A friction reducing treatment solution that includes water, from 100 to 500,000 ppm of total dissolved solids, and from 0.5 to 3 gallons per thousand gallons of a water-in-oil emulsion containing a water soluble polymer. The total dissolved solids include at least 10 weight percent of a multivalent cation. The water-in-oil emulsion includes an oil phase and an aqueous phase, where the oil phase is a continuous phase containing an inert hydrophobic liquid and the aqueous phase is present as dispersed distinct particles in the oil phase and contains water, the water soluble polymer, and surfactants and an inverting surfactant. The water soluble polymer is made up of 20 to 80 weight percent of a non-ionic monomer, 0.5 to 30 weight percent of a carboxylic acid containing monomer, and 5 to 70 weight percent of a cationic monomer and makes up from 10 to 35 weight percent of the water-in-oil emulsion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicant: Solvay USA Inc.Inventors: Kevin Walter FREDERICK, Shih-Ruey Tom CHEN, Randy Jack LOEFFLER, Kailas SAWANT
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Publication number: 20150133347Abstract: A aqueous solution that includes water, from 100,000 to 300,000 ppm of dissolved solids, from 0.5 to 3 gallons per thousand gallons of a water-in-oil emulsion, and an inverting surfactant. The water-in oil emulsion includes an oil phase and an aqueous phase where the oil phase is a continuous phase comprising an inert hydrophobic liquid and the aqueous phase is present as dispersed distinct particles in the oil phase. The aqueous phase contains water, a water soluble polymer, and surfactants. The water soluble polymer includes 30 to 50 weight percent of a non-ionic monomer, 5 to 15 weight percent of a sulfonic acid containing monomer, and 40 to 60 weight percent of a cationic monomer. The water soluble polymer makes up from 10 to 35 weight percent of the water-in-oil emulsion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2014Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: HsinChen Chung, Yuntao Thomas Hu, Xiangnan Ye, Narongsak Tonmukayakul, Michael A. McCabe, Kevin Walter Frederick, Shih-Ruey Tom Chen, Randy Jack Loeffler
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Publication number: 20150108050Abstract: A filter housing comprising an accommodation space for accommodating a filter is disclosed, wherein the filter housing further comprises at least one connector-like coupling element configured to indirectly or directly mate with at least one mating coupling element of a mating filter housing; and wherein the coupling element is integrally formed on a portion of the filter housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbHInventors: Frank Maggiore, Robert Wright, Peter Makowenskyj, Kevin Walter, April Thelemann, Gary Dawson