Patents by Inventor Lawrence E. Zeidner
Lawrence E. Zeidner 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: 20240289513Abstract: A computer network and method of designing a microwave communication and/or power system for an application. The system includes a processor configured to obtain a design parameter for the application, determine a plurality of architectures for the application based on the design parameter and an attribute of a component or waveguide of the architecture, determine a value metric for each of the plurality of architectures, and determine a reduced set of architectures for the application from the plurality of architecture based on the value metric.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2023Publication date: August 29, 2024Inventors: Joseph V. Mantese, Lawrence E. Zeidner, Coy B. Wood, Andre M. Ajami, Joseph Zacchio, Gurkan Gok, Jonathan J. Gilson, Sharbel Elias Azzi
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Patent number: 11346610Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plate with an external surface, a channel, and a nozzle. The external surface bounds an interior of the plate. The channel is disposed in the heat exchanger and passes through a portion of the interior. The nozzle is integrally disposed in the heat exchanger, extends through a portion of the external surface, and is fluidly connected to the channel. The nozzle is configured to transport a liquid from the channel, through the external surface, and to distribute the liquid onto a portion of the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Lawrence E. Zeidner, Matthew Robert Pearson, Brian St. Rock
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Patent number: 11085673Abstract: An environmental control system of an aircraft includes a ram air circuit including a ram air shell having a heat exchanger positioned therein and a dehumidification system arranged in fluid communication with the ram air circuit. A plurality of expansion devices is arranged in fluid communication with the ram air circuit and the dehumidification system. At least one of the expansion devices is a simple cycle expansion device.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: HAMILTON SUNSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Donald E. Army, Louis J. Bruno, Sherif M. Kandil, Matthew Pess, Robert C. Roy, Eric Surawski, Joseph Turney, Lawrence E. Zeidner, Paul M. D'Orlando
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Publication number: 20200080786Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plate with an external surface, a channel, and a nozzle. The external surface bounds an interior of the plate. The channel is disposed in the heat exchanger and passes through a portion of the interior. The nozzle is integrally disposed in the heat exchanger, extends through a portion of the external surface, and is fluidly connected to the channel. The nozzle is configured to transport a liquid from the channel, through the external surface, and to distribute the liquid onto a portion of the heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventors: Lawrence E. Zeidner, Matthew Robert Pearson, Brian St. Rock
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Patent number: 10583988Abstract: The present disclosure provides a flexibly positioned power drive unit (“PDU) system. The flexibly positioned PDU system may comprise a flexibly positioned PDU comprising a PDU hinged portion and a track coupled to the flexibly positioned PDU, wherein the flexibly positioned PDU is configured to move along a cargo deck and the PDU hinged portion is configured to move a cargo unit from a first location to a second location via the track.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATIONInventors: Lawrence E. Zeidner, Kunal Srivastava, Thomas A. Frewen
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Patent number: 10569892Abstract: Embodiments are directed to selecting, by a computing device comprising a processor, the size of at least one prime mover associated with an aircraft to satisfy a baseline power requirement for operation of the aircraft during a steady state load condition, selecting at least one power source configuration to supplement power provided by the at least one prime mover during a transient load condition associated with the operation of the aircraft, and selecting, by the computing device, a parameter of the at least one power source configuration to provide a total power in an amount that is greater than a threshold during the transient condition.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2014Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Lawrence Simonetti, Mark Denton Bystry, Michael Joseph DeVita, Matthew J. Tarascio, Michael Peter Strauss, Hayden M. Reeve, Niranjan Desai, Brian St. Rock, Charles E. Lents, Lawrence E. Zeidner, Alfred Russell Smiley
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Patent number: 10508864Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plate with an external surface, a channel, and a nozzle. The external surface bounds an interior of the plate. The channel is disposed in the heat exchanger and passes through a portion of the interior. The nozzle is integrally disposed in the heat exchanger, extends through a portion of the external surface, and is fluidly connected to the channel. The nozzle is configured to transport a liquid from the channel, through the external surface, and to distribute the liquid onto a portion of the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Lawrence E. Zeidner, Matthew Robert Pearson, Brian St. Rock
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Publication number: 20190049187Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plate with an external surface, a channel, and a nozzle. The external surface bounds an interior of the plate. The channel is disposed in the heat exchanger and passes through a portion of the interior. The nozzle is integrally disposed in the heat exchanger, extends through a portion of the external surface, and is fluidly connected to the channel. The nozzle is configured to transport a liquid from the channel, through the external surface, and to distribute the liquid onto a portion of the heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2017Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Lawrence E. Zeidner, Matthew Robert Pearson, Brian St. Rock
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Publication number: 20180312263Abstract: An environmental control system of an aircraft includes a ram air circuit including a ram air shell having a heat exchanger positioned therein and a dehumidification system arranged in fluid communication with the ram air circuit. A plurality of expansion devices is arranged in fluid communication with the ram air circuit and the dehumidification system. At least one of the expansion devices is a simple cycle expansion device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2017Publication date: November 1, 2018Inventors: Donald E. Army, Louis J. Bruno, Sherif M. Kandil, Matthew Pess, Robert C. Roy, Eric Surawski, Joseph Turney, Lawrence E. Zeidner, Paul M. D'Orlando
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Publication number: 20160083104Abstract: Embodiments are directed to selecting, by a computing device comprising a processor, the size of at least one prime mover associated with an aircraft to satisfy a baseline power requirement for operation of the aircraft during a steady state load condition, selecting at least one power source configuration to supplement power provided by the at least one prime mover during a transient load condition associated with the operation of the aircraft, and selecting, by the computing device, a parameter of the at least one power source configuration to provide a total power in an amount that is greater than a threshold during the transient condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2014Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventors: Joseph Lawrence Simonetti, Mark Denton Bystry, Michael Joseph DeVita, Matthew J. Tarascio, Michael Peter Strauss, Hayden M. Reeve, Niranjan Desai, Brian St. Rock, Charles E. Lents, Lawrence E. Zeidner, Alfred Russell Smiley
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Patent number: 9225389Abstract: An electrical load monitoring apparatus includes a first inductive coupling device, the first inductive coupling device is configured to receive electrical energy associated with an electrical conductor proximate thereto, and a processor in electrical communication with the first inductive coupling device, wherein the processor is configured to receive the electrical energy from the first inductive coupling device, configured to modulate a carrier wave signal in response to the received electrical energy, and configured to inject the modulated carrier wave signal into the electrical conductor.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2012Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventors: William A. Veronesi, Nicholas Charles Soldner, Lawrence E. Zeidner
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Patent number: 9024617Abstract: A method of non-intrusive electrical load monitoring of an electrical distribution system includes monitoring a main power line of the electrical distribution system to determine a set of electrical characteristics of the electrical distribution system, receiving a set of state information for a plurality of individual loads of the electrical distribution system, and determining energy consumption characteristics for the plurality of individual loads based upon the set of electrical characteristics and the set of state information.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: William A. Veronesi, Nicholas Charles Soldner, Lawrence E. Zeidner, Satish Narayanan
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Publication number: 20130257169Abstract: An electrical load monitoring apparatus includes a first inductive coupling device, the first inductive coupling device is configured to receive electrical energy associated with an electrical conductor proximate thereto, and a processor in electrical communication with the first inductive coupling device, wherein the processor is configured to receive the electrical energy from the first inductive coupling device, configured to modulate a carrier wave signal in response to the received electrical energy, and configured to inject the modulated carrier wave signal into the electrical conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2012Publication date: October 3, 2013Inventors: William A. Veronesi, Nicholas Charles Soldner, Lawrence E. Zeidner
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Publication number: 20130076339Abstract: A method of non-intrusive electrical load monitoring of an electrical distribution system includes monitoring a main power line of the electrical distribution system to determine a set of electrical characteristics of the electrical distribution system, receiving a set of state information for a plurality of individual loads of the electrical distribution system, and determining energy consumption characteristics for the plurality of individual loads based upon the set of electrical characteristics and the set of state information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Inventors: William A. Veronesi, Nicholas Charles Soldner, Lawrence E. Zeidner, Satish Narayanan
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Publication number: 20120198866Abstract: Embodiments of systems, apparatus, and/or methods can provide a supply air delivery system to modify delivered supply air responsive to a sensed condition. Embodiments of transport refrigeration systems, air delivery chutes, plenums in containers, containers and methods for using same according to the application can maintain a prescribed environment for an operatively coupled cargo or a container.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2011Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventor: Lawrence E. Zeidner
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Publication number: 20080086954Abstract: An elevator system (20) includes at least one vertical shaft (32) extending between at least two levels (24, 36) of a building (22). One of the levels (24) includes at least one passageway (28) between an interior of the building and the outside environment. At least one second shaft (40) extends between the other building level (36) and at least one other level within the building. The interior of the second shaft (40) is isolated from airflow on the building level (24) that includes the passageway (28) to the outside environment. Disclosed examples include enclosures (52) for isolating the first shaft (32) from airflow on at least one of the levels to which the first shaft provides access.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2004Publication date: April 17, 2008Applicant: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Satish Narayanan, Timothy N. Sundel, Brian E. Wake, Lawrence E. Zeidner, Gregory M. Dobbs, Pei-Yuan Peng