Patents by Inventor Matthew Harvey Krohn
Matthew Harvey Krohn 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: 11471911Abstract: A phased array ultrasonic transducer includes a bonding wire structure, a damping material, a plurality of ultrasonic transducers, and a printed circuit board. The bonding wire structure includes a plurality of bonding wire elements. The damping material surrounds the bonding wire structure and is interposed with the plurality of bonding wire elements. The plurality of ultrasonic transducers is arranged in a matrix beneath a membrane, each of the plurality of ultrasonic transducers being coupled to a corresponding bonding wire element of the plurality of bonding wire elements. The printed circuit board includes a plurality of circuits. Each of the plurality of circuits is coupled to a corresponding bonding wire element of the plurality of bonding wire elements.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2017Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Alexander Felix Fiseni, Matthew Harvey Krohn, Stephan Falter, Sven Runte
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Patent number: 10976903Abstract: A method can include receiving data characterizing a first property of an asset over a first time period. The method can also include receiving data characterizing user interaction with an interactive graphical object. The method can further include determining, by a predictive model, data characterizing the first property of the asset over a second time period. The determining can be based in part on the received data characterizing the user interaction. The method can also include rendering, in a graphical display space, one or more of a first plot of the received data characterizing the first property over the first time period and a second plot of the determined data characterizing the first property over the second time period.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: GE INSPECTION TECHNOLOGIES, LPInventors: Bobby Dale Hournbuckle, Jr., Matthew Harvey Krohn, Mark Rosenberg, Tara Merry, Naren Pradyumna Dasu, Mary Campos, Williams Garcia, Grigory Nudelman
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Patent number: 10918356Abstract: An ultrasound transducer includes a transducer array having a plurality of transducer elements. The transducer array has a first side and a second side. Further, one or more ground electrodes are disposed on the first side of the transducer array, and one or more signal electrodes are disposed on the second side of the transducer array. Moreover, an acoustic backing structure is operatively coupled to the plurality of transducer elements of the transducer array. Also, a plurality of electrical traces is routed on a surface of the acoustic backing structure and operatively coupled to at least one of the one or more signal electrodes and one or more ground electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Vadim Bromberg, Lowell Scott Smith, Douglas Glenn Wildes, Kwok Pong Chan, Reinhold Bruestle, Matthew Harvey Krohn, Chester Frank Saj
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Patent number: 10817152Abstract: A method can include receiving data identifying an industrial asset. The method can also include receiving data characterizing one or more sensors configured to detect a first property of the asset. The method can further include determining a first graphical representation of the asset based on the received data identifying the industrial asset, and a second graphical representation of a first sensor of the one or more sensors based on the received data characterizing one or more properties of one or more sensors. The method can further include rendering, in a graphical display space, the first graphical representation and the second graphical representation. One or more visual properties of the second graphical representation can be indicative of one or more properties of the first sensor and/or the detected first property of the asset.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: GE Inspection Technologies, LPInventors: Bobby Dale Hournbuckle, Jr., Matthew Harvey Krohn, Mark Rosenberg, Tara Merry, Naren Pradyumna Dasu, Mary Campos, Williams Garcia, Grigory Nudelman
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Patent number: 10797221Abstract: Assemblies for an ultrasonic probe and manufacturing methods are presented. In one example, the method includes additively forming first portions of the assembly using a first material with first acoustic properties and second portions of the assembly using a second material with second acoustic properties, the first and second acoustic properties being configured to modify ultrasonic signals of the ultrasonic probe. In another aspect, a housing for an ultrasonic probe is presented. The housing includes additively-formed portions, a fluid channel, and at least one cavity. The first additively-formed portions include a first material with first acoustic properties. The second additively-formed portions include a second material with second acoustic properties. The first and second acoustic properties are configured to modify ultrasonic signals of the ultrasonic probe. The fluid channel is for receiving fluid within the housing of the ultrasonic probe.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE Company, LLCInventors: Matthew Harvey Krohn, Sven Runte, Vadim Bromberg, Kwok Pong Chan, Alexander Felix Fiseni, Mihirkumar Pravinbhai Patel
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Publication number: 20190087071Abstract: A method can include receiving data characterizing a first property of an asset over a first time period. The method can also include receiving data characterizing user interaction with an interactive graphical object. The method can further include determining, by a predictive model, data characterizing the first property of the asset over a second time period. The determining can be based in part on the received data characterizing the user interaction. The method can also include rendering, in a graphical display space, one or more of a first plot of the received data characterizing the first property over the first time period and a second plot of the determined data characterizing the first property over the second time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Bobby Dale Hournbuckle, JR., Matthew Harvey Krohn, Mark Rosenberg, Tara Merry, Naren Pradyumna Dasu, Mary Campos, Williams Garcia, Grigory Nudelman
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Publication number: 20190087990Abstract: A method can include receiving data identifying an industrial asset. The method can also include receiving data characterizing one or more sensors configured to detect a first property of the asset. The method can further include determining a first graphical representation of the asset based on the received data identifying the industrial asset, and a second graphical representation of a first sensor of the one or more sensors based on the received data characterizing one or more properties of one or more sensors. The method can further include rendering, in a graphical display space, the first graphical representation and the second graphical representation. One or more visual properties of the second graphical representation can be indicative of one or more properties of the first sensor and/or the detected first property of the asset.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Bobby Dale Hournbuckle, JR., Matthew Harvey Krohn, Mark Rosenberg, Tara Merry, Naren Pradyumna Dasu, Mary Campos, Williams Garcia, Grigory Nudelman
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Publication number: 20180261757Abstract: A piezoelectric composite for use in an ultrasonic transducer and a method of forming the same is provided. The composite has a piezoelectric ceramic component and a hydrophobic polymer component arranged to form a 1-3, 2-2, or 3-3 composite type. In one embodiment, the hydrophobic polymer is selected to polymerize at a moderate temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Matthew Harvey Krohn, Kwok Pong Chan
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Publication number: 20180243793Abstract: Assemblies for an ultrasonic probe and manufacturing methods are presented. In one example, the method includes additively forming first portions of the assembly using a first material with first acoustic properties and second portions of the assembly using a second material with second acoustic properties, the first and second acoustic properties being configured to modify ultrasonic signals of the ultrasonic probe. In another aspect, a housing for an ultrasonic probe is presented. The housing includes additively-formed portions, a fluid channel, and at least one cavity. The first additively-formed portions include a first material with first acoustic properties. The second additively-formed portions include a second material with second acoustic properties. The first and second acoustic properties are configured to modify ultrasonic signals of the ultrasonic probe. The fluid channel is for receiving fluid within the housing of the ultrasonic probe.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2017Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Matthew Harvey Krohn, Sven Runte, Vadim Bromberg, Kwok Pong Chan, Alexander Felix Fiseni, Mihirkumar Pravinbhai Patel
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Publication number: 20180140278Abstract: An ultrasound transducer includes a transducer array having a plurality of transducer elements. The transducer array has a first side and a second side. Further, one or more ground electrodes are disposed on the first side of the transducer array, and one or more signal electrodes are disposed on the second side of the transducer array. Moreover, an acoustic backing structure is operatively coupled to the plurality of transducer elements of the transducer array. Also, a plurality of electrical traces is routed on a surface of the acoustic backing structure and operatively coupled to at least one of the one or more signal electrodes and one or more ground electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2016Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventors: Vadim Bromberg, Lowell Scott Smith, Douglas Glenn Wildes, Kwok Pong Chan, Reinhold Bruestle, Matthew Harvey Krohn, Chester Frank Saj
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Patent number: 9911912Abstract: A piezoelectric composite for use in an ultrasonic transducer and a method of forming the same is provided. The composite has a piezoelectric ceramic component and a hydrophobic polymer component arranged to form a 1-3, 2-2, or 3-3 composite type. In one embodiment, the hydrophobic polymer is selected to polymerize at a moderate temperature.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Matthew Harvey Krohn, Kwok Pong Chan
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Publication number: 20170326592Abstract: A phased array ultrasonic transducer includes a bonding wire structure, a damping material, a plurality of ultrasonic transducers, and a printed circuit board. The bonding wire structure includes a plurality of bonding wire elements. The damping material surrounds the bonding wire structure and is interposed with the plurality of bonding wire elements. The plurality of ultrasonic transducers is arranged in a matrix beneath a membrane, each of the plurality of ultrasonic transducers being coupled to a corresponding bonding wire element of the plurality of bonding wire elements. The printed circuit board includes a plurality of circuits. Each of the plurality of circuits is coupled to a corresponding bonding wire element of the plurality of bonding wire elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: Alexander Felix Fiseni, Matthew Harvey Krohn, Stephan Falter, Sven Runte
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Publication number: 20150311424Abstract: A piezoelectric composite for use in an ultrasonic transducer and a method of forming the same is provided. The composite has a piezoelectric ceramic component and a hydrophobic polymer component arranged to form a 1-3, 2-2, or 3-3 composite type. In one embodiment, the hydrophobic polymer is selected to polymerize at a moderate temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2014Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Matthew Harvey Krohn, Kwok Pong Chan
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Patent number: 8857261Abstract: A sensing device and a method of attaching the sensing device to a target object is disclosed. The substrate of the sensing device has one or more bonding material vias that allows the bonding material used to attach the substrate to the target object to flow from one side of the substrate to the other side of the substrate. The bonding material forms rivets to secure the substrate to the target object and to secure the layers of the substrate to each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Matthew Harvey Krohn, Paul Aloysius Meyer, Nathan John Smith, Fred Timothy Matthews
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Patent number: 8853918Abstract: A composite ceramic transducer structure for use in the construction of an ultrasound probe includes a substrate and a plurality of piezoelectric transducer posts. The plurality of piezoelectric transducer posts are controllably formed on the substrate in a plurality of spatial positions located on an X-Y plane of the substrate. The plurality of piezoelectric posts includes a plurality of shapes defined in an X-Y-Z plane of the substrate, wherein the plurality of piezoelectric transducer posts are configured to facilitate minimizing shear waves within the ultrasound probe.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Matthew Harvey Krohn, Prabhjot Singh, Paul Aloysius Meyer, Wei Luo
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Patent number: 8680745Abstract: A piezoelectric sensing device is described for measuring material thickness of targets such as pipes, tubes, and other conduits that carry fluids. The piezoelectric sensing device includes a piezoelectric element mounted to a flexible circuit with glass reinforced polyimide C-stage cover layers surrounding a pure polyimide C-stage core.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Fred Timothy Matthews, Paul Aloysius Meyer, Matthew Harvey Krohn, Nathan John Smith, Adeodato Maria Vigano
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Patent number: 8611567Abstract: An acoustic transducer and method of making the acoustic transducer is disclosed. A transducer element for converting a signal between one of an electrical signal and an acoustic signal and the other of the electrical signal and the acoustic signal is provided. A backing to the transducer is additively fabricated to a side of the transducer element. The backing includes an electrically conductive path therein for conducting the electrical signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Matthew Harvey Krohn, Prabhjot Singh
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Publication number: 20130283935Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for attaching a sensing device to a target object. The apparatus includes one or more magnets that attach the apparatus to a target object. The sensing device is coupled to the target object with a coupling material and is held in place against the target object by the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2012Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Paul Aloysius Meyer, James Richard Cahill, Fred Timothy Matthews, Matthew Harvey Krohn
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Publication number: 20130269437Abstract: A sensing device and a method of attaching the sensing device to a target object is disclosed. The substrate of the sensing device has one or more bonding material vias that allows the bonding material used to attach the substrate to the target object to flow from one side of the substrate to the other side of the substrate. The bonding material forms rivets to secure the substrate to the target object and to secure the layers of the substrate to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Matthew Harvey Krohn, Paul Aloysius Meyer, Nathan John Smith, Fred Timothy Matthews
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Publication number: 20130088122Abstract: An acoustic transducer and method of making the acoustic transducer is disclosed. A transducer element for converting a signal between one of an electrical signal and an acoustic signal and the other of the electrical signal and the acoustic signal is provided. A backing to the transducer is additively fabricated to a side of the transducer element. The backing includes an electrically conductive path therein for conducting the electrical signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2011Publication date: April 11, 2013Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Matthew Harvey Krohn, Prabhjot Singh