Patents by Inventor Michael J. Gallagher
Michael J. Gallagher 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: 20240108452Abstract: An in-situ fenestration device. The device includes a sheath including a proximal end and a distal end. The device also includes an expandable cone including a proximal end, a distal end, and a body extending between the proximal end and the distal end. The expandable cone includes a heating element. The expandable cone is configured to expand from a crimped state within the sheath into an expanded state extending from the distal end of the sheath. The heating element of the expandable cone is configured to be energized with an energy source to form a fenestration in a graft material at a fenestration site of a stent graft.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Krista Y. LEE, Ciara S. GALLAGHER, Garreth BOLAND-TAN, Michael J. DEANE
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Publication number: 20240109802Abstract: A controller, process, and glass manufacturing apparatus can be configured to minimize defects. Embodiments can be adapted to control injection of nitrogen and/or argon and a mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen or nitrogen, hydrogen, and argon during glass float manufacturing to facilitate a pre-selected hydrogen concentration within a tin bath furnace while also minimizing glass surface defects that can be caused from tin condensation and tin bath impurity concentrations. Empirical use data can also be collected and provided to a pre-defined machine learning element of a host device to update a pre-defined control scheme of a controller for adapting the operational condition set points or other target values to account for furnace operation history and performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Eric R. Seo, Liang He, Reed Jacob Hendershot, Michael J. Gallagher, Ranajit Ghosh
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Patent number: 11598520Abstract: A burner gas supply apparatus for increasing flame turbulence, the apparatus comprising a conduit having a characteristic width, W, defined by an inner surface having a circumferential direction and an axial direction, the axial direction terminating in a nozzle defining a nozzle exit plane and having a characteristic dimension, d, where d<=W; and three bluff bodies each with a characteristic dimension, Dbb-i, projecting a length, Li into the conduit from the inner surface, and an axial spacing Xi between adjacent bluff bodies (between the downstream bluff body and the nozzle exit plane in the case of X1) wherein 0.5<=Li/W<=1 and wherein Xi/Dbb-i<=30.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Mark Daniel D'Agostini, Michael J. Gallagher, Ashwin Vinod
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Patent number: 11441206Abstract: A system and method of controlling a metal melting process in a melting furnace, including determining at least one furnace parameter characterizing a melting furnace, adding a charge containing solid metal into the melting furnace, detecting at least one charge parameter characterizing the charge, firing a burner into the melting furnace to provide heat to melt the charge, and exhausting burner combustion products from the furnace, detecting at least one process parameter characterizing progress of melting the charge, calculating a furnace efficiency based on the at least one furnace parameter, calculating a predicted process pour readiness time based on the at least one charge parameter, the at least one process parameter, and the furnace efficiency, and controlling the metal melting process based on the predicted process pour readiness time.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Shailesh Pradeep Gangoli, Avishek Guha, Anshu Gupta, Reed Jacob Hendershot, Michael J. Gallagher, Martin Lawrence, Petr Tlamicha
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Publication number: 20220169549Abstract: A method of controlling defects in a glass product produced in a tin bath furnace includes measuring at least one parameter of an atmosphere associated with the tin bath furnace, wherein the parameter is selected from the group consisting of dew point and density, correlating the measured parameter with defects in the glass product, and controlling the measured parameter in a direction corresponding to decreased defects in the glass product by controlling a flow rate of a process gas relative to the furnace wherein the process gas includes one or more of hydrogen and nitrogen.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Reed Jacob HENDERSHOT, Liang HE, Michael J. GALLAGHER, Ranajit GHOSH
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Patent number: 11261117Abstract: A system and method for synchronized oxy-fuel boosting of a regenerative glass melting furnace including first and second sets of regenerative air-fuel burners, a first double-staged oxy-fuel burner mounted in a first wall, and a second double-staged oxy-fuel burner mounted in a second wall, each oxy-fuel burner having a primary oxygen valve to apportion a flow of oxygen between primary oxygen and staged oxygen and a staging mode valve to apportion the flow of staged oxygen between an upper staging port and a lower staging port in the respective burner, and a controller programmed to control the primary oxygen valve and the staging mode valve of each of the first and second oxy-fuel burners to adjust flame characteristics of the first and second oxy-fuel burners depending on the state of operation of the furnace.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Mark Daniel D'Agostini, Michael J. Gallagher, William J. Horan
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Publication number: 20210372611Abstract: A burner gas supply apparatus for increasing flame turbulence, the apparatus comprising a conduit having a characteristic width, W, defined by an inner surface having a circumferential direction and an axial direction, the axial direction terminating in a nozzle defining a nozzle exit plane and having a characteristic dimension, d, where d<=W; and three bluff bodies each with a characteristic dimension, Dbb-i, projecting a length, Li into the conduit from the inner surface, and an axial spacing Xi between adjacent bluff bodies (between the downstream bluff body and the nozzle exit plane in the case of X1) wherein 0.5<=Li/W<=1 and wherein Xi/Dbb-i<=30.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2020Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Mark Daniel D'Agostini, Michael J. Gallagher, Ashwin Vinod
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Publication number: 20210122659Abstract: A system and method for synchronized oxy-fuel boosting of a regenerative glass melting furnace including first and second sets of regenerative air-fuel burners, a first double-staged oxy-fuel burner mounted in a first wall, and a second double-staged oxy-fuel burner mounted in a second wall, each oxy-fuel burner having a primary oxygen valve to apportion a flow of oxygen between primary oxygen and staged oxygen and a staging mode valve to apportion the flow of staged oxygen between an upper staging port and a lower staging port in the respective burner, and a controller programmed to control the primary oxygen valve and the staging mode valve of each of the first and second oxy-fuel burners to adjust flame characteristics of the first and second oxy-fuel burners depending on the state of operation of the furnace.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Mark Daniel D'Agostini, Michael J. Gallagher, William J. Horan
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Patent number: 10508807Abstract: A remote burner monitoring system including one or more burners each including integrated sensors, a data collector corresponding to each of the burners for receiving and aggregating data from the sensors of the corresponding burner, and a local transmitter corresponding to each of the data collectors for transmitting the data, a data center configured and programmed to receive the data from the local transmitters corresponding to the one or more burners, and a server configured and programmed to store at least a portion of the data, to convert the data into a display format, and to provide connectivity to enable receipt and transmission of data and the display format via a network including at least one of a wired network, a cellular network, and a Wi-Fi network.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2014Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Glen Immer, Yan Zhao, Christopher Alan Ward, Reed Jacob Hendershot, Aleksandar Georgi Slavejkov, Thomas David Matthew Lee, Michael J. Gallagher
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Publication number: 20190360067Abstract: A system and method of controlling a metal melting process in a melting furnace, including determining at least one furnace parameter characterizing a melting furnace, adding a charge containing solid metal into the melting furnace, detecting at least one charge parameter characterizing the charge, firing a burner into the melting furnace to provide heat to melt the charge, and exhausting burner combustion products from the furnace, detecting at least one process parameter characterizing progress of melting the charge, calculating a furnace efficiency based on the at least one furnace parameter, calculating a predicted process pour readiness time based on the at least one charge parameter, the at least one process parameter, and the furnace efficiency, and controlling the metal melting process based on the predicted process pour readiness time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2018Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Shailesh Pradeep Gangoli, Avishek Guha, Anshu Gupta, Reed Jacob Hendershot, Michael J. Gallagher, Martin Lawrence, Petr Tlamicha
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Publication number: 20190219263Abstract: An oxy-fuel burner with monitoring including a fuel passage terminating in a fuel nozzle, a primary oxidant passage terminating in an oxidant nozzle, one or more sensors including a nozzle temperature sensor for sensing at least one of an oxidant nozzle temperature and a fuel nozzle temperature and a position sensor for sensing a burner installation angle, and a data processor programmed to receive data from the sensors and to determine the presence or absence of an abnormal burner condition including a potential partial obstruction of at least one of the primary oxidant passage and the fuel passage based on an increase or decrease in at least one of the oxidant nozzle temperature and the fuel nozzle temperature, and to determine whether the burner is installed at a desired orientation with respect to at least one feature of the furnace based on the burner installation angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Michael Albright, Reed Jacob Hendershot, Michael J. Gallagher, Thomas David Matthew Lee, Aleksandar Georgi Slavejkov, Mark Daniel D'Agostini, Tunc Goruney
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Patent number: 10295184Abstract: An oxy-fuel burner (10) with monitoring including a fuel passage (320) terminating in a fuel nozzle (322), a primary oxidant passage (330) terminating in an oxidant nozzle (333), one or more sensors including a nozzle temperature sensor (372) for sensing at least one of an oxidant nozzle temperature and a fuel nozzle temperature, and a data processor (66, 166,266) programmed to receive data from the sensors and to determine based on at least a portion of the received data the presence or absence of an abnormal burner condition including a potential partial obstruction of at least one of the primary oxidant passage (330) and the fuel passage (320) based on an increase or decrease in at least one of the oxidant nozzle temperature and the fuel nozzle temperature.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Michael Albright, Reed Jacob Hendershot, Michael J. Gallagher, Thomas David Matthew Lee, Aleksandar Georgi Slavejkov, Mark Daniel D'Agostini, Tunc Goruney
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Patent number: 10161682Abstract: An integrated sensor system for use in a furnace system including a furnace having at least one burner and two or more zones each differently affected by at least one furnace parameter regulating energy input into the furnace, including a first temperature sensor positioned to measure a first temperature in the furnace system, a second temperature sensor positioned to measure a second temperature in the furnace system; and a controller programmed to receive the first and second measured temperatures, and to adjust operation of a furnace system parameter based on a relationship between the first and second temperatures, thereby differentially regulating energy input into at least two of the zones of the furnace; wherein the relationship between the first and second temperatures is a function of one or more of a difference between the two temperatures, a ratio of the two temperatures, and a weighted average of the two temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Gallagher, Shailesh Pradeep Gangoli, Aleksandar Georgi Slavejkov, Anup Vasant Sane, Reed Jacob Hendershot
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Patent number: 9873926Abstract: A method and system of controlling a melting process of copper in a copper melting furnace including measuring at least one furnace parameter, wherein the at least one furnace parameter includes one or both of a furnace temperature and a furnace exhaust oxygen concentration, calculating a first rate of change of the furnace parameter over a first time period, calculating a second rate of change of the furnace parameter over a second time period at least a portion of which occurs after the first time period, comparing the first rate of change with the second rate of change, and indicating substantial completion of a process phase in the furnace when the second rate of change deviates by a predetermined threshold percentage from the first rate of change.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Shailesh Pradeep Gangoli, Reed Jacob Hendershot, Anup Vasant Sane, Michael J. Gallagher, Aleksandar Georgi Slavejkov
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Publication number: 20170254593Abstract: An integrated sensor system for use in a furnace system including a furnace having at least one burner and two or more zones each differently affected by at least one furnace parameter regulating energy input into the furnace, including a first temperature sensor positioned to measure a first temperature in the furnace system, a second temperature sensor positioned to measure a second temperature in the furnace system; and a controller programmed to receive the first and second measured temperatures, and to adjust operation of a furnace system parameter based on a relationship between the first and second temperatures, thereby differentially regulating energy input into at least two of the zones of the furnace; wherein the relationship between the first and second temperatures is a function of one or more of a difference between the two temperatures, a ratio of the two temperatures, and a weighted average of the two temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2015Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: Michael J. Gallagher, Shailesh Pradeep Gangoli, Aleksandar Georgi Slavejkov, Anup Vasant Sane, Reed Jacob Hendershot
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Publication number: 20170114430Abstract: A method and system of controlling a melting process of copper in a copper melting furnace including measuring at least one furnace parameter, wherein the at least one furnace parameter includes one or both of a furnace temperature and a furnace exhaust oxygen concentration, calculating a first rate of change of the furnace parameter over a first time period, calculating a second rate of change of the furnace parameter over a second time period at least a portion of which occurs after the first time period, comparing the first rate of change with the second rate of change, and indicating substantial completion of a process phase in the furnace when the second rate of change deviates by a predetermined threshold percentage from the first rate of change.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2015Publication date: April 27, 2017Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Shailesh Pradeep Gangoli, Reed Jacob Hendershot, Anup Vasant Sane, Michael J. Gallagher, Aleksandar Georgi Slavejkov
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Publication number: 20160238246Abstract: An oxy-fuel burner (10) with monitoring including a fuel passage (320) terminating in a fuel nozzle (322), a primary oxidant passage (330) terminating in an oxidant nozzle (333), one or more sensors including a nozzle temperature sensor (372) for sensing at least one of an oxidant nozzle temperature and a fuel nozzle temperature, and a data processor (66, 166,266) programmed to receive data from the sensors and to determine based on at least a portion of the received data the presence or absence of an abnormal burner condition including a potential partial obstruction of at least one of the primary oxidant passage (330) and the fuel passage (320) based on an increase or decrease in at least one of the oxidant nozzle temperature and the fuel nozzle temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2015Publication date: August 18, 2016Inventors: Christopher Michael ALBRIGHT, Reed Jacob HENDERSHOT, Michael J. GALLAGHER, Thomas David Matthew LEE, Aleksandar Georgi SLAVEJKOV, Mark Daniel D'AGOSTINI, Tunc GORUNEY
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Publication number: 20150316262Abstract: A remote burner monitoring system including one or more burners each including integrated sensors, a data collector corresponding to each of the burners for receiving and aggregating data from the sensors of the corresponding burner, and a local transmitter corresponding to each of the data collectors for transmitting the data, a data center configured and programmed to receive the data from the local transmitters corresponding to the one or more burners, and a server configured and programmed to store at least a portion of the data, to convert the data into a display format, and to provide connectivity to enable receipt and transmission of data and the display format via a network including at least one of a wired network, a cellular network, and a Wi-Fi network.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2014Publication date: November 5, 2015Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICAL, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Glen Immer, Yan Zhao, Christopher Alan Ward, Reed Jacob Hendershot, Aleksandar Georgi Slavejkov, Thomas David Matthew Lee, Michael J. Gallagher
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Patent number: 8864953Abstract: A reactor for reforming a hydrocarbon, and associated processes and systems, are described herein. In one example, a reactor is provided that is configured to use non-equilibrium gliding arc discharge plasma. In another example, the reactor uses a vortex flow pattern. Two stages of reforming are described. In a first stage, the hydrocarbon absorbs heat from the wall of the reactor and combusts to form carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and water. In a second stage, a gliding arc discharge is use to form syngas, which is a mixture of hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide. The heat generated by the combustion of the first stage transfers to the wall of the reactor and heated products of the second stage mix with incoming hydrocarbon to provide for partial recuperation of the reaction energy.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2013Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Drexel UniversityInventors: Alexander F. Gutsol, Alexander Fridman, Anatoliy Polevich, Michael J. Gallagher
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Patent number: D938546Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Inventor: Michael J. Gallagher