Patents by Inventor Nathan BOLANDER

Nathan BOLANDER 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: 11835030
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein may include methods, systems, and tangible, non-transient, computer-readable media having instructions thereupon for determining a damage state of a wind turbine gearbox. A method performed, executed on a processor of a system, or implemented by a processor as instructions, may comprise producing a damage state diagnostic, producing a damage progression model for the wind turbine gearbox using operational data and a state transition function, and combining the damage state diagnostic with the damage progression model using a hybrid prognostics model to produce a probability distribution of a current damage state estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: Sentient Science Corporation, Acciona Energia
    Inventors: Vijayant Kumar, Nathan Bolander, Gunther Auer, Inigo Zalacain, Mercedes Irujo, Enrique Iriarte
  • Publication number: 20220335181
    Abstract: A system and method for determining surface contact fatigue life may use a finite element method to determine when components, such as a power transmission component, may fail in operation. The method may generate a finite element model based on the material parameters related to a power transmission component, generate a surface pressure time history for a loading event based on one or more loading parameters, determine, based on the surface pressure time history for a loading event, a finite element solution that describes stress in the grain structure, calculate damage in the finite element solution using a damage model, and determine whether a damage threshold is exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Nathan BOLANDER, Rajasekhar V. Pulikollu, Behrooz Jalalahmadi
  • Publication number: 20220327256
    Abstract: A system for determining a health state of a component includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a plurality of computer-executable instructions thereon. The processor, in response to executing the plurality of computer-readable instructions, may be configured to perform one or more steps. The steps may include obtaining, from a first data source, usage data for the component; obtaining, from a second data source, a condition indicator for the component; running a usage model to produce usage parameters for the component based on the usage data; running a damage model to produce a damage estimate for the component based on the usage parameters; and running a prediction model to produce a health state estimate of the component based on the damage estimate and the condition indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Nathan Bolander, Andrew Vechart
  • Publication number: 20220082090
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein may include methods, systems, and tangible, non-transient, computer-readable media having instructions thereupon for determining a damage state of a wind turbine gearbox. A method performed, executed on a processor of a system, or implemented by a processor as instructions, may comprise producing a damage state diagnostic, producing a damage progression model for the wind turbine gearbox using operational data and a state transition function, and combining the damage state diagnostic with the damage progression model using a hybrid prognostics model to produce a probability distribution of a current damage state estimate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Vijayant KUMAR, Nathan BOLANDER, Gunther AUER, Inigo ZALACAIN, Mercedes IRUJO, Enrique IRIARTE
  • Patent number: 11238196
    Abstract: A system and method for determining surface contact fatigue life may use a finite element method to determine when components, such as a power transmission component, may fail in operation. The method may generate a finite element model based on the material parameters related to a power transmission component, generate a surface pressure time history for a loading event based on one or more loading parameters, determine, based on the surface pressure time history for a loading event, a finite element solution that describes stress in the grain structure, calculate damage in the finite element solution using a damage model, and determine whether a damage threshold is exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Sentient Science Corporation
    Inventors: Nathan Bolander, Rajasekhar V. Pulikollu, Behrooz Jalalahmadi
  • Publication number: 20200272776
    Abstract: A system and method for determining surface contact fatigue life may use a finite element method to determine when components, such as a power transmission component, may fail in operation. The method may generate a finite element model based on the material parameters related to a power transmission component, generate a surface pressure time history for a loading event based on one or more loading parameters, determine, based on the surface pressure time history for a loading event, a finite element solution that describes stress in the grain structure, calculate damage in the finite element solution using a damage model, and determine whether a damage threshold is exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Nathan BOLANDER, Rajasekhar V. Pulikollu, Behrooz Jalalahmadi
  • Patent number: 10474772
    Abstract: A system and method for determining surface contact fatigue life may use a finite element method to determine when components, such as a power transmission component, may fail in operation. The method may generate a finite element model based on the material parameters related to a power transmission component, generate a surface pressure time history for a loading event based on one or more loading parameters, determine, based on the surface pressure time history for a loading event, a finite element solution that describes stress in the grain structure, calculate damage in the finite element solution using a damage model, and determine whether a damage threshold is exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Sentient Science Corporation
    Inventors: Nathan Bolander, Rajasekhar V. Pulikollu, Behrooz Jalalahmadi
  • Publication number: 20150254382
    Abstract: A system and method for determining surface contact fatigue life may use a finite element method to determine when components, such as a power transmission component, may fail in operation. The method may generate a finite element model based on the material parameters related to a power transmission component, generate a surface pressure time history for a loading event based on one or more loading parameters, determine, based on the surface pressure time history for a loading event, a finite element solution that describes stress in the grain structure, calculate damage in the finite element solution using a damage model, and determine whether a damage threshold is exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: Sentient Corporation
    Inventors: Nathan BOLANDER, Rajasekhar V. Pulikollu, Behrooz Jalalahmadi