Patents by Inventor PETER WESTRA

PETER WESTRA 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).

  • Publication number: 20250381888
    Abstract: A control system for a vehicle includes data processing hardware and memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware. The memory hardware stores instructions that when executed on the data processing hardware cause the data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations include receiving, at a propulsion controller, power generation, comparing, via the propulsion controller, battery data with a state of charge threshold, and executing, based on the comparison of the battery data, a power sink protocol including at least one mode control via a fuel cell system. The operations also include generating, based on the at least one mode control, at least one of a compressor command and a valve command via an airflow system and regulating, via the at least one generated compressor command and the valve command, an airflow of the airflow system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Biju Edamana, Sergio Eduardo Garcia, Joseph Berg, Chad Dubois, Peter Westra
  • Patent number: 11028604
    Abstract: A masonry wall is provided with a plurality of passageways. At least one reinforcement member is provided in each of the passageways. The reinforcement members include a first group of reinforcement members each having a centre line on the first side of a midplane of the wall and a second group of reinforcement members each having a centre line on the second side of the midplane. The passageways include slots that are open horizontally to the first side of the wall only. The second group of reinforcement members are arranged in passageways located spaced from the second wall surface opposite of the first wall surface. The reinforcement members in the passageways are each embedded in an adhesive substance bonded to the reinforcement members and to an inner surface of the passageway in which the reinforcement member is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: SEALTEQ I GROUP B.V., OOSTERHOF HOLMAN INFRA B.V.
    Inventors: Martin Christiaan Van Der Leest, Peter Westra
  • Publication number: 20180298627
    Abstract: A masonry wall is provided with a plurality of passageways. At least one reinforcement member is provided in each of the passageways. The reinforcement members include a first group of reinforcement members each having a centre line on the first side of a midplane of the wall and a second group of reinforcement members each having a centre line on the second side of the midplane. The passageways include slots that are open horizontally to the first side of the wall only. The second group of reinforcement members are arranged in passageways located spaced from the second wall surface opposite of the first wall surface. The reinforcement members in the passageways are each embedded in an adhesive substance bonded to the reinforcement members and to an inner surface of the passageway in which the reinforcement member is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: MARTIN CHRISTIAAN VAN DER LEEST, PETER WESTRA