Patents by Inventor Richard D. Slates

Richard D. Slates 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: 6954062
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibration method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Patent number: 6919731
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibration method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Patent number: 6906532
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibration method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Patent number: 6861852
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibration method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Patent number: 6850077
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibration method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Patent number: 6850078
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibration method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Patent number: 6847217
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibration method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Patent number: 6825676
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibration method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Patent number: 6819122
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibrations method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Patent number: 6816816
    Abstract: A transducer fault detection system that transforms transducer measurements into slew rate measurement, and determines which, if any, of the slew rate measurement are anomalous or correlative to faults. The system can generate alarms based on these determinations. The system may also transform transducer measurements into digitized voltage measurements, determine how long a succession of the digitized voltage measurements remain within at least one defined voltage window, and determine if there is a correlation between the determined time duration of digitized voltage measurements and an anomalous condition. Each determined anomalous condition may then be associated to a defined fault for gaining fault specificity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventors: Richard D. Slates, Ingrid M. Foster, Roger G. Harker
  • Patent number: 6799139
    Abstract: A System for determining machine running speed by sampling and digitizing a complex signal sensed by a transducer monitoring a machine into a digitized signal; mixing the digitized signal with a digitized signal having a predetermined frequency for obtaining a stream of inphase and quadrature components; filtering intervals of the stream of components for obtaining a plurality of vectors each having a phase; determining a unknown signal frequency of a vibration component contained in the complex vibration signal as a function of at least the one phase per second value, and calculating the machine running speed as a function of the plurality of vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Patent number: 6798194
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibration method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Publication number: 20040176918
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibration method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Publication number: 20040158416
    Abstract: A System for determining machine running speed by sampling and digitizing a complex signal sensed by a transducer monitoring a machine into a digitized signal; mixing the digitized signal with a digitized signal having a predetermined frequency for obtaining a stream of inphase and quadrature components; filtering intervals of the stream of components for obtaining a plurality of vectors each having a phase; determining a unknown signal frequency of a vibration component contained in the complex vibration signal as a function of at least the one phase per second value, and calculating the machine running speed as a function of the plurality of vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Publication number: 20040158435
    Abstract: A transducer fault detection system that transforms transducer measurements into slew rate measurements, and determines which, if any, of the slew rate measurements are anomalous or correlative to faults. The system can generate alarms based on these determinations. The system may also transform transducer measurements into digitized voltage measurements, determine how long a succession of the digitized voltage measurements remain within at least one defined voltage window, and determine if there is a correlation between the determined time duration of digitized voltage measurements and an anomalous condition. Each determined anomalous condition may then be associated to a defined fault for gaining fault specificity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Richard D. Slates, Ingrid M. Foster, Roger G. Harker
  • Patent number: 6765395
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibration method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Patent number: 6756794
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibration method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Patent number: 6727688
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibration method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Patent number: 6727687
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibration method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates
  • Patent number: 6703843
    Abstract: A digital eddy current proximity system including a digital impedance measuring device for digitally measuring the proximity probes impedance correlative to displacement motion and position of a metallic target object being monitored. The system further including a cable-length calibration method, an automatic material identification and calibration method, a material insensitive method, an inductive ratio method and advanced sensing characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Bently Nevada, LLC
    Inventor: Richard D. Slates