Patents by Inventor Richard Truman Lane, Jr.

Richard Truman Lane, Jr. 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).

  • USB VIBRATION DATA ACQUISITION
    Publication number: 20100082272
    Abstract: A system for collecting and analyzing vibration data is provided. The system includes: at least one sensor for sensing vibrations and producing an electrical signal corresponding to the sensed vibrations; a Universal Serial Bus (USB) communication device for receiving the electrical signal corresponding to the sensed vibrations from the at least one sensor and conditioning and sampling the electrical signal to produce a conditioned signal; and a data collector for receiving the conditioned signal and storing the conditioned signal in a data storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Richard Truman Lane, JR., Thomas Franklin Kalb, Michael Lee Kidd, Nathan Andrew Weller
  • USB vibration data acquisition
    Patent number: 7689373
    Abstract: A system for collecting and analyzing vibration data is provided. The system includes: at least one sensor for sensing vibrations and producing an electrical signal corresponding to the sensed vibrations; a Universal Serial Bus (USB) communication device for receiving the electrical signal corresponding to the sensed vibrations from the at least one sensor and conditioning and sampling the electrical signal to produce a conditioned signal; and a data collector for receiving the conditioned signal and storing the conditioned signal in a data storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard Truman Lane, Jr., Thomas Franklin Kalb, Michael Lee Kidd, Nathan Andrew Weller