Patents by Inventor Roger E. Young

Roger E. Young 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).

  • Centralized control architecture for a plasma arc system
    Patent number: 6900408
    Abstract: The invention features a centralized control architecture for a closely-coupled plasma arc system, in which the “intelligence” of the system is integrated into a single controller. The closely-coupled plasma arc system includes a power source, an automatic process controller and a torch-height controller, where each of these components individually has a closed-loop dynamic relationship with the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Hypertherm, Inc.
    Inventors: Tate S. Picard, Roger E. Young, Gregory S. Wilson, Ronald M. Huppe
  • Centralized control architecture for a plasma arc system
    Publication number: 20040226921
    Abstract: The invention features a centralized control architecture for a closely-coupled plasma arc system, in which the “intelligence” of the system is integrated into a single controller. The closely-coupled plasma arc system includes a power source, an automatic process controller and a torch-height controller, where each of these components individually has a closed-loop dynamic relationship with the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Applicant: Hypertherm, Inc.
    Inventors: Tate S. Picard, Roger E. Young, Gregory S. Wilson, Ronald M. Huppe
  • Centralized control architecture for a plasma arc system
    Patent number: 6772040
    Abstract: The invention features a centralized control architecture for a closely-coupled plasma arc system, in which the “intelligence” of the system is integrated into a single controller. The closely-coupled plasma arc system includes a power source, an automatic process controller and a torch-height controller, where each of these components individually has a closed-loop dynamic relationship with the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Hypertherm, Inc.
    Inventors: Tate S. Picard, Roger E. Young, Gregory S. Wilson, Ronald M. Huppe
  • Centralized control architecture for a laser materials processing system
    Publication number: 20030204283
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for monitoring the processing of a workpiece that includes directing an incident laser beam onto the workpiece and using an optical detector for measuring a signal emitted from the workpiece as a result of the incident laser beam. The detector generates at least two signals based upon the optical signal. The method also involves use of a light source monitor in determining workpiece processing quality based upon the quotient of the two outputs as well as a magnitude of one of the two quotients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Tate S. Picard, Kenneth J. Woods, Roger E. Young, William J. Connally
  • Centralized control architecture for a plasma arc system
    Patent number: 6622058
    Abstract: The invention features a centralized control architecture for a closely-coupled plasma arc system, in which the “intelligence” of the system is integrated into a single controller. The closely-coupled plasma arc system includes a power source, an automatic process controller and a torch-height controller, where each of these components individually has a closed-loop dynamic relationship with the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Inventors: Tate S. Picard, Roger E. Young, Gregory S. Wilson, Ronald M. Huppe
  • Method of improving a steam drive
    Patent number: 4060129
    Abstract: A method of improving a steam drive wherein high-quality steam is initially injected into a hydrocarbon-bearing formation to initiate a steam drive from an injection well to a production well and then very low-quality steam or water is injected into the formation until the cumulative value of quality of all the injected fluid is reduced to a value between 35 and 45% to maximize the heat utilization of the steam in the formation and improve the sweep efficiency of the steam drive and then adjusting the quality of the steam injected into the formation to a value of between 35 and 45% to continue the steam drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1977
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: Ezzat E. Gomaa, Roger E. Young