Patents by Inventor Scott Garret Berman

Scott Garret Berman 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: 11942842
    Abstract: In one possible embodiment, a motor winding is provided having a high density multi-conductor wire bundle with a compacted Litz wire bundle. The compacted Litz wire bundle has a serpentine configuration with a central portion having compacted Litz wire and end turns having non-compacted Litz wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
  • Publication number: 20220069653
    Abstract: In one possible embodiment, a motor winding is provided having a high density multi-conductor wire bundle with a compacted Litz wire bundle. The compacted Litz wire bundle has a serpentine configuration with a central portion having compacted Litz wire and end turns having non-compacted Litz wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
  • Patent number: 11171528
    Abstract: In one possible embodiment, a motor winding is provided having a high density multi-conductor wire bundle with a compacted Litz wire bundle. The compacted Litz wire bundle has a serpentine configuration with a central portion having compacted Litz wire and end turns having non-compacted Litz wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
  • Publication number: 20200328643
    Abstract: In one possible embodiment, a motor winding is provided having a high density multi-conductor wire bundle with a compacted Litz wire bundle. The compacted Litz wire bundle has a serpentine configuration with a central portion having compacted Litz wire and end turns having non-compacted Litz wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: AEROVIRONMENT
    Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
  • Patent number: 10802083
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, provided is an electric vehicle supply equipment having a line power contactor including a first line power input and a second line power input and a first line power output and a second line power output. It further has a welded contactor detector with a contactor sense circuit, the sense circuit having a first line shunt resistor network connected from the first line power contactor output to ground and a second line shunt resistor network connected from the first line power contactor output to ground. In another embodiment provided is an EVSE including a welded contactor detector with a contactor sense circuit having a bias resistor connected between the hot line relay input and the neutral line relay output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Webasto Charging Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Garret Berman, Albert Flack, Keith Kolb, Ming Bai
  • Patent number: 10656196
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a missing utility ground detection circuit includes a pair of balanced resistors each connected to receive utility voltage from a different one of a pair of utility power lines, the balanced resistors being connected together at a summing node to be capable of summing the voltages from the pair of utility power lines. It includes an unbalance resistor connected to shunt voltage from one of the utility power lines. It has a summing amplifier with an input coupled to the summing node and to a reference voltage, and an input coupled to a second reference voltage. It has an averaging circuit connected at the output of the summing amplifier. A comparator is provided having an input connected to the averaging circuit an input connected to a threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Webasto Charging Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Flack, Scott Garret Berman
  • Patent number: 10601273
    Abstract: In one possible embodiment, a motor winding is provided having a high density multi-conductor wire bundle with a compacted Litz wire bundle. The compacted Litz wire bundle has a serpentine configuration with a central portion having compacted Litz wire and end turns having non-compacted Litz wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
  • Publication number: 20180275186
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a missing utility ground detection circuit includes a pair of balanced resistors each connected to receive utility voltage from a different one of a pair of utility power lines, the balanced resistors being connected together at a summing node to be capable of summing the voltages from the pair of utility power lines. It includes an unbalance resistor connected to shunt voltage from one of the utility power lines. It has a summing amplifier with an input coupled to the summing node and to a reference voltage, and an input coupled to a second reference voltage. It has an averaging circuit connected at the output of the summing amplifier. A comparator is provided having an input connected to the averaging circuit an input connected to a threshold voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Flack, Scott Garret Berman
  • Publication number: 20180191217
    Abstract: In one possible embodiment, a motor winding is provided having a high density multi-conductor wire bundle with a compacted Litz wire bundle. The compacted Litz wire bundle has a serpentine configuration with a central portion having compacted Litz wire and end turns having non-compacted Litz wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
  • Patent number: 9915692
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a missing utility ground detection circuit includes a pair of balanced resistors each connected to receive utility voltage from a different one of a pair of utility power lines, the balanced resistors being connected together at a summing node to be capable of summing the voltages from the pair of utility power lines. It includes an unbalance resistor connected to shunt voltage from one of the utility power lines. It has a summing amplifier with an input coupled to the summing node and to a reference voltage, and an input coupled to a second reference voltage. It has an averaging circuit connected at the output of the summing amplifier. A comparator is provided having an input connected to the averaging circuit an input connected to a threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Flack, Scott Garret Berman
  • Patent number: 9825497
    Abstract: In one possible embodiment, a motor winding is provided having a high density multi-conductor wire bundle with a compacted Litz wire bundle. The compacted Litz wire bundle has a serpentine configuration with a central portion having compacted Litz wire and end turns having non-compacted Litz wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
  • Publication number: 20150303755
    Abstract: In one possible embodiment, a motor winding is provided having a high density multi-conductor wire bundle with a compacted Litz wire bundle. The compacted Litz wire bundle has a serpentine configuration with a central portion having compacted Litz wire and end turns having non-compacted Litz wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Wally Ewald RIPPEL, Zaher Abdallah DABOUSSI, Bradford M. HORI, Scott Garret BERMAN, Bart Dean HIBBS
  • Publication number: 20150274026
    Abstract: In one possible embodiment, a motor charging system for connection with a battery is provided having a rotor and a stator. The stator has delta H-bridge connected windings. The delta H-bridge includes an inverter at one side and a switching means at another side with each winding being connected between inverter pole switches and switching means pole switches. An A/C power port is connected to the windings such that when the switching means is off the A/C power port is connected to the battery bus via the windings and the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Scott Garret Berman
  • Patent number: 9035526
    Abstract: In one possible implementation, a method for forming a motor winding is provided which includes compressing a Litz wire to form a compacted Litz wire and forming the winding with the compacted Litz wire. In one possible embodiment, a motor winding is provided that has a high density multi-conductor wire bundle comprises of compacted Litz wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs, Sr.
  • Publication number: 20150115966
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, provided is an electric vehicle supply equipment having a line power contactor including a first line power input and a second line power input and a first line power output and a second line power output. It further has a welded contactor detector with a contactor sense circuit, the sense circuit having a first line shunt resistor network connected from the first line power contactor output to ground and a second line shunt resistor network connected from the first line power contactor output to ground. In another embodiment provided is an EVSE including a welded contactor detector with a contactor sense circuit having a bias resistor connected between the hot line relay input and the neutral line relay output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Garret Berman, Albert Flack, Keith Kolb, Ming Bai
  • Patent number: 9018809
    Abstract: In one possible embodiment, a motor charging system for connection with a battery is provided having a rotor and a stator. The stator has delta H-bridge connected windings. The delta H-bridge includes an inverter at one side and a switching means at another side with each winding being connected between inverter pole switches and switching means pole switches. An A/C power port is connected to the windings such that when the switching means is off the A/C power port is connected to the battery bus via the windings and the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Scott Garret Berman
  • Publication number: 20150015213
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present invention includes the use of one or more electric power supply system, or systems, and the electric vehicle, or vehicles, connected thereto, to provide load-based utility grid frequency regulation by varying the amount of power drawn by the vehicle or vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Nelson Brooks, Scott Garret Berman, Nicholas Hammervold
  • Publication number: 20130169284
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a missing utility ground detection circuit includes a pair of balanced resistors each connected to receive utility voltage from a different one of a pair of utility power lines, the balanced resistors being connected together at a summing node to be capable of summing the voltages from the pair of utility power lines. It includes an unbalance resistor connected to shunt voltage from one of the utility power lines. It has a summing amplifier with an input coupled to the summing node and to a reference voltage, and an input coupled to a second reference voltage. It has an averaging circuit connected at the output of the summing amplifier. A comparator is provided having an input connected to the averaging circuit an input connected to a threshold voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Albert Flack, Scott Garret Berman
  • Patent number: 8457860
    Abstract: An electric power management system of a vehicle may interconnect a power plant, a propeller drive unit, and a battery via a bus. A command limiting controller may direct the operation of the power plant and the propeller drive unit in fast and slow modes of operation, the fast mode of operation operating at a higher bus voltage than at a slow mode of operation. The command limiting controller may generate a bus current to drive the propeller drive unit according to a command limiting, voltage-versus-current curve that adjusts the bus current depending on an amount of voltage on the power bus; where the command limiting curve includes a minimum voltage portion, a maximum voltage portion and a control range therebetween having upper and lower voltage limits and upper and lower current limits for enhanced reliability and stable control of the propeller drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Thaddeus Benjamin Matuszeski, Rolland Mitchell Koch, Scott Garret Berman, Mujahid Abdulrahim
  • Patent number: 8447543
    Abstract: Embodiments pertain to devices and systems having simulator circuitry, particularly to simulator circuitry configured to simulate an electric vehicle and test an electric vehicle charger. A test unit is configured to simulate a GFI current via modulator and to simulate electric vehicle loads via switched and combined resistor loads. The test unit provides for reprogramming of the electric vehicle charger via a pilot line. The test unit self-confirms its usability via associating received codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Aerovironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Blake Edward Dickinson, Albert Joseph Flack, Keith Michael Kolb, Scott Garret Berman