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).
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Patent number: 11942842Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
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Publication number: 20220069653Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
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Patent number: 11171528Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
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Publication number: 20200328643Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicant: AEROVIRONMENTInventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
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Patent number: 10802083Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Webasto Charging Systems, Inc.Inventors: Scott Garret Berman, Albert Flack, Keith Kolb, Ming Bai
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Patent number: 10656196Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Webasto Charging Systems, Inc.Inventors: Albert Flack, Scott Garret Berman
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Patent number: 10601273Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
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Publication number: 20180275186Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Albert Flack, Scott Garret Berman
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Publication number: 20180191217Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
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Patent number: 9915692Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Albert Flack, Scott Garret Berman
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Patent number: 9825497Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 22, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
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Publication number: 20150303755Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2015Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Wally Ewald RIPPEL, Zaher Abdallah DABOUSSI, Bradford M. HORI, Scott Garret BERMAN, Bart Dean HIBBS
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Publication number: 20150274026Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Scott Garret Berman
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Patent number: 9035526Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 23, 2009Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs, Sr.
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Publication number: 20150115966Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Scott Garret Berman, Albert Flack, Keith Kolb, Ming Bai
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Patent number: 9018809Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Wally Ewald Rippel, Scott Garret Berman
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Publication number: 20150015213Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.Inventors: Alexander Nelson Brooks, Scott Garret Berman, Nicholas Hammervold
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Publication number: 20130169284Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Inventors: Albert Flack, Scott Garret Berman
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Patent number: 8457860Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Thaddeus Benjamin Matuszeski, Rolland Mitchell Koch, Scott Garret Berman, Mujahid Abdulrahim
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Patent number: 8447543Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Aerovironment, Inc.Inventors: Blake Edward Dickinson, Albert Joseph Flack, Keith Michael Kolb, Scott Garret Berman