Patents by Inventor Thomas F. Craft

Thomas F. Craft 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: 8383289
    Abstract: An air feed system for a fuel cell cabinet is provided. The air feed system supplies temperature controlled air to a fuel cell. The air feed system includes a controller that controls the air feed system for maintaining a predetermined temperature range of the temperature controlled air entering the fuel cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventors: Thomas F. Craft, Jr., Anil K. Trehan
  • Patent number: 8236457
    Abstract: A waste water management system for a fuel cell cabinet is provided. The waste water management system includes a sealed device that collects and manages the flow of the water from a fuel cell. The sealed device manages a flow of the water from the fuel cell to one of a container and an exterior of the fuel cell cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventors: Thomas F. Craft, Jr., Anil K. Trehan
  • Patent number: 8211580
    Abstract: A fuel cell cabinet liquid cooling system is provided. The fuel cell cabinet liquid cooling system includes a fuel cell, a liquid cooling system for dissipating heat generated by the fuel cell, and a controller that controls the liquid cooling system for maintaining a predetermined temperature range of a first cooling liquid of the fuel cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventors: Thomas F. Craft, Jr., Anil K. Trehan, David Reichert, Bryn Epp
  • Patent number: 8153326
    Abstract: A fuel cell cabinet air feed and exhaust system is provided. The air feed and exhaust system includes a sealed air feed system that feeds air from outside a fuel cell cabinet to a fuel cell disposed inside the fuel cell cabinet, and a sealed air exhaust system that exhausts air from the fuel cell to the outside of the fuel cell cabinet. Each of the sealed air system and the sealed air exhaust system is sealed with respect to the fuel cell such that the sealed air system, the sealed air exhaust system, and the fuel cell form a sealed system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventors: Thomas F. Craft, Jr., Bob Campbell, Anil K. Trehan, David Reichert
  • Publication number: 20090286119
    Abstract: A fuel cell cabinet air feed and exhaust system is provided. The air feed and exhaust system includes a sealed air feed system that feeds air from outside a fuel cell cabinet to a fuel cell disposed inside the fuel cell cabinet, and a sealed air exhaust system that exhausts air from the fuel cell to the outside of the fuel cell cabinet. Each of the sealed air system and the sealed air exhaust system is sealed with respect to the fuel cell such that the sealed air system, the sealed air exhaust system, and the fuel cell form a sealed system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas F. CRAFT, JR., Bob CAMPBELL, Anil K. TREHAN, David REICHERT
  • Publication number: 20090269636
    Abstract: A fuel cell cabinet liquid cooling system is provided. The fuel cell cabinet liquid cooling system includes a fuel cell, a liquid cooling system for dissipating heat generated by the fuel cell, and a controller that controls the liquid cooling system for maintaining a predetermined temperature range of a first cooling liquid of the fuel cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas F. CRAFT, JR., Anil K. Trehan
  • Publication number: 20090246577
    Abstract: A waste water management system for a fuel cell cabinet is provided. The waste water management system includes a sealed device that collects and manages the flow of the water from a fuel cell. The sealed device manages a flow of the water from the fuel cell to one of a container and an exterior of the fuel cell cabinet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas F. CRAFT, JR., Anil K. Trehan
  • Publication number: 20090246582
    Abstract: An air feed system for a fuel cell cabinet is provided. The air feed system supplies temperature controlled air to a fuel cell. The air feed system includes a controller that controls the air feed system for maintaining a predetermined temperature range of the temperature controlled air entering the fuel cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas F. CRAFT, JR., Anil K. TREHAN
  • Publication number: 20090246566
    Abstract: A fuel cell cabinet is provided. The fuel cell cabinet includes a housing, a fuel cell contained in an interior of the housing, and a heat management system that manages and controls an internal air temperature of the housing to be one of at a predetermined temperature and within a predetermined temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas F. CRAFT, JR., Anil K. TREHAN
  • Patent number: 6407917
    Abstract: A fluid flow management system for enhancing cooling of a circuit pack. The system includes a bar extending transverse to the direction of fluid flow. The bar breaks up the otherwise laminar flow into a turbulent flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas F. Craft, Jr., Charles E. Johnson, Steven J. Smith, Dinh G. Lai, Dianne S. Wolpensinger
  • Patent number: 6184474
    Abstract: A device for holding wires/fibers is provided in which a block of resilient material is formed with grooves for receiving cable and wires/fibers. In a particular illustrative embodiment of the invention, a single groove for receiving a cable is connected to multiple grooves for receiving wires/fibers that are contained within the cable. The grooves also preferably are open at one end to the exterior of the unit of material so that the cable and wires/fibers extend to the desired points of attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas F. Craft, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6169247
    Abstract: An enclosure for electronic devices has a wall of a rigid plastic material, with elongated chambers defined therein. The chambers are filled with a material having a high thermal conductivity, or materials having high heat capacity, such as phase change material. Each chamber is located so that the material in the chamber is in thermal contact with the wall at a first location that tends to be at a relatively high temperature, and at a second location that tends to be at a lower temperature. The enclosure may alternatively have heat pipes of metal rather than chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas F. Craft, Jr., Jason A. Kay, Ivan Pawlenko, Alfonso J. D'Alessio, Anthony R. Tancreto, George Shevchuk
  • Patent number: 5675120
    Abstract: An enclosure for electronic circuits intended to operate at great depths beneath the sea in which the circuits are protected from stresses induced by the accumulation of mechanical tolerances during assembly, from shock during transportation, and from deformation of the enclosure at great pressure. The circuits being accessible in their final configuration during testing before insertion into the enclosure and sealing. Cable lengths within the enclosure are minimized to ensure reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas F. Craft, Timothy A. Sochor, Robert E. Servilio