Patents by Inventor Thomas M. Krause

Thomas M. Krause 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).

  • Turbine control device prognostics
    Patent number: 9926803
    Abstract: Providing wear-related prognostics and diagnostics on a turbine engine includes, while operating a turbine control device, tracking a total device travel distance over time by recurrently: selectively identifying actual device movement based on device position data associated with a displacement sensor monitoring the turbine control device; and accumulating an incremental device travel distance corresponding to the identified actual device movement with the total device travel distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Woodward, Inc.
    Inventors: Tena K. Britt, Kevin Greeb, Thomas M Krause, Craig Mawle
  • TURBINE CONTROL DEVICE PROGNOSTICS
    Publication number: 20170370244
    Abstract: Providing wear-related prognostics and diagnostics on a turbine engine includes, while operating a turbine control device, tracking a total device travel distance over time by recurrently: selectively identifying actual device movement based on device position data associated with a displacement sensor monitoring the turbine control device; and accumulating an incremental device travel distance corresponding to the identified actual device movement with the total device travel distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Tena K. Britt, Kevin Greeb, Thomas M. Krause, Craig Mawle