Patents by Inventor William Chester Platt
William Chester Platt 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: 10093436Abstract: An engine communication system for aircraft engines having a nacelle with two cowlings extending annularly about the aircraft engine and defining a radially outward surface thereof, and at least one sensor positioned radially inward from the nacelle. The system includes a cowling gap positioned between the two cowlings when coupled together, and an engine control device communicatively coupled to the sensor and configured to at least one of receive engine data from the sensor and receive instruction data from a transmitter device positioned radially outward from the cowling gap. The system also includes a linearly polarized antenna communicatively coupled to the engine control device and positioned radially inward from the cowling gap and extending radially outward toward the cowling gap. The antenna is configured to at least one of receive and transmit the engine data and the instruction data through the cowling gap.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Selaka Bandara Bulumulla, Michael Joseph Dell'Anno, William Chester Platt
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Publication number: 20170369189Abstract: An engine communication system for aircraft engines having a nacelle with two cowlings extending annularly about the aircraft engine and defining a radially outward surface thereof, and at least one sensor positioned radially inward from the nacelle. The system includes a cowling gap positioned between the two cowlings when coupled together, and an engine control device communicatively coupled to the sensor and configured to at least one of receive engine data from the sensor and receive instruction data from a transmitter device positioned radially outward from the cowling gap. The system also includes a linearly polarized antenna communicatively coupled to the engine control device and positioned radially inward from the cowling gap and extending radially outward toward the cowling gap. The antenna is configured to at least one of receive and transmit the engine data and the instruction data through the cowling gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2016Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: Selaka Bandara Bulumulla, Michael Joseph Dell'Anno, William Chester Platt
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Patent number: 9760748Abstract: A calibration circuit includes a single-wire memory and a transmission line. The single-wire memory includes a power/interrogation terminal and a ground terminal. The single-wire memory is configured to store calibration data for a sensor. The transmission line is configured to be coupled between the sensor and a sensor reader. The transmission line includes first and second conductors. The first conductor is coupled to the power/interrogation terminal and is configured to provide the calibration data and a sensor output signal to the sensor reader. The second conductor is coupled to the ground terminal and is configured to provide a ground reference for the first conductor, the single-wire memory, and the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2015Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Joseph Alfred Iannotti, William Chester Platt, Trang Thuy Thai
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Patent number: 9676613Abstract: The present embodiments are directed towards the optical control of switching an electrical assembly. For example, in an embodiment, an electrical package is provided. The electrical package generally includes a micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) device configured to interface with an electrical assembly, the MEMS device being operable to vary the electrical assembly between a first electrical state and a second electrical state, a MEMS device driver in communication with the MEMS device and being operable to produce high voltage switching logic from an electrical signal, and an optical detector in communication with the MEMS device driver and configured to produce the electrical signal from an optical signal produced by a light source in response to an applied current-based electrical control signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Joseph Alfred Iannotti, Eric William Fiveland, William Chester Platt
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Patent number: 9658178Abstract: A sensor includes a resonant transducer, the resonant transducer being configured to determine the composition of an emulsion. The composition of the emulsion is determined by measuring the complex impedance spectrum values of the mixture of the emulsion and applying multivariate data analysis to the values.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Cheryl Margaret Surman, William Chester Platt, William Guy Morris, Steven Go, Jon Albert Dieringer, Radislav A. Potyrailo
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Publication number: 20170039402Abstract: A calibration circuit includes a single-wire memory and a transmission line. The single-wire memory includes a power/interrogation terminal and a ground terminal. The single-wire memory is configured to store calibration data for a sensor. The transmission line is configured to be coupled between the sensor and a sensor reader. The transmission line includes first and second conductors. The first conductor is coupled to the power/interrogation terminal and is configured to provide the calibration data and a sensor output signal to the sensor reader. The second conductor is coupled to the ground terminal and is configured to provide a ground reference for the first conductor, the single-wire memory, and the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Joseph Alfred Iannotti, William Chester Platt, Trang Thuy Thai
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Patent number: 9552502Abstract: A calibration circuit includes a single-wire memory and a transmission line. The single-wire memory includes a power/interrogation terminal and a ground terminal. The single-wire memory is configured to store calibration data for a sensor. The transmission line is configured to be coupled between the sensor and a sensor reader. The transmission line includes first and second conductors. The first conductor is coupled to the power/interrogation terminal and is configured to provide the calibration data and a sensor output signal to the sensor reader. The second conductor is coupled to the ground terminal and is configured to provide a ground reference for the first conductor, the single-wire memory, and the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2015Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Joseph Alfred Iannotti, William Chester Platt, Trang Thuy Thai
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Patent number: 9244049Abstract: A system for measuring nutritional parameters of food items is provided. The system includes a holding cavity. The system further includes a sensor assembly that includes a transmitter antenna and at least one receiver antenna. The transmitter antenna is configured to transmit signals to a food item in the holding cavity. The receiver antenna is configured to receive response signals from the food item. The system includes at least one switch coupled to each antenna. The switch, in a first state, is configured to set the sensor assembly to an electric potential equal to that of the holding cavity. In a second state, the switch is configured to couple the sensor assembly to a power source. The system also includes a processing unit to process the signals received to determine the nutritional parameters of the food item.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Yongjae Lee, Aghogho Atemu Obi, Seog Tae Kim, William Chester Platt, James William Bray, Yuri Alexeyevich Plotnikov, Jack Mathew Webster, Vasile Bogdan Neculaes
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Patent number: 9176083Abstract: A system includes a vessel system for a fluid, a sampling assembly and a resonant sensor system coupled to the sampling assembly. The resonant sensor system may include a subsystem that detects a set of signals from a resonant sensor system at a plurality of locations in the vessel. The resonant sensor system may also include a subsystem that converts the set of signals to values of a complex impedance spectrum for the plurality of locations and stores the values of the complex impedance spectrum and frequency values. A subsystem determines a fluid phase inversion point from the values of the complex impedance spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Cheryl Margaret Surman, William Chester Platt, William Guy Morris, Steven Go, Jon Albert Dieringer, Radislav A. Potyrailo
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Publication number: 20140331796Abstract: A system for measuring nutritional parameters of food items is provided. The system includes a holding cavity. The system further includes a sensor assembly that includes a transmitter antenna and at least one receiver antenna. The transmitter antenna is configured to transmit signals to a food item in the holding cavity. The receiver antenna is configured to receive response signals from the food item. The system includes at least one switch coupled to each antenna. The switch, in a first state, is configured to set the sensor assembly to an electric potential equal to that of the holding cavity. In a second state, the switch is configured to couple the sensor assembly to a power source. The system also includes a processing unit to process the signals received to determine the nutritional parameters of the food item.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2013Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Yongjae Lee, Aghogho Atemu Obi, Seog Tae Kim, William Chester Platt, James William Bray, Yuri Alexeyevich Plotnikov, Jack Mathew Webster, Vasile Bogdan Neculaes
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Publication number: 20140183340Abstract: The present embodiments are directed towards the optical control of switching an electrical assembly. For example, in an embodiment, an electrical package is provided. The electrical package generally includes a micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) device configured to interface with an electrical assembly, the MEMS device being operable to vary the electrical assembly between a first electrical state and a second electrical state, a MEMS device driver in communication with the MEMS device and being operable to produce high voltage switching logic from an electrical signal, and an optical detector in communication with the MEMS device driver and configured to produce the electrical signal from an optical signal produced by a light source in response to an applied current-based electrical control signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2014Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Joseph Alfred Iannotti, Eric William Fiveland, William Chester Platt
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Publication number: 20140090451Abstract: A system includes a vessel system for a fluid, a sampling assembly and a resonant sensor system coupled to the sampling assembly. The resonant sensor system may include a subsystem that detects a set of signals from a resonant sensor system at a plurality of locations in the vessel. The resonant sensor system may also include a subsystem that converts the set of signals to values of a complex impedance spectrum for the plurality of locations and stores the values of the complex impedance spectrum and frequency values. A subsystem determines a fluid phase inversion point from the values of the complex impedance spectrum.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Cheryl Margaret Surman, William Chester Platt, William Guy Morris, Steven Go, Jon Albert Dieringer, Radislav A. Potyrailo
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Publication number: 20140090454Abstract: A sensor includes a resonant transducer, the resonant transducer being configured to determine the composition of an emulsion. The composition of the emulsion is determined by measuring the complex impedance spectrum values of the mixture of the emulsion and applying multivariate data analysis to the values.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Cheryl Margaret Surman, William Chester Platt, William Guy Morris, Steven Go, Jon Albert Dieringer, Radislav A. Potyrailo