Patents by Inventor William E. Holley
William E. Holley 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: 11511408Abstract: An impact hand tool comprising an impact head including an impact surface to engage a work piece and an enlarged hand grip including a palm engaging surface to engage at least a major portion of a person's palm interconnected by an elongated handle such that when in use a person grasps the enlarged hand grip positioning the palm engage surface in the palm of the hand and gripping the side of the enlarged hand grip on opposite sides of the elongated handle.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Inventor: William E. Holley, Sr.
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Patent number: 11472526Abstract: An oar apparatus configured to remain submerged under water during the power stroke and the return stroke. The oar apparatus has a sheath and a shaft rotationally disposed within the sheath. An oar blade is affixed to the shaft, such that the oar blade is rotational relative to the sheath. The oar blade has a deployed orientation, in which the oar blade is substantially perpendicular to the movement direction of the vessel, and a feathered configuration, in which the oar blade is substantially parallel to the movement direction of the vessel. The oar blade is asymmetrical relative to the center axis of the shaft, such that resistance of the water exerted onto the oar blade creates a first moment urging the oar blade into the deployed orientation during the power stroke and a second moment urging the oar blade into the feathered orientation on the return stroke.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Inventor: William E. Holley
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Patent number: 11358694Abstract: An oar apparatus configured to remain submerged under water during the power stroke and the return stroke. The oar apparatus has a sheath and a shaft rotationally disposed within the sheath. An oar blade is affixed to the shaft, such that the oar blade is rotational relative to the sheath. The oar blade has a deployed orientation, in which the oar blade is substantially perpendicular to the movement direction of the vessel, and a feathered configuration, in which the oar blade is substantially parallel to the movement direction of the vessel. The oar blade is asymmetrical relative to the center axis of the shaft, such that resistance of the water exerted onto the oar blade creates a first moment urging the oar blade into the deployed orientation during the power stroke and a second moment urging the oar blade into the feathered orientation on the return stroke.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Inventor: William E. Holley
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Patent number: 7095131Abstract: A variable speed system for use in systems, such as, for example, wind turbines, is described. The system comprises a wound rotor induction generator, a torque controller and a proportional, integral derivative (PID) pitch controller. The torque controller controls generator torque using field oriented control, and the PID controller performs pitch regulation based on generator rotor speed.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2004Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Amir S. Mikhail, Craig L. Christenson, Kevin L. Cousineau, William L. Erdman, William E. Holley
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Patent number: 6856039Abstract: A variable speed system for use in systems, such as, for example, wind turbines, is described. The system comprises a wound rotor induction generator, a torque controller and a proportional, integral derivative (PID) pitch controller. The torque controller controls generator torque using field oriented control, and the PID controller performs pitch regulation based on generator rotor speed.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2003Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Amir S. Mikhail, Craig L. Christenson, Kevin L. Cousineau, William L. Erdman, William E. Holley
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Patent number: 6847128Abstract: A variable speed system for use in systems, such as, for example, wind turbines, is described. The system comprises a wound rotor induction generator, a torque controller and a proportional integral derivative (PID) pitch controller. The torque controller controls generator torque using field oriented control, and the PID controller performs pitch regulation based on generator rotor speed.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2004Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Amir S. Mikhail, Craig L. Christenson, Kevin L. Cousineau, William L. Erdman, William E. Holley
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Publication number: 20040207208Abstract: A variable speed system for use in systems, such as, for example, wind turbines, is described. The system comprises a wound rotor induction generator, a torque controller and a proportional, integral derivative (PID) pitch controller. The torque controller controls generator torque using field oriented control, and the PID controller performs pitch regulation based on generator rotor speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2004Publication date: October 21, 2004Inventors: Amir S. Mikhail, Craig L. Christenson, Kevin L. Cousineau, William L. Erdman, William E. Holley
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Publication number: 20040094964Abstract: A variable speed system for use in systems, such as, for example, wind turbines, is described. The system comprises a wound rotor induction generator, a torque controller and a proportional, integral derivative (PID) pitch controller. The torque controller controls generator torque using field oriented control, and the PID controller performs pitch regulation based on generator rotor speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2003Publication date: May 20, 2004Inventors: Amir S. Mikhail, Craig L. Christenson, Kevin L. Cousineau, William L. Erdman, William E. Holley
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Patent number: 6600240Abstract: A variable speed system for use in systems, such as, for example, wind turbines, is described. The system comprises a wound rotor induction generator, a torque controller and a proportional, integral derivative (PID) pitch controller. The torque controller controls generator torque using field oriented control, and the PID controller performs pitch regulation based on generator rotor speed.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2002Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Amir S. Mikhail, Craig L. Christenson, Kevin L. Cousineau, William L. Erdman, William E. Holley
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Publication number: 20020105189Abstract: A variable speed system for use in systems, such as, for example, wind turbines, is described. The system comprises a wound rotor induction generator, a torque controller and a proportional, integral derivative (PID) pitch controller. The torque controller controls generator torque using field oriented control, and the PID controller performs pitch regulation based on generator rotor speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2002Publication date: August 8, 2002Inventors: Amir S. Mikhail, Craig L. Christenson, Kevin L. Cousineau, William L. Erdman, William E. Holley
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Patent number: 6420795Abstract: A variable speed system for use in systems, such as, for example, wind turbines, is described. The system comprises a wound rotor induction generator, a torque controller and a proportional, integral derivative (PID) pitch controller. The torque controller controls generator torque using field oriented control, and the PID controller performs pitch regulation based on generator rotor speed.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2000Date of Patent: July 16, 2002Assignee: Zond Energy Systems, Inc.Inventors: Amir S. Mikhail, Craig L. Christenson, Kevin L. Cousineau, William L. Erdman, William E. Holley
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Patent number: 6137187Abstract: A variable speed system for use in systems, such as, for example, wind turbines, is described. The system comprises a wound rotor induction generator, a torque controller and a proportional, integral derivative (PID) pitch controller. The torque controller controls generator torque using field oriented control, and the PID controller performs pitch regulation based on generator rotor speed.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1997Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignee: Zond Energy Systems, Inc.Inventors: Amir S. Mikhail, Craig L. Christenson, Kevin L. Cousineau, William L. Erdman, William E. Holley
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Patent number: 5626000Abstract: A packaging arrangement for packaging products, such as contact lenses, in packages such as blister packs. The packaging arrangement includes a rotary index table defining on its upper surface a plurality of identical, radially-oriented support pallets, equally spaced apart around the rotary index table. Each support pallet is designed to support an array of individual package bases thereon, and is sequentially rotated to stop at angularly spaced radial positions in the rotary packaging machine. At a first radial position, the rotary packaging station receives blister package bases, each having a product deposited therein, and places the package bases in the support pallet then at the first radial position.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1994Date of Patent: May 6, 1997Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.Inventors: Russell J. Edwards, Richard W. Abrams, William E. Holley, Borge P. Gundersen, Thomas C. Ravn
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Patent number: 5623816Abstract: A packaging arrangement for packaging products, such as contact lenses, in packages such as blister packs. The packaging arrangement includes a rotary index table defining on its upper surface a plurality of identical, radially-oriented support pallets, equally spaced apart around the rotary index table. Each support pallet is designed to support an array of individual package bases thereon, and is sequentially rotated to stop at angularly spaced radial positions in the rotary packaging machine. At a first radial position, the rotary packaging station receives blister package bases, each having a product deposited therein, and places the package bases in the support pallet then at the first radial position.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: April 29, 1997Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.Inventors: Russell J. Edwards, Richard W. Abrams, William E. Holley, Borge P. Gundersen, Thomas C. Ravn
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Patent number: 5578331Abstract: An apparatus is provided for removing and transporting articles, such as contact lens sections from a manufacturing line to inspection and packaging stations. The lenses are deposited in a transparent plastic primary package which carries the lenses through the inspection station and becomes part of the primary package when a cover is sealed thereto. The invention includes various assemblies, including lens transfer assemblies, deionized water filling and removal assemblies, a water degassing assembly, a lens inspection assembly, and a lens package sealing assembly. The lenses are removed from pallets at a post hydration station, transported and spatially redistributed, and deposited in the primary packages disposed on a second set of pallets. The packages on the second set of pallets are filled with degassed deionized water. The contact lenses and packages are then transported to an inspection station.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1994Date of Patent: November 26, 1996Assignee: Vision Products, Inc.Inventors: Wallace A. Martin, Russell J. Edwards, Borge P. Gundersen, Darren S. Keene, Ture Kindt-Larsen, John M. Lepper, Niels J. Madsen, Thomas C. Ravn, Daniel T. Wang, William E. Holley
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Patent number: 5565059Abstract: An apparatus for the processing and segmenting of a cover-forming laminate web or sheeting structure which is adapted to interconnect a plurality of containers, such as the base members of blister packages each of which is designed to contain a hydrophilic contact lens in a sterile aqueous solution. More specifically disclosed is an apparatus for the imprinting, perforating, slitting and cutting the laminated web structure such that the severed laminate segments constitute printed covering label for an array of such containers, and whereby the laminated web or sheeting segment may be severed along weakening or perforation lines so as to provide a separable packaging arrangement for individual of the containers which are subsequently adhered thereto.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1994Date of Patent: October 15, 1996Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.Inventors: Russell J. Edwards, Richard W. Abrams, Borge P. Gundersen, William E. Holley, Thomas C. Ravn, Mark E. Schlagel, Daniel T. Wang
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Patent number: 5289041Abstract: A controller and method is disclosed for operating a variable speed turbine to track wind speed fluctuations for high efficiency in conversion of wind energy to electrical energy. The controller of the invention controls the rotor speed in accordance with a wind speed supplied by a wind observer in order to approximately follow the varying wind speeds. A yaw angle error sensor senses the degree to which the turbine is misaligned with the wind. The wind observer predicts the average wind speed at a subsequent point in time. The average wind speed is applied to a parameter schedule to determine desired values for rotor speed and torque which are used by a rotor speed stabilizer to command a reference load torque. The load torque of the generator is controlled in accordance with the commanded load torque, and therefore the desired rotor speed is approximated.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1992Date of Patent: February 22, 1994Assignee: U.S. Windpower, Inc.Inventor: William E. Holley
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Patent number: 5155375Abstract: A controller and method is disclosed for operating a variable speed turbine to better track wind speed fluctuations for greater efficiency in conversion of wind energy to electrical energy. The controller of the invention controls the rotor speed in accordance with a wind speed supplied by a wind observer in order to approximately follow the varying wind speeds. The wind observer predicts the average wind speed at a subsequent point in time over the cross-section presented to the wind by the wind turbine. The average wind speed is applied to a parameter schedule to determine desired values for rotor speed and torque which are used by arotor speed stabilizer to command a reference load torque. The load torque of the generator is controlled in accordance with the commanded load torque, and therefore the desired rotor speed is approximated. During operation, the wind speed prediction process is repeated at each subsequent time interval, and the load torque, and therefore rotor speed, is controlled accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1991Date of Patent: October 13, 1992Assignee: U.S. Windpower, Inc.Inventor: William E. Holley