Patents by Inventor William Snell
William Snell 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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Publication number: 20250226902Abstract: Embodiments of a method and system for transmitting an audio stream and a digital radio broadcasting system are disclosed. The method comprises providing an audio source remotely located to a digital radio broadcasting system. encoding at the audio source an audio stream with an audio codec resulting in an encoded audio stream, transmitting the encoded audio stream over a computer network to the digital radio broadcasting system. receiving the encoded audio stream and processing the encoded audio stream at the digital radio broadcasting system for broadcast by the digital radio broadcasting system without decoding of the encoded audio stream, and broadcasting the encoded audio stream by the digital radio broadcasting system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2022Publication date: July 10, 2025Inventors: Russell Iannuzzelli, Jeffrey Detweiler, William Snelling
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Patent number: 12339047Abstract: A compressor includes a diffuser passage configured to receive refrigerant flow from an impeller of the compressor, where the diffuser passage is at least partially defined by a compressor discharge plate of the compressor. The compressor also includes a variable geometry diffuser positioned within the diffuser passage and configured to adjust a dimension of a refrigerant flow path through the diffuser passage, an actuator coupled to the variable geometry diffuser and configured to adjust a position of the variable geometry diffuser within the diffuser passage, and a controller configured to regulate operation of the actuator.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Bryson Lee Sheaffer, Jordan Quinn Steiner, Paul William Snell, Curtis Christian Crane
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Publication number: 20250167906Abstract: Methods and systems for synchronizing audio transmission in a single frequency network. Aspects of a method include preparing in a first exporter a first digital audio signal for transmission to a first exciter engine; buffering the first digital audio signal and transmitting the buffered first digital audio signal to the first exciter engine; preparing in a second exporter a second digital audio signal for transmission to a second exciter engine; buffering the second digital audio signal; transmitting the first digital audio signal from the first control unit to the second control unit; receiving control commands regarding a buffered first or second digital audio signal, wherein the second control unit transmits the buffered first or second digital audio signal dependent on the received control commands; and synchronized transmission of the buffered first digital audio signal and the buffered first or second digital audio signal based on a received trigger signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2022Publication date: May 22, 2025Inventors: Russell Iannuzzelli, William Snelling, John Wells, Jeffrey Detweiler
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Publication number: 20250015911Abstract: A method comprises: receiving a first audio stream that conveys audio content and a second audio stream that conveys the audio content and is delayed relative to the first audio stream by a time delay; one-sided filtering first audio segments of the first audio stream to pass only positive frequencies of the first audio segments to first filtered audio segments; one-sided filtering second audio segments of the second audio stream to pass only positive frequencies of the second audio segments to second filtered audio segments; cross correlating the first filtered audio segments against corresponding ones of the second filtered audio segments, to produce cross-correlation results; detecting a peak indicated by the cross-correlation results; and estimating the time delay based on a position of the peak, to produce an estimated time delay.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: iBiquity Digital CorporationInventors: William Snelling, Russell lannuzzelli, Paul J. Peyla, Jeffrey S. Baird
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Patent number: 12168984Abstract: A compressor for a heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) system includes an impeller that has a hub defining an impeller tip, a plurality of blades coupled to the hub and defining a plurality of flow paths configured to direct a primary flow of working fluid therethrough, and a shroud coupled to the plurality of blades. The shroud includes a shroud tip disposed upstream of the impeller tip relative to a flow direction of the primary flow of working fluid through the plurality of flow paths.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Paul William Snell, Bryson Lee Sheaffer, Florin Valeriu Iancu
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Patent number: 12000629Abstract: A hybrid cooling system for a hermetic motor includes an annular cavity in a motor housing that receives a vapor flow and an annulus in the motor housing that receives a liquid flow. The hybrid cooling system includes a sleeve disposed adjacent to the annular cavity and the annulus, where a radial opening is defined through the sleeve. The hybrid cooling system includes a stator at least partially surrounded by the sleeve, a gap defined between the stator and a rotor, and a vent slot of the stator configured to receive the vapor flow from the annular cavity through the radial opening of the sleeve and direct the vapor flow to the gap. The hybrid cooling system includes an exit path in the motor housing configured to direct an evaporated vapor flow, generated from the liquid flow contacting the stator, and the vapor flow out of the motor housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Paul William Snell, Matthew Lee Heisey, Tyler Alexander Wolgemuth, Katelynn Louise Crissman, Ian Michael Casper, David Andrew Bradshaw
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Patent number: 11942851Abstract: A system for cooling a hermetic motor includes a motor cooling refrigerant flow path configured to direct refrigerant from a condenser disposed along a refrigerant loop to a hermetic motor, and from the hermetic motor back to the refrigerant loop, and a housing of the hermetic motor disposed along the motor cooling refrigerant flow path and configured to receive the refrigerant from the condenser, wherein the housing of the hermetic motor comprises an annulus surrounding at least a portion of a stator of the hermetic motor, and wherein the annulus comprises a plurality of openings configured to direct refrigerant toward the stator and into a cavity of the housing of the hermetic motor.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GMBHInventors: Katelynn Louise Crissman, Ian Michael Casper, David Andrew Bradshaw, Matthew Lee Heisey, Tyler Alexander Wolgemuth, Paul William Snell
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Publication number: 20230272804Abstract: A compressor for a heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) system includes an impeller that has a hub defining an impeller tip, a plurality of blades coupled to the hub and defining a plurality of flow paths configured to direct a primary flow of working fluid therethrough, and a shroud coupled to the plurality of blades. The shroud includes a shroud tip disposed upstream of the impeller tip relative to a flow direction of the primary flow of working fluid through the plurality of flow paths.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Paul William Snell, Bryson Lee Sheaffer, Florin Valeriu Iancu
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Patent number: 11716772Abstract: System and method enable rapid prototyping of an Internet of Things (IoT) device equipped with a modem. The system creates an abstraction layer subsuming a modem AT command set, where the abstraction layer provides a higher-level functionality than the modem AT command set. A function associated with the abstraction layer includes multiple function calls to the modem AT command set. The system can receive an input indicating an instruction to initiate a connection between the modem and a telecommunication network. The system can invoke a particular function associated with the abstraction layer to establish the connection between the modem and the telecommunication network.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: James Benjamin Tharpe, III, Robert William Snell, Eric Steven Hill, Jim Joojin Song
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Publication number: 20230147950Abstract: A compressor includes a diffuser passage configured to receive refrigerant flow from an impeller of the compressor, where the diffuser passage is at least partially defined by a compressor discharge plate of the compressor. The compressor also includes a variable geometry diffuser positioned within the diffuser passage and configured to adjust a dimension of a refrigerant flow path through the diffuser passage, an actuator coupled to the variable geometry diffuser and configured to adjust a position of the variable geometry diffuser within the diffuser passage, and a controller configured to regulate operation of the actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Bryson Lee Sheaffer, Jordan Quinn Steiner, Paul William Snell, Curtis Christian Crane
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Patent number: 11531307Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a compressor having an impeller configured to rotate and drive a working fluid through a working fluid circuit of the HVAC system in an active operating mode. The HVAC system further includes a controller configured to, in response to receiving an input indicative of a transition to operate in an inactive operating mode, suspend the active operating mode by interrupting a supply of power to the compressor, adjust pre-rotation vanes of the compressor, a variable geometry diffuser of the compressor to a first position, or both to enable a backflow of the working fluid through the compressor for a first interval of time, and, after the first interval of time has elapsed, adjust the pre-rotation vanes, the variable geometry diffuser, or both to a second position to block the backflow of the working fluid through the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Paul William Snell, Matthew Lee Heisey
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Patent number: 11506212Abstract: The present invention provides bearing cage retainer for a rolling element rotor bearing in a vacuum pump. The bearing cage retainer being configured to have an operational arrangement in which, at the maximum longitudinal axial displacement limit of the outer race in the direction of the retainer, the bearing cage retainer is disengaged from the bearing cage, and a failure configuration characterised by the dislocation of the bearing cage by a longitudinal axial displacement of the bearing cage relative to the outer race in the direction of the retainer and in which the bearing cage retainer engages said bearing cage and the bearing cage maintains the separation of the rolling elements within the bearing.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Edwards LimitedInventors: Peter Meares, Andrew William Snell, Richard Glyn Horler
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Patent number: 11371526Abstract: A compressor for a heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) unit includes an impeller, a shaft configured to rotate the impeller, and a fastener. The impeller includes an opening and does not include keys, splines, pins, or any combination thereof. The fastener is coupled to an end of the shaft and extends through the opening of the impeller, and the fastener is configured to stretch in an axial direction relative to the shaft via a tensioner during assembly of the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventor: Paul William Snell
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Publication number: 20210190395Abstract: A hybrid cooling system for a hermetic motor includes an annular cavity in a motor housing that receives a vapor flow and an annulus in the motor housing that receives a liquid flow. The hybrid cooling system includes a sleeve disposed adjacent to the annular cavity and the annulus, where a radial opening is defined through the sleeve. The hybrid cooling system includes a stator at least partially surrounded by the sleeve, a gap defined between the stator and a rotor, and a vent slot of the stator configured to receive the vapor flow from the annular cavity through the radial opening of the sleeve and direct the vapor flow to the gap. The hybrid cooling system includes an exit path in the motor housing configured to direct an evaporated vapor flow, generated from the liquid flow contacting the stator, and the vapor flow out of the motor housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Paul William Snell, Matthew Lee Heisey, Tyler Alexander Wolgemuth
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Publication number: 20210102720Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a compressor having an impeller configured to rotate and drive a working fluid through a working fluid circuit of the HVAC system in an active operating mode. The HVAC system further includes a controller configured to, in response to receiving an input indicative of a transition to operate in an inactive operating mode, suspend the active operating mode by interrupting a supply of power to the compressor, adjust pre-rotation vanes of the compressor, a variable geometry diffuser of the compressor to a first position, or both to enable a backflow of the working fluid through the compressor for a first interval of time, and, after the first interval of time has elapsed, adjust the pre-rotation vanes, the variable geometry diffuser, or both to a second position to block the backflow of the working fluid through the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2019Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Paul William Snell, Matthew Lee Heisey
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Publication number: 20200300262Abstract: A compressor for a heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) unit includes an impeller, a shaft configured to rotate the impeller, and a fastener. The impeller includes an opening and does not include keys, splines, pins, or any combination thereof. The fastener is coupled to an end of the shaft and extends through the opening of the impeller, and the fastener is configured to stretch in an axial direction relative to the shaft via a tensioner during assembly of the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2018Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventor: Paul William Snell
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Publication number: 20200248701Abstract: The present invention provides bearing cage retainer for a rolling element rotor bearing in a vacuum pump. The bearing cage retainer being configured to have an operational arrangement in which, at the maximum longitudinal axial displacement limit of the outer race in the direction of the retainer, the bearing cage retainer is disengaged from the bearing cage, and a failure configuration characterised by the dislocation of the bearing cage by a longitudinal axial displacement of the bearing cage relative to the outer race in the direction of the retainer and in which the bearing cage retainer engages said bearing cage and the bearing cage maintains the separation of the rolling elements within the bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Peter Meares, Andrew William Snell, Richard Glyn Horler
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Publication number: 20200240677Abstract: A system for cooling a hermetic motor includes a motor cooling refrigerant flow path configured to direct refrigerant from a condenser disposed along a refrigerant loop to a hermetic motor, and from the hermetic motor back to the refrigerant loop, and a housing of the hermetic motor disposed along the motor cooling refrigerant flow path and configured to receive the refrigerant from the condenser, wherein the housing of the hermetic motor comprises an annulus surrounding at least a portion of a stator of the hermetic motor, and wherein the annulus comprises a plurality of openings configured to direct refrigerant toward the stator and into a cavity of the housing of the hermetic motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Katelynn Louise Crissman, Ian Michael Casper, David Andrew Bradshaw, Matthew Lee Heisey, Tyler Alexander Wolgemuth, Paul William Snell
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Patent number: 10606668Abstract: A method of determining information relating to the occupancy of a space that includes receiving first data relating to the occupancy of the space over a time period, receiving second data indicative of either times of decrementing events or times of incrementing events affecting the occupancy of the space during the time period, and either, for each decrementing event time, using the first data to obtain an estimated incrementing event time, or, for each incrementing event time, using the first data to obtain an estimated decrementing event time. The method has particular application in the determination of waiting times, for example in the context of queue monitoring.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: InfraRed Integrated Systems LimitedInventors: William Snell, Stuart Holliday
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Publication number: 20190203730Abstract: A compressor includes a shaft, a motor configured to drive the shaft into rotation, and a thrust bearing configured to permit rotation of the shaft and support an axial load of the shaft. The thrust bearing is positioned about the shaft and between the motor and an impeller of the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2018Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventors: Matthew Lee Heisey, Paul William Snell