Patents by Inventor Wouter Gerard Leo JINSSEN

Wouter Gerard Leo JINSSEN 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).

  • Damping device, damping system, vessel equipped with damping system and damping method
    Patent number: 10351395
    Abstract: A damping device includes a cable to be connected to a mass; a winch for hauling in and paying out the cable; a measurement system for measuring a cable motion relative to the winch and for measuring a cable tension in the cable; a control system for damping cable motion by driving the winch in dependency of the measured cable motion and the measured cable tension; a sheave to guide the cable from the winch to the mass, wherein the measurement system is configured to measure the cable tension by measuring a magnitude of a load on the sheave caused by the cable tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: ITREC B.V.
    Inventors: Joop Roodenburg, Wouter Gerard Leo Jinssen
  • DAMPING DEVICE, DAMPING SYSTEM, VESSEL EQUIPPED WITH DAMPING SYSTEM AND DAMPING METHOD
    Publication number: 20170050823
    Abstract: A damping device includes a cable to be connected to a mass; a winch for hauling in and paying out the cable; a measurement system for measuring a cable motion relative to the winch and for measuring a cable tension in the cable; a control system for damping cable motion by driving the winch in dependency of the measured cable motion and the measured cable tension; a sheave to guide the cable from the winch to the mass, wherein the measurement system is configured to measure the cable tension by measuring a magnitude of a load on the sheave caused by the cable tension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: ITREC B.V.
    Inventors: Joop ROODENBURG, Wouter Gerard Leo JINSSEN