FRANK MICHAEL COOPER
Pilots at Vanderbilt Pkwy, Huntington Station, NY

6377110, Apr 23, 2002

Aug 1, 2000

09/630047

Frank G. Cooper - Dix Hills NY

Keystone Thermometrics - St. Marys PA

H01L 3500

327513, 327 83, 327362, 327378, 257470, 702104

Apparatus, specifically a circuit ( ), for a highly accurate, low cost temperature sensor, particularly one using silicon thermometry and which can be implemented by an application specific integrated circuit, that also possesses a high degree of linearity and a wide dynamic range. The inventive circuit advantageously utilizes either a mixed-signal approach or a digital core and provides independent adjustment, through two point calibration, of slope and ambient output offset values, with a zero offset adjustment advantageously accomplished through use of a digital tear. Specifically, given the inherent linearity of silicon thermometry, zero offset and desired output voltage are set, independently of each other, at a first predefined ambient calibration temperature as effectively two separate offset values, while slope (span) is set at a second predefined calibration temperature (typically a full scale temperature) different from the first temperature.

6577139, Jun 10, 2003

Nov 6, 2001

09/992775

Frank G. Cooper - Dix Hills NY

Keystone Thermometrics - St. Marys PA

G01R 2700

324600, 324692

An impedance converter module has a phase reversal circuit to receive a 2-wire excitation signal at first and second terminals, and to provide a polarized excitation signal with a predetermined polarity based on the 2-wire excitation signal. A series current path has a sense resistor connected in series with a variable impedance source. The polarized excitation signal is applied across the series current path. An output-voltage-sense circuit provides an output-voltage-sense signal based on a voltage across the series current path. A current mirror provides a drive signal to a ratiometric device based on current flowing through the series current path. Differential amplifiers receive a ratiometric response signal from the ratiometric device, and output measurement signals based on the ratiometric signal. A summing node combines the measurement signals to provide a single-ended ratiometric signal. The variable impedance source is controlled to provide a two-wire response signal at the 2-wire terminals based on the single-ended ratiometric signal and the output-voltage-sense signal.

5507175, Apr 16, 1996

Oct 21, 1994

8/327460

Frank G. Cooper - South Huntington NY

Protimeter, Inc. - Commack NY

G01N 2568

73 2902

A cycling chilled mirror hygrometer is described wherein the mirror employed comprises a sapphire substrate having deposited thereon alternating layers of titanium dioxide and silicon dioxide. The surfaces resulting from the described technology yield a ten fold enhancement over the "theoretically pure" optical surface characteristics achieved with the prior art gold mirrors. Additionally, these devices have provided ideal surface characteristics for 350 degree optical triangulation, thereby permitting greater primary sensor sensitivity at low humidity levels (below -40 Cdp) and the elimination of long term "optical reflective gain" variations due to aging characteristics as compared with the conventional gold mirrors having impurities.

8358506, Jan 22, 2013

Aug 27, 2010

12/807097

Frank G. Cooper - Dix Hills NY, US
Eric J. Hoffman - Middleton WI, US

Direct Grid Technologies, LLC - Edgewood NY

H05K 7/20

361714, 361704, 361705, 361707, 361722

A mechanical arrangement for use in implementing a galvanically-isolated, low-profile micro-inverter primarily, though not exclusively, intended for use with solar panels. The micro-inverter contains a circuitry assembly having a planar transformer formed of two abutting E-shaped core halves, and a chopper device assembly with all chopper devices mounted to a common thermally-conductive plate. To provide passive cooling, heat conduction paths are established, via separate compressive thermally-conductive pads, from a top surface of a top core half of the transformer and from a bottom surface of the conductive plate to large-area portions of opposing internal surfaces of top and base portions, respectively, of an enclosure. The enclosure portions, once secured together to house the circuitry and chopper device assemblies, exert a physical force through the compressive pads to effectively clamp the core halves together and eliminate air gaps that might otherwise form between abutting portions of the core halves.

8422249, Apr 16, 2013

Aug 25, 2011

13/199319

Frank G. Cooper - Dix Hills NY, US
Eric J. Hoffman - Middleton WI, US
Richard MacArthur - Franklin Square NY, US

Direct Grid Technologies, LLC - Edgewood NY

H02M 3/335

363 17, 363 98, 363132

A microinverter is disclosed for use in a solar power installation. The microinverter incorporates a voltage-to-current control loop that initially converts output current produced by a photovoltaic panel into a pulse width modulated output synchronized and phase-locked to the utility grid voltage. The duty cycle of that modulated output is specified by output power internally requested from the microinverter. This modulated output is converted into a full-wave rectified unipolar waveform that is converted, through a Commutator, into a bipolar AC output that is also phase-locked and synchronized to the grid voltage. The commutator uses an H-bridge composed of four FETs, with each of two diagonally-oriented pairs of these FETs being advantageously switched on substantially at zero-crossing points in the grid voltage. Switching these FETs during times of zero current and voltage, and switching each pair on for substantially an entire half-cycle of grid voltage reduces switching loss and power dissipation of the FETs and ensures that these FETs remain substantially unaffected by transients which might appear in the grid voltage.

4949572, Aug 21, 1990

Nov 30, 1988

7/278223

Don J. Wilen - West Hempstead NY
Frank Cooper - South Huntington NY

Computer Instruments Corporation - Hempstead NY

G01N 928

73 53

A microprocessor based instrument is provided for measuring liquid level, specific gravity, or density. The instrument includes a mainframe controller, a remote sensor, and two sets of dip tube assemblies, one for each of two measurement channels. The instrument allows the operator to control both the time at which a bubble is released from one of the dip tubes into a liquid and also the size of the purge bubble which is released. By controlling the timing of bubble release, the pressure within a dip tube can be measured after the system has been allowed to quiet down. If a pair of dip tubes is employed within the same vessel, the differential pressure can be measured when the pneumatic line pressure variations have reached steady state, that is after the gas flow into the dip tubes has been discontinued.

7577539, Aug 18, 2009

Jan 9, 2007

11/651172

David Hubanks - Madison WI, US
Eric Joseph Hoffman - Middleton WI, US
Frank George Cooper - Dix Hills NY, US

ZMD America Inc. - Melville NY

G01F 25/00

702104, 32420725, 702 91, 702 98

Apparatus and an accompanying method for calibrating a sensor signal conditioner coupled to a sensor. The signal conditioner sensor enables relatively easy and precise calibration of bridge sensors without the use of a microprocessor. When mated to a resistive bridge sensor, the sensor signal conditioner can digitally calibrate offset and gain, with an option to calibrate offset and gain coefficients and linearity over temperature. A second order compensation can be enabled for temperature coefficients of gain, offset or bridge linearity.

5540080, Jul 30, 1996

Oct 24, 1994

8/328235

Frank G. Cooper - South Huntington NY
David S. Russell - Mt. Sinai NY

Protimeter, Inc. - Commack NY

G01N 1910

73 2902

A wiper assembly for cleaning optical surfaces. The structure comprises a pneumatically activated wiper element including a wiping member connected to a spring member disposed within a cylinder. The wiper element is actuated by air pressure generated by a pumping element. The wiping member is connected to an end of a piston rod which passes longitudinally through the cylinder. When activated, the wiping element moves across an optical surface to be cleansed, and at a conclusion of its return stroke, has removed during its simple return stroke, frost, hydrocarbons, entrained particulate material and moisture from the optical surface.

4984451, Jan 15, 1991

Feb 13, 1990

7/479291

Don J. Wilen - West Hempstead NY
Frank Cooper - South Huntington NY

Computer Instruments Corporation - Hempstead NY

G01N 928

73 53

A method is disclosed for determining physical properties of liquids, such as specific gravity or density. The method is performed through the use of a mainframe controller, a remote sensor, and two sets of dip tube assemblies, one for each of two measurement channels. The time at which a bubble is released by one of the dip tubes into a liquid and the size of the purge bubble are both controlled. By controlling the timing of bubble release, the pressure within a dip tube can b e measured after the system has been allowed to quiet down. If a pair of dip tubes is employed within the same vessel, the differential pressure can be measured when the pneumatic line pressure variations have reached steady state, that is after the gas flow into the dip tubes has been discontinued.