JOHN MICHAEL CARLYLE
Pilots at Buckingham Way, Yardley, PA

5120214, Jun 9, 1992

Jan 31, 1991

7/649258

John S. West - Camp Hill PA
David A. Shefet - Harrisburg PA
John M. Carlyle - Yardley PA

Control Techtronics, Inc. - PA

F23N 516

431 12

An acoustically operated burner control system for optimally controlling a flow of air and fuel into a flame producing combustion burner throughout a range of firing rates is disclosed. The system includes separate valve assemblies for modulating the flow of air and fuel into a burner, a microphone for generating an electrical signal indicative of the intensity of all sounds generated by the combustion flame having a frequency in excess of about 10 Khz, and a controller including a programmable microprocessor electrically connected to both the air and fuel valve assemblies and the microphone. The system further includes a wave guide for remotely acoustically coupling the microphone to the combustion flame in order to isolate the microphone from both heat and corrosive combustion products. Prior to the operation of the system, empirically-derived sound intensities associated with optimum stoichiometric combustion and minimum pollution are entered into the memory of the microprocessor. During operation, the microprocessor equates the sound intensity sensed by the microphone with the optimum sound intensity in its memory by regulating the position of the air and fuel valve assemblies.

7614303, Nov 10, 2009

Mar 27, 2007

11/727600

Michael K. McInerney - Champaign IL, US
Sean W. Morefield - Champaign IL, US
Victor H. Kelly - West Chester PA, US
John M. Carlyle - Yardley PA, US

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army - Washington DC

G01N 29/024

73597, 73598, 73602, 73761

A configuration for use with a processor that incorporates a suite of agents in a “flat” hardware architecture and superimposes thereon a self-forming, self-healing, hierarchical architecture implemented in software. Embodiments may be employed in various applications, such as maintaining network integrity. In one embodiment a building security monitoring network provides for automated network agents to each be capable of communication with any other automated agents on a network at network startup. Shortly after network initialization, the software architecture is superimposed on the flat hardware architecture, re-arranging communication links to provide an efficient hierarchy of control and substituting working agents for compromised agents as necessary in the network. All of this is done in a “live” network, not requiring shutdown, or even reduced operation to accomplish. This “dual” architecture (hierarchical software and flat hardware) provides excellent reliability in those “layered” network applications requiring near total reliability, such as security surveillance.