Ralph A Felice

US Patent:

6379038, Apr 30, 2002

Filed:

Jun 21, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/337705

Inventors:

Ralph A. Felice - Macedonia OH 44056

International Classification:

G01J 500

US Classification:

374128, 374126, 374 9

Abstract:

The present invention relates to a device useful for the measurement of the temperature of a radiating body. More particularly, the present invention relates to a radiation pyrometer that detects and compensates for emissivity that changes with wavelength, as in metals. Additionally the present invention relates to a device that enhances the resolution and repeatability of the measured temperature of the radiating body. Additionally, the present invention relates to the technique utilized to enhance the resolution and repeatability of the measured temperature.

US Patent:

61531529, Nov 28, 2000

Filed:

Feb 17, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/024640

Inventors:

Robert C. Ruhl - Cleveland Heights OH
Ralph A. Felice - Macedonia OH

Assignee:

The Standard Oil Company - Cleveland OH

International Classification:

B01J 806

US Classification:

422197

Abstract:

A compact endothermic reaction apparatus employing metallic reaction tubes in a close-pack arrangement using offset nozzle tubes and an air distribution plate for introducing fuel and air into a combustion chamber to produce long and thin flames thereby to avoid excessive localized heating of the reaction tubes and provide high reaction tube life expectancy. Also, excessive localized heating of the reaction tubes at the inlet ends of exhaust tubes is eliminated and provision is made for preventing buckling of individual reaction tubes that may be subjected to higher than average reaction tube temperatures.

US Patent:

48766470, Oct 24, 1989

Filed:

Feb 9, 1987

Appl. No.:

7/012016

Inventors:

Bronson Gardner - Garfield Heights OH
Melvin E. Keener - Chagrin Falls OH
Steven C. DeSutter - Aurora OH
Carl T. Jagatich - Aurora OH
Ralph A. Felice - Macedonia OH

Assignee:

The Standard Oil Company - Cleveland OH

International Classification:

G06F 1520
A01G 2516

US Classification:

364420

Abstract:

An apparatus for determining the water stress condition of an agricultural crop growing in a field includes sensors for sensing environmental and crop conditions, such as air temperature, crop canopy temperature and relative humidity, and for generating signals indicative of the sensed conditions, a microprocessor for receiving the generated signals and for calculating a crop water stress index from the signals and a visual display for displaying, in the field, the calculated index. In one embodiment, the sensors are mounted in a pistollike, hand held housing and the microprocessor, display and a keyboard control are carried by a second housing. The microprocessor compares one or more of the sensed conditions to reasonable value limits and rejects a set of measurements containing values beyond the limits. Crop-specific data needed to calculate water stress indices for a particular crop are stored in a programmable, read only memory. When data for a different crop are needed, the memory may be removed and replaced by a memory containing the appropriate crop data, or, if erasable, the memory may be erased and reprogrammed for the different crop.

US Patent:

55673988, Oct 22, 1996

Filed:

Jun 16, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/078748

Inventors:

Robert C. Ruhl - Cleveland Heights OH
Ralph A. Felice - Macedonia OH

Assignee:

The Standard Oil Company - Cleveland OH

International Classification:

B01J 806

US Classification:

422197

Abstract:

A compact endothermic reaction apparatus employing metallic reaction tubes in a close-pack arrangement using offset nozzle tubes and an air distribution plate for introducing fuel and air into a combustion chamber to produce long and thin flames thereby to avoid excessive localized heating of the reaction tubes and provide high reaction tube life expectancy. Also, excessive localized heating of the reaction tubes at the inlet ends of exhaust tubes is eliminated and provision is made for preventing buckling of individual reaction tubes that may be subjected to higher than average reaction tube temperatures.

US Patent:

57723230, Jun 30, 1998

Filed:

Oct 26, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/329456

Inventors:

Ralph A. Felice - Macedonia OH

International Classification:

G01J 500
G01J 508

US Classification:

374127

Abstract:

The present invention relates to a totally novel device and process useful for the measurement of the temperature of a radiating body. More particularly, the present invention relates to a device that enhances the resolution and repeatability of the measured temperature of the radiating body by fitting a mathematical correlation to the emitted radiation spectra, generating calculated radiation intensities at specified wavelengths using the mathematical correlation, and then generating a suite of individual two-wavelength temperature values, which can be statistically evaluated and averaged for a final, measured temperature. In one embodiment, the device consists of an optical input system which receives a portion of the emitted radiation of a radiating body; a wavelength dispersion device which separates the emitted radiation according to wavelength; a radiation transducer which senses the separated radiation and provides an output corresponding to the respective wavelengths of the emitted radiation; means for generating a mathematical function to correlate the output of the radiation transducer to the corresponding wavelengths of incident radiation; and a means for generating a temperature value utilizing a form of the Planck Radiation Equation. Additionally, the present invention relates to the technique utilized to enhance the resolution and repeatability of the measured temperature.

US Patent:

20220176455, Jun 9, 2022

Filed:

Dec 8, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/643313

Inventors:

- Austin TX, US
Alfonso Fernandez - El Paso TX, US
Ralph Felice - Macedonia OH, US

International Classification:

B22F 10/80
B22F 10/28
B22F 12/41
B22F 12/49
B22F 12/90
G01N 21/3563
B33Y 50/00

Abstract:

A method of measuring spectral emissivity of materials is provided. The method comprises placing material in a controlled chamber and exposing the material to an energy source to heat the material. At least one multi-wavelength pyrometer measures emitted thermal radiation from the material produced by heating by the energy source.