Michael A Sapack

US Patent:

7121152, Oct 17, 2006

Filed:

Jun 7, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/862234

Inventors:

Charles R. Winston - Glastonbury CT,
Michael A. Sapack - Southbury CT,
Patrick Curry - Glastonbury CT,
Daniel L. Gysling - Glastonbury CT,

Assignee:

CiDRA Corporation - Wallingford CT

International Classification:

G01F 1/34

US Classification:

7386142

Abstract:

A portable flow measuring apparatus measures the speed of sound and/or vortical disturbances propagating in a fluid flow to determine a parameter of the flow propagating through a pipe. The apparatus includes a sensing device that includes an array of pressure sensors, which may be removable, used to measure the acoustic and convective pressure variations in the flow to determine a desired parameter. A portable processing instrument processes the signals provided by the sensing array to provide an output signal indicative of a parameter of the fluid flow. The portable processing instrument includes a processor having appropriate processing algorithms to determine the desired or selected parameter(s) of the process flow. The portable processing instrument has a user interface to permit the user to select the parameters to be measured in the process flow, and/or more importantly, to enable the user to modify particular parameters or functions in the processor and/or processing algorithms. The user interface also enables a user to modify the code of the algorithm via a graphic user interface (GUI), keyboard and/or user input signal.

US Patent:

7302861, Dec 4, 2007

Filed:

Oct 16, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/582203

Inventors:

Charles R. Winston - Glastonbury CT,
Michael A. Sapack - Southbury CT,
Patrick Curry - Glastonbury CT,
Daniel L. Gysling - Glastonbury CT,

Assignee:

CiDRA Corporation - Wallingford CT

International Classification:

G01F 1/34

US Classification:

7386142

Abstract:

A portable flow measuring apparatus includes an array of pressure sensors used to measure the acoustic and convective pressure variations in the flow to determine a desired parameter. A portable processing instrument processes the signals provided by the sensing array to provide an output signal indicative of a parameter of the fluid flow. The portable processing instrument includes a processor having appropriate processing algorithms to determine the desired or selected parameter(s) of the process flow The portable processing instrument has a user interface to permit the user to select the parameters to be measured in the process flow, and/or more importantly, to enable the user to modify particular parameters or functions in the processor and/or processing algorithms. The user interface also enables a user to modify the code of the algorithm via a graphic user interface (GUI), keyboard and/or user input signal.

US Patent:

6072567, Jun 6, 2000

Filed:

Feb 12, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/800208

Inventors:

Michael A. Sapack - Southbury CT

Assignee:

CiDRA Corporation - Wallingford CT

International Classification:

G01B 1116

US Classification:

356 32

Abstract:

A system for vertical seismic profiling of an earth borehole includes an optical fiber having a plurality of Bragg grating sensors formed therein, each one of the Bragg grating sensors being tuned to reflect a respective bandwidth of light, each bandwidth having a different respective central wavelength. Each of the Bragg grating sensors are responsive to an input light signal, a static strain, a dynamic strain and a temperature strain for each providing a respective light signal indicative of static and dynamic forces and temperature at a respective sensor location. The physical spacing and wavelength spacing of the Bragg grating sensors are known such that each of the sensing light signals are easily correlated to a specific depth. The Bragg grating sensors are tuned such that when a sensor is subjected to a maximum static strain, maximum dynamic strain, and a maximum temperature strain, the maximum wavelength shift of a respective sensing light signal does not cause the frequency of the sensing light signal to enter the bandwidth of another one of the plurality of Bragg grating sensors.

US Patent:

5685531, Nov 11, 1997

Filed:

Sep 12, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/712719

Inventors:

David R. Auerbach - West Redding CT
Joseph W. Guiles - Prospect CT
Michael A. Sapack - Southbury CT
Richard F. Stengl - Wolcott CT

Assignee:

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

International Classification:

B42C 110

US Classification:

270 51

Abstract:

A method of collating unfolded sheets of paper into a collation and combining the collation with a folded sheet of paper. The method comprises: feeding a plurality of unfolded sheets of paper seriatim along a feed path from an upstream position to a downstream position; conveying the unfolded sheets seriatim around a drum to cause the unfolded sheets to be conveyed to an upstream position; stopping the unfolded sheets seriatim in a pocket having a back panel and a top panel, the back panel stopping the unfolded sheets from being conveyed further upstream and forming a collation of the unfolded sheets; feeding a folded document having a leading folded edge from an upstream to a downstream position across the top panel on top of the collation of unfolded sheets, thereby forming a single stack of documents; and conveying the single stack of documents to a downstream location.