Joseph E Breen

US Patent:

7830032, Nov 9, 2010

Filed:

Aug 28, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/549729

Inventors:

Joseph G. Breen - River Vale NJ, US

International Classification:

F03B 13/10
F03B 13/12
H02P 9/04
F03D 9/00

US Classification:

290 53, 290 55, 290 54, 60398

Abstract:

Apparatus and method are provided for generating electrical power from an installation site in a body of water wherein waves occur naturally over an area of the body of water to move the water about a mean water level beneath an ambient atmosphere to effect an alternate rise and fall in the water level about the mean water level. A plurality of chambers are immersed in the body of water such that air is moved out of and into each chamber by the rise and fall of the water level in each chamber. The flow of air out of the chambers is conducted to one of two air turbines while the flow of air into the chambers is conducted to the other of the two air turbines. The two air turbines are coupled for simultaneous and continuous rotation as a unit, and the air turbines are coupled to a generator for generating electrical power. The chambers are spread over an area sufficient to assure a continuous flow of air simultaneously out of at least some chambers and into at least other chambers so that a substantially continuous sir flow is supplied to each air turbine.

US Patent:

7854141, Dec 21, 2010

Filed:

Dec 8, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/330053

Inventors:

Joseph G. Breen - River Vale NJ, US

International Classification:

F25D 21/00

US Classification:

62272, 62 81, 62506

Abstract:

A self-contained air-conditioning unit is modified to effect conservation of energy during operation of the unit. Refrigerant is moved along a refrigerant circuit for circulation through a compressor, a condenser and an evaporator within a housing which includes a base. The evaporator is raised above the base a distance sufficient to enable collection of condensate from the evaporator and transfer of the collected condensate by gravity to a condensate reservoir tray located adjacent the base. A heat exchange conduit is inserted into the refrigerant circuit, between the compressor and the condenser, and is placed in the condensate reservoir tray so as to be immersed in the condensate transferred to the condensate reservoir tray for enabling transfer of heat from the heat exchange conduit to condensate in the condensate reservoir tray during operation of the air-conditioning unit, thereby reducing the amount of energy needed to operate the unit.

US Patent:

7878236, Feb 1, 2011

Filed:

Feb 9, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/367816

Inventors:

Joseph G. Breen - River Vale NJ, US

International Classification:

F24F 7/007
F24F 7/08

US Classification:

165288, 165297, 165 47, 165 54, 165 59, 165 66, 165 85, 165909, 290 55

Abstract:

In an HVAC system in which ambient air is supplied by the system to a building through an ambient air intake airstream and is exhausted from the building through an exhaust airstream energy is conserved by transferring heat between the intake airstream and the exhaust airstream. A heat exchange fluid is circulated between heat exchangers located in the intake airstream and in the exhaust airstream. An air turbine is placed in the exhaust airstream for being driven by the exhaust airstream, and the air turbine is coupled with a pump arranged to circulate the heat exchange fluid between the heat exchangers such that upon being driven by the exhaust airstream, the air turbine, in turn, drives the pump to circulate the heat exchange fluid between the heat exchangers and thereby effects the transfer of heat from one to the other of the intake airstream and the exhaust airstream and a concomitant conservation of energy in the HVAC system.

US Patent:

20100234841, Sep 16, 2010

Filed:

Mar 10, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/721137

Inventors:

Chris Butts - Evanston IL, US
Forrest James Mertens - Denver CO, US
Alex Cohen Herzick - San Francisco CA, US
Krishanu Nandy - Evanston IL, US
Mayte Zavaleta - Chicago IL, US
Catherine Chen - St. Louis MO, US
Joseph Thomas Breen - Rochester MN, US
Colleen Fryer - Towson MA, US

International Classification:

A61B 18/14

US Classification:

606 41

Abstract:

Herein it is described a magnetic medical device, and a system and method in which the magnetic medical device is implemented, that enables bipolar, minimally invasive, tissue ablation. The magnetic medical device may include magnetic means for magnetically coupling the medical device to a second medical device, wherein the magnetic medical devices may be separated by the tissue to be ablated. The magnetic medical device may also include electrical means for transferring electrical energy between the magnetic medical device and the second medical device. The magnetic medical device may further include control means whereby the physical location of the magnetic medical device may be controlled and thereby, as a result of the magnetic coupling, the physical location of the second magnetic medical device may also be controlled.

US Patent:

42599237, Apr 7, 1981

Filed:

Apr 8, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/138628

Inventors:

Joseph R. Breen - Alsip IL

Assignee:

The Continental Group, Inc. - Stamford CT

International Classification:

B05B 502
B05C 1900
B05C 702

US Classification:

118622

Abstract:

A powder applicator for applying powder in a stream to side seams of container bodies. The powder is directed towards an associated nozzle entrained in a carrier gas. However, as the gas entrained powder approaches the nozzle, it passes through a centrifuge section of the supply tube wherein the powder is separated from the gas and is directed against a radially outer portion of a return bend which extends through an arc on the order of 180. degree. As a result, the powder is directed to the orifice of the nozzle as a continuous dense stream with the gas being in a layered relation with respect to the powder.

US Patent:

47171537, Jan 5, 1988

Filed:

Jun 30, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/880672

Inventors:

Joseph G. Breen - River Vale NJ

International Classification:

A63B 6936

US Classification:

273197A

Abstract:

A golf practice device has a rotor with three simulated golf ball targets spaced equidistant from one another around the rotor, each target having mutually perpendicular webs and flanges forming a lightweight yet rugged construction readily molded in a unitary structure of synthetic resin material, and a housing within which the rotor is mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis and for ready removal and replacement. A plurality of telltales on the housing indicate any deviation from a true path by the head of a golf club swung at a target.