Michael J Zink

US Patent:

8589133, Nov 19, 2013

Filed:

Jul 17, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/462059

Inventors:

Donald D. Dalessandro - Williamstown NJ, US
Donald R. Longo - Pittsgrove NJ, US
Kevin J. Brown - Waldwick NJ, US
Michael G. Zink - Marlton NJ, US
Frank T. Ferrese - Haddon Heights NJ, US

Assignee:

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

International Classification:

G06G 7/48
G06G 7/50
G06F 17/50
B60L 3/00
G06Q 10/00

US Classification:

703 8, 703 1, 703 7, 703 9, 701 21, 705 711

Abstract:

Interdependencies between pairs/groups of individual systems are evaluated in determining the composition of a universal system of interdependent systems. Data tables reflecting the interdependencies are contained in a central database resident in a server's memory. Plural/multiple computers are connected to the server, each computer having running thereon at least one simulation program, each simulation program being associated with at least one individual system and being characterized by individual time steps. In each individual time step, the simulation program updates (reads data from and writes data to) the central database, and displays updated information. In each universal time step (characterizing the simulation of the universal system), all simulation programs are temporally coordinated so that each simulation program's individual time step takes place once; no universal time step is perfected until every individual time step has completed its updating of pertinent data in the central database.

US Patent:

8600566, Dec 3, 2013

Filed:

Feb 4, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/021580

Inventors:

Donald R. Longo - Pittsgrove PA, US
Donald D. Dalessandro - Williamstown NJ, US
Qing Dong - Birdsboro PA, US
Frank T. Ferrese - Haddon Heights PA, US
John M. Roach - Herriman UT, US
Michael G. Zink - Marlton NJ, US

Assignee:

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

International Classification:

G05D 7/00

US Classification:

700282, 700300

Abstract:

The condition of a fluid piping system is monitored by multiple intercommunicative smart valves, each executing a computer algorithm that designates smart valves as critical or non-critical, compares measurement data versus simulation data, and makes decisions based on the critical-or-noncritical designations and the measurement-versus-simulation comparisons. Initial measurement-versus-simulation comparisons are made for downstream pressure, flow rate, and temperature. If a measurement-versus-simulation discrepancy is found in either the downstream pressure or the flow rate, then the algorithm compares a measurement rupture determinant versus a simulation rupture determinant; if a measurement-versus-simulation discrepancy is found in the rupture determinant, then the smart valve is closed. If a measurement-versus-simulation discrepancy is found in the temperature, then the smart valve, if non-critical, is closed; however, if the smart valve is critical, then the nearest upstream non-critical smart valve is closed. Any measurement-versus-simulation discrepancy results, at least, in an alarm or warning.