Kent E. Crouse
27Patents
13h-index
20Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: May 28, 1991 → Oct 3, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6333605A | Light modulating electronic ballast | Electricity | 107 | Expired |
| US5925990A | Microprocessor controlled electronic ballast | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 105 | Expired |
| US5539281A | Externally dimmable electronic ballast | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 67 | Expired |
| US5434477A | Circuit for powering a fluorescent lamp having a transistor common to both inverter and the boost converter and method for operating such a circuit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 63 | Expired |
| US8049434B2 | Lighting commissioning device and method | Electricity | 59 | Active |
| US5973455A | Electronic ballast with filament cut-out | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 39 | Expired |
| US5124619A | Circuit for driving a gas discharge lamp load | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 33 | Expired |
| US5396155A | Self-dimming electronic ballast | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 32 | Expired |
| US5500576A | Low height ballast for fluorescent lamps | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 28 | Expired |
| US6023132A | Electronic ballast deriving auxilliary power from lamp output | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 23 | Expired |
| US5461287A | Booster driven inverter ballast employing the output from the inverter to trigger the booster | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 21 | Expired |
| US5936357A | Electronic ballast that manages switching frequencies for extrinsic purposes | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 17 | Expired |
| US5493181A | Capacitive lamp out detector | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 14 | Expired |
| US5747941A | Electronic ballast that monitors direct current through lamp filaments | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 11 | Expired |
| US7443113B2 | Software controlled electronic dimming ballast | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 10 | Expired |
| US6091199A | Heat spreader for electronic ballast | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US7589472B2 | Electronic ballast with lamp type determination | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 7 | Expired |
| US5982113A | Electronic ballast producing voltage having trapezoidal envelope for instant start lamps | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 6 | Expired |
| US6111365A | Fast starting, surge limited, electronic ballast | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 5 | Expired |
| US7851737B2 | System and method for charging a control device from a lighting system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Active |
| US5440475A | Electronic Ballast with low harmonic distortion | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 3 | Expired |
| US7521876B2 | Electronic ballast with lamp type determination | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
| US6720741B2 | Electronic ballast having open circuit in output | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
| US10746586B2 | Tank-in-tank container fill level indicator | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 1 | Active |
| US10745263B2 | Container fill level indication system using a machine learning algorithm | Physics | 1 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.