Inventor · San Diego, CA, US

Newton E. Ball

22Patents
11h-index
2Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 2, 1976 → Apr 19, 2007

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5109185A Phase-controlled reversible power converter presenting a controllable counter emf to a source of an impressed voltage Electricity 101 Expired
US7239087B2 Method and apparatus to drive LED arrays using time sharing technique Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 73 Expired
US5029064A Phase-controlled reversible power conversion with equal duty cycle substantially constant amplitude square wave excitation of the power transformer Electricity 51 Expired
US7183724B2 Inverter with two switching stages for driving lamp Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 46 Expired
US4595872A Computer-attached uninterruptable DC power supply Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 33 Expired
US7187140B2 Lamp current control using profile synthesizer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Expired
US7061183B1 Zigzag topology for balancing current among paralleled gas discharge lamps Electricity 31 Expired
US7141933B2 Systems and methods for a transformer configuration for driving multiple gas discharge tubes in parallel Electricity 30 Expired
US7173382B2 Nested balancing topology for balancing current among multiple lamps Electricity 23 Expired
US4086917A Fetal heart rate monitoring system Human Necessities 17 Expired
US7265499B2 Current-mode direct-drive inverter Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US7388413B1 Ramp generator with fast reset Electricity 9 Expired
US7449841B2 Charge limited high voltage switch circuits Electricity 9 Active
US4629964A Battery power source Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US7279851B2 Systems and methods for fault protection in a balancing transformer Electricity 6 Expired
US7250726B2 Systems and methods for a transformer configuration with a tree topology for current balancing in gas discharge lamps Electricity 4 Expired
US7391242B1 Sawtooth waveform generator Electricity 4 Active
US6930582B2 Self lead foil winding configuration for transformers and inductors Electricity 4 Expired
US6642830B1 Self lead foil winding configuration for transformers and inductors Electricity 2 Expired
US7173379B2 Incremental distributed driver Electricity 2 Expired
US7521630B2 Parallel and virtual parallel interconnection of solar cells in solar panels Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US7173380B2 Push-pull driver with null-short feature Electricity 0 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.