Newton E. Ball
22Patents
11h-index
2Co-inventors
65Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 2, 1976 → Apr 19, 2007
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.