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Brian D. Kuras

Caterpillar: 46 patents #33 of 8,398Top 1%
📍 East Peoria, IL: #4 of 393 inventorsTop 2%
🗺 Illinois: #945 of 84,256 inventorsTop 2%
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Showing 26–46 of 46 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7378808 Electric drive system having DC bus voltage control Thomas M. Sopko 2008-05-27
7298102 Electric drive system having DC bus voltage control Tom Sopko, Mustafa Kamil Guven 2007-11-20
7192374 System and method for controlling a continuously variable transmission Thomas M. Sopko, Maria-Magdalena Dilimot 2007-03-20
7146263 Predictive load management system Mustafa Kamil Guven, Michael Vanderham 2006-12-05
7078872 System and method for conditioning a signal Robert Bertsch 2006-07-18
7076954 Turbocharger system Thomas M. Sopko, Michael Vanderham, Kent A. Casey 2006-07-18
6986727 Retarding control for an electric drive machine Thomas M. Sopko 2006-01-17
6901324 System and method for predictive load management Charles E. Rose, Michael Vanderham, Mustafa Kamil Guven, Thomas Michael Sopko Jr. 2005-05-31
6457382 Method and apparatus for shifting ranges in a torque reversing mechanical transmission coupled to a hydrostatic transmission Michael G. Cronin 2002-10-01
6424902 Method and apparatus for operating a continuously variable transmission in the torque limited region near zero output speed 2002-07-23
6409628 Method and apparatus for preventing hunting between ranges in a continuously variable transmission 2002-06-25
6402660 Apparatus and method for adaptively shifting between ranges in a continuously variable transmission Michael G. Cronin 2002-06-11
6393945 Apparatus and method for preventing hunting between ranges in a continuously variable transmission 2002-05-28
6385970 Underspeed control system for a hydromechanical drive system and method of operating same Charles E. Rose, Kevin J. Lueschow 2002-05-14
6343250 Method and apparatus for smoothing the output of a hydrostatic transmission near zero speed Charles E. Rose 2002-01-29
6295497 Method and apparatus for adaptively shifting ranges in a continuously variable transmission 2001-09-25
6260440 Method and apparatus for shifting ranges in a continuously variable transmission Michael G. Cronin 2001-07-17
6223111 Method and apparatus for generating velocity commands for a continuously variable transmission Michael G. Cronin, Kevin J. Lueschow, Jerry D. Marr 2001-04-24
6042502 Method and apparatus for generating velocity commands in response to rapid changes in operator inputs Michael G. Cronin, Kevin J. Lueschow 2000-03-28
6038504 System and method for providing different values of jerk in response to speed pedal displacement Michael G. Cronin, Jerry D. Marr 2000-03-14
5996343 Overspeed control system for a hydro-mechanical drive system 1999-12-07