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Donald E. Ballard — 14 Patents

GE: 14 patents #2,231 of 36,430Top 7%
Conover, NC: #9 of 86 inventorsTop 15%
North Carolina: #3,601 of 45,564 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Donald E. Ballard has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in June 1994. Donald E. Ballard ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Donald E. Ballard in Conover, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1983 to 1994Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1988.peak 41983: 1 patents19831988: 4 patents19881989: 2 patents19891990: 1 patents19901991: 2 patents19911992: 1 patents19921994: 3 patents1994

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5321379 Transformer with amorphous alloy core having chip containment means Duane Martin, Alan R. Traut, Rob McClellan 1994-06-14 $8,271,000
5291648 Apparatus for making a transformer core comprising amorphous metal strips surrounding the core window Willi Klappert 1994-03-08 $9,892,000
5285565 Method for making a transformer core comprising amorphous steel strips surrounding the core window Willi Klappert 1994-02-15 $10,754,000
5093981 Method for making a transformer core comprising amorphous metal strips surrounding the core window Willi Klappert 1992-03-10 $18,685,000
5050294 Method for making a transformer core comprising amorphous steel strips surrounding the core window Willi Klappert 1991-09-24 $23,537,000
5005456 Hot shear cutting of amorphous alloy ribbon Peter G. Frischmann, Alan I. Taub 1991-04-09 $24,343,000
4924201 Core and coil assembly for a transformer having an amorphous steel core 1990-05-08 $14,022,000
4847987 Method of making a core and coil assembly 1989-07-18 $8,481,000
4814736 Wound transformer core Albert Lee 1989-03-21 $4,603,000
4790064 Method of manufacturing an amorphous metal transformer core and coil assembly Willi Klappert 1988-12-13 $13,170,000
4789849 Amorphous metal transformer core and coil assembly Willi Klappert 1988-12-06 $15,072,000
4741096 Method of manufacturing wound transformer core Albert Lee 1988-05-03 $17,826,000
4734975 Method of manufacturing an amorphous metal transformer core and coil assembly Willi Klappert 1988-04-05 $10,642,000
4413406 Processing amorphous metal into packets by bonding with low melting point material Moreland P. Bennett 1983-11-08 $7,800,000