PATENTS:
- "Pulse Width Modulator Having Nonlinear Transfer Function", U.S.
Patent # 4,532,435, July 30, 1985.
- "Dynamic Transformer Power Supply", U.S. Patent # 5,347,191,
September 13, 1994.
- "A Circuit for Use in a DC-DC Converter Having a Booster Module", U.S.
Patent # 5,838,557, November 17, 1998.
- "System and Method for Electrically-Coupled Thermal Cycle",
U.S. Patent # 7,690,199, April 6, 2010.
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"Leak Detector Pad",
U.S. Patent # 7,753,071, July 13, 2010.
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"Low voltage power supply",
U.S. Patent # 8,183,845, May 22, 2012, with T.K. Trudeau.
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"System and Method for Electrically-Coupled Thermal Cycle",
U.S. Patent # 8,196,402, June 12, 2012.
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"System and Method for Electrically-Coupled Thermal Cycle",
People's Republic of China Patent # ZL2007800034557, August 15, 2012.
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"System and Method for Electrically-Coupled Thermal Cycle",
European Patent (Germany) # 1982048, August 29, 2012.
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"System and Method for Electrically-Coupled Thermal Cycle", Korean Patent # 10-1374564, March 10, 2014.
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" System and Method for Electrically-Coupled Thermal Cycle", U.S. Patent # 8,701,404, April 22, 2014.
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" System and Method for Electrically-Coupled Thermal Cycle", U.S. Patent # 8,720,198, May 13, 2014.
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" System and Method for Electrically-Coupled Heat Engine and Thermal Cycle", U.S. Patent # 8,726,857, May 20, 2014.
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"System and Method for Electrically-Coupled Thermal Cycle", Canadian Patent # 2,637,634, July 8, 2014.
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" System and Method for Electrically-Coupled Heat Engine and Thermal Cycle", U.S. Patent # 8,991,340, March 31, 2015.
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" System and Method for Electrically-Coupled Heat Engine and Thermal Cycle", U.S. Patent # 9,228,490, January, 2016.
PUBLICATIONS:
- "A Direct Reading Capacitance Plethysmograph", Medical and
Biological Engineering, January 1970, Vol. 8, pp. 59-70, with Dr. Chester
Hyman of the University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los
Angeles, California.
- "Stability Considerations in Switching Voltage Regulators", Proceedings
of the Eleventh Annual Allerton Conference on Circuit and System Theory,
University of Illinois, October 1973.
- "Switched Electrical Networks and Bilinear Equations", Proceedings of
the Eleventh Annual Allerton Conference on Circuit and System Theory,
University of Illinois, October 1973.
- "Stability Considerations in Switching Voltage Regulators", Proceedings
of the Seventh Asilomar Conference on Circuits and Systems, Pacific Grove,
California, November 1973.
- "Switched Electrical Networks and Bilinear Equations", Proceedings of
the Seventh Asilomar Conference on Circuits and Systems, Pacific Grove,
California, November 1973.
- "Electrical Networks Containing Controlled Switches", in "Applications
of Lie Group Theory to Nonlinear Network Problems", supplement to IEEE
International Symposium on Circuit Theory, San Francisco, April 1974; IEEE
catalogue 74CH0917; with Professor R.W. Brockett of Harvard
University.
- "Power Conversion in Electrical Networks", report number NASA
CR-120830 prepared for the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space
Administration Lewis Research Center at the Division of Engineering and
Applied Physics of Harvard University, June 1974.
- "Energy Scenarios for New Zealand", by G.S. Harris, M.J. Ellis, G.C. Scott,
J.R. Wood, P.H. Phillips; New Zealand Energy Research and Development
Committee, Report No. 19, March 1977.
- "Energy Scenarios - Supplementary Studies", by Harris, Wood, et al;
New Zealand Energy Research and Development Committee, Report No.
33, April 1978.
- "Performance Tests of Organic Dyes in a Planar Solar Concentrator
with Ribbon Photovoltaic Cells", by J.R. Wood and J.F. Long, Mobil Tyco Solar
Energy Corp.; Conference Record of the Thirteenth IEEE Photovoltaic
Specialists Conference, June 1978.
- "A 25 kW Solar Photovoltaic Flat Panel Power Supply for an Electrodialysis
Water Desalination Unit in New Mexico", by J.R. Wood and J.L. Crutcher, Mobil
Tyco Solar Energy Corp., May 1979; Department of Energy Report No.
DOE/ET/23061-1.
- "Design of a Stand-alone 25 kW Solar Photovoltaic Flat Panel Power
Supply for an Electrodialysis Water Desalination Unit", by J.R.Wood and J.L.
Crutcher; Conference Record of the Fourteenth IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists
Conference, January 1980.
- "Solar Photovoltaic Power for Water Desalination", by J.R. Wood et al;
Conference Record of Soltech '80, the Second Middle East Solar Technology
Conference, Bahrain, November 1980.
- "Design, Construction, and Operation of a Solar Photovoltaic Power
Supply based on the use of Deep-Discharge Lead-Acid Batteries", presented
at the 158th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Hollywood, Florida,
October 1980.
- "A Stand-alone Seawater Desalting System powered by an 8 kW Ribbon
Photovoltaic Array" by J.R. Wood et al; Conference Record of the Fifteenth
IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, May 1981.
- "A Stand-alone Seawater Desalting System powered by an 8 kW Ribbon
Photovoltaic Array" by J.R. Wood et al; Conference Record of the Solar World
Forum, International Solar Energy Society, Brighton, England,
August 1981.
- "Wind Energy Utilization in New Zealand" by Jonathan R. Wood and
V.A.L. Chasteau; New Zealand Energy Research and Development Committee,
Report No. 67, November 1981.
- "Using the Circle Criterion in the Design and Analysis of Nonlinear
Feedback Systems", Proceedings of POWERCON 9, Power Concepts, Inc.,
Ventura, CA, 1982.
- "Taking Account of Output Resistance
and Crossover Frequency in Closed Loop Design", Proceedings of POWERCON
10, Power Concepts, Inc., Ventura, CA, 1983.
- "Understanding Power Converter Chaotic Behavior Mechanisms in
Protective and Abnormal Modes", by R.W. Brockett and J.R. Wood, Proceedings
of POWERCON 11, Power Concepts, Inc., Ventura, CA, 1984.
- "Chaos: A Real Phenomenon in Power Electronics", Proceedings of the
Fourth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference, March 1989. IEEE
Catalogue Number 89CH2719-3.
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