Otto J. M. Smith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Professor of electrical engineering
Date of Birth: 06-Aug-1917
Place of Birth: Urbana, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 10-May-2009
Profession: engineer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Otto J. M. Smith
- Otto J.
- M.
- Smith was an educator, inventor and author in the fields of engineering and electronics.
- He spent most of his career as a professor at University of California Berkeley.
- [1] Dr.
- Smith is probably best known for the invention of the Smith predictor, a method of handling deadtime in feedback control systems: "A somewhat more complicated solution to the deadtime problem was proposed in 1957 by Otto Smith (see 'The Smith Predictor: A Process Engineer's Crystal Ball,' Control Engineering, May 1996)[2].
- Mr.
- Smith demonstrated how a mathematical model of the process could be used to endow the controller with prescience to generate just the right control moves without waiting to see how each move turned out.
- [3]" It was for this achievement that he was listed in InTech's "Leaders of the Pack" as one of the 50 most influential industry innovators since 1774.
- Other notable early achievements of Dr.
- Smith were the purchase in 1951 of the rights to his sine-function generator, U.S.
- Patent 2,748,278 by Hewlett Packard, and in 1958, the publication of a technical textbook on feed back control systems by McGraw-Hill. More recently Dr.
- Smith has developed methods of running three-phase induction motors on single-phase power.
- He has also worked on methods of providing power to single phase supply lines from three phase generators.
- His first patent in this field, "Three-Phase Induction Motor with Single-Phase Power Supply", U.S.
- Patent 4,792,740, was issued 20 December 1988.
- He coined the words "enabler" and "phaseable" and "semi-hex" to distinguish these techniques from traditional static phase conversion, rotary phase conversion and electronic means of synthesizing three phase voltages and current.
- These techniques allow the use of large three phase motors up to over 100 hp where only single-phase power is available.
- Since 1976 all of his patents have been for devices to generate or conserve energy.
- Among his patents are designs of patents for solar generators, wind generators and high efficiency motors.
- That portion of the US patent database that is searchable by name (since 1975) lists 15 inventions by Dr.
- Smith in these fields.
- [4] Dr.
- Smith, by his own account, has published over 150 papers.
- The list of patents in this article should be nearly complete.
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