39 patents
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Ceramic radial turbine
8 Jun 21
A small gas turbine engine with a ceramic turbine to allow for higher turbine inlet temperatures, where a metallic compressor is secured to a ceramic shaft extending from a ceramic turbine to form a single piece ceramic shaft and turbine, where a threaded nut secures a split ring retainer on the compressor end of the ceramic shaft.
Russell B Jones, Edwin L Kite
Filed: 20 Jun 19
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Apparatus and Process for Testing a Large Combustor Using a Caes Facility
13 May 21
An apparatus, system, and process for testing a gas turbine engine or other test object under a cold condition, such as a compressor of a gas turbine engine, a combustor of a gas turbine engine, or an afterburner of an aero gas turbine engine, using compressed air stored in an underground storage reservoir of a CAES system along with an air turbine or an air injector.
Joseph D. BROSTMEYER, Scott A. BAKER
Filed: 18 Sep 17
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Group IVA functionalized particles and methods of use thereof
11 May 21
Disclosed are functionalized Group IVA particles, methods of preparing the Group IVA particles, and methods of using the Group IVA particles.
Timothy D. Newbound, Leslie Matthews, Jeff A. Norris
Filed: 5 Feb 19
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Nanosilicon Material Preparation for Functionalized Group Iva Particle Frameworks
14 Jan 21
Functionalized Group IVA particles, methods of preparing the Group IVA particles, and methods of using the Group IVA particles are provided.
Timothy D. Newbound, Leslie Matthews, Jeff A. Norris, Jaroslaw Syzdek
Filed: 18 Feb 20
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Apparatus and process of forming an integrally bladed rotor with cooled single crystal blades and an equiax nickel disk
12 Oct 20
An air cooled integrally bladed rotor with single crystals turbine rotor blades having cooling air passages formed into an equiax rotor disk, where a mold having expendable Molybdenum tooling and reusable molybdenum tooling is used to form the IBR.
Robert L Memmen
Filed: 17 Jul 18
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Cast integrally bladed rotor with bore entry cooling
5 Oct 20
An air cooled integrally bladed rotor with bore entry cooling holes for a small gas turbine engine cast using a ceramic core having an axial bore forming piece with a plurality of radial extending spokes that end in an annular ring to form cooling air supply passages for air cooled turbine blades.
Robert L Memmen, William L Plank
Filed: 29 Jul 18
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Gas turbine engine secondary air system and axial thrust management system for a rotor of the engine
21 Sep 20
A gas turbine engine for an aircraft such as a UAV includes a compressor connected to a turbine with a combustor to produce a hot gas stream.
Russell B Jones, Cheryl A Schopf
Filed: 21 Mar 18
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Precharged Negative Electrode Material for Secondary Battery
12 Aug 20
Provided are methods of producing a negative electrode including comminuting Li-Group IVA alloy particles in a solvent to a desired particle size distribution range, exposing surfaces of the Li-Group IVA alloy particles to a monomer or polymer surface modifier present during the comminution process, the surface modifier forming a continuous coating on an exposed surface of the Li-Group IVA alloy particles, removing the solvent, and adding the surface-modified Li-Group IVA alloy particles to a negative electrode material by a coating process.
Timothy D. Newbound, Richard Owen Crowther, Reza Kavian, Bruce Andrew Kraay, Jeff A. Norris
Filed: 29 Mar 18
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CAES combustor test facility
10 Aug 20
A system and method for testing a combustor or other component of a large industrial gas turbine engine.
Joseph D. Brostmeyer, Russell B. Jones, James P. Downs
Filed: 25 Sep 16
Utility
Apparatus and process of forming an integrally bladed rotor with cooled single crystal blades and an equiax nickel disk
3 Aug 20
An air cooled integrally bladed rotor with single crystals turbine rotor blades having cooling air passages formed into an equiax rotor disk, where a mold having expendable Molybdenum tooling and reusable molybdenum tooling is used to form the IBR.
Robert L Memmen
Filed: 3 Feb 20
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Gas turbine engine with axial thrust balance
6 Jul 20
A small aero gas turbine engine with an axial thrust limiter device that uses compressed air acting on a rotating disk extending from a rotor of the engine in which a forward pressure chamber and an aft pressure chamber applies a pressure to both sides of the rotating disk.
Joseph Brostmeyer
Filed: 23 May 17
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Generator cooling impeller and bearing/rotor cooling
4 May 20
A power plant for an aircraft such as a UAV with a gas turbine engine that drives an electric generator to produce electrical power.
Andrew R Narcus, Cheryl A Schopf
Filed: 21 Mar 18
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Apparatus and process of retrofitting a combined cycle power plant
4 May 20
A process for retrofitting an electric power plant that uses two 60 Hertz large frame heavy duty industrial gas turbine engines to drive electric generators and produce electricity, where each of the two industrial engines can produce up to 350 MW of output power.
Joseph D. Brostmeyer, Russell B. Jones, Justin T. Cejka, John A. Orosa, John E. Ryznic
Filed: 22 Mar 16
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Apparatus and process for manufacturing a centrifugal pump with a rotor within a single piece housing
27 Apr 20
A turbopump is formed from a metal additive manufacturing process in which both the housing and the impeller are formed as a single piece with the impeller trapped within the single piece housing.
Alex Pinera, Stephen M Brooks, Timothy J Miller
Filed: 5 Jun 16
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Interlocking axial labyrinth seal
9 Mar 20
An axial assembled interlocking labyrinth seal with a rotor and a stator each having a series of separate spiral shaped teeth with a gap formed on each of the separate teeth, so that the rotor can be rotated within the stator and axially advanced by aligning the gaps of the teeth on the rotor with gaps on the stator so that the axial labyrinth seal can be assembled.
Ross H Peterson
Filed: 28 Mar 17
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Self-metering hydrostatic thrust bearing
2 Mar 20
A self-metering hydrostatic thrust bearing for a small gas turbine engine.
Stephen M Brooks
Filed: 4 Apr 19
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Geared turbofan aero gas turbine engine with solid bore turbine disk
24 Feb 20
An aero gas turbine engine with a last stage turbine disc of a solid bore design.
Andrew P Wall, Edwin L Kite, Alex Pinera
Filed: 17 May 18
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Graphite and Group IVA Composite Particles and Methods of Making
5 Feb 20
The present invention provides micron or submicron particles (NPs) that are comprised of a variety of materials, including Group IVA elements such as silicon (Si) that are known to have a high electrochemical capacity in Li-ion secondary batteries.
Timothy D. Newbound, Reza Kavian, Jeff A. Norris, Richard Owen Crowther
Filed: 8 Oct 17
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Group Iva Functionalized Particles and Methods of Use Thereof
27 Nov 19
Disclosed are functionalized Group IVA particles, methods of preparing the Group IVA particles, and methods of using the Group IVA particles.
Timothy D. Newbound, Leslie Matthews, Jeff A. Norris
Filed: 4 Feb 19