56 patents
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Reheat stop valve support yoke extraction device
8 Nov 22
A device to extract a support yoke from a reheat stop valve of a steam turbine is provided.
Maxwell Pless, Bryan K. Dore
Filed: 21 Aug 17
Utility
Hybrid manufacturing of a support housing
11 Oct 22
A support housing for use in distributing fuel in a gas turbine engine includes a main body defining an inlet aperture, a plurality of outlet apertures, and a substantially planar mounting surface.
Anand A. Kulkarni, Charalambos Polyzopoulos
Filed: 1 May 18
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Optimization of melt pool shape in a joining process
13 Sep 22
A process of welding a superalloy is provided.
Gerald J. Bruck, Ahmed Kamel
Filed: 21 Feb 19
Utility
Generator stator end winding coil support assembly
6 Sep 22
A generator stator end winding coil support assembly is presented.
Philipp Spin, Keegan M. Ford, Hendrik Steins, Stephan Werkmeister, Michael Verbanic, Benjamin Todd Humphries, Thomas Ebbert
Filed: 27 Mar 18
Utility
Double-acting hydraulic actuator with different pumps for each actuation direction
12 Jul 22
An actuator operable to move a valve stem between an opened position and a closed position includes a cylinder including an open side and a close side, the cylinder coupled to the valve stem, a first pump connected to the cylinder and operable to deliver a first high-pressure fluid to the open side of the cylinder to move the valve stem toward the opened position, and a second pump separate from the first pump, the second pump connected to the cylinder and operable to deliver a second high-pressure fluid to the close side of the cylinder to move the valve stem toward the closed position.
John Casey
Filed: 21 Aug 18
Utility
Generator seal assembly
5 Jul 22
A generator seal assembly for preventing leakage of coolant in a generator is presented.
Louis J. Turek, Peter Jon Clayton, Alexander D. Oyler
Filed: 6 Mar 18
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Method of additive manufacturing of components
14 Jun 22
A method of additive manufacturing a component.
Ahmed Kamel, Anand A. Kulkarni
Filed: 30 Jan 18
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Optically conductive filler for laser processing
31 May 22
A filler feed wire (20) including both a laser conductive element (26) and a filler material (22) extending along a length of the wire.
Gerald J. Bruck, Ahmed Kamel
Filed: 9 Apr 15
Utility
Brazed in heat transfer feature for cooled turbine components
31 May 22
A cooled turbine component in a turbine engine is provided.
Stephen Erick Holland, Veronica Arocho Pettit, Matthew H. Lang, Andrew Medla
Filed: 1 Dec 17
Utility
Structural braze for superalloy material
31 May 22
Boron and silicon free braze alloys are useful for structural repair of superalloy gas turbine engine components.
Kazim Ozbaysal
Filed: 3 Jun 14
Utility
Automated reheat stop valve seat restoration
19 Apr 22
An automated method for restoring an end surface of a cylindrical component of a turbine engine by cutting a profile into the end surface is provided.
Derek A. Bird, Jason Rock, Timothy E. Mazzotta
Filed: 28 Apr 17
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Systems and methods to ensure robustness for engineering autonomy
1 Mar 22
Methods and systems are provided for evaluating robustness of engineering components.
Vinay Ramanath, Christopher Bachman, Anant Kumar Mishra, Himanshu Bhatnagar
Filed: 29 Aug 18
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Metal trailing edge for laminated CMC turbine vanes and blades
15 Feb 22
A turbine blade includes a platform with an internal cavity formed therein and an airfoil extending radially from the platform.
Arindam Dasgupta, Anand A. Kulkarni
Filed: 4 Apr 17
Utility
Engineering automation using quantification and visualization of global sensitivities in spatial temporal domain
11 Jan 22
Technical solutions are described for performing sensitivity analysis for engineering systems in spatial-temporal domain.
Vinay Ramanath, Tobias Keute, Anant Kumar Mishra, Himanshu Bhatnagar
Filed: 29 Aug 18
Utility
Section replacement of a turbine airfoil with a metallic braze presintered preform
21 Dec 21
A method of repairing an airfoil is provided.
Kazim Ozbaysal, Ahmed Kamel
Filed: 21 Aug 18
Utility
Process and apparatus for welding workpiece having heat sensitive material
2 Nov 21
Process and apparatus for welding workpiece have heat sensitive material are proposed.
Shankar P. Srinivasan, Margarita Estrada, Ryan Kapustka
Filed: 8 Mar 17
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Randomized reinforcement learning for control of complex systems
2 Nov 21
A method of controlling a complex system and a gas turbine being controlled by the method are provided.
Siegmund Düll, Kai Heesche, Raymond S. Nordlund, Steffen Udluft, Marc Christian Weber
Filed: 2 Nov 17
Utility
Isolated bolting connection for a generator
19 Oct 21
A connector assembly (12) for electrically and mechanically connecting via bolting, the top and bottom stator coil sections (14, 16) of an electrical generator comprising at least one pair of stator coil sections (14, 16) having spaced apart upper coil headers (18, 20) and lower coil headers (22, 24), each comprising a conductive material to provide at least two parallel paths for passing respective flows of electric current; first and second connectors (26, 28) including respective couplers (36, 38, 40, 42) for connecting the headers (18, 20, 22, 24), wherein the first and second connectors (26, 28) are electrically and mechanically isolated from one another via an air gap (34) therebetween so that none of the couplers (36, 38, 40, 42) bridge the air gap (34) and thereby allow relative movement between the first and second connectors (26, 28).
David Earl Hulsey, William Green, Robert Gore
Filed: 28 Jan 19
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Method of forming a thermal barrier coating system with engineered surface roughness
5 Oct 21
A method of manufacturing a substrate (16) with a ceramic thermal barrier coating (28, 32).
Andrew J. Burns, Gary B. Merrill, John R. Paulus
Filed: 12 Feb 15
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Pump system for gas entrainment
28 Sep 21
A pump system includes a centrifugal pump having an impeller, a first inlet arranged to receive a first flow of liquid, a second inlet arranged to receive a flow of gas at a first pressure, the gas being soluble in the liquid, and an outlet arranged to discharge a second flow of liquid that contains the flow of gas solubilized therein.
Shane Broussard, Bruce M. Schertz, Chad L. Felch
Filed: 7 Feb 20