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Methods of forming desired geometry on superalloy part using powder mixture of low and high melt temperature superalloys
12 Sep 23
Methods of forming a desired geometry at a location on a superalloy part are disclosed.
Yan Cui, Matthew Joseph Laylock, Brian Lee Tollison
Filed: 1 Aug 22
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Turbomachine with alternatingly spaced rotor blades
12 Sep 23
A gas turbine engine is provided including a turbine section including a turbine having a plurality of first speed turbine rotor blades; a compressor section including a compressor having a plurality of first speed compressor rotor blades and a plurality of second speed compressor rotor blades; a gearbox; and a first spool rotatable by the plurality of first speed turbine rotor blades, the first spool coupled to the plurality of first speed compressor rotor blades for driving the plurality of first speed compressor rotor blades in a first direction and to the plurality of second speed compressor rotor blades across the gearbox for driving the plurality of second speed compressor rotor blades in a second direction, opposite the first direction.
Alan Roy Stuart, Tsuguji Nakano, Thomas Ory Moniz, Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow, Richard Schmidt
Filed: 20 Feb 19
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Frangible airfoils
12 Sep 23
An airfoil for gas turbine engines is generally provided.
Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Hiranya Kumar Nath, Kirti Arvind Petkar, Viswanadha Gupta Sakala, Nicholas Joseph Kray
Filed: 11 Apr 22
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Method for repairing in-situ installations inside a compressor rear frame case of a gas turbine
12 Sep 23
A method for repairing in-situ an oil manifold of the aft end bearing assembly of a gas turbine is provided that is cost-efficient, effective and dramatically reduces the costs for repair of a leaking oil manifold.
Virgil Adam, Glenn L Knight, III, Wiebe Van Der Werff, Valerio Goffi, Willem Smit
Filed: 19 Aug 20
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Variable bleed valves with inner wall controlled-flow circuits
12 Sep 23
Variable bleed valves with inner wall controlled-flow circuits are disclosed.
Nageswar Rao Ganji, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Hiranya Kumar Nath, Trevor H. Wood, Srinivas Nuthi
Filed: 28 Apr 22
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Hydrogen-exhaust gas heat exchanger of a turbofan engine
12 Sep 23
A turbofan engine includes a fan, a core turbine engine having one or more turbines and an exhaust section, and a hydrogen-exhaust gas heat exchanger in flow communication with the exhaust section and hydrogen flowing along a hydrogen supply line.
Eyitayo James Owoeye, William Morton
Filed: 27 Apr 22
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Gas turbine sensor assembly and associated shutter mechanism
12 Sep 23
A turbine engine including a stationary component having a probe opening, a plurality of rotor blades rotatable relative to the stationary component, and a sensor assembly disposed within the probe opening.
Kurt K. Schleif
Filed: 17 Jun 21
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Load dependent autonomous yaw control for a wind turbine
12 Sep 23
The present application discloses novel systems and methods for yawing an autonomous wind turbine.
Peter Gauchel
Filed: 17 Aug 22
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Method for installing an add-on device on a wind turbine blade
12 Sep 23
A method is provided for installing a continuous pliant add-on device (e.g., a vibration suppression device) onto a blade of a wind turbine, wherein the blade is mounted to a rotor that is atop a tower.
Darren John Danielsen
Filed: 13 May 22
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Gimbaled flexure for spherical flex joints
12 Sep 23
A duct assembly may include a first duct, a second duct, and a flexible joint assembly coupling the first duct to the second duct.
Gordon Tajiri, Michael Thomas Kenworthy, Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Jason L. Burdette
Filed: 9 Aug 21
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Combustion liner
12 Sep 23
A liner for a combustor in a gas turbine engine.
Pradeep Naik, Shai Birmaher, Saket Singh, Krishnendu Chakraborty
Filed: 12 May 22
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Combustor mixing assembly
12 Sep 23
A mixing assembly for a combustor, including: a pilot mixer and a pilot fuel nozzle; a main mixer including: a main housing surrounding the pilot mixer; a fuel manifold positioned between the pilot housing and the main housing; a mixer foot extending outward from a forward end of the main housing; a main swirler body surrounding the main housing such that an annular mixing channel is defined between the main housing and the main swirler body, and coupled to the mixer foot; and a main fuel ring in the mixing channel downstream of the mixer foot connected to the main housing by main fuel vanes, at least one of the main fuel ring and the main fuel vanes including fuel injection ports positioned to discharge fuel into a central portion of the mixing channel, wherein the mixer foot extends farther from the main housing than the main fuel ring.
Hari Ravi Chandra, Arvind Kumar Rao, Shai Birmaher, Jayanth Sekar, Gurunath Gandikota, Michael A. Benjamin
Filed: 9 Dec 20
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Modular power tile and method of operating a power distribution system
12 Sep 23
A modular power tile and method of operating a power distribution system includes generating a predetermined identifying pattern, by a reflectometry module of a power distribution node, injecting, by the reflectometry module, the predetermined identifying pattern, receiving, at the reflectometry module, a reflected incident signal of the predetermined identifying pattern, and scheduling a maintenance task.
Daniela Alejandra Medina Garcia, Luis Javier Pando Rodriguez, Gerardo Carvajal Alcala, Francisco Avila Alarcon
Filed: 1 Oct 19
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Reporting and configuration enhancements of on-board certified software
12 Sep 23
Provided is a method for remotely communicating a software management task to certified software from a source to a software management module on an asset via a wireless communications link.
Kristin M. Schanche, Matthew W. Wiseman
Filed: 30 Mar 20
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Multi-source modeling with legacy data
12 Sep 23
A method and system to receive a dataset for a new design; receive datasets for a plurality of different legacy systems; determine a legacy model for each of the plurality of different legacy systems based on the respective dataset for each of the plurality of different legacy systems and the dataset for the new design; calculate a model weight to associate with each of the determined legacy models; determine, based on a combination of the determined legacy models for the plurality of different legacy systems and the weight associated therewith, a multi-source model for new data for the new design; and save a record of the determined multi-source model.
Sayan Ghosh, Jesper Kristensen
Filed: 23 Aug 19
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Spray nozzle device for delivering a restorative coating through a hole in a case of a turbine engine
5 Sep 23
An atomizing spray nozzle device includes an atomizing zone housing that receives different phases of materials used to form a coating.
Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni, Hrishikesh Keshavan, Mehmet Dede, Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Guanghua Wang, Byron Pritchard, Michael Solomon Idelchik
Filed: 28 Jun 21
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System and method for machining workpiece and article machined therefrom
5 Sep 23
A system is configured for machining a workpiece (100), the workpiece includes an interior surface (110) that defines an internal passage (112).
Yong Yang, Bin Wei, Meisam Salahshoor Pirsoltan, Ming Jia, Huiyu Xu, Yibo Gao, William T. Carter, Andrew L. Trimmer, Prabhjot Singh, Pinghai Yang, Yanzhe Yang
Filed: 5 May 17
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Spray plume position feedback for robotic motion to optimize coating quality, efficiency, and repeatability
5 Sep 23
A thermal spray system may include a thermal spray torch configured to produce an emission of material, at least one camera configured to capture an image of the emission of material emitted by the thermal spray torch, a diagnostic device communicatively coupled to the at least one camera, and a controller communicatively coupled to the diagnostic device.
Christopher Joseph Lochner, Joshua Lee Margolies, Jon E. Dickinson
Filed: 11 Jun 12
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Additive manufacturing systems and methods including rotating build platform
5 Sep 23
An additive manufacturing system may include a build platform configured to receive a particulate, a particulate dispenser configured to deposit the particulate onto said build platform, a consolidation device configured to consolidate at least a portion of the particulate to form a component, a first actuator assembly configured to rotate said build platform about a rotation axis at a first speed, and a second actuator assembly configured to rotate said shaft about the rotation axis at a second speed different from the first speed.
William Thomas Carter, Pawan Sudhindra Rao, Christopher James Hayden, Michael Robert Tucker
Filed: 21 Feb 19
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Scan field variation for additive manufacturing
5 Sep 23
A method, apparatus, and program for additive manufacturing.
Justin Mamrak, MacKenzie Ryan Redding, Thomas Graham Spears
Filed: 2 Nov 18