Patents Assigned to Unison Industries LLC
  • Exhaust gas temperature sensor
    Patent number: 11624662
    Abstract: A temperature sensor assembly having a support tube defining an interior, a temperature sensor having a distal end and a proximal end located within the interior, and, a concentric ring surrounding at least a portion of the temperature sensor and the concentric ring is positioned between the temperature sensor and the support tube for holding the temperature sensor in the support tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: David Reece Jackson, William Joseph Hendricks, Cliff Burger, John Patrick Parsons
  • Air turbine starter with primary and secondary air flow paths
    Patent number: 11624323
    Abstract: An air turbine starter that includes a housing. The housing can circumscribe a turbine coupled that is coupled to a gear train in a gear box via a drive shaft. A primary air flow path is defined between a primary inlet and a primary outlet. Air in the primary air flow path can flow into a secondary air flow path or rotate the turbine, that converts energy from the air flow to rotational mechanical energy. Air in the secondary air flow path can pass through at least a first cavity and first passage before rejoining the primary air flow or joining ambient air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Parmeet Singh Chhabra, Pankaj Kumar Morya, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, David Raju Yamarthi, Steven Ryan Kerley
  • Air starter with offset interface
    Patent number: 11624324
    Abstract: An air starter for an engine, such as a turbine engine, that includes a turbine for rotatably extracting mechanical power from a flow of fluid. The turbine includes a drive shaft that can be coupled to an output shaft to provide a rotational output. The interface between the drive shaft and the output shaft can be offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Sharad Pundlik Patil, Subrata Nayak, David Allan Dranschak, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Bajarang Agrawal, Jasraj Asdev, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger
  • Nickel-cobalt material and method of forming
    Patent number: 11591684
    Abstract: A nickel-cobalt material and component includes a thermally stabilized nickel-cobalt alloy. The nickel-cobalt alloy disclosed herein includes nanocrystalline grain structures, pinning, such as Zener pinning, and intragranular twinning. The nickel-cobalt alloy disclosed herein exhibits multiple properties including an improved fracture toughness, an increased thermal stability, and an improved ultimate tensile strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Bruce Patrick Graham, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Lakshmi Krishnan
  • Air turbine starter with lubricated bearing assembly
    Patent number: 11578662
    Abstract: An air starter for starting a turbine engine that includes a housing, a turbine member, a drive shaft, and at least one bearing assembly. The housing can define an interior where the turbine couples to the drive shaft that is rotatably supported by the least one bearing assembly. A lubricant passageway can provide lubrication to the at least one bearing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Nilesh Vilas Varote, David Raju Yamarthi, David Allan Dranschak, Eliel Fresco Rodriguez, Amit Arvind Kurvinkop
  • Air turbine starter containment system
    Patent number: 11549442
    Abstract: An air turbine starter for starting an engine, comprising a housing having an interior surface defining an interior, at least one turbine member rotatably mounted within the interior about a rotational axis, and having a plurality of circumferentially spaced blades, and a containment structure radially overlying and circumferentially surrounding at least a portion of the at least one turbine member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Jasraj Asdev, Subrata Nayak, David Allan Dranschak, Marc David Zinger, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Pallavi Tripathi, Sharad Pundlik Patil
  • Foil-air bearing assembly for engine starter
    Patent number: 11549395
    Abstract: An air turbine starter that includes a turbine member for rotatably extracting mechanical power from a flow of fluid, where the turbine member is coupled to a drive shaft to provide a rotational output. The air turbine starter further includes a foil-air bearing assembly and a thrust bearing that rotatably support the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Subrata Nayak, David Raju Yamarthi, David Allan Dranschak, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Pallavi Tripathi, Jasraj Asdev, Sharad Pundlik Patil, Eliel Fresco Rodriguez
  • Heat exchanger assembly with a manifold additively manufactured onto a core and method of forming
    Patent number: 11536521
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of forming a hybrid heat exchanger including a first manifold defining a first fluid inlet and a second manifold defining a second fluid inlet. A monolithic core body includes a first set of flow passages in fluid communication with the first manifold and a second set of flow passages is in communication with the second manifold. At least a portion of the first manifold or the second manifold has a tunable coefficient of thermal expansion that is less than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the structurally rigid monolithic core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt
  • Air turbine starter
    Patent number: 11530648
    Abstract: An air turbine starter for starting an engine includes a starter housing defining an inlet, an outlet, and a flow path extending between the inlet and the outlet. A turbine section is located within the starter housing and includes a turbine member having a central disk and a set of airfoils spaced circumferentially about the central disk, as well as a sealing structure located within the starter housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: Unison Industries, LLC, General Electric Company
    Inventors: Parmeet Singh Chhabra, David Raju Yamarthi, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Sagar Paramashivaiah, Steven Ryan Kerley, Eliel Fresco Rodriguez
  • Turbine engine ignition system and method
    Patent number: 11519335
    Abstract: An ignition system for igniting fuel in a gas turbine engine includes a power supply and an energy storage network electrically connected to the power supply. The energy storage network includes a first stage having a first capacitor and a second stage having a second capacitor. The ignition system further includes an engine igniter electrically coupled to the energy storage network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Jay Joseph Carpenter, Bruce Edward Dolmovich
  • Air starter with bearing cooling
    Patent number: 11512646
    Abstract: An air starter for starting a turbine engine that includes a housing, a turbine, an output shaft, and at least one bearing. The housing can define an interior where the turbine couples to the output shaft. A primary air flow path extends through the housing where air from the turbine can be exhausted through a primary outlet or a cooling outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Subrata Nayak, Pradeep Hemant Sangli, David Allan Dranschak, Santosh Kumar Prasad, Marc David Zinger, Sharad Pundlik Patil, Harsha Sanjeewa Bulathsinghalage, Sumathi P
  • Avionics heat exchanger
    Patent number: 11480069
    Abstract: Aircraft turbine engines are controlled by complex electronic devices such as FADEC and PSS units. These devices can be adversely impacted by the engine environment including the condensing of evaporated water. Aspects of the present disclosure include unique heat exchangers to control the temperature of these electronic devices to assure their proper operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Ralph Storage, Dennis Alan McQueen
  • Fan casing and mount bracket for oil cooler
    Patent number: 11466700
    Abstract: A turbine engine for an aircraft can includes a casing. The casing can be a fan casing surrounding a fan assembly for drawing air into the turbine engine. The fan casing can have a peripheral wall. A surface cooler can be provided in the turbine engine confronting the peripheral wall of the fan casing. The surface cooler can have a mounting bracket for mounting the surface cooler to the fan casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Thomas Dreischarf, Jason Levi Burdette, Walter Arthur Hundley, Bernard Albert Luschek
  • Starter/generator system
    Patent number: 11454172
    Abstract: A starter/generator system that includes a first and second electric machine. The first electric machine has a first rotor and a first stator where the first rotor is adapted to receive kinetic energy and the first stator includes a first set of windings. The second electric machine has a second rotor rotatable and a second stator. The second stator is fixed relative to the first stator and the second stator includes a second set of windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Balamurugan Sridharan, David Raju Yamarthi, Parmeet Singh Chhabra, Brian Christopher Kemp, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers
  • Decoupler assemblies for engine starter
    Patent number: 11378011
    Abstract: An air turbine starter for starting an engine, comprising a housing defining an inlet, an outlet, and a flow path extending between the inlet and the outlet for communicating a flow of gas there through. A turbine member is journaled within the housing and disposed within the flow path for rotatably extracting mechanical power from the flow of gas. A gear train is drivingly coupled with the turbine member, a drive shaft is operably coupled with the gear train, and an output shaft is selectively operably coupled to rotate with the engine via a decoupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Subrata Nayak, Eliel Fresco Rodriguez, David Allan Dranschak, Shiloh Montgomery Emerson Meyers, Pallavi Tripathi
  • Surface cooler and method of forming
    Patent number: 11377976
    Abstract: A surface cooler configured to be operably coupled to an aircraft fan casing and having a first surface configured to confront a peripheral wall of an aircraft fan casing and a second surface opposite the first surface, a set of fluid passages internal to the body and a set of fins located on at least a portion of the second surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventor: Bernard Albert Luschek
  • Air temperature sensor
    Patent number: 11353370
    Abstract: An air temperature sensor with a housing having a skin with a first and second portion, a temperature sensor having at least a portion extending through the housing, a set of fluid passageways defined within an interior of the housing, and a tube to receive bleed air from an aircraft engine located within the interior and to allow hot bleed air into the set of fluid passageways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: John Patrick Parsons, Gregory Lloyd Ashton, Jarodd Dan Goedel, Chiong Siew Tan
  • Ignition exciter assembly and method for charging a tank capacitor for an ignition exciter
    Patent number: 11356024
    Abstract: An ignition exciter high frequency switching converter, ignition assembly, and method of operating the same, include a high frequency switching converter operably by way of a control circuit having a timing mechanism, to operate the high frequency switching converter in discontinuous conduction mode to charge a tank capacitor for igniting an igniter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Jay Joseph Carpenter, Michael Joseph Cochran, Robert Wake Cook
  • Fan casing assembly and method
    Patent number: 11248526
    Abstract: A fan casing assembly, connection assembly and method for moving a fan casing cooler. The fan casing assembly for the turbine engine can include an annular fan casing with a peripheral wall having a flow path defined through the casing. A fan casing cooler can mount along the peripheral wall in order to confront a cooling fluid flow within the flow path in order to cool a fluid through the fan casing cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Michael Thomas Kenworthy, Yanzhe Yang, Dattu G. V. Jonnalagadda, Elizabeth Diane Turner
  • Heat exchanger with non-orthogonal perforations
    Patent number: 11215405
    Abstract: A heat exchanger can include a cooling air conduit having at least one baffle, as well as a hot air conduit having at least two passes through the cooling air conduit. The heat exchanger can further include at least one perforation extending into the least one baffle. The perforation can have a passage connecting an inlet to an outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Kenworthy, William Dwight Gerstler, Daniel Jason Erno, Thomas Kupiszewski, Joseph Robert Coleman