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Patent number: 11846933Abstract: An apparatus, system and method of providing industrial analytics. The apparatus, system and method include at least a plurality of sensors sensing performance indicators for an industrial process across multiple nodes, wherein ones of the multiple nodes are remote from each other; at least one machine learning module comprising non-transitory computing code executed by a processor. When executed by the processor, the code causes the steps of: receiving user input regarding at least the industrial process and a data set; selecting a model based on at least the user input, wherein the selected model comprises a plurality of learnings based on the performance indicators sensed by multiple sensors across at least multiple ones of the multiple nodes; applying the selected model to the data set; assessing at least the performance indicators for the data set upon application of the selected model; and outputting the assessed performance indicator.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mustafa Gokhan Uzunbas, Ser Nam Lim, Ashish Jain, Vladimir Shapiro, Weiwei Qian, Mohamad Bagheri Esfe
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Patent number: 11846201Abstract: A turbine rotor includes a rotor body and a balancing weight slot defined in an exterior circumference of the body. The balancing weight slot has a first axial width and a first radially outward facing surface at a first radial distance from a rotor axis. The rotor also includes a balancing weight entry port defined in a portion of the exterior circumference of the rotor body and aligned with the balancing weight slot. The balancing weight entry port has a second axial width greater than the first axial width and a second radially outward facing surface at a second radial distance from the axis of the rotor body that is smaller than the first radial distance. A method may include machining the entry port into the rotor with a tool. The method may be applied to a new rotor, or to remove cracks initiating from a previous entry port.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Michael Ericson Friedman, Gang Liu
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Patent number: 11846426Abstract: A gas turbine engine including a compressor section, a combustor for combusting a fuel, and a turbine. Compressed air flows through a combustion liner of the combustor in a bulk airflow direction. The combustor includes a primary fuel nozzle and a secondary fuel nozzle. The secondary fuel nozzle is downstream of the primary fuel nozzle in the bulk airflow direction. The primary fuel nozzle is configured to inject a primary portion of the fuel into a primary combustion zone, and the secondary fuel nozzle is configured to inject a secondary portion of the fuel into a secondary combustion zone. The secondary combustion zone is located downstream of the primary combustion zone in the bulk airflow direction. The fuel may be one of diatomic hydrogen fuel and a hydrogen enriched fuel.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Manampathy G. Giridharan, Pradeep Naik
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Patent number: 11846419Abstract: A dome-deflector assembly for a gas turbine includes a dome, a deflector, and at least one dome-deflector connecting assembly that includes a connecting member connecting the dome and the deflector together with a cavity being defined between the dome and the deflector. The connecting member extends through the deflector and has a first end arranged at a hot surface side of the deflector and a second end arranged to connect with the dome. The dome-deflector connecting assembly is configured to provide a flow of cooling air from the cavity to the hot surface side of the deflector to cool the first end of the connecting member on the hot surface side of the deflector.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Saket Singh, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Hiranya Nath, Perumallu Vukanti, Ajoy Patra, Karthikeyan Sampath, Pradeep Naik, Rimple Rangrej, Veera Venkata Amarnath Manem
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Patent number: 11846026Abstract: A hydrocarbon fluid containment article having a wall with a surface that is wetted by hydrocarbon fluid. The surface includes an anti-coking coating. The anti-coking coating includes a copper salt, a silver salt, or a combination thereof. A gas turbine engine component including a wall having a first surface and an anti-coking coating on the first surface of the wall that is wetted by hydrocarbon fluid. The anti-coking coating including a copper salt, a silver salt, or a combination thereof that prevents the formation of gum or coke on a surface thereon. Methods for reducing the deposition of thermal decomposition products on a wall of an article are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Lawrence Bernard Kool, Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj, Thomas George Holland, Alfred Albert Mancini, Michael Anthony Benjamin
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Patent number: 11844639Abstract: A method includes acquiring a first dataset of projection measurements at a first energy spectrum and a second dataset of projection measurements at a second energy spectrum different from the first energy spectrum by switching between acquiring the first dataset for a set number of consecutive views at different projection angles at the first energy spectrum and acquiring the second dataset for the set number of consecutive views at different projection angles at the second energy spectrum. The set number of consecutive views is greater than one. The method includes supplementing both the first dataset with estimated projection measurements at the first energy spectrum and the second dataset with estimated projection measurements at the second energy spectrum to provide missing projection measurements at different projection angles not acquired during the imaging scan for the first dataset and the second dataset.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Jiahua Fan, Ming Yan, Jed Douglas Pack, Priti Madhav, Kentaro Ogata, Ken Arai
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Patent number: 11846207Abstract: A nozzle assembly for a gas turbine engine and methods for assembling a nozzle assembly are provided. In one example aspect, the nozzle assembly includes an outer wall and an inner wall radially spaced from the outer wall. The outer wall defines a plurality of mounting openings spaced circumferentially from one another. The inner wall defines a plurality of mounting openings spaced circumferentially from one another. The mounting openings defined by the inner wall are positioned circumferentially between adjacent mounting openings defined by the outer wall. The nozzle assembly includes vanes that are inserted through the mounting openings of the outer wall in a radially inward direction and vanes that are inserted through the mounting openings of the inner wall in a radially outward direction in an alternating manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: David Alan Frey, Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Alexander Martin Sener, Kirk Douglas Gallier
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Patent number: 11848425Abstract: An energy storage system includes a DC bus; a plurality of battery strings, each battery string comprising batteries coupled electrically together; a plurality of DC/DC converters electrically coupling respective battery strings to the DC bus; an enclosure housing the battery strings and the DC/DC converters; and a temperature control system. The temperature control system includes at least one heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system, and a controller.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Keith Garrette Brown, Honggang Wang, Alistair Martin Waddell
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Patent number: 11844731Abstract: A system for safely containing an infant on a mattress is described. The system includes a plurality of panels that extend upwardly from a base that supports the mattress, wherein the plurality of panels and the base form an enclosure around the mattress, and wherein at least one of the plurality of panels is configured to have a locked position and an unlocked position. The system also includes a detection system that detects when the at least one of the plurality of panels is in the unlocked position and a lighting system operatively coupled to the detection system, wherein the lighting system is configured to emit light when the at least one of the plurality of panels is detected to be in the unlocked position. Furthermore, the system includes a power system that provides energy to the lighting system for emitting the light.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Nagapriya Kavoori Sethumadhavan, Rajendra Naik, Steven J. Woloschek
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Patent number: 11846210Abstract: A system for maintaining electrical power continuity in a steam-based power plant is provided. The system includes a fossil fuel-fired power generation unit and an electrical power storage apparatus. The fossil fuel-fired power generation unit is operative to generate and provide electrical power to an electrical power grid. The electrical power storage apparatus is electrically coupled to the fossil fuel-fired power generation unit and operative to: receive and store electrical power from the fossil fuel-fired power generation unit during periods of surplus electrical power generation by the fossil fuel-fired power generation unit; and to provide electrical power to a component of the fossil fuel-fired power generation unit during periods of electrical power shortage by the electrical power grid.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Xinsheng Lou, Stanley Kmiotek
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Patent number: 11846231Abstract: A system and method for preventing icing in the combustion inlet air path of a gas turbine system. An air intake system of the gas turbine system supplies intake air to a gas turbine engine. The air intake system includes an air filter inlet house to filter the intake air. The air filter inlet house includes at least one filter stage having an array of pulse filters, with each of the pulse filters being hydrophobic. A combustion inlet air path is in fluid communication with the air intake system and the gas turbine engine. The combustion inlet air path receives the filtered air from the air filter inlet house and supplies the filtered air as combustion inlet air to an inlet of the gas turbine engine. A surface of at least one component in the combustion inlet air path includes an anti-icing coating to prevent ice from forming thereon.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: William Stanley Adams, Victor Alfonso Gonzalez Tellez, Jametra Stitt, Nileshpuri Goswami
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Patent number: 11846209Abstract: An apparatus and method for assembling an inducer assembly for inducing a rotation on an airflow passing within a turbine engine. The inducer assembly can provide a volume of fluid from a compressor section to a turbine section of the engine. The inducer assembly can include the combination of separate segments to form an annular inducer.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christophe Jude Day, Kenneth Edward Seitzer, Michael Alan Hile, Thomas Alan Wall, Carol Anne Venn, Anthony Paul Greenwood
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Publication number: 20230398735Abstract: A printing assembly (150) is provided including a manifold assembly including an inlet manifold (210) including an inlet reservoir (238) and an inlet port (266), and an outlet manifold (212) including an outlet reservoir (286) and an outlet port (310). A valve is provided at each of the inlet port of the inlet manifold and at the outlet port of the outlet manifold. The valve is operable between an open position for permitting the flow of material through the port and a closed position for preventing the flow of material through the port. The printing head includes a housing and print heads provided within the housing and in fluid communication with the inlet reservoir via the inlet port and the outlet reservoir via the outlet port. The valves are independently operable to control a flow of material from the inlet reservoir to the print heads, and from the print heads to the outlet reservoir, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: John Sterle, Vadim Bromberg
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Publication number: 20230398740Abstract: A method for forming an object includes moving an assembly including an energy source, heating an initial layer of build material (31i, 31s, 31, 3, 50) positioned in a build area via forced convection around the energy source of the assembly, and spreading build material (31) on the build area, thereby depositing a second layer of build material (31i, 31s, 31, 3, 50) over the initial layer of build material (31 i, 31s, 31, 3, 50).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: John Sterle, Vadim Bromberg, Carlos H. Bonilla, Tyler Andrew Griffith
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Publication number: 20230402935Abstract: An electrical assembly includes a converter-based electrical device and a transformer for connecting the converter-based electrical device to an AC electrical network, a first transformer side of the transformer connected to the converter-based electrical device, a second transformer side of the transformer for connection to the AC electrical network, the transformer including a number of taps, the transformer including a tap changer operable to selectively connect to the or each tap to modify a turn ratio of the transformer. The transformer includes a controller configured to selectively operate the tap changer in an AC voltage modification mode, responsive to an abnormal operating state of the electrical assembly, to modify the turn ratio of the transformer so as to modify an AC voltage at the first transformer side.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: General Electric Technology GmbHInventors: Jari LAVAPURO, Stephane BREHAUT, Guillaume DE PREVILLE
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Publication number: 20230398746Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a process chamber having a length, a support extending along the length of the process chamber, a printing assembly, a vision system configured to image a dispensed binder pattern, and an electronic control unit communicatively coupled to the printing assembly, the first actuator, and the vision system. The electronic control unit is configured to cause the printing assembly to traverse the build zone in a forward or reverse direction while dispensing binder according to a programmed deposition pattern, receive image data from the vision system of the dispensed binder pattern resulting from the programmed deposition pattern, analyze the image data to determine whether there is an anomaly in the dispensed binder pattern, and in response to determining the anomaly in the dispensed binder pattern, adjust the programmed deposition pattern for a subsequent traversal of the printing assembly over the build zone to address the anomaly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Vadim Bromberg, John Sterle, Carlos H. Bonilla, Srinivas Pendurti, Timothy Francis Andrews, Victor Fulton, Jacob Mayer
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Patent number: 11841266Abstract: A fluid properties sensing system includes an optical sensor which generates a sensor signal based on received laser light, a light source which transmits laser light through a transmitting fiber to a sensor head, a receiver that detects a portion of the laser light from a receiving fiber through an evanescent field of the transmitting fiber when the laser light radiates through a transmitting fiber wall of the transmitting fiber and interacts with a fluid medium at an interface of the sensor and the fluid medium, and a processor. The fibers are coupled at one end through the evanescent field to form the sensor head disposed in a flow field and to interact with the fluid medium. The processor identifies a change in the sensor signal based on a detected portion of the laser light resulting from an interaction of the sensor head with the fluid medium.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Daniel Bivolaru, Jiaji Lin, George Papadopoulos
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Patent number: 11842485Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for inferring thickness and volume of one or more object classes of interest in two-dimensional (2D) medical images, using deep neural networks. In an exemplary embodiment, a thickness of an object class of interest may be inferred by acquiring a 2D medical image, extracting features from the 2D medical image, mapping the features to a segmentation mask for an object class of interest using a first convolutional neural network (CNN), mapping the features to a thickness mask for the object class of interest using a second CNN, wherein the thickness mask indicates a thickness of the object class of interest at each pixel of a plurality of pixels of the 2D medical image; and determining a volume of the object class of interest based on the thickness mask and the segmentation mask.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: Tao Tan, Máté Fejes, Gopal Avinash, Ravi Soni, Bipul Das, Rakesh Mullick, Pál Tegzes, Lehel Ferenczi, Vikram Melapudi, Krishna Seetharam Shriram
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Patent number: 11840939Abstract: A turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section. Fuel combusted in the combustion section drive stages of airfoils in the turbine section to drive the compressor section. The airfoils can include a geometry near or at the trailing edge with a linear portion provided between the pressure side and a first curved portion, to reduce shock generated in the wake of the airfoils.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Rathakrishnan Bhaskaran, Thomas W. Vandeputte
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Patent number: 11840987Abstract: A cascade thrust reverser assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a nacelle assembly defining a bypass passage. The cascade thrust reverser assembly includes a cascade assembly configured to be at least partially enclosed by the nacelle assembly, the cascade assembly comprising one or more cascade members, the one or more cascade members movable between a stowed configuration wherein the one or more cascade members define a first radial extent and a deployed configuration wherein the one or more cascade members define a second radial extent, wherein the one or more cascade members form a cascade segment in the deployed configuration, and wherein the second radial extent is greater than the first radial extent.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Trevor Howard Wood, Kishore Ramakrishnan, Justin John Gambone, Jr., Darren Lee Hallman, Thomas Malkus, Jixian Yao, Keith Edward James Blodgett
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Patent number: 11842812Abstract: A method of controlling an infant care device includes identifying, via a location tracking system, a device location of the infant care device within a care facility by locating a device location tag on the infant care device, and also identifying any local clinician tags worn by a clinician within a predetermined area around the device location. The local clinician tags are compared to a list of authorized clinician tags to identify whether at least one local authorized clinician tag is within the predetermined area around the infant care device. User input is received at a user interface associated with the infant care device to modify operation of the infant care device. Operation of the infant care device is modified based on the user input only if at least one local authorized clinician tag is within the predetermined area around the infant care device at the time of receiving the user input.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Steven J. Woloschek, Steven M. Falk, Karen P. Starr, Elizabeth K. Devins
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Patent number: 11840967Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes: a compressor section including a compressor mean radius; a combustor section fluidly coupled downstream of the compressor section and include a combustor mean radius; and a turbine section fluidly coupled downstream of the combustor section and a turbine mid-span radius. The combustor mean radius is greater than each of the compressor mean radius and the turbine mid-span radius.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventor: Peter Daniel Silkowski
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Patent number: 11840041Abstract: Compaction systems and methods of compacting components are provided. In one aspect, a laminate of a component can be laid up on a tool of a compaction system. The laminate defines a cavity. A noodle is positioned relative to or in the cavity. A noodle ring is then positioned relative to the noodle. For instance, the noodle ring can be placed over the noodle. A cross section of the noodle ring can be shaped complementary to a cross section of the noodle. A plunger of the compaction system is moved so that it engages the noodle ring. Particularly, the plunger is moved in such a way that a force is applied on the noodle ring so that the noodle ring compacts the noodle into the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Thomas Samuel Holaday, Joel Primmer White, Gregory Scott Phelps, Darrell Glenn Senile, Tyler Lucas Walker
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Patent number: 11842149Abstract: A method for maintenance of a machine among a fleet of machines includes receiving a service request corresponding to the machine. The method also includes obtaining a service architecture corresponding to the fleet of machines. The service architecture includes a service dictionary and a plurality of classification schemes organized in a tree data structure. The method also includes processing the service request based on the service dictionary and a text parsing technique to generate a list of descriptive words. The method includes generating a recommendation based on the list of descriptive words and the service architecture. The recommendation includes at least one of an on-line repair activity, an on-site repair activity and a part replacement activity. The method also includes servicing the fault condition of the machine based on the recommendation.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Tapan Shah, Karthika Ravigopal Nair, Mathews Matson Chavarukattil, Sridhar Venkataraman Dasaratha, Shailendra Singh, Siva Sateesh Irinki
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Patent number: 11840030Abstract: A method for manufacturing a structural component of a blade segment for a rotor blade includes providing a mold of the structural component having an outer wall that defines an outer surface of the structural component. The method also includes laying up one or more fiber layers in the mold so as to at least partially cover the outer wall. As such, the fiber layer(s) form the outer surface of the structural component. Further, the method includes providing one or more metal mesh layers having one or more ends. Moreover, the method includes providing a cover material to the end(s) of the metal mesh layer(s). In addition, the method includes placing the metal mesh layer(s) with the covered end(s) atop the fiber layer(s). Thus, the method includes infusing the fiber layer(s) and the metal mesh layer(s) together via a resin material so as to form the structural component.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Andrew Mitchell Rodwell, Xu Chen, Julie Ann Shepherd, Scott Iverson Shillig
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Patent number: 11840765Abstract: Methods for treating steel, along with the resulting treated steel, are provided. The method may comprise: nitriding a carburized Ferrium steel component such that the Ferrium steel component has a surface portion with a nitrogen content that is greater than 0% to about 5% by weight. Nitriding the Ferrium steel component may increase the surface hardness of the Ferrium steel. The surface portion may have a nitrogen content of about 0.05% to about 0.5% by weight.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: GE Avio S.r.l.Inventors: Lorenzo Rigo, Andrea Piazza, Diana Di Gioia
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Patent number: 11839717Abstract: A method for automatically controlling ventilation of a patient includes receiving a target expiratory CO2 concentration, measuring an actual expiratory CO2, and comparing the actual expiratory CO2 concentration to the target expiratory CO2. A ventilation rate for the patient is then calculated based on the comparison of the actual expiratory CO2 concentration and the target expiratory CO2 in order to maintain the actual expiratory CO2 within a predetermined range of the target expiratory CO2. The patient is then automatically ventilated based on the calculated ventilation rate.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Erkki Paavo Heinonen, Tom Jakob Haggblom, Pietari Aleksis Kokko
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Patent number: 11843757Abstract: Embodiments are described which exploit a finding, according to which a higher compression rate or better rate/distortion ratio may be achieved by adopting or predicting second coding parameters used for encoding a second view of the multi-view signal from first coding parameters used in encoding a first view of the multi-view signal. In other words, the inventors found out that the redundancies between views of a multi-view signal are not restricted to the views themselves, such as the video information thereof, but that the coding parameters in parallelly encoding these views show similarities which may be exploited in order to further improve the coding rate.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLCInventors: Thomas Wiegand, Detlev Marpe, Karsten Mueller, Philipp Merkle, Gerhard Tech, Hunn Rhee, Heiko Schwarz
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Patent number: 11841141Abstract: An apparatus and method for a reverse flow combustor, the reverse flow combustor including a straight portion, a dilution portion and a curved portion. The reverse flow combustor receives a flow of fuel that is ignited and mixed with cooling air to form a flow of combustion gases. The flow of combustion gases travels through the reverse flow combustor to a turbine section of an engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignees: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, GE AVIO S.R.L.Inventors: Massimo Giovanni Giambra, Joseph Douglas Monty, Stephen John Howell
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Patent number: 11843325Abstract: A method for operating a multi-level bridge power converter of an electrical power system connected to a power grid includes receiving, via a controller of the power converter, an indication of a transient event occurring in the power grid or the electrical power system. The power converter has a plurality of switching devices arranged in an active neutral point clamped topology. Accordingly, upon receiving the indication, the method includes activating a crowbar algorithm programmed in the controller of the power converter to bifurcate a current received by the power converter into a plurality of different current paths defined by the plurality of switching devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bacil Shaqqo, Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez, Nathaniel Robert Michener, Steven Wade Sutherland
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Patent number: 11841758Abstract: A system comprising a processor configured to obtain a feature set for a component and generate random trees based on the feature set and a training data set, wherein each of the random trees can include at least one predictive value representing a probability of a feature of the random trees indicating a failure of the component within a period of time. The processor can also select a subset of the random trees based on the at least one predictive value, determine a likelihood of the failure of the component based on operational data for one or more devices and the subset of the random trees, and transmit an explanation to a remote device for the likelihood of failure of the component by indicating the feature selected from the subset of the random trees.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Harsha Aeron, Steven James Huff, Uwe Wiedmann, Bulent Alpay, Karim Choukri
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Patent number: 11841105Abstract: A motorized apparatus includes a body assembly and a maintenance device mounted to the body assembly. The maintenance device is configured to perform a service operation on a surface. The maintenance device extends from the body assembly at an angle. The motorized apparatus also includes a plurality of leg assemblies coupled to the body assembly and configured to support the body assembly and the maintenance device at a distance from the surface. The motorized apparatus further includes at least one actuator assembly coupled to the plurality of leg assemblies and configured to independently actuate each leg assembly of the plurality of leg assemblies. The at least one actuator assembly is configured to receive instructions related to a position of the maintenance device and actuate the plurality of leg assemblies to adjust an orientation of the body assembly and the maintenance device relative to the surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Alexander Kyle Duncan, Todd William Danko
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Patent number: 11840941Abstract: An engine component for a gas turbine engine, the engine component comprising a cooling architecture comprising at least one unit cell having a set of walls with a thickness, the set of walls defining fluidly separate conduits having multiple openings, each of the multiple openings having a hydraulic diameter; wherein the thickness (t) and the hydraulic diameter (DH) relate to each other by an equation: ( D H + 2 ? t ) 2 ( ( D H + 2 ? t ) / D H ) 1 / 3 to define a performance area factor (PAF).Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Lana Maria Osusky, Gustavo A. Ledezma, Daniel Endecott Osgood, Gregory Alexander Natsui
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Patent number: 11840957Abstract: A load adaptive linear electrical generator system is provided for generating DC electrical power. The electrical generation system includes one or more power generation modules which will be selectively turned on or off and additively contribute power depending on the DC power demand. Each power generating module includes a pair of linear electrical generators connected to respective ones of a pair of internal combustion piston based power assemblies. The piston in the internal combustion assembly is connected to a magnet in the linear electrical generator. The piston/magnet assembly oscillates in a simple harmonic motion at a frequency dependent on a power load of the electrical generator. A stroke limiter constrains the piston/magnet assembly motion to preset limits.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventor: Jay B. Ross
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Patent number: 11839446Abstract: A wireless patient monitoring system includes at least one wireless physiological sensor having a sensing element senses physiological parameter information from a patient. A sensor controller is configured to determine a current parameter value based on the physiological parameter information and to compare the current parameter value to a prior parameter value. Based on the comparison, the sensor controller determines if the current parameter value is redundant of the prior parameter value. If so, then the current parameter value is not transmitted. If the current parameter is not redundant of the prior parameter value, then a wireless transmitter is controlled to wirelessly transmit the current parameter value.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventor: Daniel W. Medeiros
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Patent number: 11843252Abstract: A method for damping sub-synchronous control interactions (SSCI) in a grid-forming inverter-based resource connected to an electrical grid includes receiving, via a controller, a current feedback signal in a synchronous reference frame. The method also includes rotating, via the controller, the current feedback signal to a new reference frame associated with a sub-synchronous frequency range. Further, the method includes determining, via the controller, a sub-synchronous component of the current feedback signal. Moreover, the method includes rotating, via the controller, the sub-synchronous component of the current feedback signal back to the synchronous reference frame. In addition, the method includes determining, via the controller, a voltage command associated with sub-synchronous damping for the inverter-based resource as a function of the sub-synchronous component and a virtual resistance setting.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Dustin Howard
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Publication number: 20230394649Abstract: An apparatus may include a processor, memory modules, and machine-readable instructions stored in the memory modules. When executed by the processor, the instructions may cause the apparatus to receive image data of one or more laser strikes on a build plane, the image data indicating positions of a first set of fiducial strikes made by a first laser on the build plane and positions of a second set of fiducial strikes made by a second laser on the build plane, determine relative positions of the first set of fiducial strikes and the second set of fiducial strikes with respect to each other from the received image data, compare the determined relative positions of the first and second sets of fiducial strikes with respect to each other to expected relative positions of the first and second sets of fiducial strikes with respect to each other, and determine whether the first laser and the second laser are misaligned with respect to each other based on the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2022Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Brian S. McCarthy, Xiaolei Shi, Christina Vasil, William Colton Caynoski, Justin John Gambone, Steven J. Duclos
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Publication number: 20230391005Abstract: A system includes a supply receptacle defining one or more supply receptacle sidewalls and an upwardly-facing receptacle opening, a piston positioned at least partially within the supply receptacle, where the piston, the upwardly-facing receptacle opening, and the one or more supply receptacle sidewalls at least partially define an interior space of the supply receptacle, and the piston is positionable between an extended position, in which the interior space has an extended volume, and a retracted position, in which the interior space has a retracted volume that is greater than the extended volume, and a dosing hopper positioned above and in selective communication with the interior space of the supply receptacle, where the dosing hopper is structurally configured to deliver build material to the interior space.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Carlos H. Bonilla, Joshua Tyler Mook, Christopher Bryant, Mary Kathryn Thompson, Vadim Bromberg, Connor Sprague, Victor Fulton, Tyler Hater
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Publication number: 20230391008Abstract: A method for providing build material to an additive manufacturing system (100) includes moving the build material (10) from a dosing hopper (240) to an interior space defined by one or more supply sidewalls of a supply receptacle (110) and a piston (130) positioned within the supply receptacle (110), and moving the piston toward a working surface (102) of the additive manufacturing system, thereby moving build material within the interior space to the working surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Carlos H. Bonilla, Gregory Kurt Miller, John Sterle, Vadim Bromberg
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Patent number: 11837099Abstract: An apparatus and method for an aircraft flight management system configured to analyze a takeoff sequence for an aircraft, the aircraft slight management system comprising a memory storing runway information associated with the runway from which the aircraft will depart, one or more inputs configured to receive variables comprising real-time aircraft variables and real-time condition variables that influence an actual velocity of the aircraft, sensors for sensing the actual velocity of the aircraft; and a processor configured to compare a real-time takeoff value to a takeoff requirement value.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LimitedInventor: Stefan Alexander Schwindt
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Patent number: 11837918Abstract: The present disclosure relates to rotors for an electrical machine comprising a first type of permanent magnets, and a second type of permanent magnets, wherein the first and the second types of permanent magnets have a same magnetic strength, and wherein the first type of permanent magnets has a first temperature rating, and the second type of permanent magnets has a second temperature rating different from the first temperature rating. The present disclosure relates to generators, and in particular to wind turbines comprising such generators and to methods for selecting or providing magnets for permanent magnet rotors.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.Inventors: Julio Cesar Urresty, Mikhail Avanesov, Neus Galles Raventos, Ross Hall
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Patent number: 11837917Abstract: A rotor assembly for an electric machine is disclosed. The rotor core has a cylindrical body defining an outwardly facing peripheral surface comprising a slotted portion including a set of slots defined by a set of rotor teeth projecting outwardly from the peripheral surface. Each rotor tooth comprises a respective first distal tip and a respective first radial length extending radially from a center point of the rotor core to the first distal tip. The peripheral surface further comprises a non-slotted portion defining a respective second radial length, extending radially from the center point of the rotor core to the outwardly facing peripheral surface. The first radial length is less than the second radial length.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Balamurugan Sridharan, Ami Hatim, Dhiraj Khushal Thakare, Sooraj Govindankutty Kocher
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Patent number: 11835568Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for monitoring and diagnosing power system assets. An example method may include triggering, by a gateway device and at a first time, a capture of a first waveform from a first intelligent electronic device (IED) associated with a first asset in a power system. The method may also include transmitting, by the gateway device, the capture of the waveform to a remote device. The method may also include extracting fault features from the first waveform corresponding to different failure modes associated with the asset of the power system. The method may also include determining, based on the features extracted from first waveform, that a fault of a first fault mode has occurred in the asset. The method may also include providing an alert that the fault has been identified, wherein the alert initiates or otherwise facilitates a control action in the power system.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Balakrishna Pamulaparthy, Ali Shahid, Sumitha Mohan, Rajagopal Kommu, Raju Gurrapu, Sergio Dominguez Ruiz
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Patent number: 11834996Abstract: A circuit (10) for draining at least one combustible fluid for a cavity of a turbine includes a drain (12) in fluidic communication with the at least one cavity, and a first isolation valve (14) and a second isolation valve (16) defining between them an isolation cavity (C) of a portion of the drain. A discharge line (18) is in fluidic communication with the isolation cavity (C) to allow the discharge of air out of the isolation cavity (C). A supply line (22) supplies pressurized fluid to the isolation cavity (C), and a supply valve (24) is arranged in the supply line (22) for regulating the supply of the isolation cavity (C) with pressurized fluid. A discharge valve (20) is arranged in the discharge line (18) for regulating the discharge of the gases out of the isolation cavity (C), and a device (26) is provided for determining a failure of the drainage circuit (10).Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: GE ENERGY PRODUCTS FRANCE SNCInventors: Maher Aboujaib, Sven Catrin, Ezio Pena, Faqihi Bouria, Nicolas Couteret
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Patent number: 11834952Abstract: Exhaust frequency mitigation apparatus, exhaust diffusers, and turbomachines are provided. An exhaust frequency mitigation apparatus includes a main body extending along an axial centerline from a base to a tip. the base defines a first diameter and the tip defining a second diameter. the main body converges from the first diameter to the second diameter with respect to the axial centerline. The base is configured to extend from an inner shell of a turbomachine exhaust diffuser. The exhaust frequency mitigation apparatus further includes at least one rib extending from a root coupled to the main body to a free end.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Joshy John, Srinivas Pakkala, Prabaharan K, Satish Kumar, Prakash Bavanjibhai Dalsania
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Patent number: 11835607Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cooling system that includes a superconducting unit and a reservoir configured to store liquid coolant to cool the superconducting unit. The cooling system also includes an auxiliary storage system that includes one or more storage tanks fluidly coupled to the reservoir. The auxiliary storage system is configured to provide additional coolant to the reservoir as well as receive and store coolant from the reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Ernst Wolfgang Stautner
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Patent number: 11834632Abstract: A cleaning solution for a turbine engine includes water; a first organic acidic component that comprises citric acid; a second organic acidic component that comprises glycolic acid; isopropylamine sulphonate; alcohol ethoxylate; triethanol amine; and sodium lauriminodipropionate. The cleaning solution has a pH value between about 2.5 and about 7.0.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Nicole Jessica Tibbetts, Evan J Dolley, Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Denise Anne Anderson, Nathan David McLean, Eric John Telfeyan, Frank Wagenbaugh
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Patent number: 11835027Abstract: The present disclosure relates to supporting structures for a central frame of a direct-drive wind turbine and methods for managing such structures. A supporting structure is configured to assume a deployed configuration and a stowed configuration. In the stowed configuration, the supporting structure has a shape and size such that the supporting structure can be introduced into the central frame from an outside. In the deployed configuration, the supporting structure has one or more increased dimensions with respect to the stowed configuration, and comprises a working platform.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.Inventor: Alejandro Hernandez Ferre
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Patent number: 11835127Abstract: A gearbox assembly includes a gear assembly that includes a planet gear, a pin disposed within the planet gear, a first sensor, and a second sensor. The first sensor is disposed within the pin and is configured to produce a signal indicative of a strain of the pin. The second sensor is disposed within the pin and is configured to produce a signal indicative of a vibration of the pin. Another gearbox assembly includes a gear assembly including a planet gear, a pin disposed within the planet gear, and a strain sensor. The strain sensor is disposed within the pin and is configured to produce a signal indicative of a strain of the pin. The strain sensor is located within the pin at a circumferential location of the pin that is opposite to a location of a force acting on the pin when the planet gear rotates about the pin.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignees: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, GE AVIO S.R.L., GE AVIATION CZECH S.R.O.Inventors: Leonardo Coviello, Bugra H. Ertas, Eric R. Westervelt, Andrea Piazza, Juraj Hrubec
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Patent number: D1007691Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLCInventor: Klaus Axel Andersen