General Electric Patents

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  • Patent number: 11795038
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a crane (200) for erecting a tower including a plurality of tower segments (171, 72, 173, 174, 175), the crane (200) comprising: a telescopic mast (210), and a jib (230) rotatably mounted with respect to the telescopic mast (210) and comprising lifting equipment (240). The telescopic mast (210) comprises a lower mast segment (211) having one or more lower clamp assemblies (202, 204) for selectively gripping portions of the tower and a roller assembly (300) for rolling along the tower, and comprising one or more further mast segments (212, 213, 214, 215, 216) having an upper clamp assembly (206) for selectively gripping portions of the tower, the further mast segments (212, 213, 214, 215, 216) being slidable with respect to the lower mast segment (211). The disclosure also relates to methods for climbing a tower with a crane (200) and methods for mounting a wind turbine tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.
    Inventor: Daniel Gomez Mora
  • Patent number: 11798737
    Abstract: A charging pad for charging one or more receiver devices is disclosed. The charging pad includes a power drive unit configured to generate a first AC voltage signal having a first frequency and a second AC voltage signal having a second frequency. Further, the charging pad includes a transmitting unit including a single power exchange coil coupled to the power drive unit, wherein the single power exchange coil includes a first coil segment configured to transmit the first AC voltage signal having the first frequency when the first AC voltage signal is received from the power drive unit. Also, the single power exchange coil includes a second coil segment configured to transmit the second AC voltage signal having the second frequency when the second AC voltage signal is received from the power drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Suma Memana Narayana Bhat, Deepak Aravind, Somakumar Ramachandrapanicker, Arun Kumar Raghunathan
  • Patent number: 11795837
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine defines a working air flowpath and includes an electrical system having an electric machine coupled to the rotary component at least partially inward of the working air flowpath along the radial direction and an electric bus electrically coupled to the electric machine. The electric bus includes an electric line extending through the working air flowpath within or downstream of a turbine section. The engine further includes a cooling system including a cooling fluid supply line and a cooling fluid return line, wherein a portion of the electric line extending though the working air flowpath is substantially embedded within the cooling fluid supply line, and wherein a portion of the cooling fluid supply line extending though the working air flowpath is substantially embedded within the cooling fluid return line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Jeffrey Douglas Rambo
  • Patent number: 11795795
    Abstract: An electric submersible pumping system includes a motor filled with motor lubricant, a pump driven by the motor, and a fluid expansion chamber connected to the motor. The fluid expansion chamber includes a seal bag filled with a seal bag lubricant and a bellows contained within the seal bag. The bellows includes an interior in fluid communication with the motor and an exterior in fluid communication with the seal bag lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GE Oil & Gas ESP, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Paul Reeves, Chengbao Wang, Steven Alan Howell
  • Patent number: 11795827
    Abstract: An airfoil assembly comprising a central spar extending along the radial direction; a blade skin positioned around the central spar to define an airfoil that has a pressure side and a suction side extending in the axial direction between a leading edge and a trailing edge, wherein at least one cavity is defined between the blade skin and the central spar; and a support structure positioned at least partially within the at least one cavity. The support structure comprises: a foam; and a foam reinforcement structure embedded within the foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Raghuveer Chinta, Srinivas Nuthi, Gary Willard Bryant, Jr., Nicholas Joseph Kray
  • Patent number: 11793457
    Abstract: An infant warming system comprising a platform for supporting an infant, at least two chest electrodes configured to connect to and detect cardiac potentials from a chest of the infant, an ECG monitor configured to receive the cardiac potentials from the at least two chest electrodes and determine a heart rate based on the cardiac potentials, a pulse oximeter device configured to determine an SpO2 for the infant, and a processor configured to compare the heart rate for the infant to a first heart rate threshold and compare the SpO2 for the infant to a first SpO2 threshold. The processor can also adjust a display of the heart rate and the SpO2 on a display device based on the comparisons and generate a first care instruction via a user interface based on the heart rate, the SpO2, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Patrick Cipriano, Thomas Charles Underwood, Steven Mitchell Falk, Muge Pirtini Cetingul, Karen P. Starr
  • Patent number: 11796217
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to louvers for enabling an air passage between an outside and an inside. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to louvers enabling said air passage while minimizing rain ingress towards an interior and minimizing noise produced in the interior. The present disclosure further relates to wind turbines including said louvers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.
    Inventors: Roberto Rodríguez Bayo, Anthony W. Millhouse, Shelon A. Marini, Omer Safak, Adrià Roca, Samir A. Salamah
  • Patent number: 11799323
    Abstract: A wireless power reception device and a wireless communication method thereby are provided. The wireless communication method by the wireless power reception device may comprise the steps of: receiving a wireless power signal from a wireless power transmission device; measuring the strength of the wireless power signal; modulating the amplitude of the wireless power signal according to the measured strength of the wireless power signal; and performing communication with the wireless power transmission device by using the signal having the amplitude modulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GE Hybrid Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chun-Kil Jung, Hak Do Kim, Sang Youn Noh
  • Patent number: 11795964
    Abstract: A fan assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a fan disk, a trunnion, a fan blade, and a counterweight assembly. The fan disk is configured to rotate about an axial centerline of the gas turbine engine when installed in the gas turbine engine. The trunnion is mounted to the fan disk and defines a slot extending through a portion of the trunnion. The fan blade defines a pitch axis and is rotatably attached to the fan disk about its pitch axis through the trunnion. The counterweight assembly includes a link arm extending to the trunnion and an engagement device mounted to the link arm that is disposed to move through the slot of the trunnion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Nicholas M. Daggett, Gert Johannes van der Merwe, Daniel Alan Niergarth, Brian Lewis Devendorf
  • Patent number: 11798678
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for automatically generating a digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) conformance statement. In one example, a method includes determining a set of DICOM query/retrieve capabilities of a DICOM application implemented on a DICOM device by performing a list of queries to the DICOM application, and populating a DICOM conformance statement with the determined set of DICOM query/retrieve capabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventor: Abderrazek Boufahja
  • Patent number: 11794412
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a build surface, at least a portion of which is transparent. The apparatus includes a first material depositor operable to deposit a curable resin to form a deposited resin layer on the build surface. A first sensing device is configured to measure the thickness of the deposited resin layer; and wherein the at least one sensing device is configured to generate a signal indicative of the thickness of the deposited resin layer. The first sensing device can be connected to a computer such that the additive manufacturing apparatus is configured to control the thickness of the deposited resin layer. The thickness of the deposited resin layer can be controlled such that it varies from side to side, i.e. across the width of the deposited resin layer in the transverse direction along the x-axis. The thickness can also be controlled such that it varies with time, i.e., in the machine direction along the y-axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Meredith Elissa Dubelman, Mary Kathryn Thompson, Christopher Barnhill, Xi Yang
  • Patent number: 11795917
    Abstract: A main rotor shaft of a wind turbine configured to reducing contact pressure at a hub joint connection includes a flanged portion and a rod portion. The flanged portion includes an outer circumferential edge, an outer radial area, and an inner radial area. The outer radial area includes holes placed around the outer radial area for attachment to a wind turbine hub. The outer circumferential edge includes a groove placed atop the outer circumferential edge. The rod portion is formed with the inner radial area and configured for connection to a gearbox of a wind turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.
    Inventors: Hemant Bhimrao Pawar, Bradley Graham Moore, Vinay Bawane, Christopher Michael Bean
  • Patent number: 11797890
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus disclosed herein autonomously evaluate replacement algorithms. An example system associated with a live environment executing a current algorithm includes at least one memory, instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to manage execution of the current algorithm in the live environment, the live environment associated with a deployment platform, and manage, based on receipt of at least one potential replacement algorithm, a shadow environment causes execution of the at least one potential replacement algorithm in the shadow environment, the shadow environment instantiated separately from the live environment, the shadow environment utilizes data from the live environment during execution of the at least one potential replacement algorithm in the shadow environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Bradford Miller, Kirk Lars Bruns, Michael Kinstrey, Charles Theurer, Vrinda Rajiv
  • Patent number: 11796116
    Abstract: A system for use in maintaining a pipe having a sidewall is provided. The system includes a motorized apparatus sized to fit within the pipe and configured to travel along the pipe through an interior cavity. The motorized apparatus includes a plurality of leg assemblies coupled circumferentially around a body assembly. The body assembly includes an actuator assembly coupled to each leg assembly and configured to independently actuate each leg assembly to adjust a position of each leg assembly. The body assembly also includes at least one sensor configured to collect information associated with the position of each leg assembly. The body assembly also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the motorized apparatus and configured to receive the information from the sensor, and to determine at least one of a pipe diameter and a pitch of the motorized apparatus based on the information from the at least one sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Alexander Kyle Duncan, Todd William Danko, Justin Foehner, Yakov Polishchuk, Douglas R. Forman
  • Patent number: 11794410
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to additive manufacturing apparatuses, cleaning stations incorporated therein, and methods of cleaning using the cleaning stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Timothy Francis Andrews, Victor Fulton, Glen Charles Fedyk, Carlos H. Bonilla, Jacob Mayer, John Sterle, Vadim Bromberg
  • Patent number: 11794409
    Abstract: A method is provided for maintaining resin in a system including a main feed tank and at least one vat, each of the at least one vats associated with a 3-D printing machine. The method includes the steps of: transferring resin from the main feed tank to the at least one vat; operating the associated 3-D printing machine in a build cycle; returning the resin from the at least one vat to the main feed tank; and repeating in a cycle the steps of transferring the resin, operating the 3-D printing machine, and returning the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stephanie Lynn DePalma, William Cosmo Murphy, Travis Sands
  • Patent number: 11795878
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine assembly includes a gas turbine engine with a combustion section, a fuel delivery system, and a thermal energy management system. The fuel delivery assembly provides a fuel to the combustion section of the gas turbine engine. The thermal energy management system includes a thermal transport bus, a heat source heat exchanger, and a heat sink heat exchanger. The thermal transport bus has a portion of the fuel configured to flow therethrough. The fuel is disposed as a heat exchange fluid of the thermal energy management system. The heat source heat exchanger is in thermal communication with the flow of fuel through the transport bus. The heat sink heat exchanger is in thermal communication with the flow of fuel through the transport bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Kevin Edward Hinderliter
  • Patent number: 11799788
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, system and methods are provided, comprising receiving, from a network configuration module, configuration data at a network driver of a communication network; configuring the network driver based on the received configuration data; receiving one or more data packets at the network driver from an application; determining that one or more segregation features are present in the data packet based on the received configuration data; transmitting the one or more data packets based on the one or more segregation features; and controlling one or more operations of an installed product based on the transmitted one or more data packets. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Tony Frangieh, Andrew William Berner, Stephen Francis Bush, Vincent Staudinger
  • Patent number: 11794303
    Abstract: A system for polishing a surface of a component includes a motorized apparatus including a body, a drive system coupled to the body, and an arm including a proximal end coupled to the body and a distal end opposite the proximal end. The motorized apparatus further includes a tool coupled to the distal end of the arm. The tool is configured to polish the surface of the component. The motorized apparatus also includes an actuator coupled to the arm. The system also includes a controller configured to position the tool relative to the component by positioning at least one of the body and the arm relative to the component to reach the target area on the component while maintaining a distance between the tool and the body that is less than a threshold distance. The threshold distance is less than a full reach of the arm and is determined to prevent vibrations of the tool and the arm from exceeding a predefined level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Huan Tan, Yakov Polishchuk, Shaopeng Liu, Li Zhang, Douglas Forman
  • Patent number: 11794912
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a fuel cell assembly including a fuel cell stack and defining a fuel cell assembly operating parameter, a fuel source, and a turbomachine. The turbomachine includes a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order. The combustor is configured to receive a flow of fuel from the fuel source and further configured to receive output products from the fuel cell stack. A controller is configured to perform operations including receiving data indicative of system operation conditions, determining a set of fuel cell operating conditions to move the system emission output into or maintain the system emission output within an emissions range, and controlling the fuel cell assembly operating parameter according to the determined set of fuel cell operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Honggang Wang, Michael Anthony Benjamin
  • Patent number: 11796176
    Abstract: A combustor assembly for a gas turbine engine defining a radial direction and a circumferential direction includes a liner assembly at least partially defining a combustion chamber and including at least one liner extending between a downstream end and an upstream end, the downstream end of the at least one liner defining a radial opening and an interface surface extending along the circumferential direction and along the radial direction; and a seal member including a body, a flange, and a radial element, the body defining a body surface extending along the radial direction and positioned adjacent the interface surface of the at least one liner, the flange extending forward from the body, and the radial element coupled to the flange and extending into the radial opening defined by the at least one liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ernesto Andres Vallejo Ruiz, Aaron Michael Dziech, Jonathon Eli Farmer
  • Patent number: 11793486
    Abstract: A panel may include an inner edge, an outer edge opposite the inner edge, and a probe holder apparatus formed in the panel between the inner edge and the outer edge. The probe holder apparatus may have a generally rectangular shape comprising a front outer corner, a rear outer corner, a front inner corner, and a rear inner corner. The probe holder apparatus may include a slot, at least one surface within the probe holder apparatus, and a cable guide. The slot may extend from a center of the probe holder apparatus through the outer edge of the panel. The at least one surface may be configured to receive a body of an ultrasound probe. The at least one surface may have a diameter. The cable guide may include an inclined surface protruding from the front outer corner of the probe holder apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Christian Ruff, Gerhard Hattinger
  • Patent number: 11798677
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a guided workflow through a series of ultrasound image acquisitions with reference images updated based on a determined anatomical position is provided. The method includes acquiring and displaying, by an ultrasound system, at least one ultrasound image of an anatomy. The method includes determining, by at least one processor, a position of the anatomy depicted in the at least one ultrasound image. The method includes automatically selecting and displaying, by the at least one processor, reference images corresponding to pre-defined views of an ultrasound examination. An orientation of anatomy depicted in the selected and displayed reference images is based on the determined position of the anatomy. The method includes acquiring and displaying, by the ultrasound system, additional ultrasound images of the anatomy corresponding to the selected and displayed reference images. The additional ultrasound images include pre-defined views of the ultrasound examination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Lucienne van der Veen, Christian Fritz Perrey
  • Patent number: 11795882
    Abstract: A turbomachine engine includes a core engine having one or more compressor sections, one or more turbine sections that includes a power turbine, and a combustion chamber in flow communication with the compressor sections and turbine sections. The turbomachine engine also includes a shaft coupled to the power turbine and characterized by a midshaft rating (MSR) between two hundred (ft/sec)1/2 and three hundred (ft/sec)1/2. In one aspect, the shaft has a redline speed between fifty and two hundred fifty feet per second (ft/sec). In another aspect, the shaft has a length L, an outer diameter D, and a ratio of L/D between twelve and thirty-seven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Narayanan Payyoor, Weize Kang, Thomas Lee Becker, Richard Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11793937
    Abstract: A method of monitoring depth of muscle relaxation of a patient includes determining a sedative drug effect of one or more sedative drugs on a patient based on at least one of drug delivery information and measured nervous system information. The sedative drug effect is then compared to a sedation criterion and, if the sedative drug effect fulfills the sedation criterion, then a neuromuscular transmission (NMT) monitor is controlled to apply a series of stimulation to a nerve of a patient and muscle responses of the patient are measured to obtain an NMT baseline. A neuromuscular blocking agent (NMBA) notice is then generated on a user interface after obtaining the NMT baseline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventor: Mika Olli Kristian Särkelä
  • Patent number: 11793966
    Abstract: A T-piece for controlling ventilation support to a patient includes a t-shaped body having a gas source connection port, an interface connection port, and a positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) control port. A PEEP adjuster cap is connected to the PEEP control port and has a bypass hole to allow gas to exit the T-piece and configured such that when the bypass hole is closed substantially all gas received at the gas source connection port is directed to the patient and when the bypass hole is open at least a portion of the gas received at the gas source connection port exits through the bypass hole to maintain PEEP to the patient. A bypass cover is automatically operated by an actuator circuit to close the bypass hole to enable delivery PIP to the patient and to open the bypass hole to effectuate PEEP delivery to the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventor: Steven M. Falk
  • Publication number: 20230335324
    Abstract: Air-core reactors for use with power transmission systems are disclosed. An example air-core reactor may include a main coil and an auxiliary coil. The main coil may include a first solenoid having a first diameter and a second solenoid having a second diameter, wherein the first diameter and the second diameter are different. The auxiliary coil may include a third solenoid. The first solenoid and the second solenoid may be arranged concentrically. The auxiliary coil may also be magnetically coupled to the main coil, and the auxiliary coil may be arranged concentric to the main coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Amit KUMAR, Henrique Borges ZANINELLI, Luiz SOUZA
  • Publication number: 20230336067
    Abstract: A chain-link converter includes a number of series-connected chain-link modules. Each chain-link module has a module controller that is programmed to control operation of the corresponding chain-link module to selectively provide a voltage source, whereby the chain-link converter is able to provide a stepped variable voltage source. The chain-link converter also includes a chain-link converter controller that is arranged in communication with each module controller, and which is programmed to, in-use, communicate to a nmber of the module controllers a measured converter current (IDC) that is flowing through the chain-link converter. The module controllers that receive the measured converter current (IDC) is each further programmed, in-use, to combine the measured converter current (IDC) with a measured rate of change of current (IAC) flowing through the corresponding chain-link module, to establish an instantaneous module current (Ii) that is flowing through the corresponding chain-link module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventor: Andrew NOLAN
  • Publication number: 20230335994
    Abstract: There is provided an electrical assembly including at least one power converter and at least one dynamic reactive power source, the or each power converter and the or each dynamic reactive power source connectable to an AC network, the or each power converter and the or each dynamic reactive power source operable to exchange reactive power with the AC network, wherein the or each dynamic reactive power source is configured to selectively adjust its exchange of reactive power with the AC network in response to a characteristic of a reactive current demand of the or each power converter crossing a or a respective reactive current characteristic threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Amit KUMAR, Carl BARKER
  • Publication number: 20230334394
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for prognostic analytics of an asset. For example, there is provided a system for monitoring a reliability of a component of an asset. The system includes a processor and a memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause it to perform certain operations. These operations may include receiving input data, which can include performance data relating to the component, configuration data relating to the component, and statistical data relating to a plurality of assets. The operations can further include providing a pre-emptive recommendation for the component based on the input data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Andrew Todd LEHMANN
  • Patent number: 11790279
    Abstract: A method for controlling a physical process includes receiving an input dataset corresponding to the physical process. The method further includes determining a data model based on the input dataset. The data model includes a plurality of latent space variables of a machine learning model. The method also includes receiving a plurality of reference models corresponding to a plurality of classes. Each of the plurality of reference models includes a corresponding plurality of latent space variables. The method includes comparing the data model with each of the plurality of reference models to generate a plurality of distance metric values. The method further includes selecting a reference model among the plurality of reference models based on the plurality of distance metric values. The method also includes controlling the physical process based on the selected reference model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Arathi Sreekumari, Radhika Madhavan, Suresh Emmanuel Joel, Hariharan Ravishankar
  • Patent number: 11788726
    Abstract: A combustor for a turbomachine engine includes a combustion chamber, a liner forming a boundary of the combustion chamber, and multiple dilution holes through the liner to permit airflow into the combustion chamber. The dilution holes include converging dilution holes and diverging dilution holes, the converging dilution holes having a converging cross-sectional profile and the diverging dilution holes having a diverging cross-sectional profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Rimple Rangrej, Saket Singh, Pradeep Naik, Ajoy Patra
  • Patent number: 11790792
    Abstract: An apparatus may receive first data, in a first data format, from one or more unmanned aircraft system service suppliers comprising first positions of one or more unmanned aircraft systems, receive second data, in a second data format, from one or more communications systems comprising second positions of one or more manned aircraft, transmit third data, in a third data format, comprising the first positions of the one or more unmanned aircraft systems and the second positions of the one or more manned aircraft, receive a first control signal comprising a control command associated with one or more of the unmanned aircraft systems or one or more of the manned aircraft, and transmit a second control signal comprising the control command to one or more of the unmanned aircraft system service suppliers or to one or more of the communications systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Szabolcs A. Borgyos, Edward Andrew Lester
  • Patent number: 11787120
    Abstract: A method of predicting a post-sintering geometry of a green body part includes determining stress differentiating material properties of a material configuration of the green body part by physically measuring the stress differentiating material properties of the material configuration and identifying a plurality of stress regions in the green body part via a first sintering analysis of the green body part. Each stress region is associated with a portion of the green body part subjected to a particular stress state during sintering. The method also includes assigning different sets of stress differentiating material properties to each of the plurality of stress regions to form a stress-simulated green body part and predicting the post-sintering geometry via a second sintering analysis of the stress-simulated green body part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Ananda Barua
  • Patent number: 11788510
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to nacelle cover panels and nacelle cover assemblies. The nacelle cover panel is configured to be mounted in a nacelle of a wind turbine. Further, the nacelle cover panel comprises a composite panel including at least an outer roof surface and an inner surface, and a structural frame coupled to the composite panel. Methods of providing a nacelle assembly are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.
    Inventors: Jordi Fàbrega Freixes, Jesús Javier Lorita Rodríguez, Ander Pérez Iguzquiza
  • Patent number: 11788425
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine including: a first turbine rotor assembly including a plurality of first turbine rotor blades extended within a gas flowpath; and a casing surrounding the first turbine rotor assembly, wherein the casing comprises an outer casing wall extended around the first turbine rotor assembly; a plurality of vanes extended from the outer casing wall and within the gas flowpath at a location aft of the first turbine rotor assembly; and a thermal control ring positioned outward along a radial direction from the outer casing wall, and wherein the thermal control ring comprises a body and a plurality of pins, and wherein the plurality of pins extend between the outer casing wall and the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: General Electric Company, General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH, General Electric Company Polska Sp. z o.o.
    Inventors: Ashish Sharma, Piotr Jerzy Kulinski, Adam Tomasz Pazinski, Tomasz Jan Bulsiewicz, Scott Alan Schimmels
  • Patent number: 11786196
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for stationary CT imaging. In one embodiment, an imaging system comprises a chamber shaped to enclose a subject to be imaged, a support surface disposed within the chamber and shaped to maintain the subject in an upright position, and an annular imaging unit encircling the chamber and having a fixed angular orientation to the chamber, the annular imaging unit including a distributed x-ray unit and a detector array arranged opposite to each other across the chamber. The imaging system may image the subject without rotation of the annular imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man, Lin Fu
  • Patent number: 11790574
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for visualizing a guidewire in a roadmap image. In accordance with certain embodiments, a method includes generating a background mask as a function of at least one background image, wherein the at least one background image includes a blood vessel of interest, generating a contrast mask as a function of at least one contrast image, wherein the at least one contrast image includes a contrast within the blood vessel of interest, receiving a guidewire image, wherein the guidewire image includes a guidewire within the blood vessel of interest, generating a roadmap image as a function of the background mask, contrast mask, and guidewire image, wherein the roadmap image includes the blood vessel of interest, and the guidewire, and outputting the roadmap image to a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: James Liu, Naveen S. Chandra, Jon T. Lea
  • Patent number: 11788474
    Abstract: A pericritical fluid system for a thermal management system associated with a turbine engine may include one or more sensors configured to generate sensor outputs corresponding to one or more phase properties of a pericritical fluid flowing through a cooling circuit of the thermal management system, and a controller configured to generate control commands configured to control one or more controllable components of the thermal management system based at least in part on the sensor outputs. The one or more sensors may include one or more phase detection sensors, such as an acoustic sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Arthur William Sibbach
  • Patent number: 11786760
    Abstract: The subject matter of the present disclosure generally relates to techniques for neuromodulation of a tissue that include applying energy (e.g., ultrasound energy) into the tissue at multiple regions of interest, concurrently or consecutively. The neuromodulation may result in tissue displacement, which may be observed through changes in one or more molecules of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: John Frederick Graf, Christopher Michael Puleo, Jeffrey Michael Ashe, Victoria Eugenia Cotero, David Andrew Shoudy
  • Patent number: 11791571
    Abstract: A crimp pin electrical connector comprising a shell defining an interior with a first and a second opening, a flange circumscribing the shell, an insert located within the interior and extending through the first opening. The insert comprising at least one crimp pin including a crimp and a pin provided within at least one passage included within the interior of the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Brian Matthew Maupin, John S Mears
  • Patent number: 11788475
    Abstract: In a fuel control system (10) for a gas turbine engine (1) having a gas generator (4) and a turbine (6) driven by the gas generator (4): a main fuel regulator (12) determines a demand (Wfdem) of fuel flow (Wf) to be introduced in the gas turbine engine (1), based on an input request (PLA); and a first limiter stage (14), operatively coupled to the main fuel regulator (12), causes an adjustment of the fuel flow (Wf) based on engine safety operating limits. The first limiter stage (14) is provided with a Ngdot limiter (20) to cause an adjustment of the fuel flow (Wf) when the gas generator speed rate of change (Ngdot) is determined to overcome acceleration/deceleration scheduled safety limits; the Ngdot limiter (20) implements a predictor (23), to perform a prediction (Wfdot) of the fuel flow rate of change (Wfdot), or fuel flow (Wf), allowing the gas generator speed rate of change (Ngdot) to track a scheduled reference value (Ngdotref).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GE Avio S.r.l.
    Inventors: Stefano Ettorre, Pierpaolo Forte, Giuseppe Donini
  • Patent number: 11788465
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprises a turbomachine defining a core flow therethrough during operation. A flow tap is provided in fluid communication with the turbomachine, wherein the flow tap is configured to receive a portion of the core flow therethrough as a bleed flow. A bleed assembly includes a machine load, a bleed flow machine, and a bleed regulator. The bleed flow machine is disposed in fluid communication with the turbomachine through the flow tap, and is configured to drive the machine load. The bleed regulator is configured to regulate a bleed output provided to the bleed flow machine by controlling a capture rate of the bleed flow by the bleed flow machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Brandon Wayne Miller, Patrick Michael Marrinan, Arthur William Sibbach, Scott Alan Schimmels, Scott David Hunter
  • Patent number: 11788426
    Abstract: Clearance control schemes for controlling a clearance defined between a first component and a second component of a gas turbine engine are provided. In one aspect, an engine controller of the gas turbine engine implements a clearance control scheme, which includes receiving data indicating a clearance between the first component and the second component, the clearance being at least one of a measured clearance captured by a sensor and a predicted clearance specific to the gas turbine engine at that point in time; comparing the clearance to an allowable clearance; determining a clearance setpoint for a clearance adjustment system based on a clearance difference determined by comparing the clearance to the allowable clearance; and causing the clearance adjustment system to adjust the clearance to the allowable clearance based on the clearance setpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr., Eric Richard Westervelt
  • Patent number: 11788724
    Abstract: A combustor liner has an outer liner and an inner liner that define a combustion chamber therebetween, the combustion chamber having a dilution zone. The outer liner and the inner liner each have a converging-diverging section extending into the dilution zone of the combustion chamber and form a throat between them. A bridge member extends across the converging-diverging sections to form a damper cavity therebetween. Each of the converging-diverging sections includes at least one dilution opening defined through the respective converging-diverging section at the throat, and includes a damper inlet feed member on a downstream portion of the converging-diverging section, so that an acoustic damper is defined by the converting-diverging section, the bridge, and the damper inlet feed. The acoustic damper dampens acoustic characteristics of the combustor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Hiranya Nath, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Michael A. Benjamin
  • Patent number: 11792415
    Abstract: An interleaved multi-layered video data stream with interleaved decoding units of different layers is provided with further timing control information in addition to the timing control information reflecting the interleaved decoding unit arrangement. The additional timing control information pertains to either a fallback position according to which all decoding units of an access unit are treated at the decoded buffer access unit-wise, or a fallback position according to which an intermediate procedure is used: the interleaving of the DUs of different layers is reversed according to the additionally sent timing control information, thereby enabling a DU-wise treatment at the decoder's buffer, however, with no interleaving of decoding units relating to different layers. Both fallback positions may be present concurrently. Various advantageous embodiments and alternatives are the subject of the various claims attached herewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Karsten Suehring, Thomas Schierl, Detlev Marpe, Robert Skupin, Yago Sanchez De La Fuente, Gerhard Tech
  • Patent number: 11786973
    Abstract: A method for additively manufacturing components includes additively printing a metallic preform such that the preform contains a predetermined amount of porosity. Furthermore, the method includes working the additively printed preform such that the preform incurs a predetermined amount of deformation. Moreover, the method includes heat treating the worked preform to form a final component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Douglas Gerard Konitzer, Andrew William Emge, Andrew Ezekiel Wessman
  • Patent number: 11788471
    Abstract: Systems and methods for preventing fuel leakage in a gas turbine engine are provided. A fuel accumulation system includes a control valve section fluidly coupled to a fuel manifold passage and an accumulator valve section fluidly coupled at a first side to the control valve section. The control valve section is configured to control expansion of a fluid flowing in the fuel manifold passage. The accumulator valve section is configured to receive fluid expanded in the fuel manifold passage via the control valve section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard Allen Ellsworth, Frederick Ehrwulf van Alen, Thomas Vander Ng
  • Patent number: 11791693
    Abstract: An electric machine having an electrically insulative manifold is disclosed. In one example aspect, an electric machine includes a non-electrically conductive manifold. The manifold defines a chamber operable to receive a cooling fluid. The electric machine includes a prime winding in fluid communication with the chamber and one or more secondary windings in electrical communication with the prime winding and in fluid communication with the chamber. Further, the electric machine includes an electric machine terminal extending through the non-electrically conductive manifold and coupled with the prime winding. The electric machine terminal can provide or collect cooling fluid from the chamber of the manifold and can act as the electrical connection point for directing electrical power to or from the windings of the electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Brendan Michael Freely, Mohamed Osama, Fabian Isaza, Pablo Gabriel Piazza Galarza, Paul Robert Gemin, John Russell Yagielski, Mark Dame, Wei Zhang, Karim Younsi
  • Patent number: 11790081
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the control of an industrial asset, such as a power generating asset. Accordingly, a cyber-attack model predicts a plurality of operational impacts on the industrial asset resulting from a plurality of potential cyber-attacks. The cyber-attack model also predicts a corresponding plurality of potential mitigation responses. In operation, a cyber-attack impacting at least one component of the industrial asset is detected via the cyber-attack neutralization module and a protected operational impact of the cyber-attack is identified based on the cyber-attack model. The cyber-attack neutralization module selects at least one mitigation response of the plurality of mitigation responses based on the predicted operational impact and an operating state of the industrial asset is altered based on the selected mitigation response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Fernando Javier D'Amato, Mustafa Tekin Dokucu, Hema Kumari Achanta, III, Kalpesh Singal, Masoud Abbaszadeh, Yuh-Shyang Wang, Karla Kvaternik, Souransu Nandi, Georgios Boutselis