Patents Examined by Kathering Bareford
  • High temperature abradable coatings
    Patent number: 6887528
    Abstract: Method of producing a profiled abradable coating on a substrate in which an abradable ceramic coating composition is applied to a substrate using direct-write technology, or plasma sprayed onto the substrate through a mask or by use of a narrow foot-print plasma gun. These methods of producing abradable coatings are performed in the absence of a grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Yuk-Chiu Lau, Farshad Ghasripoor, Robert Anthony Fusaro, Jr., Raymond Edward Chupp, Donald Joseph Baldwin, Canan Uslu Hardwicke