Patents by Inventor Bensely Albert
Bensely Albert has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11738530Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor blade component of a rotor blade includes feeding a flat sheet of material into a thermoforming system, wherein the material comprises at least one of a thermoplastic or thermoset material. The method also includes heating the flat sheet of material via the thermoforming system. Further, the method includes shaping the heated flat sheet of material via at least one roller of the thermoforming system into a desired curved shape. Moreover, the method includes dispensing the shaped sheet of material from the thermoforming system. In addition, the method includes cooling the shaped sheet of material to form the rotor blade component.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bensely Albert, Nicholas K. Althoff, Stephen Bertram Johnson
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Publication number: 20220134480Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and apparatuses for reducing sticking during a lithography process are disclosed. An exemplary method of reducing sticking of an object to a modified surface that is used to support the object in a lithography process can include controlling a light source to deliver light to a native surface thereby causing ablation of at least a portion of the native surface to increase the roughness of the native surface thereby forming the modified surface. The increased roughness reduces the ability of the object to stick to the modified surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: ASML Holding N.V.Inventors: Damoon SOHRABIBABAHEIDARY, Christopher John MASON, Peter HELMUS, Mehmet Ali AKBAS, Bensely ALBERT, Benjamin David DAWSON
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Patent number: 10828843Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for manufacturing a rotor blade component, such as shear web, of a rotor blade of a wind turbine. The method includes forming, via 3-D printing, an internal lattice structure of the rotor blade component. More specifically, the internal lattice structure includes a plurality of open cells. In addition, the method includes covering at least a portion of the internal lattice structure with an outer skin layer to form the rotor blade component.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bensely Albert, Amir Riahi
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Patent number: 10688737Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for forming a fiber-reinforced polymer component. The method includes impregnating a first fiber tow with a polymerizable liquid contained within a reservoir to form a first impregnated fiber tow. The method also includes positioning the first impregnated fiber tow within a build region of the reservoir. The build region has a shape and size corresponding to a cross-sectional shape of the fiber-reinforced polymer component. Furthermore, the method includes irradiating the build region of the reservoir to form a polymerized solid from the polymerizable liquid within the build region. The polymerized solid encases a portion of the first fiber tow to form at least a portion of the fiber-reinforced polymer component.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Bensely Albert
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Patent number: 10677216Abstract: Wind turbine rotor blade components including pultruded rods and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed. More specifically, the rotor blade component includes a plurality of pultruded rods housed within an enclosed primary outer casing. The enclosed primary outer casing includes a hollow interior, a root end, and an opposing tip. As such, each of the plurality of pultruded rods is received within the enclosed primary outer casing and secured therein via a first resin material. Further, an arrangement of the plurality of pultruded rods within the primary outer casing and a relationship of a maximum dimension of each of the plurality of pultruded rods and a maximum dimension of the enclosed primary outer casing are configured to maximize flexibility of the rotor blade component.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bensely Albert, Nicholas K. Althoff, Jamie T. Livingston, Stephen Bertram Johnson
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Patent number: 10626847Abstract: A method for manufacturing a root section of a wind turbine blade includes assembling a mold having an inner cylinder segment, an outer cylinder segment, and a bottom flange, wherein a radial space is defined between the inner and outer cylinders. Root hub connectors are attached circumferentially around the bottom flange so that the root hub connectors extend axially into the radial space. A first cartridge of pultruded rods is loaded into the space, wherein the first cartridge includes a plurality of first pultruded rods arranged adjacent to the inner cylinder segment. The space is sealed, for example with a lid or top flange, and the space is evacuated. A resin is infused into the space so that the resin migrates through the radial space between the pultruded rods, and is then cured. The root section is then removed from the mold. A wind turbine blade root section formed by the method is encompassed by the invention.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bensely Albert, Daniel Alan Hynum, Amir Riahi
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Publication number: 20190291372Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor blade component of a rotor blade includes feeding a flat sheet of material into a thermoforming system, wherein the material comprises at least one of a thermoplastic or thermoset material. The method also includes heating the flat sheet of material via the thermoforming system. Further, the method includes shaping the heated flat sheet of material via at least one roller of the thermoforming system into a desired curved shape. Moreover, the method includes dispensing the shaped sheet of material from the thermoforming system. In addition, the method includes cooling the shaped sheet of material to form the rotor blade component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2018Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Bensely Albert, Nicholas K. Althoff, Stephen Bertram Johnson
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Patent number: 10273935Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method of manufacturing a rotor blade for a wind turbine. The method includes providing a blade mold of the rotor blade. Another step includes placing an outer skin layer in the blade mold. The method also includes placing one or more structural inserts in the blade mold atop the outer skin layer as a function of a load of the rotor blade. Further, each of the structural inserts includes a plurality of cells arranged in a predetermined pattern. Further, the cells have varying cell sizes. The method also includes placing an inner skin layer atop the one or more structural inserts and securing the outer skin layer, the one or more structural inserts, and the inner skin layer together to form the rotor blade.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bensely Albert, Amir Riahi
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Publication number: 20190120203Abstract: Wind turbine rotor blade components including pultruded rods and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed. More specifically, the rotor blade component includes a plurality of pultruded rods housed within an enclosed primary outer casing. The enclosed primary outer casing includes a hollow interior, a root end, and an opposing tip. As such, each of the plurality of pultruded rods is received within the enclosed primary outer casing and secured therein via a first resin material. Further, an arrangement of the plurality of pultruded rods within the primary outer casing and a relationship of a maximum dimension of each of the plurality of pultruded rods and a maximum dimension of the enclosed primary outer casing are configured to maximize flexibility of the rotor blade component.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2017Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Bensely Albert, Nicholas K. Althoff, Jamie T. Livingston, Stephen Bertram Johnson
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Publication number: 20190077096Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for forming a fiber-reinforced polymer component. The method includes impregnating a first fiber tow with a polymerizable liquid contained within a reservoir to form a first impregnated fiber tow. The method also includes positioning the first impregnated fiber tow within a build region of the reservoir. The build region has a shape and size corresponding to a cross-sectional shape of the fiber-reinforced polymer component. Furthermore, the method includes irradiating the build region of the reservoir to form a polymerized solid from the polymerizable liquid within the build region. The polymerized solid encases a portion of the first fiber tow to form at least a portion of the fiber-reinforced polymer component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventor: Bensely Albert
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Publication number: 20180264749Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for manufacturing a rotor blade component, such as shear web, of a rotor blade of a wind turbine. The method includes forming, via 3-D printing, an internal lattice structure of the rotor blade component. More specifically, the internal lattice structure includes a plurality of open cells. In addition, the method includes covering at least a portion of the internal lattice structure with an outer skin layer to form the rotor blade component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Bensely Albert, Amir Riahi
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Publication number: 20180187645Abstract: A method for manufacturing a root section of a wind turbine blade includes assembling a mold having an inner cylinder segment, an outer cylinder segment, and a bottom flange, wherein a radial space is defined between the inner and outer cylinders. Root hub connectors are attached circumferentially around the bottom flange so that the root hub connectors extend axially into the radial space. A first cartridge of pultruded rods is loaded into the space, wherein the first cartridge includes a plurality of first pultruded rods arranged adjacent to the inner cylinder segment. The space is sealed, for example with a lid or top flange, and the space is evacuated. A resin is infused into the space so that the resin migrates through the radial space between the pultruded rods, and is then cured. The root section is then removed from the mold. A wind turbine blade root section formed by the method is encompassed by the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2017Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: Bensely Albert, Daniel Alan Hynum, Amir Riahi
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Publication number: 20170204833Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method of manufacturing a rotor blade for a wind turbine. The method includes providing a blade mold of the rotor blade. Another step includes placing an outer skin layer in the blade mold. The method also includes placing one or more structural inserts in the blade mold atop the outer skin layer as a function of a load of the rotor blade. Further, each of the structural inserts includes a plurality of cells arranged in a predetermined pattern. Further, the cells have varying cell sizes. The method also includes placing an inner skin layer atop the one or more structural inserts and securing the outer skin layer, the one or more structural inserts, and the inner skin layer together to form the rotor blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2016Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: Bensely Albert, Amir Riahi
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Publication number: 20160377049Abstract: Structural support members includes a plurality of fiber reinforcing layers positioned on top of one another, wherein a plurality of intermediate fiber reinforcing layers are disposed between a top fiber reinforcing layer and a bottom fiber reinforcing layer, and wherein at least one of said fiber reinforcing layers comprises a first areal weight, and wherein at least one of said fiber reinforcing layers comprises a second areal weight different than the first areal weight. The structural support members further include a resin infused throughout the plurality of fiber reinforcing layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2015Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Aaron Alpheus YARBROUGH, AmirHossein RIAHI, Christopher Daniel CARUSO, Bensely ALBERT
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Patent number: 9329497Abstract: A substrate table comprising a base and a plurality of burls that project from the base, wherein an upper surface of the burls is provided with a multilayer coating.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2011Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Bensely Albert, Rene Theodorus Petrus Compen
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Publication number: 20130301028Abstract: A substrate table comprising a base and a plurality of burls that project from the base, wherein an upper surface of the burls is provided with a multilayer coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2011Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Bensely Albert, Rene Theodorus, Petrus Compen