Patents by Inventor Bernard Albert Luschek

Bernard Albert Luschek 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).

  • Patent number: 11766747
    Abstract: A surface cooler configured to be operably coupled to an aircraft fan casing includes a body having a first surface configured to confront the aircraft fan casing and a second surface opposite the first surface, multiple fluid passages located within the body, and a set of fins located on at least the second surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventor: Bernard Albert Luschek
  • Patent number: 11466700
    Abstract: A turbine engine for an aircraft can includes a casing. The casing can be a fan casing surrounding a fan assembly for drawing air into the turbine engine. The fan casing can have a peripheral wall. A surface cooler can be provided in the turbine engine confronting the peripheral wall of the fan casing. The surface cooler can have a mounting bracket for mounting the surface cooler to the fan casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Thomas Dreischarf, Jason Levi Burdette, Walter Arthur Hundley, Bernard Albert Luschek
  • Publication number: 20220298929
    Abstract: A surface cooler configured to be operably coupled to an aircraft fan casing includes a body having a first surface configured to confront the aircraft fan casing and a second surface opposite the first surface, multiple fluid passages located within the body, and a set of fins located on at least the second surface of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventor: Bernard Albert Luschek
  • Patent number: 11377976
    Abstract: A surface cooler configured to be operably coupled to an aircraft fan casing and having a first surface configured to confront a peripheral wall of an aircraft fan casing and a second surface opposite the first surface, a set of fluid passages internal to the body and a set of fins located on at least a portion of the second surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventor: Bernard Albert Luschek
  • Patent number: 11143105
    Abstract: A fan casing assembly for a turbine engine including a fan casing having a peripheral wall, a surface cooler having a first surface confronting the peripheral wall and a mounting assembly having a lower portion generally retained between the first surface of the annular surface cooler and the peripheral wall and having a floating body extending through the set of fan casing fastener openings and an upper portion located radially exterior of the annular fan casing and operably coupled to the lower portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Bernard Albert Luschek, Dennis Alan McQueen, Derek Thomas Dreischarf, Michael Ralph Storage
  • Patent number: 11054197
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including a manifold body having at least one fluid passage, a cooling passage section having a body including a set of fluid passages extending through at least a portion of the cooling passage section, and a weld joint fluidly sealing the manifold body and the cooling passage such that at least one of the set of fluid passages is fluidly coupled to the at least one fluid passage of the manifold body and methods of forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Bernard Albert Luschek, Jayme Lee Carper, David Bruce Rader, Derek Thomas Dreischarf
  • Patent number: 10815934
    Abstract: A surface cooler assembly includes at least one surface cooler comprising surface cooler hook rails extending circumferentially the length of the surface cooler and including axially extending and radially extending portions. The surface cooler assembly also includes at least one support bracket comprising bracket hook rails extending circumferentially the length of the support bracket and including axially extending and radially extending portions. The support bracket and surface cooler are contoured in a circumferential direction. Each of the surface cooler hook rails contacts a bracket hook rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Bernard Albert Luschek, Jason Levi Burdette, Derek Thomas Dreischarf
  • Publication number: 20200200040
    Abstract: A surface cooler having a first cooling passage section configured to be operably coupled to a fan casing of an aircraft engine, the cooling passage section having a heat exchanger body defining a first distal end and a second distal end and having a set of fluid passages internal to the heat exchanger body and a first set of fins located on a first exterior surface of the heat exchanger body and a manifold operably coupled to a first distal end of the cooling passage section and wherein the manifold includes a manifold body having an interior fluidly coupled to at least one of the set of fluid passages and a second set of fins located on the manifold body to define a finned manifold and a method for forming same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Hua Jiang, Anthony Lynn Lighthill, James Michael Moore, Walter Arthur Hundley, JR., Ricardo Arturo Gutierrez Espinosa, Bernard Albert Luschek, Dennis Alan McQueen, Derek Thomas Dreischarf, Michael Ralph Storage
  • Publication number: 20200200041
    Abstract: A surface cooler configured to be operably coupled to an aircraft fan casing and having a first surface configured to confront a peripheral wall of an aircraft fan casing and a second surface opposite the first surface, a set of fluid passages internal to the body and a set of fins located on at least a portion of the second surface of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventor: Bernard Albert Luschek
  • Publication number: 20200200493
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including a manifold body having at least one fluid passage, a cooling passage section having a body including a set of fluid passages extending through at least a portion of the cooling passage section, and a weld joint fluidly sealing the manifold body and the cooling passage such that at least one of the set of fluid passages is fluidly coupled to the at least one fluid passage of the manifold body and methods of forming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Bernard Albert Luschek, Jayme Lee Carper, David Bruce Rader, Derek Thomas Dreischarf
  • Publication number: 20200200087
    Abstract: A fan casing assembly for a turbine engine including a fan casing having a peripheral wall, a surface cooler having a first surface confronting the peripheral wall and a mounting assembly having a lower portion generally retained between the first surface of the annular surface cooler and the peripheral wall and having a floating body extending through the set of fan casing fastener openings and an upper portion located radially exterior of the annular fan casing and operably coupled to the lower portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Bernard Albert Luschek, Dennis Alan McQueen, Derek Thomas Dreischarf, Michael Ralph Storage
  • Patent number: 10514005
    Abstract: A turbine engine with a casing including opposing surfaces and a manifold opening passing through the surfaces. A surface cooler is provided adjacent one of the surfaces. A cooler manifold passes through the manifold opening. A seal is provided between the surface cooler and the casing. At least one bolt is used to secure the surface cooler to the casing with the seal in between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: UNISON INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Bernard Albert Luschek, David William Millward, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Daniel Scott McCann, Derek Thomas Dreischarf
  • Patent number: 10428834
    Abstract: A fan casing assembly for a turbine engine including a casing having an annular fan cooler. The annular fan cooler includes first and second connection assemblies to fix movement of the fan cooler during engine operation, while permitting circumferential thermal growth of the fan cooler without suffering from high cycle fatigue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Thomas Dreischarf, Bernard Albert Luschek, Dennis Alan McQueen, Daniel Scott McCann, Anthony Lynn Lighthill
  • Patent number: 10393147
    Abstract: A fan casing assembly for a turbine engine including a fan casing having a peripheral wall, a surface cooler having a first surface confronting the peripheral wall and forward and aft projections, which are radially spaced from the first surface and located between the peripheral wall and the first surface, and a mounting bracket to mount the surface cooler to the fan casing and a method of mounting a surface cooler to a fan casing of a turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Thomas Dreischarf, Bernard Albert Luschek, Walter Arthur Hundley
  • Publication number: 20190195137
    Abstract: A surface cooler assembly includes at least one surface cooler comprising surface cooler hook rails extending circumferentially the length of the surface cooler and including axially extending and radially extending portions. The surface cooler assembly also includes at least one support bracket comprising bracket hook rails extending circumferentially the length of the support bracket and including axially extending and radially extending portions. The support bracket and surface cooler are contoured in a circumferential direction. Each of the surface cooler hook rails contacts a bracket hook rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Bernard Albert LUSCHEK, Jason Levi BURDETTE, Derek Thomas DREISCHARF
  • Publication number: 20180320549
    Abstract: A turbine engine with a casing including opposing surfaces and a manifold opening passing through the surfaces. A surface cooler is provided adjacent one of the surfaces. A cooler manifold passes through the manifold opening. A seal is provided between the surface cooler and the casing. At least one bolt is used to secure the surface cooler to the casing with the seal in between.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Bernard Albert Luschek, David William Millward, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Daniel Scott McCann, Derek Thomas Dreischarf
  • Publication number: 20180245605
    Abstract: A turbine engine for an aircraft can includes a casing. The casing can be a fan casing surrounding a fan assembly for drawing air into the turbine engine. The fan casing can have a peripheral wall. A surface cooler can be provided in the turbine engine confronting the peripheral wall of the fan casing. The surface cooler can have a mounting bracket for mounting the surface cooler to the fan casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Derek Thomas Dreischarf, Jason Levi Burdette, Walter Arthur Hundley, Bernard Albert Luschek
  • Publication number: 20180238640
    Abstract: A method of forming fins in a heat exchanger having a metal body by skiving the metal body to form a first fin in a first orientation, and skiving the metal body again to form a second fin in a second orientation while straightening the first fin into a third orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Bernard Albert Luschek, Derek Thomas Dreischarf
  • Publication number: 20180238238
    Abstract: A method of forming fins in a heat exchanger includes using a stacked slit saw with multiple saw blades to simultaneously cut multiple fins into a metal body of the heat exchanger, with each fin having a body extending from an upper surface of the metal body and terminating in a tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Bernard Albert Luschek, Derek Thomas Dreischarf, Dennis Alan McQueen, Michael Ralph Storage
  • Publication number: 20170335863
    Abstract: A fan casing assembly for a turbine engine including a casing having an annular fan cooler. The annular fan cooler includes first and second connection assemblies to fix movement of the fan cooler during engine operation, while permitting circumferential thermal growth of the fan cooler without suffering from high cycle fatigue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Derek Thomas Dreischarf, Bernard Albert Luschek, Dennis Alan McQueen, Daniel Scott McCann, Anthony Lynn Lighthill