Patents by Inventor Daniel Jason Erno
Daniel Jason Erno 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: 10661552Abstract: A controller for use in an additive manufacturing system including a consolidation device configured to consolidate material is provided. The controller is configured to receive a build file for a component including a plurality of build layers, wherein each build layer includes a component outer perimeter, at least one build layer generating function, at least one generating function variable, and at least one generating function constant. The controller is configured to generate at least one control signal to control a power output throughout at least one scan path of the consolidation device across the material for each build layer of the plurality of build layers, the at least one scan path generated based at least partially on the component outer perimeter, the at least one generating function, the at least one generating function variable, and the at least one generating function constant for each build layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ananda Barua, Arun Karthi Subramaniyan, Daniel Jason Erno, Darren Lee Hallman
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Patent number: 10619929Abstract: This disclosure provides flow components, methods of additive manufacture, and output manifolds for heat recovery steam generators incorporating flow components. A flow component may include an annular wall that defines a flow path for a fluid. The annular wall may have a normative region and a stress region. The annular wall in the stress region may include a continuous skin to form a portion of the interior wall surface and an additive manufactured mesh adjacent to the continuous skin to the interior of the annular wall. The annular wall in the normative region may have a cross-section with a different structure than the stress region.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Frederick Magee, Van Dang, Daniel Jason Erno, K M K Genghis Khan, Haiyang Qian
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Patent number: 10598159Abstract: In one aspect, a dual pitch bearing configuration for coupling a rotor blade to a hub of a wind turbine. The dual pitch bearing configuration including a first pitch bearing and at least one additional pitch bearing disposed axially a distance LB from the first pitch bearing. The dual pitch bearing configuration further including one or more spacers disposed between the first pitch bearing and the at least one additional pitch bearing and extending the distance LB. The dual pitch bearing disposed radially within one of a blade root of the rotor blade, a hub extension or a bearing housing and coupled thereto. The dual pitch bearing configuration minimizing moment loading on the first pitch bearing and the at least one additional pitch bearing. A wind turbine including the dual pitch bearing configuration is further disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Adam Daniel Minadeo, Norman Arnold Turnquist, Daniel Jason Erno, Fulton Jose Lopez, Bugra Han Ertas, Michael Colan Moscinski
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Patent number: 10577940Abstract: A rotor blade for a turbomachine includes an airfoil having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a root, and a tip. The airfoil defines a chord extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge and a span extending from the root to the tip. A first particle-filled damper is positioned within the airfoil between fifty percent of the chord and one hundred percent of the chord.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Frank Hoskin, Robert Alan Brittingham, Brian Denver Potter, Daniel Jason Erno, John McConnell Delvaux
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Patent number: 10507902Abstract: An aerodynamic dome component that is placed in front of a wind turbine hub includes an outer ring, a central axle disposed relative to the outer ring, a plurality of radially extending tensioning members and a skin-like covering. The plurality of radially extending tensioning members are coupled to the outer ring at a first end and to the central axle at a second end. The outer ring, the plurality of radially extending tensioning members and the central axle together form an underlying dome support structure. The skin-like covering is configured to envelop at least a portion of the underlying dome support structure to form at least a portion of the aerodynamic dome component and define a front dome portion. The skin-like covering enveloping at least a portion of the underlying dome support structure may further define a rear dome portion, wherein the rear dome portion is configured downwind from the front dome portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Fulton Jose Lopez, Daniel Jason Erno, Peggy Lynn Baehmann, Robert Michael Zirin
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Publication number: 20190374983Abstract: A powder removal system includes a plurality of tubes including upstream and downstream ends, a manifold fluidly coupled to the tubes, and a pressurized air supply fluidly coupled to the manifold supplying pressurized air to the tubes via the manifold. The downstream ends of the tubes are inserted into a plurality of channels partially filled with powder.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2018Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ananda Barua, Daniel Jason Erno, Arunkumar Natarajan, Ken Ivcar Salas Nobrega, Uttara Vijay Kumar, John Francis Morrison
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Publication number: 20190375018Abstract: An article of manufacture includes a part structure formed via a first additive manufacturing process and a floating structure within the part structure which is mechanically decoupled from the part structure. The floating structure is formed concurrently with the part structure via the first additive manufacturing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2018Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Daniel Jason Erno, Arunkumar Natarajan, Ken Ivcar Salas Nobrega, Ananda Barua
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Patent number: 10502194Abstract: In one aspect, a dual pitch bearing configuration for coupling a rotor blade to a hub of a wind turbine. The dual pitch bearing configuration including a first pitch bearing and at least one additional pitch bearing. The first pitch bearing and the and at least one additional pitch bearing are coupled to opposed surfaces of a static shaft. The at least one additional pitch bearing is disposed radially a distance LR and axially a distance LA from the first pitch bearing along the static shaft. The dual pitch bearing is disposed radially within a blade root of the rotor blade. The dual pitch bearing configuration minimizing moment loading on the first pitch bearing and the at least one additional pitch bearing. A wind turbine including the dual pitch bearing configuration is further disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Michael Colan Moscinski, Norman Arnold Turnquist, Daniel Jason Erno, Fulton Jose Lopez
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Publication number: 20190346219Abstract: A heat exchanger can include a cooling air conduit having at least one baffle, as well as a hot air conduit having at least two passes through the cooling air conduit. The heat exchanger can further include at least one perforation extending into the least one baffle. The perforation can have a passage connecting an inlet to an outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventors: Michael Thomas Kenworthy, William Dwight Gerstler, Daniel Jason Erno, Thomas Kupiszewski, Joseph Robert Coleman
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Publication number: 20190311758Abstract: A unit cell structure is provided. The unit cell structure includes a first section and a second section. The first section defines a first load path and includes a first plurality of first unit cells joined together. The second section defines a second load path separate from the first load path and includes a second plurality of second unit cells joined together, each second unit cell of the second plurality of second unit cells nested within and spaced apart from each first unit cell of the first plurality of first unit cells of the first section.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2017Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Ananda Barua, Arun Karthi Subramaniyan, Changjie Sun, Daniel Jason Erno, Darren Lee Hallman
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Publication number: 20190249929Abstract: A cooling assembly includes walls extending around and defining an enclosed vapor chamber that holds a working fluid. An interior porous wick structure is disposed inside the chamber and lines interior surfaces of the walls. The wick structure includes pores that hold a liquid phase of the working fluid. The cooling assembly also includes an exterior porous wick structure lining exterior surfaces of the walls outside of the vapor chamber. The exterior wick structure includes pores that hold a liquid phase of a cooling fluid outside the vapor chamber. The interior wick structure holds the liquid working fluid until heat from an external heat source vaporizes the working fluid inside the vapor chamber. The exterior wick structure holds the liquid fluid outside the vapor chamber until heat from inside the vapor chamber vaporizes the liquid cooling fluid in the exterior wick structure for transferring heat away from the heat source.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2018Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: Brian Magann Rush, Daniel Jason Erno, Thomas Adcock, Stefano Angelo Mario Lassini
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Patent number: 10378835Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a cooling air conduit having multiple baffles, a hot air conduit having multiple passes through the cooling air conduit and forming multiple intersections with the baffles, and multiple perforations extending through the baffles. A cooling air flow passes through the baffles, rather than strictly between the baffles, and improves heat-transfer characteristics of the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Michael Thomas Kenworthy, William Dwight Gerstler, Daniel Jason Erno, Thomas Kupiszewski, Joseph Robert Coleman
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Publication number: 20190186361Abstract: A recuperator includes a monolithic heat exchanger core having a first side proximal to a combustor inlet and a turbine outlet, and a second side that includes an exhaust outlet. A compressed air inlet is located on the second side, and a compressed air outlet is located on the first side. The compressed air outlet supplies air to a combustor. A first plurality of passageways connects the compressed air inlet to the compressed air outlet. A turbine exhaust inlet is located on the first side, and a turbine exhaust outlet is located on the second side. A second plurality of passageways connects the turbine exhaust inlet to the turbine exhaust outlet. The first and second plurality of passageways are defined by parting plates that extend radially outward in a spiral pattern that maintains a substantially equal distance between adjacent parting plates.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Dwight Gerstler, Daniel Jason Erno, Brian Lewis Devendorf, Kevin Kenneth Pruzinsky
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Publication number: 20190170444Abstract: This disclosure provides flow components, methods of additive manufacture, and output manifolds for heat recovery steam generators incorporating flow components. A flow component may include an annular wall that defines a flow path for a fluid. The annular wall may have a normative region and a stress region. The annular wall in the stress region may include a continuous skin to form a portion of the interior wall surface and an additive manufactured mesh adjacent to the continuous skin to the interior of the annular wall. The annular wall in the normative region may have a cross-section with a different structure than the stress region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: Jeffrey Frederick Magee, Van Dang, Daniel Jason Erno, KMK Genghis Khan, Haiyang Qian
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Patent number: 10209009Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a core defining a first passageway and a second passageway. The core includes a plurality of unit cells coupled together. Each unit cell of the plurality of unit cells includes a first wall and a second wall. The second wall is spaced from the first wall. The first wall at least partially defines a first passageway portion and a second passageway portion. The second wall at least partially defines the second passageway portion. The second wall extends about the first wall such that the first passageway portion is nested within the second passageway portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Dwight Gerstler, Thomas Kupiszewski, Michael Thomas Kenworthy, Daniel Jason Erno
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Publication number: 20190030878Abstract: A controller for use in an additive manufacturing system including a consolidation device configured to consolidate material is provided. The controller is configured to receive a build file for a component including a plurality of build layers, wherein each build layer includes a component outer perimeter, at least one build layer generating function, at least one generating function variable, and at least one generating function constant. The controller is configured to generate at least one control signal to control a power output throughout at least one scan path of the consolidation device across the material for each build layer of the plurality of build layers, the at least one scan path generated based at least partially on the component outer perimeter, the at least one generating function, the at least one generating function variable, and the at least one generating function constant for each build layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Ananda Barua, Arun Karthi Subramaniyan, Daniel Jason Erno, Darren Lee Hallman
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Publication number: 20190030879Abstract: A component is provided. The component includes a structure including a plurality of unit cells joined together, each unit cell of the plurality of unit cells having a mass density substantially similar to the mass density of every other unit cell of the plurality of unit cells. The plurality of unit cells includes a first portion of unit cells having a characteristic dimension and a first portion average stiffness, the characteristic dimension of the first portion of unit cells having a first value. The plurality of unit cells also includes a second portion of unit cells having the characteristic dimension and a second portion average stiffness, the characteristic dimension of the second portion of unit cells having a second value different from the first value, wherein the second portion average stiffness differs from the first portion average stiffness.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Ananda Barua, Arun Karthi Subramaniyan, Daniel Jason Erno
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Publication number: 20190003315Abstract: A heat exchanger includes an airfoil configured to be positioned in a coolant stream. The airfoil includes a pressure sidewall and a suction sidewall coupled to the pressure sidewall. The suction sidewall and the pressure sidewall define a leading edge and a trailing edge opposite the leading edge. The leading edge defines an impingement zone wherein the coolant stream is configured to impinge the airfoil. The heat exchanger also includes at least one channel defined within the airfoil between the pressure sidewall and the suction sidewall. The at least one channel is at least partially defined within the impingement zone proximate the leading edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: Daniel Jason Erno, Narendra Digamber Joshi, William Dwight Gerstler
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Patent number: 10132290Abstract: A deployable aerodynamic component configured to be mounted to a wind turbine. The wind turbine includes at least one rotor blade. The deployable aerodynamic component configured to be positioned in front of an inner portion of the at least one rotor blade, and is structurally configured to cover a substantial portion of the inner portion of the at least one rotor blade in a wind direction during deployment of the deployable aerodynamic component and to allow the passage therethrough of an incoming wind when non-deployed. Further described is a wind turbine including the above-described deployable aerodynamic component and method for aerodynamic performance enhancement of an existing wind turbine, wherein the method includes mounting the above-described deployable aerodynamic component to a wind turbine.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Dmitry Floryovych Opaits, Seyed Gholamali Saddoughi, Grover Andrew Bennett, Matthew Patrick Boespflug, Stephen Bertram Johnson, Peggy Lynn Baehmann, Fulton Jose Lopez, Daniel Jason Erno, Robert Michael Zirin, Anurag Gupta
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Publication number: 20180299066Abstract: A shell unit cell structure includes at least one junction and a plurality of connectors. The plurality of connectors are coupled to the at least one junction. The at least one junction and the plurality of connectors form an integral surface. The shell unit cell structure has an isotropic stiffness.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: Daniel Jason Erno, Michael Colan Moscinski, William Dwight Gerstler, Thomas Vincent Tancogne-Dejean