Patents by Inventor Joseph Richard Schmitt
Joseph Richard Schmitt 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: 11927405Abstract: An apparatus and method of forming a heat exchanger includes forming a monolithic core body having a first set of flow passages and a core coefficient of thermal expansion, and additively manufacturing onto the monolithic core a first manifold defining a first fluid inlet for the first set of flow passages.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt
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Patent number: 11807929Abstract: Nickel-cobalt materials, methods of forming a nickel-cobalt material, and methods of thermally stabilizing a nickel-cobalt material are provided. A nickel-cobalt material may include a metal matrix composite with amorphous regions and crystalline regions substantially encompassed by a nanocrystalline grain structure with a grain size distribution of about 50 nanometers to about 800 nanometers, and the nanocrystalline grain structure may include widespread intragranular twinning. The metal matrix composite may have a chemical makeup that includes nickel, cobalt, and a dopant such as phosphorus and/or boron. A nickel-cobalt material may be heat treated within a first temperature zone below the onset temperature for grain growth and then within a second temperature zone above the onset temperature for grain growth in the material. Chemical composition and heat treatment may yield a thermally stabilized nickel-cobalt material.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Lakshmi Krishnan, Guru Venkata Dattu Jonnalagadda, Gary Stephen Shipley, Ashley Rose Dvorak
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Publication number: 20230295828Abstract: An apparatus and method for a mandrel used during an electroforming process. The mandrel is formed of a structural wax and includes a metallic layer utilized to formulate a metal component. During the electroforming process, the mandrel is actively cooled utilizing a closed loop. The closed loop includes the mandrel and a heat exchanger through which a coolant flows.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Yanzhe Yang
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Patent number: 11686012Abstract: An apparatus and method for a mandrel used during an electroforming process. The mandrel is formed of a structural wax and includes a metallic layer utilized to formulate a metal component. During the electroforming process, the mandrel is actively cooled utilizing a closed loop. The closed loop includes the mandrel and a heat exchanger through which a coolant flows.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Yanzhe Yang
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Publication number: 20230115699Abstract: An apparatus and method of forming a heat exchanger includes forming a monolithic core body having a first set of flow passages and a core coefficient of thermal expansion, and additively manufacturing onto the monolithic core a first manifold defining a first fluid inlet for the first set of flow passages.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt
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Patent number: 11591684Abstract: A nickel-cobalt material and component includes a thermally stabilized nickel-cobalt alloy. The nickel-cobalt alloy disclosed herein includes nanocrystalline grain structures, pinning, such as Zener pinning, and intragranular twinning. The nickel-cobalt alloy disclosed herein exhibits multiple properties including an improved fracture toughness, an increased thermal stability, and an improved ultimate tensile strength.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Bruce Patrick Graham, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Lakshmi Krishnan
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Patent number: 11536521Abstract: An apparatus and method of forming a hybrid heat exchanger including a first manifold defining a first fluid inlet and a second manifold defining a second fluid inlet. A monolithic core body includes a first set of flow passages in fluid communication with the first manifold and a second set of flow passages is in communication with the second manifold. At least a portion of the first manifold or the second manifold has a tunable coefficient of thermal expansion that is less than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the structurally rigid monolithic core.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt
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Publication number: 20220049336Abstract: A nickel-cobalt material and component includes a thermally stabilized nickel-cobalt alloy. The nickel-cobalt alloy disclosed herein includes nanocrystalline grain structures, pinning, such as Zener pinning, and intragranular twinning. The nickel-cobalt alloy disclosed herein exhibits multiple properties including an improved fracture toughness, an increased thermal stability, and an improved ultimate tensile strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Bruce Patrick Graham, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Lakshmi Krishnan
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Patent number: 11053577Abstract: A nickel-cobalt material and method of forming includes forming a doped nickel-cobalt precursor material. The method also includes heat treating the doped nickel-cobalt precursor material, wherein the heat treating includes at least heating within a temperature zone below the onset temperature for grain growth in the doped nickel-cobalt precursor material.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Bruce Patrick Graham, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Lakshmi Krishnan
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Patent number: 10962293Abstract: An apparatus and method of forming a heat exchanger including a thermally compliant material and geometry with a core having a first set of flow passages and a second set of flow passages passing through the core. A first manifold of high temperature and strength material defines a fluid inlet for the first set of flow passages and a second manifold of high temperature and strength material defines a fluid inlet for the second set of flow passages. At least one of the first and second manifolds can include an in-situ compliant portion to provide for compliance during thermal expansion of the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Yanzhe Yang
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Patent number: 10927711Abstract: A tunable compliant mount structure for an engine such as a turbine engine can include a fluid conduit coupled to a fan casing by a connector. At a junction between the connector and the fluid conduit, a compliant mount structure can provide compliance and can be tuned to operate under variable stresses at the junction. The compliant mount structure can include a set of nested convolutions to provide compliance. The geometry of the convolutions can be used to tune the compliance, stiffness, or directionality. The tunable compliant attachment structure provides for additive in-situ manufacturing at the fluid conduit.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Yanzhe Yang
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Publication number: 20200291508Abstract: Nickel-cobalt materials, methods of forming a nickel-cobalt material, and methods of thermally stabilizing a nickel-cobalt material are provided. A nickel-cobalt material may include a metal matrix composite with amorphous regions and crystalline regions substantially encompassed by a nanocrystalline grain structure with a grain size distribution of about 50 nanometers to about 800 nanometers, and the nanocrystalline grain structure may include widespread intragranular twinning. The metal matrix composite may have a chemical makeup that includes nickel, cobalt, and a dopant such as phosphorus and/or boron. A nickel-cobalt material may be heat treated within a first temperature zone below the onset temperature for grain growth and then within a second temperature zone above the onset temperature for grain growth in the material. Chemical composition and heat treatment may yield a thermally stabilized nickel-cobalt material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Lakshmi Krishnan, Guru Venkata Dattu Jonnalagadda, Gary Stephen Shipley, Ashley Rose Dvorak
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Patent number: 10731486Abstract: A method of forming a strengthened component includes providing a duct body having an interior surface and an exterior surface forming a fluid passageway. The method also includes forming an attachment structure over at least a portion of the exterior surface of the duct body, where the attachment structure can include a metallic layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Joseph Richard Schmitt, Emily Marie Phelps, Gordon Tajiri
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Patent number: 10697075Abstract: Duct assembly and method of forming a duct assembly, the method including providing a preform body having an outer surface, disposing the preform body adjacent a sacrificial mandrel such that at least a portion of the preform body abuts an outer surface of the sacrificial mandrel, forming the duct assembly by depositing metal on the outer surface of the sacrificial mandrel and the preform body to define a unitary metallic tubular element with integral preform body and where depositing metal occurs at a temperature that does not damage the sacrificial mandrel, and removing the sacrificial mandrel to define the duct assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Joseph Richard Schmitt, Donald Lee Templeton, Daniel Dyer, Emily Marie Phelps, Gordon Tajiri
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Publication number: 20200190650Abstract: A nickel-cobalt material and method of forming includes forming a doped nickel-cobalt precursor material. The method also includes heat treating the doped nickel-cobalt precursor material, wherein the heat treating includes at least heating within a temperature zone below the onset temperature for grain growth in the doped nickel-cobalt precursor material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Bruce Patrick Graham, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Lakshmi Krishnan
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Publication number: 20200190681Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure generally relate to an electroforming apparatus and method, including a support frame with at least one anode housing having a predetermined housing geometry. At least one anode can be carried by the at least one anode housing, and the at least one anode can also include a predetermined geometry.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Daniel Dyer, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Dattu G.V. Jonnalagadda
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Patent number: 10514005Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: UNISON INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Bernard Albert Luschek, David William Millward, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Daniel Scott McCann, Derek Thomas Dreischarf
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Publication number: 20190301036Abstract: Duct assembly and method of forming a duct assembly, the method including providing a preform body having an outer surface, disposing the preform body adjacent a sacrificial mandrel such that at least a portion of the preform body abuts an outer surface of the sacrificial mandrel, forming the duct assembly by depositing metal on the outer surface of the sacrificial mandrel and the preform body to define a unitary metallic tubular element with integral preform body and where depositing metal occurs at a temperature that does not damage the sacrificial mandrel, and removing the sacrificial mandrel to define the duct assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: Joseph Richard Schmitt, Donald Lee Templeton, Daniel Dyer, Emily Marie Phelps, Gordon Tajiri
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Publication number: 20190301293Abstract: A method of forming a strengthened component includes providing a duct body having an interior surface and an exterior surface forming a fluid passageway. The method also includes forming an attachment structure over at least a portion of the exterior surface of the duct body, where the attachment structure can include a metallic layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: Joseph Richard Schmitt, Emily Marie Phelps, Gordon Tajiri
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Publication number: 20190264993Abstract: An apparatus and method of forming a hybrid heat exchanger including a first manifold defining a first fluid inlet and a second manifold defining a second fluid inlet. A monolithic core body includes a first set of flow passages in fluid communication with the first manifold and a second set of flow passages is in communication with the second manifold. At least a portion of the first manifold or the second manifold has a tunable coefficient of thermal expansion that is less than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the structurally rigid monolithic core.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2018Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt