Patents by Inventor Kenneth R. Bain

Kenneth R. Bain 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).

  • Publication number: 20070141374
    Abstract: An environmentally resistant gas turbine engine disk is disclosed. The disk includes a substrate metal having locally enriched surface regions, the locally enriched surface regions comprising alloying elements present in a higher percentage than found in the substrate metal. A method for making the disk and other articles is also disclosed. The method includes furnishing a plurality of powder particle substrates made of a substrate metal, providing a nonmetallic precursor of a metallic coating material, wherein the metallic coating material includes an alloying element that is thermophysically melt incompatible with the substrate metal, contacting the powder particle substrates with the nonmetallic precursor, and chemically reducing the nonmetallic precursor to form coated powder particles comprising the powder particle substrates having a surface-enriched layer of the metallic coating material thereon, wherein the step of chemically reducing is performed without melting the powder particle substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: David P. Mourer, Kenneth R. Bain
  • Patent number: 6521175
    Abstract: A superalloy has a composition of, in weight percent, from about 16.0 percent to about 22.4 percent cobalt, from about 6.6 percent to about 14.3 percent chromium, from about 1.4 percent to about 3.5 percent tantalum, from about 1.9 percent to about 4.0 percent tungsten, from about 1.9 percent to about 3.9 percent molybdenum, from about 0.03 percent to about 0.10 percent zirconium, from about 0.9 percent to about 3.0 percent niobium, from about 2.4 percent to about 4.6 percent titanium, from about 2.6 percent to about 4.8 percent aluminum, from 0 to about 2.5 percent rhenium, from about 0.02 percent to about 0.10 percent carbon, from about 0.02 percent to about 0.10 percent boron, balance nickel and minor amounts of impurities. The superalloy is advantageously utilized in aircraft gas turbine disks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventors: David P. Mourer, Eric S. Huron, Kenneth R. Bain, Enrique E. Montero, Paul L. Reynolds, John J. Schirra