Patents by Inventor Mike Eugene Mechley

Mike Eugene Mechley 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).

  • Method for making and using a rod assembly
    Patent number: 7897103
    Abstract: An elongated rod assembly is made by preparing a plurality of rods. Each rod is prepared by the steps of furnishing at least one nonmetallic precursor compound, thereafter chemically reducing the precursor compounds to produce the metallic material, and thereafter consolidating the metallic material to form the rod, wherein the rod has a rod length equal to the assembly length. The rods are bundled together to form a bundled rod assembly. The rod assembly may be used as a consumable feedstock in a melting-and-casting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric Allen Ott, Andrew Philip Woodfield, Clifford Earl Shamblen, Peter Wayte, Mike Eugene Mechley
  • Quasi-isothermal forging of a nickel-base superalloy
    Patent number: 6932877
    Abstract: A forging blank of a forging nickel-base superalloy is forged in a forging press having forging dies made of a die nickel-base superalloy. The forging is accomplished by heating the forging blank to a forging-blank starting temperature of from about 1850° F. to about 1950° F., heating the forging dies to a forging-die starting temperature of from about 1500° F. to about 1750° F., placing the forging blank into the forging press and between the forging dies, and forging the forging blank at the forging-blank starting temperature using the forging dies at the forging-die starting temperature, to produce a forging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Edward Lee Raymond, Richard Gordon Menzies, Terrence Owen Dyer, Barbara Ann Link, Richard Frederick Halter, Mike Eugene Mechley, Francis Mario Visalli, Shesh Krishna Srivatsa
  • Quasi-isothermal forging of a nickel-base superalloy
    Publication number: 20040084118
    Abstract: A forging blank of a forging nickel-base superalloy is forged in a forging press having forging dies made of a die nickel-base superalloy. The forging is accomplished by heating the forging blank to a forging-blank starting temperature of from about 1850° F. to about 1950° F., heating the forging dies to a forging-die starting temperature of from about 1500° F. to about 1750° F., placing the forging blank into the forging press and between the forging dies, and forging the forging blank at the forging-blank starting temperature using the forging dies at the forging-die starting temperature, to produce a forging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventors: Edward Lee Raymond, Richard Gordon Menzies, Terrence Owen Dyer, Barbara Ann Link, Richard Frederick Halter, Mike Eugene Mechley, Francis Mario Visalli, Shesh Krishna Srivatsa