Patents by Inventor Mike R. Dunkin

Mike R. Dunkin 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: 10228669
    Abstract: A method includes sending, by a computing device, control signals to a machine tool to machine a component located on a platform to form a feature in the component, monitoring, by the computing device, while machining the feature into the component with the machine tool, torque forces of the machine tool against the component caused by the machining of the feature into the component via at least one sensor positioned on the platform, evaluating, by the computing device, while machining the feature into the component with the machine tool, a quality of the machine tool based on the monitored torque forces; and, in response to the evaluation of the quality of the machine tool indicating an undesirable quality of the machine tool, sending, by the computing device, control signals to the machine tool to interrupt the machining of the component and replace a machining element of the machine tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventor: Mike R. Dunkin
  • Publication number: 20170121232
    Abstract: In some examples, the disclosure describes an article and a method of making the same that includes a substrate including a ceramic or a ceramic matrix composite including silicon carbide, where the substrate defines an outer substrate surface and a plurality of grooves formed in the outer substrate surface, where each respective groove of the plurality of grooves exhibits an anchor tooth that spans an edge of the respective groove, and where the plurality of grooves define an average groove width less than about 20 micrometers, and a coating formed on the outer surface of the substrate, where the coating at least partially fills the plurality of grooves of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Scott Nelson, Raymond J. Sinatra, Sean E. Landwehr, Mike R. Dunkin, Ashley Moretti
  • Publication number: 20160346890
    Abstract: A method includes sending, by a computing device, control signals to a machine tool to machine a component located on a platform to form a feature in the component, monitoring, by the computing device, while machining the feature into the component with the machine tool, torque forces of the machine tool against the component caused by the machining of the feature into the component via at least one sensor positioned on the platform, evaluating, by the computing device, while machining the feature into the component with the machine tool, a quality of the machine tool based on the monitored torque forces; and, in response to the evaluation of the quality of the machine tool indicating an undesirable quality of the machine tool, sending, by the computing device, control signals to the machine tool to interrupt the machining of the component and replace a machining element of the machine tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventor: Mike R. Dunkin
  • Publication number: 20160297044
    Abstract: A computing devices sends control signals to a machine tool to machine a component to form a feature in the component according to the control signals. The computing device monitors, while machining the feature into the component with the machine tool, acoustic signals produced by the machining of the component by the machine tool. During the machining of the feature into the component, the computing device modifies at least one machining parameter defined by the control signals based on the monitored acoustic signals. The computing device continues to send the modified control signals to the machine tool to machine the feature into the component according to the modified machining parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Mike R. Dunkin, Clinton A. Hammes
  • Publication number: 20160070253
    Abstract: A method includes machining a component with a machine tool to form a feature in the component, monitoring, by a computing device, while machining the feature into the component with the machine tool, horsepower of the machine tool used to machine the component, determining, by the computing device, a quality of the feature in the component based on the monitored horsepower, and storing, by the computing device, an indication of the quality of the feature in combination with a unique identifier for the feature in a non-transitory computer-readable medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Mike R. Dunkin, Michael George Glavicic, Kong Ma, Andrew James Ritchey