Patents by Inventor Philip F. Berrahou

Philip F. Berrahou 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: 20040239080
    Abstract: The present invention provides an inflatable restraint system that includes a housing having a base plate with a central aperture and a periphery. A folded inflatable restraint cushion is positioned in the housing, as is a gas generator that is operable to supply an inflation gas to the inflatable restraint cushion. The base plate includes a plurality of integral hooked tabs extending from the base plate and having edges formed by a plurality of cuts in the base plate positioned inwardly of the periphery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Philip F. Berrahou, Jonathan L. Clarke, William R. Macdonald
  • Patent number: 5326221
    Abstract: Steam turbine nozzle blades and buckets are profiled in accordance with Tables I and II or multiples of the X,Y and R coordinates of the charts. The profiles of the nozzle blades impose a parabolic flow distribution at the throat and the buckets accommodate the incoming flow. The nozzle blades and buckets are over-cambered at their roots and tips to constrict flow from the roots and tips into the mid-regions of the blades and buckets. Improved aerodynamic efficiencies are obtained by directing the flow away from the end walls of the blades and buckets toward the efficient mid-region of the blades and buckets whereby flow velocity and angle leaving the nozzle has a non-linear distribution and the bucket velocity leaving angles are similarly non-linear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1994
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Joseph W. Amyot, Stephen G. Ruggles, Philip F. Berrahou, Robert J. Orlando