Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Francis L. Conte
  • Fluted compressor flowpath
    Patent number: 6561761
    Abstract: A compressor flowpath includes circumferentially spaced apart airfoils having axially spaced apart leading and trailing edges and radially spaced apart outer and inner ends. An outer wall bridges the airfoil outer ends, and an inner wall bridges the inner ends. One of the walls includes a flute adjacent the leading edges for locally increasing flow area thereat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John J. Decker, Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow
  • Booster compressor deicer
    Patent number: 6561760
    Abstract: A booster compressor includes inlet guide vanes supported from a shroud. A shell surrounds the shroud and defines a manifold. A splitter nose includes a groove receiving a forward tang of the shroud with a clearance therebetween defining an outlet for the manifold. Hot air is channeled through the manifold and out the splitter nose for deicing thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Aspi Rustom Wadia, Kenneth Edward Seitzer, Harjit Singh Hura, Frank Worthoff, Raymond Gust Holm, Eric Pierre Masse, Jason Corey Slagle
  • Carrel computer terminal
    Patent number: 6560093
    Abstract: A computer terminal includes a cabinet having a front portal, and computer hardware mounted therein. A monitor covers the portal and is operatively joined to the hardware by an electrical cable. The monitor is mounted to the portal as a door which may be tilted open for providing convenient access to the computer hardware found therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: David G. McLeod, Kevin L. Kamphuis
  • Tangential flow baffle
    Patent number: 6554563
    Abstract: A turbine nozzle baffle includes a plurality of apertures inclined through a shell for discharging a coolant tangentially therefrom. The baffle is disposed inside a nozzle vane and the tangentially discharged coolant flows generally parallel along the inner surface of the vane for convection cooling thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mark Eugene Noe, Toby George Darkins, Jr., Roger Lee Doughty
  • Ramped tip shelf blade
    Patent number: 6554575
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine blade includes pressure and suction sides extending between leading and trailing edges and root to tip. The pressure side includes a tip rib recessed therein to define a tip shelf terminating in an inclined ramp. The ramp may be aligned with streamlines of combustion gas flow for preventing interruption thereof and the increase of heat transfer therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Leslie Eugene Leeke, Sean Robert Keith, Ronald Eugene Mc Rae, Jr., Dean Thomas Lenahan, David Alan Frey, Daniel John Harris
  • Venturiless swirl cup
    Patent number: 6550251
    Abstract: A swirl cup for a gas turbine engine combustor includes a tubular body having an inlet at one end for receiving a fuel injection nozzle, an outlet at an opposite end for discharging the fuel, and an annular septum therebetween. A row of first swirl vanes is attached to the septum adjacent the body inlet, and a row of second swirl vanes is attached to the septum adjacent the first swirl vanes and spaced upstream from the body outlet. Air from the first and second swirl vanes is swirled directly around the injected fuel without a flow barrier or venturi therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard W. Stickles, John L. Halpin
  • Hybrid turbine nozzle
    Patent number: 6543996
    Abstract: A turbine nozzle includes ceramic outer and inner bands and an integral ceramic vane aft segment. A metal vane forward segment adjoins the aft segment in a hybrid assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Angelo Von Koschier
  • Extended coverage barcode scanner
    Patent number: 6543694
    Abstract: A spinner for a barcode scanner includes a plurality of mirror facets arranged oppositely in pairs in a polygon, with adjoining facets having different angles of inclination and different lengths for reflecting a laser beam in correspondingly different, variable sweep arcs. The spinner cooperates with a plurality of pattern mirrors in a barcode scanner embodiment for effecting a scan line pattern with extended coverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Paul O. Detwiler
  • Apparatus for a document processing system
    Patent number: 6540226
    Abstract: An upstream module has a document transport path portion, and a downstream module has a document transport path portion. The modules are aligned such that a waterfall effect is created from the document path portion of the upstream module to the document path portion of the downstream module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Owen H. Wilson, Richard A. Fairey
  • Turbine cooling circuit
    Patent number: 6540477
    Abstract: A turbine cooling circuit includes a flow sleeve having an aft end for adjoining the rim of a turbine disk. A seal rotor is spaced from the aft end adjacent a row of inlet holes. An inducer has an outlet disposed radially outwardly from the sleeve inlet holes. And, a seal stator surrounds the seal rotor to define a rotary seal disposed radially inwardly from the inducer outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Glynn, Thomas Tracy Wallace, Ronald Arthur Dickman, Monty Lee Shelton
  • Replenishment arrangements for automated teller machines
    Patent number: 6540136
    Abstract: An automated teller machine (ATM) includes a number of currency note holding cassettes 40. The notes are transferred to a dispensing slot 18 via paths 46 and 48. Mispicked notes are detected by multiple note detector 58 and diverted to reject bin 60 via diverter 56. When cassette contents reach a low level and require replenishment, notes are transferred from cassettes 40 via paths 45 and 91 by means of diverter 93 into a secure purge bin 90. Empty cassettes can be removed and replenished whilst the bin carrying the remaining notes is transferred for emptying by secure transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Ian Ross
  • Shelf truncated chevron exhaust nozzle for reduction of exhaust noise and infrared (IR) signature
    Patent number: 6532729
    Abstract: An exhaust nozzle includes an annular exhaust duct for discharging exhaust from an aft end thereof. Circumferentially adjoining chevrons extend from the duct aft end around only an arcuate portion thereof leaving a plain arcuate shelf between terminal ones of the chevrons. Each of the chevrons has a triangular configuration and a compound arcuate contour both circumferentially and axially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Steven Martens
  • User interface for a self-service terminal
    Patent number: 6533170
    Abstract: An automatic teller machine (ATM) (10) has a media entry slot (14a or 18a or 22a or 24a) through which media, such as a customer identifying card (28), currency, a receipt, or an envelope can be either received from an ATM customer or dispensed to the ATM customer. A light panel (56) is adjacent the media entry slot and carries a decal (56) overriding an energizeable electroluminescent light panel (62). The decal includes (i) a semi-translucent background portion (57) which is illuminated when the light panel is illuminated, and (ii) a clear textual and/or graphical information portion (58, 59) which is illuminated with greater brightness than the background portion when the light panel is illuminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew Kit
  • Shielded spin polishing
    Patent number: 6520838
    Abstract: A shield is placed next to a workpiece to form a passage therebetween. The workpiece and shield are rotated, and a stream of abrasive shot is blasted toward the spinning workpiece and shield to periodically enter the passage to selectively abrade the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: James Stephen Shaw
  • Duplex CD label laminate
    Patent number: 6514588
    Abstract: A label laminate includes a small sheet laminated to a large sheet in a two-ply lamination, with a portion of the large sheet remaining single ply. The lamination has an exposed front side and an exposed back side. The front side includes an annular disk label in the two-ply lamination, and a rectangular first case insert in the single-ply portion. The back side includes a rectangular second case insert in the two-ply lamination behind the disk label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Rosenbaum, Joseph D. Roth
  • Mass produced business mailer
    Patent number: 6510980
    Abstract: A business mailer includes a face sheet having a strip of adhesive bonded to one side thereof along a corresponding edge. A liner is bonded to the face sheet atop the adhesive strip, and is severed around a central strip tab for being removed from a surrounding border of the liner for exposing the adhesive strip. This integrated construction may be printed at high speed following which the liner tab is removed and the face sheet folded to form an adhesively sealed business mailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Wendell B. Halbrook, Jr., Timothy W. Rawlings
  • Stippled label sheet
    Patent number: 6511725
    Abstract: A label sheet includes a label removably laminated to a release liner by a stippled release bond therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy W. Rawlings
  • Twisted stator vane
    Patent number: 6508630
    Abstract: A compressor stator includes an outer casing supporting a row of stator vanes extending radially inwardly therefrom. Each vane includes pressure and suction sides extending axially between leading and trailing edges and radially between a root and a tip. The root and tip are twisted relative to a pitch section disposed therebetween. Each vane tip is radially convex adjacent a leading edge for defining an axially concave outer flowpath in the casing for reducing peak velocity of airflow for enhanced efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hsin-Tuan Liu, Brent Franklin Beacher, Bryan Keith Doloresco, Gregory Todd Steinmetz, Kenneth William Krabacher
  • Stub airfoil exhaust nozzle
    Patent number: 6502383
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine exhaust nozzle includes an outlet for discharging exhaust, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart stub airfoils disposed adjacent the outlet. The airfoils shed vortices for mixing exhaust flow and attenuating noise and reducing infrared signature with minimum performance loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Bangalore Ananthamurthy Janardan, John Francis Brausch
  • Self-service terminal
    Patent number: 6494364
    Abstract: A self-service terminal (10) for preventing fraud and a module (50) for use in a fraud-resistant self-service terminal (10) are described. The SST (10) comprises a fascia (12) defining a card entry slot (22), and a card reader module (50) located behind the card entry slot (22). The SST (10) further comprises a terminal shutter (34) operable to cover the card entry slot (22), and sensors (68,86,88,90,94) for detecting the location of a card within the module (50). If the sensors detect a card within the module (50) that cannot be transported then the SST (10) operates the shutter (34) to cover the card entry slot (22) and prevent access to the card. A method of preventing fraud using the SST (10) is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Collette Shepherd