Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Gene D. Fleisehhauer
  • Stator assembly for a rotary machine and method for making the stator assembly
    Patent number: 6425736
    Abstract: A stator assembly having an inner shroud assembly formed of an inner shroud and rubstrip is disclosed. Various construction details and features are developed which relate to durability and manufacturing feasibility are developed. In one detailed embodiment, at the rubstrip is bonded to the thermoplastic shroud. The method is applicable to joining an elastomer, such as silicone rubber material, to a thermoplastic substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Michael E. McMahon, Carl S. Richardson, Dennis R. Tremblay, Jeffrey S. LeShane, Charles R. Watson
  • Method for disposing a laser blocking material on the interior of an airfoil
    Patent number: 6251315
    Abstract: A method for disposing laser blocking material 52 on the interior of an airfoil 10, such as a rotor blade or stator vane, includes shear thinning the material. Various steps are developed which promote decreases in viscosity of the blocking material. In one detailed embodiment, the material is passed through an injection molding machine 54 to provide shear thinning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon M. Reed, Kenneth M. Boucher, Stanley J. Funk, James F. Dolan, Foster P. Lamm, John H. Vontell, Joseph Bak, James Whitton
  • Stator vane for a rotary machine
    Patent number: 6241467
    Abstract: A coolable stator vane 46 having a platform 48, 54 having internal cooling for the platform is disclosed. Various construction details are developed for cooling the interior of the platform in the trailing edge region 126, 146 of the platform. In one particular embodiment, the platform has a two-pass passage 168 in flow communication with the exterior of the platform, the rearmost pass 170 discharging more than half the cooling fluid entering the two pass passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Mark F. Zelesky, Gary D. Steuber, Daniel E. Kane, Brian Merry
  • Rotary machine
    Patent number: 6203273
    Abstract: A rotary machine (10) having rotor elements (54-66), (114) and seal lands (86, 112) is disclosed. Various construction details are developed for facilitating assembly of the machine. In one embodiment clearances are established between rotor blades (66) and the seal land (86) which enable assembly of the components and provide for acceptable clearances at a steady-state operative condition of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Harvey I. Weiner, Christopher G. Demers