Patents Assigned to Aviation Systems, LLC
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Patent number: 11824964Abstract: A method for transmitting a set of conforming data frames in a specialized data network, the method comprising providing, from a data source, at least one specialized header frame to a data destination by way of the specialized data network, generating, at the data source, a set of conforming data frames, and providing at least a subset of the conforming data frames to the data destination by way of the specialized data network.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth, Benjamin Harvey Bennink, MacKenzie Dylan Cumings, VĂctor Mario Leal Herrera
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Patent number: 11816997Abstract: A method may include receiving a request for a first set of data to be gathered by an unmanned aircraft system. A first unmanned aircraft system may be identified that is capable of gathering the first data. A request may be transmitted to the first unmanned aircraft system to gather the first set of data. The first set of data gathered by the first unmanned aircraft system may be received.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Christopher Alexander, Michael Joseph Kuhlman
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Patent number: 11807386Abstract: A method of operating an aircraft interface device may comprise receiving a request for a data dictionary from an electronic flight bag application and transmitting the data dictionary to the electronic flight bag application. The data dictionary may comprise a mapping between a plurality of parameters associated with an aircraft and a plurality of parameter identifiers. Values of the parameters may be retrieved by the aircraft interface device. The method may also include receiving a request for values of one or more of the parameters from the electronic flight bag, retrieving values of the parameters, and transmitting the values of the parameters to the electronic flight bag application.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Steven Lane Misenheimer, Christin L. Rauche
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Publication number: 20230350790Abstract: Provided is a system communicatively coupled to a network including a plurality of aviation assets. The system includes a processor; a memory including instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations including detecting a change in a state of the network, the change being characterized by comparing a previous state of the network with a current state of the network, and the change being associated with one or more assets of the plurality of assets. The operations also include fetching configuration data and test data from a plurality of sources, the fetching being responsive to detecting the change; generating, based on the change, the configuration data, the test data, one or more verification scripts; and executing a specified test utilizing the one or more verification scripts, the specified test being configured to analyze one or more assets of the plurality of aviation assets.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Michael A. Viola, Jacob E. Drehobl
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Patent number: 11804139Abstract: Systems and methods for navigating an aerial vehicle are provided. One example aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a method for navigating an aircraft. The method includes receiving, by one or more processors, one or more first geographic coordinates via an interface configured to receive geographic coordinates from a satellite transmission. The method includes receiving, by the one or more processors, one or more second geographic coordinates via an interface configured to receive geographic coordinates from a ground transmission. The method includes determining, by the one or more processors, that the one or more first geographic coordinates and the one or more second geographic coordinates are inconsistent. The method includes updating, by the one or more processors, a flight plan using the one or more second geographic coordinates when the one or more first geographic coordinates are inconsistent with the one or more second geographic coordinates.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Bryan Adam Theriault, Dashiell Matthews Kolbe
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Patent number: 11791693Abstract: An electric machine having an electrically insulative manifold is disclosed. In one example aspect, an electric machine includes a non-electrically conductive manifold. The manifold defines a chamber operable to receive a cooling fluid. The electric machine includes a prime winding in fluid communication with the chamber and one or more secondary windings in electrical communication with the prime winding and in fluid communication with the chamber. Further, the electric machine includes an electric machine terminal extending through the non-electrically conductive manifold and coupled with the prime winding. The electric machine terminal can provide or collect cooling fluid from the chamber of the manifold and can act as the electrical connection point for directing electrical power to or from the windings of the electric machine.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems, LLCInventors: Brendan Michael Freely, Mohamed Osama, Fabian Isaza, Pablo Gabriel Piazza Galarza, Paul Robert Gemin, John Russell Yagielski, Mark Dame, Wei Zhang, Karim Younsi
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Patent number: 11791684Abstract: An electric winding assembly comprising a conductor core which includes at least a first end and a distal second end, an insulation layer overlying the conductor core, and a conductive shield layer overlying the insulation layer. The conductive shield layer further having a terminal end conductively connected with the conductive shield layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Wei Zhang, Lili Zhang, John Russell Yagielski, Karim Younsi, Peter Francis Finigan, Jason Rueda, Konrad Roman Weeber
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Patent number: 11791571Abstract: A crimp pin electrical connector comprising a shell defining an interior with a first and a second opening, a flange circumscribing the shell, an insert located within the interior and extending through the first opening. The insert comprising at least one crimp pin including a crimp and a pin provided within at least one passage included within the interior of the shell.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Brian Matthew Maupin, John S Mears
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Patent number: 11790792Abstract: An apparatus may receive first data, in a first data format, from one or more unmanned aircraft system service suppliers comprising first positions of one or more unmanned aircraft systems, receive second data, in a second data format, from one or more communications systems comprising second positions of one or more manned aircraft, transmit third data, in a third data format, comprising the first positions of the one or more unmanned aircraft systems and the second positions of the one or more manned aircraft, receive a first control signal comprising a control command associated with one or more of the unmanned aircraft systems or one or more of the manned aircraft, and transmit a second control signal comprising the control command to one or more of the unmanned aircraft system service suppliers or to one or more of the communications systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Szabolcs A. Borgyos, Edward Andrew Lester
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Patent number: 11780603Abstract: A system and method for compiling and dynamically reconfiguring the management of functionalities carried among a set of multiple common compute nodes. During the inoperation of one node of the set of multiple common compute nodes, higher-criticality functionalities can be reassigned to other common nodes to ensure maintained operation of the higher-criticality functionalities.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventor: Brent Dale Hooker
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Patent number: 11783714Abstract: A method for synchronizing information with a Flight Management System (FMS) with a receiving unit comprising receiving an uplink transmission of data directly or indirectly from the receiving unit, determining if the load was successful, generating a status message related to whether or not the load was successful, outputting data including a sequence number and a status message, and flying an aircraft according to a flight plan.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth, Freda Mae Diemer, Thomas Craig Clinger
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Patent number: 11765871Abstract: An aircraft with a thermal management system and method of operating the thermal management system within an aircraft includes an avionics unit adapted to store at least one heat generating component, a first interface operably coupled to the avionics unit and thermally coupled to the at least one heat generating component; and a plurality of heat pipes, wherein a first end of the plurality of heat pipes is coupled to the first interface, defining a hot interface, and a second end of the heat pipes is coupled to the at least one of the fuselage, the wing, the skin, or the support structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventor: Ronald Jacob Rightnowar
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Patent number: 11763685Abstract: A system and method for compiling and converting Aeronautical Radio Incorporated (ARINC) 424 or Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) files into a binary database. The system and method include a controller module for receiving, extracting, converting, performing a set of quality checks, and directing the output or communication of the binary database to a remote server. The remote server can include a controller module that can verify validity of the communicated binary database and create aircraft loadable media for a flight management system navigational database.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Jeffrey M. Plantinga, Ralph Demmon Boozer, Benjamin Ivan Coutts
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Patent number: 11757264Abstract: A modular power overlay architecture includes at least two sets of power overlay tiles arranged to provide for or meet a desired power overlay architecture demand. The power overlay assembly can include a base having seats to receive the power overlay tiles. The power overlay tiles can include power switching components arranged relative to a conductive surface commonly arranged relative to each of the at least two sets of power overlay tiles.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Liqiang Yang, Richard Anthony Eddins, Robert Lloyd George, Darrell Lee Grimes
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Patent number: 11753187Abstract: A method of performing fault isolation for an aircraft comprises identifying a fault that occurs during a flight of the aircraft; identifying a first set of parameters associated with the aircraft based on the identification of the fault; automatically determining values of the first set of parameters to obtain a first set of measured values; determining whether the first set of measured values are within acceptable ranges; and identifying a source of the fault based on the determination of whether the first set of measured values are within the acceptable ranges.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Steven Lane Misenheimer, Christin L. Rauche
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Patent number: 11757421Abstract: An electrical filter circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a first input line and a second input line. A first transmission line is coupled electrically in series at a first node with a first output line, and an inductor is coupled electrically in series between the first input line and the first transmission line. The filter also includes a second transmission line having a first impedance coupled to the first node. The second input line is coupled electrically in series at a second node with a second output line. A third transmission line is coupled to the second node, and a capacitor is coupled electrically in series between the second transmission line and the third transmission line. The first output line has a second impedance that is greater than the first impedance.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Cong Li, Han Xiong, Xiaochuan Jia, David Dimitri Karipides, Ren Xie
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Publication number: 20230273938Abstract: A portable, hand-held computer functions as an intermediary between a database server and individual aircraft when the aircraft cannot be connected to the database server. By virtue of being portable and being locally linked (over time) to different aircraft, the intermediary computing device can provide the data upload validation and auditing for accurate billing of database usage for a flight database provided from the server. This ensures that each aircraft which receives an uploaded database is entitled to receive the upload based on a paid license. As a result, billing by the database vendor is based on usage. Licensing and data authentication is mediated by the intermediary computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Jeffrey M. PLANTINGA, Joachim K. Hochwarth, Benjamin I. Coutts, Ralph D. Boozer
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Patent number: 11736359Abstract: A system and method for generating a time-sensitive network schedule for a desired TSN includes defining a network topology of the desired TSN including at least a set of end nodes communicative connected by way of a set of switching nodes, defining a set of device parameters for each of the set of end nodes and each of the set of switching nodes of the desired TSN, determining, by a TSN scheduler, a TSN schedule for the desired TSN based on the defined network topology and the defined set of device parameters for each of the set of end nodes and each of the set of switching nodes, and generating a per-device configuration for each of the set of end nodes and each of the set of switching nodes of the desired TSN, based on the determined TSN schedule.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Abdul Jabbar, Stephen Francis Bush, Thomas Stephen Markham
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Patent number: 11735055Abstract: A machine-readable media including executable instructions, when executed by one or more processors of a flight management system in a following aircraft. The machine-readable media configured to provide instructions to a flight management system of a following aircraft operating according to a following aircraft planned path, in reference to a target aircraft operating according to a target aircraft planned path, receive information regarding the target aircraft, set a required time of arrival at an achieve-by-point, and engage a required time of arrival function to enable the following aircraft to reach the achieve-by-point by the required time of arrival.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Terry Lee Williams, Andrew Douglas Gent, Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth
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Patent number: 11735985Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a rotor for an electric machine includes serially adding layers of material to form a rotor body having a radially-extending post configured to receive a set of electrically-conductive windings, and also having a radially-extending winding end turn support formed contiguously from the rotor body.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Veeraraju Vanapalli, Deepak Ghiya, Raghavendra Rao Adharapurapu, Hao Huang, James Patrick Mahle