Patents Assigned to GE Aviation Systems, LLC
  • Patent number: 11651695
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to provide improved engine load models are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a model generator to generate an engine load model for an engine using flight information, weather information, and manifest information to predict a load on the engine from an engine subsystem utilization modeled for a flight. The example model generator is to incorporate the engine load model into an engine model, the engine model representing engine behavior for the flight. The example model generator is to determine a first measure of thrust from the engine and a second measure of fuel flow to the engine using the engine model with the engine load model, the engine load model to modify engine behavior by the predicted load on the engine from the engine subsystem utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems, LLC
    Inventors: David Michael Lax, Mark Darnell
  • Patent number: 11640310
    Abstract: A processing system for an unmanned vehicle (UV) such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is provided. The processing system comprises a first processing unit of an integrated circuit and a second processing unit of the integrated circuit. The processing system comprises a first operating system provisioned using the first processing unit. The first operating system is configured to execute a first vehicle control process. The processing system comprises a virtualization layer configured using at least the second processing unit, and a second operating system provisioned using the virtualization layer. The second operating system is configured to execute a second vehicle control process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Braeton Taylor, Stefano Angelo Mario Lassini, Brent Dale Hooker
  • Publication number: 20230118644
    Abstract: Systems and methods of planning and scheduling resources of an airline include using machine learning models to generate custom behavioral characteristics for a plurality of operational components of the airline based on operations data. The custom behavioral characteristics are used to define inputs and outcomes in simulations of the operational components of the airline. The simulation outputs performance indicators and a feedback loop captures previously ignored interactions between the operational components of the airline based on the performance indicators and custom behavioral characteristics of inputs and outcomes corresponding to the plurality of operational components of the airline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Michael Arguello, Charles P. Ephraim, Jonathan Mark Dunsdon, Stephen Jonathan Davis, Kristin M. Schanche
  • Patent number: 11619177
    Abstract: A combustion engine including at least one combustion chamber, a first bleed air supply fluidly coupled to a portion of the combustion engine upstream the combustion chamber, a second bleed air supply fluidly coupled to a portion of the combustion engine downstream the combustion chamber, a first thermal bus, and a turbomachine including a compressor, a rotary pump, and a first turbine, with the compressor and rotary pump in serial flow arrangement and the rotary pump being fluidly coupled to the first thermal bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Kevin P. Hallisey, Dominique Patrick Sautron
  • Patent number: 11620140
    Abstract: A configurable user interface architecture to be used in high integrity safety critical avionic systems and is adaptable to multiple cockpit displays has a protocol-agnostic layer that handles entry and display update behaviors, and a protocol-specific layer that connects the entry and display behaviors to protocol-specific input/output messages using configuration tables. The configuration tables are built using a specially designed configuration tool and the configuration table built by the tool can be embedded in the target user interface software or loaded externally into a pre-compiled application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Paul Tama Sokomba, James Creighton Zandee, David Allen Fairchild, Joseph Mark Downey, Timothy Jay Lindgren
  • Patent number: 11614871
    Abstract: A system and method for flexible writing of internal data of a regulated system can include generating a flexible write instruction, providing the flexible write instruction to the regulated system, and storing or committing data changes to the regulated system outside of the normal system operations, during runtime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth, Antonio Lugo Trejo, Víctor Mario Leal Herrera, Terrell Michael Brace, Christian Reynolds Decker
  • Patent number: 11604462
    Abstract: A system-on-module (SOM) for controlling an unmanned vehicle (UV) is provided. The SOM comprises a circuit board, a first processing system in operative communication with the circuit board, and a second processing system in operative communication with the circuit board. The first processing system includes one or more first processing units and a volatile programmable logic array. The first processing system is configured to execute a first process for the UV. The second processing system includes one or more second processing units and a non-volatile programmable logic array. The second processing system is configured to monitor execution of the first process by the first processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Stefano Angelo Mario Lassini, John Andrew Ingersoll, Ryan Daniel Gorby
  • Publication number: 20230073163
    Abstract: Systems and methods for airspace management. One embodiment of an aerial vehicle, includes a first sensor for detecting a lateral field of view of the aerial vehicle and a vehicle computing device. The vehicle computing device may include a memory component and a processor. The memory component may store logic that, when executed by the processor, causes the aerial vehicle to calculate a detection boundary for the aerial vehicle to maintain a well clear requirement, wherein the detection boundary is based on instantaneous trajectory, planned future trajectory, and a capability of the aerial vehicle and utilize the capability of the aerial vehicle and data from the first sensor to maintain the vehicle within detection boundary. In some embodiments the logic may cause the vehicle to provide an instruction to maintain the aerial vehicle within the detection boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Szabolcs A. Borgyos, Adam J. Diffenderfer
  • Publication number: 20230048552
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving a route of an aircraft, identifying a plurality of service providers to provide data services for the aircraft based on the route, receiving data from the plurality of service providers associated with the data services, transmitting the data received from the plurality of service providers to the aircraft, determining a total amount associated with all of the data services provided by the plurality of service providers, and transmitting information on the total amount associated with all of the data services provided by the plurality of service providers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth H. Stewart, Vijay S. Malik, Ray Yip Chow, Kathy Nguyen, Michael Joseph Kuhlman
  • Publication number: 20230043602
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a main rotor for a generator is provided. The method includes printing at least part of a rotor shaft by a three-dimensional printing process. The step of printing at least part of the rotor shaft includes printing a plurality of closed outlets and a plurality of open outlets. A rotor core is printed by the three-dimensional printing process. The step of printing the rotor core includes printing a plurality of liquid coolant conduits that extend through the rotor core and fluidly connecting the plurality of liquid coolant conduits to the plurality of closed openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Hao Huang, James Mahle, Xiaochuan Jia
  • Patent number: 11573980
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Plantinga, Joachim K. Hochwarth, Benjamin I. Coutts, Ralph D. Boozer
  • Publication number: 20230035814
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: c/o GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Szabolcs A. Borgyos, Edward Andrew Lester
  • Patent number: 11569707
    Abstract: An enclosure for an electric machine includes a housing defining an axial bore having an opening at a first end of the bore. The housing comprises a first wall having a first inboard surface partially defining the bore, and a first outboard surface spaced from the first inboard surface, the first wall defining a first coolant channel disposed between the first inboard and first outboard surface. An end cap is fastenable to the housing to cover the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Arthur William Sibbach, Hao Huang
  • Publication number: 20230023162
    Abstract: A proximity sensor comprises a reference inductor, a first set of sensor inductors, a first set of comparators, each comparator of the first set of comparators corresponding to one of the sensor inductors of the first set of sensor inductors, and an alternating current voltage source to output a sinusoidal voltage to the reference inductor and each of the sensor inductors. Each comparator of the first set of comparators receives a voltage across the reference inductor as a reference voltage and each comparator of the first set of comparators receives a voltage across a corresponding sensor inductor as an input voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventor: Eric J. Hoekstra
  • Patent number: 11558256
    Abstract: A method of automatic configuration of a communications interface of an unknown data network, the method comprising connecting an Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) to the unknown data network, attempting to open communication ports, in response to attempting to open communication ports, receiving data from the unknown data network, determining, by a controller module, if the selected communications interface can interpret the received data, and operating the communications interface of the EFB in accordance with the selected communications interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Víctor Mario Leal Herrera, Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth, Jason Chung-Jo Ling
  • Publication number: 20230008742
    Abstract: A method may include detecting, during a flight of an aircraft system, a conflict with a planned route of the aircraft system, determining one or more alternate routes for the aircraft system to avoid the conflict, wherein each of the one or more alternate routes avoid secondary conflicts with active flight operations, transmitting first data to cause first visual information indicating the conflict and second visual information indicating the one or more alternate routes to be displayed to a user, receiving second data indicating one of the one or more alternate routes being selected by the user, and updating the planned route of the aircraft system to include the alternate route selected by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventor: Szabolcs A. Borgyos
  • Patent number: 11551993
    Abstract: A power overlay (POL) module includes a semiconductor device having a first side and an opposing second side, a dielectric sheet having a first side coupled to the semiconductor device second side, and an opposing second side, the dielectric sheet defining an aperture therethrough. The POL module also includes a first conductive layer disposed on the second side of the dielectric sheet and electrically coupled through the aperture to the semiconductor device second surface, a first conductive plate having a first side, and an opposing second side coupled to the first surface of the semiconductor device. The POL module further includes a first heat sink coupled the first side of the conductive plate and a first thermal interface layer disposed between the first conductive plate and the first heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: David Richard Esler, Christopher James Kapusta, Arun V. Gowda, Weijun Yin, Liqiang Yang, Richard Anthony Eddins
  • Patent number: 11552539
    Abstract: Disclosed within are a structure and method for forming a component for a rotor to be used in an electric machine. The formed rotor components can include a rotor assembly or rotor shaft. The rotor assembly can include a plurality of poles spaced about a rotor core. The plurality of poles can include a pole shoe or pole body. Quasi-laminations that can result in a unitary structure that includes support structures can be used to form all or a portion of the pole shoe or pole body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Hao Huang, James Patrick Mahle, Sudeep Pradhan Sadananda Rao, Xiaochuan Jia
  • Patent number: 11513941
    Abstract: A system and method for flexible read-access of a set of procedures during runtime of a regulated system, the system comprising a set of procedures each defining a respective set of systematic data and an executable operation, a specialized data store configured to receive at least a subset of procedures, at least one memory including at least one set of data relating to the set of procedures, a receiving component communicatively coupled to the regulated system, and a flexible reader authorized for read-access to the specialized data store and the at least one memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth, Terrell Michael Brace, Victor Mario Leal Herrera, Antonio Lugo Trejo
  • Patent number: 11506700
    Abstract: A power distribution system and method can include a controller and a set of power-using devices. Each power-using device in the set can include a sensor configured to measure a parameter and transmit a sensor signal representing the parameter to the controller, and the controller can respond to the transmitted sensor signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventor: Arthur Vorwerk Radun