Patents Assigned to GE Aviations Systems LLC
  • Patent number: 10108189
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling an aerial vehicle are provided. The method includes receiving a first signal from a first input device, wherein the first signal is related to a mode of a flight director. The method includes outputting a parameter on an output device, wherein the parameter is related to the mode. The method includes receiving a second signal from a second input device, wherein the second signal causes the parameter to change to a new parameter. The method includes outputting, by the one or more processors, the new parameter on the output device. The method includes receiving, by the one or more processors, a third signal from a third input device, wherein the aerial vehicle is controlled by the flight director based on the third signal, and wherein the second input device is mechanically coupled to the first input device and the third input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Michael Eric Figard, Norman Leonard Ovens, Sharon Ann Green, Jennifer Cooper, So Young Kim, Mark Lawrence Darnell, George R. Henderson
  • Patent number: 10103604
    Abstract: An electric machine assembly, having a first machine providing an alternating current output and a second machine receiving a direct current input, and a rectifier assembly placed within a rotating shaft of the electric machine assembly to convert the AC output of the electric machine assembly to the DC input prior to transmission of the electricity from the electric machine assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Bijan Chitsaz, Joseph Kenneth Teter, Darrell Morgan Bybee
  • Patent number: 10100733
    Abstract: An anti-ice valve, a turbine engine including an anti-ice valve assembly and a method of operating an anti-ice valve where an anti-ice valve has a housing and a valve element configured to control a flow of hot bleed air through the housing, and a muscle air passage extending through the housing, a cooling air passage extending through the housing, and a heat exchanger located within the housing and having heat transfer surfaces in thermal communication with the muscle air passage and the cooling air passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Michael Timothy O'Toole, Kevin Harold Coates, Michael Robert Wackett
  • Patent number: 10090953
    Abstract: A method of messaging in a communication system that operates in accordance with a standard protocol limited in the number of uniquely addressable remote terminals by a message frame that sequences the messages into a limited number of time slots includes redefining the message frame into a plurality of major frames. Each major frame includes at least one minor frame occupying a unique time slot to address a unique remote terminal. Messages are sequenced into the at least one minor frame. Each minor frame includes a set of time-division multiplexed messages. Each message in the set includes an address field identifying the address of a remote terminal and an additional message to each major frame encoding an output path. The output path encoded in each major frame and the unique time slot in the minor frame determines which remote terminal is addressed by the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Stefano Angelo Mario Lassini, Rusty Jay Benmark
  • Patent number: 10089233
    Abstract: A method of partitioning a set-associative cache for a plurality of software components may comprise identifying a cache height equal to a number of sets in the set-associative cache based on hardware specifications of a computing platform. The method may further comprise determining at least one component demand set of the plurality of software components and dedicating a set in the set-associative cache for the at least one component demand set. The method may further comprise assembling a proportional component sequence of the at least one component demand set having a sequence length equal to an integer submultiple of the cache height. The method may further comprise concatenating assembled proportional component sequences to form a template for mapping a RAM to the dedicated sets in the set-associative cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher John Goebel
  • Patent number: 10089837
    Abstract: A system for audibly communicating a status of at least one operably connected device or system, includes a status module configured to receive a signal representative of a status of the at least one operably connected device or system and a transceiver operably connected to the status module, wherein the transceiver is configured to receive signals from the status module and to transmit a sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems, LLC
    Inventors: So Young Kim, Richard Alan Phillips, David Bartlett
  • Patent number: 10068474
    Abstract: A vehicle and method of operating a vehicle in a vehicle traffic control system includes receiving a grid projection from a grid generator, generating a navigation output, transmitting the navigation output to the vehicle traffic control system, receiving the vehicle traffic control plan from the vehicle traffic control system, and operating the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventor: Mark Lawrence Turner
  • Patent number: 10068488
    Abstract: Systems and methods of providing a data update to an aircraft including requesting a data update related to a route to be flown by the aircraft, receiving flight procedure data in a data update into a component of the aircraft from a ground station in response to the request and updating the route to be flown utilizing the flight procedure data in the data update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Russell Allen Ramaker, Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth
  • Patent number: 10070562
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for heat-dissipation in an avionics chassis can include a housing having an outer surface, defining an exterior of the housing, an inner surface, defining an interior of the housing, and a set of walls at least partially separating the exterior of the housing from the interior of the housing, a heat generating component located within the interior of the housing, and a thermal plane thermally coupled to the heat generating component and configured to direct heat away from the heat generating component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Stefano Angelo Mario Lassini, Stephen Nils Holen, Michael James Dusseau
  • Patent number: 10050765
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an efficient and configurable port interface in an avionics data transfer system are provided. For instance, in one embodiment a set of virtual ports associated with an avionics data transfer system can be defined. At least as a subset of the virtual ports can be mapped to one or more addresses in a memory space associated with the data transfer system, such that each virtual port has a fixed definition in the memory space. One or more of the virtual ports can then be associated with one or more physical ports associated with an interface between a host computing device and an end system in the data transfer system by specifying for the one or more virtual ports a plurality of port parameters that define the respective one or more physical ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Paul Van Stensel, Colin Holmwood, Harry Molling
  • Patent number: 10043400
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing trajectory amendments are provided. In one embodiment, a computing system can identify a plurality of aircraft operators. The system can provide for display in a user interface, to one or more computing devices of each of the plurality of aircraft operators, a first set of data identifying an arrival time slot associated with a landing area. The system can receive one or more second sets of data indicating that one or more of the aircraft operators has selected the arrival time slot. The system can select a first aircraft operator of the one or more aircraft operators for the arrival time slot. The system can provide, to a computing device of the first aircraft operator, an output indicating that the first operator has been selected for the arrival time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventor: Szabolcs Andras Borgyos
  • Patent number: 10037166
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking memory allocation within shared memory are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes tracking memory allocation within shared memory. The method includes receiving instructions to execute a process. The method includes assigning a process identifier to the process. The method includes allocating one or more blocks of the shared memory to store process specific data associated with the process, wherein the one or more blocks of the shared memory are addressable with a reference. The method includes storing the process identifier at an index in a first array. The method includes storing, by the one or more processors, the reference to the one or more blocks of the shared memory at the index in a second array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Christian Reynolds Decker, Troy Stephen Brown
  • Patent number: 10028408
    Abstract: An air agitator assembly for use with a heat-emitting object having a contour, the air agitator assembly including a perforated flexible structure having a thermally absorbing first side confronting and spaced from a portion of the heat-emitting object to define an air space there between and a second side opposite the first side and where at least a portion of the first side of the perforated flexible structure has a contour that matches a contour of a corresponding portion of the heat-emitting object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Michel Engelhardt, Shushanna Rebecca Cherian-Brutus
  • Patent number: 10005561
    Abstract: Systems and methods for stabilizing an aircraft in response to a yaw movement are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a yaw movement of the aircraft. The yaw movement can cause a front portion of the aircraft to move towards a first side of the aircraft. The method can further include, in response to the yaw movement, initiating a trim process resulting in a thrust differential. The trim process can include increasing thrust in one or more engines on the first side of the aircraft and decreasing thrust in one or more engines on a second side of the aircraft. The method can include controlling the trim process based at least in part on a detected yaw movement of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Steven Louis Kiebles, David Michael Lax, Otto Y Darias, Mark Lawrence Darnell, Sean Sanghyun Hwang, Christopher Daniel Holbert, Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr., Sridhar Adibhatla, Jeffrey Russell Bult, Thomas Charles Swager
  • Patent number: 9990503
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing cryptographic keys in an avionic data transfer system are provided. A host device associated with the avionic data transfer system can receive one or cryptographic keys via a key fill interface. For instance, in one embodiment, the host device can receive one or more cryptographic keys from a removable data cartridge. The host device can act as a key server for other cryptographic units associated with the avionic data transfer system via a data bus. For instance, the host device can distribute one or more cryptographic keys to other cryptographic units associated with aircraft via an aircraft bus. The other cryptographic units can use the one or more cryptographic keys for cryptographic processing of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Deven J. Anthony, John Jared Creech, David Barnard Pierce, Joseph Bernard Steffler, Jay Robert Pruiett
  • Patent number: 9986036
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of operating a system includes receiving, at a network interface configured for specialized network protocol networks, a set of data frames and storing the received set of data frames for later retrieval, and retrieving a subset of the data frames from the network interface by a retrieval module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Neil Russo, Richard John Reiffer, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20180131179
    Abstract: A method for operating an electrical circuit for controllably delivering power from a power source to an electrical load including a switch further configured to operate in a first conducting mode and a second non-conducting mode, and a controller, the method includes ceasing delivering power from the power source to the electrical load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Peter James HANDY, Andrew Paul WYER
  • Patent number: 9966888
    Abstract: A damping system can include a sensor disposed to measure an amplitude of a speed ripple of a drive shaft of a generator, and can include a feedforward circuit connected to the sensor and to the generator. The feedforward circuit can determine a phase angle formed by a load resistance and a load capacitance driven by the generator, calculate a voltage signal value based on the amplitude and the phase angle, and can adjust a DC link voltage provided by the generator and across the load resistance according to the voltage signal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Kaiyu Wang, Paul Robert Gemin, David Woodburn
  • Patent number: 9966764
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transferring power delivery between power sources to an electrical bus are provided. More particularly, a multi-source electrical power system can include an electrical bus having at least two power sources that each can be selectively coupled to the electrical bus, for instance, via contactors. At least one of the power sources can include a unidirectional or bidirectional power converter. The electrical power system can further include a control system configured to control the power output (e.g., the output voltage and the output current) of the power converter to provide no break power transfer of power delivery to the electrical bus between the first and second power sources. In example embodiments, the no break power transfer can be achieved by regulating the output current of a power source to a fixed current value and/or by using a virtual resistance programmed into a voltage regulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Buffenbarger, Jinhui Zhang
  • Patent number: D830402
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Waqas Javed, Philip Balagtas, Masaki Akiyama