Patents Assigned to General Electric
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Publication number: 20240051019Abstract: A green body part comprises a first green portion, a second green portion, an interfacial joint between the first green portion and the second green portion, and a joint material disposed within the interfacial joint. The joint material comprises a powder having a particle size distribution than or equal to 1 ?m and less than or equal to 50 ?m. A method of manufacturing a joined part includes applying a joint material on a face of the first green portion and contacting the second green portion to the joint material on the face of the first green portion to form a joined green body part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Arunkumar Natarajan, Kwok Pong Chan, William C. Alberts, Sivaruban Shivanathan, Elliot C. Dilger, Gregg H. Wilson
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Patent number: 11898494Abstract: A gas turbine engine is provided having a combustion section with a liner extending between a forward end and an aft end. A structural member is positioned in or around at least a portion of the combustion section. Additionally, a piston ring holder is provided attached to the structural member at a first end and positioned proximate to the aft end of the liner at a second end. The piston ring holder is a bimetallic member including a first portion formed of a first material and a second portion formed of a second material. A coefficient of thermal expansion of the first material is different than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the second material.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Nicholas John Bloom, Michael Alan Stieg, Brian Christopher Towle
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Patent number: 11897624Abstract: A method and structure for thermal management for a vehicle is provided. The method includes extracting a flow of compressed fluid from a compressor section of a propulsion system in which the flow of compressed fluid includes a pressure parameter, and generating an output torque via expanding at least a portion of the flow of compressed fluid across a turbine operably connected to a driveshaft. The turbine is positioned downstream of the compressor section and upstream of a cooling system.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Scott Gregory Edens
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Patent number: 11901735Abstract: A method for controlling a power system having at least one inverter-based resource connected to an electrical grid includes monitoring, via at least one controller of the at least one inverter-based resource, one or more command signals issued by a system-level controller. The method also includes determining, via the at least one controller of the at least one inverter-based resource, whether the one or more command signals issued by the system-level controller includes oscillatory behavior characteristic of an instability. In response to determining that the one or more command signals issued by the system-level controller includes oscillatory behavior characteristic of the instability, the method includes reducing one or more gains of a volt-var regulator of the system-level controller to reduce the instability.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.Inventors: Alfredo Sebastian Achilles, Sudipta Dutta, Randal Voges, Enno Ubben
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Patent number: 11898497Abstract: A coated component for a gas turbine engine is provided. The coated component includes a substrate having a surface and a ceramic coating. The ceramic coating includes one or more linear slots and one or more non-linear slots. The one or more non-linear slots intersect the one or more linear slots. The plurality of linear slots and the plurality of non-linear slots form segments of ceramic coating material.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Hrishikesh Keshavan, Curtis Alan Johnson, Hongqiang Chen, Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., Mehmet M. Dede
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Patent number: 11898502Abstract: Combustion turbine control systems are configured to operate combustion turbine systems in partial or no load while meeting emission targets. The combustion turbine system includes a combustion turbine, an electrical generator, a combustion turbine controller, a catalyst assembly, and/or other relevant equipment. Based on given operating constraints, such as load conditions and emission regulations, the combustion turbine controller may execute corresponding actions to control certain gas concentrations and/or gas mass flows in the exhaust gases in compliance with emission regulations. The corresponding actions may include, but are not limited to: controlling fuel and/or diluent injection(s) to combustor(s) to control combustion (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Adnan Fareed Zafar, Sameer Dinkar Vartak, Arun Kumar Sridharan, Jose Apolonio Burciaga-Santos
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Patent number: 11898460Abstract: A turbine engine includes an engine core extending along an engine centerline and includes a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement. A temperature sensor is provided within the engine and configured to detect a gas temperature within the engine core. A set of blades is circumferentially arranged in the turbine section. A blade in the set of blades includes an outer wall bounding an interior, a cooling conduit within the interior, and a plurality of film holes fluidly coupled to the cooling conduit.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jonathan Michael Rausch, Zachary Daniel Webster, Kevin Robert Feldmann, Andrew David Perry, Kirk Douglas Gallier, Daniel Endecott Osgood
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Patent number: 11898752Abstract: A hollow plank of a combustor liner defining a combustion chamber including an inner wall having a plurality of inner openings and one or more inner holes, an outer wall having one or more outer openings and a plurality of outer holes, a plurality of lateral walls coupled to the inner wall and the outer wall to define a cavity, and a partition wall connected to the plurality of lateral walls and dividing the cavity into a first sub-cavity and a second sub-cavity. The one or more outer openings communicate with the first sub-cavity and communicate through a plurality of tubes with the second sub-cavity. The plurality of inner openings communicate with the second sub-cavity and communicate with the first sub-cavity through one or more bypass tubes. The first sub-cavity or the second sub-cavity, or both, are frequency tuned to reduce combustion dynamic frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Hiranya Nath, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Michael A. Benjamin
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Patent number: 11898518Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a gas turbine engine defining a radial direction, a longitudinal direction, and a circumferential direction, an upstream end and a downstream end along the longitudinal direction, and an axial centerline extended along the longitudinal direction. The gas turbine engine includes a fan assembly including a plurality of fan blades rotatably coupled to a fan rotor in which the fan blades define a maximum fan diameter and a fan pressure ratio. The gas turbine engine further includes a low pressure (LP) turbine defining a core flowpath therethrough generally along the longitudinal direction. The core flowpath defines a maximum outer flowpath diameter relative to the axial centerline. The gas turbine engine defines a fan to turbine diameter ratio of the maximum fan diameter to the maximum outer flowpath diameter. The fan to turbine diameter ratio over the fan pressure ratio is approximately 0.90 or greater.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Thomas Ory Moniz, Randy M. Vondrell, Jeffrey Donald Clements, Brandon Wayne Miller
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Patent number: 11901799Abstract: An electrical machine includes a stator assembly coupled to an engine stator component of a propulsion engine. The stator assembly includes a stator support assembly fixedly attached to the engine stator component and a stator disposed on a supporting surface of the stator support structure. The electrical machine also includes a rotor assembly including a rotor support structure connected to a shaft of the propulsion engine and a rotor attached to the rotor support structure such that the rotor is disposed radially inward of the stator. The rotor exchanges rotational energy with the shaft to operate as either an electrical motor or an electrical generator.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: General Electric Company, General Electric Company Polska sp. z o.o., General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbHInventors: Miroslaw Czarnik, Adam Tomasz Paziński, Bartłomiej Drozd, Darek Zatorski, Maciej Krzysztof Grunwald, Mohamed Osama, John R. Yagielski
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Patent number: 11897134Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for configuring a robotic simulator that is used to train a robot via machine learning. In one example, a method may include storing a domain description which comprises information about an operating environment of a robot, generating, via an automated planner, a plurality configuration files for a robotic simulator based on the domain description, where each configuration file comprises different configurations of a simulation environment for training a machine learning algorithm of the robot, and storing the plurality of configuration files in a memory device.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Bradford Wayne Miller
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Patent number: 11898682Abstract: A tube spacing and fastening system for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of tubular structures, a wear sleeve, a spacer element, and a fastening element. The plurality of tubular structures provides a fluid flow to a component of the gas turbine engine. The wear sleeve is located around each of the plurality of tubular structures. The spacer element receives the plurality of tubular structures. The fastening element extends around the wear sleeves and is configured to secure the plurality of tubular structures to the spacer element. An interference between the fastening element and wear sleeves is configured to allow the fastening element to slide with respect to the wear sleeves and to provide a damping effect under gas turbine engine vibrations and operating conditions. A method of damping vibrations in the plurality of tubular structures includes allowing the fastening element to slide with respect to the wear sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Naleen Kumar Verma, Mario Alberto Bolaños Jimenez, Arun Ramachandra, Jeffrey P. Darnell, Michael E. Sandy, José Torre
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Patent number: 11898464Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure an airfoil is provided. The airfoil defines a spanwise direction, a root end, and a tip end. The airfoil includes: a body defining a pressure side and a suction side and extending along the spanwise direction between the root end and the tip end, the body formed of a composite material; and a spar enclosed in the body of the airfoil extending along the spanwise direction, the spar comprising a plurality of spar segments arranged in an overlapping configuration along the spanwise direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Nicholas Joseph Kray, Nitesh Jain
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Patent number: 11901758Abstract: A power system (150) operable to implement a power balancing control scheme is provided. In one aspect, a power system (150) includes multiple independent power supplies (182A, 182B) with independent batteries (172A, 172B) feeding onto a common power bus (180). The power supplies (182A, 182B) regulate the voltage on the common power bus (180) at the same time. The power balancing control scheme, when implemented, causes the load on the common power bus (180) to be shared among the individual power supplies (182A, 182B) with a specified load distribution. The specified load distribution can be set or determined to balance the State of Charge (SoC) of the batteries (172A, 172B) over time whilst taking into account the constraints or limits of the elements (172A, 172B, 182A, 182B) of the power system (150).Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Gregory L. Detweiler, Pradeep Vijayan
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Patent number: 11898495Abstract: A fuel system for a gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine including an exhaust assembly. The exhaust assembly including a tail cone and defining a radial direction, a circumferential direction, an axial direction, a working gas flow path, and an outer bypass flow path, the fuel system including: a hydrogen fuel tank for holding a hydrogen fuel; a heat exchanger configured to be coupled to or integrated into the tail cone of the exhaust assembly, the heat exchanger including: a first axial flow path in flow communication with the hydrogen fuel tank; a second axial flow path in flow communication with a combustion section of the gas turbine engine; and a radial flow path.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mustafa Dindar, Scott Alan Schimmels
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Patent number: 11898755Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine has a combustor liner including an outer liner and an inner liner, a combustion chamber being defined between the outer liner and the inner liner. The combustion chamber includes a primary combustion zone at an upstream end of the combustion chamber. The combustor also includes an outer liner expanded primary volume portion, and a secondary outer liner portion. One of the outer liner expanded primary volume portion and the secondary outer liner portion is movable to adjust a volume of the primary combustion zone by opening and closing access to the outer liner expanded primary volume portion so as to increase and to decrease the volume of the primary combustion zone.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Hiranya Nath, Michael A. Benjamin, Nicholas R. Overman
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Patent number: 11898757Abstract: A propulsion system includes at least one rotating detonation actuator comprising: a flow path extending from an inlet end to an outlet end; an inner wall defining a radially inner boundary of the flow path; an outer wall defining a radially outer boundary of the flow path; and at least one aircraft wing. The rotating detonation actuator is disposed in the aircraft wing. At least one rotating detonation wave travels through the flow path from the inlet end to the outlet end.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Nicholas William Rathay, Narendra Digamber Joshi, Venkat Eswarlu Tangirala
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Patent number: 11898492Abstract: Provided are fluid exchange apparatuses and methods of exchanging fluids between streams. Exemplary fluid exchange apparatus includes a first interleaved pathway with a plurality of first passages, and a second interleaved pathway with a plurality of second passages, in which the plurality of first passages and the plurality of second passages interleave with one another. Exemplary methods include directing a first fluid through a first interleaved pathway of a fluid exchange apparatus and directing a second fluid through a second interleaved pathway of a fluid exchange apparatus. The first fluid may flow from an upstream portion of a first duct into the first interleaved pathway and may discharge into a downstream portion of the second duct. The second fluid may flow from an upstream portion of the second duct into the second interleaved pathway and may discharge into a downstream portion of the first duct.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Jeffrey Douglas Rambo
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Publication number: 20240044290Abstract: A gas turbine engine fuel supply system can include a fuel delivery system, a thermal management system, a fuel manifold, and one or more sensors that identify one or more fuel parameters. A fuel control system can be controlled to adjust one or more parameters of the fuel based on data received from the sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Brandon W. Miller, Robert Jon McQuiston, Stefan Joseph Cafaro, Eric Richard Westervelt, Michael A. Benjamin, Joel M. Haynes, Hejie Li
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Publication number: 20240044262Abstract: This disclosure is directed to cooling systems for turbomachine seal assemblies. The seal assemblies include stationary and rotating components and at least one interface between the stationary and rotating components. During operation of the turbomachine, the components of the seal assemblies generate heat, which is removed from the seal assembly by the cooling systems of this disclosure. In some examples, the cooling system includes a reservoir of lubricant that is distributed to a face of one of the components of the seal assembly. In other examples, the cooling system includes a lattice structure capable of retaining lubricant against the components of the seal assembly, or a pressurized jet of lubricant directed against the components of the seal assembly. The cooling systems can further include a combination of deflectors, hairpin members, and channels for distributing the lubricant to the components of the seal assemblies.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Nageswar Ganji, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Hiranya Nath, Jonathan K. Remer