Patents Assigned to General Electric
  • Patent number: 11911213
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to extraction of probe motion estimates from acquired ultrasound image frames. Such image-extracted probe motion data can be used alone or in combination with sensed motion data, such as acquired using an inertial measurement unit (IMU). In certain implementations, the image-extracted probe motion can be used to provide or maintain anatomic context in a sequence of images or to provide guidance to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Peter William Lorraine, David Andrew Shoudy, Asha Singanamalli
  • Patent number: 11915531
    Abstract: Systems and methods of servicing equipment including determining, by one or more computing devices, a workscope associated with the equipment; and at least partially-autonomously servicing the equipment in response to the determined workscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: General Electric Company, Oliver Crispin Robotics Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Crispin Graham, David Scott Diwinsky, Julian Matthew Foxall
  • Patent number: 11916422
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, system and method are provided comprising determining a maximum storage capacity of an energy storage system for a time window; performing a first sort of cycles by sorting in numerical order according to a ratio of a load demand to a total available power from a power generation system at each cycle of time window; assigning a unique, charge priority to each cycle; determining, starting from a highest charge priority, a charge power for each cycle until a total charge power satisfies the maximum storage capacity; determining, starting from a lowest sorted charge priority, an available discharge power for each cycle until a total discharge power exceeds the maximum storage capacity; performing a second sort in a temporal order of the cycles; determining, starting from an earliest cycle, an available state-of-charge (SOC) and adjusting the SOC of the energy storage system for each cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Min Yan
  • Patent number: 11914342
    Abstract: A method, medium, and system including determining a material property value to assign to each of the plurality of 3D volume elements, wherein the material property values assigned to the plurality of 3D volume elements are classified into a predetermined number of bins that correspond to a plurality of different additive manufacturing (AM) print parameter sets, generating a plurality of transfer functions to determine relationships between the material property values assigned to the plurality of 3D volume elements and a plurality of desired AM print parameter sets, automatically determining, based on the plurality of transfer functions, an assignment of one of the plurality of different AM print parameter sets to each of the plurality of 3D volume elements, and validating the determined assignments of the plurality of different AM print parameter sets for the plurality of 3D volume elements based on the plurality of transfer functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Arvind Rangarajan, Christina Margaret Vasil, Joshua Mook, Anthony J. Vinciquerra, Brian McCarthy, Vipul Kumar Gupta
  • Patent number: 11913344
    Abstract: A method of servicing a portion of a gas turbine engine includes inserting a rigid guide tube into an inspection port in a shroud of the gas turbine engine. The flexible guide tube is inserted into and through the rigid guide tube. The flexible guide tube is pre-shaped such that the flexible guide tube is biased towards a predetermined shape after being inserted through the rigid guide tube. A tool is pushed through the flexible guide tube such that the distal end of the tool moves out of and away from an end of the flexible guide tube. An area of interest of the gas turbine engine is then serviced with the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Satya Mohan Vamsi Andalam, Shivakumar Basavanna, Sandeep Kumar, Mandar Diwakar Godbole, Vamshi Krishna Reddy Kommareddy
  • Publication number: 20240063836
    Abstract: A transceiver system may include a transmitter, a receiver, an antenna port that is connectable to the transmitter or to the receiver, a filter send port, and a filter return port. The filter ports may be antenna-side or receiver-side, and connectable across at least one filter between the antenna port and the receiver. A transceiver apparatus may include a housing including the transmitter, the receiver, a transceiver switch, and a filter switch assembly in a chamber of the housing. The ports may be accessible through a wall of the housing. A method for filtering a signal include switching, in response to a first signal, a receiver or a transceiver of a transceiver system from an unfiltered path connected to the antenna port to a filtered path connected to the antenna port. The method may further include switching, in response to a second signal, the receiver to the unfiltered path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Jonathan M. VILAGY, Christopher R. HUGHES, Jeffrey M. WILCZEWSKI
  • Publication number: 20240062642
    Abstract: A status indicator for a capacitor may include first and second indicator plates, each respectively defining a first face and a second face visually distinct from the first face. The first face of each of the first and second indicator plates is displayed during nominal operation of the capacitor. The second face of only one of the first and second indicator plates is displayed in response to a partial failure of the capacitor. The second face of each of the first and second indicator plates is displayed in response to a complete failure of the capacitor. A system may include a capacitor, and the status indicator coupled to the capacitor. A method for visually indicating a status of a capacitor may include controlling, by a controller, first and second indicator plates to display selected faces indicating nominal operation, partial failure, or complete failure of the capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Divya VANGARI, Joshua Kent Nikkel, Steve H. Fan
  • Publication number: 20240058889
    Abstract: A joined part comprises a first portion and a second portion. The first portion comprises a guide slot at least partially defined by a porous structure. A joint material is disposed within the porous structure. The second portion is disposed within the guide slot and contacts the porous structure and the joint material disposed therein to form an interfacial joint between the first portion and the second portion. A method of manufacturing the joined part includes disposing a joint material into a porous structure of a guide slot of a first portion, inserting a second portion into the guide slot, and contacting the porous structure and the joint material disposed therein to form an interfacial joint between the first portion and the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Justin John Gambone, JR., Thomas C. Adcock
  • Publication number: 20240062983
    Abstract: A system for melting, sintering, or heat treating a material is provided. The system includes a cathode, an anode, and a focus coil assembly having a quadrupole magnet. The quadrupole magnet includes four poles and a yoke. The four poles are spaced apart and surround a beam cavity. Each of the four poles includes a pole face proximate the beam cavity and an end opposite the pole face. The first and third poles are aligned along an x-axis and configured to have a first magnetic polarity at their respective pole faces and a second magnetic polarity opposite the first magnetic polarity at their respective ends. The second and fourth poles are aligned along a y-axis and configured to have the second magnetic polarity at their respective pole faces and the first magnetic polarity at their respective ends. The yoke surrounds the poles and is coupled to the poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John Scott Price, Ye Bai, Antonio Caiafa, Vasile Bogdan Neculaes, Uwe Wiedmann
  • Patent number: 11905890
    Abstract: A differential gearbox assembly for a turbine engine having a fan shaft and a drive shaft. The differential gearbox assembly includes an epicyclic gear assembly coupling the fan shaft to the drive shaft. The epicyclic gear assembly includes a sun gear, a planet gear constrained by a planet carrier, and a ring gear. The sun gear is coupled to the drive shaft and the planet carrier is coupled to the fan shaft. The sun gear, the planet gear, and the ring gear all rotate about the drive shaft. The differential gearbox assembly includes an electric machine assembly that includes an input coupled to the epicyclic gear assembly. The electric machine assembly provides mechanical power to the fan shaft through the epicyclic gear assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, GE AVIO S.R.L.
    Inventors: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Andrea Piazza, Gontla Nagashiresha, Bugra H. Ertas, Sanjeev Jha
  • Patent number: 11905837
    Abstract: A sealing system for sealing between components. The sealing system includes a first component, a second component, and a seal assembly including a seal member. The first component includes a first component surface, and the second component includes a second component surface. The second component surface is oriented in a direction transverse to the first contact surface. The seal member has a plurality of contact surfaces including a first contact surface and a second contact surface. The first contact surface is configured to contact the first component surface and to slide relative to the first component surface. The second contact surface is configured to contact the second component surface and to slide relative to the second component surface. The second contact surface is oriented in a direction transverse to the first contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Nicholas R. Overman
  • Patent number: 11905424
    Abstract: Core-shell microparticles, along with methods of their fabrication and use, are provided. The core-shell microparticles may include a core comprising a first metallic material having a first chromium content and a shell surrounding the core and comprising a second metallic material having a second chromium content that is less than the first chromium content. For example, the first chromium content may be 5% by weight or greater of elemental chromium within the first metallic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Louis Lefebvre, Ehsan Marzbanrad, Ehsan Toyserkani, Boxin Zhao, Jeremy Vandenberg
  • Patent number: 11905884
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes: a turbomachine including a combustion section and an exhaust assembly arranged in serial flow order; and a fuel system. The fuel system includes: a hydrogen fuel tank for holding a hydrogen fuel in a liquid phase; and a hydrogen delivery assembly in thermal communication with the exhaust assembly. The hydrogen delivery assembly includes: a liquid hydrogen line in fluid communication with the hydrogen fuel tank; a gaseous hydrogen line in fluid communication with the combustion section of the gas turbine engine; and a heat exchanger tubing positioned within the exhaust assembly downstream of the liquid hydrogen line and upstream of the gaseous hydrogen line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mustafa Dindar, Scott Alan Schimmels
  • Patent number: 11906955
    Abstract: A system for diagnosing an additive manufacturing device is provided. The system includes a first module configured to: obtain one or more parameters for a digital twin of a component of the additive manufacturing device based on raw data from the component of the additive manufacturing device; and generate physics features for the digital twin of the component of the additive manufacturing device based on the one or more parameters and one or more transfer functions, a second module configured to obtain one or more classifiers for classifying the component as a first condition or a second condition based on physics features; and a third module configured to: determine a health of the component based on the generated physics features of the first model and the one or more classifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: V S S Srivatsa Ponnada, Venkata Dharma Surya Narayana Sastry Rachakonda, Megha Navalgund, Pär Christoffer Arumskog, Mattias Fager
  • Patent number: 11906163
    Abstract: A fuel delivery system for a gas turbine engine includes a fuel source; a draw pump downstream of the fuel source for generating a liquid fuel flow from the fuel source; a main fuel pump downstream of the draw pump; and a fuel oxygen reduction unit downstream of the draw pump and upstream of the main fuel pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Daniel Alan Niergarth, Sridhar Adibhatla, Ethan Patrick O'Connor
  • Patent number: 11906168
    Abstract: A combustor assembly is generally provided. The combustor assembly includes a volute wall extended annularly around a combustor centerline. The volute wall is extended at least partially as a spiral curve from a circumferential reference line around the combustor centerline. The volute wall defines a combustion chamber therewithin. An annular inner wall is extended at least partially along a lengthwise direction from the volute wall. An annular outer wall is extended at least partially along the lengthwise direction from the volute wall. The inner wall and the outer wall are each separated along a radial direction from the combustor centerline. A primary flow passage is defined between the inner wall and the outer wall in fluid communication from the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Gregory Allen Boardman, Pradeep Naik, Joseph Zelina, Clayton Stuart Cooper
  • Patent number: 11909226
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for a wireless power transmission apparatus that supports charging of one or more wireless power receiving apparatuses. The wireless power transmission apparatus may include multiple primary coils organized in groups (referred to as zones). Each zone may have a local controller for managing operation of one primary coil in the zone at a time. A master controller may selectively couple the primary coils to the local controllers. When a first primary coil is coupled to the local controller for a zone, the other primary coils in that zone may be disabled. The master controller may manage which primary coils from neighboring zones are coupled to their respective local controllers. Thus, when the first primary coil is activated, the adjacent primary coils (near the first primary coil) can be muted or disabled to mitigate undesirable interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rupam Basak, Jayanti Ganesh, Viswanathan Kanakasabai, Suma Memana Narayana Bhat, Subbarao Tatikonda
  • Patent number: 11905881
    Abstract: A component for a turbine engine includes a body having an outer surface confronting a combustion air flow path and defining an interior, as well as a first cooling passage having at least a portion supplying cooling air to the interior of the body. The component also includes a cyclone separator having a cooling air inlet, a clean air outlet, and a dirty air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff, Kirk D. Gallier
  • Patent number: 11905843
    Abstract: A liner support system for an exhaust liner in an aircraft engine. The liner support system includes a plurality of posts that space the exhaust liner from the exhaust duct, the plurality of posts spacing the exhaust liner from the exhaust duct further supporting the exhaust liner. Each post includes an interface region adjacent to the back side of the exhaust liner sealed to the back side of the exhaust liner, a shank extending to a low pressure region, and a hollow passageway internal to the shank, providing fluid communication between the interface region and the low pressure region. The low pressure region results in pressure against the liner, pulling the liner adjacent the post interface region against the post while preventing fluid leakage between the exhaust liner and the interface region. The posts create a pattern of alternating pressures in the liner allowing for elimination of hangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Donald Michael Corsmeier, Bernard James Renggli, Kurt J. Bonner
  • Patent number: D1015540
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Ryan Walter Rindy, Hui Fang, Jun Hou, Eero Tapio Hyytiainen, Jiancheng Zhang, Donald L. Beduhn, Duncan Lovel Trevor-Wilson, Wenyoung Wu