Patents Assigned to The Garrett Corporation
  • Environmental control system
    Patent number: 4580406
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for conditioning a flow of working fluid includes a parallel, bypass anti-icing flow of warm fluid which is induced and automatically controlled in relation to critical system operating parameters while minimizing parasitic power losses to improve overall system efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventor: Robert A. Nims
  • Dual alloy turbine wheels
    Patent number: 4581300
    Abstract: A dual alloy turbine wheel manufacture of a cast integral blade ring pressure-sealed to a wrought alloy hub and thereafter bonded thereto by hot isostatic pressing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventors: George S. Hoppin, III, George Curbishley
  • Combustion turbine engine
    Patent number: 4579507
    Abstract: A combustion turbine engine having an improved variable-area turbine stator assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1986
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventors: Charles E. Corrigan, Paul R. Dodge
  • Ram air turbine
    Patent number: 4578019
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for adjusting the pitch of a fluid reactive blade member carried upon a rotor in response to a speed difference between the rotor and a reference speed shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1986
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventor: William F. Safarik
  • Permanent magnet dynamoelectric machine
    Patent number: 4578609
    Abstract: A variable-voltage electrical generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1986
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventor: Frederick B. McCarty
  • Turbo machine blading
    Patent number: 4576551
    Abstract: Blading for a turbo machine which facilitates manufacturing thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventors: Paul D. Olivier, Lester E. Chadbourne, deceased
  • Steam generating apparatus and methods
    Patent number: 4573323
    Abstract: Steam generating apparatus and methods wherein a liquid is recirculated within a boiler by use of a constant speed dynamic feed water pump acting both to feed the boiler and to effect recirculating therein by a jet pump with its jet nozzle in liquid flow series with the dynamic pump. The jet pump also receives water from a steam drum for recirculation through the boiler. In the event of excess feed water supply to the boiler a step-function level control for the steam drum bypasses liquid to a condenser. A second jet pump acts to utilize excess feed water to supply cool water from the condenser well under pressure to the dynamic pump so that no water is bypassed to the condenser under on-design operating conditions. For waste heat recovery to provide shaft power automatically with simplified controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1986
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventor: Edward A. Mock
  • Variable geometry combustor apparatus and associated methods
    Patent number: 4567724
    Abstract: The fuel nozzles in a variable geometry combustor cooperate with an inwardly projecting liner wall section to define a sheltered pilot combustion zone within the liner. Simultaneously operable inlet valves are provided for admitting a selectively variable quantity of combustion air into the pilot zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventors: Hukam C. Mongia, Edwin B. Coleman, Thomas W. Bruce
  • Toroidal pressure vessel
    Patent number: 4561476
    Abstract: A toroidal pressure vessel comprises two annular, complementarily formed axial sections which are intersecured along a duality of annular joint lines that circumscribe and are mutually offset along the axis of the toroid. The axial sections are formed by machining a pair of end portions removed from a length of thick-walled metal tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventor: Bela Bunkoczy
  • Oxygen enrichment system
    Patent number: 4560394
    Abstract: A continuous oxygen enrichment system having waste energy recovery provisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1985
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventors: George H. McDonald, Scott A. Manatt
  • Stabilization of automotive vehicle
    Patent number: 4560121
    Abstract: An automotive vehicle includes an aerodynamic fin effective for vehicle control at relatively high vehicle velocity, and a nozzle directing a reaction jet toward said fin render the latter also effective for vehicle control at relatively low vehicle velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1985
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventor: Leslie S. Terp
  • Fuel tank inerting system
    Patent number: 4556180
    Abstract: A pump is used to exhaust oxygen rich waste gas to ambient pressure in an inert gas generating system in order to improve the performance of the permeable membrane air separator component and to insure sufficient generation of inert gas when available source air pressure is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventor: Scott A. Manatt
  • Mold and method for casting of fragile and complex shapes
    Patent number: 4556528
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for casting of fragile complex shapes by the formation of a two layer wax mold about a pattern of the shape to be cast. Thereafter, the pattern is removed from the mold and the outer layer of wax dissolved. The slip is then poured into the mold and allowed to solidify before the inner layer of the mold is completely removed from the cast article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventors: Herbert M. Gersch, Glenn W. Brown
  • Emergency power unit and method
    Patent number: 4554784
    Abstract: An emergency power unit method and apparatus with means for inhibiting vibration of the catalyst bed while permitting spring loading thereof, and for automatically compensating for movement of the catalyst bed caused by the spring loading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1985
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventors: Francis K. Weigand, William H. Nickel
  • Foil bearing alignment
    Patent number: 4555187
    Abstract: A bearing support structure for a journal bearing including a plurality of overlapping compliant foils mounted upon one of a pair relatively rotatable members to form an outwardly diverging surface to support the other of the members. The outwardly diverging surface may be formed by varying thickness shims included along the axial length of the plurality of foils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1985
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventors: Reinhard M. Klaass, Francis J. Suriano
  • Aircraft cabin pressurization system
    Patent number: 4553474
    Abstract: This invention controls the air pressure in an aircraft cabin in response to a selected landing field altitude and to a selected maximum permissible cabin pressure rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1985
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventors: Paul P. Wong, John B. Lippold, Glenn A. Burgess
  • Engine management system
    Patent number: 4551972
    Abstract: A limited authority system for controlling engine performance in accordance with energy or thrust requirements in response to engine parameters which is capable of operating in a number of control modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1985
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventor: Leon D. Lewis
  • Method for producing a permanent magnet rotor
    Patent number: 4549341
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor having a unitary aluminum casting surrounding magnets mounted on the shaft which has favorable heat transfer, performance, and cost characteristics, and which may be constructed by the accompanying method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1985
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventor: George Kasabian
  • Variable geometry combustor apparatus
    Patent number: 4545196
    Abstract: The fuel nozzles in a variable geometry combustor cooperate with an inwardly projecting liner wall section to define a sheltered pilot combustion zone within the liner. Simultaneously operable inlet valves are provided for admitting a selectively variable quantity of combustion air into the pilot zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1985
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventors: Hukam C. Mongia, Edwin B. Coleman, Thomas W. Bruce
  • Fluid compressor control and operation
    Patent number: 4543036
    Abstract: A fluid compressor control and operation method wherein a tangential velocity is imparted to all or only a selected part of fluid flowing to a rotating impeller of the compressor. In a preferred embodiment, the impeller is of centrifugal radial flow configuration with an inlet duct effecting inlet flow radially inwardly, and then axially to the impeller. The compressor includes a plurality of axially elongate guide vanes disposed annularly of the inlet and axially moveable relatively thereof into and out of the inlet fluid flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1985
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventor: Donald L. Palmer