Patents Assigned to Turbine Surface Technologies Limited
  • Diagnosis of thermal spray gun ignition
    Patent number: 10241091
    Abstract: An example system includes at least one acoustic sensor configured to generate at least one acoustic data signal indicative of an acoustic signal generated by a thermal spray system comprising a flowstream, a computing device, and an acoustic data signal processing module operable by the computing device to determine an ignition attribute of the thermal spray system by analyzing at least a pre-ignition window of the acoustic data signal received by the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce PLC, Turbine Surface Technologies Limited, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
    Inventors: Michael Cybulsky, Raymond J. Sinatra, Roy Peter McIntyre, Taylor K. Blair, Gary Pickrell, Romesh Batra, Mark Hudson