Patents Assigned to Unison Industries
  • Publication number: 20250250908
    Abstract: An air turbine starter having a housing that includes an inlet and an outlet to define an air flow path from the inlet to the outlet. A stator includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced vanes extending into the air flow path and defined a stator core. A coating surrounds one or more portions of the housing, defining the housing core, or the stator, defining the stator core. The housing core or the stator core includes a first material having a first hardness and the coating comprises a second material having a second hardness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: David Raju Yamarthi, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Sharad Pundlik Patil, Amit Arvind Kurvinkop, Parmeet Singh Chhabra, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers
  • Patent number: 12366208
    Abstract: A method and system used to control a rotational speed or a torque of an output drive shaft. The output drive shaft being coupled to a turbine engine. The turbine engine including an engine core and an engine starter assembly. The engine starter assembly including an air turbine starter, an output drive shaft and an electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Nagendra Baddam, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Brian Christopher Kemp, David Raju Yamarthi, Venkata Subramanya Sarma Devarakonda, David Allan Dranschack, Narendra Dev Mahadevaiah
  • Patent number: 12352314
    Abstract: An air turbine starter (ATS) for starting an engine, having a stator including a housing having an inlet, an outlet, and a flow path extending between the inlet and the outlet and a rotor including a turbine member defining a rotating axis and having a set of blades at least partially disposed within the flow path. The ATS further including a bearing support structure disposed between the rotor and the stator comprising a first bearing support having a first stiffness (K1) and a second bearing support having a second stiffness (K2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Pallavi Tripathi, Subrata Nayak, Ramana Reddy Kollam, Sharad Pundlik Patil, Milind Chandrakant Dhabade, Narendra Dev Mahadevaiah, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger
  • Publication number: 20250172094
    Abstract: A turbine engine having an engine core having a compression section, combustion section, a turbine section, and an engine drive shaft. The turbine engine includes an air turbine starter having a housing defining an air flow passage. The air turbine starter can operate in a start-up mode and a shut-down mode. The turbine engine further includes a gearbox and a drive unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: David Raju Yamarthi, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Sheo Narain Giri, Nagendra Baddam, Saurya Ranjan Ray, John Carl Glessner, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Brian Christopher Kemp
  • Patent number: 12313006
    Abstract: A turbine engine having an engine core having a compression section, combustion section, a turbine section, and an engine drive shaft. The turbine engine includes an air turbine starter having a housing defining an air flow passage. The air turbine starter can operate in a start-up mode and a shut-down mode. The turbine engine further includes a gearbox and a drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: David Raju Yamarthi, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Sheo Narain Giri, Nagendra Baddam, Saurya Ranjan Ray, John Carl Glessner, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Brian Christopher Kemp
  • Patent number: 12297553
    Abstract: A forming manifold and method for electroforming a component, including providing an electroforming cathode disposed within a first bath tank having a solution with a first metal ion concentration, overlaying at least a portion of the electroforming cathode with a forming manifold having a housing and applying a voltage to the electroforming cathode while disposed within the first bath tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Yanzhe Yang
  • Patent number: 12286934
    Abstract: A turbine engine including an engine core, an engine drive shaft, an accessory gear box (AGB), an air turbine starter (ATS), and a bleed air circuit. The engine core has a fan section, a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement. The engine drive shaft operably couples the fan section, the compressor section, and the turbine section. The AGB and the ATS are operably coupled to the engine drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Pallavi Tripathi, Brian Christopher Kemp, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Nagendra Baddam, Sheo Narain Giri
  • Patent number: 12286933
    Abstract: An air turbine starter for starting an engine includes a starter housing defining an inlet, an outlet, and a flow path extending between the inlet and the outlet. The air turbine starter can include a rotatable turbine member having a central hub defining a platform and at least one blade extending radially from the platform. The air turbine starter can also include a blade cutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Steven Ryan Kerley, Thomas V Ng
  • Patent number: 12270347
    Abstract: An air turbine starter for starting an engine includes a starter housing having an inlet, an outlet, and a flow path extending between the inlet and the outlet. The air turbine starter includes a rotatable turbine member having a central hub defining a platform and a set of blades extending radially from the platform. The air turbine starter also includes a damping member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Steven Ryan Kerley, Thomas V Ng
  • Patent number: 12264629
    Abstract: An air turbine starter with a housing; a turbine member located within the housing; a drive shaft operably coupled to the turbine member, and having an interior portion. The air turbine starter output shaft extending between a first end and a second end, the output shaft movable between a first position, where the first end is coupled to the engine, and a second position, where the second end is retained within the interior portion and the first end is uncoupled from the engine. A decoupler assembly is included for decoupling the output shaft from the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Narendra Dev Mahadevaiah, Sharad Pundlik Patil, Pallavi Tripathi, Subrata Nayak, Milind Chandrakant Dhabade, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, David Allan Dranschak
  • Patent number: 12247312
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for a mandrel used during an electroforming process. The mandrel is formed of a structural wax and includes a metallic layer utilized to formulate a metal component. During the electroforming process, the mandrel is actively cooled utilizing a closed loop. The closed loop includes the mandrel and a heat exchanger through which a coolant flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Yanzhe Yang
  • Patent number: 12228081
    Abstract: An air turbine starter having a housing defining an interior with a primary inlet and a primary outlet to define a primary air flow path from the primary inlet to the primary outlet. A nozzle is located within the interior and has circumferentially spaced vanes. A shroud is also located within the interior and circumscribes at least a portion of the vanes. A retention mechanism constrains the axial movement of nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Ramana Reddy Kollam, Parmeet Singh Chhabra, David Raju Yamarthi, David Allan Dranschak, Steven Ryan Kerley, Mark Leslie Rickert
  • Patent number: 12188142
    Abstract: A strengthened component includes a sacrificial material mold of the component having an outer surface, an insert having an inner surface and an outer surface opposite and spaced from the inner surface such that the strengthening insert inner surface abuts the mold outer surface, and a metallic layer deposited over the exposed mold outer surface and the exposed strengthening insert outer surface, where the sacrificial material mold is removed from the strengthened component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Sebastian Merin, Balaraju Suresh, Daniel Dyer, Gordon Tajiri, Yanzhe Yang
  • Patent number: 12188363
    Abstract: An air turbine starter that includes a housing. The housing can circumscribe a turbine coupled that is coupled to a gear train in a gear box via a drive shaft. The gear train can couple to an output shaft via at least a carrier. The air turbine starter can include at least a first bearing assembly and a second bearing assembly to rotatably support the drive shaft and the output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Amit Arvind Kurvinkop, David Raju Yamarthi, David Allan Dranschak, Brian Christopher Kemp, Marc David Zinger, Parmeet Singh Chhabra, Roberto Karpik, Eliel Fresco Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 12173656
    Abstract: A turbine engine including an engine core, an engine drive shaft, an accessory gear box (AGB), an air turbine starter (ATS) and a bleed air circuit. The engine core has a fan section, a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement. The engine drive shaft operably couples the fan section, the compressor section and the turbine section. The AGB and the ATS are operably coupled to the engine drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Pallavi Tripathi, Sheo Narain Giri, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Brian Christopher Kemp
  • Patent number: 12172379
    Abstract: A cleaning system for an additively manufactured component includes a tank storing a cleaning fluid. A fluid circuit is operably coupled with the tank. A pump is coupled with the fluid circuit. A manifold is configured to receive fluid from the fluid circuit through the pump. At least one of a coupler defined by the manifold or a hose is coupled with the manifold. The at least one of the coupler defined by the manifold or the hose is further configured to couple with said additively manufactured component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: General Electric Company, Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: James Patrick Lewis, Johnny DeLeon, Brian Paul Sechrist, Mary Kathryn Thompson, Christopher David Barnhill, Meredith Elissa Dubelman
  • Patent number: 12158075
    Abstract: An air turbine starter for starting an engine, comprising a housing having an interior surface defining an interior, at least one turbine member rotatably mounted within the interior about a rotational axis, and having a plurality of circumferentially spaced blades, and a containment structure radially overlying and circumferentially surrounding the at least one turbine member extending between an outer surface and an inner surface to define a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Subrata Nayak, David Allan Dranschak, Marc David Zinger, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Jasraj Asdev, Sharad Pundlik Patil, Sagar Paramashivaiah, David Raju Yamarthi
  • Patent number: 12098958
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining a temperature in a system having an object, an optical sensor, and a gas flow passing between the object and the optical sensor, sensing, with the optical sensor, a wavelength emitted from the object and indicative of an attenuation, sensing, with the optical sensor, a wavelength emitted from the object and indicative of a temperature of at least one of the object or the gas; and calculating a temperature of the gas using the wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Jay Knobloch, Christian M. Heller
  • Patent number: 12092025
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine can include a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement. At least one of the combustion section or turbine section can have an exhaust gas passage. The turbine engine can also include an exhaust gas temperature sensor with a housing having an elongated probe portion. The elongated probe portion can have an outer wall bounding an interior. A temperature probe can be provided within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventor: John P. Parsons
  • Patent number: 12084980
    Abstract: An air turbine starter that includes a housing defining an interior having a primary air flow path. A rotatable turbine member located in the interior includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced blades that extend into the primary air flow path. A containment assembly couples to the housing and circumscribes at least a portion of the plurality of circumferentially spaced blades. The containment assembly includes a tube and a laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Nagendra Baddam, Sharad Pundlik Patil, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Dattu Gv Jonnalagadda, Merin Sebastian