Patents Assigned to Unison Industries LLC
  • Air turbine starter with lubricated bearing assembly
    Patent number: 11203980
    Abstract: An air starter for starting a turbine engine that includes a housing, a turbine member, a drive shaft, and at least one bearing assembly. The housing can define an interior where the turbine couples to the drive shaft that is rotatably supported by the least one bearing assembly. A lubricant passageway can provide lubrication to the at least one bearing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Nilesh Vilas Varote, David Raju Yamarthi, David Allan Dranschak, Eliel Fresco Rodriguez, Amit Arvind Kurvinkop
  • Feeder duct assembly with flexible end fittings
    Patent number: 11203946
    Abstract: A feeder duct assembly for a gas turbine engine, which negates the need for a ball or axial joint in the duct for required for flexibility under thermal loading. The feeder duct assembly of the present innovation comprises an end fitting designed to meet flexibility requirements without compromising dynamic performance of the system with added weight from ball or axial joints in the ducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Greedaran Kubendran Jankin, Bruce Patrick Graham, Rachamadugu Sivaprasad, Douglas R. Millward
  • Air temperature sensor having a bushing
    Patent number: 11175187
    Abstract: An air temperature sensor for use on an aircraft can include a housing defining an interior and having a trailing edge, a temperature sensor having a distal end and located within the interior, a support tube surrounding at least a portion the temperature sensor, an element shroud surrounding at least a portion of support tube, and a bushing isolating the trailing edge of the housing from the distal end of temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Lloyd Ashton, Jarodd Dan Goedel, John Patrick Parsons
  • Electroforming system and method
    Patent number: 11174564
    Abstract: An electroforming system and method for electroforming a component includes an electroforming reservoir with a housing with at least one inlet and at least one outlet, and at least one anode chamber within the housing and fluidly coupled to the at least one inlet. An anode can be located within the at least one anode chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Karthick Vilapakkam Gourishankar, Merin Sebastian, Sandeep Kumar, Gordon Tajiri
  • Electroforming system and method
    Patent number: 11142840
    Abstract: An electroforming system and method for electroforming a component includes an electroforming reservoir with a housing defining a fluid passage. An electroforming chamber can be located within the housing and fluidly coupled to the fluid passage via a set of apertures in at least one wall of the electroforming chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Sandeep Kumar, Merin Sebastian, Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps
  • Mounting assembly and fan casing assembly
    Patent number: 11143105
    Abstract: A fan casing assembly for a turbine engine including a fan casing having a peripheral wall, a surface cooler having a first surface confronting the peripheral wall and a mounting assembly having a lower portion generally retained between the first surface of the annular surface cooler and the peripheral wall and having a floating body extending through the set of fan casing fastener openings and an upper portion located radially exterior of the annular fan casing and operably coupled to the lower portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Bernard Albert Luschek, Dennis Alan McQueen, Derek Thomas Dreischarf, Michael Ralph Storage
  • Foil-air bearing assembly for engine starter
    Patent number: 11125109
    Abstract: An air turbine starter that includes a turbine member for rotatably extracting mechanical power from a flow of fluid, where the turbine member is coupled to a drive shaft to provide a rotational output. The air turbine starter further includes a foil-air bearing assembly and a thrust bearing that rotatably support the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Subrata Nayak, David Raju Yamarthi, David Allan Dranschak, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Pallavi Tripathi, Jasraj Asdev, Sharad Pundlik Patil, Eliel Fresco Rodriguez
  • Component with differing material properties
    Patent number: 11091848
    Abstract: A component can be formed having an integral monolithic body. The integral monolithic body can be formed utilizing electroforming processes such as electrodeposition of metal alloys. The electroformed monolithic body can be formed utilizing multiple anodes powered by multiple power sources. The monolithic body can have differing local material properties determined during formation of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Gordan Tajiri, Donald Templeton, Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Yanzhe Yang
  • Method of manufacturing aircraft engine parts utilizing reusable and reconfigurable smart memory polymer mandrel
    Patent number: 11091847
    Abstract: A manufacturing process for making aircraft engine parts utilizes reusable reconfigurable smart memory polymer mandrel tooling, low temperature metal deposition, and composite part lay-up with resin coated conformable braided carbon fiber sleeves, to fabricate both metal internal engine parts and non-metal external parts for turbine engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries LLC
    Inventors: Yanzhe Yang, Michael Thomas Kenworthy, Tajiri Gordon
  • Gimbaled flexure for spherical flex joints
    Patent number: 11085565
    Abstract: A flexible joint assembly for a joint between a first duct and a second duct for providing a flow of fluid, such as bleed air in an aviation implementation. The flexible joint includes a bellows supported by a mounting assembly having a first support and a second support, each surrounding a portion of the bellows. A set of flexures provided on a joint ring of the joint assemblies can operably couple the first support and the second support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Michael Thomas Kenworthy, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Jason L. Burdette
  • MULTI-BRANCH FURCATING FLOW HEAT EXCHANGER
    Publication number: 20210239401
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided. The heat exchanger provides a first plurality of tubes and a second plurality of flow passages which furcate near one of the first and second manifolds into two or more furcated flow passages and subsequently converge to exit the heat exchanger. The plurality of furcated flow passages are intertwined, reducing the distance between flow passages containing each fluid therebetween to improve thermal transfer. Further, the furcations create changes of direction of the fluid to re-establish new thermal boundary layers within the flow passages to further reduce resistance to thermal transfer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Jason Erno, William Dwight Gerstler
  • Heat exchanger and methods of forming
    Patent number: 11054197
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including a manifold body having at least one fluid passage, a cooling passage section having a body including a set of fluid passages extending through at least a portion of the cooling passage section, and a weld joint fluidly sealing the manifold body and the cooling passage such that at least one of the set of fluid passages is fluidly coupled to the at least one fluid passage of the manifold body and methods of forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Bernard Albert Luschek, Jayme Lee Carper, David Bruce Rader, Derek Thomas Dreischarf
  • Nickel-cobalt material and method of forming
    Patent number: 11053577
    Abstract: A nickel-cobalt material and method of forming includes forming a doped nickel-cobalt precursor material. The method also includes heat treating the doped nickel-cobalt precursor material, wherein the heat treating includes at least heating within a temperature zone below the onset temperature for grain growth in the doped nickel-cobalt precursor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Bruce Patrick Graham, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Lakshmi Krishnan
  • Dual seated by-pass valve for surface coolers
    Patent number: 11029103
    Abstract: A heat exchanger circuit can include a heat exchanger having a body with a plurality of cooling fins for the heat exchanger, a plurality of core cooling channels within the body, a plurality of de-congealing channels in fluid communication with the plurality of core cooling channels, and a by-pass valve in fluid communication with the plurality of core cooling channels and the plurality of de-congealing channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Ralph Storage, Dennis Alan McQueen
  • Methods of forming a strengthened component
    Patent number: 11021802
    Abstract: A method of forming a strengthened component includes forming a sacrificial material into a mold of the component having an outer surface, disposing 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, forming the component by way of electrodisposition of a metallic layer over the exposed mold outer surface and the exposed strengthening insert outer surface, and removing the sacrificial material from the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Sebastian Merin, Balaraju Suresh, Daniel Dyer, Gordon Tajiri, Yanzhe Yang
  • Fan casing assembly with cooler and method of moving
    Patent number: 11008943
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for cooling a fluid within a turbine engine. A fan casing assembly for the turbine engine can include an annular fan casing with a peripheral wall having a flow path defined through the casing. A fan casing cooler includes a body to confront the peripheral wall with at least one conduit configured to carry a flow of heated fluid to convectively cool the heated fluid with a flow of air through the flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Michael Thomas Kenworthy, Dennis Alan McQueen, Dattu G V Jonnalagadda
  • Skewed stator designs for hybrid homopolar electrical machines
    Patent number: 11005312
    Abstract: Provided is a method for implementing skewing in a hybrid homopolar generator. The method includes aligning slots within an axial front segment of a stator, with corresponding slots within an axial back segment of the stator. The method also includes moving, during assembly, the axial front segment and the axial back segment relative to each other such that slots in the axial front segment and the axial back segment form a pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: UNISON INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Michael Saban, Charles Michael Stephens
  • Skewed rotor designs for hybrid homopolar electrical machines
    Patent number: 11005313
    Abstract: Provided is a method for implementing skewing in a hybrid homopolar generator comprising. The method includes aligning inductor poles within an axial front segment of a rotor, with corresponding magnets within an axial back segment of the rotor. The method also includes moving, during assembly, the axial front segment and the axial back segment relative to each other such that inductor poles in the axial front segment and the axial back segment form a pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: UNISON INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Michael Saban, Charles Michael Stephens
  • Multi-branch furcating flow heat exchanger
    Patent number: 10995996
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided. The heat exchanger (40) provides a first plurality of tubes (50) and a second plurality of flow passages (52) which furcate near one of the first (42) and second (44) manifolds into two or more furcated flow passages and subsequently converge to exit the heat exchanger. The plurality of furcated flow passages are intertwined, reducing the distance between flow passages (50,52) containing each fluid therebetween to improve thermal transfer. Further, the furcations create changes of direction of the fluid to re-establish new thermal boundary layers within the flow passages to further reduce resistance to thermal transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Jason Erno, William Dwight Gerstler
  • Duct assembly and method of forming
    Patent number: 10975486
    Abstract: A method of forming a tubular element includes providing an attachment joint, and disposing a mandrel adjacent the attachment joint, where the mandrel can also include an outer or exposed surface. Metal can be disposed on the outer surface of the mandrel to form at least a portion of the tubular element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: David William Millward, Gordon Tajiri, Donald Lee Templeton, Emily Marie Phelps