Patents Assigned to United Technologies
  • Publication number: 20250085676
    Abstract: A device control method, comprising: displaying a device control interface corresponding to a scenario picture of a target scenario; in the device control interface, displaying a control assembly corresponding to at least one target device in the target scenario, wherein the control assembly is bound to a target device which is identified on the basis of an image in the target scenario; and in response to a control operation which is triggered for the control assembly, sending a corresponding control instruction to the target device, which corresponds to the control assembly, so as to control the target device to execute the control instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Lumi United Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jing LU, Jiabo YANG
  • Publication number: 20250068148
    Abstract: A device processing method and system, and a computer device and a readable storage medium. The method includes: upon acquiring configuration recommendation information for a device in a target space, which information is obtained by means of performing analysis on the basis of historical device operation data, pushing and displaying the device configuration recommendation information; in response to a selection operation for at least one device configuration item, the terminal device displaying device control information corresponding to a selected target device configuration item; and in response to a configuration operation for the selected target device configuration item, performing configuration processing on a corresponding device on the basis of the target device configuration item, wherein the device configuration item is generated according to the historical device operation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Lumi United Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huifang WU, Long ZHANG, Lu HUANG, Xiaoyi TANG
  • Publication number: 20250060714
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a device control method, which includes: obtaining a scene control instruction for multiple devices, wherein the scene control instruction is configured to instruct the multiple devices to execute corresponding scene actions respectively; identifying first devices in the multiple devices, wherein the first device is a device that has been configured with scene action record; if at least one first device is identified, sending the scene control instruction to the first devices in a multicast transmission mode to instruct the first devices to respond to the scene control instruction and synchronously execute a scene action recorded for the first devices in the scene action record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Lumi United Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongheng SONG, Canwu HUANG, Eugene Yanjun YOU
  • Patent number: 11561007
    Abstract: A combustor liner for a gas turbine engine, the combustor liner including a panel configured to at least partially define a combustion chamber. The combustor liner further includes a shell configured to mount to the panel and form a gap between the panel and the shell. The panel includes a stud and a plurality of a stand-off pins proximate to the stud defining a cavity therebetween. The shell includes a plurality of angled impingement holes located away from the cavity but extending through the shell at an orientation such that cooling air passing through the angled impingement holes is directed towards the cavity between adjacent stand-off pins and at an acute angle relative to the stud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Fumitaka Ichihashi
  • Patent number: 11486472
    Abstract: An epicyclic gear system includes an input sun gear configured to receive rotational input from a turbine of a turbo charger. A first set of planet gears is distributed around and meshes with the input sun gear. A carrier holds the first set of planet gears and defines a rotational axis about which the carrier rotates. A second set of planet gears is mounted to the carrier. An output sun gear is included, wherein the second set of planet gears are distributed around and mesh with the output sun. The output sun gear is configured to deliver rotational power to an internal combustion engine. The carrier is configured to selectively be driven by a variable speed drive to regulate output to the output sun over a range of input rotational speeds of the input sun gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: United Technologies Advanced Projects Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Hodgson, Vlastislav Fric
  • Patent number: 11407225
    Abstract: An inkjet chip including a substrate, a plurality of control elements, an insulating layer, a plurality of first conductive patterns, a plurality of second conductive patterns and a plurality of heaters is provided. The insulating layer is disposed on the control element and has a plurality of openings. The openings each have a first length in a first direction. Each first conductive pattern has a first sidewall overlapping one of the openings and is electrically connected between one of the control elements and one of the heaters. Each second conductive pattern has a second sidewall overlapping the one of the openings and is electrically connected to one of the heaters. A distance in the first direction is included between the first sidewall and the second sidewall opposing to each other. The distance is less than the first length. A thermal bubble inkjet printhead adopting the inkjet chip is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: International United Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuan-Liang Lan, Chih-Shun Chuang, Chao-Cheng Lan
  • Patent number: 11305883
    Abstract: A hybrid propulsion system includes a heat engine configured to drive a heat engine shaft. An electric motor configured to drive a motor shaft. A transmission system is connected to receive rotational input power from each of the heat engine shaft and the motor shaft and to convert the rotation input power to output power. A first lubrication/coolant system is connected for circulating a first lubricant/coolant fluid through the heat engine. A second lubricant/coolant system in fluid isolation from the first lubrication/coolant system is connected for circulating a second lubricant/coolant fluid through the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: United Technologies Advanced Projects, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean Dubreuil, Eric LaTulipe
  • Publication number: 20210396256
    Abstract: An attachment assembly includes a first component, a second component, and a locking device assembly. The locking device assembly is structured to move between an unlocked position corresponding to the second component being attachable to, and removable from, the first component and a locked position corresponding to the second component being securely coupled to the first component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Penn United Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jesse Benedict Rothschild
  • Patent number: 11174798
    Abstract: A compressor case for a gas turbine engine includes an annular body that extends circumferentially around a center axis and extends axially along the center axis. A first bleed manifold is formed on an outer surface of the annular body and encloses a first plenum. A second bleed manifold is formed on the outer surface of the annular body and is axially aft of the first bleed manifold. The second bleed manifold encloses a second plenum. A bleed inlet extends through the annular body and into the first bleed manifold. Cooling passages are formed in the annular body, and each of the cooling passages extends from the first plenum to the second plenum and fluidically connects the first plenum to the second plenum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Gary D. Roberge
  • Publication number: 20210324945
    Abstract: An epicyclic gear system includes an input sun gear configured to receive rotational input from a turbine of a turbo charger. A first set of planet gears is distributed around and meshes with the input sun gear. A carrier holds the first set of planet gears and defines a rotational axis about which the carrier rotates. A second set of planet gears is mounted to the carrier. An output sun gear is included, wherein the second set of planet gears are distributed around and mesh with the output sun. The output sun gear is configured to deliver rotational power to an internal combustion engine. The carrier is configured to selectively be driven by a variable speed drive to regulate output to the output sun over a range of input rotational speeds of the input sun gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: United Technologies Advanced Projects Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Hodgson, Vlastislav Fric
  • Patent number: 11143142
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a first spool, a second spool, a primary combustor, and a diffuser. The first spool includes a first compressor rotationally driven by a first turbine via a first shaft. The second spool includes a second compressor driven by a second turbine via a second shaft. The first compressor, the diffuser, and the primary combustor are arranged in series to provide a compressed airflow discharged from the first compressor to the primary combustor via the diffuser, which includes walls that diverge towards the primary combustor. The second compressor is fluidly coupled to the diffuser to receive at least a portion of the compressed airflow from the diffuser. The second turbine is fluidly coupled to the diffuser to discharge an expanded airflow to the diffuser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Hanrahan, Daniel Bernard Kupratis
  • Publication number: 20210310363
    Abstract: A rotor blade for a gas turbine engine including an inner ply layer group includes a flared region and an airfoil region, a neck region between the flared region and the airfoil region; and a platform shell that comprises a platform shell root region, a platform shell platform region, and a platform shell neck region between the platform shell root region and the platform shell platform region, the platform shell root region sheathes the flared region, and the platform shell neck region flares outwardly away from the neck region to intersect the platform shell platform region at a platform shell neck region perimeter around an airfoil opening perimeter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Publication number: 20210283681
    Abstract: A furnace for removing a molybdenum-alloy refractory metal core through sublimation comprising a retort furnace having an interior; a sublimation fixture insertable within the interior of the retort furnace, the sublimation fixture configured to receive at least one turbine blade having the molybdenum-alloy refractory metal core; a flow passage thermally coupled to the retort furnace configured to heat a fluid flowing through the flow passage and deliver the fluid to the molybdenum-alloy refractory metal core causing sublimation of the molybdenum-alloy refractory metal core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel A. Bales, Thomas DeMichael
  • Publication number: 20210262415
    Abstract: A nacelle assembly of a gas turbine engine includes an annular structure defining a central axis, and having a radially inward surface and a radially outward surface, the radially inward surface at least partially defining a bypass duct. An aft portion of the radially inward surface at least partially defines an axially extending convergent-divergent exit nozzle. A secondary nozzle flap is radially spaced from the aft portion of the radially inward surface. The secondary nozzle flap and the aft portion of the radially inward surface define a secondary bypass duct therebetween. The secondary nozzle flap is operably connected to the annular structure such that the secondary nozzle flap is selectably movable relative to the aft portion of the radially inward surface, thereby changing a cross-sectional area of a secondary bypass duct exit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Dmitriy B. Sidelkovskiy, Steven H. Zysman, Nathan L. Messersmith
  • Publication number: 20210262400
    Abstract: A control system for limiting a power turbine torque of a gas turbine engine is disclosed. In various embodiments, the control system includes an engine control module configured to output an effector command signal to a gas generator of the gas turbine engine; a power turbine governor module configured to output to the engine control module a power turbine torque request signal; and a power turbine torque limiter module configured to output to the power turbine governor module a power turbine speed rate signal to limit a power turbine speed overshoot of the gas turbine engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Chaohong Cai, Richard P. Meisner, Timothy J. Crowley, David Lei Ma
  • Patent number: 11098655
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes an engine spool with a turbine section, a propeller, a motor, and a variable drive arrangement. The variable drive arrangement mechanically couples the engine spool to the propeller, and includes a first gear connection rotationally coupled to the propeller, a second gear connection rotationally coupled to the engine spool, and a sprag clutch rotationally coupled to the first gear connection. The sprag clutch is configured to passively decouple the motor from the first gear connection when a torque input from the engine spool exceeds a torque input from the motor, and is configured to passively couple the motor to the first gear connection when the torque input from motor exceeds a torque input from the engine spool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel Bernard Kupratis
  • Publication number: 20210254480
    Abstract: A rotor disk assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a rotor disk that defines an axis, the rotor disk comprising a slot within a rim of the disk and a spacer within the slot, the spacer having a clearance feature sized to permit rotation of a rotor blade from an insertion position to an installed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Weston Behling, Michael C. Weber, William B. McLean, William S. Pratt, Joon Ha
  • Publication number: 20210254232
    Abstract: A nickel-phosphorus alloy coating comprising a substrate having a surface; a nickel phosphorus alloy coating plated to the surface, the nickel phosphorus alloy consisting of phosphorus from 15.0 wt. percent to 20.9 wt. percent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Lei Jin, Ryan M. Brodeur, Poulomi Sannigrahi
  • Publication number: 20210254494
    Abstract: A vane arm connection system for a gas turbine engine includes a vane stem having a head with flat contact surfaces; a vane arm having a claw, the claw having opposed arms having inwardly facing surfaces engaging the flat contact surfaces of the head; and a torque transfer member having a body defining an opening for engaging the flat contact surfaces of the head of the vane stem, and at least one arm extending from the body to contact the claw, whereby load from torque is transferred away from the inwardly facing surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher F. Duffy
  • Patent number: D1062110
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Shenzhen Tianzheng United Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Tianbin Ke