Patents Assigned to United Technologies Corportion
  • Method for additively manufacturing components
    Patent number: 10299362
    Abstract: A nozzle for additive manufacturing includes a plasma gas tube operable to provide plasma gas to a plasma flame, and a source material tube arranged concentrically inside the plasma gas tube such that the source material passes through the plasma flame. An apparatus and method for additive manufacturing are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORTION
    Inventors: Wayde R. Schmidt, Paul Sheedy
  • Tool for disposing laser blocking material in an airfoil
    Patent number: 6224361
    Abstract: A tool 12 for disposing laser blocking material 52 on the interior of an airfoil 10 is disclosed. Various construction details are developed which speed the process. In one detailed embodiment, the tool has reciprocatable jaws 92, 94 which open and close to urge a mask 78 into engagement with the airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: United Technologies Corportion
    Inventors: Gordon M. Reed, Kenneth M. Boucher, Stanley J. Funk, James F. Dolan, William A. Nehez, Jr., Christopher P. Jordan
  • Enhanced performance blasting agent
    Patent number: 5589660
    Abstract: An improved blasting composition comprising from about 13 to 15 weight percent unrefined petroleum wax, from about 15 to 20 weight percent aluminum powder, from about 10 to 52 weight percent sodium perchlorate and from about 10 to 52 weight percent ammonium nitrate. The blasting composition may be used in combination with ANFO and in place of conventional solid AP propellants and represents an economical alternative thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: United Technologies Corportion
    Inventors: Robert W. Perry, Forrest R. Goodson