General Electric Patents

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  • Publication number: 20250118284
    Abstract: An ultrasonic probe lens comprising a lens body comprising a solid material extending outward from an optical lens axis to a periphery, an inner surface of the lens body, and an outer surface of the lens body. A thickness of the lens body as measured from the inner surface to the outer surface varies from an optical lens axis to the periphery such that the lens body is configured with an inner optical profile and an outer optical profile to phase modulate the ultrasonic waves incident upon the lens body to reduce reverberations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Alexis Hubert, Damian Wolff, Giandonato Stallone
  • Patent number: 12272955
    Abstract: A bipole power transmission scheme includes a first converter station positioned in-use remote from a second converter station, and first and second transmission conduits to in-use interconnect the first converter station with the second converter station and thereby permit the first converter station to transmit power to the second converter station. The first converter station includes a first power converter, a second power converter, and a converter station controller which is programmed to selectively transition the bipole power transmission scheme into an asymmetrical monopole configuration, while maintaining the transfer of power from both the first and second power sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Mita Babu Narayanan, Omar Jasim, Carl Barker
  • Patent number: 12272951
    Abstract: Provided is a system and method that can safely generate and execute an outage plan for a power grid based on severe weather-driven events. In one example, the method may include receiving predicted or current operational power system state data from a power grid and weather conditions associated with the power grid, identifying one or more nodes on the power grid to de-energize based on the operational state data and the current weather conditions, determining a sequence of instructions to perform to de-energize the one or more identified nodes based on the operational state data and the current weather conditions associated with the power grid, and generating an outage plan including mitigation steps for ensuring the stability and security of the power grid which includes the determined sequence of instructions to be executed and store the outage plan in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Saugata Swapan Biswas, Tushar, Arvind Mallikeswaran, Pradeep Kumar Manigilla, Srinivas Musunuri
  • Patent number: 12272945
    Abstract: Multi-semiconductor SSPCs that solve bus level problems affecting systems as well as controller level problems affecting individual multi-semiconductor SSPCs are disclosed. Bus level and controller level problems adversely affect multi-semiconductor SSPCs and their associated systems. The disclosed multi-semiconductor SSPCs solve both bus level and controller level problems by implementing controlled rate-change of voltage (dv/dt) ramp-on rate, to ensure that the voltage on the input bus does not collapse when a multi-semiconductor SSPC is commanded closed and that a minimum amount of power is being dissipated evenly across the switching semiconductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter James Handy, Ian David Johnson, Nicholas George Tembe
  • Patent number: 12270541
    Abstract: A combustion system comprising a burner for supplying a mixed flow of fuel and primary air or gas through at least one fuel nozzle to a combustion chamber, a duct in fluid communication with the at least one fuel nozzle for guiding the mixed flow to the at least one fuel nozzle, and a deflector device positioned within the duct upstream of the at least one fuel nozzle to deflect the incoming mixed flow. The deflector device comprises ejection means arranged to eject an auxiliary gas into the duct to deflect the incoming mixed flow in a direction from a center to outer areas of the duct to increase the concentration of the mixed flow in outer areas of the fuel nozzle and decrease the concentration of the mixed flow in the center section of the fuel nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Jakob Heimann, Dragisa Ristic, Andrej Owertschuk, Wadim Pimenov
  • Patent number: 12270546
    Abstract: A dome-deflector assembly for a combustor of a gas turbine includes a dome portion having a dome-side swirler opening therethrough, and a deflector portion having a deflector-side swirler opening therethrough. The dome portion and the deflector portion are connected together to form a dome-deflector cavity therebetween. The deflector portion includes a first-side surface and a second-side surface, the second-side surface being arranged within the dome-deflector cavity, and the second-side surface including a plurality of stress-relief contours arranged in a pattern about the deflector-side swirler opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Hiranya Nath, Asim Ghosal, Sripathi Mohan, Nageswar Ganji
  • Patent number: 12270340
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine having a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order, the turbomachine further including an outer casing and, during operation of the gas turbine engine, an exhaust gas flow from the turbine section; and a fuel cell assembly positioned within the outer casing of the turbomachine, the fuel cell assembly having a fuel cell defining an inlet positioned to receive a portion of the exhaust gas flow, an outlet positioned to provide output products directly to the exhaust gas flow, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Honggang Wang, Brandon Wayne Miller, Michael Anthony Benjamin, Richard L. Hart, Randy M. Vondrell, Ryan St. Pierre
  • Patent number: 12272034
    Abstract: Method (1000) and system (100) for image processing for a medical device is provided. The method (1000) includes acquiring (1010) a plurality of images of a subject using an image acquisition system (110) of the medical device. The method (1000) further includes identifying and differentiating (1020) a plurality of background pixels and a plurality of foreground pixels in the images using the deep learning module (125). The method (1000) further includes suppressing (1030) the identified background pixels using a mask and processing the foreground pixels for subsequent reconstruction and/or visualization tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Apoorva Agarwal, Jignesh Dholakia, Dheeraj Kulkarni, Deepthi S.
  • Patent number: 12271846
    Abstract: A dispatch advisor to assist in selecting operating conditions of a power plant that maximizes operational revenue is described. The dispatch advisor obtains a base load map for operating the power plant to meet base load power demands. The base load map includes a primary base load operating space for attaining target plant power output and efficiency, and an expanded base load portion for attaining higher plant power output and less than optimal efficiency. Both the primary base load operating space and the expanded base load portion associate power output and efficiency values of the power plant that result from a subset of operational parameter values for operating the power plant during base load. The dispatch advisor can transform the flexible base load map into one or more visualizations describing the revenue possibilities associated with operating the power plant based on operating values and attained power output and efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Ilya Alexandrovich Slobodyanskiy, David Leach, Berardino Pezzella
  • Patent number: 12269368
    Abstract: A method of operating an energy management system for a fleet of aircraft, can include receiving a desired flight plan database for the fleet of aircraft, defining at least a desired flight plan for each of the fleet of aircraft and a location of each of the fleet of aircraft, and generating a power source inventory distribution plan for the at least a subset of the desired flight plans for the fleet of aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems Limited
    Inventors: Frazer Pereira, Adam Llywelyn Rudkin, Aishwarya Kollon
  • Patent number: 12269074
    Abstract: A furnace system includes at least one wall that defines a workspace. The workspace includes an aircraft part to be cleaned. One or more vacuum pumps are configured to achieve a predetermined vacuum level in the workspace. A gas purifier is configured to remove impurities in a gas to create a purified gas, the purified gas being directed from the gas purifier into the workspace, the purified gas being of a purity and composition that is effective to disassociate oxides on a surface or in a crack of the aircraft part to be cleaned when the workspace is heated to a predetermined temperature and the predetermined vacuum level is achieved in the workspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Mark Dean Pezzutti
  • Patent number: 12270544
    Abstract: A combustor assembly for a gas turbine engine including an outer casing, the gas turbine engine defining an axial direction, the combustor assembly includes a liner at least partially defining a combustion chamber extending between an aft end and a forward end generally along the axial direction within the outer casing, the liner including an inner surface facing the combustion chamber and an outer surface facing away from the combustion chamber, and a damper assembly extending between the outer casing and the outer surface of the liner, the damper assembly including a selectively separable support and a damper spring, the damper spring being disposed between the support and the liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mark Willard Marusko, Michael Alan Stieg, Brian Christopher Towle
  • Patent number: 12268540
    Abstract: The present application provides a suspension device and an X-ray imaging system. The suspension device is configured to bear a tube device of an X-ray imaging system. The suspension device includes a plurality of sleeves and a guide rail assembly. Cross-sections of the plurality of sleeves have substantially the same shape but different sizes. The plurality of sleeves are sequentially arranged. The guide rail assembly is provided between at least one sleeve and another sleeve adjacent thereto. The guide rail assembly includes a protruding member extending along a surface of the at least one sleeve and a sliding member provided on the another sleeve and engaging with the protruding member. The sliding member is capable of moving relative to the protruding member so as to drive the sleeves to move relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Yuqing Li, Shaobo Gu, Jianqiang Yang, Chunyu Wang
  • Patent number: 12269090
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus, a computing system, and a method for operating an additive manufacturing apparatus are provided. The method includes obtaining two or more images corresponding to respective build layers at a build plate, wherein each image comprises a plurality of data points comprising a feature and corresponding location at the build plate; removing variation between the features of the plurality of data points; and normalizing each feature to remove location dependence in the plurality of data points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Saikat K. Ray Majumder, Naresh S. Iyer, Xiaohu Ping, Subhrajit Roychowdhury
  • Patent number: 12270091
    Abstract: A composition, a machine component coated with the same, and a method of coating the machine component are provided. The composition includes a CoNiCrAlY alloy, where three or more elements of the CoNiCrAlY alloy are present in equimolar amounts, one of the three or more elements of the CoNiCrAlY alloy being aluminum (Al), and where a molar fraction of Al is between about 0.20 and about 0.25. The composition further includes a transition metal boride including at least one of: cobalt boride (Co2B), titanium boride (TiB2), zirconium boride (ZrB2), tantalum boride (TaB2), niobium boride (NiB2), or molybdenum boride (Mo2B), and a refractory alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Sathisha Chikkabikkodu Hanum, Mohandas Nayak, Surinder Singh Pabla, Biju Dasan
  • Patent number: 12270304
    Abstract: A turbine engine comprising an engine core having a rotor and a stator, and a floating seal assembly sealing at least portions of the rotor and the stator relative to a higher-pressure area and a lower-pressure area. The floating seal assembly can comprise a carriage assembly at least partially defining a seal cavity and a seal body floating within the seal cavity. The floating seal assembly can further include at least one of a seal located between the seal body and the carriage assembly, and a seal face located between the seal body and the carriage assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rahul Anil Bidkar, Steven Douglas Johnson, Uttara Vijay Kumar, Randy Thomas Antelo, Keith William Gary
  • Patent number: 12270449
    Abstract: A system and method include with a mass damper for reducing vibrations in a structure or machine. The mass damper includes a frame that is movable linearly along a base, which includes a track gear. A flywheel is in geared engagement with the track gear so as to be rotationally driven as the frame moves linearly relative to the base. A rotation damper is mounted on the frame and is geared engagement with the flywheel, the rotation damper producing a counter-torque against rotation of the flywheel that is proportional to a rotational velocity of the flywheel. The rotation damper has an electrical characteristic that is automatically adjusted to change the counter-torque and tune the mass damper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Charles Erklin Seeley, Eladio Clemente Delgado
  • Patent number: 12270305
    Abstract: A rotary machine seal assembly (200) includes seal segments (102) configured to circumferentially extend around a rotor (108) between a stator (106) and the rotor (108) of a rotary machine. One or more seal segments include a shoe plate (110, 410, 710, 910), a seal base (112, 412, 712, 912), and at least one intermediate member (114, 414, 714). The shoe plate is disposed along the rotor. The seal base is disposed radially outward of the shoe plate. At least one intermediate member is coupled to and disposed between the seal base and the shoe plate. The at least one intermediate member includes an actuator portion (302, 402, 702, 902) having first coefficient of thermal expansion and a constrictor portion (304, 404, 704, 904) having a different, second coefficient of thermal expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rahul Anil Bidkar, Deepak Trivedi, Christopher Edward Wolfe, Darren Lee Hallman, Kristopher Frutschy, Mark Bowen
  • Patent number: 12270308
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are example variable flowpath casings for blade tip clearance control. An example casing for a turbine engine includes an annular substrate extending along an axial direction, the annular substrate including a first surface and a second surface that is radially inward relative to the first surface; an actuator structure coupled to the second surface of the annular substrate; and a smart structure cantilevered from the second surface of the annular substrate, the smart structure including: a support structure, a first region of the support structure coupled to the second surface of the annular substrate, a second region of the support structure coupled to the actuator structure; and a radially inward surface defining a variable surface, the support structure to move the variable surface in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Naveena K P, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Domala Uma Maheshwar, Kishore Budumuru, Kudum Shinde, Abhishek Goverdhan
  • Patent number: 12270342
    Abstract: A thermal management system includes a thermal circuit having a thermal transport bus with a thermal fluid flowing therethrough. The thermal transport bus includes first and second bus segments. First and second thermal loads are on the first and second bus segments, respectively, and have different first and second inlet temperature requirements. The thermal management system includes a plurality of heat exchangers in thermal communication with the first and second thermal loads. The heat exchangers include a first heat exchanger and one or more second heat exchangers. The first heat exchanger is on one of the first or second bus segments for rejecting heat to engine fuel. The thermal fluid is split between each of the first and second bus segments such that only a portion of the thermal fluid flows through the first heat exchanger to accommodate the different first and second inlet temperature requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Eric Barre, Brandon Wayne Miller, Leonardo Aguilar Willys, Victor Moreno Patan
  • Patent number: 12270337
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine oil flow control system can include a variable flow oil pump useful to provide oil at varying rates to a variety of oil consumers, such as, power gearboxes, engine shaft bearings, electrical generators, etc. Oil flow control valves that have an ability to provide a variable flow of oil can be used in conjunction with the variable flow oil pump. Flow sensors can be used along with an oil flow controller to measure a flow of oil at various points in the gas turbine engine oil flow control system. The oil flow controller can use information from the flow sensors along with a variable consumption demand association with one or more of the oil consumers (either provided to the oil controller or calculated based upon an operational need of the oil consumer) to change operation of the variable flow oil pump and/or oil flow control valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Ryan Reepmeyer, Arthur William Sibbach
  • Patent number: 12270306
    Abstract: An engine component with an abradable material and treatment is disclosed herein. An example engine component includes a substrate having a first thickness and defining at least a first substrate surface, the substrate extending along an axial direction, an abradable material on the first substrate surface, the abradable material defining a first abradable material surface, a second abradable material surface spaced radially apart from the first abradable material surface and defining a second thickness, and a treatment, the treatment extending from the first abradable material surface through at least a portion of the first thickness of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Neelesh Sarawate, Stephan Priebe, Wojciech Sak
  • Patent number: 12270317
    Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine includes a body defining a pressure side and a suction side, the body extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge and also extending radially to define an outer edge. A radially-extending plenum can be disposed at the outer edge of the airfoil. A flared portion can be disposed at the outer edge of the body extending from the suction side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Elia Hayek, Victor Hugo Silva Correia
  • Patent number: 12270303
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to seal assemblies for a turbomachine. The seal assemblies include stationary and rotating components and at least one interface between the stationary and rotating components. The seal assembly further includes a self-lubricating lattice element made of carbon or a carbon-based material. The self-lubricating lattice element may have a porous and compressible microstructure capable of retaining a liquid substance. During engine operation, the self-lubricating lattice element can compress and expel some portion of the liquid substance to form a liquid-containing layer between the rotating and stationary components of the seal assembly. Also described herein are self-lubricating wear sleeves for use in other portions of the turbomachine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Srinivasan Swaminathan, Anand Madihalli Srinivasan, Shalini Thimmegowda, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger
  • Patent number: 12272023
    Abstract: Systems/techniques that facilitate deep learning multi-planar reformatting of medical images are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a three-dimensional medical image. In various aspects, the system can localize, via execution of a machine learning model, a set of landmarks depicted in the three-dimensional medical image, a set of principal anatomical planes depicted in the three-dimensional medical image, and a set of organs depicted in the three-dimensional medical image. In various instances, the system can determine an anatomical orientation exhibited by the three-dimensional medical image, based on the set of landmarks, the set of principal anatomical planes, or the set of organs. In various cases, the system can rotate the three-dimensional medical image, such that the anatomical orientation now matches a predetermined anatomical orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Bipul Das, Rakesh Mullick, Deepa Anand, Sandeep Dutta, Uday Damodar Patil, Maud Bonnard
  • Patent number: 12272028
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a magnetic resonance imaging system and method, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method comprises: performing a medical scan of a subject and acquiring a first medical image having a first noise interference artifact, and performing an additional scan of the subject to acquire a second medical image, wherein the second medical image has a second noise interference artifact, and the location mapping of the second noise interference artifact in the first medical image is symmetrical to the location of the first noise interference artifact relative to a pixel center of the first medical image; and performing synthesis-related processing on the first medical image and the second medical image to acquire a post-processed image with reduced noise interference artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Fuqiang Chen, Kun Wang, Bohao Li, Liya Ma
  • Patent number: 12270879
    Abstract: A system for acquiring an image in which deterioration of vascular signals due to improved water-fat swap is provided. The system includes a magnetic resonance imaging device, which receives an out-of-phase signal and in-phase signal from an imaging site including a blood vessel. The system also includes a processor that processes a digital signal including data representing the out-of-phase signal and in-phase signal. The processor executes an operation including: generating a water image Wa based on the digital signal; and adding a signal intensity |Iin| of the out-of-phase signal and a signal intensity of the in-phase signal to the water image Wa to generate a vascular image representing the blood vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventor: Naoyuki Takei
  • Patent number: 12270882
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging system and method. Specifically, an imaging system comprises: a positioning image acquisition unit, configured to acquire a positioning image of a scanning object; a monitoring slice image acquisition unit, configured to determine a key point corresponding to the position of a target region of interest in the positioning image by using a neural network, and acquire a monitoring slice image of the scanning object at the position of the key point; and a target region-of-interest segmentation unit, configured to segment the monitoring slice image to obtain the target region of interest. The present disclosure can accurately acquire the position of the monitoring slice, and can accurately obtain the target region of interest through segmentation by a cascaded coarse segmentation and fine segmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Jingyi Yang, Mingyang Yang, Yanran Xu, Yuting Dou, Bingjie Zhao
  • Patent number: 12271171
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for asset health assessment and fleet management. An example method may include classifying a first power system asset into a first sub-system and a second sub-system. The example method may also include measuring, by a processor of a protection relay and from a first power system asset, electrical, thermal, and/or mechanical data associated with the first power system asset. The example method may also include identifying a first fault feature for the first sub-system, wherein the first fault feature is influenced by load oscillations in the first power system asset. The example method may also include comparing the first fault feature to a second fault feature of a third sub-system in a second power system asset, wherein the second fault feature is the same as the first fault feature, and wherein the second fault feature is not associated with load oscillations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Balakrishna Pamulaparthy, Mitalkumar Kanabar, Austin Byrne, Umar Naseem Khan
  • Patent number: 12263017
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to use of a workflow for automatic prescription of different radiological imaging scan planes across different anatomies and modalities. The automated prescription of such imaging scan planes helps ensure contiguous visualization of the different landmark structures. Unlike prior approaches, the disclosed technique determines the necessary planes using the localizer images itself and does not explicitly segment or delineate the landmark structures to perform plane prescription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Dattesh Dayanand Shanbhag, Chitresh Bhushan, Arathi Sreekumari, Andre de Almeida Maximo, Rakesh Mullick, Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo
  • Patent number: 12264627
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided. The heat exchanger includes one or more exchanger units that each have a core and manifolds. The core of an exchanger unit is formed by multiple unit cells coupled together in flow communication to create a flow distribution grid. Each unit cell has at a first primary channel, a second primary channel, a first secondary channel in flow communication with the first primary channel, and a second secondary channel in flow communication with the second primary channel. The first secondary channel traverses through the second primary channel and the second secondary channel traverses through the first primary channel. Each manifold includes two chambers for separating fluids flowing through the heat exchanger, with one chamber being in flow communication with one of the primary channels and having one or more tubes traversing therethrough to provide flow communication between the other primary channel and the other chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Eyitayo James Owoeye
  • Patent number: 12264619
    Abstract: Apparatuses and systems are provided herein for unducted propulsion systems. The system includes an aft housing for low drag for high subsonic sustained flight. A plurality of blades are affixed to the aft housing, wherein the housing defines a flowpath curve extending from the axial extent of the aft blade root to the aft end of the aft housing. The flowpath curve is described by an axial direction parallel to an axis of rotation and a radius from the axis of rotation. The flowpath curve includes first point having a first radius where the radius reaches a maximum aft of the aft blade root and a second point forward of the first point having a second radius where the radius stops decreasing. The ratio of the first radius to the second radius is greater than or equal to 1.081.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Syed Arif Khalid, Daniel L. Tweedt, David B. Riddle
  • Patent number: 12264590
    Abstract: A fan assembly for an engine has a fan blade, a disk having a disk segment, a trunnion mechanism having a trunnion extending at least partially through the disk segment, and first and second attachment systems. The trunnion has a platform and a shaft. The fan blade is adjacent to the platform of the trunnion. The trunnion is attached to the disk segment using the first attachment system along a preload path. The first and second attachment systems further include first and second retention features, respectively, separate from the preload path. During normal operation of the fan assembly, the first attachment system retains the trunnion within the disk along a first load path. Upon a failure in the trunnion, the first and second retention features together retain the trunnion within the disk segment along a second load path, the first load path being different than the second load path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav, Nicholas Joseph Kray, Nitesh Jain
  • Patent number: 12264690
    Abstract: Damping devices, turbomachines, and methods of damping vibration are provided. For example, a damping device for damping vibration of a shaft rotatable about an axis of rotation is provided. The damping device defines radial and axial directions. The damping device comprises a bearing, a housing, and a damper element. The housing and damper element define a cavity therebetween for receipt of a damping fluid. The cavity has a length along the axial direction that is curved away from the axis of rotation. As another example, a turbomachine comprising a shaft rotatable about an axis of rotation includes a damping device positioned annularly about the shaft. The damping device comprises a housing and a damper element defining a cavity therebetween for receipt of a damping fluid that has a curved shape. The cavity is curved in a plane extending along the radial and axial directions and including the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Narayanan Payyoor, Peeyush Pankaj
  • Patent number: 12265465
    Abstract: Provided is a system communicatively coupled to a network including a plurality of aviation assets. The system includes a processor; a memory including instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations including detecting a change in a state of the network, the change being characterized by comparing a previous state of the network with a current state of the network, and the change being associated with one or more assets of the plurality of assets. The operations also include fetching configuration data and test data from a plurality of sources, the fetching being responsive to detecting the change; generating, based on the change, the configuration data, the test data, one or more verification scripts; and executing a specified test utilizing the one or more verification scripts, the specified test being configured to analyze one or more assets of the plurality of aviation assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Michael A. Viola, Jacob E. Drehobl
  • Patent number: 12267012
    Abstract: A multilevel converter system is provided. The system includes a converter and a converter controller interfaced with the converter. The converter controller includes a voltage loop, a current loop, and a voltage compensation loop. The voltage loop is configured to receive first and second voltages from the first and second segments of the converter and a reference voltage. The current loop is configured to receive a current output of the converter, a reference current, and a balancing reference current. The voltage compensation loop is configured to receive the first and second voltages and a sign signal. The converter controller is configured to generate first and second pulse-width modulation (PWM) signals using output signals from the current loop and the output compensation signals from the voltage compensation loop. The PWM signals are configured to control the switches of the converter and to balance the first voltage with the second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: GE GRID SOLUTIONS LLC
    Inventors: Zheyu Zhang, Tomas Sadilek, Ramanujam Ramabhadran, Hao Tu
  • Patent number: 12264110
    Abstract: A system for coating ceramic fibers for use in manufacturing a ceramic matric composite (CMC) article includes a frame having a plurality of frame members arranged so as to create a void therebetween. At least one of frame members includes a hollow body and at least one perforated hole defined in the hollow body. Thus, the ceramic fibers are securable at respective ends of the frame and extend across the void. The frame also includes an inlet in fluid communication with the perforated hole(s) so as to allow a coating material to flow into and through the hollow body and out of the perforated hole(s) at a location of at least a portion of one of the ceramic fibers. As such, the coating material is configured to cause the portion of one of the ceramic fibers to separate from the frame such that the portion is uniformly coated with the coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John Tam Nguyen, Clifford Takashi Tanaka, Theodore Robert Grossman, Reza T. Tavana
  • Patent number: 12264588
    Abstract: A liquid fuel system for a turbine engine may include one or more sensors configured to generate sensor outputs corresponding to one or more phase properties of a fuel supplied to the turbine engine through a fuel pathway, and a controller configured to generate control commands configured to control one or more controllable components of the liquid fuel system based at least in part on the sensor outputs. The one or more sensors may include one or more phase detection sensors. The fuel may include hydrogen. The fuel may have a liquid phase state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Arthur William Sibbach, Brandon Wayne Miller
  • Patent number: 12264490
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a tower structure, the method including printing and depositing, with at least one variable-width deposition nozzle of a printhead assembly, one or more layers of at least one wall element of the tower structure, the at least one wall element having an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface. The method also including forming, with the at least one variable-width deposition nozzle, at least one void into the at least one wall element. The method also including placing at least one reinforcement member within the at least one void so as to position the at least one reinforcement member closer to a neutral axis of the at least one wall element than at least one of the outer circumferential surface or the inner circumferential surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Norman Arnold Turnquist, Biao Fang, Pascal Meyer, Gregory Edward Cooper, Collin McKee Sheppard
  • Patent number: 12264951
    Abstract: A fuel flow measuring system includes an ultrasonic fuel flow sensor. The fuel flow sensor includes a first transducer and a second transducer. The first transducer is excited at multiple different excitation frequencies and a voltage, an electric current, and a phase difference between the voltage and the electric current is sensed at the first transducer during excitation. Data points are generated based on the sensed readings and a model is fit to the data points to determine a complex impedance spectrum. The complex impedance spectrum indicates a range of excitation frequencies within a range of a peak resonance frequency of the first transducer. One or more characteristics of excitation signals directed to the second transducer are set based on the determined complex impedance spectrum. In this manner, the signal to noise ratio of ultrasonic signals emitted by the second transducer and received by the first transducer can be maximized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Ryan Reepmeyer, Cameron Roy Nott, Emad Andarawis Andarawis, Kirk Dennis Wallace
  • Patent number: 12264591
    Abstract: A method of repairing a component of a gas turbine engine in situ, wherein the component includes a deposit, includes directing a flow of gas, which may be an oxygen-containing gas, to the deposit of the component; and heating the component including the deposit while the component is installed in the gas turbine engine and for a duration sufficient to substantially remove the deposit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: General Electric Company, Oliver Crispin Robotics Limited
    Inventors: Michael Robert Millheam, Andrew Crispin Graham, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., David Scott Diwinsky, Jeremy Clyde Bailey, Michael Edward Eriksen, Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 12264597
    Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine. The component includes a continuous fiber blade including an airfoil extending radially between a root and a tip and a blade attachment feature positioned at or adjacent to the root. The component further includes a platform coupled to the root of the continuous fiber blade. The platform includes a plurality of chopped fibers. Additionally, the component includes a thermoplastic polymer contained in both the continuous fiber blade and the platform. Moreover, the continuous fiber blade and platform are coupled together such that the continuous fiber blade and platform form a monolithic composite body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gregory Carl Gemeinhardt, Nicholas Joseph Kray, Andreas Mastorakis
  • Patent number: 12266036
    Abstract: A control circuit accesses a memory having stored therein total detected computed tomography image signal information in a projection domain for an object, a first model representing object scatter, a second model representing background scatter, and a third model representing detector crosstalk. Prior to a reconstruction step, the control circuit processes the total detected computed tomography image signal information in the projection domain for the object as a function of each of the first model, the second model, and the third model to thereby compensate for object scatter, background scatter, and detector crosstalk by providing scatter and crosstalk-corrected computed tomography image signal information in the projection domain for the object. The control circuit can then carry out a reconstruction step using the scatter and crosstalk-corrected computed tomography image signal information in the projection domain for the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mingye Wu, Xin Li
  • Patent number: 12264631
    Abstract: A propulsion system includes at least two propulsors. The at least two propulsors each include a fan and a controller having one or more processors configured to implement controller logic. The controller logic includes a phase angle control scheme and a speed control scheme. In implementing the controller logic, the one or more processors are configured to: determine an actual pairwise phase difference between a pair of propulsors of the at least two propulsors; generate a reference phase angle for the pair of propulsors; compare the actual pairwise phase difference to the reference phase angle to generate a phase error; provide the phase error to a phase controller module to generate an output based on the phase error; and adjust a speed of at least one propulsor of the at least two propulsors based on the output to drive the phase error towards zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stefan Joseph Cafaro, Kalpesh Singal
  • Patent number: 12263636
    Abstract: Systems and methods for optical based monitoring of additive manufacturing processes are provided. In one example a method includes obtaining optical data representing a layer of a structure being manufactured using an additive manufacturing process, comparing the optical data with a standard optical representation associated with the structure, determining one or more nonconformance conditions between the optical data representing the layer and the standard optical representation, and implementing a control action based at least in part on the one or more nonconformance conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Scott Alan Gold, John Poland
  • Patent number: 12264952
    Abstract: A fuel flow measuring system includes an ultrasonic fuel flow sensor. The fuel flow sensor includes a first transducer and a second transducer. The first transducer is excited at multiple different excitation frequencies and a voltage, an electric current, and a phase difference between the voltage and the electric current is sensed at the first transducer during excitation. Data points are generated based on the sensed readings and a model is fit to the data points to determine a complex impedance spectrum. The complex impedance spectrum indicates a range of excitation frequencies within a range of a peak resonance frequency of the first transducer. One or more characteristics of excitation signals directed to the second transducer are set based on the determined complex impedance spectrum. In this manner, the signal to noise ratio of ultrasonic signals emitted by the second transducer and received by the first transducer can be maximized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Ryan Reepmeyer, Cameron Roy Nott, Emad Andarawis Andarawis, Kirk Dennis Wallace
  • Patent number: 12263024
    Abstract: A medical imaging system includes a CT imaging system including a gantry having a bore, rotatable about an axis of rotation. The CT imaging system includes a table configured to move a subject to be imaged into and out of the bore, a radiation source mounted on the gantry and configured to emit an X-ray beam, and a detector configured to detect the X-ray beam. The medical imaging system includes a LiDAR scanning system physically coupled to the CT imaging system. The LiDAR scanning system is configured to acquire data of the subject from different angular positions relative to the axis of rotation. The medical imaging system includes processing circuitry configured to receive the data acquired with the LiDAR scanning system, to generate a three-dimensional (3D) measurement of the subject, and to utilize the 3D measurement in a subsequent workflow process for a CT scan of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Arka Datta, Brian Edward Nett
  • Publication number: 20250102576
    Abstract: A test device to test a Rogowski coil and an associated protection device connected to the coil via conductors. The test device includes means to generate at least one test voltage, transformation means to transform the test voltage into a voltage representative of a secondary signal generated by the Rogowski coil, the transformation means including output terminals for connection to conductors, and means to process an output voltage of the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventor: Patrice JUGE
  • Patent number: 12259292
    Abstract: A seal monitoring apparatus is provided. The seal monitoring apparatus includes one or more pressure sensors and a controller in communication with the one or more pressure sensors. The one or more pressure sensors is mounted at a seal of a turbine to measure pressure on a first side of the seal and/or a second side of the seal. The controller is configured to receive pressure data from the one or more pressure sensors and determine a condition of the seal based at least in part on the pressure data. The controller is configured to output a signal upon determining a change in the condition of the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Bugra H. Ertas, Deepak Trivedi, Scott Alan Schimmels, Joseph Herbert Fields, Rahul Anil Bidkar, Eric R. Westervelt, Andrew Kevin Winn
  • Patent number: 12259346
    Abstract: A system and a method for gas sensing while correcting for an interferent condition around a gas sensor. The gas sensor provides dielectric excitation of a gas sensing element and an interferent-compensating sensing element arranged as a single electrical circuit at a set of frequencies, measures impedance responses of the gas sensing element and the interferent-compensating sensing element to the dielectric excitation at the set of frequencies, determines, based on the impedance responses of the gas sensing element and the interferent-compensating sensing element to the dielectric excitation the identities, the respective concentrations, or a combination thereof, of at least one analyte gas of the monitored environment, corrected for one or more sensed interferent conditions of the ambient environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventor: Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo