General Electric Patents

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  • Publication number: 20240085505
    Abstract: A radio frequency coil assembly for an MRI system. A support structure extends between a first end and a second end in a first direction and between an inner surface and an opposite outer surface in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The support structure has channels that extend into the support structure in the second direction. An RF coil is configured to transmit and/or receive RF signals. The RF coil is supported by the outer surface of the support structure. The channels are at least partially positioned between the support structure and the RF coil in the first direction and are configured to convey a cooling medium to cool the support structure in use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Edwin L. Legall, Louis J. Vannatta, Gaines Hartley, William J. Bonneau, Thomas K. Foo, Dan K. Spence
  • Publication number: 20240084703
    Abstract: Methods for repairing a thermal barrier coating deposited on a component with localized spallation of the thermal barrier coating includes depositing a primer slurry on a thermally grown oxide of the component exposed by the localized spallation, depositing a ceramic slurry on the primer slurry, and heating the primer slurry and the ceramic slurry. The primer slurry includes a primer that includes at least one of a metal and a metal oxide. The ceramic slurry includes a ceramic material, a ceramic slurry binder material, and a ceramic slurry fluid carrier. Heating the primer slurry and the ceramic slurry forms a first chemical bond between the primer and the thermally grown oxide and a second chemical bond between the primer and the ceramic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Atanu Saha, Hrishikesh Keshavan, Mamatha Nagesh, Ambarish J. Kulkarni, Bernard P. Bewlay
  • Patent number: 11928972
    Abstract: A method may include detecting, during a flight of an aircraft system, a conflict with a planned route of the aircraft system, determining one or more alternate routes for the aircraft system to avoid the conflict, wherein each of the one or more alternate routes avoid secondary conflicts with active flight operations, transmitting first data to cause first visual information indicating the conflict and second visual information indicating the one or more alternate routes to be displayed to a user, receiving second data indicating one of the one or more alternate routes being selected by the user, and updating the planned route of the aircraft system to include the alternate route selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventor: Szabolcs A. Borgyos
  • Patent number: 11925991
    Abstract: A milling device for machining a slot into an inner surface of a casing for a gas turbine engine. The milling device includes a frame assembly including multiple structural guides configured to engage structural features on the inner surface of the casing to maintain an axial position of the milling device relative to a longitudinal axis of the casing. The milling device also includes a milling cutter coupled to the frame assembly. The milling device is configured to be displaced in a circumferential direction relative to the longitudinal axis to machine the slot, via the milling cutter, along the inner surface of the casing in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Fabian Gubelmann, Andrew David Ellis, Robert David Jones, Thomas Gloor, Roman Stefan Peter
  • Patent number: 11925786
    Abstract: A system for drawing a solution is provided. The system includes a filter, a vacuum source, and an actuator. The filter has an input port, a first output port, a second output port, and a flow path defined in part by the input port and the second output port. The vacuum source is in fluid communication with the first output port and operative to apply a vacuum to the flow path. The actuator is operative to facilitate movement of the solution along the flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Arnaud Comment, Rui Chen, Albert Chen, Galen Reed, Jonathan Murray
  • Patent number: 11927142
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for estimating or determining a rate or an amount of fuel coke formation in a fuel system, such as of a gas turbine engine. The system is operable to control a rate of fuel coke formation. The system may include a sensor that measures an operating parameter associated with fuel coke formation in the fuel system. A controller is in communication with the sensor to receive the signal therefrom for determining an amount or a rate of fuel coking in the fuel system. Based on this determination the controller may adjust the rate of fuel coke formation by adjusting the operation of the turbine engine, a thermal management system of the turbine engine, or the fuel system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric R. Westervelt, Stefan Joseph Cafaro, James R. Reepmeyer, Arthur W. Sibbach, Constantinos Minas
  • Patent number: 11926106
    Abstract: An additively manufactured component and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The additively manufactured component includes a cross sectional layer having a surface surrounding the cross sectional layer. The cross sectional layer is formed by moving a focal point of an energy source over a bed of additive material. A surface irregularity is formed on the surface by manipulating the energy level of the energy source. The surface may include a datum feature positioned at a predetermined location relative to the surface irregularity and the surface irregularity may be greater than a surface roughness of the surface but less than one millimeter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Scott Alan Gold, Thomas Graham Spears
  • Patent number: 11925495
    Abstract: Various systems are provided for an X-ray system. In one example, an X-ray system comprises an X-ray source positioned opposite to and facing a first side of a table and an X-ray detector positioned directly opposite to and facing a second side of the table, wherein the second side is opposite the first side, wherein the X-ray source is a dual-energy X-ray source configured to scan in a raster pattern. In one example, an object is positioned on the first side of the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: James Wear, Michael Buchholz
  • Patent number: 11927103
    Abstract: A method of mitigating thermal rotor bow in a rotor assembly of a turbine engine may include performing a plurality of motoring cycles. The plurality of motoring cycles may include receiving feedback on a temperature within a turbine engine in a post-shutdown state, actuating a starter motor when the temperature is greater than a predetermined threshold, operating the starter motor for a motoring time to exhaust some residual heat from the turbine engine, and shutting down the starter motor after the motoring time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert Charles Hon, Amid Ansari, Michael Scott McCambridge, Thomas Earl Gillingham
  • Patent number: 11927111
    Abstract: A blade for a turbine engine with a wall separating a cooling fluid flow and a hot gas fluid flow and having a heated surface along which the hot gas fluid flow flows and a cooled surface facing the cooling fluid flow. A plurality of cooling holes each having a passage extending between an inlet at the cooled surface and an outlet at the heated surface. The outlet extending between an upstream end and a downstream end with respect to the hot gas fluid flow to define a distance, the passage defining a centerline forming a first angle (?) with the heated surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Michael Rausch, Zachary Daniel Webster, Kevin Robert Feldmann, Andrew David Perry, Kirk Douglas Gallier, Daniel Endecott Osgood
  • Patent number: 11925988
    Abstract: Methods for reducing a concentration of hexavalent chromium within a first aluminum slurry by adding a reducing agent to form a second aluminum slurry are provided. The reducing agent causes a chemical reduction reaction with the hexavalent chromium compound of the first aluminum slurry to form a trivalent chromium compound within the second aluminum slurry such that a first weight ratio of hexavalent chromium to trivalent chromium in the first aluminum slurry is decreased to a second weight ratio of hexavalent chromium to trivalent chromium in the second aluminum slurry, with the second weight ratio being less than the first weight ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Lawrence Bernard Kool, Mark Alan Rhoads
  • Patent number: 11927110
    Abstract: An apparatus and method relating to a cooling hole of a component of a turbine engine. The cooling hole can extend from an inlet to an outlet to define a connecting passage. The cooling hole can contain a diffusing section. The diffusing section can be defined by an interior surface having variable geometries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Aaron Ezekiel Smith, Gregory Terrence Garay, Kirk D. Gallier
  • Patent number: 11927143
    Abstract: An electronic control system (35) for a turbopropeller (2) having a gas turbine engine (20) and a propeller assembly (3) coupled to the gas turbine engine (20), the control system (35) having: a propeller control stage (35a), implementing a closed loop control for controlling operation of the propeller assembly (3) based on a scheduled propeller speed reference (Nrref) and a propeller speed measure (Nr); a gas turbine control stage (35b), implementing a closed loop control for controlling operation of the gas turbine engine (20) based on a scheduled reference (Ngdotref) and at least a feedback quantity. The control system (35) further envisages an auxiliary control stage (35c), coupling the propeller control stage (35a) and the gas turbine control stage (35b) and determining a limitation of the operation of the gas turbine engine (20), if a propeller speed overshoot is detected, with respect to the propeller speed reference (Nrref).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GE Avio S.r.l.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Donini, Stefano Ettorre, Pierpaolo Forte
  • Patent number: 11926436
    Abstract: Systems and methods for fusing and analyzing multiple sources of data from a plurality of aircraft-related data sources for fault determination and other integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) diagnostics are provided. More particularly, one or more portions of data from a plurality of aircraft-related data sources for one or more aircraft are accessed. One or more alerts indicative of a data anomaly within the one or more portions of aircraft-related data sources can be detected, wherein a type of alert and originating data source associated with each alert as well as optional related confidence scores can be identified. One or more aircraft faults can be determined based at least in part on a correlation of identified types and data sources for detected alerts. An output indicative of the determined one or more aircraft faults can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems Taleris Limited
    Inventors: Frank Beaven, Maria Louise Watson
  • Patent number: 11927105
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to dynamically support axial thrust in pumps. Examples disclosed herein include a thrust bearing system including a thrust disc coupled to an impeller shaft; a first thrust pad coupled to a body of the pump, the first thrust pad positioned on a forward side of the thrust disc; a second thrust pad coupled to the body of the pump, the second thrust pad positioned on an aft side of the thrust disc; and a spring-loaded assembly integrated into the first and second thrust pads, the spring-loaded assembly connected to a pump outlet via a first flowline, the first flowline to transmit a working fluid from the pump outlet to the forward side of the thrust disc or the aft side of the thrust disc based on a position of the spring-loaded assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Adam Joseph Wangler, David Raju Yamarthi, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Santosh Kumar Pattnaik
  • Patent number: 11927617
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus (20) for monitoring a condition of an electrical power transmission medium (22), the apparatus (20) comprising: a signal source (24) for transmitting a signal (30) to travel along the electrical power transmission medium (22); and a monitoring device (26) configured to detect one or more reflected signals (34) in the electrical power transmission medium (22), wherein the monitoring device (24) is configured to use the or each detected reflected signal (34) to determine a change in capacitance of the electrical power transmission medium (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Technology GMBH
    Inventors: Robert Stephen Whitehouse, Rosemary King
  • Patent number: 11926880
    Abstract: Methods for forming a dual-phase magnetic component from an initial component comprising a non-magnetic austenite composition are provided. The method may include: forming a coating on a portion of the surface of the initial component to form a masked area while leaving an unmasked area thereon. Thereafter the initial component may be heated to a treatment temperature such that nitrogen diffuses out of the unmasked area of the initial component to transform the non-magnetic austenite composition to a magnetic phase in the unmasked area. Thereafter, the initial component may be cooled from the treatment temperature to form a dual-phase magnetic component having a magnetic region corresponding to the unmasked area and a non-magnetic region corresponding to the masked area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Shenyan Huang, Min Zou, Steve John Buresh, Wanming Zhang, Pazhayannur Ramanathan Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11927137
    Abstract: A system may include an insulation mount assembly configured to mount insulation within a component of an exhaust diffuser of a combustion system. The insulation mount assembly includes an insulation cover plate configured to cover the insulation over a wall of the component, and a plurality of mounting clips configured to extend partially over the insulation plate and couple to the wall of the component. Each clip of the plurality of mounting clips is configured to enable movement of the insulation cover plate in a first direction along a surface of the wall and block movement of the insulation cover plate in a second direction crosswise to the surface of the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Robert Jamiołkowski, Damian Wolff, Adam Wiśniewski
  • Patent number: 11927344
    Abstract: A system and method for warmkeeping a steam generator such as a sub-critical steam generator is disclosed. Water extraction piping extracts water from a component of one of the water fill circuits of the sub-critical steam generator. A deaerator heating system having an inventory tank of water mixes the extracted water with the water in the tank, and heats the mix of water to a predetermined temperature level to generate heated deaerated feedwater. Feedwater piping forwards the heated deaerated feedwater at the predetermined temperature level from the deaerator heating system to the water fill circuits of the sub-critical steam generator. The water extraction piping, the deaerator heating system and the feedwater piping operate cooperatively to warmkeep the water fill circuits in accordance with the predetermined temperature level while the sub-critical steam generator is in the unfired stand-by mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventor: Ralph Mayer
  • Patent number: 11927134
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine is provided, having a turbomachine and a rotor assembly driven by the turbomachine and operable at a first blade passing frequency (f1) greater than or equal to 2,500 hertz and less than or equal to 5,000 hertz during a high power operating condition; a heat exchanger positioned within an annular duct and extending substantially continuously along the circumferential direction, wherein an effective transmission loss (ETL) for the heat exchanger positioned within the annular duct is between 5 decibels and 1 decibels for a high power operating condition, and wherein the heat exchanger comprises a heat transfer section defining an acoustic length (Li), and wherein an Operational Acoustic Reduction Ratio (OARR) is greater than or equal to 0.75 to achieve the ETL at the high power operating condition, the OARR equal to: sin ? ? ( 2 Ă— ? Ă— f 1 a 1 Ă— L i ) 2 wherein a1 is equal to 13,200 inches per second during the high power operating condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Scott Alan Schimmels, Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Timothy Richard DePuy, Steven B. Morris
  • Patent number: 11927349
    Abstract: A deflector assembly for a combustor defining an operational fluid flow. The deflector assembly includes an upstream surface and a downstream surface opposite the upstream surface. One or more fastening mechanisms each extends through the deflector assembly. One or more cooling holes extend through the deflector assembly from the upstream surface to the downstream surface. The one or more cooling holes are located about the one or more fastening mechanisms to operably direct cooling air about the one or more fastening mechanisms at the downstream surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Vijayaraj Sukumar, Perumallu Vukanti, Pradeep Naik, Ajoy Patra, Karthikeyan Sampath, Rimple Rangrej, Hiranya Nath, Krishnendu Chakraborty, Narasimhan S. Sahana, Saket Singh, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger
  • Patent number: 11927401
    Abstract: A heat exchange system for a gas turbine engine includes a first heat exchanger that defines a first heat source flowpath, a second heat exchanger that defines a second heat source flowpath, and a coolant fluid circuit. The coolant fluid circuit defines a first coolant flowpath that extends through the first heat exchanger and is in thermal communication with the first heat source flowpath, and a second coolant flowpath that extends through the second heat exchanger and is in thermal communication with the second heat source flowpath. The first coolant flowpath and the second coolant flowpath are arranged in a parallel flow configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Jeffrey Douglas Rambo
  • Patent number: 11928970
    Abstract: A method of adjusting an operator workload during a travel segment including tracking over a time period, using at least one sensor, one of inputs by an operator indicative of an operator workload or image sensor data or a biometric parameter indicative of an operator stress level during the travel segment. Determining, using a controller that is operatively connected to the at least one sensor, a level of one of the operator workload or operator stress level. The method also includes adjusting, using a controller that is operatively connected to the control computer, the operator workload when the level of one of the operator workload or operator stress level exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems Limited
    Inventor: Stefan Alexander Schwindt
  • Publication number: 20240076779
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and apparatuses for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) during additive manufacturing (AM) processes. Such methods and apparatuses can be used to embed chemical signatures into manufactured objects, and such embedded chemical signatures may find use in anti-counterfeiting operations and in manufacture of objects with multiple materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Scott Alan Gold
  • Patent number: 11920790
    Abstract: A combustor liner for a combustor of a gas turbine includes an outer liner having a plurality of outer liner segments, and an inner liner having a plurality of inner liner segments. Each segment of the inner liner and the outer liner includes at least one slotted dilution opening therethrough extending in a circumferential direction, and each slotted dilution opening includes a deflector wall extending radially from the respective liner into a dilution zone of a combustion chamber between the outer liner and the inner liner. The at least one slotted dilution opening may be a curved slot (either concave or convex) dilution opening, and the curved slot dilution openings for each segment of the outer liner and the inner liner may be connected so as to provide a wavy slotted dilution opening extending annularly through the outer liner and the inner liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Saket Singh, Pradeep Naik, Rimple Rangrej, Ranganatha Narasimha Chiranthan, Krishnendu Chakraborty, Shai Birmaher
  • Patent number: 11919233
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a method of additively manufacturing a part including depositing a layer of a powder on a working surface, depositing a binder solution on the layer of the powder at first locations, and depositing a sintering aid solution on the layer of the powder at second locations. The sintering aid solution comprises a sintering aid in a solvent. In various embodiments, the sintering aid enables an increased brown strength as compared to parts containing unbound powder. The method enables binders that provide high green strength to be used at the edges of the part, while also balancing a shortened debind time with an increased brown strength. Embodiments in which binder solution is deposited according to a predetermined pattern at second locations are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mary Kathryn Thompson, Arunkumar Natarajan, Kwok Pong Chan, Vadim Bromberg, Xi Yang, Ananda Barua, William C. Alberts
  • Patent number: 11920789
    Abstract: A combustor assembly for a gas turbine engine includes an outer liner that at least partially defines a combustion chamber. The outer liner extends between an aft end and a forward end generally along an axial direction within an outer casing of the gas turbine engine. The outer liner includes an inner surface facing the combustion chamber and an outer surface facing away from the combustion chamber. The combustor assembly includes a radial damper assembly disposed against the outer liner at a plurality of circumferential points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mark Willard Marusko, Michael Alan Stieg, Brian Christopher Towle
  • Patent number: 11918390
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for medical imaging systems. In one embodiment, a method for a medical imaging system comprises acquiring emission data during a positron emission tomography (PET) scan of a patient, reconstructing a series of live PET images while acquiring the emission data, tracking motion of the patient during the acquiring by determining a per-voxel variation for selected voxels in a current live PET image of the series of live PET images, and outputting an indication of patient motion based on the per-voxel variation for the selected voxels in each live PET image. In this way, patient motion during the scan may be identified and compensated for via scan acquisition and/or data processing adjustments, thereby producing a diagnostic PET image with reduced motion artifacts and increased diagnostic quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventor: Floribertus P. Heukensfeldt Jansen
  • Patent number: 11919193
    Abstract: The present application presents novel systems and methods for tracking reinforcement member placement in an additively manufactured structure that are simple, accurate, non-labor-intensive, and cost-effective. The present application also presents a novel method of manufacturing a tower structure comprising: depositing, via an additive printing system, a first printed layer of a wall with a printhead assembly, the wall at least partially circumscribing a vertical axis of the tower structure; positioning a first reinforcement member on the first printed layer; depositing, via the additive printing system, a second printed layer of the wall with the printhead assembly on the first reinforcement member, the second printed layer configured to hold a second reinforcement member thereon; and determining, via an optical sensor of the additive printing system, a position for placing the second reinforcement member based on the first reinforcement member positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Christopher James Kenny, Collin McKee Sheppard, Xiaopeng Li, Norman Arnold Turnquist
  • Patent number: 11921204
    Abstract: A light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system includes light sources configured to generate separate beams of light, a lens array configured to receive the separate beams of light from the light sources and to collimate the separate beams of light into collimated outgoing light that is directed toward an examined area of interest, a light sensitive detector configured to sense reflection of at least part of the collimated outgoing light, and one or more processors configured to determine a distance to one or more objects off which the at least part of the collimated outgoing light was reflected toward the light sensitive detector. The one or more processors are configured to determine the distance based on the reflection of the at least part of the collimated outgoing light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mark Marshall Meyers, Michael Feldmann, Loucas Tsakalakos
  • Patent number: 11918416
    Abstract: An ultrasound probe hanger includes a stem, shoulders, arms, and a probe holder. The shoulders are arranged generally perpendicular to the stem and are connected to a proximal end of the stem. The arms are arranged generally parallel to each other and to the stem. The arms are connected at upper ends to outer shoulder ends of the shoulders. The probe holder includes outer side portions, a rear portion, a partially open front portion, and four protrusions. The outer side portions are each connected to lower ends of the arms. The rear portion extends between the outer side portions. The partially-open front portion includes outer front portions each extending from the outer side portions and defining a central front open portion. The four protrusions are arranged in a rectangle on an inside surface of the probe holder and are configured to suspend a wireless ultrasound probe within the probe holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventor: Franz Josef Steinhofer
  • Patent number: 11920230
    Abstract: Methods for processing an iron cobalt alloy, along with components formed therefrom, are provided. The method may include: pre-annealing a sheet of an iron cobalt alloy at a pre-anneal temperature (e.g., about 770° C. to about 805° C.); thereafter, cutting a component from the sheet; thereafter, heat-treat annealing the component at a treatment temperature (e.g., about 845° C. to about 870° C.) for a treatment period (e.g., about 1 minute to about 10 minutes); and thereafter, exposing the component to oxygen at an oxidizing temperature to form an insulation layer on a surface of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Fabian Isaza, Pablo Gabriel Piazza Galarza
  • Patent number: 11920482
    Abstract: A device for fixing the position of adjustable vane rows of a turbomachine is provided. The device includes a support arm and at least one clamping tool. The at least one clamping tool is attached to the support arm. The at least one clamping tool includes a clamping head and a retaining element. The retaining element connects the clamping head to the support arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Laurie Ann Cribley, Rubi Elizabeth Triana Zorsano
  • Patent number: 11920522
    Abstract: Based upon a measured first resistance, a first delta curve is selected. Based upon a measured second resistance, a second delta curve is selected. A first fuel valve position (FVP) is received from a first position sensor, and the first FVP is applied to the first delta curve to obtain a first offset. A second FVP is received from a second position sensor, and the second FVP is applied to the second delta curve to obtain a second offset. The first offset is applied to the first measured FVP to obtain the first compensated FVP and the second offset is applied to the second measured FVP to obtain the second compensated FVP. The first compensated FVP and the second compensated FVP are correlated to obtain a final compensated FVP, which is applied to a desired fuel valve position to obtain a final fuel valve position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GE Avio S.r.l.
    Inventors: Diego di Leo, Lorenzo Cipolla, Simone Recchia, Cristian Lai
  • Patent number: 11920491
    Abstract: A gear assembly for use with a turbomachine comprises a sun gear, a plurality of planet gear layshafts that each support a first stage planet gear and a second stage planet gear, and a ring gear. The sun gear is configured to rotate about a longitudinal centerline of the gear assembly, and the plurality of planet gear layshafts comprise an interior passage that receives one or more lubrication supply lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GE Avio S.r.l.
    Inventors: Pietro Molesini, Fabio De Bellis, Andrea Piazza
  • Patent number: 11920498
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a compressor comprising a rotor defining a radial direction and a circumferential direction, the rotor including a slot; a first blade and a second blade disposed in the slot, the first blade including a first platform and a first dovetail, the second blade including a second platform and a second dovetail; and a hollow block disposed circumferentially between the first blade and the second blade in the slot, the hollow block including: a platform interface portion to interface with the first platform and the second platform, the platform interface portion including a central opening defined by a circumferential face of the platform interface portion; and a hollow dovetail interface portion to couple the first dovetail and the second dovetail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Arvind N
  • Patent number: 11920539
    Abstract: An exhaust nozzle for a gas turbine engine. The exhaust nozzle comprises a nozzle body having an upstream end axially spaced from a downstream end with respect to an axial centerline of the nozzle body, and a plurality of chevrons circumferentially spaced apart and extending downstream from the downstream end. Each chevron includes an inner wall radially spaced from an outer wall, a root and a tip axially spaced from the root. At least one chevron of the plurality of chevrons includes a first segment extending axially downstream from the root, a second segment extending axially downstream from the first segment, and a third segment extending axially downstream from the second segment to the tip. The inner wall extends along the first segment, the second segment, and third the segment. The first segment is distinguishable from the second segment and the second segment is distinguishable from the third segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kishore Ramakrishnan, Steven B. Morris, Nikolai N. Pastouchenko, Trevor Howard Wood
  • Patent number: 11920521
    Abstract: Control schemes for controlling a gas turbine engine in response to disturbances associated with a load mechanically coupled with the gas turbine engine are provided. In one aspect, a gas turbine engine mechanically coupled with a load has a controller that includes executable control logic. The control logic includes a feedforward module, an aggressive control module, and a power turbine governor module. By executing the modules, the controller seeks to maintain a constant power turbine speed stably and subtly in response to small disturbances associated with the load and aggressively in response to large disturbances associated with the load, as well as smooth transitions between the responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jessie Thorup, Christopher David King
  • Patent number: 11918393
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for stationary computed tomography (CT) imaging. In one embodiment, a stationary CT system includes one or more detector arrays extending around at least a portion of an imaging volume, a stationary distributed x-ray source unit comprising a plurality of emitters including a first set of emitters configured to operate at a first voltage and a second set of emitters configured to operate at a second voltage, different than the first voltage, and a source controller for triggering the first set of emitters for acquiring first projection data by the one or more detector arrays and triggering the second set of emitters for acquiring second projection data by the one or more detector arrays, the first projection data and the second projection data usable to reconstruct one or more basis material composition images or monochromatic images of an object within the imaging volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Peter Michael Edic, Vasile Bogdan Neculaes, Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man, Lin Fu, Robert Senzig
  • Patent number: 11920493
    Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine, the airfoil having an outer wall defining an interior and a camber line extending through the airfoil, and at least one cell located within the interior. The at least one cell can include a forward portion and an aft portion with respect to the camber line. The forward portion and the aft portions can be connected by side portions. A braided fabric can be provided on at least one of the forward or aft portions, while a braided fiber can be provided on at least one of the side portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Douglas Lorrimer Armstrong, Devin R. Dilley, Elzbieta Kryj-Kos
  • Patent number: 11920672
    Abstract: An air turbine starter that includes a housing with a divider structure dividing the housing into a wet chamber and an air chamber. The air turbine starter further including a bearing assembly, a turbine member, a first drive shaft, and a second drive shaft connecting the turbine member with a rotating assembly. A lubricant supply portion having at least one supply inlet fluidly coupled to the wet chamber and at least one supply outlet fluidly coupled to the bearing assembly whereby lubricant from the wet chamber can be supplied to the bearing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: Unison Industries, LLC, General Electric Company
    Inventors: Roberto Karpik, Eliel Fresco Rodriguez, David Allan Dranschak, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Marcin Bialas
  • Patent number: 11922738
    Abstract: Systems and methods to fuse aviation-related data systems for comprehensive aircraft system health monitoring are provided. One example method includes obtaining, by one or more computing devices, fault data indicative of a plurality of fault indications provided by a first plurality of components of an aircraft. The method includes obtaining, by the one or more computing devices, condition indicators describing the respective operational conditions of a second plurality of components of the aircraft. The method includes fusing, by the one or more computing devices, the fault data with the condition indicators to form a comprehensive data set. The method includes identifying, by the one or more computing devices, one or more causes of the plurality of fault conditions based at least in part on the comprehensive data set. One example system includes a data fuser, a cause identifier, and an alert generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems Taleris Limited
    Inventors: Maria Louise Watson, Robert William Horabin, Christopher Catt, Frank Beaven, Olivier Paul Jacques Thuong, Thomas Antoine Raymond Bermudez, Aishwarya Coffey
  • Patent number: 11920791
    Abstract: A trapped vortex reverse flow combustor for a gas turbine includes a first dome structure having a plurality of first-dome vortex driver airflow openings for providing a first vortex generating mid airflow therethrough to a trapped vortex cavity. A second dome structure is arranged downstream of the first dome structure and includes a plurality of second-dome vortex driver airflow openings providing a first vortex generating outer airflow therethrough to the trapped vortex cavity, and a plurality of primary driver airflow openings providing a primary driver airflow therethrough radially inward of the trapped vortex cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Nicholas R. Overman
  • Patent number: 11923751
    Abstract: A power system includes a turbine assembly including a turbine and a turbine shaft, a generator assembly including a generator and a generator shaft, an inertia assembly including a flywheel coupled to the generator shaft, and a clutch assembly for coupling the turbine shaft to the generator shaft. The clutch assembly is transitionable between a closed state, in which the turbine shaft is coupled to the generator shaft, and an open state, in which the turbine shaft is decoupled from the generator shaft. The power system is operable in a power generation mode when the clutch assembly is in the closed state and a synchronous condenser mode when the clutch assembly is in the open state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: John Paul Skliutas, Paul A. Quail
  • Patent number: 11920794
    Abstract: A bundled tube fuel nozzle is provided. The bundled tube fuel nozzle includes a first end wall, a second end wall, an outer band that extends between the first end wall and the second end wall, and an inner band that extends between the first end wall and the second end wall. The inner band is disposed within the outer band. A bellows wall is disposed between the inner band and the outer band. The bellows wall surrounds the inner band such that a first fuel plenum is defined annularly between the inner band and the bellows wall. The inner band defines a second fuel plenum that is in fluid communication with the first fuel plenum via one or more apertures defined in the inner band. A plurality of tubes extends in an axial direction between the first end wall and the second end wall within the second fuel plenum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Dwight Berry, Johnie Franklin McConnaughhay
  • Patent number: 11923569
    Abstract: A fuel cell unit that includes a support structure having a plurality of flow channels and an active layer membrane coupled with the support structure, the active layer membrane comprising at least one electrode layer. Each flow channel of the plurality of flow channels is configured to direct one of air and fuel across at least one electrode layer of an active layer membrane to create electric current. Each flow channel of the plurality of flow channels includes at least one enhancement feature that is configured to disrupt a formation of a boundary layer near a surface of the active layer membrane where reactions occur. The plurality of flow channels can be positioned in a zig-zag configuration to allow for an increase in power density of the fuel cell unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hendrik Pieter Jacobus de Bock, Richard L. Hart, Honggang Wang, Narendra D. Joshi
  • Patent number: 11918943
    Abstract: A turbine engine having a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section, and a rotatable drive shaft that couples a portion of the turbine section and a portion of the compressor section. A bypass conduit couples the compressor section to the turbine section while bypassing at least the combustion section. At least one particle separator is located in the turbine engine having a separator inlet that receives a bypass stream, a separator outlet that receives a reduced-particle stream flows, and a particle outlet that receives a concentrated-particle stream comprising separated particles. A conduit, fluidly coupled to the particle outlet, extends through an interior of at least one stationary vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Timothy Deryck Stone, Gregory Michael Laskowski, Robert Proctor, Curtis Stover, Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Jared Peter Buhler, Robert Carl Murray, Corey Bourassa, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff
  • Patent number: 11923586
    Abstract: A combustion section defines an axial direction, a radial direction, and a circumferential direction. The combustion section includes a casing that defines a diffusion chamber. A combustion liner is disposed within the diffusion chamber and defines a combustion chamber. The combustion liner is spaced apart from the casing such that a passageway is defined between the combustion liner and the casing. A fuel cell assembly is disposed in the passageway. The fuel cell assembly includes a fuel cell stack having a plurality of fuel cells each extending between an inlet end and an outlet end. Each fuel cell of the plurality of fuel cells includes an air channel and a fuel channel each fluidly coupled to the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Seung-Hyuck Hong, Richard L Hart, Honggang Wang, Anil Raj Duggal, Michael Anthony Benjamin, Andrew Wickersham, Shih-Yang Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11918392
    Abstract: A mammography system includes a biopsy guidance system that employs a simplified robot arm support, to enable previously unusable locations for the mounting of the biopsy device directly to the mammography system, such as on a compression paddle, combined with a vision guidance and control system. The vision system operates to determine the position of the biopsy device and the biopsy needle tip, as well as to control the movement/operation of the biopsy guidance system, such as movement to the final end-pose or pre-firing position of the biopsy device to perform the biopsy procedure. The vision system utilizes one or more cameras to visually determine the position the biopsy device relative to a region of interest being biopsied within the required tolerances for the biopsy procedure without the need for precise positional information to be provided by the biopsy guidance system to the mammography system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Laurence Vancamberg, Serge Muller, Serge Calisti
  • Patent number: 11923117
    Abstract: A method for magnetizing a section of one or more permanent magnets arranged substantially in a V-shape, comprising: applying a first magnetic field such that magnetic flux lines are substantially perpendicular to a first leg of the V-shape, and removing the first magnetic field. Then the method comprises applying a second magnetic field such that magnetic flux lines are substantially perpendicular to a second leg of the V-shape, and removing the second magnetic field. Systems and methods for magnetizing sections of permanent magnet modules are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.
    Inventors: Mikhail Avanesov, Neus Galles Raventos, Cesar Muñiz Casais, Julio Cesar Urresty