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Patent number: 12247495Abstract: A system includes an exhaust diffuser system having an axial-radial diffuser and a transition duct. The axial-radial diffuser includes an inlet, an outlet, an axial diffuser portion between the inlet and the outlet, and a radial diffuser portion between the axial diffuser portion and the outlet, wherein the inlet is configured to couple to a gas turbine system. The transition duct is coupled to the axial-radial diffuser, wherein the outlet is disposed inside of an intake portion of the transition duct, and the transition duct includes a discharge portion configured to couple to a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG).Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLCInventors: Felix Abraham Madukkakuzhy, Joshy John, Bala Muralidhar Singh Bahadur, Sanjeev Kumar Jain
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Patent number: 12247520Abstract: An integrated circulating water cooling system includes at least one load; an air cooling sub-system; a wet surface cooling sub-system; at least one temperature sensor; a control; and a coolant circulation sub-system for fluidly circulating coolant from the at least one load to the air cooling sub-system to the wet surface cooling sub-system and back to the at least one load. The control selectively operates the wet surface cooling sub-system and the air cooling sub-system based on at least one of temperature sensed in the water circulation sub-system; or sensed ambient temperature.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLCInventors: Rajan Prakash, Sudhakar Todeti
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Patent number: 12247516Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a fan located at a forward portion of the gas turbine engine, and a compressor section and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order. The compressor section and the turbine section together define a core airflow path. A rotary member is rotatable with the fan and with a low pressure turbine of the turbine section. The low pressure turbine includes a rotating drum to which a first airfoil structure is connected and extends radially inward toward the rotary member. A torque frame connects the rotating drum to the rotary member and transfers torque from the first airfoil structure mounted to the rotating drum to the rotary member. The torque frame includes an inner disk mounted to the rotary member, an outer ring and a second airfoil structure formed separately from the outer ring and connected thereto by a releasable connecting structure. The second airfoil structure extends radially inward from the outer ring toward the inner disk.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignees: General Electric Company, GE Avio S.r.l.Inventors: Ranganayakulu Alapati, Peeyush Pankaj, Sanjeev Sai Kumar Manepalli, Bhaskar Nanda Mondal, Thomas Moniz, N V Sai Krishna Emani, Shishir Paresh Shah, Anil Soni, Praveen Sharma, Randy T. Antelo, Antonio Giuseppe D'Ettole
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Patent number: 12249886Abstract: Generator field endwinding blocking is described. The endwinding blocking has a spacer block for radial placement between rotor endwindings. The spacer block has a spacer body with a radially inboard end, a radially outboard end, a slot extending from the outboard end towards the inboard end, and at least one transverse hole formed on an outer surface of the spacer body, extending in a perpendicular direction towards the slot. A cap covers at least a portion of the outboard end. The cap has a radially inward portion received in the slot with at least one hole aligned with the at least one traverse hole, and at least one end extending beyond a periphery of the outboard end towards an adjacent endwinding. A fastener placed in the holes of the spacer block and the radially inward portion of the cap, secures the cap with the spacer block.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Kevin Mitchell Draina, Anthony Rigosu
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Patent number: 12247739Abstract: A system includes a gas turbine having a turbine shaft disposed along a rotational axis, a turbine casing disposed circumferentially about the turbine shaft, a combustion gas path disposed between the turbine shaft and the turbine casing, and a turbine stage disposed in the combustion gas path. The turbine stage includes a plurality of turbine vanes disposed upstream from a plurality of turbine blades. The gas turbine includes an isothermal expansion system coupled to the turbine stage, wherein the isothermal expansion system includes a plurality of flame stabilizers configured to vary axial positions of combustion within a turbine stage expansion of the turbine stage to reduce temperature variations over the turbine stage expansion. The flame stabilizers are disposed in different axial positions over an axial length between leading and trailing edges of the turbine blades, wherein at least one flame stabilizer is coupled to each of the turbine blades.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2024Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLCInventors: Joel Meador Hall, John Farrior Woodall
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Patent number: 12248670Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a user interface of a medical imaging system. In one embodiment, a method may include displaying a slider bar comprising a track having a fixed range of values, a first slider thumb defining a maximum value of a first adjustable range on the track, and a second slider thumb defining a minimum value of a second adjustable range on the track; operating the first slider thumb and the second slider thumb in one of a linked mode and an unlinked mode; and adjusting one or both of the maximum value of the first adjustable range and the minimum value of the second adjustable range in response to receiving a single user input based on whether the first slider thumb and the second slider thumb are operating in the linked mode or the unlinked mode.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Tanguy Boucneau, Lorraine Jammes, Louise Lelievre, Lucile Nosjean, Diana Farfan Cabrera, Cedric Vigne, Adeline Digard Bahuon
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Patent number: 12249416Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for automated protocol recommendation and selection in a medical imaging system. In one example, a method for the medical imaging system may include receiving an imaging order for an operator requesting an exam be performed on a patient using the medical imaging system, recommending a scan protocol for conducting the exam based on historical selections data for the operator and patient demographic data for the patient, and outputting the recommended scan protocol for display on a display device and/or automatically executing the recommended scan protocol.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: Arindam Dutta Choudhury, Vignesh Doraiswamy, Yaxi Shen, Ravi Raj Singh
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Patent number: 12249921Abstract: A system, including: a plurality of load commutated inverters (LCIs) connected in parallel, wherein each LCI includes: a source bridge for converting an alternating current (AC) voltage to a direct current (DC) voltage, wherein the source bridge includes at least one current switching device; a load bridge for converting the DC voltage from the source bridge to a variable frequency AC voltage; and a DC link coupling the source bridge to the load bridge; wherein each LCI includes a respective current regulator for controlling the at least one current switching device in the source bridge of the LCI to generate a current in the DC link.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLCInventors: Sreedhar Desabhatla, John Andrew Leonard
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Patent number: 12245881Abstract: Provided in the present application are an assistance system and method for a suspension device, and an X-ray imaging system. The suspension device includes a tube device, a tube controller, a motion driving device and an assistance system. The motion driving device is capable of driving the suspension device to move along a first coordinate system. The assistance system includes a measurement device and a control device. The measurement device is disposed between the tube device and the tube controller so as to obtain an initial force of an operator, wherein the initial force includes the magnitude and direction of a force along a second coordinate system in which the measurement device is located. The control device includes a calibration unit and a calculation unit. The calibration unit is used for calibrating the initial force to obtain a calibrated force.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Chunyu Wang, Yuqing Li, Jinfeng Wang, Jie Liu, Chuanfu Zhang, Peng Zhao
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Patent number: 12246489Abstract: An additive manufacturing (AM) system includes a housing defining a chamber, a build platform disposed within the chamber, and an upper gas inlet configured to supply an upper gas flow in a first direction parallel to the build platform. The AM system includes a lower gas inlet disposed in the chamber and configured to supply a lower gas flow in a second direction toward a bottom wall of the chamber, and a flow directing system configured to receive the lower gas flow and redirect the lower gas flow in the first direction parallel to the build platform. The AM system includes one or more gas delivery devices fluidly coupled to the upper and lower gas inlets and configured to regulate one or more flow characteristics of the upper and lower gas flows and a gas outlet configured to discharge the upper and lower gas flows from the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christian Thomas Wakelam, Rene du Cauze de Nazelle
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Patent number: 12246380Abstract: Calibration components having a turbomachine component form factor and methods of fabricating the calibration components using an additive manufacturing system are provided. A calibration component includes a main body and one or more representative quality indicators. The one or more representative quality indicators are disposed within the main body of the calibration component. The representative quality indicators include a cavity that has a material disposed within the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLCInventors: Richert Arthur Davis, Andrew F. King
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Patent number: 12246841Abstract: An electric power system for a vehicle includes at least one electric machine, one or more power rectifiers, and a plurality of DC channels. The at least one electric machine includes a plurality of tooth-wound multi-phase windings that are substantially magnetically decoupled, and the at least one electric machine is mechanically balanced even if one of the plurality of windings is de-energized. The one or more power rectifiers are configured to produce rectified power from the power generated by the at least one electric machine. The plurality of DC channels are formed after the at least one power rectifier and are configured to provide DC power to one or more loads within a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Rajib Datta, Vishnu Mahadeva Iyer, Mohamed Osama, Kum Kang Huh, Vandana Prabhakar Rallabandi
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Patent number: 12246845Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for mounting a gas turbine engine are described. An apparatus for mounting a gas turbine engine to a pylon, the gas turbine including an upstream section and a downstream section, the gas turbine defining a roll axis, a yaw axis, and a pitch axis, the apparatus including: a first mount to couple the upstream section of the gas turbine engine to the pylon; a second mount to couple the upstream section of the gas turbine engine to the pylon, the second mount downstream of the first mount; a thrust linkage to couple the upstream section to the pylon, wherein the downstream section is decouplable from the upstream section without decoupling the first mount, the second mount, and the thrust linkage.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignees: General Electric Company, Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Michael Cline, Jonathan E. Coleman, Craig W. Higgins, Daniel E. Mollmann, Mark E. Linz, Guillaume Glemarec, Valerio Capasso, Jean-Baptiste Manuel Nicolas Vignes, Nicolas Maurice Hervé Aussedat, Francois Gallet
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Patent number: 12249067Abstract: Techniques are described that facilitate dynamic multimodal segmentation selection and fusion in medical imaging. In one example embodiment, a computer processing system receives a segmentation dataset comprising a combination of different image segmentations of an anatomical object of interest respectively segmented via different segmentation models from different medical images captured of the (same) anatomical object, wherein the different medical images and the different image segmentations vary with respect to at least one of, capture modality, acquisition protocol, or acquisition parameters. The system employs a dynamic ranking protocol as opposed to a static ranking protocol to determine ranking scores for the different image segmentations that control relative contributions of the different image segmentations in association with combining the different image segmentations into a fused segmentation for the anatomical object.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Tao Tan, Hongxiang Yi, Rakesh Mullick, Lehel Mihály Ferenczi, Gopal Biligeri Avinash, Borbála Deák-Karancsi, Balázs Péter Cziria, Laszlo Rusko
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Patent number: 12247580Abstract: Structures for reducing forward loads in compressors are described. A compressor includes inner and outer circumferential support structures positioned concentrically around a central axis, and an aft-most stage including a vane extending radially inward from the outer circumferential support structure. An axial length of the aft-most stage is defined by a spacer arm of the inner circumferential support structure. The vane includes a root, a tip, and a trailing edge extending between the root and the tip. A ratio of a first radial distance between a first point located at an intersection of the tip of the vane and the trailing edge to a radially inner wall of the spacer arm of the inner circumferential support structure to a second radial distance between the first point and a second point located at an intersection of the root of the vane and the trailing edge is between 0.95 and 4.5.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Vaishnav Raghuvaran, Bhaskar Nanda Mondal, Thomas Ory Moniz, Atanu Saha, Vaibhav Deshmukh, Curtis Walton Stover, Andrew Mark Del Donno
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Patent number: 12249023Abstract: Systems/techniques that facilitate interpretable task-specific dimensionality-reduction are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a three-dimensional medical image. In various aspects, the system can generate, via execution of a first deep learning neural network, a voxel-wise weight map corresponding to the three-dimensional medical image and a set of projection vectors corresponding to the three-dimensional medical image. In various instances, the system can generate a set of two-dimensional projection images of the three-dimensional medical image, based on the voxel-wise weight map and the set of projection vectors. In various cases, the first deep learning neural network can be trained in a serial pipeline with a second deep learning neural network that is configured to perform an inferencing task on two-dimensional inputs. This can cause the set of two-dimensional projection images to be tailored to the inferencing task.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: Deepa Anand, Bipul Das, Vanika Singhal, Rakesh Mullick, Sanjay Kumar NT
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Patent number: 12248108Abstract: A phase-contrast imaging detector includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a detection material that generates a measurable parameter in response to X-ray photons. Each pixel also includes a plurality of sub-pixel resolution readout structures. The sub-pixel resolution readout structures are in an alternating pattern with a spacing therebetween that is larger than a frequency of a phase-contrast interference pattern but small enough to enable charge sharing between adjacent sub-pixel resolution readout structures when an X-ray photon hits between the adjacent sub-pixel resolution readout structures. The phase-contrast imaging detector also includes readout circuitry configured to read out signals from the plurality of sub-pixel readout structures. The plurality of sub-pixel resolution readout structures includes two or more electrodes having alternating arms that form an interleaved comb structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Uwe Wiedmann, Biju Jacob, Brian David Yanoff
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Patent number: 12247517Abstract: A system includes a gas turbine system having a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine. The system further includes a power management system configured to supply an injection fluid into a host fluid of the gas turbine system to manage power production of the gas turbine system, wherein the injection fluid comprises a gas mixture comprising oxygen. The system further includes a model-based controller configured to control operation of the gas turbine system, wherein the model-based controller has one or more models including consideration of the injection fluid supplied by the power management system into the host fluid.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLCInventors: Juergen Gerhard Hoffmann, Harold Lamar Jordan, Thomas John Freeman
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Patent number: 12249831Abstract: A method and system for operating a hybrid propulsion system, includes controllably providing a first power to a first bus and a first inverter, electrically coupling a first motor with a second inverter by way of a second bus, operably converting, by the second inverter, the first power received by the first inverter to a starting power adapted for starting the first motor, and increasing, by the second inverter, the starting power to match the first power received.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Di Pan, Kum Kang Huh
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Patent number: 12249119Abstract: Systems and method for domain adaptation using pseudo-labelling and model certainty quantification for video data are provided. The method includes obtaining a source data and a target data each comprising a plurality of frames for processing by a machine learning module. The method comprises testing the target data to identify if a minimum number of frames exhibit a frame confidence score based on the source data and identifying salient region within the target data and measuring a degree of spatial consistency of the salient region over time.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: Pavan Annangi, Deepa Anand
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Patent number: 12249883Abstract: An electric component for an electric machine includes a body having slots defined therein, and a conductive winding extending out of axial end(s) of the slot(s). The electric component may include any electric machine component having conductive windings, e.g., a stator for a generator. The electric component includes a resin dam around the conductive winding at axial end(s) of the slot(s). The resin dam blocks liquid communication through at least a space between the conductive winding and an inner surface of the slot(s), during manufacture. The electric component also includes a (solidified) insulating resin in the slot(s) and against the resin dam(s) at the axial end(s) of the slot(s). Any number of the conductive windings and slots may include a resin dam, e.g., one, some or all. The resin dams ensure complete filling of the slots and encapsulation of the conductive windings.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLCInventors: Matthew Robert Martin, Karim Younsi, Nolan Gregg Curwen, Wei Zhang, John Russell Yagielski
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Patent number: 12249838Abstract: A system includes a gas turbine (GT) system at a power plant operatively coupled to a generator to always generate power at a baseload. A first portion of the GT system's baseload power is transmitted to an electric grid. Where demand for power from the grid does not exceed a threshold, a second portion of the GT system's baseload power is transmitted to a hydrogen-producing electrolyzer to generate hydrogen fuel for a second GT system. Where demand for power from the grid exceeds the threshold, a third portion of the GT system's baseload power is transmitted to the grid. The GT system always runs at baseload but is capable of providing increased power to the grid quickly, like conventional spinning reserves. The system improves efficiencies by running all GT systems at baseload, and reduces emissions for the second GT system by providing hydrogen fuel thereto when grid power demand allows.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLCInventors: Baha Mahmoud Suleiman, Hatem Selim, Majed Sammak, Alaaeldin Elsaeed Dawood, Abdurrahman Abdallah Khalidi
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Patent number: 12241382Abstract: A system and method for reducing the vibration response of a rotating system are provided. In one aspect, an optimized balance shot or solution that indicates one or more physical locations at which one or more balancing weights are to be added or removed from the rotating system is generated. The balance shot is generated based on a transfer function that is customized specifically for the rotating system. The transfer function is generated by applying one or more machine-learned models to parameter values for parameters that are associated with the rotating system. The machine-learned models can generate main effects plots, and from the plots, an effective set of parameter values can be determined. The transfer function can be generated using the effective set of parameter values so that the transfer function used to generate the balance shot is optimized specifically for the rotating system undergoing the balancing process.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Eduardo Aguilar Armendariz, Pamela M. Boehm, Kanahayya Dudhale, Shivam Mittal, William J. Simpson
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Patent number: 12241386Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section, combustor section, and turbine section in serial flow arrangement, and defining an engine longitudinal axis. Sets of blades can be rotatably driven about the longitudinal axis in the compressor section and the turbine section, with adjacent vanes provided between sets of blades. The airfoil structure defining one or more of the blades or vanes can include a core structure which includes a woven or foam core, with an exterior woven layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Nicholas Joseph Kray, Arthur William Sibbach
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Patent number: 12240613Abstract: 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 that has a plurality of fuel cells each extending between an inlet end and an outlet end. The inlet end receives a flow of air and fuel and the outlet end provides output products to the combustion chamber. The fuel cell assembly further includes an electrical circuit that is electrically coupled to the plurality of fuel cells and that extends through the casing.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Seung-Hyuck Hong, Richard L. Hart, Honggang Wang, Anil Raj Duggal, Michael Anthony Benjamin
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Patent number: 12241424Abstract: A fuel leak detection system for hydrogen fuel system including a monitored component. The fuel leak detection system including a sensor and controller communicatively coupled to the sensor. The sensor is positioned to monitor at least a portion of the monitored component. The sensor is configured (i) to sense a parameter corresponding to a hydrogen fuel leak of the monitored component and (ii) to generate an output. The controller is configured (i) to receive the output of the sensor, (ii) to determine, based on the output of the sensor, if a leak has occurred in the monitored component, and (iii) to generate an output indicating a fuel system leak when the controller determines that the leak has occurred in the monitored component. The monitored component may be a component of one of a fuel tank, a power generator, and a fuel delivery assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Arthur W. Sibbach, Paul Burchell Glaser, Michael A. Benjamin
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Patent number: 12241383Abstract: A turbine engine having a disk, a composite airfoil assembly and a pitch snubber. The disk having a slot. The composite airfoil assembly having an airfoil portion and a dovetail portion. The dovetail portion having a radially inner surface spaced from the slot to define a gap therebetween. The pitch snubber being provided on one of the slot or the radially inner surface of the dovetail portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Benjamin Thomas Van Oflen, Gary Willard Bryant, Jr., Nicholas Joseph Kray, Arthur William Sibbach, Michael John Franks, Elzbieta Kryj-Kos
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Patent number: 12241372Abstract: A seal assembly for a gas turbine includes a seal case, and a seal shoe arranged within the seal case. The seal shoe includes a main seal portion that is configured to engage with a radial bearing engagement portion of a rotor shaft, a radial bearing surface that engages with the radial bearing engagement portion of the rotor shaft, at least one hydrodynamic lift cavity extending through the radial bearing surface, and at least one airflow passage extending from a first side of the seal shoe through the at least one hydrodynamic lift cavity and providing airflow communication between the first side of the seal shoe and the at least one hydrodynamic lift cavity.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Grant Portune, Steven Douglas Johnson, Bryan Jung Woo Hong, Prateek Jalan, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Narendra Hardikar, David Yamarthi
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Patent number: 12245407Abstract: A passive cooling system for aircraft electronics includes an electronics chassis having a chassis exterior and defining a chassis interior; a heat spreader having a body located in the chassis interior; a heatsink located in the chassis interior; a cold plate operably coupled to the electronic chassis and thermally coupled to the heatsink; a first plurality of heat pipes thermally coupled with the cold plate; and a second plurality of heat pipes thermally coupling the heatsink with the heat spreader.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventor: Ronald Jacob Rightnowar
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Patent number: 12241379Abstract: This disclosure is directed to cooling systems for turbomachine seal assemblies. The seal assemblies include stationary and rotating components and at least one interface between the stationary and rotating components. During operation of the turbomachine, the components of the seal assemblies generate heat, which is removed from the seal assembly by the cooling systems of this disclosure. In some examples, the cooling system includes a reservoir of lubricant that is distributed to a face of one of the components of the seal assembly. In other examples, the cooling system includes a lattice structure capable of retaining lubricant against the components of the seal assembly, or a pressurized jet of lubricant directed against the components of the seal assembly. The cooling systems can further include a combination of deflectors, hairpin members, and channels for distributing the lubricant to the components of the seal assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Nageswar Ganji, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Hiranya Nath, Jonathan K. Remer
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Patent number: 12240130Abstract: A positioning system is provided for insertions and placements with increased accuracy and precision for the placement and insertion of components into elements. The system may utilize one or more sensors to provide individual images or data for each individual insertion of components into elements. The system may use known information to compare the individual images or data to provide increased accuracy and precision for insertion of components into elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Antoine Lizotte, Felix Beaudry, Alain Warren, John Karigiannis, Philippe Laurin
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Patent number: 12239484Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for generating ultrasound probe motion recommendations. In one example, a method includes obtaining an ultrasound image of a source scan plane, the ultrasound image acquired with an ultrasound probe at a first location relative to a patient, entering the ultrasound image as input to a probe recommendation model trained to output a set of recommendations to move the ultrasound probe from the first location to a plurality of additional locations at which a plurality of target scan planes can be imaged, and displaying the set of recommendations on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: Rahul Venkataramani, Chandan Aladahalli, Krishna Seetharam Shriram, Vikram Melapudi
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Patent number: 12243358Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, systems, and storage media to track engine components are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a memory; instructions in the apparatus; and processor circuitry to in response to a notification that an engine is undergoing maintenance or in operation, identify an entry in a database that corresponds to the engine, the engine including a module; update historical data corresponding to the module based on the notification; and determine whether the module of the engine has been replaced by extracting data from a data packet obtained via a wireless communication; and when the module of the engine has not been replaced, replace a first identifier of the module stored in the entry with a second identifier of the module and maintain the historical data for the module in the entry.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Luis Eduardo Riestra Pagola, Stephen Davis
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Patent number: 12244244Abstract: A controller-implemented method and system for operating a multi-level bridge power converter connected to a power grid in a fault-tolerant operational mode, the power converter including a first converter coupled to a DC link, the first converter including a plurality of switching devices. The method and system determine an on/off scheme for the switching devices in the first converter when one or more of the switching devices has failed in a shorted state, wherein the on/off scheme is dependent upon phase current direction through the first converter. The phase current direction is indirectly determined by sensing a pole voltage of the first converter and implementing the on/off scheme in the fault-tolerant mode when the pole voltage changes from zero to a +/?value indicating that the phase current through the first converter has switched direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.Inventors: Pushkar Chandrakant Chaudhari, Kapil Jha, Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez, Nathaniel Robert Michener
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Patent number: 12239489Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a medical imaging system. In one embodiment, a method comprises generating cardiac ultrasound images from ultrasound imaging data of a heart, generating a spatio-temporal map of electrical impulses in the heart based on contraction and elongation of cardiac muscles depicted in the cardiac ultrasound images, and outputting the spatio-temporal map of the electrical impulses in the heart to a display device. In this way, the spatio-temporal map of the electrical impulses in the heart may visually indicate an electrical conduction path through the heart.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLCInventor: Hani Mirar
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Patent number: 12241452Abstract: A method for monitoring at least one rotor blade of a wind turbine includes implementing, via a controller, a control scheme for monitoring blade damage of the at least one rotor blade. The control scheme includes monitoring at least one electrical condition of a pitch system of the wind turbine. The method also includes converting the electrical condition(s) of the pitch system into a frequency domain. Further, the method includes determining one or more peaks of the frequency domain around a frequency component related to a natural frequency of the rotor blade. Moreover, the method includes determining a frequency deviation between the one or more peaks of the frequency domain and the frequency component related to the natural frequency of the rotor blade. As such, a frequency deviation outside of a predetermined frequency range is indicative of a rotor blade anomaly. Thus, the method includes implementing a control action when the frequency deviation is outside of the predetermined frequency range.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLCInventors: Lijun He, Mohammad Attia, Biao Fang, Liwei Hao, Karim Younsi, Honggang Wang
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Patent number: 12240624Abstract: An aircraft gas turbine includes a combustor that combusts compressed air and at least one fuel flow from at least one fuel source to generate combustion gases. A fuel supply system is arranged to provide at least one of a first flow of fuel to the combustor via a first fuel supply line and a second flow of a heated fuel to the combustor via a second fuel supply line. A fuel heat exchanger is arranged within the fuel supply system to generate the heated fuel that is heated above an autoignition temperature of the fuel, and a heat source communicates with the fuel heat exchanger for generating the heated fuel.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Brandon W. Miller, Daniel A. Niergarth, Arthur W. Sibbach
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Patent number: 12240615Abstract: An electric propulsor is provided. The electric propulsor includes a core cowl and an outer cowl. A first air flowpath is defined radially outward of the outer cowl and a second air flowpath is defined between the core cowl and the outer cowl. The electric propulsor also includes one or more electric machines, a fan rotatably drivable by at least one electric machine, and a booster having a plurality of airfoils disposed at least in part in the second air flowpath, the booster being rotatably drivable by at least one electric machine for compressing air flowing along the second air flowpath. The electric propulsor further includes a heat exchanger disposed within the second air flowpath downstream of the booster, the heat exchanger being in thermal communication with at least one of the one or more electric machines and/or a gearbox mechanically coupled with the fan.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignees: General Electric Company, General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbHInventors: David Marion Ostdiek, William Joseph Solomon, Mohamed Osama, Arthur William Sibbach, Randy M. Vondrell
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Patent number: 12244204Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to a flux-modulated permanent magnet clutch. Disclosed is a magnetic clutch apparatus comprising a tension spring, an outer ring coupled to the tension spring, the outer ring including a first plurality of magnets, an inner ring coupled to an output shaft, the inner ring including a second plurality of magnets, the outer ring to magnetically engage with the inner ring, and an intermediate ring coupled to an input shaft, the intermediate ring disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring, the intermediate ring including a ferrous metal.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Lokaditya Ryali, Bugra H Ertas, Adam Joseph Wangler
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Patent number: 12241628Abstract: A swirler assembly for a combustor includes at least one swirler including a plurality of swirl vanes arrayed about an axis of the swirler. The plurality of swirl vanes includes a first ring of first sub-vanes and a second ring of second sub-vanes, the first ring of first sub-vanes and the second ring of second sub-vanes being separated by a gap therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Gurunath Gandikota, Karthikeyan Sampath, Perumallu Vukanti, Allen M. Danis, Scott M. Bush, Steven Clayton Vise, Hari Ravi Chandra, Rimple Rangrej, Saket Singh, Pradeep Naik, Neeraj Kumar Mishra, Arvind Kumar Rao, Balasubramaniam Venkatanarayanan, Ranjeet Kumar Mishra
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Patent number: 12241375Abstract: A turbine engine is provided. The turbine engine defines an axial direction and a radial direction, and includes: a rotor; a stator comprising a carrier; a seal assembly disposed between the rotor and the stator, the seal assembly defining a high-pressure side and a low-pressure side and comprising a plurality of seal segments, the plurality of seal segments including a seal segment having a seal face forming a fluid bearing with the rotor, a lip, and a body, the lip extending from the body along the axial direction of the turbine engine on the high-pressure side and including an outer pressurization surface along the radial direction of the turbine engine; and a seal support assembly, the seal support assembly comprising a spring arrangement extending between the carrier and the first seal segment to counter a pressure on the outer pressurization surface during operation of the turbine engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, David Raju Yamarthi, Chandrashekhar Kandukuri, Deepak Trivedi, Narendra Anand Hardikar, Vidyashankar Ramasastry Buravalla, Steven Douglas Johnson, Amit Goyal, Grant Robert Portune, Himanshu Gupta, Srinivasan Swaminathan, Shalini Thimmegowda, Guru Venkata Dattu Jonnalagadda, Shalabh Saxena, Prateek Jalan
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Patent number: 12241384Abstract: A rotor blade system. The rotor blade system includes a rotor and a plurality of blades coupled to the rotor. The plurality of blades are arranged in an airfoil distribution pattern. The airfoil distribution pattern includes one or more baseline blades and one or more intentionally mistuned blades including an intentional mistuning feature.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2024Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Wei-Min Ren, Letian Wang, Kevin E. Turner, Yoon Seok Choi
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Patent number: 12241426Abstract: Provided are systems and methods of controlling load share in a multi-engine propulsion system. A load share participation value indicative of a load share participation regime for a first engine may be received and a load sharing requirement control command for the first engine may be output. The load share participation value may depend or be based at least in part on one or more operating conditions of a second engine. The load sharing requirement control command for the first engine may depend on whether the load share participation value indicates a full-participation load share regime for the first engine, a partial-participation load share regime for the first engine, or a non-participation load share regime for the first engine.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christopher David King, Jessie Thorup
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Patent number: 12232898Abstract: A C-arm x-ray imaging device includes a base, a carriage operably connected to the base and having at least one axis of movement with respect to the base, a C-arm movably connected to the carriage, the C-arm including a cable management system having a housing disposed on the carriage, the housing defining an interior, a number of cables extending from the base into the interior of the housing, a cable chain having a first end secured within the interior of the housing and a second end affixed to the C-arm, the cable chain defining a channel therein that receives the number of cables to direct the number of cables from the base to the C-arm. The cable management system operate to retain the number of cables in alignment with the C-arm in any orientation of the C-arm relative to the base.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Carlos Martinez Ferreira, Bernard Bouvier, Vincent Parinet, Julien Marcotte
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Patent number: 12234778Abstract: Flow-metering fuel systems and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a pipe defining a flow path for fuel, the pipe fluidly coupled to a combustor, a first portion of the pipe having a first cross-sectional area, a second portion of the pipe having a second cross-sectional area smaller than the first cross-sectional area, the second portion downstream of the first portion, and an actuator to adjust a flow rate of the fuel in the pipe based on a first pressure of the fuel in the first portion of the pipe, a second pressure of the fuel in the second portion of the pipe, and a temperature of the fuel.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: General Electric Company, GE Avio S.r.l.Inventors: Michael Joseph Murray, Mirko Gernone
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Patent number: 12238137Abstract: Systems and methods for power system switching element (PSSE) anomaly detection are disclosed. An example PSSE anomaly detection unit may include a power system switching element position estimator (PSSEPE) and a comparison unit. The PSSEPE may be configured to receive a set of measurements and a set of control commands associated with a PSSE, calculate an anomaly confidence score based on the set of measurements and the set of control commands, and estimate a calculated PSSE position based on the set of measurements and the set of control commands. The comparison unit may be configured to receive the calculated PSSE position from the PSSEPE, receive the set of measurements and the set of control commands from the PSSEPE, receive a reported PSSE position associated with the PSSE, and determine a PSSE anomaly decision based on a difference between the reported PSSE position and the calculated PSSE position.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Masoud Abbaszadeh, Mitalkumar Kanabar, Subhrajit Roychowdhury, Pubudu Eroshan Weerathunga, Balakrishna Pamulaparthy
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Patent number: 12234745Abstract: An airfoil assembly for a turbine engine, the airfoil assembly including a platform defining an inner surface and an outer surface, a variable pitch airfoil extending radially from the outer surface of the platform from a root to a tip to define a span length and a mounting structure connected to the platform.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Nicholas Joseph Kray, Daniel E. Mollmann, Elzbieta Kryj-Kos, Arthur William Sibbach, Brent Michael Push
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Patent number: 12237243Abstract: A power overlay (POL) module includes a semiconductor device having a body, including a first side and an opposing second side. A first contact pad defined on the semiconductor device first side and a dielectric layer, having a first side and an opposing second side defining a set of first apertures therethrough, is disposed facing the semiconductor device first side. The POL module, includes a metal interconnect layer, having a first side and an opposing second side, the metal interconnect layer second side is disposed on the dielectric layer first side) and extends through the set of first apertures to define a set of vias electrically coupled to the first contact pad. An enclosure defining an interior portion is coupled to the metal interconnect layer first side, and a phase change material (PCM) is disposed in the enclosure interior portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLCInventors: Rinaldo Luigi Miorini, Arun Virupaksha Gowda, Naveenan Thiagarajan, Brian Magann Rush
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Patent number: D1065536Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLCInventor: Koji Yanagihara
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Patent number: D1066679Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: Tilman Noelle, Lionel Wodecki, Sung Doo Lee