General Electric Patents

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  • Publication number: 20240062642
    Abstract: A status indicator for a capacitor may include first and second indicator plates, each respectively defining a first face and a second face visually distinct from the first face. The first face of each of the first and second indicator plates is displayed during nominal operation of the capacitor. The second face of only one of the first and second indicator plates is displayed in response to a partial failure of the capacitor. The second face of each of the first and second indicator plates is displayed in response to a complete failure of the capacitor. A system may include a capacitor, and the status indicator coupled to the capacitor. A method for visually indicating a status of a capacitor may include controlling, by a controller, first and second indicator plates to display selected faces indicating nominal operation, partial failure, or complete failure of the capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Divya VANGARI, Joshua Kent Nikkel, Steve H. Fan
  • Publication number: 20240062983
    Abstract: A system for melting, sintering, or heat treating a material is provided. The system includes a cathode, an anode, and a focus coil assembly having a quadrupole magnet. The quadrupole magnet includes four poles and a yoke. The four poles are spaced apart and surround a beam cavity. Each of the four poles includes a pole face proximate the beam cavity and an end opposite the pole face. The first and third poles are aligned along an x-axis and configured to have a first magnetic polarity at their respective pole faces and a second magnetic polarity opposite the first magnetic polarity at their respective ends. The second and fourth poles are aligned along a y-axis and configured to have the second magnetic polarity at their respective pole faces and the first magnetic polarity at their respective ends. The yoke surrounds the poles and is coupled to the poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John Scott Price, Ye Bai, Antonio Caiafa, Vasile Bogdan Neculaes, Uwe Wiedmann
  • Patent number: 11908174
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for automatically classifying a plurality of image slices using body region bounding boxes identified from a localizer image. In one embodiment, a localizer image may be mapped to a plurality of bounding boxes, corresponding to a plurality of body regions, using a trained machine learning model. Coordinates of the plurality of bounding boxes may be used to determine body region boundaries, such that the body regions are non-intersecting and coherent. The body regions identified in the localizer image may then be correlated to image slice ranges, and image slices within each image slice range may be labeled as belonging to the corresponding body region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Mathieu Bedez, Marouane Belhaj, Vincent Pangon
  • Patent number: 11905424
    Abstract: Core-shell microparticles, along with methods of their fabrication and use, are provided. The core-shell microparticles may include a core comprising a first metallic material having a first chromium content and a shell surrounding the core and comprising a second metallic material having a second chromium content that is less than the first chromium content. For example, the first chromium content may be 5% by weight or greater of elemental chromium within the first metallic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Louis Lefebvre, Ehsan Marzbanrad, Ehsan Toyserkani, Boxin Zhao, Jeremy Vandenberg
  • Patent number: 11903760
    Abstract: The current disclosure provides systems and methods for providing guidance information to an operator of a medical imaging device. In an embodiment, a method is provided, comprising training a deep learning neural network on training pairs including a first medical image of an anatomical neighborhood and a second medical image of the anatomical neighborhood as input data, and a ground truth displacement between a first scan plane of the first medical image and a second scan plane of the second medical image as target data; using the neural network to predict a displacement between a first scan plane of a new medical image of the anatomical neighborhood and a target scan plane of a reference medical image of the anatomical neighborhood; and displaying guidance information for an imaging device used to acquire the new medical image on a display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Chandan Kumar Aladahalli, Krishna Seetharam Shriram, Vikram Melapudi
  • Patent number: 11910029
    Abstract: Coding schemes for coding a spatially sampled information signal using sub-division and coding schemes for coding a sub-division or a multitree structure are described, wherein representative embodiments relate to picture and/or video coding applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Heiner Kirchhoffer, Martin Winken, Philipp Helle, Detlev Marpe, Heiko Schwarz, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 11905884
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes: a turbomachine including a combustion section and an exhaust assembly arranged in serial flow order; and a fuel system. The fuel system includes: a hydrogen fuel tank for holding a hydrogen fuel in a liquid phase; and a hydrogen delivery assembly in thermal communication with the exhaust assembly. The hydrogen delivery assembly includes: a liquid hydrogen line in fluid communication with the hydrogen fuel tank; a gaseous hydrogen line in fluid communication with the combustion section of the gas turbine engine; and a heat exchanger tubing positioned within the exhaust assembly downstream of the liquid hydrogen line and upstream of the gaseous hydrogen line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mustafa Dindar, Scott Alan Schimmels
  • Patent number: 11907764
    Abstract: Techniques regarding the management of computational resources based on clinical priority associated with one or more computing tasks are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can regard a system comprising a memory that can store computer-executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, that executes the computer-executable components stored in the memory. The computer-executable components can include a prioritization component that can prioritize computer applications based on a clinical priority of tasks performed by the computer applications. The clinical priority can characterize a time sensitivity of the tasks. The computer-executable components can also include a resource pool component that can divide computational resources across a plurality of resource pools and can assign the computer applications to the plurality of resource pools based on the clinical priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Evgeny Drapkin, Michael Braunstein, Fausto Espinal, David Minor, Greg Ohme, Ben Dayan, David Chevalier, Manoj Unnikrishnan
  • Patent number: 11903898
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for ultrasound imaging with real-time feedback for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) compressions. Ultrasound images generated based on received echo ultrasound signals during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) of a patient may be processed, and based on the processing of the ultrasound images, real-time information relating to the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may be determined. Feedback for assisting in conducting the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may be generated based on the information. The feedback may include information and/or indications relating to compressions applied during the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The feedback may be configured for outputting during displaying of the generated ultrasound images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Carmit Shiran, Alex Sokulin, Dani Pinkovich, Cynthia A. Owen, Menachem Halmann, Antonio Fabian Fermoso, Mor Vardi
  • Patent number: 11906371
    Abstract: Thermocouples for high temperature applications are provided. A thermocouple includes a vessel formed from a dielectric material, the vessel defining a first chamber and a second chamber, the first chamber and second chamber in fluid communication. The thermocouple further includes a first thermoelement disposed in the first chamber, the first thermoelement formed from a first thermoelectric material. The thermocouple further includes a second thermoelement disposed in the second chamber, the second thermoelement formed from a second thermoelectric material different from the first thermoelectric material, and wherein the second thermoelement is a liquid at operating conditions of the thermocouple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Andrew David Ellis
  • Patent number: 11905837
    Abstract: A sealing system for sealing between components. The sealing system includes a first component, a second component, and a seal assembly including a seal member. The first component includes a first component surface, and the second component includes a second component surface. The second component surface is oriented in a direction transverse to the first contact surface. The seal member has a plurality of contact surfaces including a first contact surface and a second contact surface. The first contact surface is configured to contact the first component surface and to slide relative to the first component surface. The second contact surface is configured to contact the second component surface and to slide relative to the second component surface. The second contact surface is oriented in a direction transverse to the first contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Nicholas R. Overman
  • Patent number: 11906955
    Abstract: A system for diagnosing an additive manufacturing device is provided. The system includes a first module configured to: obtain one or more parameters for a digital twin of a component of the additive manufacturing device based on raw data from the component of the additive manufacturing device; and generate physics features for the digital twin of the component of the additive manufacturing device based on the one or more parameters and one or more transfer functions, a second module configured to obtain one or more classifiers for classifying the component as a first condition or a second condition based on physics features; and a third module configured to: determine a health of the component based on the generated physics features of the first model and the one or more classifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: V S S Srivatsa Ponnada, Venkata Dharma Surya Narayana Sastry Rachakonda, Megha Navalgund, Pär Christoffer Arumskog, Mattias Fager
  • Patent number: 11905890
    Abstract: A differential gearbox assembly for a turbine engine having a fan shaft and a drive shaft. The differential gearbox assembly includes an epicyclic gear assembly coupling the fan shaft to the drive shaft. The epicyclic gear assembly includes a sun gear, a planet gear constrained by a planet carrier, and a ring gear. The sun gear is coupled to the drive shaft and the planet carrier is coupled to the fan shaft. The sun gear, the planet gear, and the ring gear all rotate about the drive shaft. The differential gearbox assembly includes an electric machine assembly that includes an input coupled to the epicyclic gear assembly. The electric machine assembly provides mechanical power to the fan shaft through the epicyclic gear assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, GE AVIO S.R.L.
    Inventors: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Andrea Piazza, Gontla Nagashiresha, Bugra H. Ertas, Sanjeev Jha
  • Patent number: 11909226
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for a wireless power transmission apparatus that supports charging of one or more wireless power receiving apparatuses. The wireless power transmission apparatus may include multiple primary coils organized in groups (referred to as zones). Each zone may have a local controller for managing operation of one primary coil in the zone at a time. A master controller may selectively couple the primary coils to the local controllers. When a first primary coil is coupled to the local controller for a zone, the other primary coils in that zone may be disabled. The master controller may manage which primary coils from neighboring zones are coupled to their respective local controllers. Thus, when the first primary coil is activated, the adjacent primary coils (near the first primary coil) can be muted or disabled to mitigate undesirable interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rupam Basak, Jayanti Ganesh, Viswanathan Kanakasabai, Suma Memana Narayana Bhat, Subbarao Tatikonda
  • Patent number: 11910030
    Abstract: A better compromise between encoding complexity and achievable rate distortion ratio, and/or to achieve a better rate distortion ratio is achieved by using multitree sub-divisioning not only in order to subdivide a continuous area, namely the sample array, into leaf regions, but using the intermediate regions also to share coding parameters among the corresponding collocated leaf blocks. By this measure, coding procedures performed in tiles—leaf regions—locally, may be associated with coding parameters individually without having to, however, explicitly transmit the whole coding parameters for each leaf region separately. Rather, similarities may effectively exploited by using the multitree subdivision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Philipp Helle, Detlev Marpe, Simon Oudin, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 11908044
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for increasing a quality of computed tomography (CT) images reconstructed from high helical pitch scans. In one embodiment, the current disclosure provides for a method comprising generating a first computed tomography (CT) image from projection data acquired at a high helical pitch; using a trained multidimensional statistical regression model to generate a second CT image from the first CT image, the multidimensional statistical regression model trained with a plurality of target CT images reconstructed from projection data acquired at a lower helical pitch; and performing an iterative correction of the second CT image to generate a final CT image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC, WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Guang-Hong Chen, Jiang Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11907695
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for providing software to aircraft using a distributed ledger are disclosed. A software delivery system includes aircraft having an engine control system configured to verify and install software utilized by components of the aircraft, an electronic distribution system coupled to the aircraft, an edge manager coupled to the electronic distribution system, and computing devices acting as nodes in a distributed ledger base maintaining a distributed ledger. The electronic distribution system verifies a request for software, requests software, and initiates an installation protocol with the engine control system. The edge manager maintains software. The distributed ledger base is coupled to the aircraft, the electronic distribution system, and the edge manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Jeffrey Scott Gilton
  • Patent number: 11903763
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for ultrasound imaging. In one example, a method includes receiving ultrasound signals of a region of interest with a wireless hand-held probe assembly, generating a plurality of received digital signals based on the received ultrasound signals within the wireless hand-held probe assembly, generating each of a larger dataset and a smaller dataset from the plurality of received digital signals, transmitting the smaller dataset from the wireless hand-held probe assembly to a hub via a lower bandwidth wireless connection, transmitting the larger dataset from the wireless hand-held probe assembly to the hub via a higher bandwidth wireless connection, generating each of a low resolution image from the smaller dataset and a high resolution image from the larger dataset at the hub, and transmitting the low resolution image from the hub to a first display and the high resolution image from the hub to an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Srihari Mukesh Tirumalai, S M Shajedul Hasan, Kieran Andrew Wall, Bruno Hans Haider
  • Patent number: 11906163
    Abstract: A fuel delivery system for a gas turbine engine includes a fuel source; a draw pump downstream of the fuel source for generating a liquid fuel flow from the fuel source; a main fuel pump downstream of the draw pump; and a fuel oxygen reduction unit downstream of the draw pump and upstream of the main fuel pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Daniel Alan Niergarth, Sridhar Adibhatla, Ethan Patrick O'Connor
  • Patent number: 11903768
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically adjusting beamformer parameters based on ultrasound image analysis to enhance ultrasound image acquisition is provided. The method includes acquiring, by an ultrasound system, an ultrasound image. The method includes segmenting, by at least one processor, the ultrasound image to identify anatomical structure(s) and/or image artifact(s) in the ultrasound image. The method includes detecting, by the at least one processor, a location of each of the identified anatomical structure(s) and/or image artifact(s). The method includes automatically adjusting, by the at least one processor, at least one beamformer parameter based on the detected location of one or more of the identified anatomical structure(s) and/or the image artifact(s). The method includes acquiring, by the ultrasound system, an enhanced ultrasound image based on the automatically adjusted at least one beamformer parameter. The method includes presenting, at a display system, the enhanced ultrasound image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Abhijit Patil, Vikram Melapudi, Krishna Seetharam Shriram, Chandan Kumar Mallappa Aladahalli
  • Patent number: 11905843
    Abstract: A liner support system for an exhaust liner in an aircraft engine. The liner support system includes a plurality of posts that space the exhaust liner from the exhaust duct, the plurality of posts spacing the exhaust liner from the exhaust duct further supporting the exhaust liner. Each post includes an interface region adjacent to the back side of the exhaust liner sealed to the back side of the exhaust liner, a shank extending to a low pressure region, and a hollow passageway internal to the shank, providing fluid communication between the interface region and the low pressure region. The low pressure region results in pressure against the liner, pulling the liner adjacent the post interface region against the post while preventing fluid leakage between the exhaust liner and the interface region. The posts create a pattern of alternating pressures in the liner allowing for elimination of hangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Donald Michael Corsmeier, Bernard James Renggli, Kurt J. Bonner
  • Patent number: 11909302
    Abstract: A method for operating a multi-level bridge power converter of an electrical power system connected to a power grid includes providing a plurality of switching devices of the power converter in an active neutral point clamped topology. The method also includes operating the plurality of switching devices in a plurality of operating states such that current simultaneously flows through at least two parallel recovery paths of the plurality of switching devices during operation of the power converter to minimize a commutation path of the current when at least one diode of the plurality of switching devices recovers, thereby reducing parasitic inductance affecting the recovering antiparallel diode or the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez, Robert Gregory Wagoner, Nathaniel Robert Michener
  • Patent number: 11905842
    Abstract: Partition damper seal configurations for segmented internal cooling hardware apparatus are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an inner wall and an outer wall, the outer wall spaced apart from the inner wall in a radial direction, a space between the inner and outer walls defining a flow passage, and a body positioned between the inner and outer walls, the body traversing the inner and outer walls in an axial direction and attached to an inner surface of the outer wall and an outer surface of the inner wall, the body to detach from the inner and outer surfaces and to at least partially seal the flow passage in response to the outer wall moving relative to the inner wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ashish Sharma, Tomasz Edward Berdowski, Maciej Czerwiński, Katarzyna Anna Mikolajczyk, Raymond Floyd Martell, Tomasz Jan Bulsiewicz
  • Patent number: 11905853
    Abstract: An airfoil assembly defining a primary airflow path for a turbine engine comprising a platform, an airfoil extending from the platform and into at least a portion of the primary airflow path, a secondary airflow path comprising air from the primary airflow path, and a deflector provided within the secondary airflow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GE AVIO S.r.l.
    Inventors: Alberto Buonvino, Luca Giacobone, Daniele Coutandin, Ernesto Sozio, Francesco Bertini
  • Patent number: 11904357
    Abstract: A micromachined ultrasonic transducers with non-coplanar actuation and displacement comprising a plate with a protruding center mass, a substrate with a center depression configured to accept the center mass, a first electrode coupled to a non-horizontal edge surface of the center mass, and a second electrode coupled to a non-horizontal edge surface of the center depression. The plate may be coupled to the substrate at least along an outer perimeter area of the plate and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Rupak Bardhan Roy, Frederic Lanteri, Edouard Da Cruz, Flavien Daloz, Jean Francois Gelly
  • Patent number: 11903882
    Abstract: Various systems are provided for an adjustable tilting head holder. In one example, a system comprises an adjustable tilting head holder for use with an imaging system the adjustable head holder comprising a head cradle, a tilt adjustment mechanism with a plurality of locking positions arranged below a first end of the head cradle, a table mount extending from a second end of the head cradle, and a tilt adjustment bar that extends from the table mount through the tilt adjustment mechanism, wherein the first end and the second end of the head cradle are located at opposite ends of the head cradle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Michelle DeLong Samalik, Ronald Kulas, Sharon Ghelman, Kelly Vonderhaar Kaiser, Vishwanath Nayak, Dhaval Pravinbhai Dangashiya
  • Patent number: 11905881
    Abstract: A component for a turbine engine includes a body having an outer surface confronting a combustion air flow path and defining an interior, as well as a first cooling passage having at least a portion supplying cooling air to the interior of the body. The component also includes a cyclone separator having a cooling air inlet, a clean air outlet, and a dirty air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff, Kirk D. Gallier
  • Patent number: 11906168
    Abstract: A combustor assembly is generally provided. The combustor assembly includes a volute wall extended annularly around a combustor centerline. The volute wall is extended at least partially as a spiral curve from a circumferential reference line around the combustor centerline. The volute wall defines a combustion chamber therewithin. An annular inner wall is extended at least partially along a lengthwise direction from the volute wall. An annular outer wall is extended at least partially along the lengthwise direction from the volute wall. The inner wall and the outer wall are each separated along a radial direction from the combustor centerline. A primary flow passage is defined between the inner wall and the outer wall in fluid communication from the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Gregory Allen Boardman, Pradeep Naik, Joseph Zelina, Clayton Stuart Cooper
  • Patent number: 11903766
    Abstract: The current disclosure provides methods and systems for navigating among display panels and graphical elements of a user interface of a medical imaging system via controls of a handheld imaging device. In one embodiment, the current disclosure provides for a method comprising, in response to an operator of the medical imaging system adjusting one or more controls arranged on a control handle of a handheld ultrasound device of the medical imaging system, adjusting a focus of a user interface (UI) of the medical imaging system among a plurality of graphical control elements displayed in the UI; and in response to the operator selecting a graphical control element of the plurality of graphical control elements at a location of the focus of the UI via the one or more controls, executing an action of the medical imaging system associated with the selected graphical control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventor: Birger Loype
  • Patent number: 11906165
    Abstract: An engine can utilize a combustor to combust fuel to drive the engine. A fuel nozzle assembly can supply fuel to the combustor for combustion or ignition of the fuel. The fuel nozzle assembly can include a swirler and a fuel nozzle to supply a mixture of fuel and air for combustion. The fuel nozzle can include both a primary and secondary fuel passage, and an additional air passage to provide for greater flame control, fuel provision, or local fuel and air mixing prior to combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael T. Bucaro, Ajoy Patra, Pradeep Naik, Perumallu Vukanti, R Narasimha Chiranthan, Clayton S. Cooper, Michael A. Benjamin, Steven C. Vise, Manampathy G. Giridharan, Krishnakumar Venkatesan
  • Publication number: 20240051019
    Abstract: A green body part comprises a first green portion, a second green portion, an interfacial joint between the first green portion and the second green portion, and a joint material disposed within the interfacial joint. The joint material comprises a powder having a particle size distribution than or equal to 1 ?m and less than or equal to 50 ?m. A method of manufacturing a joined part includes applying a joint material on a face of the first green portion and contacting the second green portion to the joint material on the face of the first green portion to form a joined green body part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Arunkumar Natarajan, Kwok Pong Chan, William C. Alberts, Sivaruban Shivanathan, Elliot C. Dilger, Gregg H. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20240052785
    Abstract: A turbomachinery engine comprises a ducted fan, a high-pressure compressor, a low-pressure turbine, a gearbox, and a ducted engine correlation parameter (DECP). The DECP is within a range of 0.10-0.25 and is defined as 10*D/GR/NLPT/NHPC, where D is a fan blade tip diameter at a leading edge of the ducted fan measured in feet, GR is a gear ratio of the gearbox, NLPT is a stage count of the low-pressure turbine, and NHPC is a stage count of the high-pressure compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Jeffrey D. Clements
  • Publication number: 20240055864
    Abstract: In the field of high voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission networks there is a need for an improved sensor failure detector. A sensor failure detector, for use in HVDC power transmission networks, includes an intelligent electronic device. The intelligent electronic device has a first input to receive in-use a number of first sample values from a first sensor measuring a given operational characteristic, and a second input to receive in-use a number of second sample values from a second sensor measuring the same given operational characteristic. The intelligent electronic device also includes a comparator module that is programmed to compare the first and second sample values with one another, and to establish a sensor failure when the first and second sample values differ from one another by more than a primary threshold for a predetermined first number of samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Ajay KOLIWAD, Li ZOU, Markus Andre OFFERGELD, Madhusudan NANDULA
  • Patent number: 11898518
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a gas turbine engine defining a radial direction, a longitudinal direction, and a circumferential direction, an upstream end and a downstream end along the longitudinal direction, and an axial centerline extended along the longitudinal direction. The gas turbine engine includes a fan assembly including a plurality of fan blades rotatably coupled to a fan rotor in which the fan blades define a maximum fan diameter and a fan pressure ratio. The gas turbine engine further includes a low pressure (LP) turbine defining a core flowpath therethrough generally along the longitudinal direction. The core flowpath defines a maximum outer flowpath diameter relative to the axial centerline. The gas turbine engine defines a fan to turbine diameter ratio of the maximum fan diameter to the maximum outer flowpath diameter. The fan to turbine diameter ratio over the fan pressure ratio is approximately 0.90 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas Ory Moniz, Randy M. Vondrell, Jeffrey Donald Clements, Brandon Wayne Miller
  • Patent number: 11900415
    Abstract: A favorable merging or grouping of simply connected regions into which the array of information samples is sub-divided, is coded with a reduced amount of data. To this end, a predetermined relative locational relationship is defined enabling an identifying, for a predetermined simply connected region, of simply connected regions within the plurality of simply connected regions which have the predetermined relative locational relationship to the predetermined simply connected region. Namely, if the number is zero, a merge indicator for the predetermined simply connected region may be absent within the data stream. In other embodiments, spatial sub-division is performed depending on a first subset of syntax elements, followed by combining spatially neighboring simply connected regions depending on a second subset of syntax elements, to obtain an intermediate sub-division.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Philipp Helle, Simon Oudin, Martin Winken, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 11898755
    Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine has a combustor liner including an outer liner and an inner liner, a combustion chamber being defined between the outer liner and the inner liner. The combustion chamber includes a primary combustion zone at an upstream end of the combustion chamber. The combustor also includes an outer liner expanded primary volume portion, and a secondary outer liner portion. One of the outer liner expanded primary volume portion and the secondary outer liner portion is movable to adjust a volume of the primary combustion zone by opening and closing access to the outer liner expanded primary volume portion so as to increase and to decrease the volume of the primary combustion zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Hiranya Nath, Michael A. Benjamin, Nicholas R. Overman
  • Patent number: 11898464
    Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure an airfoil is provided. The airfoil defines a spanwise direction, a root end, and a tip end. The airfoil includes: a body defining a pressure side and a suction side and extending along the spanwise direction between the root end and the tip end, the body formed of a composite material; and a spar enclosed in the body of the airfoil extending along the spanwise direction, the spar comprising a plurality of spar segments arranged in an overlapping configuration along the spanwise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Nicholas Joseph Kray, Nitesh Jain
  • Patent number: 11898497
    Abstract: A coated component for a gas turbine engine is provided. The coated component includes a substrate having a surface and a ceramic coating. The ceramic coating includes one or more linear slots and one or more non-linear slots. The one or more non-linear slots intersect the one or more linear slots. The plurality of linear slots and the plurality of non-linear slots form segments of ceramic coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hrishikesh Keshavan, Curtis Alan Johnson, Hongqiang Chen, Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., Mehmet M. Dede
  • Patent number: 11897624
    Abstract: A method and structure for thermal management for a vehicle is provided. The method includes extracting a flow of compressed fluid from a compressor section of a propulsion system in which the flow of compressed fluid includes a pressure parameter, and generating an output torque via expanding at least a portion of the flow of compressed fluid across a turbine operably connected to a driveshaft. The turbine is positioned downstream of the compressor section and upstream of a cooling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Scott Gregory Edens
  • Patent number: 11898495
    Abstract: A fuel system for a gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine including an exhaust assembly. The exhaust assembly including a tail cone and defining a radial direction, a circumferential direction, an axial direction, a working gas flow path, and an outer bypass flow path, the fuel system including: a hydrogen fuel tank for holding a hydrogen fuel; a heat exchanger configured to be coupled to or integrated into the tail cone of the exhaust assembly, the heat exchanger including: a first axial flow path in flow communication with the hydrogen fuel tank; a second axial flow path in flow communication with a combustion section of the gas turbine engine; and a radial flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mustafa Dindar, Scott Alan Schimmels
  • Patent number: 11898502
    Abstract: Combustion turbine control systems are configured to operate combustion turbine systems in partial or no load while meeting emission targets. The combustion turbine system includes a combustion turbine, an electrical generator, a combustion turbine controller, a catalyst assembly, and/or other relevant equipment. Based on given operating constraints, such as load conditions and emission regulations, the combustion turbine controller may execute corresponding actions to control certain gas concentrations and/or gas mass flows in the exhaust gases in compliance with emission regulations. The corresponding actions may include, but are not limited to: controlling fuel and/or diluent injection(s) to combustor(s) to control combustion (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Adnan Fareed Zafar, Sameer Dinkar Vartak, Arun Kumar Sridharan, Jose Apolonio Burciaga-Santos
  • Patent number: 11897134
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for configuring a robotic simulator that is used to train a robot via machine learning. In one example, a method may include storing a domain description which comprises information about an operating environment of a robot, generating, via an automated planner, a plurality configuration files for a robotic simulator based on the domain description, where each configuration file comprises different configurations of a simulation environment for training a machine learning algorithm of the robot, and storing the plurality of configuration files in a memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Bradford Wayne Miller
  • Patent number: 11898682
    Abstract: A tube spacing and fastening system for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of tubular structures, a wear sleeve, a spacer element, and a fastening element. The plurality of tubular structures provides a fluid flow to a component of the gas turbine engine. The wear sleeve is located around each of the plurality of tubular structures. The spacer element receives the plurality of tubular structures. The fastening element extends around the wear sleeves and is configured to secure the plurality of tubular structures to the spacer element. An interference between the fastening element and wear sleeves is configured to allow the fastening element to slide with respect to the wear sleeves and to provide a damping effect under gas turbine engine vibrations and operating conditions. A method of damping vibrations in the plurality of tubular structures includes allowing the fastening element to slide with respect to the wear sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Naleen Kumar Verma, Mario Alberto Bolaños Jimenez, Arun Ramachandra, Jeffrey P. Darnell, Michael E. Sandy, José Torre
  • Patent number: 11898757
    Abstract: A propulsion system includes at least one rotating detonation actuator comprising: a flow path extending from an inlet end to an outlet end; an inner wall defining a radially inner boundary of the flow path; an outer wall defining a radially outer boundary of the flow path; and at least one aircraft wing. The rotating detonation actuator is disposed in the aircraft wing. At least one rotating detonation wave travels through the flow path from the inlet end to the outlet end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Nicholas William Rathay, Narendra Digamber Joshi, Venkat Eswarlu Tangirala
  • Patent number: 11901758
    Abstract: A power system (150) operable to implement a power balancing control scheme is provided. In one aspect, a power system (150) includes multiple independent power supplies (182A, 182B) with independent batteries (172A, 172B) feeding onto a common power bus (180). The power supplies (182A, 182B) regulate the voltage on the common power bus (180) at the same time. The power balancing control scheme, when implemented, causes the load on the common power bus (180) to be shared among the individual power supplies (182A, 182B) with a specified load distribution. The specified load distribution can be set or determined to balance the State of Charge (SoC) of the batteries (172A, 172B) over time whilst taking into account the constraints or limits of the elements (172A, 172B, 182A, 182B) of the power system (150).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gregory L. Detweiler, Pradeep Vijayan
  • Patent number: 11898460
    Abstract: A turbine engine includes an engine core extending along an engine centerline and includes a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement. A temperature sensor is provided within the engine and configured to detect a gas temperature within the engine core. A set of blades is circumferentially arranged in the turbine section. A blade in the set of blades includes an outer wall bounding an interior, a cooling conduit within the interior, and a plurality of film holes fluidly coupled to the cooling conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 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: 11898494
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine is provided having a combustion section with a liner extending between a forward end and an aft end. A structural member is positioned in or around at least a portion of the combustion section. Additionally, a piston ring holder is provided attached to the structural member at a first end and positioned proximate to the aft end of the liner at a second end. The piston ring holder is a bimetallic member including a first portion formed of a first material and a second portion formed of a second material. A coefficient of thermal expansion of the first material is different than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the second material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Nicholas John Bloom, Michael Alan Stieg, Brian Christopher Towle
  • Patent number: 11901767
    Abstract: A compaction plate for magnetic mass is proposed. The compaction plate comprises a plurality of laminated magnetic sheets, the laminated magnetic sheets being fixed together with fixing and electric insulating means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GE Energy Power Conversion Technology Limited
    Inventors: Christophe Grosselin, Lionel Durantay, Christophe Galmiche
  • Patent number: 11901799
    Abstract: An electrical machine includes a stator assembly coupled to an engine stator component of a propulsion engine. The stator assembly includes a stator support assembly fixedly attached to the engine stator component and a stator disposed on a supporting surface of the stator support structure. The electrical machine also includes a rotor assembly including a rotor support structure connected to a shaft of the propulsion engine and a rotor attached to the rotor support structure such that the rotor is disposed radially inward of the stator. The rotor exchanges rotational energy with the shaft to operate as either an electrical motor or an electrical generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: General Electric Company, General Electric Company Polska sp. z o.o., General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Miroslaw Czarnik, Adam Tomasz Paziński, Bartłomiej Drozd, Darek Zatorski, Maciej Krzysztof Grunwald, Mohamed Osama, John R. Yagielski
  • Patent number: D1015540
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Ryan Walter Rindy, Hui Fang, Jun Hou, Eero Tapio Hyytiainen, Jiancheng Zhang, Donald L. Beduhn, Duncan Lovel Trevor-Wilson, Wenyoung Wu