Patents by Inventor Alan Walls
Alan Walls has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11846209Abstract: An apparatus and method for assembling an inducer assembly for inducing a rotation on an airflow passing within a turbine engine. The inducer assembly can provide a volume of fluid from a compressor section to a turbine section of the engine. The inducer assembly can include the combination of separate segments to form an annular inducer.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christophe Jude Day, Kenneth Edward Seitzer, Michael Alan Hile, Thomas Alan Wall, Carol Anne Venn, Anthony Paul Greenwood
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Publication number: 20230056137Abstract: A spring assembly for a vehicle is provided. The spring assembly may include a piston, and a sleeve with a noncircular cross section, the sleeve made from an unreinforced synthetic elastomeric material and being free of reinforcing fibers. The sleeve is coupled with a plurality of end components and defines a deformable pressure vessel, the deformable pressure vessel supplies a support force, and at least one of the end components is the piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: ILJIN USA CorporationInventors: Alan Coulthard, Jeremy Mercer, Michael L. Crabtree, Ken Casagrande, Alan Wall, Adrian Thompson, Ruben Jasso
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Publication number: 20230038843Abstract: An apparatus and method for assembling an inducer assembly for inducing a rotation on an airflow passing within a turbine engine. The inducer assembly can provide a volume of fluid from a compressor section to a turbine section of the engine. The inducer assembly can include the combination of separate segments to form an annular inducer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Christophe Jude Day, Kenneth Edward Seitzer, Michael Alan Hile, Thomas Alan Wall, Carol Anne Venn, Anthony Paul Greenwood
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Patent number: 11466582Abstract: An apparatus and method for assembling an inducer assembly for inducing a rotation on an airflow passing within a turbine engine. The inducer assembly can provide a volume of fluid from a compressor section to a turbine section of the engine. The inducer assembly can include the combination of separate segments to form an annular inducer.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christophe Jude Day, Kenneth Edward Seitzer, Michael Alan Hile, Thomas Alan Wall, Carol Anne Venn, Anthony Paul Greenwood
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Publication number: 20220051302Abstract: A computer implemented method includes scanning a code by a user device, the code identifying an organization donation page corresponding to the code, providing the code to a donation webpage server, wherein the server accesses the organization donation page corresponding to the code, receiving and displaying the donation page on the user device, receiving a selection of a donation amount at the user device, and transferring funds from a user account to an organization account in response to the receivedType: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventor: Christopher Alan Wall
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Publication number: 20210062664Abstract: An apparatus and method for assembling an inducer assembly for inducing a rotation on an airflow passing within a turbine engine. The inducer assembly can provide a volume of fluid from a compressor section to a turbine section of the engine. The inducer assembly can include the combination of separate segments to form an annular inducer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Christophe Jude Day, Kenneth Edward Seitzer, Michael Alan Hile, Thomas Alan Wall, Carol Anne Venn, Anthony Paul Greenwood
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Patent number: 10787920Abstract: An apparatus and method for assembling an inducer assembly for inducing a rotation on an airflow passing within a turbine engine. The inducer assembly can provide a volume of fluid from a compressor section to a turbine section of the engine. The inducer assembly can include the combination of separate segments to form an annular inducer.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christophe Jude Day, Kenneth Edward Seitzer, Michael Alan Hile, Thomas Alan Wall, Carol Anne Venn, Anthony Paul Greenwood
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Patent number: 10697372Abstract: An apparatus and method for a turbine engine having an engine core. A casing can contain a compressor section, a combustor section and a turbine section in axial flow arrangement. An air conduit can extend at least partially between the compressor section and the turbine section. A compliant interface can include a nut and a biasing device mount the air conduit to the casing.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jeremy Kevin Payne, John Wilbur Acree, Anthony James Bailey, Satyambabu Kalyani, Thomas Alan Wall, Michael Alan Zupancic, Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff, Anthony Paul Greenwood, Kevin William Caldwell, Christophe Jude Day
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Patent number: 10514217Abstract: Systems and methods may utilize a two-axis stand configured with a locator moveable along two orthogonally oriented axes. The locator may scan a tube opening. A controller may position the locator and the two-axis stand to a) scan across a plurality of tube openings, b) locate the plurality of tube openings based on the scan, and c) activate a cleaning tool to clean tube interiors associated with respective tube openings. Control may be automated and/or based on user interaction with a user interface.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAInventors: Alan Wall, Daniel Craeg McCrady
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Publication number: 20180291812Abstract: An apparatus and method for a turbine engine having an engine core. A casing can contain a compressor section, a combustor section and a turbine section in axial flow arrangement. An air conduit can extend at least partially between the compressor section and the turbine section. A compliant interface can include a nut and a biasing device mount the air conduit to the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2017Publication date: October 11, 2018Inventors: Jeremy Kevin Payne, John Wilbur Acree, Anthony James Bailey, Satyambabu Kalyani, Thomas Alan Wall, Michael Alan Zupancic, Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff, Anthony Paul Greenwood, Kevin William Caldwell, Christophe Jude Day
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Publication number: 20180209284Abstract: An apparatus and method for assembling an inducer assembly for inducing a rotation on an airflow passing within a turbine engine. The inducer assembly can provide a volume of fluid from a compressor section to a turbine section of the engine. The inducer assembly can include the combination of separate segments to form an annular inducer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2016Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Christophe Jude Day, Kenneth Edward Seitzer, Michael Alan Hile, Thomas Alan Wall, Carol Anne Venn, Anthony Paul Greenwood
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Publication number: 20170307312Abstract: Systems and methods may utilize a two-axis stand configured with a locator moveable along two orthogonally oriented axes. The locator may scan a tube opening. A controller may position the locator and the two-axis stand to a) scan across a plurality of tube openings, b) locate the plurality of tube openings based on the scan, and c) activate a cleaning tool to clean tube interiors associated with respective tube openings. Control may be automated and/or based on user interaction with a user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Alan WALL, Daniel Craeg MCCRADY
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Patent number: 7331422Abstract: A muffler includes an inner passage residing in an outer shell, and a stationary fan residing in the inner passage. The fan creates a vortex in a flow through the inner passage thus improving the flow and reducing the exhaust sound level. The inner passage includes an inner passage shell and the fan comprises vanes extending inward from the inner passage shell and turned at approximately a 45 degree angle to a centerline of the inner passage. Pinch zones at the entrance and exit from the inner passage further reduce the exhaust sound level. The inner passage shell is preferably a perforated inner passage shell, and a sound deadening material resides between perforated inner passage shell and the outer shell.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2005Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Inventor: Alan Wall
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Publication number: 20070012511Abstract: A muffler includes an inner passage residing in an outer shell, and a stationary fan residing in the inner passage. The fan creates a vortex in a flow through the inner passage thus improving the flow and reducing the exhaust sound level. The inner passage includes an inner passage shell and the fan comprises vanes extending inward from the inner passage shell and turned at approximately a 45 degree angle to a centerline of the inner passage. Pinch zones at the entrance and exit from the inner passage further reduce the exhaust sound level. The inner passage shell is preferably a perforated inner passage shell, and a sound deadening material resides between perforated inner passage shell and the outer shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2005Publication date: January 18, 2007Inventor: Alan Wall
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Patent number: 6969786Abstract: A canola line designated 43A56, plants and seeds of the 43A56 canola line, methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the 43A56 line with itself or with another canola plant, and hybrid canola seeds and plants produced by crossing the 43A56 line with another canola line or plant are provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2004Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Alan Wall Grombacher, Jayantilal D. Patel
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Patent number: 6734345Abstract: A canola line designated 44A04, plants and seeds of the 44A04 canola line, methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the 44A04 line with itself or with another canola plant, and hybrid canola seeds and plants produced by crossing the 44A04 line with another canola line or plant are provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2002Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Alan Wall Grombacher, Jayantilal D. Patel
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Patent number: 6336122Abstract: A tool referred to herein as an archive maker operates on one or more existing archive files that contain multiple object oriented classes to generate one or more new archive files. The archive maker takes a list of required classes, analyzes those classes in one or more existing archive files to determine any classes upon which they depend, and creates a new archive file with all the required and dependent classes. This allows the classes that are not required to be stripped out of the archive file. The archive maker may also be used to partition an existing archive file into multiple new archive files according to one or more partition criteria. In addition, the archive maker may be used to consolidate multiple existing archive files into a single new archive file.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1998Date of Patent: January 1, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Peter Lee, Clifton Malcolm Nock, Schuman M. Shao, David Alan Wall, James Lee Wright
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Patent number: 6252600Abstract: A computer system has a graphics subsystem employing a rasterizer and a frame buffer, with a digital-to-analog converter for producing drive signals to a video display. A bus interface acts as a gateway between a PCI bus and the graphics subsystem; this interface manages commands and DMAs passing between the host processor and various parts of the graphics subsystem. Within the interface, two command FIFOs are employed, one for storing commands/data sent from the host for 2D display (window management) and another for 3D applications. Using two command FIFOs eliminates the need for host semaphore, FIFO draining, and the latency associated with these operations. Timers are provided in the interface, associated with the two command FIFOs, to manage and regulate the frequency with which the system automatically switches between 2D and 3D FIFO processing. Host intervention is minimized by use of a context macro store for holding locally the sequences for context save and context restore which are used repeatedly.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1998Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ashu Kohli, Christopher Edward Koob, Thomas P. Lanzoni, James Anthony Pafumi, William Alan Wall, Jeffrey Allan Whaley
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Patent number: 5724528Abstract: A peripheral controller interconnect/industry standard architecture (PCI/ISA)bridge is coupled between the PCI and ISA buses in a computer system. A PCI master in the system asserts address and address parity information on the PCI bus to initiate a master-slave transaction over the PCI bus. The bridge includes logic for comparing the address and the address parity information and generating an address parity error signal when there is an address parity error. The bridge also includes a PCI slave that receives the address parity error signal and generates a target-abort signal in response if the PCI slave has already claimed the address by asserting a device select signal. The bridge also includes logic that prevents the target-abort signal from propagating to the PCI bus whenever this logic receives both the address parity error signal and the device select signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1996Date of Patent: March 3, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.Inventors: Amy Kulik, William Alan Wall, Daniel R. Cronin, III
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Patent number: 5678064Abstract: A method and arrangement is provided to support both fast Programmed Input/Output (PIO) and third party Direct Memory Access (DMA) data transfers between a system memory and Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) drives. A DMA controller attached to an ISA bus supplies address, read and write signals in third party DMA data transfers. An IDE controller provides control signals to support the DMA data transfers. The IDE controller additionally provides address and control signals to support the PIO data transfers at local bus speeds. A local bus-ISA bridge is incorporated to support the system memory that resides on the local bus. An arbitration circuit arbitrates access to the ISA bus, and allows the IDE controller to seize the ISA bus for fast PIO data transfer.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1994Date of Patent: October 14, 1997Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Amy L. Kulik, Patrick Maurice Bland, Dennis Moeller, William Alan Wall, Sagi Katz, Suksoon Yong