Patents by Inventor Anthony William Mellors

Anthony William Mellors 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).

  • Methods for preparing and testing a thermal-spray coated substrate
    Patent number: 7229661
    Abstract: A method for fabricating and testing an article having a thermal-spray coating thereon. The method includes providing a substrate article having a surface, thermally spraying a coating material onto the surface of the substrate article, wherein a surface of contact between the coating material and the substrate article is a bondline, and nondestructively testing the coated article. Nondestructively testing includes generating an eddy current in the coated article, measuring the eddy current in the coated article, and evaluating a near-bondline region of the coated article located adjacent to the bondline using the measured eddy current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Patsy Augestine Ruzzo, Matthew Stewart, Anthony William Mellors
  • Methods for preparing and testing a thermal-spray coated substrate
    Patent number: 7126329
    Abstract: A method for fabricating and testing an article having a thermal-spray coating thereon. The method includes providing a substrate article having a surface, thermally spraying a coating material onto the surface of the substrate article, wherein a surface of contact between the coating material and the substrate article is a bondline, and nondestructively testing the coated article. Nondestructively testing includes generating an eddy current in the coated article, measuring the eddy current in the coated article, and evaluating a near-bondline region of the coated article located adjacent to the bondline using the measured eddy current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Patsy Augestine Ruzzo, Matthew Stewart, Anthony William Mellors
  • Internal eddy current inspection
    Patent number: 6972561
    Abstract: An eddy current inspection apparatus includes a holder for a specimen, a holder for an eddy current probe, and an eddy current instrument operatively joined thereto. The probe holder includes carriages for translating the probe along first and second axes. The probe holder is selectively moved to align the probe with an internal channel of the specimen for sliding movement therealong to conduct eddy current inspection thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Wayne Fields, Michael Leonard Dziech, Jon Russel Dierdorf, Anthony William Mellors, James Michael Johnson
  • Internal eddy current inspection
    Publication number: 20040169510
    Abstract: An eddy current inspection apparatus includes a holder for a specimen, a holder for an eddy current probe, and an eddy current instrument operatively joined thereto. The probe holder includes carriages for translating the probe along first and second axes. The probe holder is selectively moved to align the probe with an internal channel of the specimen for sliding movement therealong to conduct eddy current inspection thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Michael Wayne Fields, Michael Leonard Dziech, Jon Russel Dierdorf, Anthony William Mellors, James Michael Johnson