Patents by Inventor Bradley Taylor
Bradley Taylor 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: 9695696Abstract: A turbine blade is provided and includes pressure and suction surfaces connected to define an interior through which coolant is passable and first and second pedestal arrays, each of the first and second pedestal arrays including pedestals respectively coupled to radially outboard portions of respective interior faces of one of the pressure and suction surfaces. The pedestals of the first pedestal array are separated from pedestals of the second pedestal array by gaps respectively defined therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mark Andrew Jones, Bradley Taylor Boyer, Robert Alan Brittingham, Gregory Thomas Foster, Christopher William Kester
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Publication number: 20170100735Abstract: A liquid take-up mechanism may be used in connection with a spray bottle having a first and second vertical tube section, an internal member capture, a horizontal tube section, an angled tube section, and a rotation connection member. The internal member capture may be adjacent the first and second vertical tube sections. The horizontal tube section may be secured to the second vertical tube section. The angled tube section may be secured to the horizontal tube section. The rotation connection member may have a housing and an internal member, which may be carried by the internal member capture. The first and second vertical tube sections may be adapted to be carried by the housing. The internal member may be adapted to interface between the first and second vertical tube sections. The second vertical tube section may be able to freely rotate with respect to the first vertical tube section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2015Publication date: April 13, 2017Inventor: Bradley Taylor
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Publication number: 20170067347Abstract: A damper pin for damping adjacent turbine blades coupled to a rotor shaft includes an elongated body having a center portion disposed between a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion, center portion and second end portion define a generally arcuate top portion of the elongated body that is configured to contact with a groove defined between the adjacent turbine blades. The elongated body includes a first side portion laterally opposed to a second side portion and defines a plurality of laterally extending slots. The slots are axially spaced along the center portion and each slot extends at least partially through at least one of the first side portion or the second side portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2015Publication date: March 9, 2017Inventors: Spencer A. Kareff, Gayathri Puram, Bradley Taylor Boyer, Christopher Michael Penny, Matthew R. Piersall
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Patent number: 9416666Abstract: The present application provides a turbine blade cooling system. The turbine blade cooling system may include a first turbine blade with a first turbine blade platform having a cooling cavity in communication with a pressure side passage and a second turbine blade with a second turbine blade platform having a platform cooling cavity with a suction side passage. The pressure side passage of the first turbine blade platform is in communication with the suction side passage of the second turbine blade platform.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2010Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Bradley Taylor Boyer
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Patent number: 9399538Abstract: A beverage lid system may include a beverage lid and a stirrer that may be connected to a portion of the beverage lid. The beverage lid may include an outer lid member and an inner lid member rotatably carried by an interior portion of the outer lid member. The stirrer may be adapted to be connected to a portion of the inner lid member. The inner lid member is rotatable with respect to the outer lid member so that when the stirrer is connected to the inner lid member, the stirrer is moveable with the inner lid member.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2015Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Inventor: Bradley Taylor
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Patent number: 9380899Abstract: A beverage lid system may include a beverage lid and a stirrer that may be connected to a portion of the beverage lid. The beverage lid may include an outer lid member, a medial lid member rotatably carried by an interior portion of the outer lid member, and an inner lid member rotatably carried by an interior portion of the medial lid member. The stirrer may be adapted to be connected to a portion of the medial lid member. The medial lid member is rotatable with respect to both the outer lid member and the inner lid member so that when the stirrer is connected to the medial lid member, the stirrer is moveable with the medial lid member.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Inventor: Bradley Taylor
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Patent number: 9234428Abstract: Turbine bucket nominal internal core profiles and core insert external profiles are provided. In one embodiment, a turbine bucket includes an airfoil, platform, shank and dovetail. The bucket has a nominal internal core profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table 1 wherein the Z values are non-dimensional values from 0 to 1 convertible to Z distances in inches by multiplying the Z values by a height of the bucket in inches, and wherein X and Y are non-dimensional values which, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define internal core profile sections at each distance Z along the bucket, the profile sections at the Z distances being joined smoothly with one another to form said bucket internal core profile.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Randall Richard Good, Bradley Taylor Boyer, Xiaoyong Fu, Aaron Ezekiel Smith, Jacob C. Perry, II
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Publication number: 20150334231Abstract: Described herein are devices and techniques for detecting an inbound message (e.g., text, voice, voicemail) directed from an identifiable message sender to one of a collection of message recipients (e.g., by telephone numbers). The message is selectively forwarded to the message recipient's communication devices in response to a reputation score of the identifiable message sender. The devices and techniques described herein are further adapted to automatically determine or otherwise update the reputation score of the identifiable message sender, for example, in response to previously detected incoming messages. User preferences can be provided to override one or more of forwarding and blocking of detected messages regardless of any automatically obtained reputation score.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Alexander Rybak, Patrick Moor, Bradley Taylor
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Patent number: 9127561Abstract: A turbine bucket may include a platform and an airfoil extending from the platform. The airfoil may include an internal rib with a number of through holes positioned along a number of hole spaces and a number of in-between spaces. The in-between spaces may include a first depth, the hole spaces may include a second depth, and wherein the first depth is less than the second depth.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Bradley Taylor Boyer
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Patent number: 9109454Abstract: A turbine bucket for use with a gas turbine engine, as described herein, may include a platform, an airfoil extending from the platform, and a number of cooling circuits extending through the platform and the airfoil. One of the cooling circuits may be a serpentine cooling channel positioned within the platform.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Scott Edmond Ellis, Randall Richard Good, Bradley Taylor Boyer, Aaron Ezekiel Smith
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Patent number: 9094325Abstract: Described herein are devices and techniques for detecting an inbound message (e.g., text, voice, voicemail) directed from an identifiable message sender to one of a collection of message recipients (e.g., by telephone numbers). The message is selectively forwarded to the message recipient's communication devices in response to a reputation score of the identifiable message sender. The devices and techniques described herein are further adapted to automatically determine or otherwise update the reputation score of the identifiable message sender, for example, in response to previously detected incoming messages. User preferences can be provided to override one or more of forwarding and blocking of detected messages regardless of any automatically obtained reputation score.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Alexander Rybak, Patrick Moor, Bradley Taylor
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Publication number: 20150164253Abstract: A beverage lid system may include a beverage lid and a stirrer that may be connected to a portion of the beverage lid. The beverage lid may include an outer lid member, a medial lid member rotatably carried by an interior portion of the outer lid member, and an inner lid member rotatably carried by an interior portion of the medial lid member. The stirrer may be adapted to be connected to a portion of the medial lid member. The medial lid member is rotatable with respect to both the outer lid member and the inner lid member so that when the stirrer is connected to the medial lid member, the stirrer is moveable with the medial lid member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventor: Bradley Taylor
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Publication number: 20150166231Abstract: A beverage lid system may include a beverage lid and a stirrer that may be connected to a portion of the beverage lid. The beverage lid may include an outer lid member and an inner lid member rotatably carried by an interior portion of the outer lid member. The stirrer may be adapted to be connected to a portion of the inner lid member. The inner lid member is rotatable with respect to the outer lid member so that when the stirrer is connected to the inner lid member, the stirrer is moveable with the inner lid member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2015Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventor: Bradley Taylor
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Patent number: 9051843Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil portion including a suction side having a suction side contour, a pressure side having a pressure side contour, a leading edge, a trailing edge and a tip portion, and a squeeler pocket formed in the tip portion. The squeeler pocket includes a first side wall and a second side wall. The first side wall includes a first internal surface having a first substantially continuous curvilinear profile and the second side wall includes a second internal surface having a second substantially continuous curvilinear profile. A bleed passage extends from the squeeler pocket towards the trailing edge. The first and second side walls are configured to deliver a substantially unobstructed fluid flow from the squeeler pocket to the bleed passage and limit the fluid flow spillage onto one of the pressure side and the suction side.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Alexander Stein, Bradley Taylor Boyer, Sylvain Pierre
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Patent number: 8992179Abstract: A turbomachine is provided and includes first and second endwalls disposed to define a pathway, each of the first and second endwalls including a surface facing the pathway and first and second blades extendible across the pathway from at least one of the first and second endwalls, each of the first and second blades having an airfoil shape and being disposed such that a pressure side of the first blade faces a suction side of the second blade. A portion of the surface of at least one of the first and second endwalls between the first and second blades has at least a first hump proximate to a leading edge and the pressure side of the first blade, and a second hump disposed at 10-60% of a chord length of the first blade and proximate to the pressure side thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Alexander Stein, Bradley Taylor Boyer
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Patent number: 8990402Abstract: A method of providing a fast path message transfer agent is provided. The method includes receiving bytes of a message over a network connection and determining whether the number of bytes exceeds a predetermined threshold. If the number of bytes is less than a predetermined threshold, then the message is written only to memory. However, if the number of bytes exceeds the predetermined threshold, then some of the bytes (e.g. up to the predetermined threshold) are written to memory, wherein the remainder of the bytes are stored onto the non-volatile storage. If the message was received successfully by each destination, then the message is removed from the memory/non-volatile storage. If not, all failed destinations are identified and the message (with associated failed destinations) is stored on the non-volatile storage for later sending.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2009Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Critical Path, Inc.Inventor: Bradley Taylor
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Patent number: 8990401Abstract: A method of providing a fast path message transfer agent is provided. The method includes receiving bytes of a message over a network connection and determining whether the number of bytes exceeds a predetermined threshold. If the number of bytes is less than a predetermined threshold, then the message is written only to memory. However, if the number of bytes exceeds the predetermined threshold, then some of the bytes (e.g. up to the predetermined threshold) are written to memory, wherein the remainder of the bytes are stored onto the non-volatile storage. If the message was received successfully by each destination, then the message is removed from the memory/non-volatile storage. If not, all failed destinations are identified and the message (with associated failed destinations) is stored on the non-volatile storage for later sending.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2008Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Critical Path, Inc.Inventor: Bradley Taylor
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Patent number: 8974182Abstract: The present application thus provides a turbine bucket. The turbine bucket may include a platform, an airfoil extending from the platform at an intersection thereof, and a core cavity extending within the platform and the airfoil. The core cavity may include a contoured turn about the intersection so as to reduce thermal stress therein.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bradley Taylor Boyer, Thomas Robbins Tipton
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Publication number: 20150037165Abstract: A turbine blade is provided and includes pressure and suction surfaces connected to define an interior through which coolant is passable and first and second pedestal arrays, each of the first and second pedestal arrays including pedestals respectively coupled to radially outboard portions of respective interior faces of one of the pressure and suction surfaces. The pedestals of the first pedestal array are separated from pedestals of the second pedestal array by gaps respectively defined therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mark Andrew Jones, Bradley Taylor Boyer, Robert Alan Brittingham, Gregory Thomas Foster, Christopher William Kester
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Patent number: 8915713Abstract: The present application thus provides an airfoil for use in a turbine. The airfoil may include a wall, an internal cooling plenum, and a cooling hole extending through the wall to the cooling plenum. The cooling hole may include an offset counterbore therein.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2011Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Bradley Taylor Boyer