Patents by Inventor Brian Ernest Wake

Brian Ernest Wake 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).

  • Publication number: 20230391448
    Abstract: A rotor assembly including a fixed fairing including an interface portion and a hub fairing including a depression. The depression is configured to receive at least a portion of the interface portion. The hub fairing is rotatable relative to the fixed fairing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Colin Kemater Bunting, Patrick Ormande Bowles, Peter F. Lorber, Brian Ernest Wake, Byung-Young Min
  • Publication number: 20230322373
    Abstract: A rotary wing aircraft includes a single main rotor hub configured to receive a rotor blade. The rotor blade includes a blade root, a blade tip, and a blade body. The blade body includes a leading edge and a trailing edge and defines a feathering axis. The leading edge and the trailing edge each include a first portion and a second portion that extend toward a first direction and a second portion, respectively. At a given radial location along the feathering axis, a local twist angle changes from a positive value to a negative value, a chord length decreases in value, a distance between the trailing edge and the feathering axis decreases in value, and the first portion of the leading edge extends toward the first direction. The rotor blade assembly also includes a trailing edge assembly having a trailing edge flap configured to be selectively deployed by an actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Byung-Young Min, Vera Klimchenko, Annie Gao, Alexander F. Dunn, Claude George Matalanis, Brian Ernest Wake
  • Patent number: 11370532
    Abstract: A rotary wing aircraft and a rotor assembly of a rotary wind aircraft is disclosed. The rotary wing aircraft includes at least one engine, and the rotor assembly is coupled to the at least one engine. The rotor assembly includes a first rotor hub, a second rotor hub, and a shaft fairing between the first rotor hub to the second rotor hub, the shaft fairing defined by a chord that varies between the first rotor hub and the second rotor hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Patrick Ormande Bowles, Margaret G. Battisti, Brian Ernest Wake, Peter F. Lorber, Byung-Young Min
  • Patent number: 11174011
    Abstract: A rotor assembly includes a first rotor hub and a second rotor hub. The second rotor hub is coupled to the first rotor hub via a shaft fairing. The first rotor hub has a flat first surface coupled to the shaft fairing and a curved second surface opposite the flat first surface. The second rotor hub has a flat first surface on the lower side and a curved second surface opposite the flat first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Byung-Young Min, Patrick Ormande Bowles, Brian Ernest Wake, Margaret G. Battisti, Peter F. Lorber
  • Publication number: 20200385107
    Abstract: A rotary wing aircraft and a rotor assembly of a rotary wind aircraft is disclosed. The rotary wing aircraft includes at least one engine, and the rotor assembly is coupled to the at least one engine. The rotor assembly includes a first rotor hub, a second rotor hub, and a shaft fairing between the first rotor hub to the second rotor hub, the shaft fairing defined by a chord that varies between the first rotor hub and the second rotor hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick Ormande Bowles, Margaret G. Battisti, Brian Ernest Wake, Peter F. Lorber, Byung-Young Min
  • Publication number: 20200247534
    Abstract: A rotor assembly includes a first rotor hub and a second rotor hub. The second rotor hub is coupled to the first rotor hub via a shaft fairing. The first rotor hub has a flat first surface coupled to the shaft fairing and a curved second surface opposite the flat first surface. The second rotor hub has a flat first surface on the lower side and a curved second surface opposite the flat first surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Byung-Young Min, Patrick Ormande Bowles, Brian Ernest Wake, Margaret G. Battisti, Peter F. Lorber
  • Patent number: 7543452
    Abstract: A nozzle for a gas turbine engine is provided with undulations on a core and/or fan exhaust flow nozzle. An annular wall defines a fluid flow passage and includes a base portion and an adjoining exit portion. The base portion is typically generally frustoconical in shape and includes an arcuate contour in an axial direction. The exit portion includes undulations in a generally radial direction that provide lobes and troughs each respectively including trailing edges. One of the lobe and trough trailing edges are recessed from the other of the lobe and trough trailing edges in a generally axial direction. The other of the lobe and trough trailing edges form apexes with the apexes provided on tabs. The troughs extend radially inward in the axial direction towards the trough trailing edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Ramons Andris Reba, Brian Ernest Wake, Satish Narayanan, Thierry Maeder