Patents by Inventor Carl Douglas Hofer

Carl Douglas Hofer 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: 20150089809
    Abstract: A method of engineering a turbomachine airfoil may include providing a master airfoil configuration having a preset outer and inner radius relative to an axis of rotation thereof. The master airfoil configuration may be radially scaled to a custom-sized turbomachine airfoil having an outer radius different than the preset outer radius of the master airfoil configuration, and/or an inner radius different than the preset inner radius of the master airfoil configuration. Tuning a frequency of the custom-sized turbomachine airfoil by changing a parameter of at least one of a part span shroud and a tip shroud may then be performed. Axial scaling may also be performed. The custom-sized turbomachine airfoil may be employed in the turbomachine without performing wheel box testing, and may exhibit substantially similar operational characteristics as the master airfoil configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Tao Guo, Michael Ernest Boisclair, Joseph Anthony Cotroneo, Carl Douglas Hofer, Amir Mujezinovic, Vsevolod Yuriyevich Ostrovskiy