Patents by Inventor Carl Robert Barker
Carl Robert Barker 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: 9709277Abstract: The present application provides a micro-mixer fuel plenum for mixing a flow of fuel and a flow of air in a combustor. The micro-mixing fuel plenum may include an outer barrel and a number of mixing tubes positioned within the outer barrel. The mixing tubes may include one or more heat transfer features thereon.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christopher Paul Keener, Thomas Edward Johnson, Carl Robert Barker
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Patent number: 9500370Abstract: A fuel nozzle in a combustion turbine engine that includes: a fuel plenum defined between an circumferentially extending shroud and axially by a forward tube-sheet and an aft tube-sheet; and a mixing-tube that extends across the fuel plenum that defines a passageway connecting an inlet formed through the forward tube-sheet and an outlet formed through the aft tube-sheet, the mixing-tube comprising one or more fuel ports that fluidly communicate with the fuel plenum. The mixing-tube may include grooves on an outer surface, and be attached to the forward tube-sheet by a connection having a fail-safe leakage path.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Carl Robert Barker
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Patent number: 9175855Abstract: The present application provides a combustion nozzle for use with a gas turbine engine. The combustion nozzle may include a number of mixing tubes, an outer shell surrounding the mixing tubes, and a floating aft plate assembly. The floating plate assembly may enclose the outer shell. The mixing tubes may extend through the aft plate assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Daniel Gerritt Wegerif, Jonathan Dwight Berry, Carl Robert Barker
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Publication number: 20150176841Abstract: A fuel nozzle in a combustion turbine engine that includes: a fuel plenum defined between an circumferentially extending shroud and axially by a forward tube-sheet and an aft tube-sheet; and a mixing-tube that extends across the fuel plenum that defines a passageway connecting an inlet formed through the forward tube-sheet and an outlet formed through the aft tube-sheet, the mixing-tube comprising one or more fuel ports that fluidly communicate with the fuel plenum. The mixing-tube may include grooves on an outer surface, and be attached to the forward tube-sheet by a connection having a fail-safe leakage path.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventor: Carl Robert Barker
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Patent number: 8955327Abstract: A combustor includes a combustor wall defining a combustion zone and a fuel nozzle. The fuel nozzle includes a forward face, an aft face downstream from the forward face and adjacent to the combustion zone, a plurality of mixing tubes extending between the forward face and the aft face, an outer sleeve positioned radially outward of the plurality of mixing tubes, a heat shield positioned radially inward of the outer sleeve, and a baffle plate between the forward face and the aft face. At least one of the plurality of mixing tubes includes a sidewall that includes an injection opening defined therethrough. The baffle plate is oriented to channel fuel between the plurality of mixing tubes and between the baffle plate and the aft face prior to the fuel being channeled through the injection opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2011Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Carl Robert Barker, Thomas Edward Johnson
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Publication number: 20140251483Abstract: A tube assembly for use in a fuel injection assembly of a turbine engine is provided. The tube assembly includes a housing, and a plurality of tube assembly units positioned adjacent to one another within the housing such that each tube assembly extends along a longitudinal axis of the housing. Each tube assembly unit includes a tube, and a plurality of flanges extending radially outward from each tube, wherein flanges of adjacent tube assembly units form at least a portion of at least one wall within the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2013Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Carl Robert Barker, Jonathan Dwight Berry
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Patent number: 8769956Abstract: A system comprising a fuel nozzle. The fuel nozzle includes a mounting base and an inlet flow conditioner extending directly from the mounting base in a downstream direction. Moreover, the inlet flow conditioner structurally supports the fuel nozzle without a central support member extending directly from the mounting base inside the inlet flow conditioner.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jonathan Dwight Berry, Kevin Weston McMahan, Carl Robert Barker
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Patent number: 8733106Abstract: An integrated plate is provided for use with a combustor including a casing, a fuel plenum extending circumferentially about the casing, and a fuel nozzle extending axially through the casing. The integrated plate includes a plurality of fuel injection pegs that extend radially between the fuel plenum and the fuel nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Carl Robert Barker, Thomas Edward Johnson, Jonathan Dwight Berry
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Publication number: 20140000263Abstract: A system comprising a fuel nozzle. The fuel nozzle includes a mounting base and an inlet flow conditioner extending directly from the mounting base in a downstream direction. Moreover, the inlet flow conditioner structurally supports the fuel nozzle without a central support member extending directly from the mounting base inside the inlet flow conditioner.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jonathan Dwight Berry, Kevin Weston McMahan, Carl Robert Barker
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Publication number: 20130305734Abstract: The present application provides a micro-mixer fuel plenum for mixing a flow of fuel and a flow of air in a combustor. The micro-mixing fuel plenum may include an outer barrel and a number of mixing tubes positioned within the outer barrel. The mixing tubes may include one or more heat transfer features thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Christopher Paul Keener, Thomas Edward Johnson, Carl Robert Barker
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Patent number: 8522555Abstract: A system comprising a fuel nozzle. The fuel nozzle includes a mounting base and an inlet flow conditioner extending directly from the mounting base in a downstream direction. Moreover, the inlet flow conditioner structurally supports the fuel nozzle without a central support member extending directly from the mounting base inside the inlet flow conditioner.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2009Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jonathan Dwight Berry, Kevin Weston McMahan, Carl Robert Barker
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Patent number: 8381526Abstract: A combustor includes a first flow path and a second flow path. The first flow path places a diffuser in indirect fluid communication with a combustor cap assembly by way of an intervening lower combustor annular passageway. The second flow path places the diffuser in direct fluid communication with the combustor cap assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jonathan Dwight Berry, Constantin Dinu, Carl Robert Barker, Krishna Kumar Venkataraman
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Publication number: 20130042625Abstract: A combustor includes a combustor wall defining a combustion zone and a fuel nozzle. The fuel nozzle includes a forward face, an aft face downstream from the forward face and adjacent to the combustion zone, a plurality of mixing tubes extending between the forward face and the aft face, an outer sleeve positioned radially outward of the plurality of mixing tubes, a heat shield positioned radially inward of the outer sleeve, and a baffle plate between the forward face and the aft face. At least one of the plurality of mixing tubes includes a sidewall that includes an injection opening defined therethrough. The baffle plate is oriented to channel fuel between the plurality of mixing tubes and between the baffle plate and the aft face prior to the fuel being channeled through the injection opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2011Publication date: February 21, 2013Inventors: Carl Robert Barker, Thomas Edward Johnson
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Publication number: 20120279223Abstract: An integrated plate is provided for use with a combustor including a casing, a fuel plenum extending circumferentially about the casing, and a fuel nozzle extending axially through the casing. The integrated plate includes a plurality of fuel injection pegs that extend radially between the fuel plenum and the fuel nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2011Publication date: November 8, 2012Inventors: Carl Robert Barker, Thomas Edward Johnson, Jonathan Dwight Berry
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Publication number: 20110197586Abstract: A combustor includes a first flow path and a second flow path. The first flow path places a diffuser in indirect fluid communication with a combustor cap assembly by way of an intervening lower combustor annular passageway. The second flow path places the diffuser in direct fluid communication with the combustor cap assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2010Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Jonathan Dwight Berry, Constantin Dinu, Carl Robert Barker, Krishna Kumar Venkataraman
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Publication number: 20100293955Abstract: A system comprising a fuel nozzle. The fuel nozzle includes a mounting base and an inlet flow conditioner extending directly from the mounting base in a downstream direction. Moreover, the inlet flow conditioner structurally supports the fuel nozzle without a central support member extending directly from the mounting base inside the inlet flow conditioner.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2009Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Jonathan Dwight Berry, Kevin Weston McMahan, Carl Robert Barker