Patents by Inventor Charles W. Carrier
Charles W. Carrier 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: 8123486Abstract: A system for manufacturing an integrally bladed rotor is provided. This system includes a ring component, wherein the ring component further includes at least one metal matrix composite and a continuous radially outwardly facing blade conical surface; an airfoil component, wherein the at least one airfoil component has been created from a single, unitary piece of material and further includes a plurality of individual airfoil blades and a continuous radially inwardly facing blade conical surface; and inertia welding means for frictionally engaging under an axially applied weld load the ring component and the airfoil component to effect an inertia weld therebetween along the conical surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2010Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Charles W. Carrier, Chen-yu J. Chou
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Publication number: 20100239428Abstract: A system for manufacturing an integrally bladed rotor is provided. This system includes a ring component, wherein the ring component further includes at least one metal matrix composite and a continuous radially outwardly facing blade conical surface; an airfoil component, wherein the at least one airfoil component has been created from a single, unitary piece of material and further includes a plurality of individual airfoil blades and a continuous radially inwardly facing blade conical surface; and inertia welding means for frictionally engaging under an axially applied weld load the ring component and the airfoil component to effect an inertia weld therebetween along the conical surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Charles W. Carrier, Chen-yu J. Chou
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Patent number: 7784182Abstract: A system for manufacturing an integrally bladed rotor is provided. This system includes a ring component, wherein the ring component further includes at least one metal matrix composite and a continuous radially outwardly facing blade conical surface; an airfoil component, wherein the at least one airfoil component has been created from a single, unitary piece of material and further includes a plurality of individual airfoil blades and a continuous radially inwardly facing blade conical surface; and inertia welding means for frictionally engaging under an axially applied weld load the ring component and the airfoil component to effect an inertia weld therebetween along the conical surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2006Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Charles W. Carrier, Chen-yu J. Chou
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Patent number: 7775772Abstract: A system for manufacturing an integrally bladed rotor is provided. This system includes a ring component, wherein the ring component further includes at least one metal matrix composite and a continuous radially outwardly facing conical surface; an airfoil component, wherein the airfoil component further includes a plurality of individual airfoil blades, wherein at least a portion of each individual airfoil blade has been reinforced with at least one metal matrix composite, and wherein each of the plurality of airfoil blades further includes a radially inwardly facing blade conical surface; and inertia welding means for frictionally engaging under an axially applied weld load the ring component and the airfoil component to effect an inertia weld therebetween along the conical surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2006Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Charles W. Carrier, Chen-yu J. Chou
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Patent number: 7766623Abstract: A system for manufacturing an integrally bladed rotor is provided. This system includes a ring component, wherein the ring component further includes at least one metal matrix composite and a plurality of radially outwardly facing blade conical surfaces; an airfoil component, wherein the airfoil component further includes: a plurality of individual airfoil blades, wherein each of the plurality of airfoil blades further includes a radially inwardly facing blade conical surface; and inertia welding means for frictionally engaging under an axially applied weld load the ring component and the airfoil component to effect an inertia weld therebetween along the conical surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2006Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Chen-yu J. Chou, Charles W. Carrier
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Patent number: 7543378Abstract: nethod for manufacturing a test bar from a turbo-machinery component, test bar made in accordance with the method, and turbo-machinery component associated with the method. A component section is obtained from the turbo-machinery component, wherein the component section includes a component portion, and wherein the component portion has a substantially rectangular cross section and has a width. First and second semi-circular cylinders are obtained having a diameter substantially equal to the width of the component portion. The component section is disposed between, and in contact with, the first and second semi-circular cylinders defining a component-section-cylinder assembly having first and second assembly ends. First and second end extensions are obtained. The first end extension is inertia welded to the first assembly end and the second end extension is inertia welded to the second assembly end defining a test-bar stock. The test-bar stock is machined creating the test bar.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2005Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Charles W. Carrier, Bernard H. Lawless
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Publication number: 20080107531Abstract: A system for manufacturing an integrally bladed rotor is provided. This system includes a ring component, wherein the ring component further includes at least one metal matrix composite and a plurality of radially outwardly facing blade conical surfaces; an airfoil component, wherein the airfoil component further includes: a plurality of individual airfoil blades, wherein each of the plurality of airfoil blades further includes a radially inwardly facing blade conical surface; and inertia welding means for frictionally engaging under an axially applied weld load the ring component and the airfoil component to effect an inertia weld therebetween along the conical surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2006Publication date: May 8, 2008Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Chen-yu J. Chou, Charles W. Carrier
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Publication number: 20080107532Abstract: A system for manufacturing an integrally bladed rotor is provided. This system includes a ring component, wherein the ring component further includes at least one metal matrix composite and a continuous radially outwardly facing conical surface; an airfoil component, wherein the airfoil component further includes a plurality of individual airfoil blades, wherein at least a portion of each individual airfoil blade has been reinforced with at least one metal matrix composite, and wherein each of the plurality of airfoil blades further includes a radially inwardly facing blade conical surface; and inertia welding means for frictionally engaging under an axially applied weld load the ring component and the airfoil component to effect an inertia weld therebetween along the conical surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2006Publication date: May 8, 2008Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Charles W. Carrier, Chen-yu J. Chou
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Publication number: 20080107533Abstract: A system for manufacturing an integrally bladed rotor is provided. This system includes a ring component, wherein the ring component further includes at least one metal matrix composite and a continuous radially outwardly facing blade conical surface; an airfoil component, wherein the at least one airfoil component has been created from a single, unitary piece of material and further includes a plurality of individual airfoil blades and a continuous radially inwardly facing blade conical surface; and inertia welding means for frictionally engaging under an axially applied weld load the ring component and the airfoil component to effect an inertia weld therebetween along the conical surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2006Publication date: May 8, 2008Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Charles W. Carrier, Chen-yu J. Chou
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Patent number: 7341431Abstract: A method for fabricating a component for a gas turbine engine includes providing a blisk forging fabricated from a first material, inertia welding a second material to the blisk forging to create a bi-alloy blisk forging, and machining the bi-alloy blisk forging to pre-determined dimensions.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2005Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Gary Edward Trewiler, Robert William Bruce, Charles W. Carrier
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Patent number: 6138896Abstract: First and second superalloy workpieces are inertia welded together by rotating the first workpiece to an initial contact speed greater than about 750 surface feet per minute, and frictionally engaging under a weld load the first and second workpieces to effect an inertia weld therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1998Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Adrian M. Ablett, Charles W. Carrier, Brian J. Humke, Steven A. Strang
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Patent number: 5197361Abstract: There is provided by the present invention a surface contouring tool useful for reaching otherwise inaccessible working surfaces such as large diameter gas turbine engine rotor inner surfaces, the invention including a machining head means extendable from a nonworking position to a working position relative to the working surface and when the machining head means is useful for EDM or ECM machining further includes a fluid flow path for providing a machining fluid to the working surface head and means for rotating the machining head means.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1991Date of Patent: March 30, 1993Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Charles W. Carrier, Frank W. Gorsler