Patents by Inventor Christina Marie Burke

Christina Marie Burke 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).

  • Methods and apparatus to reduce turbine engine nozzle basesheet stresses
    Patent number: 7302793
    Abstract: A method facilitates assembling a flap system for a gas turbine engine exhaust nozzle including at least one backbone assembly. The method comprises providing a basesheet including a pair of circumferentially-spaced sides coupled together by an upstream side and a downstream side, forming at least one relief cut in the basesheet that extends at least partially across the basesheet from at least one of the circumferentially-spaced sides, and coupling the basesheet to the backbone assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Darrell Glenn Senile, Christina Marie Burke, Bernard J. Renggli, John Sigfrid Amneus