Patents by Inventor Clement Gazzillo
Clement Gazzillo 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: 8714906Abstract: A turbine engine includes a turbine, a compressor for compressing air and a combustor for receiving the compressed air through an inlet passage and operable to burn fuel therewith to deliver hot exhaust gas to the turbine. Also included is a wheel space defined proximate to the combustor. Further included is a cooling air passage extending between the compressor and the wheel space. Yet further included is a valve assembly having a valve member disposed in the cooling air passage and operable to admit a cooling air to the wheel space in response to a condition therein.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2013Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Rex Allen Morgan, Michael Alan Davi, Clement Gazzillo, Harold Lamar Jordan
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Publication number: 20130305740Abstract: A turbine engine includes a turbine, a compressor for compressing air and a combustor for receiving the compressed air through an inlet passage and operable to burn fuel therewith to deliver hot exhaust gas to the turbine. Also included is a wheel space defined proximate to the combustor. Further included is a cooling air passage extending between the compressor and the wheel space. Yet further included is a valve assembly having a valve member disposed in the cooling air passage and operable to admit a cooling air to the wheel space in response to a condition therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Rex Allen Morgan, Michael Alan Davi, Clement Gazzillo, Harold Lamar Jordan
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Patent number: 8517663Abstract: A cooling system for a turbine engine, as well as a methodology for controlling the cooling system, is described. A valve member is disposed between a cooling fluid passage and a wheel space of the turbine engine and operates to admit cooling fluid to the wheel space for cooling thereof. The valve assembly is responsive to a condition in the wheel space and varies the flow of additional cooling fluid to the wheel space based on that condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2008Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Rex Allen Morgan, Michael Alan Davi, Clement Gazzillo, Harold Lamar Jordan, Jr.
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Patent number: 7866949Abstract: A method of fabricating a turbine rotor is provided. The method includes fabricating a plurality of substantially cylindrical disks. Fabricating each disk includes fabricating a substantially cylindrical body and extending a bore substantially concentrically through the body. The method also includes coupling at least two of the plurality of disks together to form a rotor having a bore extending axially therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2006Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert James Bracken, John Thomas Murphy, Clement Gazzillo, John Cleland Lavash, Stephen Roger Swan, Ronald Wayne Korzun, Jeffrey Robert Simkins
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Publication number: 20100080685Abstract: A cooling system for a turbine engine, as well as a methodology for controlling the cooling system, is described. A valve member is disposed between a cooling fluid passage and a wheel space of the turbine engine and operates to admit cooling fluid to the wheel space for cooling thereof. The valve assembly is responsive to a condition in the wheel space and varies the flow of additional cooling fluid to the wheel space based on that condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2008Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Rex Allen Morgan, Michael Alan Davi, Clement Gazzillo, Harold Lamar Jordan, JR.
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Patent number: 7658073Abstract: A cooling system for a turbine with a first section and a second section. The first section may include a first line for diverting a first flow with a first temperature from the first section, a second line for diverting a second flow with a second temperature less than the first temperature from the first section, and a merged line for directing a merged flow of the first flow and the second flow to the second section.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2007Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Nestor Hernandez, Clement Gazzillo, Michael J. Boss, William Parry, Karen J. Tyler
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Patent number: 7537430Abstract: Disclosed herein is a rotor assembly for a steam turbine. The steam turbine includes a retention portion having a stacked rotor section. The steam turbine further includes a first shaft end disposed at a first end of the retention portion. The steam turbine yet further includes a second shaft end disposed at a second end of the retention portion that is opposite to the first end of the retention portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2005Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert James Bracken, John Thomas Murphy, Stephen Swan, Jeffrey Robert Simkins, Clement Gazzillo, Ronald W. Korzun, David Orus Fitts
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Patent number: 7497658Abstract: Disclosed herein is a stator assembly for a steam turbine. The stator assembly includes a stacked stator section and a retention device. The stacked stator section has a plurality of adjacently disposed stator plates. The retention device retains the adjacent stator plates proximate to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2005Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert James Bracken, John Thomas Murphy, Stephen Swan, Jeffrey Robert Simkins, Clement Gazzillo, David Orus Fitts, Mark William Kowalczyk
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Publication number: 20090025389Abstract: A cooling system for a turbine with a first section and a second section. The first section may include a first line for diverting a first flow with a first temperature from the first section, a second line for diverting a second flow with a second temperature less than the first temperature from the first section, and a merged line for directing a merged flow of the first flow and the second flow to the second section.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2007Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Nestor Hernandez, Clement Gazzillo, Michael J. Boss, William Parry, Karen J. Tyler
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Patent number: 7407370Abstract: Disclosed herein is a rotor assembly for a steam turbine including a stacked rotor section having rotor plates. The rotor plates include a main body portion having a plate shape and a first axial face and a second axial face opposite to the first axial face. The rotor plates also include an airfoil base surface at an outer radial edge of the main body portion. The rotor plates further include buckets which extend radially outward from the airfoil base surface. And the rotor plates yet further include a seal disposed to prevent steam exposure to the first and second axial faces.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2005Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert James Bracken, John Thomas Murphy, Stephen Swan, Jeffrey Robert Simkins, Clement Gazzillo
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Publication number: 20080050226Abstract: A method of fabricating a turbine rotor is provided. The method includes fabricating a plurality of substantially cylindrical disks. Fabricating each disk includes fabricating a substantially cylindrical body and extending a bore substantially concentrically through the body. The method also includes coupling at least two of the plurality of disks together to form a rotor having a bore extending axially therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2006Publication date: February 28, 2008Inventors: Robert James Bracken, John Thomas Murphy, Clement Gazzillo, John Cleland Lavash, Stephen Roger Swan, Ronald Wayne Korzun, Jeffrey Robert Simkins
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Publication number: 20070110571Abstract: Disclosed herein is a stator assembly for a steam turbine. The stator assembly includes a stacked stator section and a retention device. The stacked stator section has a plurality of adjacently disposed stator plates. The retention device retains the adjacent stator plates proximate to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2005Publication date: May 17, 2007Inventors: Robert Bracken, John Murphy, Stephen Swan, Jeffrey Simkins, Clement Gazzillo, David Fitts, Mark Kowalczyk
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Publication number: 20070110570Abstract: Disclosed herein is a rotor assembly for a steam turbine. The steam turbine includes a retention portion having a stacked rotor section. The steam turbine further includes a first shaft end disposed at a first end of the retention portion. The steam turbine yet further includes a second shaft end disposed at a second end of the retention portion that is opposite to the first end of the retention portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2005Publication date: May 17, 2007Inventors: Robert Bracken, John Murphy, Stephen Swan, Jeffrey Simkins, Clement Gazzillo, Ronald Korzun, David Fitts
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Publication number: 20070110567Abstract: Disclosed herein is a rotor assembly for a steam turbine including a stacked rotor section having rotor plates. The rotor plates include a main body portion having a plate shape and a first axial face and a second axial face opposite to the first axial face. The rotor plates also include an airfoil base surface at an outer radial edge of the main body portion. The rotor plates further include buckets which extend radially outward from the airfoil base surface. And the rotor plates yet further include a seal disposed to prevent steam exposure to the first and second axial faces.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2005Publication date: May 17, 2007Inventors: Robert Bracken, John Murphy, Stephen Swan, Jeffrey Simkins, Clement Gazzillo
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Publication number: 20070071605Abstract: Integrated nozzle and bucket wheels for turbine stator and rotor components, respectively, include a three hundred sixty degree wheel formed from a single piece of stock material. The nozzle wheels include radially inner portions formed to include a plurality of nozzles, while the bucket wheels are each formed to include a plurality of buckets. The nozzle and bucket wheels may be split into plural arcuate segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2005Publication date: March 29, 2007Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Clement Gazzillo, John Murphy, Stephen Swan, Robert Bracken, Jeffrey Simkins
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Publication number: 20070053773Abstract: An integrated nozzle wheel for a turbine stator component includes a three hundred sixty degree wheel formed from a single piece of stock material, a radially inner portion of the wheel machined to include a plurality of nozzles, each having an airfoil portion and a radially inner tip shroud portion; a radially outer portion of the wheel machined to include one or more assembly features.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2005Publication date: March 8, 2007Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: John Murphy, Stephen Swan, Robert Bracken, Jeffrey Simkins, Clement Gazzillo, David Fitts, Mark Kowalczyk
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Patent number: 7125223Abstract: An apparatus for providing active clearance control between blade tips and seals in a turbomachine comprising: a first stator carrier segment, with stator seals centripetally disposed on it; a second stator carrier segment located along a same circumference as the first stator carrier segment, also with stator seals centripetally disposed on it; a shell that adjustably houses the first stator carrier segment and the second carrier segment; at least one displacement apparatus in operable communication with at least one stator carrier segment and configured to position the at least one stator carrier segment to provide active clearance control to the stator seals disposed on the at least one stator carrier segment.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2003Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Norman Arnold Turnquist, Hamid Reza Sarshar, Biao Fang, Mehmet Demiroglu, Bernard Arthur Couture, Clement Gazzillo, Edip Sevincer
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Patent number: 6877956Abstract: A method and apparatus for fabricating a rotor assembly for a turbine is provided. The method includes forming a cover on each bucket radial tip wherein the cover includes a leading edge side in a direction of rotation, and a trailing edge side in the direction of rotation wherein the leading edge and trailing edges are parallel with respect to each other, and wherein the leading edge and trailing edges are skewed with respect to the axis of rotation. The method includes forming an extension in the cover leading edge side, forming a groove in the cover trailing edge side, and attaching each bucket to the radially outer rim, such that the extension in the cover leading edge side of one cover is in mating engagement with the groove in the cover trailing edge side of an adjoining cover.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2002Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Clement Gazzillo, Ronald Wayne Korzun
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Publication number: 20050069406Abstract: An apparatus for providing active clearance control between blade tips and seals in a turbomachine comprising: a first stator carrier segment, with stator seals centripetally disposed on it; a second stator carrier segment located along a same circumference as the first stator carrier segment, also with stator seals centripetally disposed on it; a shell that adjustably houses the first stator carrier segment and the second carrier segment; at least one displacement apparatus in operable communication with at least one stator carrier segment and configured to position the at least one stator carrier segment to provide active clearance control to the stator seals disposed on the at least one stator carrier segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2003Publication date: March 31, 2005Inventors: Norman Turnquist, Hamid Sarshar, Biao Fang, Mehmet Demiroglu, Bernard Couture, Clement Gazzillo, Edip Sevincer
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Publication number: 20040120819Abstract: A method and apparatus for fabricating a rotor assembly for a turbine is provided. The method includes forming a cover on each bucket radial tip wherein the cover includes a leading edge side in a direction of rotation, and a trailing edge side in the direction of rotation wherein the leading edge and trailing edges are parallel with respect to each other, and wherein the leading edge and trailing edges are skewed with respect to the axis of rotation. The method includes forming an extension in the cover leading edge side, forming a groove in the cover trailing edge side, and attaching each bucket to the radially outer rim, such that the extension in the cover leading edge side of one cover is in mating engagement with the groove in the cover trailing edge side of an adjoining cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2002Publication date: June 24, 2004Inventors: Clement Gazzillo, Ronald Wayne Korzun