Patents by Inventor Craig A. Gonyou

Craig A. Gonyou 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).

  • Gas turbine engine reverse bleed for coking abatement
    Patent number: 11047306
    Abstract: A turbine engine includes: a core cowl, a core within the core cowl, the core including a compressor having a bleed port; an undercowl space; a cooling duct at least partially in the undercowl space and having an inlet and an outlet, the inlet communicating with a source of cooling air, the outlet communicating with the compressor bleed port; a valve assembly in the cooling duct; and a cooling blower operable to move air flow from the inlet of the cooling duct towards the outlet of the cooling duct and into the compressor bleed port. A method of cooling an engine having a core cowl and a compressor, combustor and turbine includes: operating the engine; shutting the engine down; after or during engine shutdown, operating a cooling blower internal to the engine cowl, to force air through the compressor by way of a compressor bleed port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael R. Millhaem, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Hendrik Pieter Jacobus de Bock, John Carl Glessner, Jeffrey Scott Ksander, Craig A. Gonyou, Christopher Jon Potokar
  • AIRCRAFT ENGINE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING SAME
    Publication number: 20140182264
    Abstract: A gas turbine propulsion system includes a system which utilizes a cryogenic liquid fuel for a non-combustion function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert Harold Weisgerber, Kurt David Murrow, Michael Jay Epstein, Nicholas Dinsmore, Samuel Jacob Martin, Randy M. Vondrell, Christopher Thompson, Craig Gonyou