Patents by Inventor Craig A. Hanson
Craig A. Hanson 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: 10503657Abstract: A Non-Volatile Dual In-Line Memory Module is disclosed (NVDIMM). The NVDIMM may be installed in a Dual In-Line Memory Module (DIMM) docket. The NVDIMM may include a non-volatile memory. A device driver may intercept a request for a memory address destined for a host memory controller, replace the memory address with a pre-mapped memory address or an alias of the pre-mapped memory address, and send the pre-mapped memory address to the host memory controller, so that the host memory controller generates a target memory address to NVDIMM.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Craig Hanson, Ian Swarbrick, Michael Bekerman, Chihjen Chang
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Patent number: 10414005Abstract: An apparatus and method for servicing a combustion liner in a combustion case of a turbine is provided. The apparatus includes an elongated bar having a handle at one end and a force applying member at an opposing end of the elongated bar. An attachment member is configured for attachment to a flange of the combustion case. The attachment member is also configured for pivotal attachment to the elongated bar. The apparatus is configured to apply a radially outward force on a downstream portion of the combustion liner when a radially inward force is applied to the handle.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Adrian Adam Klejc, Stuart Craig Hanson, John William Herbold, James Bradford Holmes, Sandra Beverly Kolvick, Thomas Alan Mogle, II, Robert Edward Huth, Lukasz Sajdak
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Patent number: 10347306Abstract: A memory module includes a plurality of memory components, an in-memory power manager, and an interface to a host computer over a memory bus. The in-memory power manager is configured to control a transition of a power state of the memory module. The transition of the power state of the memory module includes a direct transition from a low power down state to a maximum power down state.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mu-Tien Chang, Dimin Niu, Hongzhong Zheng, Craig Hanson, Sun Young Lim, Indong Kim, Jangseok Choi
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Patent number: 10294082Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a component handling assembly. The component handling assembly includes a base member, an arm pivotably coupled to the base member, and a beam rotatably coupled to the base member. The component handling assembly also includes a counterweight rotatably coupled to a first end of the beam. The component handling assembly further includes a coupling assembly coupled to a second end of the beam. The coupling assembly is configured for coupling to a component. Rotating the counterweight in a first direction rotates the beam, the coupling assembly, and the component in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Thomas Michael Merlau, Joseph Daniel Becker, Stuart Craig Hanson
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Patent number: 10280802Abstract: An apparatus for lifting an inner casing of a turbine includes a base, an arm, a guide roller, and an adjustment system. The arm has a first end and a second end, and is pivotally connected to the base intermediate the first end and the second end. The guide roller is operatively coupled to the first end of the arm to rotatably engage an exterior surface of the inner casing, and an adjustment system extending from the base and engaging the arm to change an angular position of the arm relative to the base and adjust a position of the guide roller relative to the exterior surface of the inner casing.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Thomas Michael Merlau, Stuart Craig Hanson, Brett Darrick Klingler, Wayne David Sullivan
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Patent number: 10265838Abstract: A tool for removing a component from a turbomachine is provided. The tool includes a body having a connection portion for engaging the component. The tool additionally includes a force section connected to the body and configured to transfer a force to the connection portion in a direction at an acute angle relative to longitudinal axis of a dovetail slot of a rotor wheel adjacent to the component.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Sandra Beverly Kolvick, Stuart Craig Hanson, Wayne David Sullivan
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Patent number: 10247421Abstract: A tool for decoupling a telescoping tube from a first liner of a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The tool includes a rod partially positioned in a telescoping tube passage. The rod includes a first portion having a non-circular cross-section and a threaded second portion positioned in a second combustion chamber. A plug couples to the rod and engages a first side surface of the telescoping tube. A base defining a base passage extending therethrough is positioned in a second combustion chamber. The base passage includes a first portion having a non-circular cross-section. The first portion of the rod is at least partially positioned in the first portion of the base passage. A handle threadingly couples to the rod. Rotating the handle in a first direction moves the handle along the rod toward the first combustor to decouple the telescoping tube from the first liner.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Todd James Gattermeyer, James Robert Rodgers, Stuart Craig Hanson
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Patent number: 10208627Abstract: A combustor assembly lift system comprises a track that extends in at least a longitudinal direction, a lift arm moveably engaged with the track such that it can traverse along the track in at least the longitudinal direction, and a combustor assembly engagement frame connected to the lift arm, wherein the combustor assembly engagement frame is configured to temporarily secure to at least a portion of a combustor assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ansley Michelle Heard, Stuart Craig Hanson, Jereld Alan Meiers, Kyle Joseph Banwart
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Patent number: 10190297Abstract: The present invention is directed to a mobile sink assembly including a container partitioned into two compartments with an overflow aperture in a dividing wall providing fluid communication between an upper compartment and a lower compartment. There is a first trap in the top opening of the upper compartment and a second trap positionable below the first trap. There is a riser and valve assembly coupled to the draining aperture in the first trap and configured to control a flow of liquid from the first trap. There is a pump that pumps fluid from the lower compartment to the first trap. In this way water recirculates through the traps while particulate matter is retained in the first and second traps.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: SMART SINKS PTY LTD.Inventor: Craig Hanson
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Publication number: 20190010026Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a component handling assembly. The component handling assembly includes a base member, an arm pivotably coupled to the base member, and a beam rotatably coupled to the base member. The component handling assembly also includes a counterweight rotatably coupled to a first end of the beam. The component handling assembly further includes a coupling assembly coupled to a second end of the beam. The coupling assembly is configured for coupling to a component. Rotating the counterweight in a first direction rotates the beam, the coupling assembly, and the component in a second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2017Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Thomas Michael Merlau, Joseph Daniel Becker, Stuart Craig Hanson
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Patent number: 10125634Abstract: A combustor assembly alignment system comprises an alignment plate comprising a plurality of alignment plate holes that align with a plurality of combustor assembly flange holes, an alignment plate securement system configured to secure the alignment plate to a combustor assembly flange by passing through a first alignment plate hole of the alignment plate and a first combustor assembly flange hole of the combustor assembly flange, and an alignment tube that extends away from the alignment plate, wherein a hollow interior of the alignment tube aligns with a second combustor assembly flange hole when the alignment plate is secured to the combustor assembly flange.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Thomas Michael Merlau, Stuart Craig Hanson, Sandra Beverly Kolvick, Thomas Alan Mogle, II, Loy Milton Miller, Jr.
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Patent number: 10125635Abstract: A fixture and method for installing turbine buckets is disclosed. The fixture is adapted for mounting a plurality of turbine buckets with dovetails to a rotor wheel of a turbomachine that is separated from an adjacent rotor wheel by a spacer wheel, the rotor wheel and the spacer wheel each having a plurality of circumferentially aligned dovetail slots, the fixture includes: a turbine bucket holder having a dovetail that is configured to engage with one of the dovetail slots of the spacer wheel. The profile of a bucket holder dovetail slot substantially aligns the dovetail of the turbine bucket with a dovetail slot of the rotor wheel for at least partial transfer of a turbine bucket thereto.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Sandra Beverly Kolvick, Kevin Leon Bruce, Matthew Ryan Ferslew, Stuart Craig Hanson, Thomas Michael Merlau, Joshua Michael Oden, Christopher Michael Penny
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Patent number: 10121013Abstract: Example embodiments for descrambling and scrambling a memory channel include executing a training mode for the memory device to discover XOR vectors used by the host system to scramble data. The training mode inputs all zero training data to a scrambling algorithm for all memory locations of the memory device to generate scrambled training data that is transmitted over the memory channel to the memory device. The scrambled training data are equal to the XOR vectors corresponding to those memory locations. The scrambled training data is received over the memory channel by the memory device and stored as the XOR vectors for each corresponding memory location. During a functional mode, the scrambled data is received over the memory channel for a specified memory location and the XOR vector stored for the specified memory location is used to descramble the scrambled data prior to writing to the specified memory location.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chihjen Chang, Michael Bekerman, Ian Swarbrick, Craig Hanson
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Publication number: 20180306446Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a coupling assembly for a turbomachine. The coupling assembly includes a liner and a sleeve at least partially positioned circumferentially around the liner. A frame is positioned between the liner and the sleeve. The frame includes a first side wall, a second side wall, and a base wall extending from the first side wall to the second side wall. A block is positioned between the liner and the sleeve and is movable relative to the frame to permit the block to move toward and away from the base wall. Moving the block away from the base wall causes the block to exert an inward force on the liner and the base wall to exert an outward force on the sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2017Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Thomas Michael Merlau, Joseph Daniel Becker, Stuart Craig Hanson
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Publication number: 20180239711Abstract: A Non-Volatile Dual In-Line Memory Module is disclosed (NVDIMM). The NVDIMM may be installed in a Dual In-Line Memory Module (DIMM) docket. The NVDIMM may include a non-volatile memory. A device driver may intercept a request for a memory address destined for a host memory controller, replace the memory address with a pre-mapped memory address or an alias of the pre-mapped memory address, and send the pre-mapped memory address to the host memory controller, so that the host memory controller generates a target memory address to NVDIMM.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventors: Craig HANSON, Ian SWARBRICK, Michael BEKERMAN, Chihjen CHANG
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Patent number: 10031674Abstract: A Non-Volatile Dual In-Line Memory Module is disclosed (NVDIMM) (105). The NVDIMM (105) may be installed in a Dual In-Line Memory Module (DIMM) docket (125). The NVDIMM (105) may include a non-volatile memory (130). A device driver (160) may intercept a request for a memory address (605) destined for a host memory controller (115), replace the memory address (605) with a pre-mapped memory address (610) or an alias (705, 710) of the pre-mapped memory address (610), and send the pre-mapped memory address (610) to the host memory controller (115), so that the host memory controller (115) generates a target memory address (615) to NVDIMM (105).Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Craig Hanson, Ian Swarbrick, Michael Bekerman, Chihjen Chang
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Publication number: 20180202664Abstract: A tool for repairing an out-of-round component such as a combustor body is disclosed. The tool includes a base including a first arcuate member; a second arcuate member; and a linear actuator coupling the second arcuate member to the base. The linear actuator moves the second arcuate member between a retracted position out of engagement with the out-of-round component and an extended position in which the first arcuate member and the second arcuate member engage an interior surface of the out-of-round component in an opposing relationship to force the out-of-round component into a more round state compared to an initial state of the out-of-round component. A related method is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2017Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Thomas Michael Merlau, Joseph Daniel Becker, Stuart Craig Hanson, Brian Michael Leinonen, Gregory Scott Means
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Publication number: 20180206347Abstract: A polymer film is applied onto a surface of a laminated printed circuit board subassembly having vias. Holes are created in the polymer film to access the vias while the polymer film remains covering adjacent areas. The polymer film with holes allows placement of hole-fill paste in the vias while preventing unwanted hole-fill paste placement or migration to adjacent areas. After filling the vias with hole-fill paste, the hole-fill paste is preferably at least partially hardened or cured, and the polymer film is preferably removed, facilitating further assembly of a printed circuit board without unwanted hole-fill paste in other areas which could be difficult to remove, The invention includes improved processes for fabricating printed circuit boards, and is particularly useful for irregular circuit boards and rigid flex circuit boards. The invention also includes covered laminated printed circuit board subassemblies, covered with a removable polymer film.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2016Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Kenneth Richard Tannehill, Steven Craig Hanson
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Patent number: 10025747Abstract: A protocol that enables communication between a host and an Input/Output (I/O) channel storage device, such as a Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) channel Dual In-Line Memory Module (DIMM) form-factor Solid State Drive (SSD), without the need to know or reverse engineer the encoding applied by the host. The control/status data are written to the storage device by sending a protocol training sequence of known values and storing the associated command/status data in the storage device in the same encoding format as that received from the host. These stored values are used at run time to execute encoded commands received from the host and to report status data to the host in the host-recognizable manner. A memory bank-based buffered configuration stores user data also in the as-received condition to preserve the host-specific encoding. This facilitates exchange of user data between the host memory controller and the storage device over the DRAM channel.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ian Swarbrick, Michael Bekerman, Craig Hanson, Chihjen Chang
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Publication number: 20180100654Abstract: A tool for decoupling a telescoping tube from a first liner of a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The tool includes a rod partially positioned in a telescoping tube passage. The rod includes a first portion having a non-circular cross-section and a threaded second portion positioned in a second combustion chamber. A plug couples to the rod and engages a first side surface of the telescoping tube. A base defining a base passage extending therethrough is positioned in a second combustion chamber. The base passage includes a first portion having a non-circular cross-section. The first portion of the rod is at least partially positioned in the first portion of the base passage. A handle threadingly couples to the rod. Rotating the handle in a first direction moves the handle along the rod toward the first combustor to decouple the telescoping tube from the first liner.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2016Publication date: April 12, 2018Inventors: Todd James Gattermeyer, James Robert Rodgers, Stuart Craig Hanson