Patents by Inventor Daniel Eugene Wieprecht

Daniel Eugene Wieprecht 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).

  • Installation tool for assembling a rotor blade of a gas turbine engine fan assembly
    Patent number: 7694417
    Abstract: A method enables rotor assembly for a gas turbine engine to be assembled. The method includes providing a plurality of rotor blades that each include a dovetail, providing a rotor disc that includes a plurality of dovetail slots spaced circumferentially about the disc, partially inserting each rotor blade dovetail into a respective rotor dovetail slot, and seating the plurality of rotor blades in the respective rotor dovetail slot substantially simultaneously using an annular blade installation tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Harold Keith Crain, Gregory Edmond Andruskevitch, Daniel Eugene Wieprecht
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSEMBLING GAS TURBINE ENGINE FAN ASSEMBLIES
    Publication number: 20080134503
    Abstract: A method enables rotor assembly for a gas turbine engine to be assembled. The method includes providing a plurality of rotor blades that each include a dovetail, providing a rotor disc that includes a plurality of dovetail slots spaced circumferentially about the disc, partially inserting each rotor blade dovetail into a respective rotor dovetail slot, and seating the plurality of rotor blades in the respective rotor dovetail slot substantially simultaneously using an annular blade installation tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Harold Keith Crain, Gregory Edmond Andruskevitch, Daniel Eugene Wieprecht
  • Installation tool for assembling a rotor blade of a gas turbine engine fan assembly
    Patent number: 7353588
    Abstract: A rotor blade installation tool for coupling a plurality of rotor blades to a rotor disc wherein each rotor blade extends from the rotor disc to a radially outer blade tip is provided. The tool includes a blade engagement end configured to engage the plurality of rotor blades between the rotor disc and the radially outer blade tip where said blade engagement end comprises an engagement top surface, at least one brace coupled to said blade engagement end at a first end of said at least one brace, and a guide end coupled to a second end of said at least one brace where said guide end comprises a body including a guide end top surface positioned above said engagement top surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Harold Keith Crain, Gregory Edmond Andruskevitch, Daniel Eugene Wieprecht
  • Methods and systems for assembling gas turnine engine fan assemblies
    Publication number: 20040258529
    Abstract: A method enables rotor assembly for a gas turbine engine to be assembled. The method includes providing a plurality of rotor blades that each include a dovetail, providing a rotor disc that includes a plurality of dovetail slots spaced circumferentially about the disc, partially inserting each rotor blade dovetail into a respective rotor dovetail slot, and seating the plurality of rotor blades in the respective rotor dovetail slot substantially simultaneously using an annular blade installation tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Harold Keith Crain, Gregory Edmond Andruskevitch, Daniel Eugene Wieprecht