Patents by Inventor Daniel Waslo

Daniel Waslo 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).

  • Patent number: 11143041
    Abstract: The turbine includes a first turbine rotor disc, a second turbine rotor disc, a first source of cooling fluid, and a first cooling fluid conduit. The first turbine rotor disc has a first outer circumference and a first plurality of blades spaced along the first outer circumference. The second turbine rotor disc has a second outer circumference and a second plurality of blades spaced along the second outer circumference. The first cooling fluid conduit is configured to channel a first flow of cooling fluid from the first source of cooling fluid through the first turbine rotor disc to a blade of the second plurality of blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Brian David Johnson, Daniel Waslo
  • Patent number: 10876407
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a gas turbine engine defining a radial direction, a circumferential direction, an axial centerline along a longitudinal direction, and an upstream end and a downstream end along the longitudinal direction. The gas turbine engine defines a core flowpath extended generally along the longitudinal direction. The gas turbine engine includes a first turbine rotor. The first turbine rotor includes an annular outer band disposed outward of the core flowpath along the radial direction. The first turbine rotor further includes a plurality of airfoils coupled to an inner diameter of the outer band in which the plurality of airfoils are extended generally inward along the radial direction. The outer band defines a plurality of airfoil cooling passages in which the plurality of airfoil cooling passages are extended at least partially in the radial direction in fluid communication with the plurality of airfoils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Brandon Wayne Miller, Jeffrey Donald Clements, Daniel Waslo, Joel Francis Kirk
  • Patent number: 10836499
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for mounting a turbine engine to an aircraft can include an engine core for the turbine engine including a compressor section, a combustor section, and a turbine section in flow arrangement. At least one strut couples to the engine core about a single mount plane. A structural wall at least partially defining a mainstream flow path couples to the at least one strut and passes through the compressor section and the turbine section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Kenneth Arthur Gould, Martin Miles D'Angelo, Daniel Waslo, Brian Lewis Devendorf, Mark Gregory Wotzak
  • Patent number: 10823013
    Abstract: A core engine includes a first tierod and a compressor rotor assembly including a plurality of compressor rotor disks arranged in a face to face orientation and spaced along the first tierod. The core engine includes a second tierod and a turbine rotor assembly including a plurality of turbine rotor disks arranged in a face to face orientation and spaced along the second tierod. The compressor rotor assembly is aft of the turbine rotor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Daniel Waslo
  • Patent number: 10683809
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system for bleeding air from a compressed gas path of a gas turbine engine. The system includes an impeller positioned at a downstream end of a compressor in the gas turbine engine. The impeller includes an impeller hub, an impeller arm coupled to the impeller hub, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart impeller vanes extending radially outwardly from the impeller arm. The impeller arm defines an impeller arm aperture extending therethrough. A vortex spoiler is positioned radially inwardly from the impeller arm and defines a vortex spoiler passage extending radially therethrough. Bleed air flows from the compressed gas path radially inwardly through both the impeller arm aperture and the vortex spoiler passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Daniel Waslo, Michael Richardson-Bach
  • Patent number: 10670037
    Abstract: A turbofan engine includes a compressor rotor, a plurality of main blades circumferentially mounted on the compressor rotor, and a plurality of spinner blades circumferentially mounted on the compressor rotor. Each of the spinner blades is located forward of a leading edge of a corresponding one of the main blades. Each of the spinner blades is circumferentially offset to the corresponding one of the main blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Aspi Rustom Wadia, Deepak Manohar Kamath, Daniel Waslo
  • Publication number: 20190154055
    Abstract: A turbofan engine comprising a compressor rotor, a plurality of main blades, the main blades are circumferentially mounted on the compressor rotor; a plurality of spinner blades, the spinner blades are circumferentially mounted on the compressor rotor, the spinner blades are located forward to the leading edge of the main blades; each spinner blade is circumferentially offset to a corresponding main blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: ASPI Rustom WADIA, Deepak Manohar Kamath, Daniel Waslo
  • Patent number: 10287977
    Abstract: An in-line propeller gearbox of a turboprop gas turbine engine includes an epicyclic gearing arrangement that has a sun gear, a ring gear and at least one planet gear disposed between and meshing with both the sun gear and the ring gear. The propeller gearbox includes a disk brake that can be operated to slow down or stop altogether the rotation of the propeller. The disk brake has an axially extending shaft having at one end a disk and at the opposite end a gear having teeth that engage with one of the gears in the epicyclic gearing arrangement. The disk brake includes a hydraulic caliper or an electric caliper that can be actuated to slow down rotation of the disk to an eventual full stop and to hold the disk at full stop to thereby stop rotation of the propeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mark Gregory Wotzak, Daniel Waslo
  • Publication number: 20190061965
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for mounting a turbine engine to an aircraft can include an engine core for the turbine engine including a compressor section, a combustor section, and a turbine section in flow arrangement. At least one strut couples to the engine core about a single mount plane. A structural wall at least partially defining a mainstream flow path couples to the at least one strut and passes through the compressor section and the turbine section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kenneth Arthur Gould, Martin Miles D'Angelo, Daniel Waslo, Brian Lewis Devendorf, Mark Gregory Wotzak
  • Publication number: 20180230805
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a gas turbine engine defining a radial direction, a circumferential direction, an axial centerline along a longitudinal direction, and an upstream end and a downstream end along the longitudinal direction. The gas turbine engine defines a core flowpath extended generally along the longitudinal direction. The gas turbine engine includes a first turbine rotor. The first turbine rotor includes an annular outer band disposed outward of the core flowpath along the radial direction. The first turbine rotor further includes a plurality of airfoils coupled to an inner diameter of the outer band in which the plurality of airfoils are extended generally inward along the radial direction. The outer band defines a plurality of airfoil cooling passages in which the plurality of airfoil cooling passages are extended at least partially in the radial direction in fluid communication with the plurality of airfoils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Brandon Wayne Miller, Jeffrey Donald Clements, Daniel Waslo, Joel Francis Kirk
  • Publication number: 20180195395
    Abstract: The turbine includes a first turbine rotor disc, a second turbine rotor disc, a first source of cooling fluid, and a first cooling fluid conduit. The first turbine rotor disc has a first outer circumference and a first plurality of blades spaced along the first outer circumference. The second turbine rotor disc has a second outer circumference and a second plurality of blades spaced along the second outer circumference. The first cooling fluid conduit is configured to channel a first flow of cooling fluid from the first source of cooling fluid through the first turbine rotor disc to a blade of the second plurality of blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Brian David Johnson, Daniel Waslo
  • Publication number: 20180094544
    Abstract: A core engine includes a first tierod and a compressor rotor assembly including a plurality of compressor rotor disks arranged in a face to face orientation and spaced along the first tierod. The core engine includes a second tierod and a turbine rotor assembly including a plurality of turbine rotor disks arranged in a face to face orientation and spaced along the second tierod. The compressor rotor assembly is aft of the turbine rotor assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventor: Daniel Waslo
  • Publication number: 20170328283
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system for bleeding air from a compressed gas path of a gas turbine engine. The system includes an impeller positioned at a downstream end of a compressor in the gas turbine engine. The impeller includes an impeller hub, an impeller arm coupled to the impeller hub, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart impeller vanes extending radially outwardly from the impeller arm. The impeller arm defines an impeller arm aperture extending therethrough. A vortex spoiler is positioned radially inwardly from the impeller arm and defines a vortex spoiler passage extending radially therethrough. Bleed air flows from the compressed gas path radially inwardly through both the impeller arm aperture and the vortex spoiler passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Daniel Waslo, Michael Richardson-Bach
  • Publication number: 20170234217
    Abstract: An in-line propeller gearbox of a turboprop gas turbine engine includes an epicyclic gearing arrangement that has a sun gear, a ring gear and at least one planet gear disposed between and meshing with both the sun gear and the ring gear. The propeller gearbox includes a disk brake that can be operated to slow down or stop altogether the rotation of the propeller. The disk brake has an axially extending shaft having at one end a disk and at the opposite end a gear having teeth that engage with one of the gears in the epicyclic gearing arrangement. The disk brake includes an hydraulic caliper or an electric caliper that can be actuated to slow down rotation of the disk to an eventual full stop and to hold the disk at full stop to thereby stop rotation of the propeller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Gregory Wotzak, Daniel Waslo