Patents by Inventor Emily Marie Phelps
Emily Marie Phelps 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: 11927405Abstract: An apparatus and method of forming a heat exchanger includes forming a monolithic core body having a first set of flow passages and a core coefficient of thermal expansion, and additively manufacturing onto the monolithic core a first manifold defining a first fluid inlet for the first set of flow passages.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt
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Patent number: 11807929Abstract: Nickel-cobalt materials, methods of forming a nickel-cobalt material, and methods of thermally stabilizing a nickel-cobalt material are provided. A nickel-cobalt material may include a metal matrix composite with amorphous regions and crystalline regions substantially encompassed by a nanocrystalline grain structure with a grain size distribution of about 50 nanometers to about 800 nanometers, and the nanocrystalline grain structure may include widespread intragranular twinning. The metal matrix composite may have a chemical makeup that includes nickel, cobalt, and a dopant such as phosphorus and/or boron. A nickel-cobalt material may be heat treated within a first temperature zone below the onset temperature for grain growth and then within a second temperature zone above the onset temperature for grain growth in the material. Chemical composition and heat treatment may yield a thermally stabilized nickel-cobalt material.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Lakshmi Krishnan, Guru Venkata Dattu Jonnalagadda, Gary Stephen Shipley, Ashley Rose Dvorak
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Publication number: 20230295828Abstract: An apparatus and method for a mandrel used during an electroforming process. The mandrel is formed of a structural wax and includes a metallic layer utilized to formulate a metal component. During the electroforming process, the mandrel is actively cooled utilizing a closed loop. The closed loop includes the mandrel and a heat exchanger through which a coolant flows.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Yanzhe Yang
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Patent number: 11686012Abstract: An apparatus and method for a mandrel used during an electroforming process. The mandrel is formed of a structural wax and includes a metallic layer utilized to formulate a metal component. During the electroforming process, the mandrel is actively cooled utilizing a closed loop. The closed loop includes the mandrel and a heat exchanger through which a coolant flows.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Yanzhe Yang
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Publication number: 20230117007Abstract: A thermal insulation system for an aerospace duct through which high temperature fluid, greater than 500 F, passes. The thermal insulation system can experience pressures less than 80 kilopascals and can be included in a turbine engine. The thermal insulation system includes at least a first foil layer confronting the duct, an insulation layer confronting the first foil layer, a second foil layer confronting the insulation layer, and at least one coating applied to any one of the layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Karthick Vilapakkam Gourishankar, Mohandas Nayak, Dattu Guru Venkata Jonnalagadda, Emily Marie Phelps, Navish Garg, Soumya Chakraborty, Gordon C. Tajiri
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Publication number: 20230115699Abstract: An apparatus and method of forming a heat exchanger includes forming a monolithic core body having a first set of flow passages and a core coefficient of thermal expansion, and additively manufacturing onto the monolithic core a first manifold defining a first fluid inlet for the first set of flow passages.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt
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Patent number: 11591684Abstract: A nickel-cobalt material and component includes a thermally stabilized nickel-cobalt alloy. The nickel-cobalt alloy disclosed herein includes nanocrystalline grain structures, pinning, such as Zener pinning, and intragranular twinning. The nickel-cobalt alloy disclosed herein exhibits multiple properties including an improved fracture toughness, an increased thermal stability, and an improved ultimate tensile strength.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Bruce Patrick Graham, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Lakshmi Krishnan
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Patent number: 11549376Abstract: A gas turbine engine guide vane heat exchanger has guide vane heat exchanger including electroformed fluid channels in electroformed heat exchanger tubes or a heat exchanger core disposed within airfoil. Non-flammable heat conducting liquid or non-metallic foam may fill space between tubes or core and airfoil. Fluid circuit may include channels within electroformed heat exchanger tubes or the heat exchanger core and extend from inlet manifold to outlet manifold for directing fluid or oil through channels and include fluid or oil supply inlet connected to inlet manifold for receiving the fluid or oil flowed into inlet manifold and a fluid or oil supply outlet connected to fluid or oil supply outlet for discharging fluid or oil flowed out of fluid or oil outlet manifold. Heat exchanger tubes or heat exchanger core, inlet manifold, outlet manifold, supply inlet and supply outlet may be integrally and monolithically electroformed together.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Dattu Guru Venkata Jonnalagadda, Sandeep Kumar, Emily Marie Phelps, Merin Sebastian, Gordon Tajiri, Ramana Reddy Kollam
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Patent number: 11536521Abstract: An apparatus and method of forming a hybrid heat exchanger including a first manifold defining a first fluid inlet and a second manifold defining a second fluid inlet. A monolithic core body includes a first set of flow passages in fluid communication with the first manifold and a second set of flow passages is in communication with the second manifold. At least a portion of the first manifold or the second manifold has a tunable coefficient of thermal expansion that is less than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the structurally rigid monolithic core.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu G V Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt
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Publication number: 20220282391Abstract: A method of electroforming can be used to prepare a heat exchanger by electroforming the heat exchanger on a mandrel having a smooth and conductive surface. The mandrel is in the shape of at least part of the heat exchanger, and is removed from the electroformed heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Michael Ralph Storage, Emily Marie Phelps, Jason Levi Burdette
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Publication number: 20220049336Abstract: A nickel-cobalt material and component includes a thermally stabilized nickel-cobalt alloy. The nickel-cobalt alloy disclosed herein includes nanocrystalline grain structures, pinning, such as Zener pinning, and intragranular twinning. The nickel-cobalt alloy disclosed herein exhibits multiple properties including an improved fracture toughness, an increased thermal stability, and an improved ultimate tensile strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Bruce Patrick Graham, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Lakshmi Krishnan
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Publication number: 20210324745Abstract: A gas turbine engine guide vane heat exchanger has guide vane heat exchanger including electroformed fluid channels in electroformed heat exchanger tubes or a heat exchanger core disposed within airfoil. Non-flammable heat conducting liquid or non-metallic foam may fill space between tubes or core and airfoil. Fluid circuit may include channels within electroformed heat exchanger tubes or the heat exchanger core and extend from inlet manifold to outlet manifold for directing fluid or oil through channels and include fluid or oil supply inlet connected to inlet manifold for receiving the fluid or oil flowed into inlet manifold and a fluid or oil supply outlet connected to fluid or oil supply outlet for discharging fluid or oil flowed out of fluid or oil outlet manifold. Heat exchanger tubes or heat exchanger core, inlet manifold, outlet manifold, supply inlet and supply outlet may be integrally and monolithically electroformed together.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Dattu Guru Venkata Jonnalagadda, Sandeep Kumar, Emily Marie Phelps, Merin Sebastian, Gordon Tajiri, Ramana Reddy Kollam
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Patent number: 11142840Abstract: An electroforming system and method for electroforming a component includes an electroforming reservoir with a housing defining a fluid passage. An electroforming chamber can be located within the housing and fluidly coupled to the fluid passage via a set of apertures in at least one wall of the electroforming chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Sandeep Kumar, Merin Sebastian, Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps
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Patent number: 11078795Abstract: A gas turbine engine guide vane heat exchanger has guide vane heat exchanger including electroformed fluid channels in electroformed heat exchanger tubes or a heat exchanger core disposed within airfoil. Non-flammable heat conducting liquid or non-metallic foam may fill space between tubes or core and airfoil. Fluid circuit may include channels within electroformed heat exchanger tubes or the heat exchanger core and extend from inlet manifold to outlet manifold for directing fluid or oil through channels and include fluid or oil supply inlet connected to inlet manifold for receiving the fluid or oil flowed into inlet manifold and a fluid or oil supply outlet connected to fluid or oil supply outlet for discharging fluid or oil flowed out of fluid or oil outlet manifold. Heat exchanger tubes or heat exchanger core, inlet manifold, outlet manifold, supply inlet and supply outlet may be integrally and monolithically electroformed together.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Dattu Guru Venkata Jonnalagadda, Sandeep Kumar, Emily Marie Phelps, Merin Sebastian, Gordon Tajiri, Ramana Reddy Kollam
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Patent number: 11053577Abstract: A nickel-cobalt material and method of forming includes forming a doped nickel-cobalt precursor material. The method also includes heat treating the doped nickel-cobalt precursor material, wherein the heat treating includes at least heating within a temperature zone below the onset temperature for grain growth in the doped nickel-cobalt precursor material.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Bruce Patrick Graham, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Lakshmi Krishnan
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Patent number: 10975486Abstract: A method of forming a tubular element includes providing an attachment joint, and disposing a mandrel adjacent the attachment joint, where the mandrel can also include an outer or exposed surface. Metal can be disposed on the outer surface of the mandrel to form at least a portion of the tubular element.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: David William Millward, Gordon Tajiri, Donald Lee Templeton, Emily Marie Phelps
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Patent number: 10962293Abstract: An apparatus and method of forming a heat exchanger including a thermally compliant material and geometry with a core having a first set of flow passages and a second set of flow passages passing through the core. A first manifold of high temperature and strength material defines a fluid inlet for the first set of flow passages and a second manifold of high temperature and strength material defines a fluid inlet for the second set of flow passages. At least one of the first and second manifolds can include an in-situ compliant portion to provide for compliance during thermal expansion of the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Yanzhe Yang
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Patent number: 10927711Abstract: A tunable compliant mount structure for an engine such as a turbine engine can include a fluid conduit coupled to a fan casing by a connector. At a junction between the connector and the fluid conduit, a compliant mount structure can provide compliance and can be tuned to operate under variable stresses at the junction. The compliant mount structure can include a set of nested convolutions to provide compliance. The geometry of the convolutions can be used to tune the compliance, stiffness, or directionality. The tunable compliant attachment structure provides for additive in-situ manufacturing at the fluid conduit.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Dattu GV Jonnalagadda, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Yanzhe Yang
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Publication number: 20200291508Abstract: Nickel-cobalt materials, methods of forming a nickel-cobalt material, and methods of thermally stabilizing a nickel-cobalt material are provided. A nickel-cobalt material may include a metal matrix composite with amorphous regions and crystalline regions substantially encompassed by a nanocrystalline grain structure with a grain size distribution of about 50 nanometers to about 800 nanometers, and the nanocrystalline grain structure may include widespread intragranular twinning. The metal matrix composite may have a chemical makeup that includes nickel, cobalt, and a dopant such as phosphorus and/or boron. A nickel-cobalt material may be heat treated within a first temperature zone below the onset temperature for grain growth and then within a second temperature zone above the onset temperature for grain growth in the material. Chemical composition and heat treatment may yield a thermally stabilized nickel-cobalt material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Gordon Tajiri, Emily Marie Phelps, Joseph Richard Schmitt, Lakshmi Krishnan, Guru Venkata Dattu Jonnalagadda, Gary Stephen Shipley, Ashley Rose Dvorak
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Patent number: 10731486Abstract: A method of forming a strengthened component includes providing a duct body having an interior surface and an exterior surface forming a fluid passageway. The method also includes forming an attachment structure over at least a portion of the exterior surface of the duct body, where the attachment structure can include a metallic layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Joseph Richard Schmitt, Emily Marie Phelps, Gordon Tajiri