Patents by Inventor Eric John Ruggiero

Eric John Ruggiero 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: 11467100
    Abstract: A borescope for use within an unlit, closed conduit can include an elongated probe, an artificial light source illuminating the conduit, and a microlens array mounted to the probe. An imaging device can be in data communication with the microlens array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Eric John Ruggiero
  • Patent number: 11280751
    Abstract: There are provided a system and a method of use thereof for executing a manufacturing process. For example, a method can include executing, by a system configured to drive the manufacturing process, a set of manufacturing functions based on a digital model of a first part. The method can include fetching, by the system, from an in-field scoring system, performance data relating to a second part. The method can further include constructing the digital model based on the performance data relating to the second part. The method can further include generating, based on the digital model, a forecast representative of a performance of the first part and generating the set of manufacturing functions based on the digital model and the forecast. The method further includes manufacturing the first part according to the set of manufacturing functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Eric John Ruggiero, James Tallman
  • Patent number: 11199105
    Abstract: An optical monitoring system includes a controller configured to determine a predicted status of a component based on an operational time of a rotary machine and an individual model. The controller is also configured to receive a first signal indicative of an infrared spectrum image of the component from one or more cameras. Further, the controller is configured to determine a current status of the component based on the first signal and compare the current status to the predicted status of the component. Additionally, the controller is configured to update the predicted status of the component such that the predicted status matches the current status of the component and update at least one parameter of the individual model of the component based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Guanghua Wang, Daniel Endecott Osgood, William Stewart, Jason Edward Dees, Eric John Ruggiero
  • Publication number: 20210199296
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method of reducing film cooling scrubbing in a combustor are provided. The apparatus includes a combustor liner that includes a field of a plurality of sparsely-spaced film holes that extend through the combustor liner wherein the field includes a boundary. The combustor liner also includes a patch of relatively more densely-spaced shield holes that extend through the combustor liner at specific predetermined locations within the boundary of the field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Anquan Wang, Eric John Ruggiero
  • Publication number: 20210158287
    Abstract: A system for selecting components for an engine includes an electronic control unit comprising a processor and a memory component and a machine-readable instruction set. The machine-readable instruction set is stored in the memory component of the electronic control unit and causes the system to perform at least the following when executed by the processor: receive a catalog of a plurality of components, where the plurality of components include a measured manufacturing characteristic, receive at least one operating environment characteristic of a plurality of operating environment characteristics, and select one or more components from the catalog of the plurality of components for a bill of materials based on the measured manufacturing characteristic and the at least one operating environment characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Brendan Michael Freely, Daniel Osgood, Paul Maletta, Kevin Samuel Klasing, Eric John Ruggiero
  • Patent number: 10935964
    Abstract: There is provided a method for optimizing a manufacturing process of a new part. The method includes executing, by a system configured to drive the manufacturing process, a set of manufacturing functions. Executing these functions include receiving data associated with one or more field parts similar to the new part, and generating, based on the data, a forecast representative of a longevity of the one or more parts. The method further includes generating a digital thread forming a surrogate model for the new part, based on the forecast. Further, the method includes creating the set of manufacturing functions based on the surrogate model and manufacturing the new part according to the set of manufacturing functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric John Ruggiero, James Tallman, Pradeep Salapakkam
  • Patent number: 10928809
    Abstract: There are provided methods and systems for optimizing a manufacturing process. For example, there is provided a method for generating a model for driving a decision of a manufacturing process. The method includes simultaneously receiving data from a plurality of sources and executing a machine learning-based procedure on the data. The method further includes updating a physics-based model corresponding to the model in real time based on a result of the machine learning-based procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pradeep Salapakkam, Eric John Ruggiero, James Tallman
  • Publication number: 20200174456
    Abstract: There is provided a method for optimizing a manufacturing process of a new part. The method includes executing, by a system configured to drive the manufacturing process, a set of manufacturing functions. Executing these functions include receiving data associated with one or more field parts similar to the new part, and generating, based on the data, a forecast representative of a longevity of the one or more parts. The method further includes generating a digital thread forming a surrogate model for the new part, based on the forecast. Further, the method includes creating the set of manufacturing functions based on the surrogate model and manufacturing the new part according to the set of manufacturing functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric John Ruggiero, James Tallman, Pradeep Salapakkam
  • Publication number: 20200175438
    Abstract: There are provided methods and systems for optimizing a manufacturing process. For example, there is provided a method for optimizing a manufacturing process of a new part. The method includes executing, by a system configured to drive the manufacturing process, a set of manufacturing. The method includes receiving data associated with one or more fielded parts. The method further includes generating a first model associated with the one or more fielded parts and updating a second model associated with the new part based on the first model. The method further includes manufacturing the new part according to the updated second model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric John Ruggiero, James Tallman, Pradeep Salapakkam
  • Publication number: 20200173943
    Abstract: There are provided a system and a method of use thereof for executing a manufacturing process. For example, a method can include executing, by a system configured to drive the manufacturing process, a set of manufacturing functions based on a digital model of a first part. The method can include fetching, by the system, from an in-field scoring system, performance data relating to a second part. The method can further include constructing the digital model based on the performance data relating to the second part. The method can further include generating, based on the digital model, a forecast representative of a performance of the first part and generating the set of manufacturing functions based on the digital model and the forecast. The method further includes manufacturing the first part according to the set of manufacturing functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric John Ruggiero, James Tallman
  • Publication number: 20200174457
    Abstract: There are provided methods and systems for optimizing a manufacturing process. For example, there is provided a method for generating a model for driving a decision of a manufacturing process. The method includes simultaneously receiving data from a plurality of sources and executing a machine learning-based procedure on the data. The method further includes updating a physics-based model corresponding to the model in real time based on a result of the machine learning-based procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pradeep Salapakkam, Eric John Ruggiero, James Tallman
  • Patent number: 10370300
    Abstract: A turbine system includes a turbine shroud segment. The turbine shroud segment includes a backside, a flow path surface opposite to the back side and configured to be disposed adjacent a hot gas path of the turbine system, and side walls extending between the backside of the turbine shroud segment and the flow path surface of the turbine shroud segment. The turbine shroud segment also includes cooling channels disposed in a thickness of the turbine shroud segment between the backside and the flow path surface, where each cooling channel includes an outlet at one of the side walls of the turbine shroud segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Carlos Bonilla Gonzalez, Eric John Ruggiero, Jason Randolph Allen
  • Publication number: 20190127283
    Abstract: A turbine system includes a turbine shroud segment. The turbine shroud segment includes a backside, a flow path surface opposite to the back side and configured to be disposed adjacent a hot gas path of the turbine system, and side walls extending between the backside of the turbine shroud segment and the flow path surface of the turbine shroud segment. The turbine shroud segment also includes cooling channels disposed in a thickness of the turbine shroud segment between the backside and the flow path surface, where each cooling channel includes an outlet at one of the side walls of the turbine shroud segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Carlos Bonilla Gonzalez, Eric John Ruggiero, Jason Randolph Allen
  • Publication number: 20190049392
    Abstract: A borescope for use within an unlit, closed conduit can include an elongated probe, an artificial light source illuminating the conduit, and a microlens array mounted to the probe. An imaging device can be in data communication with the microlens array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventor: Eric John Ruggiero
  • Publication number: 20190032508
    Abstract: An optical monitoring system includes a controller configured to determine a predicted status of a component based on an operational time of a rotary machine and an individual model. The controller is also configured to receive a first signal indicative of an infrared spectrum image of the component from one or more cameras. Further, the controller is configured to determine a current status of the component based on the first signal and compare the current status to the predicted status of the component. Additionally, the controller is configured to update the predicted status of the component such that the predicted status matches the current status of the component and update at least one parameter of the individual model of the component based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Guanghua Wang, Daniel Endecott Osgood, William Stewart, Jason Edward Dees, Eric John Ruggiero
  • Publication number: 20180266687
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method of reducing film cooling scrubbing in a combustor are provided. The apparatus includes a combustor liner that includes a field of a plurality of sparsely-spaced film holes that extend through the combustor liner wherein the field includes a boundary. The combustor liner also includes a patch of relatively more densely-spaced shield holes that extend through the combustor liner at specific predetermined locations within the boundary of the field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Anquan Wang, Eric John Ruggiero
  • Patent number: 9771817
    Abstract: A sealing system for a rotatable element defining an axis of rotation includes a rotor blade including a shank and an angel wing extending axially from the shank. The sealing system also includes a stator vane positioned axially adjacent the rotor blade. The stator vane includes a platform extending in an axial direction over the angel wing such that a clearance gap is defined therebetween. The sealing system also includes a sealing mechanism including a portion of the platform and a portion of the angel wing. The sealing mechanism includes at least one obliquely oriented surface such that the clearance gap defines a converging nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Eric John Ruggiero, Gregory Paul Rodebaugh, Rinaldo Luigi Miorini
  • Patent number: 9587746
    Abstract: A seal assembly for a rotary machine is provided. The seal assembly includes multiple sealing device segments disposed circumferentially intermediate to a stationary housing and a rotor. Each of the segments includes a shoe plate with a forward-shoe section and an aft-shoe section having one or more labyrinth teeth therebetween facing the rotor. The sealing device includes a stator interface element having a groove or slot for allowing disposal of a spline seal for preventing segment leakages. The sealing device segment also includes multiple bellow springs or flexures connected to the shoe plate and to the stator interface element. Further, the sealing device segments include a secondary seal integrated with the stator interface element at one end and positioned about the multiple bellow springs or flexures and the shoe plate at the other end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rahul Anil Bidkar, Neelesh Nandkumar Sarawate, Christopher Edward Wolfe, Eric John Ruggiero, Vivek Raja Raj Mohan
  • Publication number: 20160123168
    Abstract: A sealing system for a rotatable element defining an axis of rotation includes a rotor blade including a shank and an angel wing extending axially from the shank. The sealing system also includes a stator vane positioned axially adjacent the rotor blade. The stator vane includes a platform extending in an axial direction over the angel wing such that a clearance gap is defined therebetween. The sealing system also includes a sealing mechanism including a portion of the platform and a portion of the angel wing. The sealing mechanism includes at least one obliquely oriented surface such that the clearance gap defines a converging nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Eric John Ruggiero, Gregory Paul Rodebaugh, Rinaldo Luigi Miorini
  • Publication number: 20160123169
    Abstract: A sealing system for a rotatable element defining an axis of rotation includes a rotor blade including a shank and an angel wing extending axially from the shank. The sealing system also includes a stator vane positioned axially adjacent the rotor blade. The stator vane includes a platform extending in an axial direction over the angel wing such that a clearance gap is defined therebetween. The sealing system also includes a sealing mechanism including a portion of the platform and a portion of the angel wing. The sealing mechanism includes a plurality of circumferentially-spaced grooves defined in the stator platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Eric John Ruggiero, Gregory Paul Rodebaugh, Rinaldo Luigi Miorini