Patents by Inventor Eugene Franklin Clemens

Eugene Franklin Clemens 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: 7533795
    Abstract: A weld process cuitable for repairing precipitation-strengthened superalloys, and particularly gamma prime-strengthened nickel-based superalloys. The process entails forming a weldment in a cavity present in a surface of an article formed of a precipitation-strengthened superalloy. The cavity has a root region and a cap region between the root region and the surface of the article. A solid body formed of a superalloy composition is placed in the root region of the cavity so as to occupy a first portion but not a second portion of the root region. A first filler material formed of a solid solution-strengthened superalloy is then weld-deposited in the second portion of the root region. Subsequently, a second filler material formed of a precipitation-strengthened superalloy is weld-deposited in the cap region of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jon Conrad Schaeffer, Ariel Caesar-Prepena Jacala, Doyle C. Lewis, Thaddeus Jan Strusinski, Frederick Whitfield Dantzler, Jr., Eugene Franklin Clemens, Paul Stuart Wilson, Micahel Butler, Jeffrey Aaron Killough