Patents by Inventor Ian M. Garry

Ian M. Garry 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).

  • Method and apparatus for machining using a beam and a beam trap
    Patent number: 8071911
    Abstract: A combustor component with cooling apertures has the apertures formed by laser drilling. The machining apparatus comprises a beam generator for generating a beam for directing at the combustor component and a beam trap. The component is translated relative to the beam and the beam is directed to the beam trap and is dissipated within the beam trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventor: Ian M. Garry
  • Method of joining articles
    Publication number: 20100050410
    Abstract: A method of joining a first article to a second article using adjustment features located in an assigned scrap portion of the first article. The first article can be a casing for a turbine engine the first article being the casing skin and the second article a flange. The adjustment features are springs that can be stretched to increase the circumference of the skin. Following the correct sizing of the skin and joining to the flange the attachment features are removed along with the assigned scrap portion of the skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventors: Ian M. Garry, Michael N. Wybrow
  • Combustion apparatus
    Publication number: 20100011775
    Abstract: A coated turbine engine article having a first wall and a second wall, wherein the first wall has a shielding feature integral with the article and which inhibits entry of a coating material into an open passage extending between the first wall and the second wall when the coating material is directed towards the article using a line of sight process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventors: Ian M. Garry, Michael N. Wybrow
  • Method of cutting with a laser
    Publication number: 20090057279
    Abstract: A method of forming an aperture in an article the method comprising the steps of directing a laser at the article and traversing the high energy beam to form a cut extending along the periphery of the aperture in a first direction to a second point on the periphery and then reversing the direction of cutting along the periphery till the aperture is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventors: Ian M. Garry, Michael N. Wybrow
  • Apparatus and method for manufacture
    Publication number: 20080179303
    Abstract: A combustor component with cooling apertures has the apertures formed by laser drilling. The machining apparatus comprises a beam generator for generating a beam for directing at the combustor component and a beam trap. The component is translated relative to the beam and the beam is directed to the beam trap and is dissipated within the beam trap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Ian M. Garry