Patents by Inventor Jack V. Vitale
Jack V. Vitale 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: 10252811Abstract: An auxiliary power unit for an aircraft includes a turbine engine. An inlet includes an opening and a passageway between the opening and the turbine engine. An acoustic splitter is supported within the passageway for attenuating noise within the inlet. An inlet door is movable between a closed position and a fully open position. A portion of the inlet door aligns with a part of the passageway in at least a first position and divides the passageway to deflect ice and noise in at least a second position. An air inlet and a method are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2014Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Melissa A. Bell, Michael J. Rollins, Behzad Hagshenas, Jack V. Vitale
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Publication number: 20160264251Abstract: An auxiliary power unit for an aircraft includes a turbine engine. An inlet includes an opening and a passageway between the opening and the turbine engine. An acoustic aplitter is supported within the passageway for attenuating noise within the inlet. An inlet door is movable between a closed position and a fully open position. A portion of the inlet door aligns with a part of the passageway in at least a first position and divides the passageway to deflect ice and noise in at least a second position. An air inlet and a method are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Melissa A. Bell, Michael J. Rollins, Behzad Hagshenas, Jack V. Vitale
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Patent number: 9340295Abstract: An example inlet duct screen assembly includes a grid portion including a plurality of apertures and a frame portion circumscribing the grid portion. The grid portion and the frame portion are formed from a single sheet of material.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Brian C. DeDe, Jack V. Vitale, Jeffrey V. Stenberg
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Publication number: 20150361899Abstract: A gas turbine engine according to one disclosed non-limiting embodiment of the present disclosure includes an engine case, a multiple of fuel injectors mounted to the engine case, and a fire shield mounted to the engine case to surround at least one, but less than all, of the multiple of fuel injectors. In a further embodiment of the foregoing embodiment, the fire shield includes a sheet metal alloy layer. In the alternative or additionally thereto, in the foregoing embodiment the fire shield includes a composite cloth on an interior of the sheet metal alloy layer with respect to the engine case.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2013Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Chung Wong, Jack V. Vitale, Omar I. Osorio, Daih-Yeou Chen
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Publication number: 20140332624Abstract: An example inlet duct screen assembly includes a grid portion including a plurality of apertures and a frame portion circumscribing the grid portion. The grid portion and the frame portion are formed from a single sheet of material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Brian C. DeDe, Jack V. Vitale, Jeffrey V. Stenberg
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Patent number: 8819937Abstract: An example inlet duct screen assembly includes a grid portion having a plurality of apertures and a frame portion circumscribing the grid portion. The grid portion and the frame portion are formed from a single sheet of material. An example method of making an auxiliary power unit inlet duct screen includes machining apertures in a sheet of material to establish a grid portion of an inlet duct screen.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Brian C. DeDe, Jack V. Vitale, Jeffrey V. Stenberg
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Patent number: 8740135Abstract: An aircraft auxiliary power unit assembly includes an aircraft skin that provides a cavity. It is secured to a structure in an assembled condition and it provides an opening. An auxiliary power unit is arranged within the cavity and is secured to the structure. The aircraft skin substantially covers the auxiliary power unit in the assembled condition. An inlet duct that is removable is secured within the opening and is selectively connected to the auxiliary power unit between the installed and service positions. The installed and service positions are with the aircraft skin in the assembled condition.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Stacey H. Light, Jack V. Vitale
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Publication number: 20130319003Abstract: An auxiliary power unit has a gas turbine engine, a generator, and a gear box. A mount bracket is mechanically attached to the gear box. The bracket is for connecting to a plurality of struts. The struts are for connecting to an aircraft housing. A shield box is formed of a flame resistant rigid material. The shield box encloses the mount bracket to provide flame protection to the mechanical attachment.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Inventors: Jason Peel, Jack V. Vitale, Greg R. Giddings
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Publication number: 20130228648Abstract: An aircraft auxiliary power unit assembly includes an aircraft skin that provides a cavity. It is secured to a structure in an assembled condition and it provides an opening. An auxiliary power unit is arranged within the cavity and is secured to the structure. The aircraft skin substantially covers the auxiliary power unit in the assembled condition. An inlet duct that is removable is secured within the opening and is selectively connected to the auxiliary power unit between the installed and service positions. The installed and service positions are with the aircraft skin in the assembled condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Stacey H. Light, Jack V. Vitale
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Patent number: 8444083Abstract: An aircraft auxiliary power unit assembly includes an aircraft skin providing a cavity. The aircraft skin is secured to a structure in an assembled condition and provides an opening. An auxiliary power unit is arranged within the cavity and secured to the structure. The aircraft skin substantially covers the auxiliary power unit in the assembled condition. An inlet duct is removably secured within the opening and is selectively connected to the auxiliary power unit between installed and service positions. The installed and service positions are with the aircraft skin in the assembled condition. A method of servicing the auxiliary power unit includes removing the auxiliary power unit inlet duct from the opening in the aircraft skin. The auxiliary power unit that is arranged within the cavity of the aircraft skin is exposed. A portion of the auxiliary power unit is serviced through the opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Stacey H. Light, Jack V. Vitale
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Publication number: 20130001369Abstract: An aircraft auxiliary power unit assembly includes an aircraft skin providing a cavity. The aircraft skin is secured to a structure in an assembled condition and provides an opening. An auxiliary power unit is arranged within the cavity and secured to the structure. The aircraft skin substantially covers the auxiliary power unit in the assembled condition. An inlet duct is removably secured within the opening and is selectively connected to the auxiliary power unit between installed and service positions. The installed and service positions are with the aircraft skin in the assembled condition. A method of servicing the auxiliary power unit includes removing the auxiliary power unit inlet duct from the opening in the aircraft skin. The auxiliary power unit that is arranged within the cavity of the aircraft skin is exposed. A portion of the auxiliary power unit is serviced through the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: January 3, 2013Inventors: Stacey H. Light, Jack V. Vitale
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Publication number: 20120291450Abstract: An auxiliary power unit assembly includes an auxiliary power unit with an auxiliary power unit exhaust duct, a bell mouth, and one or more bell mouth struts. The auxiliary power unit exhaust duct extends from the auxiliary power unit and has an aft end portion that is received within the bell mouth. The bell mouth struts extend from an inner surface of the bell mouth and extend generally radially toward the auxiliary power unit exhaust duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2011Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Brian C. DeDe, Jack V. Vitale, Markissa Catherine Hiekel
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Publication number: 20120292455Abstract: An example inlet duct screen assembly includes a grid portion having a plurality of apertures and a frame portion circumscribing the grid portion. The grid portion and the frame portion are formed from a single sheet of material. An example method of making an auxiliary power unit inlet duct screen includes machining apertures in a sheet of material to establish a grid portion of an inlet duct screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: November 22, 2012Inventors: Brian C. DeDe, Jack V. Vitale, Jeffrey V. Stanberg
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Publication number: 20120102910Abstract: An exhaust eductor for a gas turbine engine comprises: an engine exhaust chamber with an exhaust chamber inlet that receives engine exhaust from the gas turbine engine and an exhaust chamber outlet that discharges the engine exhaust to establish an exhaust gas flow through the engine exhaust chamber; an air chamber with an air inlet that receives ambient air external to the gas turbine engine; and a mixing baffle that couples the air chamber to the engine exhaust chamber, comprising a first side adjacent the air chamber, a second side adjacent the exhaust chamber, multiple apertures through the mixing baffle that extend from the first side to the second side of the mixing baffle, each aperture having a corresponding canopy that extends from an upstream end of the aperture along the second side of the mixing baffle into the exhaust gas flow for at least a portion of the length of the aperture, to establish an air flow from the air inlet of the air chamber into the exhaust gas flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Jay M. Francisco, Jack V. Vitale
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Patent number: 8066096Abstract: An inlet silencer for an air inlet in a housing, which housing contains a source of high frequency noise radiated by an air intake for the source of high frequency noise, comprises: a plenum that extends longitudinally within the housing that couples the air inlet in an upstream region of the plenum to the air intake for the source of high frequency noise in a downstream region of the plenum; a partition that extends laterally within the plenum between the upstream region of the plenum and the downstream region of the plenum; at least one channel that penetrates longitudinally through the partition that has a gap across its inner surface that approximates one wavelength of at least one fundamental frequency of high frequency noise that the source of high frequency noise generates; and acoustic damping material that lines the inner surface of the channel.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2010Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Jay M. Francisco, Jack V. Vitale