Patents by Inventor Jane Marie Lipkin
Jane Marie Lipkin 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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Publication number: 20160008952Abstract: A computer-implemented method for forming a three-dimensional workpiece from a block of material using a fluid jet cutting device is implemented by a fabrication system. The method includes receiving an indication of the geometry of the workpiece and generating a three-dimensional tool path to control a cutting head to form the workpiece. Generating the tool path includes receiving an indication of a desired cutting surface on the workpiece, determining a length of the cutting surface, and designating a plurality of waypoints along an edge of the cutting surface. Generating the tool path also includes determining at least one geometric parameter of the cutting surface at each waypoint of the plurality of waypoints, and calculating a speed of the cutting head at each waypoint of the plurality of waypoints based on the determined geometric parameter such that the speed of the cutting head varies along the cutting surface length.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2014Publication date: January 14, 2016Inventors: Yuanfeng Luo, Erik Karl Jacobson, Jane Marie Lipkin, Jeremy Gordon McNamara, Donovan Orlando Buckley
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Patent number: 8993923Abstract: A system for manufacturing an airfoil includes a laser beam and a first fluid column surrounding the laser beam to create a confined laser beam directed at the airfoil. A liquid flowing inside the airfoil disrupts the first fluid column inside the airfoil. A method for manufacturing an airfoil includes confining a laser beam inside a first fluid column to create a confined laser beam and directing the confined laser beam at a surface of the airfoil. The method further includes creating a hole through the surface of the airfoil with the confined laser beam, flowing a liquid inside the airfoil, and disrupting the first fluid column with the liquid flowing inside the airfoil.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Zhaoli Hu, Douglas Anthony Serieno, Sharon Trombly Swede, Jane Marie Lipkin
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Patent number: 8857055Abstract: A process is provided for forming shaped air holes, such as for use in turbine blades. Aspects of the disclosure relate to forming shaped portions of air holes using a short pulse laser, forming a metered hole corresponding to each shaped portion, and separately finishing the shaped portion using a short-pulse laser. In other embodiments, the order of these operations may be varied, such as to form the shaped portions and to finish the shaped portions using the short-pulse laser prior to forming the corresponding metered holes.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2010Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bin Wei, Jon Conrad Schaeffer, Ronald Scott Bunker, Wenwu Zhang, Kathleen Blanche Morey, Jane Marie Lipkin, Benjamin Paul Lacy, Wilbur Douglas Scheidt
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Patent number: 8790789Abstract: Disclosed herein is an erosion and corrosion resistant coating comprising a metallic binder, a plurality of hard particles, and a plurality of sacrificial particles. Also disclosed is a method of improving erosion and corrosion resistance of a metal component comprising disposing on a surface of the metal component the foregoing erosion and corrosion resistant coating comprising, and a metal component comprising a metal component surface and the foregoing erosion and corrosion resistant coating comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, wherein the first surface is disposed on the metal component surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2008Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Thodla Ramgopal, Krishnamurthy Anand, David Vincent Bucci, Nitin Jayaprakash, Jane Marie Lipkin, Tamara Jean Muth, Surinder Singh Pabla, Vinod Kumar Pareek, Guru Prasad Sundararajan
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Publication number: 20140166473Abstract: A coating system and a method of applying the coating system on an article. The coating system includes a sacrificial coating on a surface of the article and an erosion-resistant coating on the sacrificial coating, wherein the erosion-resistant coating comprises a layer of a polymeric material. The sacrificial coating is more anodic than the surface or the erosion-resistant coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Jane Marie Lipkin, Vinod Kumar Pareek
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Publication number: 20140076868Abstract: A system for manufacturing an airfoil includes a laser beam and a first fluid column surrounding the laser beam to create a confined laser beam directed at the airfoil. A liquid flowing inside the airfoil disrupts the first fluid column inside the airfoil. A method for manufacturing an airfoil includes confining a laser beam inside a first fluid column to create a confined laser beam and directing the confined laser beam at a surface of the airfoil. The method further includes creating a hole through the surface of the airfoil with the confined laser beam, flowing a liquid inside the airfoil, and disrupting the first fluid column with the liquid flowing inside the airfoil.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Zhaoli Hu, Douglas Anthony Serieno, Sharon Trombly Swede, Jane Marie Lipkin
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Publication number: 20110185572Abstract: A process and system are provided for forming shaped air holes, such as for use in turbine blades. Aspects of the disclosure relate to forming shaped portions of air holes using a short pulse laser, forming a metered hole corresponding to each shaped portion, and separately finishing the shaped portion using a short-pulse laser. In other embodiments, the order of these operations may be varied, such as to form the shaped portions and to finish the shaped portions using the short-pulse laser prior to forming the corresponding metered holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2010Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bin Wei, Jon Conrad Schaeffer, Ronald Scott Bunker, Wenwu Zhang, Kathleen Blanche Morey, Jane Marie Lipkin, Benjamin Paul Lacy, Wilbur Douglas Scheidt
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Publication number: 20100226783Abstract: A sacrificial and erosion-resistant turbine compressor airfoil includes a turbine compressor airfoil having a modified airfoil surface. The airfoil surface has an airfoil coating that includes a sacrificial coating comprising a layer of Al, Cr, Zn, an Ni—Al alloy, an Al—Si alloy, an Al-based alloy, a Cr-based alloy or a Zn-based alloy, an Al polymer composite, or a combination thereof, or a layer of a conductive undercoat and an overcoat of an inorganic matrix binder having a plurality of ceramic particles and conductive particles embedded therein disposed on the undercoat. The airfoil coating also includes an sacrificial coating, wherein one of the sacrificial coating or the erosion-resistant coating is disposed on the airfoil surface and the other of the corrosion-resistant coating or the erosion-resistant coating is disposed on the respective one, and wherein the sacrificial coating is more anodic than the airfoil surface or the erosion-resistant coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2009Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Jane Marie Lipkin, Krishnamurthy Anand, David Vincent Bucci, Yuk-Chiu Lau, Surinder Pabla, Vinod Kumar Pareek, Jon Conrad Schaeffer, Guruprasad Sundararajan
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Publication number: 20090297720Abstract: Disclosed herein is an erosion and corrosion resistant coating comprising a metallic binder, a plurality of hard particles, and a plurality of sacrificial particles. Also disclosed is a method of improving erosion and corrosion resistance of a metal component comprising disposing on a surface of the metal component the foregoing erosion and corrosion resistant coating comprising, and a metal component comprising a metal component surface and the foregoing erosion and corrosion resistant coating comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, wherein the first surface is disposed on the metal component surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2008Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Thodla Ramgopal, Krishnamurthy Anand, David Vincent Bucci, Nitin Jayaprakash, Jane Marie Lipkin, Tamara Jean Muth, Surinder Singh Pabla, Vinod Kumar Pareek, Guru Prasad Sundararajan
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Publication number: 20090176110Abstract: A coating system and process capable of providing erosion and corrosion-resistance to a component, particularly a steel compressor blade of an industrial gas turbine. The coating system includes a metallic sacrificial undercoat on a surface of the component substrate, and a ceramic topcoat deposited by thermal spray on the undercoat. The undercoat contains a metal or metal alloy that is more active in the galvanic series than iron, and electrically contacts the surface of the substrate. The ceramic topcoat consists essentially of a ceramic material chosen from the group consisting of mixtures of alumina and titania, mixtures of chromia and silica, mixtures of chromia and titania, mixtures of chromia, silica, and titania, and mixtures of zirconia, titania, and yttria.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2008Publication date: July 9, 2009Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Surinder Singh Pabla, Jon Conrad Schaeffer, Vinod Kumar Pareek, David Vincent Bucci, Thomas Moors, Jane Marie Lipkin
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Publication number: 20080023037Abstract: A method for removing debris from a turbine component includes routing a cleaning composition comprising fluosilicic acid through an internal passage of the turbine component, without contacting an external surface of the turbine component, to remove the debris.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2006Publication date: January 31, 2008Inventors: Lawrence Bernard Kool, Peter Paul Pirolla, Jane Marie Lipkin, Frederick W. Dantzler