Patents by Inventor John D. Mickol

John D. Mickol 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for assembling rotatable machines
    Patent number: 7287958
    Abstract: A method, rotor assembly, and apparatus for ordering blades in a rotatable machine is provided. The rotor assembly includes a disk including a plurality of circumferentially-spaced blade root slots defined therein, and a plurality of blades, each blade including a root, a tip, and an airfoil therebetween, each blade positioned within a pre-determined slot based on a blade map, the blade map generated by a computer system configured to receive a geometric parameter measurement of each blade in a row of blades, determine a shape factor for the row of blades using the geometric parameter measurement of each blade, and determine a sequence map of each blade using the shape factor for the row of blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas Richard Henning, John D. Mickol, Daniel E. Mollmann, Michael H. Schneider, Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow, Timothy J. Horejs