Patents by Inventor John Rink

John Rink 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: 6683398
    Abstract: A magnetic armature wedge is provided for replacing conventional dovetail wedges in high-powered large-size turbine generators. The magnetic armature wedges that are used for supporting the armature bars are made by molding resin, e.g., epoxy with ferromagnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like embedded therewithin. The magnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like increase the magnetic permeability of the wedges causing higher slot flux leakage and high generator subtransient reactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Wei Tong, Frederick John Rink, Jr., James Michael Fogarty, John Wesley Griffith, Christian Lee Vandervort
  • Patent number: 6674209
    Abstract: A magnetic armature wedge is provided for replacing conventional dovetail wedges in high-powered large-size turbine generators. The magnetic armature wedges that are used for supporting the armature bars are made by molding resin, e.g., epoxy with ferromagnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like embedded therewithin. The magnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like increase the magnetic permeability of the wedges causing higher slot flux leakage and high generator subtransient reactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Wei Tong, Frederick John Rink, Jr., James Michael Fogarty, John Wesley Griffith, Christian Lee Vandervort
  • Patent number: 6483211
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for a turbine comprising a plurality of radially oriented, axially extending slots, each slot having a plurality of field windings seated therein; a sub-slot cover separating the windings from a base of the slot, thereby forming a coolant sub-slot radially inwardly of the windings; and an aerodynamic scoop fixed at an entrance to the sub-slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Frederick John Rink, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20020121830
    Abstract: A magnetic armature wedge is provided for replacing conventional dovetail wedges in high-powered large-size turbine generators. The magnetic armature wedges that are used for supporting the armature bars are made by molding resin, e.g., epoxy with ferromagnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like embedded therewithin. The magnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like increase the magnetic permeability of the wedges causing higher slot flux leakage and high generator subtransient reactants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Wei Tong, Frederick John Rink, James Michael Fogarty, John Wesley Griffith, Christian Lee Vandervort
  • Publication number: 20020096960
    Abstract: A magnetic armature wedge is provided for replacing conventional dovetail wedges in high-powered large-size turbine generators. The magnetic armature wedges that are used for supporting the armature bars are made by molding resin, e.g., epoxy with ferromagnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like embedded therewithin. The magnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like increase the magnetic permeability of the wedges causing higher slot flux leakage and high generator subtransient reactants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Wei Tong, Frederick John Rink, James Michael Fogarty, John Wesley Griffith, Christian Lee Vandervort
  • Publication number: 20020067085
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for a turbine comprising a plurality of radially oriented, axially extending slots, each slot having a plurality of field windings seated therein; a sub-slot cover separating said windings from a base of the slot, thereby forming a coolant sub-slot radially inwardly of the windings; and an aerodynamic scoop fixed at an entrance to the sub-slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Frederick John Rink
  • Patent number: 6369482
    Abstract: A generator armature bar support system includes in a temporary assembly state, an elongated armature bar having a bottom surface, a top surface and a pair of side walls. A spacer is then temporarily located on the top surface of the armature bar; and an elastomer stretched and wound about the armature bar and spacer along substantially the length of the armature bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Frederick John Rink, Jr., Robert John Nygard
  • Patent number: 5869912
    Abstract: In a dynamoelectric machine stator core assembly wherein adjacent packages of stacked laminations are separated by a plurality of radially extending spacer blocks, and wherein each adjacent pair of spacer blocks define in cooperation with adjacent axially spaced laminations, a cooling duct, the improvement comprising a plurality of turbulator elements in each cooling duct, each turbulator element extending into the duct from one of the adjacent axially spaced laminations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventors: Philip Lynn Andrew, Frederick John Rink, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4848339
    Abstract: An improved laser heated intravascular cautery cap construction includes a generally cylindrical outersidewall, and a tappered, annular, distal end wall joining the two sidewalls and defining a closed annular space therebetween. A bore extending axially through the inner sidewall is dimentioned to receive in freely sliding fashion an arterial guidewire or other device such as a doppler flow sensor or an optical bundle for viewing. A unitary or multi-segment annular target element is received within the distal portion of the annular space, and is secured to the outer sidewall adjacent to the end wall with a gap defined between the target element and the inner sidewall. A plurality of holes extend through a connector member parallel to the axis of the sidewalls, each hole receiving therethrough one of a plurality of optical fibers extending through the arterial catheter to a laser light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Xintec Corporation
    Inventors: Dan Rink, John Rink, Garrett Lee