Patents by Inventor Kenneth S. Murphy
Kenneth S. Murphy 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: 11932979Abstract: A laundry treating appliance for treating laundry items according to an automatic cycle of operation can include a cabinet defining an interior and having an access opening providing access to the interior. A tub can be located within the interior and can at least partially define a liquid chamber. A drum is rotatably mounted within the liquid chamber and at least partially defines a treating chamber. A clothes mover is located within the treating chamber and rotatable about a vertical axis. The clothes mover can include a base and a barrel.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: Jonathan A. Andrejczuk, Adam Gary, Philip J. Czarnecki, Benjamin D. Lowell, Sayer J. Murphy, James Jeffery, Eric W. Merrow, Emmanuel F. Gonzaga, Thomas R. Scott, Donald E. Erickson, Bradley D. Morrow, Jason S. Burnette, Kevin Peralta, Corinne M. Gorenchan, Kenneth L. McConnell
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Patent number: 11915189Abstract: There is disclosed a method of providing information about a package in transit. The method involves receiving environmental data collected by a sensor associated with the package during transit and identifying contextual data about the package that is associated with the environmental data. The method also involves selectively providing access to the environmental and contextual data together as elements in an information feed to a plurality of parties, wherein the contextual data comprises at least one comment made by a party on an element in the information feed, and wherein one or more elements in the information feed are listed in chronological order beginning at a start time of the transit of the package.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Inventors: William S. Murphy, Kenneth L. Milman, Zachary S. Perry, Jesse Gately
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Patent number: 10113225Abstract: A mask is used in aluminizing of superalloy turbine component, such as a turbine blade, where a region exposed to relatively high operating temperature is aluminized to form a diffusion aluminide coating and another region exposed to relatively lower operating temperatures is masked to prevent aluminizing of the masked region while concurrently being enriched in Cr and/or retaining a pre-existing Cr-content from the superalloy chemistry itself or from a previous chromizing operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Howmet CorporationInventors: Kenneth S. Murphy, William C. Basta, Vincent J. Russo
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Patent number: 9404372Abstract: A Pt—Al—Hf/Zr aluminide coating that can be used as a bond coat for TBC and improve TBC spallation life in service at elevated temperatures is provided. The aluminide coating can include a metastable ternary or higher X—Pt/Pd—Ni phase where the phase and other elements in the alloy system are present in a NiAl ? phase of the coating. The metastable phase can be present and observable in the as-deposited condition of the bond coating; e.g. in an as-CVD deposited condition of the bond coating.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Howmet CorporationInventor: Kenneth S. Murphy
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Patent number: 9284846Abstract: A Pt—Al—Hf/Zr aluminide coating that can be used as a bond coat for TBC and improve TBC spallation life in service at elevated temperatures is provided. The aluminide coating can include a metastable ternary or higher X—Pt/Pd—Ni phase where the phase and other elements in the alloy system are present in a NiAl ? phase of the coating. The metastable phase can be present and observable in the as-deposited condition of the bond coating; e.g. in an as-CVD deposited condition of the bond coating.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2010Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Howmet CorporationInventor: Kenneth S. Murphy
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Publication number: 20160010472Abstract: The present invention provides a protective coating for a gas turbine blade or other component wherein the duplex coating includes an aluminum-bearing coating, such as a diffusion aluminide, formed on a first, relatively higher temperature region of the blade/component and a later-applied chromium-bearing diffusion coating formed on an adjacent relatively lower temperature region of the blade/component subject to hot corrosion in service. The chromium-bearing coating is applied after the aluminum-bearing coating by masking that coating and depositing a metallic chromium coating on the adjacent region followed by diffusing the chromium into the blade/component alloy to form a chromium-enriched diffusion coating thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2013Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: Howment CorporationInventors: Kenneth S. Murphy, William C. Basta
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Publication number: 20140287143Abstract: A mask is used in aluminizing of superalloy turbine component, such as a turbine blade, where a region exposed to relatively high operating temperature is aluminized to form a diffusion aluminide coating and another region exposed to relatively lower operating temperatures is masked to prevent aluminizing of the masked region while concurrently being enriched in Cr and/or retaining a pre-existing Cr-content from the superalloy chemistry itself or from a previous chromizing operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: Howmet CorporationInventors: Kenneth S. Murphy, William C. Basta, Vincent J. Russo
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Publication number: 20140134447Abstract: A Pt—Al—Hf/Zr aluminide coating that can be used as a bond coat for TBC and improve TBC spallation life in service at elevated temperatures is provided. The aluminide coating can include a metastable ternary or higher X—Pt/Pd—Ni phase where the phase and other elements in the alloy system are present in a NiAl ? phase of the coating. The metastable phase can be present and observable in the as-deposited condition of the bond coating; e.g. in an as-CVD deposited condition of the bond coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Inventor: Kenneth S. Murphy
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Publication number: 20100297471Abstract: A Pt—Al—Hf/Zr aluminide coating that can be used as a bond coat for TBC and improve TBC spallation life in service at elevated temperatures is provided. The aluminide coating can include a metastable ternary or higher X—Pt/Pd—Ni phase where the phase and other elements in the alloy system are present in a NiAl ? phase of the coating. The metastable phase can be present and observable in the as-deposited condition of the bond coating; e.g. in an as-CVD deposited condition of the bond coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventor: Kenneth S. Murphy
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Publication number: 20100273089Abstract: A method of making a solid oxide fuel cell electrolyte includes preheating a substrate on which an oxide electrolyte layer is to be deposited to a substrate temperature of about 1100° C. and above, impinging a surface of a source comprising the oxide with an electron beam in an evacuated chamber at a pressure of about 10?3 or less mm of Hg devoid of process gas, such as oxygen, to evaporate the oxide in the chamber, and placing the preheated substrate in the chamber where the oxide deposits on the preheated substrate. The oxide fuel cell electrolyte is deposited having a columnar oxide microstructure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Inventor: Kenneth S. Murphy
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Patent number: 7763371Abstract: A method of making a solid oxide fuel cell electrolyte includes preheating a substrate on which an oxide electrolyte layer is to be deposited to a substrate temperature of about 1100° C. and above, impinging a surface of a source comprising the oxide with an electron beam in an evacuated chamber at a pressure of about 10?3 or less mm of Hg devoid of process gas, such as oxygen, to evaporate the oxide in the chamber, and placing the preheated substrate in the chamber where the oxide deposits on the preheated substrate. The oxide fuel cell electrolyte is deposited having a columnar oxide microstructure.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2005Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Howmet CorporationInventor: Kenneth S. Murphy
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Publication number: 20080016058Abstract: A method of identifying a best candidate from a plurality of candidates that are to be evaluated according to a plurality of criterions is provided. For each of the candidates, at least two grades are established for each criterion associated therewith. For each of the candidates, at least two weighted sums are then generated. The weighted sums are presented for at least one of the candidates.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Inventors: Kenneth S. Murphy, Thomas A. Michaelson
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Publication number: 20040229072Abstract: Nickel base superalloy consisting essentially of, in weight %, about 3% to about 12% Cr, up to about 15% Co, up to about 3% Mo, about 3% to about 10% W, up to about 6% Re, about 5% to about 7% Al, up to about 2% Ti, up to about 1% Fe, up to about 2% Nb, about 3% to about 12% Ta, up to about 0.07% C, about 0.030% to about 0.80% Hf, up to about 0.10% Zr, up to about 0.02% B, up to about 0.050% of an element selected from the group consisting of Y and Lanthanide series elements, and balance Ni and incidental impurities with a S concentration preferably of 2 ppm by weight or less. The nickel base superalloy pursuant to the invention possesses improved high temperature oxidation resistance. The nickel base superalloy as a substrate can be coated with an outwardly grown diffusion aluminide bondcoat followed by deposition of a ceramic thermal barrier coating (TBC) on the bondcoat.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2003Publication date: November 18, 2004Inventor: Kenneth S. Murphy
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Patent number: 6688254Abstract: Coating temperature during vapor deposition of a ceramic coating on a substrate in a coating box or enclosure is maintained by means of a heat release cover or lid on the coating enclosure and movable in response to temperature in the coating enclosure exceeding a predetermined value so as to release excess heat from the enclosure to maintain coating temperature within an appropriate range.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Inventors: Martin A. Callaway, Robert D. Adair, Kenneth S. Murphy, Theodore J. Maniurski
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Patent number: 6689487Abstract: A ceramic thermal barrier coating on a substrate wherein the coating comprises primary columnar grains that extend transversely of a surface of the substrate and that include integral secondary columnar grains extending laterally therefrom relative to a respective column axis. The secondary columnar grains typically extend from the primary columnar grains at an acute angle of less than 90 degrees relative to the column axis of the primary columnar grains. The coating structure exhibits reduced thermal conductivity as compared to a conventional thermal barrier coating.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Howmet Research CorporationInventor: Kenneth S. Murphy
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Publication number: 20030118874Abstract: A ceramic thermal barrier coating on a substrate wherein the coating comprises primary columnar grains that extend transversely of a surface of the substrate and that include integral secondary columnar grains extending laterally therefrom relative to a respective column axis. The secondary columnar grains typically extend from the primary columnar grains at an acute angle of less than 90 degrees relative to the column axis of the primary columnar grains. The coating structure exhibits reduced thermal conductivity as compared to a conventional thermal barrier coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2001Publication date: June 26, 2003Inventor: Kenneth S. Murphy
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Publication number: 20030118873Abstract: A ceramic thermal barrier coating on a substrate wherein the coating comprises a stabilized zirconia coating including yttria and hafnia wherein the hafnia is present in an amount of at least about 15 weight % to substantially reduce thermal conductivity of the thermal barrier coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2001Publication date: June 26, 2003Inventor: Kenneth S. Murphy
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Publication number: 20020015788Abstract: Coating temperature during vapor deposition of a ceramic coating on a substrate in a coating box or enclosure is maintained by means of a heat release cover or lid on the coating enclosure and movable in response to temperature in the coating enclosure exceeding a predetermined value so as to release excess heat from the enclosure to maintain coating temperature within an appropriate range.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2001Publication date: February 7, 2002Applicant: Howmet Research CorporationInventors: Martin A. Callaway, Robert D. Adair, Kenneth S. Murphy, Theodore J. Maniurski
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Patent number: 6319569Abstract: Coating temperature during vapor deposition of a ceramic coating on a substrate in a coating box or enclosure is maintained by means of a heat release cover or lid on the coating enclosure and movable in response to temperature in the coating enclosure exceeding a predetermined value so as to release excess heat from the enclosure to maintain coating temperature within an appropriate range.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1998Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Howmet Research CorporationInventors: Martin A. Callaway, Robert D. Adair, Kenneth S. Murphy, Theodore J. Maniurski
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Patent number: 6132520Abstract: A gas turbine engine component having a thermal barrier coating is immersed in an inorganic hydroxide bath having a high concentration of alkali or alkaline earth hydroxide with the bath at ambient (atmospheric) pressure and elevated temperature for a time sufficient to effect rapid detachment of the thermal barrier coating for removal from the substrate. The component then optionally can be immersed in a water bath to remove any remaining thermal barrier coating. The thermal barrier coating is removed without detectable damage to the substrate or any bondcoat present thereon.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1998Date of Patent: October 17, 2000Assignee: Howmet Research CorporationInventors: John E. Schilbe, Joel L. Cockerill, Kenneth S. Murphy, Bruce M. Warnes