Patents by Inventor Lawrence Binek

Lawrence Binek 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).

  • Publication number: 20240141805
    Abstract: A manufacturing method is provided during which a body is additively manufactured. The body includes an engine case for a gas turbine engine, a support structure and an aperture. The support structure projects out from the engine case. The support structure includes a lattice, a wall and an internal volume. The wall surrounds the lattice. The internal volume is within the support structure along the lattice. The internal volume is filled with powder. The aperture is at an intersection between the engine case and the support structure. The powder is extracted from the internal volume through the aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Sean R. Jackson
  • Publication number: 20240141803
    Abstract: A bearing chamber is provided. The bearing chamber includes an interior surface comprising a terminal block defining a keyway and a conduit terminating at the keyway and an oil nozzle defining an internal channel. The oil nozzle includes a base tightly fittable in the keyway. When the base is tightly fit in the keyway, the internal channel is communicative with the conduit and an orientation of the keyway and a configuration of the oil nozzle are cooperatively established to aim the oil nozzle at a predefined target within the bearing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Christopher D. Ramsey
  • Publication number: 20240131588
    Abstract: A method of additive manufacturing of a component is provided. The method includes building up the component to have a first uppermost layer and a foundation to have a second uppermost layer below the first uppermost layer, evacuating powder from around the component and the foundation to expose the second uppermost layer, disposing, on the second uppermost layer, a forged flange having an upper surface coplanar with the first uppermost layer, backfilling powder about the component and the forged flange, applying a thin additive manufacturing layer to the upper surface and completing a building up of the component by building up on the thin additive manufacturing layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Christopher D. Ramsey, Gen Satoh, Benjamin G. Gardell
  • Publication number: 20240131587
    Abstract: A method of additive manufacturing of a component is provided and includes building up the component to have a first uppermost layer and a foundation to have a second uppermost layer below the first uppermost layer, evacuating powder from around the component and the foundation to expose the second uppermost layer, disposing, on the second uppermost layer, a forged flange having an upper surface coplanar with the first uppermost layer, backfilling powder about the component and the forged flange and completing a building up of the component by building up on the forged flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Christopher D. Ramsey, Gen Satoh, Benjamin G. Gardell
  • Patent number: 11936091
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for signal communication. This signal communication apparatus includes a waveguide with an internal channel. The internal channel includes a plurality of channel segments interconnected at a junction. The waveguide includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface and the second surface partially form a peripheral boundary of the internal channel at the junction. The first surface meets the second surface at a first corner. The first surface is angularly offset from the second surface by an obtuse angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Gurkan Gok
  • Patent number: 11933223
    Abstract: An attritable engine includes an engine case, which includes an outer wall and a fuel rail integral with the outer wall. The fuel rail includes a fuel line integral with the outer wall, a fuel ring configured to receive fuel from the fuel line, and an injector throat configured to receive aerated fuel from the fuel ring. The engine case includes counter distortion webbing defining the injector throat and is integral with the fuel rail and the outer wall. The engine case includes a combustion chamber configured to receive fuel from the injector throat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lawrence Binek, Matthew B. Kennedy, Jesse R. Boyer
  • Publication number: 20240076034
    Abstract: An assembly is provided that includes a regulator manifold and a regulator element. The regulator manifold includes an inlet passage, a first outlet passage and a second outlet passage. The inlet passage is configured to receive bleed gas from a core flowpath. The regulator element is within the regulator manifold and configured to pivot to a first position, a second position and an intermediate position between the first position and the second position. The regulator element is configured to fluidly couple the inlet passage with the first outlet passage in the first position. The regulator element is configured to fluidly couple the inlet passage with the second outlet passage in the second position. The regulator element is configured to fluidly decouple the inlet passage from the first outlet passage and the second outlet passage in the intermediate position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Jose R. Paulino, Sean R. Jackson
  • Publication number: 20240077204
    Abstract: An additively manufactured attritable engine includes a compressor section, a combustion section, a turbine section, and an engine case wall, which surrounds the compressor section, the combustion section, and the turbine section. The engine case wall includes a first cavity embedded in the engine case wall that defines an injector that is in fluid communication with the combustion section. The engine case wall includes at least one second cavity embedded within the engine case wall and defines at least one cooling channel that is in thermal communication through the engine case wall with the injector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, David W. Morganson
  • Publication number: 20240076049
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for an aerial vehicle. This assembly includes a vehicle body, a gas turbine engine and a support structure. The vehicle body includes a body section. The gas turbine engine includes a stationary structure. The gas turbine engine is housed within the vehicle body. The support structure extends between and is connected to the body section and the stationary structure. The support structure supports the gas turbine engine within the vehicle body. The body section, the stationary structure and the support structure are included in a monolithic body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Sean R. Jackson, Jose R. Paulino
  • Publication number: 20240077030
    Abstract: An engine system is provided that includes a gas turbine engine and an actuation system. The gas turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section and a flowpath extending through the compressor section, the combustor section and the turbine section. The actuation system includes a fluid reservoir, a flow regulator and a flow circuit. The flow regulator is configured as or otherwise includes a barrier between the fluid reservoir and the flow circuit. The flow regulator is configured to fluidly decouple the fluid reservoir from the flow circuit when the barrier is intact. The flow regulator is configured to fluidly couple the fluid reservoir with the flow circuit when the barrier breaks. The flow circuit is configured to direct gas from the fluid reservoir into the flowpath when the barrier breaks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Sean R. Jackson
  • Publication number: 20240076033
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for an aerial vehicle. This assembly includes an airframe and a fluid circuit. The airframe includes a body and an airfoil projecting out from the body. The airfoil includes a first surface and a first aperture in the first surface. The fluid circuit is configured to bleed gas from a gas turbine engine mounted to the airframe to provide control gas. The fluid circuit is configured to selectively direct the control gas to the first aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Jose R. Paulino, Sean R. Jackson
  • Patent number: 11904405
    Abstract: A process for additively controlled surface features of a gas turbine engine casing. The process comprises forming the casing having an inner surface and an outer surface opposite the inner surface; forming a surface feature on the casing proximate the inner surface, wherein the surface feature comprises a structure on the inner surface configured to align or misalign with respect to a flow direction of a working fluid in a flow path of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Vijay Narayan Jagdale, Jesse R. Boyer, Om P. Sharma, Evan J. Butcher, Lawrence Binek, Bryan G. Dods
  • Publication number: 20240044495
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for a turbine engine. This turbine engine apparatus includes a monolithic body. The monolithic body includes a splash plate and a fuel nozzle. The splash plate includes a splash plate surface. The fuel nozzle includes a nozzle orifice. The fuel nozzle is configured to direct fuel out of the nozzle orifice to impinge against the splash plate surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Timothy S. Snyder
  • Patent number: 11891908
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine with a lubrication system includes a ball bearing assembly and a rotor circumscribing a rotational axis and journaled within the ball bearing assembly. The gas turbine engine also includes a lubrication system located radially outward from a rotational axis and radially outward and adjacent to the ball bearing assembly, which includes a lubrication channel having an inlet and an outlet and a dispersion cone adjacent to the outlet of the lubrication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Leslie F. Guzman, Sean R. Jackson, Evan J. Butcher
  • Publication number: 20230407767
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a gas turbine engine. This gas turbine engine assembly includes a split case structure. The split case structure includes a plurality of walls and a plurality of case segments. Each of the walls extends axially along and circumferentially about an axial centerline. The walls include a first wall and a second wall radially outboard of and axially overlapping the first wall. Each of the case segments is configured to form a respective portion of the first wall and a respective portion of the second wall. The case segments include a first case segment and a second case segment circumferentially adjacent and attached to the first case segment at a joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Randolph T. Lyda
  • Patent number: 11846421
    Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a combustor liner, a fuel swirler integral and conformal with the combustor liner to provide an outlet for fuel into the combustor, and a dilution chute surrounding the fuel swirler outlet and extending into the combustor to provide a wetting surface for fuel exiting the fuel swirler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Timothy S. Snyder, Jesse R. Boyer
  • Patent number: 11846249
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine is provided that includes an engine core and a bypass duct. The engine core includes a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section and a core flowpath. The compressor section includes a radial flow compressor rotor. The core flowpath extends through the compressor section, the combustor section and the turbine section from a core inlet to a core exhaust. The bypass duct includes a bypass flowpath that extends outside of the engine core from a bypass inlet to a bypass exhaust. The bypass inlet is disposed along the compressor section and fluidly coupled with core flowpath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jose R. Paulino, Lawrence A. Binek, Sean R. Jackson
  • Publication number: 20230399977
    Abstract: During a formation method, a build plate is arranged within a build space. A first object is built onto the build plate within the build space using an additive manufacturing process. The object is fused to the build plate during the additive manufacturing process. At least the build plate is machined to form a component that includes a portion of the build plate and at least a portion of the first object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Sean R. Jackson
  • Publication number: 20230374915
    Abstract: A unitized build assembly for a gas turbine engine includes an exhaust duct, a hot section with a locking structure and including a combustor and turbine section. The hot section at least partially circumferentially surrounds the exhaust duct. The build assembly includes a compressor section with an interface structure and is proximal to the hot section. The hot section at least partially circumferentially surrounds at least part of the compressor section and the locking structure is configured to engage the interface structure to limit movement of the hot section relative to the compressor section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, David W. Morganson, Jesse R. Boyer
  • Patent number: 11808455
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a gas turbine engine. This assembly includes a combustor and a fuel conduit. The combustor includes a combustor wall that forms a peripheral boundary of a combustion chamber within the combustor. The fuel conduit extends along and is formed integral with the combustor wall. The fuel conduit is disposed outside of the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Timothy S. Snyder, Sean R. Jackson