Patents by Inventor Mark Andrew Jones
Mark Andrew Jones 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: 9695696Abstract: A turbine blade is provided and includes pressure and suction surfaces connected to define an interior through which coolant is passable and first and second pedestal arrays, each of the first and second pedestal arrays including pedestals respectively coupled to radially outboard portions of respective interior faces of one of the pressure and suction surfaces. The pedestals of the first pedestal array are separated from pedestals of the second pedestal array by gaps respectively defined therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mark Andrew Jones, Bradley Taylor Boyer, Robert Alan Brittingham, Gregory Thomas Foster, Christopher William Kester
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Publication number: 20170152748Abstract: A turbine blade includes pressure and suction surfaces connected to define an interior through which coolant is passable. First and second pedestal arrays, each include pedestals respectively coupled to radially outboard portions of respective interior faces of one of the pressure and suction surfaces. The pedestals of the first pedestal array are separated from and directly opposed to pedestals of the second pedestal array by gaps respectively defined therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Tyler Walton Kasperski, Mark Andrew Jones, Jason Adam Neville
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Patent number: 9428227Abstract: A laser-cut and spot-welded tubular frame chassis typically has an accuracy of ±1.5 mm. To allow positioning of exterior body panels to an accuracy of ±0.2 mm we propose that the vehicle comprise one or more integration panels, lying between the tubular framework and the exterior body panels. These can be made of a lightweight material, and can be made to be structural or non-structural depending on the intended use and location of the panel. It can also be attached adhesively to the framework at an early stage of manufacture. A jig with a suitable datum point can hold the integration panels while the adhesive sets, or a robotic arm or the like can hold the panel in the correct position. An adhesive thickness of about 3 mm will allow chassis tolerances of ±1.5 mm in any direction to be accommodated. The exterior body panels can then be attached to the integration panels in any preferred manner, such as adhesives, bolts, clips or the like.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: GORDON MURRAY DESIGN LIMITEDInventors: Mark Andrew Jones, Barry Lett
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Publication number: 20160245097Abstract: An airfoil includes a pressure side, a suction side opposed to the pressure side, a cavity inside the airfoil between the pressure and suction sides, and a trailing edge downstream from the cavity between the pressure and suction sides. A first set of cooling passages through the trailing edge provide fluid communication from the cavity through the trailing edge. A first divider across each cooling passage in the first set of cooling passages extends from the pressure side to the suction side at the trailing edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventors: Mark Andrew Jones, Aaron Ezekiel Smith
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Publication number: 20150175220Abstract: A laser-cut and spot-welded tubular frame chassis typically has an accuracy of ±1.5 mm. To allow positioning of exterior body panels to an accuracy of +0.2 mm we propose that the vehicle comprise one or more integration panels, lying between the tubular framework and the exterior body panels. These can be made of a lightweight material, and can be made to be structural or non-structural depending on the intended use and location of the panel. It can also be attached adhesively to the framework at an early stage of manufacture. A jig with a suitable datum point can hold the integration panels while the adhesive sets, or a robotic arm or the like can hold the panel in the correct position. An adhesive thickness of about 3 mm will allow chassis tolerances of ±1.5 mm in any direction to be accommodated. The exterior body panels can then be attached to the integration panels in any preferred manner, such as adhesives, bolts, clips or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventors: Mark Andrew Jones, Barry Lett
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Publication number: 20150176413Abstract: A rotor blade for use in a turbine of a combustion turbine engine. The rotor blade may include an airfoil having a concave pressure sidewall and a convex suction sidewall extending axially between corresponding leading and trailing edges and radially between the root and an outboard tip. The rotor blade may further include dual snubber shrouds positioned on the airfoil. Each of the dual snubber shrouds may be configured to engage a corresponding snubber shroud on at least one neighboring rotor blade upon installation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Joseph Anthony Weber, Mark Andrew Jones
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Publication number: 20150110617Abstract: A turbine blade can include a root configured to connect to a turbine and supporting an airfoil configured to extend into a flowpath of the turbine. The airfoil can include a tip disposed substantially opposite the root and a first tip fillet disposed proximate the tip that can extend substantially perpendicular to a local flow direction at points along a surface of the turbine blade over the extremity of the first tip fillet. The tip fillet can enhance performance of the turbine by beneficially altering flow through a stage in which the blade is included.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Alexander Stein, Lee Larned Brozyna, Mark Andrew Jones
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Publication number: 20150037165Abstract: A turbine blade is provided and includes pressure and suction surfaces connected to define an interior through which coolant is passable and first and second pedestal arrays, each of the first and second pedestal arrays including pedestals respectively coupled to radially outboard portions of respective interior faces of one of the pressure and suction surfaces. The pedestals of the first pedestal array are separated from pedestals of the second pedestal array by gaps respectively defined therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mark Andrew Jones, Bradley Taylor Boyer, Robert Alan Brittingham, Gregory Thomas Foster, Christopher William Kester
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Patent number: 8894368Abstract: A device for aligning tip shrouds includes a platform configured to connect to a blade, a first projection that extends circumferentially across at least a portion of the platform, and a first complementary alignment feature on the first projection. A method for aligning tip shrouds includes rotating a plurality of tip shrouds, wherein each tip shroud is coupled to a blade, and aligning adjacent tip shrouds by nesting a first alignment feature of a first tip shroud into a second alignment feature of a second tip shroud.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Mark Andrew Jones
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Publication number: 20140338364Abstract: A turbine rotor blade includes a mounting portion that partially defines a cooling circuit within the turbine rotor blade and an airfoil portion that extends radially outward from the mounting portion. The airfoil portion further defines the cooling circuit. The turbine rotor blade further includes a platform portion that is disposed radially between the mounting portion and the airfoil. The platform portion includes a bottom wall, a top wall, a forward wall, an aft wall and a pair of opposing side walls. A cooling plenum that at least partially defines the cooling circuit is defined within the platform portion. The cooling plenum is at least partially defined between the forward wall, the aft wall and between the pair of opposing side walls.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2013Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: David Richard Johns, Mark Andrew Jones
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Publication number: 20140197265Abstract: A driven layon roller apparatus for a plastic film or sheet winder is driven in rotation by a magnetic coupling. The magnetic coupling allows for torque to be transmitted to the layon roller of the apparatus to rotate the layon roller while adding little or no inertia and imposing little or no radial force to the layon roller as the layon roller moves position relative to the winder.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: Gloucester Engineering Co., Inc.Inventors: Michael Charles Andrews, Chad Allen Biron, Mark Andrew Jones, Dustin Thomas Weir
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Publication number: 20140064983Abstract: An airfoil includes a pressure side, a suction side opposed to the pressure side, a cavity inside the airfoil between the pressure and suction sides, and a trailing edge downstream from the cavity between the pressure and suction sides. A first set of cooling passages through the trailing edge provide fluid communication from the cavity through the trailing edge. A first divider across each cooling passage in the first set of cooling passages extends from the pressure side to the suction side at the trailing edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Mark Andrew Jones, Aaron Ezekiel Smith, Harika Senem Kahveci
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Publication number: 20130170994Abstract: A device for aligning tip shrouds includes a platform configured to connect to a blade, a first projection that extends circumferentially across at least a portion of the platform, and a first complementary alignment feature on the first projection. A method for aligning tip shrouds includes rotating a plurality of tip shrouds, wherein each tip shroud is coupled to a blade, and aligning adjacent tip shrouds by nesting a first alignment feature of a first tip shroud into a second alignment feature of a second tip shroud.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventor: Mark Andrew Jones
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Patent number: 7380371Abstract: A clip includes a body (10) and an opening (14) within the body and in which, in use, a part of a plant can engage. A slot (19), which is of doglegged configuration, extends between the opening (14) and an edge (17) of the body (10). The body (10) can be coupled to a means for providing support to the plant or part of the plant by a second opening (13) for which a slot (18) extends from an opposite edge (17) of the body (10).Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2003Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Inventors: Murray Douglas Jones, Mark Andrew Jones
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Patent number: D494055Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2003Date of Patent: August 10, 2004Inventors: Murray Douglas Jones, Mark Andrew Jones
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Patent number: D629869Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2008Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Inventors: Barry William Flowers, Jan Hobart, Mark Andrew Jones