Patents by Inventor Mark Lloyd Miller
Mark Lloyd Miller 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: 6916290Abstract: An in situ breast tumor temperature profile measuring probe includes a rod, thermal sensors and electrical output leads. The thermal sensors are formed in spaced apart holes in an outer insulating layer of the rod and a common electrical input lead to provide an electrical input signal to the thermal sensors is disposed below and has portions exposed at the holes and electrically connected to the thermal sensors. The thermal sensors receive the electrical input signal from the common electrical input lead, sense the temperature of biological matter adjacent to the thermal sensors and produce an electrical output signal correlated thereto. Each electrical output lead mounted to the outer insulating layer is in electrical contact with a different one of the thermal sensors to receive the electrical output signal from the one thermal sensor and output the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2002Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kristina Helena Valborg Hedengren, William Paul Kornrumpf, Mark Lloyd Miller, Egidijus Edward Uzgiris
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Patent number: 6676992Abstract: A method for coating an article includes preparing a coating precursor paint including aluminum-containing pigment particles, a temporary organic binder comprising an acrylic, and a solvent for the temporary organic binder. The coating precursor paint is applied to a surface of the article and thereafter heated to a temperature of from about 1200° F. to about 2100° F. in a non-oxidizing environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2001Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Allan Pfaendtner, Michael James Weimer, William Evan McCormack, Joseph David Rigney, Mark Lloyd Miller, John Lewis Lackman
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Patent number: 6677037Abstract: An ablative tape is applied onto a substrate surface. The ablative tape comprises an ablative medium comprising a polymer and dispersed metallic component. The tape is then irradiated to ablate the ablative medium. An article comprises a substrate and the ablative tape applied to the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2000Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mark Lloyd Miller, Farzin Homayoun Azad, Seetha Ramaiah Mannava, Philemon Kennard Wright, III
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Publication number: 20030152705Abstract: A method for coating an article includes preparing a coating precursor paint including aluminum-containing pigment particles, a temporary organic binder comprising an acrylic, and a solvent for the temporary organic binder. The coating precursor paint is applied to a surface of the article and thereafter heated to a temperature of from about 1200° F. to about 2100° F. in a non-oxidizing environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2001Publication date: August 14, 2003Inventors: Jeffrey Allan Pfaendtner, Michael James Weimer, William Evan McCormack, Joseph David Rigney, Mark Lloyd Miller, John Lewis Lackman
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Patent number: 6559415Abstract: A method for single sided laser shock peening an article includes laser shock peening a laser shock peening surface on a first side of the article while maintaining an opposite second surface on a back side of the article in acoustic communication with a shock attenuating material. The second surface is opposite the laser shock peening surface. The shock attenuating material is a material that does not allow tensile waves to be reflected back off the back side through the article. The shock attenuating material may be a liquid metal and the article made from a titanium alloy. One such article is a gas turbine engine airfoil of an integrally bladed disk and the surfaces may be on an edge of the airfoil. The shock attenuating material may be one that dissipates compressive waves or reflects back compressive shock waves caused by the laser shock peening.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2002Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: SeethaRamaiah Mannava, Philemon Kennard Wright, III, Farzin Homayoun Azad, Mark Lloyd Miller
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Patent number: 6437568Abstract: A low noise imaging apparatus for producing Magnetic Resonance (MR) images of a subject and for substantially minimizing acoustic noise generated during imaging is provided. The imaging apparatus comprises a magnet assembly, a gradient coil assembly, and a rf coil assembly, wherein at least one of the magnet assembly, the gradient coil assembly and the rf coil assembly are configured to reduce the generation and transmission of acoustic noise.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2000Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Alan Edelstein, Richard Philip Mallozzi, Robert Arvin Hedeen, Sayed-Amr El-Hamamsy, Mark Lloyd Miller, Paul Shadforth Thompson, Robert Adolph Ackermann, Bruce Campbell Amm, John Peter Fura, Mike James Radziun, David Edward Dean, Scott Thomas Mansell, Dewain Anthony Purgill, Robert Michael Vavrek
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Patent number: 6435173Abstract: A combined burner and grate structure for use in connection with a gas range includes one or more burner elements. Each burner element has one or more fuel inlets, one or more fuel outlets disposed on one or more side surfaces, and a top surface. A horizontal planar support for a cooking vessel is made up of the top surface of each burner element. A gas rangetop can include one or more of these combined burner and grate structures.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2000Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Mark Lloyd Miller
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Publication number: 20020099304Abstract: An in situ breast tumor temperature profile measuring probe (12) includes a rod (20), thermal sensors (22) and electrical output leads (24). The thermal sensors (22) are formed in spaced apart holes (30) in an outer insulating layer (26) of the rod (20) and a common electrical input lead (28) to provide an electrical input signal to the thermal sensors (22) is disposed below and has portions (28a) exposed at the holes (30) and electrically connected to the thermal sensors (22). The thermal sensors (22) receive the electrical input signal from the common electrical input lead (28), sense the temperature of biological matter adjacent to the thermal sensors (22) and produce an electrical output signal correlated thereto. Each electrical output lead (24) mounted to the outer insulating layer (26) is in electrical contact with a different one of the thermal sensors (22) to receive the electrical output signal from the one thermal sensor (22) and output the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2002Publication date: July 25, 2002Inventors: Kristina Helena Valborg Hedengren, William Paul Kornrumpf, Mark Lloyd Miller, Egidijus Edward Uzgiris
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Patent number: 6419635Abstract: An in situ breast tumor temperature profile measuring probe includes a rod, thermal sensors and electrical output leads. The thermal sensors are formed in spaced apart holes in an outer insulating layer of the rod and a common electrical input lead to provide an electrical input signal to the thermal sensors is disposed below and has portions exposed at the holes and electrically connected to the thermal sensors. The thermal sensors receive the electrical input signal from the common electrical input lead, sense the temperature of biological matter adjacent to the thermal sensors and produce an electrical output signal correlated thereto. Each electrical output lead mounted to the outer insulating layer is in electrical contact with a different one of the thermal sensors to receive the electrical output signal from the one thermal sensor and output the same.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2000Date of Patent: July 16, 2002Assignee: General Electric CompsanyInventors: Kristina Helena Valborg Hedengren, William Paul Kornrumpf, Mark Lloyd Miller, Egidijus Edward Uzgiris
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Patent number: 6296172Abstract: Dovetail seals are quickly and inexpensively applied to turbine buckets or rotor disks by ultrasonically welding a piece of material onto the dovetail portion of the bucket or the disk slot of the rotor disk. The method includes placing the piece of material into contact with the appropriate turbine structure and applying a compressive force so as to press the piece of material against the turbine structure. Ultrasonic energy is then applied to the piece of material so as to ultrasonically weld it to the turbine structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2000Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Mark Lloyd Miller
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Patent number: 6180867Abstract: A thermal sensor array includes a dielectric layer including a plurality of individual thermal sensors and a pattern of deposited electrical interconnections facing at least one surface of the dielectric layer for providing electrical connections from each of the plurality of individual thermal sensors, the dielectric layer and the pattern of deposited electrical interconnections being surface-conformable. The thermal sensor array can be used in a diagnostic tool that further includes: a scanning device coupled to the pattern of deposited electrical interconnections for obtaining sensor signals from the thermal sensors; and a computer for processing the sensor signals to estimate temperature distributions.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1999Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kristina Helena Valborg Hedengren, William Paul Kornrumpf, Mark Lloyd Miller, Beale Hibbs Opsahl-Ong, Egidijus Edward Uzgiris
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Patent number: 6148811Abstract: A combined burner and grate structure for use in connection with a gas range includes one or more burner elements. Each burner element has one or more fuel inlets, one or more fuel outlets disposed on one or more side surfaces, and a top surface. A horizontal planar support for a cooking vessel is made up of the top surface of each burner element. A gas rangetop can include one or more of these combined burner and grate structures.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1999Date of Patent: November 21, 2000Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Mark Lloyd Miller
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Patent number: 6084174Abstract: A thermocouple array includes a dielectric layer having via openings therethrough, a first patterned conductive layer facing one surface of the dielectric layer, and a second patterned conductive layer facing another surface of the dielectric layer. Portions of the second patterned conductive layer can extend through the via openings to couple respective portions of the first patterned conductive layer. The second patterned conductive layer has a different thermal emf than the first patterned conductive layer. The dielectric layer, the first patterned conductive layer, and the second patterned conductive layer can be surface-conformable.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1999Date of Patent: July 4, 2000Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kristina Helena Valborg Hedengren, William Paul Kornrumpf, Mark Lloyd Miller
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Patent number: 5921126Abstract: A metalworking die has a soft metal plating on its contact surfaces. The plating produces a continuous lubricant supply which is only depleted slowly when employed in a hot metalworking operation. In forming a near-net-shape part using this die, the metalworking piece is coated with a glass lubricant. A temporary lubricant of graphite is also sprayed on the coated die.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 1996Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Mark Lloyd Miller
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Patent number: 5909004Abstract: A thermocouple array includes a dielectric layer having via openings therethrough, a first patterned conductive layer facing one surface of the dielectric layer, and a second patterned conductive layer facing another surface of the dielectric layer. Portions of the second patterned conductive layer can extend through the via openings to couple respective portions of the first patterned conductive layer. The second patterned conductive layer has a different thermal emf than the first patterned conductive layer. The dielectric layer, the first patterned conductive layer, and the second patterned conductive layer can be surface-conformable.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1996Date of Patent: June 1, 1999Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kristina Helena Valborg Hedengren, William Paul Kornrumpf, Mark Lloyd Miller
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Patent number: 5743121Abstract: A reducible glass lubricant on a metal workpiece provides a duplex film during hot working of the workpiece. A silicate glass powder which contains from about 3 to 50 mole percent of an oxide of bismuth, tin or copper is used for the reducible glass lubricant. During preheating in a preheat furnace the glass lubricant is reduced to the duplex glass film.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 1996Date of Patent: April 28, 1998Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Mark Lloyd Miller