Patents by Inventor Melbourne James Myers

Melbourne James Myers 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: 11629603
    Abstract: An airfoil includes a root and a tip, which define a span of the airfoil therebetween. The airfoil also includes a leading edge and a trailing edge downstream of the leading edge along a flow direction. The leading edge and the trailing edge each extend across the span of the airfoil from the root to the tip. The airfoil further includes a pressure side surface and a suction side surface. The airfoil also includes a thermal barrier coating on the pressure side surface and the suction side surface. The thermal barrier coating includes a base layer and a top coat. A thickness of the base layer varies across each of the pressure side surface and the suction side surface with a maximum thickness of the base layer at the leading edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Martin James Jasper, Jan Agudo, Melbourne James Myers, Richard Ryan Pilson, Christopher W. Kester
  • Patent number: 11629601
    Abstract: A rotor blade for a turbomachine is provided. The rotor blade includes a platform, an airfoil extending from the platform, and a cooling circuit extending within the platform and the airfoil. The cooling circuit includes a plurality of cooling passages defined by a plurality of ribs. The plurality of ribs includes an offset rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mark Steven Honkomp, William Scott Zemitis, Melbourne James Myers, Jacob Charles Perry, II
  • Patent number: 11566528
    Abstract: A rotor blade is provided. The rotor blade includes a main body having a shank, an airfoil extends radially outwardly from the shank, and a platform. The main body includes a pressure side slash face and a suction side slash face. A slot is defined within each of the pressure side slash face and the suction side slash face. The slot of the pressure side slash face and the slot of the suction side slash face each include an upstream end portion that defines an end and a main body portion extending from the upstream end portion. The upstream end portion tapers from the end to the main body portion. The main body portion further includes a retention wall that covers a portion of the end and that defines an opening. The retention wall further includes an inner retention surface. The retention wall defines an offset from the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Martin James Jasper, Claire Katherine Naioti, Melbourne James Myers, William Scott Zemitis, Stephen Douglas Shearer
  • Patent number: 11225872
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes a root for fixing the turbine blade to a turbine rotor; and an airfoil coupled to the root, the airfoil including a suction side and a pressure side, and at least one internal wall defining a coolant chamber in the airfoil for delivering a coolant through the airfoil. A tip shroud is coupled to a radially outer end of the airfoil by a suction side fillet and a pressure side fillet. The tip shroud includes a shroud body defining a substantially trident-shaped shroud cooling passage including: a trunk cooling passage, a center cooling passage in fluid communication with the trunk cooling passage, a suction side cooling passage in fluid communication with the trunk cooling passage, and a pressure side cooling passage in fluid communication with the trunk cooling passage. The center cooling passage is fluidly coupled to the coolant chamber to receive a coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Melbourne James Myers, Michael Anthony Wondrasek, Mary Virginia Holloway, Luke C. Sponseller, Brandon Joseph Kerins
  • Patent number: 11156103
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil that extends radially between a root end and a tip end, a platform coupled to the root end, and a shank that extends radially inwardly from the platform. The shank includes a cover plate. The cover plate includes an outer surface, an opposite inner surface, and a contoured face that at least partially defines a damper pin slot. The contoured face extends from the outer surface to a first blend edge. The cover plate also includes a blended surface that extends from the first blend edge to a second blend edge. The second blend edge intersects with the inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: William Scott Zemitis, Melbourne James Myers, Richard Ryan Pilson, Calvin Levy Sims
  • Publication number: 20210301667
    Abstract: A rotor blade for a turbomachine is provided. The rotor blade includes a platform, an airfoil extending from the platform, and a cooling circuit extending within the platform and the airfoil. The cooling circuit includes a plurality of cooling passages defined by a plurality of ribs. The plurality of ribs includes an offset rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Steven Honkomp, William Scott Zemitis, Melbourne James Myers, Jacob Charles Perry, II
  • Publication number: 20210301670
    Abstract: An airfoil includes a root and a tip, which define a span of the airfoil therebetween. The airfoil also includes a leading edge and a trailing edge downstream of the leading edge along a flow direction. The leading edge and the trailing edge each extend across the span of the airfoil from the root to the tip. The airfoil further includes a pressure side surface and a suction side surface. The airfoil also includes a thermal barrier coating on the pressure side surface and the suction side surface. The thermal barrier coating includes a base layer and a top coat. A thickness of the base layer varies across each of the pressure side surface and the suction side surface with a maximum thickness of the base layer at the leading edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Martin James Jasper, Jan Agudo, Melbourne James Myers, Richard Ryan Pilson, Christopher W. Kester
  • Publication number: 20210189887
    Abstract: A rotor blade is provided. The rotor blade includes a main body having a shank, an airfoil extends radially outwardly from the shank, and a platform. The main body includes a pressure side slash face and a suction side slash face. A slot is defined within each of the pressure side slash face and the suction side slash face. The slot of the pressure side slash face and the slot of the suction side slash face each include an upstream end portion that defines an end and a main body portion extending from the upstream end portion. The upstream end portion tapers from the end to the main body portion. The main body portion further includes a retention wall that covers a portion of the end and that defines an opening. The retention wall further includes an inner retention surface. The retention wall defines an offset from the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Martin James Jasper, Claire Katherine Naioti, Melbourne James Myers, William Scott Zemitis, Stephen Douglas Shearer
  • Publication number: 20210131291
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes a root for fixing the turbine blade to a turbine rotor; and an airfoil coupled to the root, the airfoil including a suction side and a pressure side, and at least one internal wall defining a coolant chamber in the airfoil for delivering a coolant through the airfoil. A tip shroud is coupled to a radially outer end of the airfoil by a suction side fillet and a pressure side fillet. The tip shroud includes a shroud body defining a substantially trident-shaped shroud cooling passage including: a trunk cooling passage, a center cooling passage in fluid communication with the trunk cooling passage, a suction side cooling passage in fluid communication with the trunk cooling passage, and a pressure side cooling passage in fluid communication with the trunk cooling passage. The center cooling passage is fluidly coupled to the coolant chamber to receive a coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Melbourne James Myers, Michael Anthony Wondrasek, Mary Virginia Holloway, Luke C. Sponseller, Brandon Joseph Kerins
  • Patent number: 10947898
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil that includes a root end and a tip end. The tip end is radially spaced from the root end. A tip shroud extends from the tip end. The tip shroud includes a shroud plate. The shroud plate includes a plurality of undulating ridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Scott Zemitis, Richard Ryan Pilson, Melbourne James Myers, Dustin Jaime Muller
  • Patent number: 10808538
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade having an airfoil that includes a pressure side portion of a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z of a pressure side as set forth in Table I. The Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values from 0% to 100% convertible to dimensional distances by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z by a height of the airfoil defined along the Z axis. The X and Y values of the pressure side are coordinate values that, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define pressure side sections of the pressure side portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z coordinate value. The pressure side sections may be joined smoothly with one another to form the pressure side portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Melbourne James Myers, Sylvain Pierre, Michael Gordon Sherman, Luke C Sponseller, Zhirui Dong, Le Trong Tran
  • Publication number: 20200277864
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil that extends radially between a root end and a tip end, a platform coupled to the root end, and a shank that extends radially inwardly from the platform. The shank includes a cover plate. The cover plate includes an outer surface, an opposite inner surface, and a contoured face that at least partially defines a damper pin slot. The contoured face extends from the outer surface to a first blend edge. The cover plate also includes a blended surface that extends from the first blend edge to a second blend edge. The second blend edge intersects with the inner surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: William Scott Zemitis, Melbourne James Myers, Richard Ryan Pilson, Calvin Levy Sims
  • Patent number: 10704392
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade including an airfoil, tip shroud, and fillet formed therebetween. The fillet defines a fillet profile variable about the intersection for connecting the tip shroud and airfoil and facilitating aerodynamic airflow. The fillet includes a pressure side fillet. The pressure side fillet comprises a pressure side fillet profile per points within a first set of points of X, Y and Z coordinate values in a Cartesian coordinate system, as set forth in Table I, where X, Y and Z are distances in inches from an origin and, when the points are connected by smooth, continuing arcs, the points define the pressure side fillet profile of the pressure side fillet. The first set of points includes points between and including point 1 and point 50 of each reference plane between and including a reference plane H and a reference plane W, as set forth in Table I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Scott Zemitis, Melbourne James Myers, Richard Ryan Pilson, Jacob Charles Perry, II
  • Patent number: 10683759
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade including an airfoil having a tip shroud, the tip shroud having leading and trailing edges, the leading edge having a leading edge profile including first and second scalloped sections substantially in accordance with X and Y coordinate values in a Cartesian coordinate system at points 1-6 and 11-25, respectively, as set forth in Table I, where X and Y are distances in inches from an origin and, when points 1-6 and points 11-25 are connected by smooth, continuing arcs, the points define the first and second scalloped sections, respectively, of the leading edge profile of the tip shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Scott Zemitis, Jacob Charles Perry, II, Melbourne James Myers, Ajay Gangadhar Patil, Richard Ryan Pilson
  • Patent number: 10683765
    Abstract: A method of modifying a shank of a turbine blade from an initial profile to an undercut profile includes removing a first portion of material from an underside of a downstream angel wing of the turbine blade. The downstream angel wing extends axially from a downstream cover plate of the shank. The method also includes removing a second portion of material from a generally axially-extending portion of the downstream cover plate adjacent a dovetail of the turbine blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Scott Zemitis, Richard Ryan Pilson, Felipe Roman-Morales, Melbourne James Myers, Kevin Lee Worley
  • Publication number: 20200131912
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade having an airfoil that includes a pressure side portion of a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z of a pressure side as set forth in Table I. The Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values from 0% to 100% convertible to dimensional distances by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z by a height of the airfoil defined along the Z axis. The X and Y values of the pressure side are coordinate values that, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define pressure side sections of the pressure side portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z coordinate value. The pressure side sections may be joined smoothly with one another to form the pressure side portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Melbourne James Myers, Sylvain Pierre, Michael Gordon Sherman, Luke C. Sponseller, Zhirui Dong, Le Trong Tran
  • Patent number: 10526899
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil that extends from a root end to a tip end. A tip shroud extends from the tip end. The turbine blade further includes a pressure side fillet. The pressure side fillet couples the tip end to the tip shroud. The pressure side fillet includes a first protrusion located adjacent to the tip end and a second protrusion located radially inward from the first protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Scott Zemitis, Mahesh Pasupuleti, Bryan David Lewis, Melbourne James Myers
  • Patent number: 10519785
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil that extends radially between a root end and a tip end, a platform coupled to the root end, and a shank that extends radially inwardly from the platform. The shank includes a cover plate. The cover plate includes an outer surface, an opposite inner surface, and a contoured face that at least partially defines a damper pin slot. The contoured face extends from the outer surface to a first blend edge. The cover plate also includes a blended surface that extends from the first blend edge to a second blend edge. The second blend edge intersects with the inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Scott Zemitis, Melbourne James Myers, Richard Ryan Pilson, Calvin Levy Sims
  • Patent number: 10494934
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil that extends radially between a root end and a tip end, a platform coupled to the root end, and a shank that extends radially inwardly from the platform. The shank includes a downstream cover plate and a downstream angel wing that extends axially from the downstream cover plate. A portion of the downstream cover plate radially outward of the downstream angel wing defines an approximately linear profile. The turbine blade also includes a dovetail region that extends radially inwardly from the shank. A profile of a portion of the downstream cover plate radially inward of the downstream angel wing is recessed relative to the linear profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Scott Zemitis, Richard Ryan Pilson, Felipe Roman-Morales, Melbourne James Myers
  • Publication number: 20190292914
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade including an airfoil having a tip shroud, the tip shroud having leading and trailing edges, the leading edge having a leading edge profile including first and second scalloped sections substantially in accordance with X and Y coordinate values in a Cartesian coordinate system at points 1-6 and 11-25, respectively, as set forth in Table I, where X and Y are distances in inches from an origin and, when points 1-6 and points 11-25 are connected by smooth, continuing arcs, the points define the first and second scalloped sections, respectively, of the leading edge profile of the tip shroud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Scott Zemitis, Jacob Charles Perry, II, Melbourne James Myers, Ajay Gangadhar Patil, Richard Ryan Pilson