Patents by Inventor Michael Charles Eckert

Michael Charles Eckert 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: 9261112
    Abstract: Dampers for fan spinners of aircraft engines are disclosed. An example fan module for a gas turbine engine may include a fan disk; fan blades mounted to the fan disk and extending radially therefrom; a fan spinner operatively coupled to the fan disk at an axially upstream position; and/or one or more elastic vibration dampers operatively interposing the fan spinner and the fan disk. The elastic vibration dampers may be disposed circumferentially around an interface between the fan spinner and the fan disk and may be compressed axially and/or radially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Philip Howard Stoughton, Benjamin Allen Dietsch, Anthony John Durchholz, Michael Charles Eckert
  • Patent number: 7293956
    Abstract: An annular air baffle for use in a cavity of an annular rotatable gas turbine engine component includes an annular split baffle ring having a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart and radially inwardly extending intermediate dams circumferentially disposed between first and second end dams. The intermediate dams and the first and second end dams extend radially inwardly from a continuous annular section. Voids are disposed between the intermediate dams and between the first and second end dams and adjacent ones of the intermediate dams. The voids are located radially inwardly of the continuous annular section and are formed by removing material from a split rolled ring rolled from barstock or a rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Charles Eckert, Kenneth Rees Bain
  • Patent number: 7008181
    Abstract: An annular air baffle disposed in a cavity of a rotatable gas turbine engine part includes an annular split ring supporting a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart fins. The cavity is closed at a radially outer diameter and open at a radially inner diameter of the part. The ring and the fins may be integrally formed in one piece. The fins may have common surfaces with the ring and the common surfaces may be circular cross-sectional surfaces of the ring and radially outer rounded corners of the fins. The fins may have triangular cross-sectional shapes with first, second, and third sides, rounded first radially inner corners between the first and second sides, rounded second radially inner corners between the second and third sides, and the radially outer rounded corners between the first and third sides. The fins may extend radially inwardly from the annular split ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventors: Robert Paul Czachor, Michael Charles Eckert, Richard William Albrecht, Steven Alan Ross