Patents by Inventor Peter Walter Mueller

Peter Walter Mueller 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).

  • Thrust bearing support assembly for a gas turbine engine
    Patent number: 8292238
    Abstract: A thrust bearing support assembly includes a first substantially trapezoidally-shaped side, and a second substantially rectangularly-shaped side coupled to the first side. The thrust bearing support assembly also includes a third substantially trapezoidally-shaped side coupled to the second side, and a fourth substantially rectangularly-shaped side coupled to the first and third sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas George Wakeman, Peter Walter Mueller, Stephen Eugene Melton, Michael Todd Summers
  • GAS TURBINE ENGINE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING SAME
    Publication number: 20090246002
    Abstract: A method of reducing gas turbine engine distortion includes coupling a core gas turbine engine to a power turbine, coupling the power turbine to a thrust bearing support assembly through a frusto-conically shaped structural support such that the net axial thrust of the coupled core gas turbine engine and power turbine reacts through the thrust bearing support assembly at engine centerline to facilitate minimizing distortion of the core gas turbine engine casing, and supporting the thrust bearing support assembly such that all of the remaining thrust generated by the core gas turbine engine and the power turbine is reacted to ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas George Wakeman, Peter Walter Mueller, Stephen Eugene Melton, Michael Todd Summers
  • Gas turbine engine assembly and method of assembling same
    Patent number: 7546742
    Abstract: A method of reducing gas turbine engine distortion includes coupling a core gas turbine engine to a power turbine, coupling the power turbine to a thrust bearing support assembly through a frusto-conically shaped structural support such that the net axial thrust of the coupled core gas turbine engine and power turbine reacts through the thrust bearing support assembly at engine centerline to facilitate minimizing distortion of the core gas turbine engine casing, and supporting the thrust bearing support assembly such that all of the remaining thrust generated by the core gas turbine engine and the power turbine is reacted to ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas George Wakeman, Peter Walter Mueller, Stephen Eugene Melton, Michael Todd Summers
  • Flexibly coupled dual shell bearing housing
    Patent number: 6679045
    Abstract: A bearing housing includes inner and outer shells through which a rotor shaft may extend. A service tube is fixedly joined to the inner shell and extends through a service aperture in the outer shell. A flexible coupling sealingly joins the service tube to the outer shell at the service aperture for permitting differential thermal movement between the inner and outer shells at the service tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Apostolos Pavlos Karafillis, Peter Walter Mueller, John Robert Ramsey
  • Flexibly coupled dual shell bearing housing
    Publication number: 20030110778
    Abstract: A bearing housing includes inner and outer shells through which a rotor shaft may extend. A service tube is fixedly joined to the inner shell and extends through a service aperture in the outer shell. A flexible coupling sealingly joins the service tube to the outer shell at the service aperture for permitting differential thermal movement between the inner and outer shells at the service tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: Apostolos Pavlos Karafillis, Peter Walter Mueller, John Robert Ramsey