Patents by Inventor Richard Schmidt

Richard Schmidt 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).

  • Publication number: 20240319579
    Abstract: A photographic lithography method for printing chip sections of a mask to a wafer is provided. The method includes generating the mask including a pattern of rows of the chip sections, each alternating row including half-fields mirrored with respect to corresponding half-fields of an adjacent row, exposing every other row of half-fields with the pattern and the wafer in a first relative orientation based on mirroring of the half-fields and the corresponding half-fields, re-orienting the pattern and the wafer to have a second relative orientation opposite the first relative orientation and exposing remaining rows of the half-fields with the pattern and the wafer in the second relative orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Allen Gabor, Richard C. Johnson, Romain Lallement, Daniel Schmidt
  • Patent number: 12071448
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to reactive (moisture curing) plasticizers; adhesives and sealants containing the plasticizers and methods of bonding and sealing substrates with adhesives and sealants containing the plasticizers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Adrian Brandt, Horst Beck, Johann Klein, Jan-Erik Damke, Sebastian Schmidt, Alexander Kux, Johannes Gerardus de Vries, Sandra Hinze, Richard van Heck
  • Publication number: 20240133426
    Abstract: A rotor damping device for a turbomachine is provided. The rotor damping device includes a first fluid damper; and a second damper in communication with the first fluid damper, the second damper comprising a wire mesh, wherein the first fluid damper is transitionable between a working condition and an interruption condition, and wherein, during the interruption condition, the wire mesh of the second damper dampens vibration of the turbomachine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Richard Schmidt, Narayanan Payyoor, Peeyush Pankaj
  • Publication number: 20240117770
    Abstract: A turbomachine engine includes a core engine having one or more compressor sections, one or more turbine sections that includes a power turbine, and a combustion chamber in flow communication with the compressor sections and turbine sections. The turbomachine engine also includes a shaft coupled to the power turbine and characterized by a midshaft rating (MSR) between two hundred (ft/sec)1/2 and three hundred (ft/sec)1/2. In one aspect, the shaft has a redline speed between fifty and two hundred fifty feet per second (ft/sec). In another aspect, the shaft has a length L, an outer diameter D, and a ratio of L/D between twelve and thirty-seven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Narayanan Payyoor, Weize Kang, Thomas Lee Becker, Richard Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11940032
    Abstract: A damping device that includes features for damping bending vibration of a shaft rotating about its axis of rotation and methods for damping bending vibration utilizing the damping device are provided. In one exemplary aspect, the damping device includes a damping disc operatively coupled with a shaft, e.g., of a turbine engine or shaft system. The damping disc is at least partially received within a chamber defined by a housing. The chamber of the housing is configured to receive a damping fluid. When the shaft is rotated about its axis of rotation, the damping disc is movable within the chamber to move the damping fluid such that the damping fluid absorbs bending vibration emitted by the shaft. The damping fluid moved by the damping disc dampens bending vibration emitted by the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard Schmidt, Bugra Han Ertas, Weize Kang
  • Patent number: 11933922
    Abstract: Hybrid subtractive-additive production of a superconducting multi-layer transition-edge sensor includes: forming a superconductor layer; forming a patterning photoresist on the superconductor layer; forming a sensor pattern in the patterning photoresist; subtractively forming, from the superconductor layer, the superconductor sensor layer; removing the patterning photoresist from the superconductor sensor layer; forming a template photoresist on the superconductor sensor layer; forming an inverse normal metal layer pattern in the template photoresist and exposing a bilayer portion of the superconductor sensor layer for addition of a normal metal layer; and additively forming the normal metal layer on the superconductor sensor layer such that the sensor pattern is interposed between the normal metal layer and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
    Inventors: Daniel Richard Schmidt, Joel Calvin Weber
  • Patent number: 11879498
    Abstract: A rotor damping device for a turbomachine is provided. The rotor damping device includes a first fluid damper; and a second damper in communication with the first fluid damper, the second damper comprising a wire mesh, wherein the first fluid damper is transitionable between a working condition and an interruption condition, and wherein, during the interruption condition, the wire mesh of the second damper dampens vibration of the turbomachine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard Schmidt, Narayanan Payyoor, Peeyush Pankaj
  • Patent number: 11858027
    Abstract: A climate control system including a heat exchanger assembly with a housing having an external air inlet, an external air outlet, an internal air inlet, and an internal air outlet. The system further includes an auxiliary air vent assembly coupled to the heat exchanger assembly. The auxiliary air vent assembly includes a rim at least partially defining an internal air inlet region and an internal air outlet region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: DANTHERM COOLING, INC.
    Inventors: Charles Richard Schmidt, Troy F. Berg
  • Publication number: 20230338085
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems for use for radio frequency ablation. The systems can include one or more of an ablation tool, power source for use with the ablation tool and a backstop for use in conjunction with the ablation tool during surgical procedures. Preferred ablation tools comprise a series of three or more blade-shaped electrodes disposed in a linear, curved, curvilinear or circular array. The backstops are useful for reducing direct physical and thermal heat transfer injuries to the patient or surgeon during procedures using radiofrequency (RF) ablation devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Steven Charles Southwell, Joshua Cook, Tim Holzmann, David Strait, Richard Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11795882
    Abstract: A turbomachine engine includes a core engine having one or more compressor sections, one or more turbine sections that includes a power turbine, and a combustion chamber in flow communication with the compressor sections and turbine sections. The turbomachine engine also includes a shaft coupled to the power turbine and characterized by a midshaft rating (MSR) between two hundred (ft/sec)1/2 and three hundred (ft/sec)1/2. In one aspect, the shaft has a redline speed between fifty and two hundred fifty feet per second (ft/sec). In another aspect, the shaft has a length L, an outer diameter D, and a ratio of L/D between twelve and thirty-seven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Narayanan Payyoor, Weize Kang, Thomas Lee Becker, Richard Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20230291278
    Abstract: A turbomachine is provided. In one aspect, the turbomachine includes a rotating component and an electric machine that includes a stator assembly and a rotor assembly rotatable with the rotating component relative to the stator assembly. Further, the turbomachine includes an actuator coupled with the rotor assembly, the stator assembly, or both for moving the rotor assembly, the stator assembly, or both relative to one another. In addition, the turbomachine includes a controller configured to receive data indicating an operating state of the rotating component and cause the actuator to adjust a position of at least one of the stator assembly and the rotor assembly based at least in part on the operating state of the rotating component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Richard Schmidt, Darek Tomasz Zatorski, Rangasai Madoor Comandore, Mohamed Osama
  • Patent number: 11753939
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine is provided including a turbine section including a turbine having a plurality of first speed turbine rotor blades; a compressor section including a compressor having a plurality of first speed compressor rotor blades and a plurality of second speed compressor rotor blades; a gearbox; and a first spool rotatable by the plurality of first speed turbine rotor blades, the first spool coupled to the plurality of first speed compressor rotor blades for driving the plurality of first speed compressor rotor blades in a first direction and to the plurality of second speed compressor rotor blades across the gearbox for driving the plurality of second speed compressor rotor blades in a second direction, opposite the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Alan Roy Stuart, Tsuguji Nakano, Thomas Ory Moniz, Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow, Richard Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20230264250
    Abstract: A climate control system including a heat exchanger assembly with a housing having an external air inlet, an external air outlet, an internal air inlet, and an internal air outlet. The system further includes an auxiliary air vent assembly coupled to the heat exchanger assembly. The auxiliary air vent assembly includes a rim at least partially defining an internal air inlet region and an internal air outlet region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Charles Richard Schmidt, Troy F. Berg
  • Publication number: 20230269901
    Abstract: A climate control system including a heat exchanger assembly with a housing having an external air inlet, an external air outlet, an internal air inlet, and an internal air outlet. The system further includes an auxiliary air vent assembly coupled to the heat exchanger assembly. The auxiliary air vent assembly includes a rim at least partially defining an internal air inlet region and an internal air outlet region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Charles Richard Schmidt, Troy F. Berg
  • Publication number: 20230258909
    Abstract: This application uses an image detector to mitigate field curvature but without the need to curve the detector surface. Gradient-index (GRIN) media, which possesses spatially varying refractive index, is used as “cover piece” for planar detectors or internal images. Field curvature correction can be made at the detector or internal image using plane-parallel GRIN cover piece with a planar detector or an internal image. GRIN cover piece imparts a transversely varying image shift. In doing so, the number of elements in an optical system may be reduced since field curvature can be corrected at the detector, allowing for smaller and more lightweight systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: David Henry LIPPMAN, Duncan T. MOORE, Greg Richard SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 11707322
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems for use for radio frequency ablation. The systems can include one or more of an ablation tool, power source for use with the ablation tool and a backstop for use in conjunction with the ablation tool during surgical procedures. Preferred ablation tools comprise a series of three or more blade-shaped electrodes disposed in a linear, curved, curvilinear or circular array. The backstops are useful for reducing direct physical and thermal heat transfer injuries to the patient or surgeon during procedures using radiofrequency (RF) ablation devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Medical Engineering Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Charles Southwell, Joshua Cook, Tim Holzmann, David Strait, Richard Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11702983
    Abstract: A power transmission system includes a shaft, a stator disposed within the shaft and substantially concentric with the shaft; and at least one supporting element positioned between the stator and the shaft and configured to support the shaft on the stator to reduce a vibration of the shaft and allow the shaft to rotate relative to the stator. A gas turbine engine including the power transmission system is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Weize Kang, Richard Alan Wesling, Tod Robert Steen, Richard Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20230194133
    Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly including a housing with an external air inlet, an external air outlet, an internal air inlet, and an internal air outlet. The heat exchanger assembly further includes a heat exchanger with an angled condenser panel, an angled evaporator panel, and a working fluid. The heat exchanger assembly further includes a first fan positioned at the internal air inlet configured to create an internal airflow through the housing from the internal air inlet to the internal air outlet, and a second fan positioned at the external air inlet configured to create an external airflow through the housing from the external air inlet to the external air outlet. The external airflow is isolated from the internal airflow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Charles Richard Schmidt, Troy F. Berg
  • Publication number: 20230160346
    Abstract: A turbomachine engine includes a core engine having one or more compressor sections, one or more turbine sections that includes a power turbine, and a combustion chamber in flow communication with the compressor sections and turbine sections. The turbomachine engine also includes a shaft coupled to the power turbine and characterized by a midshaft rating (MSR) between two hundred (ft/sec)1/2 and three hundred (ft/sec)1/2. In one aspect, the shaft has a redline speed between fifty and two hundred fifty feet per second (ft/sec). In another aspect, the shaft has a length L, an outer diameter D, and a ratio of L/D between twelve and thirty-seven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Narayanan Payyoor, Weize Kang, Thomas Lee Becker, Richard Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11603801
    Abstract: A turbomachine engine includes a core engine having one or more compressor sections, one or more turbine sections that includes a power turbine, and a combustion chamber in flow communication with the compressor sections and turbine sections. The turbomachine engine also includes a shaft coupled to the power turbine and characterized by a midshaft rating (MSR) between two hundred (ft/sec)1/2 and three hundred (ft/sec)1/2. In one aspect, the shaft has a redline speed between fifty and two hundred fifty feet per second (ft/sec). In another aspect, the shaft has a length L, an outer diameter D, and a ratio of L/D between twelve and thirty-seven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Narayanan Payyoor, Weize Kang, Thomas Lee Becker, Richard Schmidt