Patents by Inventor Robert David Jones

Robert David Jones 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: 11928526
    Abstract: Techniques for standardizing a catalog of data and for using the standardized data to implement various APIs are disclosed. Non-standardized data is received. This data includes information describing items, customer information, and unstructured review data. The non-standardized data is converted to a standardized format, resulting in the generation of standardized data. The standardized data includes a hierarchy of defined categories. Each category is associated with a set of attribute types. The standardized data also includes anonymized profiles. The unstructured review data is also provided structure. A data model is generated based on the standardized data. Various APIs can then use the data model to perform operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PRODX, LLC
    Inventors: Brodrick David Yastrum, Robert Lawrence Bertsch, Meaghan Carroll Jones, Matthew James Vezzani
  • Patent number: 11925991
    Abstract: A milling device for machining a slot into an inner surface of a casing for a gas turbine engine. The milling device includes a frame assembly including multiple structural guides configured to engage structural features on the inner surface of the casing to maintain an axial position of the milling device relative to a longitudinal axis of the casing. The milling device also includes a milling cutter coupled to the frame assembly. The milling device is configured to be displaced in a circumferential direction relative to the longitudinal axis to machine the slot, via the milling cutter, along the inner surface of the casing in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Fabian Gubelmann, Andrew David Ellis, Robert David Jones, Thomas Gloor, Roman Stefan Peter
  • Patent number: 11635750
    Abstract: A measurement system for a gas turbine engine is provided. The measurement system comprises a sensor assembly. The measurement system also includes multiple sensors coupled to the sensor assembly. The sensor assembly is configured to be removably inserted within a space defined by a circumferential track embedded within an inner diameter of a casing of the gas turbine engine without having to disassemble the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Andrew David Ellis, Robert David Jones, Stephen Paul Wassynger
  • Patent number: 11519298
    Abstract: A mounting member for a sensor for a turbomachine having an axis is disclosed. The mounting member includes a body configured to mount to a portion of a circumferential interior surface of a casing of the turbomachine. An opening extends through a radially inner surface of the body, and is configured to position the sensor facing radially inward relative to the axis. A passage in the body extends longitudinally through the body to route a communications lead of the sensor circumferentially relative to the circumferential interior surface of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Robert David Jones, Michael Allen Ball, Andrew David Ellis, Mario Joseph Arceneaux, Donald Shaw
  • Publication number: 20220362865
    Abstract: A milling device for machining a slot into an inner surface of a casing for a gas turbine engine. The milling device includes a frame assembly including multiple structural guides configured to engage structural features on the inner surface of the casing to maintain an axial position of the milling device relative to a longitudinal axis of the casing. The milling device also includes a milling cutter coupled to the frame assembly. The milling device is configured to be displaced in a circumferential direction relative to the longitudinal axis to machine the slot, via the milling cutter, along the inner surface of the casing in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Fabian Gubelmann, Andrew David Ellis, Robert David Jones, Thomas Gloor, Roman Stefan Peter
  • Patent number: 11400527
    Abstract: A milling device for machining a slot into an inner surface of a casing for a gas turbine engine. The milling device includes a frame assembly including multiple structural guides configured to engage structural features on the inner surface of the casing to maintain an axial position of the milling device relative to a longitudinal axis of the casing. The milling device also includes a milling cutter coupled to the frame assembly. The milling device is configured to be displaced in a circumferential direction relative to the longitudinal axis to machine the slot, via the milling cutter, along the inner surface of the casing in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Fabian Gubelmann, Andrew David Ellis, Robert David Jones, Thomas Gloor, Roman Stefan Peter
  • Patent number: 11248495
    Abstract: A casing for a turbomachine is disclosed. The casing includes a casing body including an interior surface and an exterior surface. At least one sensor is coupled relative to the interior surface of the body, the at least one sensor at most only partially extending through the body. A communications lead is operatively coupled to the at least one sensor, and extends circumferentially along the interior surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Mario Joseph Arceneaux, Michael Allen Ball, Andrew David Ellis, Robert David Jones, Donald Shaw
  • Patent number: 11179820
    Abstract: A mounting system for a tool for machining a half-shell casing of a turbomachine is disclosed. The mounting system includes a base frame including a mounting element configured to fixedly mount the base frame to the half-shell casing, wherein the base frame spans at least a portion of the half-shell casing. A tool mount includes a first end pivotally coupled to the base frame to pivot about a pivot axis that is substantially parallel relative to an axis of the half-shell casing, and a second end configured to couple to and position the tool for machining the half-shell casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Cale Brittain, Andrew David Ellis, Robert David Jones
  • Publication number: 20210129236
    Abstract: A milling device for machining a slot into an inner surface of a casing for a gas turbine engine. The milling device includes a frame assembly including multiple structural guides configured to engage structural features on the inner surface of the casing to maintain an axial position of the milling device relative to a longitudinal axis of the casing. The milling device also includes a milling cutter coupled to the frame assembly. The milling device is configured to be displaced in a circumferential direction relative to the longitudinal axis to machine the slot, via the milling cutter, along the inner surface of the casing in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Fabian Gubelmann, Andrew David Ellis, Robert David Jones, Thomas Gloor, Roman Stefan Peter
  • Publication number: 20210132598
    Abstract: A measurement system for a gas turbine engine is provided. The measurement system comprises a sensor assembly. The measurement system also includes multiple sensors coupled to the sensor assembly. The sensor assembly is configured to be removably inserted within a space defined by a circumferential track embedded within an inner diameter of a casing of the gas turbine engine without having to disassemble the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Andrew David Ellis, Robert David Jones, Stephen Paul Wassynger
  • Publication number: 20200392867
    Abstract: A mounting member for a sensor for a turbomachine having an axis is disclosed. The mounting member includes a body configured to mount to a portion of a circumferential interior surface of a casing of the turbomachine. An opening extends through a radially inner surface of the body, and is configured to position the sensor facing radially inward relative to the axis. A passage in the body extends longitudinally through the body to route a communications lead of the sensor circumferentially relative to the circumferential interior surface of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Robert David Jones, Michael Allen Ball, Andrew David Ellis, Mario Joseph Arceneaux, Donald Shaw
  • Publication number: 20200391332
    Abstract: A mounting system for a tool for machining a half-shell casing of a turbomachine is disclosed. The mounting system includes a base frame including a mounting element configured to fixedly mount the base frame to the half-shell casing, wherein the base frame spans at least a portion of the half-shell casing. A tool mount includes a first end pivotally coupled to the base frame to pivot about a pivot axis that is substantially parallel relative to an axis of the half-shell casing, and a second end configured to couple to and position the tool for machining the half-shell casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Cale Brittain, Andrew David Ellis, Robert David Jones
  • Publication number: 20200392868
    Abstract: A casing for a turbomachine is disclosed. The casing includes a casing body including an interior surface and an exterior surface. At least one sensor is coupled relative to the interior surface of the body, the at least one sensor at most only partially extending through the body. A communications lead is operatively coupled to the at least one sensor, and extends circumferentially along the interior surface of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Mario Joseph Arceneaux, Michael Allen Ball, Andrew David Ellis, Robert David Jones, Donald Shaw
  • Patent number: 8998568
    Abstract: A turbine is provided and includes a rotor, which is rotatable about a centerline thereof, a sensor to measure a condition at a point of measurement interest defined on the rotor at a radial distance from the centerline, a communication system by which condition measurements are transmittable from the sensor to a non-rotating recording system and a probe holder to secure the sensor and a portion of the communication system on the rotor proximate to the point of measurement interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Gregory Quentin Brown, Philip Michael Caruso, Fernando Jorge Casanova, Seung-Woo Choi, Josef Scott Cummins, Matthew Ryan Ferslew, Andrew Clifford Hart, Robert David Jones, Jong Youn Pak, Francesco Soranna
  • Patent number: 8347698
    Abstract: A sensor is provided and includes a body disposed at a point of measurement interest on a rotor at a radial distance from a centerline thereof and having a substantially cylindrical shape and first and second opposing ends and a sensing end coupled to one of the first and second opposing ends, the other of the first and second opposing ends being coupled to a communication system, the sensing end including a sensing device configured to generate a signal reflective of a detected condition at the point of measurement interest, and at least one of the first and the second opposing ends being formed to define a shoulder portion for absorbing gravitational loading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Philip Michael Caruso, Seung-Woo Choi, Robert David Jones, Jong Youn Pak
  • Patent number: 8220319
    Abstract: A communication system is provided and includes a sensor to measure a condition at a point of measurement interest defined on a rotor of a turbine at a radial distance from a centerline about which the rotor is rotatable, wiring disposed on the rotor at a radial distance from the centerline, the wiring including a first wiring section coupled to the sensor, a second wiring section and a first connection by which the first and second wiring sections are connectable, a second connection by which the second wiring section transmits a signal reflective of the detected condition to a non-rotating recording element and a temperature compensation module disposed on the second wiring section to adjust the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Gregory Quentin Brown, Philip Michael Caruso, Fernando Jorge Casanova, Seung-Woo Choi, Josef Scott Cummins, Matthew Ryan Ferslew, Andrew Clifford Hart, Robert David Jones, Jong Youn Pak, Francesco Soranna
  • Publication number: 20120096961
    Abstract: A turbine is provided and includes a component having a body, which is rotatable about a rotor centerline and which is formed to define a cavity radially proximate to a point of measurement interest defined at a radial distance from the centerline, a sensor to measure a condition at the point of measurement interest, a communication system by which condition measurements are transmittable from the sensor to a non-rotating recording system and a probe holder insertible into the cavity to secure the sensor proximate to the point of measurement interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Gregory Quentin Brown, Philip Michael Caruso, Fernando Jorge Casanova, Seung-Woo Choi, Josef Scott Cummins, Matthew Ryan Ferslew, Andrew Clifford Hart, Robert David Jones, Jong Youn Pak
  • Publication number: 20120096934
    Abstract: A communication system is provided and includes a sensor to measure a condition at a point of measurement interest defined on a rotor of a turbine at a radial distance from a centerline about which the rotor is rotatable, wiring disposed on the rotor at a radial distance from the centerline, the wiring including a first wiring section coupled to the sensor, a second wiring section and a first connection by which the first and second wiring sections are connectable, a second connection by which the second wiring section transmits a signal reflective of the detected condition to a non-rotating recording element and a temperature compensation module disposed on the second wiring section to adjust the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Gregory Quentin Brown, Philip Michael Caruso, Fernando Jorge Casanova, Seung-Woo Choi, Josef Scott Cummins, Matthew Ryan Ferslew, Andrew Clifford Hart, Robert David Jones, Jong Youn Pak, Francesco Soranna
  • Publication number: 20120096933
    Abstract: A sensor is provided and includes a body disposed at a point of measurement interest on a rotor at a radial distance from a centerline thereof and having a substantially cylindrical shape and first and second opposing ends and a sensing end coupled to one of the first and second opposing ends, the other of the first and second opposing ends being coupled to a communication system, the sensing end including a sensing device configured to generate a signal reflective of a detected condition at the point of measurement interest, and at least one of the first and the second opposing ends being formed to define a shoulder portion for absorbing gravitational loading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Philip Michael Caruso, Seung-Woo Choi, Robert David Jones, Jong Youn Pak
  • Publication number: 20120096946
    Abstract: A turbine is provided and includes a rotor, which is rotatable about a centerline thereof, a sensor to measure a condition at a point of measurement interest defined on the rotor at a radial distance from the centerline, a communication system by which condition measurements are transmittable from the sensor to a non-rotating recording system and a probe holder to secure the sensor and a portion of the communication system on the rotor proximate to the point of measurement interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Gregory Quentin Brown, Philip Michael Caruso, Fernando Jorge Casanova, Seung-Woo Choi, Josef Scott Cummins, Matthew Ryan Ferslew, Andrew Clifford Hart, Robert David Jones, Jong Youn Pak, Francesco Soranna