Patents by Inventor Stephen J. Lyle

Stephen J. Lyle 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: 8932011
    Abstract: A shaft assembly for a gas turbine engine that includes a shaft with a threaded shaft segment, an annular rotor disposed on the shaft, and annular stack nut. The stack nut includes a base nut segment and a clamping nut segment. The base nut segment includes a threaded nut bore that is mated with the threaded shaft segment. The clamping nut segment axially extends from the base nut segment to a load bearing surface. The clamping nut segment includes a radial thickness that decreases as the clamping nut segment extends from the load bearing surface towards the base nut segment. The load bearing surface exerts a force against the rotor securing the rotor to the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Eric C. Mundell, Todd M. LaPierre, Marc J. Muldoon, Stephen J. Lyle
  • Publication number: 20130089432
    Abstract: A shaft assembly for a gas turbine engine that includes a shaft with a threaded shaft segment, an annular rotor disposed on the shaft, and annular stack nut. The stack nut includes a base nut segment and a clamping nut segment. The base nut segment includes a threaded nut bore that is mated with the threaded shaft segment. The clamping nut segment axially extends from the base nut segment to a load bearing surface. The clamping nut segment includes a radial thickness that decreases as the clamping nut segment extends from the load bearing surface towards the base nut segment. The load bearing surface exerts a force against the rotor securing the rotor to the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Eric C. Mundell, Todd M. LaPierre, Marc J. Muldoon, Stephen J. Lyle
  • Patent number: 6400143
    Abstract: The invention relates to a digital sensor of relative position, which has a circular multipolar magnetic ring which is mobile in rotation opposite a stationary magnetic sensor comprised of at least two sensitive elements, respectively positioned facing a main track and a “revolution tick” reference track, and a device for processing of the output signals, such that on the magnetic ring, a magnetic pattern is produced from a pair of north and south poles whose transition is different from the transition between the other north and south poles of the magnetic ring, and of which the angular width of the north pole is different at the site of the “revolution tick” reference track. The sensitive elements can be three in number, the first of which faces reference track and of which the other two face the main track, or they can be produced in the form of two parallel bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: The Torrington Company
    Inventors: Francis Travostino, A. John Santos, Mark E. LaCroix, Stephen J. Lyle
  • Patent number: 5898301
    Abstract: Magnetic poles are regularly spaced along a path to form a magnetic track. Some of the magnetic poles are separated by regular pole junctions aligned uniformly with respect to the path of the magnetic track. At least two of the magnetic poles are separated by a skewed irregular pole junction aligned such that a sensor near an edge of the magnetic track will sense a wide pole and a narrow pole to allow an index signal to be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: The Torrington Company
    Inventors: Mark E. La Croix, A. John Santos, Stephen J. Lyle