Patents by Inventor Wayde R. Schmidt

Wayde R. 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).

  • COMPOSITES AND METHODS OF MAKING COMPOSITE MATERIALS
    Publication number: 20210098149
    Abstract: A method of making a composite material includes disposing a carbon-based particulate material, such as graphene or carbon nanotubes, in an activation solution and activating surfaces of the carbon-based particulate material using the activation solution. Once the surfaces of the carbon-based particulate material have been activated, a metallic coating is applied to the activated surfaces to form a composite material. The composite material is then recovered as a particulate material formed having carbon-based particulate material with a metallic coating that is suitable for fusing together for forming electrical conductors, such as with an additive manufacturing technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Ying She, Sameh Dardona, Wayde R. Schmidt
  • Protective shield including hybrid nanofiber composite layers
    Patent number: 10934016
    Abstract: A method of forming a protective shield to protect an aircraft component from EMI or energy bursts includes the steps of combining a carbon-based or silicon-based preceramic polymer precursor and a metallic precursor to form a dope, processing the dope to provide a deposit that includes nano-structures, post-processing the deposit to provide a nano-structure material with a uniformly distributed base metal or metal compound, and forming a protective shield using the nano-structure material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Wayde R. Schmidt
  • METHOD OF FABRICATING A CERAMIC COMPOSITE
    Publication number: 20210053881
    Abstract: A method of making a ceramic composite component includes providing a fibrous preform or a plurality of fibers, providing a first plurality of particles, coating the first plurality of particles with a coating to produce a first plurality of coated particles, delivering the first plurality of coated particles to the fibrous preform or to an outer surface of the plurality of fibers, and converting the first plurality of coated particles into refractory compounds. The first plurality of particles or the coating comprises a refractory metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Wayde R. Schmidt, Paul Sheedy
  • ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED MULTI-PORTION ARTICLE
    Publication number: 20210046713
    Abstract: An additive manufactured multi-portion article includes a first portion of an article manufactured by a first additive manufacturing process; and a second portion of the article manufactured by a second additive manufacturing process different than the first additive manufacturing process, the second portion attached to the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Wayde R. Schmidt, Paul Sheedy, John A. Sharon, Dustin D. Caldwell, Slade R. Culp
  • FIBER HAVING INTEGRAL WEAK INTERFACE COATING, METHOD OF MAKING AND COMPOSITE INCORPORATING THE FIBER
    Publication number: 20210040651
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of coating a high temperature fiber including depositing a base material on the high temperature fiber using atomic layer deposition, depositing an intermediate material precursor on the base material using molecular layer deposition, depositing a top material on the intermediate material precursor or the intermediate layer using atomic layer deposition, and heat treating the intermediate precursor. The intermediate material in the final coating includes a structural defect, has lower density than the top material or a combination thereof. Also disclosed are the coated high temperature fiber and a composite including the high temperature fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Paul Sheedy, Neal Magdefrau, Wayde R. Schmidt
  • HIGH TEMPERATURE FIBER AND METHOD OF MAKING
    Publication number: 20210039998
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of making high temperature fiber including incorporating an inorganic atom into a polymer precursor fiber to form a modified polymer precursor fiber and converting the modified polymer precursor fiber to a high temperature fiber having a bonded inorganic atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Paul Sheedy, Wayde R. Schmidt, Neal Magdefrau
  • HIGH TEMPERATURE FIBER, METHOD OF MAKING AND HIGH TEMPERATURE FIBER COMPOSITES
    Publication number: 20210039999
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of making high temperature fiber including chemically bonding high temperature material to a fiber template at a first temperature to form a precursor fiber and processing the precursor fiber at a second temperature to form the high temperature fiber. The first temperature does not equal the second temperature. Also disclosed are high temperature fibers made by the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Paul Sheedy, Neal Magdefrau, Wayde R. Schmidt
  • Method of detecting conversion quality of green matrix composite material and system for same
    Patent number: 10895545
    Abstract: A method of detecting conversion quality includes the steps of providing an article having a green material and a semiconductor material, processing the green material and the semiconductor material to produce a matrix composite, and detecting a matrix composite conversion quality with the semiconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Birnkrant, Wayde R. Schmidt
  • PARTICULATE INGESTION SENSOR FOR GAS TURBINE ENGINES
    Publication number: 20210003075
    Abstract: A multi-angle multi-wave array may comprise a first set of sensing elements, a second set of sensing elements, and a third set of sensing elements wherein the first set of sensing elements, the second set of sensing elements, and the third set of sensing elements are collectively configured to detect and discriminate between categories of foreign object debris including solid objects and particulates including silicate sand, water vapor, dust, volcanic ash, and smoke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David L Lincoln, Wayde R. Schmidt, Michael J. Birnkrant, Michael T. Gorski, Jonathan Gilson, Xuemei Wang, Coy Bruce Wood
  • Composites and methods of making composite materials
    Patent number: 10878976
    Abstract: A method of making a composite material includes disposing a carbon-based particulate material, such as graphene or carbon nanotubes, in an activation solution and activating surfaces of the carbon-based particulate material using the activation solution. Once the surfaces of the carbon-based particulate material have been activated a metallic coating is applied to the activated surfaces to form a composite material. The composite material is then recovered as a particulate material formed having carbon-based particulate material with a metallic coating that is suitable for fusing together for forming electrical conductors, such as with an additive manufacturing technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Ying She, Sameh Dardona, Wayde R. Schmidt
  • Article having coating including compound of aluminum, boron and nitrogen
    Patent number: 10851021
    Abstract: An article includes a monolithic substrate and a coating on the monolithic substrate. The monolithic substrate is selected from graphite, silicon carbide, silicon carbide nitride, silicon nitride carbide, and silicon nitride. The coating has a free, exposed surface and includes a compound of aluminum (Al), boron (B) and nitrogen (N) in a continuous chemically bonded network having Al—N bonds and B—N bonds. The compound includes an atom of nitrogen covalently bonded to an atom of boron and an atom of aluminum, and the compound has a composition BxAl(1-x)N, where x is 0.001 to 0.999.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Wayde R. Schmidt
  • Systems and methods for particulate ingestion sensing in gas turbine engines
    Patent number: 10845294
    Abstract: A method of operating a multi-angle, multi-wave array may comprise, emitting a first light at a blue wavelength, emitting a second light at an infrared wavelength, emitting a third light at an ultraviolet wavelength, and detecting a scattered light from each of the first light, the second light, and the third light at a plurality of light sensing devices wherein the detection of scattered light is determinative between categories of foreign object debris including solid objects and particulates including silicate sand, water vapor, dust, volcanic ash, sea-salt aerosol, and smoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David L. Lincoln, Wayde R. Schmidt, Michael J. Birnkrant, Xuemei Wang
  • FUNCTIONAL INORGANICS AND CERAMIC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Publication number: 20200361116
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods and resins for additive manufacturing. In one embodiment, a method for additive manufacturing of a ceramic structure includes providing a resin including a preceramic polymer and inorganic ceramic filler particles dispersed in the preceramic polymer. The preceramic polymer is configured to convert to a ceramic phase. The method includes functionalizing inorganic ceramic filler particles with a reactive group and applying an energy source to the resin to create at least one layer of the ceramic phase from the resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventor: Wayde R. Schmidt
  • RAPID PROCESSING OF LAMINAR COMPOSITE COMPONENTS
    Publication number: 20200361826
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a CMC structure includes infiltrating a porous substrate with a composite material and performing a first densification on the infiltrated porous substrate, forming a first densified porous substrate, wherein the first densification includes techniques selected from the group of techniques comprising photonic curing, photonic sintering, pulsed thermal heating, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Wayde R. Schmidt, Paul Sheedy
  • RADIATION SENSORS
    Publication number: 20200348171
    Abstract: In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, an ultraviolet radiation (UV) sensor includes a UV sensitive material and a first electrode and a second electrode connected in series through the UV sensitive material such that UV radiation can reach the UV sensitive material. The UV sensitive material can include at least one of zinc tin oxide, magnesium oxide, magnesium zinc oxide, or zinc oxide. The electrodes can be interdigitated comb electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Sameh Dardona, Marcin Piech, Wayde R. Schmidt, Antonio M. Vincitore, Joseph V. Mantese, Rhonda R. Willigan, Peter R. Harris, Jose L. Santana
  • Method of fabricating a ceramic composite
    Patent number: 10822282
    Abstract: A method of making a ceramic composite component includes providing a fibrous preform or a plurality of fibers, providing a first plurality of particles, coating the first plurality of particles with a coating to produce a first plurality of coated particles, delivering the first plurality of coated particles to the fibrous preform or to an outer surface of the plurality of fibers, and converting the first plurality of coated particles into refractory compounds. The first plurality of particles or the coating comprises a refractory metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Wayde R. Schmidt, Paul Sheedy
  • Additive manufactured multi-portion article
    Patent number: 10821678
    Abstract: An additive manufactured multi-portion article includes a first portion of an article manufactured by a first additive manufacturing process; and a second portion of the article manufactured by a second additive manufacturing process different than the first additive manufacturing process, the second portion attached to the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Wayde R. Schmidt, Paul Sheedy, John A. Sharon, Dustin D. Caldwell, Slade R. Culp
  • Erosion resistant and hydrophobic article
    Patent number: 10814580
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes an airfoil having a core that has a first hardness and a surface on the core. The surface includes a plurality of geometric features that have a second, greater hardness. The geometric features define a surface porosity by area percent and a corresponding surface solidity by area percent. The surface includes a ratio of the surface solidity divided by the surface porosity that is 1.8 or greater. The geometric features and the ratio establish the surface to be hydrophobic, and the second, greater hardness and the ratio establish an erosion rate of the surface that is equal to or less than an erosion rate of the core under identical erosion conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wayde R. Schmidt, James T. Beals, Aaron T. Nardi
  • Controlling microstructure of inorganic material by indirect heating using magnetic radiation
    Patent number: 10815156
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling a microstructure of an inorganic material includes providing a structure that has a first region of an inorganic material having a first microstructure and a second region that is thermally responsive to electromagnetic radiation, the second region being adjacent the first region, and indirectly heating the first region by thermally activating the second region, using electromagnetic radiation, to generate heat. The generated heat converts the first microstructure of the inorganic material to a second, different microstructure. The method can be applied to control a microstructure of an inorganic coating on an inorganic fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wayde R. Schmidt, Paul Sheedy
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED CERAMIC COMPOSITES
    Publication number: 20200299200
    Abstract: A turbine engine component may comprise a Ceramic Matrix Composite (CMC) structure including a plurality of nominally dense plies, wherein each of the plurality of the nominally dense plies are bonded by at least one of a Field Assisted Sintering Technique (FAST), a Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS), or a localized heating at a bonding interface. The turbine engine component may include an airfoil extending between a first platform and a second platform, wherein the airfoil, the first platform, and the second platform define the CMC structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Sheedy, John A. Sharon, Wayde R. Schmidt, Neal Magdefrau