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).

  • 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
  • Coated heat exchanger
    Patent number: 10760858
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is disclosed for transferring heat from a first material to a second material comprises a structural heat transfer member having a first surface in contact with the first material and a second surface in contact with the second material. The heat exchanger also has a coating on the first surface, the second surface, or on the first and second surfaces. The coating comprises filler particles dispersed in a polymer resin matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wayde R. Schmidt, Scott Alan Eastman, Alexander Norman, Sonia Tulyani, Jodi A. Vecchiarelli, Caitlyn McIntyre Thorpe
  • METHOD FOR REPAIRING COATED PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS
    Publication number: 20200260592
    Abstract: A method for repairing a printed circuit board (PCB) including the steps of presenting a PCB having an initial coating on a surface thereof, removing the initial coating from the surface of the PCB at least in an area in need of repair, and recoating at least the area of the PCB in need of repair by way of atomic layer deposition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Paul Sheedy, Steven Poteet, Wayde R. Schmidt, Neal Magdefrau
  • Functional inorganics and ceramic additive manufacturing
    Patent number: 10730204
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Wayde R. Schmidt
  • Ceramic article and method therefor using particle infiltration and preceramic polymer infiltration
    Patent number: 10717680
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a ceramic article includes providing a porous body that includes a plurality of fiber bundles that has an intra-bundle porosity and an inter-bundle porosity, infiltrating the intra-bundle porosity and the inter-bundle porosity with a mixture of particles in a liquid carrier, the particles having an average size selected with respect to at least the intra-bundle porosity, removing the liquid carrier from the porous body to deposit the particles in the intra-bundle porosity and in the inter-bundle porosity, infiltrating a preceramic polymer into a remaining intra-bundle porosity and a remaining inter-bundle porosity, and thermally converting the preceramic polymer to a ceramic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shahram Amini, Xia Tang, Wayde R. Schmidt, Tania Bhatia Kashyap
  • Direct writing of conformal and free-form magnets
    Patent number: 10717229
    Abstract: A system for direct writing a conformal or free-form magnet includes producing a magnetic ink compound by mixing an photopolymer base and a magnetic material powder, extruding a layer of the magnetic ink compound through a nozzle on to a target substrate to form a layer, soft-curing the layer by exposing the layer to a first light, repeatedly extruding a layer and soft-curing the layer, then post-curing the magnet by exposing the magnet to a second light and an elevated temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Sameh Dardona, Paul Sheedy, Wayde R. Schmidt, Dustin D. Caldwell, Slade R. Culp
  • Radiation sensors
    Patent number: 10718662
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: 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 FOR PRODUCING A CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE COMPONENT
    Publication number: 20200216362
    Abstract: A method of producing a ceramic matrix composite material component is provided. The method includes that steps of: a) producing a preform having one or more ceramic constituents, the preform being porous with internal voids; and b) applying at least one layer of a first material to the preform using an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process to decrease a porosity of the preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Paul Sheedy, Neal Magdefrau, Wayde R. Schmidt
  • ELECTRIC COMPONENT INCLUDING CUSTOM METAL GRAIN ORIENTATION
    Publication number: 20200220394
    Abstract: An electrical device includes an electromagnetic component configured to generate a magnetic flux. The electromagnetic component includes a soft magnetically-conductive material configured to pass magnetic flux therethrough along a flux path. The soft magnetically-conductive material includes at least one grain oriented portion having metal grains that are oriented parallel with respect to the magnetic flux.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Jagadeesh Tangudu, Beata I. Wawrzyniak, John A. Sharon, James T. Beals, Tahany Ibrahim El-Wardany, Wayde R. Schmidt