Patents by Inventor Wayne D. Nye

Wayne D. Nye 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: 20090299687
    Abstract: A method of inspecting gas turbine engine rotor disks for reverse engineering includes establishing a plurality of datums for providing a local coordinate system, establishing rim face and primary rim slot data, manually verifying coordinate measuring machine probe indexing relative to probe locations on a rotor disk programming coordinate measuring machine probing of the primary rim slot as a function of the manually verified coordinate measuring machine probe indexing along a plurality of scan lines that are substantially parallel to each other, obtaining coordinate measuring machine probing data from coordinate measuring machine probing of a plurality of sample rotor disks, outputting dimension data as a function of average values of coordinate measuring machine probing data for the plurality of sample rotor disks, and outputting tolerance data as a function of dimension data value ranges for the plurality of sample rotor disks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Robert T. Brooks, Wayne D. Nye, Donald P. Oswald