Patents by Inventor William Joseph Solomon
William Joseph Solomon 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).
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Patent number: 11834954Abstract: A gas turbine is provided, the gas turbine engine including a turbomachine having an inlet splitter defining in part an inlet to a working gas flowpath and a fan duct splitter defining in part an inlet to a fan duct flowpath. The gas turbine engine also includes a primary fan driven by the turbomachine defining a primary fan tip radius R1, a primary fan hub radius R2, and a primary fan specific thrust rating TP; and a secondary fan downstream of the primary fan and driven by the turbomachine, the secondary fan defining a secondary fan tip radius R3, a secondary fan hub radius R4, and a secondary fan specific thrust rating TS; wherein the gas turbine engine defines an Effective Bypass Area, and wherein a ratio of R1 to R3 equals R 1 R 3 = ( E ? F ? P ) ? ( 1 - RqR Sec . - Fan 2 ) ( 1 - RqR Prim . - Fan 2 ) ? ( T P T S ) ? ( E ? B ? A ) .Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: David Marion Ostdiek, William Joseph Solomon
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Publication number: 20230323789Abstract: A gas turbine is provided, the gas turbine engine including a turbomachine having an inlet splitter defining in part an inlet to a working gas flowpath and a fan duct splitter defining in part an inlet to a fan duct flowpath. The gas turbine engine also includes a primary fan driven by the turbomachine defining a primary fan tip radius R1, a primary fan hub radius R2, and a primary fan specific thrust rating TP; and a secondary fan downstream of the primary fan and driven by the turbomachine, the secondary fan defining a secondary fan tip radius R3, a secondary fan hub radius R4, and a secondary fan specific thrust rating TS; wherein the gas turbine engine defines an Effective Bypass Area, and wherein a ratio of R1 to R3 equals R 1 R 3 = ( E ? F ? P ) ? ( 1 - RqR Sec . - Fan 2 ) ( 1 - RqR Prim . - Fan 2 ) ? ( T P T S ) ? ( E ? B ? A ) .Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2022Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: David Marion Ostdiek, William Joseph Solomon
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Publication number: 20230323837Abstract: A gas turbine is provided, the gas turbine engine including a turbomachine having an inlet splitter defining in part an inlet to a working gas flowpath and a fan duct splitter defining in part an inlet to a fan duct flowpath. The gas turbine engine also includes a primary fan driven by the turbomachine defining a primary fan tip radius R1, a primary fan hub radius R2, and a primary fan specific thrust rating TP; and a secondary fan downstream of the primary fan and driven by the turbomachine, the secondary fan defining a secondary fan tip radius R3, a secondary fan hub radius R4, and a secondary fan specific thrust rating TS; wherein the gas turbine engine defines an Effective Bypass Area, and wherein a ratio of R1 to R3 equals R 1 R 3 = ( EFP ) ? ( 1 - RqR ( Sec . - Fan ) 2 ) ( 1 - RqR Prim . - Fan 2 ) ? ( T P T S ) ? ( EBA ) .Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: David Marion Ostdiek, William Joseph Solomon
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Patent number: 11739694Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section arranged in serial flow order with a turbine section, and an electric motor assembly. The electric motor assembly has a rotor assembly that is coupled to, or integrated within, a stage of compressor rotor blades of the compressor section and a stator assembly. The stator assembly is operable with the rotor assembly to rotate the rotor assembly relative to the stator assembly and drive the stage of compressor rotor blades about the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Michael Todd Bonnoitt, William Joseph Solomon
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Publication number: 20220333553Abstract: A three-stream gas turbine engine with an embedded electric machine and methods of operating the same are disclosed. In one aspect, a three-stream engine includes an electric machine operatively coupled with a shaft of the engine. The three-stream engine also includes a core engine and a primary fan and a mid-fan positioned upstream of the core engine. The primary fan and the mid-fan are operatively coupled with the shaft. During operation, the three-stream engine defines a tip speed ratio being defined by a tip speed of a rotor of the electric machine to a tip speed of a mid-fan blade of the mid-fan. The tip speed ratio is defined as being equal to or greater than 0.2 and less than or equal to 1.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Darek Tomasz Zatorski, David Marion Ostdiek, Mohamed Osama, William Joseph Solomon
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Publication number: 20210324802Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section arranged in serial flow order with a turbine section, and an electric motor assembly. The electric motor assembly has a rotor assembly that is coupled to, or integrated within, a stage of compressor rotor blades of the compressor section and a stator assembly. The stator assembly is operable with the rotor assembly to rotate the rotor assembly relative to the stator assembly and drive the stage of compressor rotor blades about the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Michael Todd Bonnoitt, William Joseph Solomon
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Patent number: 10883515Abstract: An apparatus and method of managing negative incidence of an airfoil are provided. The apparatus includes a row of vane pairs including a first row of main vanes extending radially inwardly from a stationary casing member and spaced circumferentially about a first axial location of the stationary casing member. The apparatus also includes a second row of auxiliary vanes extending radially inwardly from the stationary casing member and spaced circumferentially about a second axial location of the stationary casing member. The apparatus also includes a flow channel defined between a pressure side of each auxiliary vane and a suction side of an adjacent main vane proximate a leading edge of the adjacent main vane.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: David Paul Lurie, Sherif Alykadry Abdelfattah, Michael Julian Castillo, Anthony Louis DiPietro, Jr., Aspi Rustom Wadia, Eric Andrew Falk, William Joseph Solomon, Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow
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Patent number: 10823067Abstract: The heat exchanger assembly includes a first conduit, an external surface, and a set of fins. The first conduit includes a first inlet, a first outlet, and a first internal flow path extending between the first inlet and first outlet. The first conduit is configured to channel a flow of fluid to be cooled from the first inlet to the first outlet. The external surface which includes a plurality of regions. Each region of the plurality of regions includes a respective set of fins extending from the external surface. Each set of fins of a respective region of the plurality of regions are oriented in a different direction than sets of fins of other regions of the plurality of regions.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Mohammed El Hacin Sennoun, William Joseph Solomon, Kyle Louis Miller
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Publication number: 20180335051Abstract: An apparatus and method of managing negative incidence of an airfoil are provided. The apparatus includes a row of vane pairs including a first row of main vanes extending radially inwardly from a stationary casing member and spaced circumferentially about a first axial location of the stationary casing member. The apparatus also includes a second row of auxiliary vanes extending radially inwardly from the stationary casing member and spaced circumferentially about a second axial location of the stationary casing member. The apparatus also includes a flow channel defined between a pressure side of each auxiliary vane and a suction side of an adjacent main vane proximate a leading edge of the adjacent main vane.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2017Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: David Paul Lurie, Sherif Alykadry Abdelfattah, Michael Julian Castillo, Anthony Louis DiPietro, JR., Aspi Rustom Wadia, Eric Andrew Falk, William Joseph Solomon, Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow
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Publication number: 20170328279Abstract: The heat exchanger assembly includes a first conduit, an external surface, and a set of fins. The first conduit includes a first inlet, a first outlet, and a first internal flow path extending between the first inlet and first outlet. The first conduit is configured to channel a flow of fluid to be cooled from the first inlet to the first outlet. The external surface which includes a plurality of regions. Each region of the plurality of regions includes a respective set of fins extending from the external surface. Each set of fins of a respective region of the plurality of regions are oriented in a different direction than sets of fins of other regions of the plurality of regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2016Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: Mohammed El Hacin Sennoun, William Joseph Solomon, Kyle Louis Miller
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Patent number: 7476086Abstract: A fan blade includes an airfoil having opposite pressure and suction sides extending in span between a root and tip, and extending in chord between opposite leading and trailing edges. From root toward tip, the airfoil includes increasing stagger and decreasing camber, and increasing chord length to barrel the airfoil along both the leading and trailing edges. The airfoil further includes forward aerodynamic sweep at the tip, and non-forward aerodynamic sweep between the maximum barrel and the root.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2005Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Aspi Rustom Wadia, Peter Nicholas Szucs, Max Robert Farson, Virginia Louise Wilson, William Joseph Solomon
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Patent number: 7374403Abstract: A turbofan includes a row of fan blades extending from a supporting disk inside an annular casing. Each blade includes an airfoil having opposite pressure and suction sides extending radially in span between a root and tip and axially in chord between leading and trailing edges. Adjacent airfoils define corresponding flow passages therebetween for pressurizing air. Each airfoil includes stagger increasing between the root and tip, and the flow passage has a mouth between the airfoil leading edge and the suction side of an adjacent airfoil and converges to a throat aft from the mouth. The row includes no more than twenty fan blades having low tip solidity for increasing the width of the passage throat.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2005Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: John Jared Decker, Peter Nicholas Szucs, William Joseph Solomon, Virginia Louise Wilson