Patents by Inventor William Paul Minnear
William Paul Minnear 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: 10161310Abstract: A turbine power generation system with enhanced stabilization of refractory carbides provided by hydrocarbon from high carbon activity gases is disclosed. The disclosure also includes a method of using high carbon activity gases to stabilize hot gas path components.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Paul Minnear, Ronald Scott Bunker, Narendra Digamber Joshi, Andrei Tristan Evulet
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Publication number: 20160208700Abstract: A turbine power generation system with enhanced stabilization of refractory carbides provided by hydrocarbon from high carbon activity gases is disclosed. The disclosure also includes a method of using high carbon activity gases to stabilize hot gas path components.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2016Publication date: July 21, 2016Inventors: William Paul Minnear, Ronald Scott Bunker, Narendra Digamber Joshi, Andrei Tristan Evulet
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Patent number: 9284231Abstract: A turbine power generation system with enhanced stabilization of refractory carbides provided by hydrocarbon from high carbon activity gases is disclosed. The disclosure also includes a method of using high carbon activity gases to stabilize hot gas path components.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Paul Minnear, Ronald Scott Bunker, Narendra Digamber Joshi, Andrei Tristan Evulet
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Publication number: 20130152599Abstract: A turbine power generation system with enhanced stabilization of refractory carbides provided by hydrocarbon from high carbon activity gases is disclosed. The disclosure also includes a method of using high carbon activity gases to stabilize hot gas path components.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: William Paul MINNEAR, Ronald Scott BUNKER, Narendra Digamber JOSHI, Andrei Tristan EVULET
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Patent number: 8278823Abstract: A thermo-optically functional composition is disclosed. The composition includes a solid solution of at least two materials selected such that the composition emits thermal radiation, wherein each material is selected from the group consisting of metal carbides, metal nitrides, metal oxides, metal borides, metal silicides and combinations thereof, wherein each metal is selected from the group consisting of tungsten or tungsten alloys, hafnium or hafnium alloys, niobium or niobium alloys, tantalum or tantalum alloys, titanium or titanium alloys, zirconium or zirconium alloys, and combinations of two or more thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2007Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Sergiy Zalyubovskiy, William Paul Minnear, Vikas Midha
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Patent number: 8138675Abstract: An emitter is disclosed. The emitter includes a base layer comprising an array of nanocavities on an emission surface of the base layer, wherein facets of the nanocavities are substantially along equivalent crystallographic planes of one or more families of planes having substantially equal surface energies, wherein the equivalent crystallographic planes have surface energies equal to or lower than a surface energy of the crystallographic plane of the emission surface. Methods of making such emitters and radiation sources including such emitters are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Andrew David Deal, William Paul Minnear, Gregory Michael Gratson, David Jeffrey Bryan
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Light source incorporating a high temperature ceramic composite and gas phase for selective emission
Patent number: 8044567Abstract: A light source includes a base, a light-transmissive envelope coupled to the base, a composition disposed within the light-transmissive envelope, and a gas phase contained by the envelope for suppressing vaporization of the composition at operating temperatures greater than about 2000 Kelvin. The composition includes a first region and a second region and operable to suppress or reflect photons having a wavelength greater than about 700 nm and to emit or transmit photons having a wavelength between about 400 nm and about 700 nm.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2006Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Timothy John Sommerer, Peter Joel Meschter, Vikas Midha, William Paul Minnear, David Jeffrey Bryan -
Publication number: 20110171399Abstract: A process and apparatus for continuously depositing a coating on a fibrous material. The process is a chemical vapor deposition process that includes causing multiple strands of a fibrous material to continuously travel through a coating zone within an enclosed chamber defined by a housing so that portions of the strands contact a reactant gas as the portions travel through the chamber, directly heating the portions of the strands without physically contacting the strands and without directly heating the housing, and depositing a coating material on the strands as a result of the reactant gas contacting the portions of the strands and decomposing to form a coating of the coating material. Heating of the strands can be achieved by capacitive coupling, inductive coupling, microwave radiation, and radiant heating.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Milivoj Konstantin Brun, Krishan Lal Luthra, Timothy John Sommerer, Joseph Darryl Michael, William Paul Minnear
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Patent number: 7851985Abstract: An article is provided including a heating element and a high temperature coating coated on the heating element. The high temperature coating comprises a first region and a second region arranged in a structure such that the first and second regions maintain a periodicity of distribution between about 100 nm and about 1000 nm. Furthermore, the first region includes a first material selected from the group consisting of carbides of transition metals, nitrides of transition metals, and borides of transition metals.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2006Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Timothy John Sommerer, Peter Joel Meschter, Vikas Midha, William Paul Minnear, David Jeffrey Bryan
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Publication number: 20100219753Abstract: An emitter is disclosed. The emitter includes a a base layer comprising an array of nanocavities on an emission surface of the base layer, wherein facets of the nanocavities are substantially along equivalent crystallographic planes of one or more families of planes having substantially equal surface energies, wherein the equivalent crystallographic planes have surface energies equal to or lower than a surface energy of the crystallographic plane of the emission surface. Methods of making such emitters and radiation sources including such emitters are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Andrew David Deal, William Paul Minnear, Gregory Michael Gratson, David Jeffrey Bryan
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Patent number: 7576970Abstract: A hybrid capacitive storage system and method for storing electrical energy and hydrogen comprising at least a first dielectric layer, which dielectric layer is substantially impermeable to hydrogen. The hybrid storage system further comprises at least a first catalytic electrode layer disposed on at least a portion of a first surface of said first dielectric layer, which first catalytic electrode layer converts molecular hydrogen into atomic hydrogen, an electrode layer disposed on at least a portion of a second surface of said first dielectric layer, which electrode layer is selectively electrically connected to said first catalytic electrode layer; and at least one field generator for selectively applying a field to said storage system.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2003Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Paul Minnear, Luke Nathaniel Brewer
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Publication number: 20090160314Abstract: An emitter is disclosed. The emitter includes a base layer, where the base layer includes an emissive region of nanocavities and wherein the base layer includes hafnium and nitrogen. A radiation source including the emitter is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2007Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Sergiy Zalyubovskiy, William Paul Minnear, Gregory John Parker, Vikas Midha
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Publication number: 20090085463Abstract: A high temperature, stabilized thermo-optically functional composite is disclosed. The composite includes a phase stabilized matrix including a first component stabilized by a second component and a plurality of discrete metallic particles interspersed with respect to the matrix, wherein the composite is stable at temperatures greater than about 2000 degrees K.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2007Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: David Jeffrey Bryan, Vikas Midha, William Paul Minnear, Gregory Michael Gratson
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Publication number: 20080238289Abstract: A thermo-optically functional composition is disclosed. The composition includes a solid solution of at least two materials selected such that the composition emits thermal radiation, wherein each material is selected from the group consisting of metal carbides, metal nitrides, metal oxides, metal borides, metal silicides and combinations thereof, wherein each metal is selected from the group consisting of tungsten or tungsten alloys, hafnium or hafnium alloys, niobium or niobium alloys, tantalum or tantalum alloys, titanium or titanium alloys, zirconium or zirconium alloys, and combinations of two or more thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: SERGIY ZALYUBOVSKIY, WILLIAM PAUL MINNEAR, VIKAS MIDHA
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Publication number: 20080237541Abstract: A thermo-optically functional composition is disclosed. A metal component and a non-metal component, wherein the metal component comprises one or more metals and the non-metal component comprises two or more non-metals, wherein an emission spectrum or a reflection spectrum of the composition is different from an emission spectrum or a reflection spectrum of the one or more metals, the two or more non-metals, or any combinations of the metals and non-metals thereof when taken separately from the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Sergiy Zalyubovskiy, William Paul Minnear, Vikas Midha
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Publication number: 20080237500Abstract: A thermo-optically functional composition is disclosed. The composition includes components A, B, C, and D, and has a thermal emission or reflection spectrum that is altered with respect to a thermal emission or reflection spectrum of a composition ABn and a thermal emission or reflection spectrum of a composition CDp, where at least A is different from C or B is different from D.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: SERGIY ZALYUBOVSKIY, WILLIAM PAUL MINNEAR, VIKAS MIDHA
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Patent number: 7175826Abstract: Disclosed herein is a hydrogen storage composition comprising a catalyst composition disposed upon a storage composition; wherein the catalyst composition comprises an alloy of calcium, barium, platinum, palladium, nickel, titanium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, copper, silicon, germanium, rhodium, rhodium, ruthenium, molybdenum, niobium, zirconium, yttrium, barium, lanthanum, hafnium, tungsten, rhenium, osmium, iridium, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing metals.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2003Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: John Patrick Lemmon, William Paul Minnear, Luke Nathaniel Brewer, Susan Holt Townsend
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Patent number: 6974619Abstract: A material and an article comprising the material are presented. The material comprises a plurality of structural components. The structural components are configured in a series of increasing structural component size classes. The series has a base unit size class and at least one modular size class, and a component of the at least one modular size class comprises a plurality of components of the next smaller size class in the series. The structural components of the base unit size class comprise at least one bulk phase, and the structural components are bonded together at interfaces. Mechanical damage originating within a modular size class structural component is energetically favored to propagate in a distributed fashion among the plurality of structural components contained within the modular size class structural component.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2003Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mohan Manoharan, William Paul Minnear, Reza Sarrafi-Nour, Krishan Lal Luthra