Patents by Inventor Xia Tang

Xia Tang 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).

  • Patent number: 12624225
    Abstract: An article according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, among other possible things includes a substrate and a barrier layer on the substrate. The barrier layer includes a bond coat comprising a matrix, diffusive particles disposed in the matrix, and gettering particles disposed in the matrix; a topcoat; and a porous interlayer disposed between the topcoat and the bond coat. The porous interlayer has a porosity that is greater than a porosity of the topcoat. A slurry composition for applying an interlayer to an article and method of applying a top coat to an article are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xia Tang, Richard Wesley Jackson, III, James T. Beals, David A. Litton, Brian T. Hazel
  • Patent number: 12624229
    Abstract: An article includes a substrate and a bond coat disposed on the substrate. The bond coat includes a matrix, a plurality of gettering particles disposed in the matrix, a plurality of diffusive particles disposed in the matrix, a radiation-absorbing component disposed in the matrix, wherein the radiation-absorbing component is concentrated at an outer surface of the bond coat. An article and a method of protecting an article are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Wesley Jackson, III, Xia Tang, James T. Beals, David A. Litton, Brian T. Hazel
  • Patent number: 12594579
    Abstract: A method of repairing a coating on an article according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, among other possible things includes defining a work area surrounding a discontinuity in the coating, the coating including undisturbed bond coat and undisturbed top coat; removing coating material within the work area; applying a slurry containing bond coat constituents in a carrier fluid to the work area; curing the slurry to form a repaired bond coat; applying a slurry containing top coat constituents in a carrier fluid to the work area; and curing the slurry to form a repaired top coat. A method of repairing a coating on an article and an article are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Litton, James T. Beals, Richard Wesley Jackson, III, Xia Tang
  • Patent number: 12583785
    Abstract: A method for forming an oxidation protection system on a carbon-carbon composite structure can comprise applying a boron slurry to the carbon-carbon composite structure, wherein the boron slurry comprises a boron compound, a first glass mixture, a first glass former, a first glass modifier, and a first carrier fluid, the first glass mixture including a first glass compound and a second glass compound, the first glass compound having a first viscosity-temperature profile that is at least one order of magnitude below a second viscosity-temperature profile of the second glass compound; applying a silicon slurry to the carbon-carbon composite structure, wherein the silicon slurry comprises a silicon compound, a third glass compound, a second glass former, a second glass modifier, and a second carrier fluid; and heating the carbon-carbon composite structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhongfen Ding, Steven Poteet, John S. Linck, Xia Tang, Richard Wesley Jackson, III, Michael Miller, Virginia E. Collier, Hans L Lehermeier
  • Publication number: 20250313951
    Abstract: Environmental barrier coatings (EBCs) are disclosed having one or more sealing layers incorporated therein to inhibit ingress of corrosive materials into EBCs and their associated ceramic materials (CMCs). The sealing layers are yttrium oxide (Y2O3), lanthanum oxide (La2O3), ytterbium oxide (Yb2O3), hafnium oxide (HfO2), zirconium oxide (ZrO2), hafnium silicon oxide (HfSiO4), zirconium silicon oxide (ZrSiO4), ytterbium silicon oxide (Yb2Si2O7), and/or aluminum oxide (Al2O3) layers, and are applied by atomic layer deposition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2024
    Publication date: October 9, 2025
    Applicant: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Wesley JACKSON, III, Tianli ZHU, Xia TANG, James BEALS
  • Publication number: 20250313957
    Abstract: Environmental barrier coatings or coating systems that contain a bond coat, the bond coat containing an oxide matrix, and dispersed throughout the oxide matrix an oxidant gettering phase, a SiO2 based phase, that may be amorphous or crystalline, a crystalline phase, and an amorphous oxide phase, which is a self-healing phase having the ability to soften or melt and flow into cracks formed in the oxide matrix at predetermined temperatures that are below the melting temperature of the oxide matrix, where the amorphous oxide phase contains an alkaline earth alumino-silicate, and the crystalline phase contains Al6Si2O13, ZrSiO4, HfSiO4, Ca2ZrSi4O12, Ca2HfSi4O12, CaAl2Si2O8, CaSiO3, Al2TiO5, Mg2Al4Si5O18, BaAl2Si2O8, BaZrSi3O9, Y2Si2O7, Yb2Si2O7, and/or Al2O3, and methods for protecting ceramic matrix composite materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2024
    Publication date: October 9, 2025
    Applicant: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Wesley JACKSON, III, Xia TANG, James T. BEALS, Ryan M. DEACON
  • Publication number: 20250304505
    Abstract: A feedstock for spray deposition of a coating includes particles each including a particle core and a coating. The particle core is a gettering particle. The coating includes at least one of diffusive material, precursor diffusive material, matrix material, and precursor matrix material. A method of coating a substrate is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Inventors: James T. Beals, Richard Wesley Jackson, III, Xia Tang, Brian T. Hazel, David A. Litton
  • Patent number: 12428348
    Abstract: An article according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, among other possible things includes a substrate and a barrier layer on the substrate. The barrier layer includes a bond coat comprising a matrix, diffusive particles disposed in the matrix, and gettering particles disposed in the matrix. At least about 10% of the gettering particles are in a crystalline phase. The article also includes a top coat. An article is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: David A. Litton, Richard Wesley Jackson, III, Xia Tang, James T. Beals
  • Publication number: 20250262800
    Abstract: A coating system includes a mold having a flexible wall defining a mold cavity, a component disposed in the mold cavity, there being a coating gap defined between the component and the flexible wall of the mold cavity, and either a molding slurry or a solidified molding slurry filling the coating gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2025
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Inventors: Xuan Liu, James T. Beals, Xia Tang, Justin R. Hawkes, Olivier H. Sudre, William F. Werkheiser, Brian T. Hazel, Richard Wesley Jackson
  • Patent number: 12371389
    Abstract: An adaptive surface texturing method is provided for use with a part formed of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) to be coated with an environmental barrier coating (EBC). The method includes coating a CMC surface of the part with an initial coating, determining a contour and an undulation pattern of the CMC surface and designing a texturing pattern to follow the contour and the undulation pattern and to be formed in the initial coating based on a thickness of the initial coating and an average particle size of a slurry of the EBC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhigang Wang, Xia Tang, James T. Beals, Gajawalli V. Srinivasan, John D. Riehl, Brian T. Hazel, David A. Litton
  • Patent number: 12364215
    Abstract: An irrigation device for sandy land crop planting is provided, including a water tank assembly, locking spraying assemblies, a detection spraying assembly, a control unit, and the like. The water tank assembly includes an outer tank body, a middle tank body, and an end tank body. Each locking spraying assembly includes a locking frame and a first spraying pipe. The detection spraying assembly includes a second spraying pipe and a support leg that can rotate circumferentially. The irrigation device for sandy land crop planting. By the arrangement of the water tank assembly that can be pulled to adjust a capacity, so that a length of the device can be adjusted. The irrigation device can be suitable for irrigating cultivated lands with different widths, without being moved back and forth for multiple times, and has high irrigation efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Xia Tang, Hao Qu, Baoguang Shi
  • Patent number: 12344564
    Abstract: Systems and methods for forming an oxidation protection system on a composite structure are provided. In various embodiments, the oxidation protection system comprises a boron-glass layer formed on the composite substrate and a silicon-glass layer formed over the boron-glass layer. Each of the boron-glass layer and the silicon-glass layer includes a glass former.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Nable, Steven A. Poteet, Xia Tang, James T. Beals
  • Patent number: 12319629
    Abstract: An article includes a ceramic-based substrate and a barrier layer on the ceramic-based substrate. The barrier layer includes a matrix of barium-magnesium alumino-silicate or SiO2, a dispersion of silicon oxycarbide particles in the matrix, and a dispersion of particles, of the other of barium-magnesium alumino-silicate or SiO2, in the matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xia Tang, Paul Sheedy, Tania Bhatia Kashyap, Wayde R. Schmidt, Daniel G. Goberman
  • Patent number: 12312276
    Abstract: A method for forming a self-healing ceramic matrix composite (CMC) component includes depositing a first self-healing particulate material in a first region of a CMC preform of the CMC component and depositing a second self-healing particulate material having a different chemical composition than the first self-healing particulate material in a second region of the CMC preform distinct from the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Xia Tang, James T. Beals, Richard Wesley Jackson, Ying She, Andrew J. Lazur, Kathryn S. Read, Mary Colby
  • Patent number: 12312281
    Abstract: A coating according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, among other possible things includes a bond coat including gettering particles and diffusive particles dispersed in a matrix; a top coat disposed over the bond coat, the top coat includes metal silicate particles; and an intermediate layer between the bond coat and the top coat. The intermediate layer includes hafnium silicate particles and matrix. A concentration of metal silicate in the intermediate layer is less than a concentration of metal silicate in the top coat. An article is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Wesley Jackson, III, Xia Tang, James T. Beals
  • Patent number: 12311574
    Abstract: A method of forming a coating includes providing a mold that has a flexible wall that defines a mold cavity, inserting a component that is to be coated into the mold cavity, the component having a component surface roughness and there being a coating gap defined between the component and the flexible wall of the mold cavity, introducing a molding slurry into the mold cavity, the molding slurry filling the coating gap and contacting the component so as to overcoat the component surface roughness, solidifying the molding slurry to form a green coating on the component, and consolidating the green coating to form a final coating on the component, the final coating having a coating surface roughness that is less than the component surface roughness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xuan Liu, James T. Beals, Xia Tang, Justin R. Hawkes, Olivier H. Sudre, William F. Werkheiser, Brian T. Hazel, Richard Wesley Jackson
  • Publication number: 20250162952
    Abstract: A device may include a substrate. A device may include a barrier layer on the substrate, the barrier layer including a matrix, diffusive particles, and gettering particles, wherein the gettering particles are arranged in an interconnected matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: James T. Beals, Richard Wesley Jackson, Xia Tang
  • Patent number: 12291783
    Abstract: An example article according to the present disclosure includes, among other possible things, a metallic substrate, and a bond coat on the metallic substrate. The bond coat includes a matrix phase, gettering particles in the matrix phase, wherein the gettering particles are reactive with oxidants, and a dispersion of matrix modifier particles in the matrix phase. The example article also includes a diffusion barrier between the bond coat and the metallic substrate, wherein the diffusion barrier is configured to inhibit diffusion of components from the bond coat into the metallic substrate. An example composite material and method of applying a barrier to a substrate are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Xia Tang, Richard Wesley Jackson, James T. Beals, Kenneth David Smith
  • Patent number: 12262609
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device, and relates to the field of display technology. The display substrate includes a display region and a wiring region surrounding the display region. The wiring region includes: a gate line layer including a plurality of signal lines parallel to each other; an insulation layer covering the gate line layer, a groove being formed in the insulation layer at a position corresponding to a gap between adjacent signal lines; a planarization layer at a side of the insulation layer away from the gate line layer; and an active pattern layer at a side of the planarization layer away from the gate line layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xia Tang, Yue Wei, Huimin Cao, Xijie Peng
  • Publication number: 20250072269
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a via hole penetrating through the display panel; a cutting residual area on the periphery of the via hole and includes a base substrate, and a packaging layer; and at least one annular relief structure between the packaging layer and the base substrate in the cutting residual area. The at least one annular relief structure is sequentially distributed around the via hole. The relief structure includes: a first titanium metal layer, an aluminum metal layer and a second titanium metal layer which are sequentially arranged in a stacked mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Lei DENG, Yue WEI, Xia TANG, Wei DENG, Qian WANG, Junxiu DAI, Yang ZHOU, Xin ZHANG, Yi QU