Patents by Inventor Xiaochun Shen

Xiaochun Shen 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: 10024296
    Abstract: An electric machine is presented. The electric machine includes a hollow rotor; and a stator disposed within the hollow rotor, the stator defining a flow channel. The hollow rotor includes a first end portion defining a fluid inlet, a second end portion defining a fluid outlet; the fluid inlet, the fluid outlet, and the flow channel of the stator being configured to allow passage of a fluid from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet via the flow channel; and wherein the hollow rotor is characterized by a largest cross-sectional area of hollow rotor, and wherein the flow channel is characterized by a smallest cross-sectional area of the flow channel, wherein the smallest cross-sectional area of the flow channel is at least about 25% of the largest cross-sectional area of the hollow rotor. An electric fluid pump and a power generation system are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Jeremy Daniel Van Dam, Norman Arnold Turnquist, Tsarafidy Raminosoa, Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Xiaochun Shen
  • Patent number: 9903509
    Abstract: Techniques and systems to reduce deflection of a riser extending from an offshore platform. The riser may include a flow guide. The flow guide may receive a fluid. The flow guide may also include one or more outlets that are configured to transmit the fluid. This transmission of the fluid by the one or more outlets may counteract currents or other factors to mitigate deflection in the riser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Ensco International Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard Robert Roper, Xiaochun Shen, Wenzhi Li
  • Publication number: 20160298791
    Abstract: Techniques and systems to reduce deflection of a riser extending from an offshore platform. The riser may include a flow guide. The flow guide may receive a fluid. The flow guide may also include one or more outlets that are configured to transmit the fluid. This transmission of the fluid by the one or more outlets may counteract currents or other factors to mitigate deflection in the riser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Richard Robert Roper, Xiaochun Shen, Wenzhi Li
  • Patent number: 9373984
    Abstract: An apparatus, such as an electrical machine, is provided. The apparatus can include a rotor defining a rotor bore and a conduit disposed in and extending axially along the rotor bore. The conduit can have an annular conduit body defining a plurality of orifices disposed axially along the conduit and extending through the conduit body. The rotor can have an inner wall that at least partially defines the rotor bore. The orifices can extend through the conduit body along respective orifice directions, and the rotor and conduit can be configured to provide a line of sight along the orifice direction from the respective orifices to the inner wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hendrik Pieter Jacobus De Bock, James Pellegrino Alexander, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie, William Dwight Gerstler, Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Xiaochun Shen
  • Publication number: 20150326074
    Abstract: An electric machine is presented. The electric machine includes a hollow rotor; and a stator disposed within the hollow rotor, the stator defining a flow channel. The hollow rotor includes a first end portion defining a fluid inlet, a second end portion defining a fluid outlet; the fluid inlet, the fluid outlet, and the flow channel of the stator being configured to allow passage of a fluid from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet via the flow channel; and wherein the hollow rotor is characterized by a largest cross-sectional area of hollow rotor, and wherein the flow channel is characterized by a smallest cross-sectional area of the flow channel, wherein the smallest cross-sectional area of the flow channel is at least about 25% of the largest cross-sectional area of the hollow rotor. An electric fluid pump and a power generation system are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Jeremy Daniel Van Dam, Norman Arnold Turnquist, Tsarafidy Raminosoa, Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Xiaochun Shen
  • Patent number: 9145865
    Abstract: An electric machine is presented. The electric machine includes a hollow rotor; and a stator disposed within the hollow rotor, the stator defining a flow channel. The hollow rotor includes a first end portion defining a fluid inlet, a second end portion defining a fluid outlet; the fluid inlet, the fluid outlet, and the flow channel of the stator being configured to allow passage of a fluid from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet via the flow channel; and wherein the hollow rotor is characterized by a largest cross-sectional area of hollow rotor, and wherein the flow channel is characterized by a smallest cross-sectional area of the flow channel, wherein the smallest cross-sectional area of the flow channel is at least about 25% of the largest cross-sectional area of the hollow rotor. An electric fluid pump and a power generation system are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jeremy Daniel Van Dam, Norman Arnold Turnquist, Tsarafidy Raminosoa, Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Xiaochun Shen
  • Patent number: 8982558
    Abstract: A cooling device for a power module having an electronic module disposed on a base plate via a substrate is disclosed. The cooling device includes a heat sink plate having at least one cooling segment. The cooling segment includes an inlet plenum for entry of a cooling medium, a plurality of inlet manifold channels, a plurality of outlet manifold channels, and an outlet plenum. The plurality of inlet manifold channels are coupled orthogonally to the inlet plenum for receiving the cooling medium from the inlet plenum. The plurality of outlet manifold channels are disposed parallel to the inlet manifold channels. The outlet plenum is coupled orthogonally to the plurality of outlet manifold channels for exhaust of the cooling medium. A plurality of millichannels are disposed in the base plate orthogonally to the inlet and the outlet manifold channels. The plurality of milli channels direct the cooling medium from the plurality of inlet manifold channels to the plurality of outlet manifold channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard Alfred Beaupre, Joseph Lucian Smolenski, William Dwight Gerstler, Xiaochun Shen
  • Publication number: 20140001893
    Abstract: An electric machine is presented. The electric machine includes a hollow rotor; and a stator disposed within the hollow rotor, the stator defining a flow channel. The hollow rotor includes a first end portion defining a fluid inlet, a second end portion defining a fluid outlet; the fluid inlet, the fluid outlet, and the flow channel of the stator being configured to allow passage of a fluid from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet via the flow channel; and wherein the hollow rotor is characterized by a largest cross-sectional area of hollow rotor, and wherein the flow channel is characterized by a smallest cross-sectional area of the flow channel, wherein the smallest cross-sectional area of the flow channel is at least about 25% of the largest cross-sectional area of the hollow rotor. An electric fluid pump and a power generation system are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Jeremy Daniel Van Dam, Norman Arnold Turnquist, Tsarafidy Raminosoa, Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Xiaochun Shen
  • Patent number: 8487489
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus, for example, for use with a rotating electric machine, that includes a housing. The housing can include a housing main portion and a housing end portion. The housing main portion can be configured to be disposed proximal to a body portion of a stator section of an electric machine. The housing main portion can define a main fluid channel that is configured to conduct fluid therethrough. The housing end portion can receive fluid from said main fluid channel and direct fluid into contact with a winding end portion of a conductive winding of the stator section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pepe Palafox, William Dwight Gerstler, Xiaochun Shen, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie, Murtuza Lokhandwalla, Lembit Salasoo
  • Patent number: 8466589
    Abstract: The present application provides a stator. The stator may include a number of poles and a stator tip and cooling assembly. The stator tip and cooling assembly may include a number of stator tips with a number of cooling tubes adjacent thereto such that the stator tips align with the poles and the cooling tubes cool the poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Pellegrino Alexander, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie, Xiaochun Shen
  • Patent number: 8456048
    Abstract: A stator assembly includes a segmented stator having stator portions. Each stator portion includes stator laminations having stator windings, spacer plates having a portion embedded within the stator laminations, and structural plates having a portion embedded within the stator laminations. The portion of each of the spacer plates and each of the structural plates has notch-like structures that create openings to allow a cooling medium to flow between the notch-like structures to provide radial cooling of the stator windings. Connectors are provided to connect the stator portions of the segmented stator together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Murtuza Lokhandwalla, Jay Zhiqiang Cao, William Dwight Gerstler, Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran, Robert Michael Zirin, Xiaochun Shen
  • Publication number: 20130002064
    Abstract: An apparatus, such as an electrical machine, is provided. The apparatus can include a rotor defining a rotor bore and a conduit disposed in and extending axially along the rotor bore. The conduit can have an annular conduit body defining a plurality of orifices disposed axially along the conduit and extending through the conduit body. The rotor can have an inner wall that at least partially defines the rotor bore. The orifices can extend through the conduit body along respective orifice directions, and the rotor and conduit can be configured to provide a line of sight along the orifice direction from the respective orifices to the inner wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Hendrik Pieter Jacobus De Bock, James Pellegrino Alexander, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi EL-Refaie, William Dwight Gerstler, Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Xiaochun Shen
  • Publication number: 20120327603
    Abstract: A cooling device for a power module having an electronic module disposed on a base plate via a substrate is disclosed. The cooling device includes a heat sink plate having at least one cooling segment. The cooling segment includes an inlet plenum for entry of a cooling medium, a plurality of inlet manifold channels, a plurality of outlet manifold channels, and an outlet plenum. The plurality of inlet manifold channels are coupled orthogonally to the inlet plenum for receiving the cooling medium from the inlet plenum. The plurality of outlet manifold channels are disposed parallel to the inlet manifold channels. The outlet plenum is coupled orthogonally to the plurality of outlet manifold channels for exhaust of the cooling medium. A plurality of millichannels are disposed in the base plate orthogonally to the inlet and the outlet manifold channels. The plurality of milli channels direct the cooling medium from the plurality of inlet manifold channels to the plurality of outlet manifold channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Richard Alfred Beaupre, Joseph Lucian Smolenski, William Dwight Gerstler, Xiaochun Shen
  • Patent number: 8232637
    Abstract: A power module includes one or more semiconductor power devices bonded to an insulated metal substrate (IMS). A plurality of cooling fluid channels is integrated into the IMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard Alfred Beaupre, Peter Almern Losee, Xiaochun Shen, John Stanley Glaser, Joseph Lucian Smolenski, Adam Gregory Pautsch
  • Publication number: 20120074800
    Abstract: The present application provides a stator. The stator may include a number of poles and a stator tip and cooling assembly. The stator tip and cooling assembly may include a number of stator tips with a number of cooling tubes adjacent thereto such that the stator tips align with the poles and the cooling tubes cool the poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: James Pellegrino Alexander, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie, Xiaochun Shen
  • Publication number: 20120025638
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus, for example, for use with a rotating electric machine, that includes a housing. The housing can include a housing main portion and a housing end portion. The housing main portion can be configured to be disposed proximal to a body portion of a stator section of an electric machine. The housing main portion can define a main fluid channel that is configured to conduct fluid therethrough. The housing end portion can receive fluid from said main fluid channel and direct fluid into contact with a winding end portion of a conductive winding of the stator section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Pepe Palafox, William Dwight Gerstler, Xiaochun Shen, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie, Murtuza Lokhandwalla, Lembit Salasoo
  • Patent number: 7994668
    Abstract: An electrical machine comprising a rotor is presented. The electrical machine includes the rotor disposed on a rotatable shaft and defining a plurality of radial protrusions extending from the shaft up to a periphery of the rotor. The radial protrusions having cavities define a fluid path. A stationary shaft is disposed concentrically within the rotatable shaft wherein an annular space is formed between the stationary and rotatable shaft. A plurality of magnetic segments is disposed on the radial protrusions and the fluid path from within the stationary shaft into the annular space and extending through the cavities within the radial protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Dwight Gerstler, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie, Murtuza Lokhandwalla, James Pellegrino Alexander, Owen Scott Quirion, Pepe Palafox, Xiaochun Shen, Lembit Salasoo
  • Publication number: 20100289386
    Abstract: An electrical machine comprising a rotor is presented. The electrical machine includes the rotor disposed on a rotatable shaft and defining a plurality of radial protrusions extending from the shaft up to a periphery of the rotor. The radial protrusions having cavities define a fluid path. A stationary shaft is disposed concentrically within the rotatable shaft wherein an annular space is formed between the stationary and rotatable shaft. A plurality of magnetic segments is disposed on the radial protrusions and the fluid path from within the stationary shaft into the annular space and extending through the cavities within the radial protrusions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: William Dwight Gerstler, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi EL-Refaie, Murtuza Lokhandwalla, James Pellegrino Alexander, Owen Scott Quirion, Pepe Palafox, Xiaochun Shen, Lembit Salasoo
  • Publication number: 20100277868
    Abstract: A power module includes one or more semiconductor power devices bonded to an insulated metal substrate (IMS). A plurality of cooling fluid channels is integrated into the IMS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Richard Alfred Beaupre, Peter Almern Losee, Xiaochun Shen, John Stanley Glaser, Joseph Lucian Smolenski, Adam Gregory Pautsch
  • Publication number: 20100090549
    Abstract: A PM machine is provided. The PM machine includes a stator including a stator core, wherein the stator core defines multiple step-shaped stator slots. The stator includes multiple fractional-slot concentrated windings wound within the step-shaped stator slots. The stator also includes at least one cooling tube disposed around the windings. The stator further includes a first insulation layer disposed around the cooling tube. The stator also includes a second insulation layer disposed around the first insulation layer. The stator further includes at least one slot wedge configured to close an opening of a respective one of the step-shaped stator slots, wherein the slot wedge is further configured to adjust a leakage inductance in the PM machine. The PM machine also includes a rotor having a rotor core and disposed outside and concentric with the stator, wherein the rotor core includes a laminated back iron structure disposed around multiple magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: William Dwight Gerstler, Xiaochun Shen, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie, John Michael Kern, Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Jeremy Daniel VanDam