With Inspection, Signaling, Indicating Or Measuring Means Patents (Class 415/118)
  • Patent number: 11547312
    Abstract: A smart watch and a method for measuring a pulse information are provided in the present disclosure. The smart watch includes a dial, a watchband, a blood vessel information collecting apparatus, and a processing apparatus. The watchband is connected with the dial. The blood vessel information collecting apparatus is disposed in the watchband and is configured to collect a blood vessel information from an inner side of a wrist of a user. The processing apparatus is connected with the blood vessel information collecting apparatus and is configured to receive and process the blood vessel information to obtain the pulse information of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tieshi Wang, Xueling Gao, Zhiqiang Xu
  • Patent number: 11525371
    Abstract: Cooling a torque probe involves an elongated sleeve extending along a sleeve axis between a first sleeve end and a second sleeve end. The sleeve is mountable about the torque probe to define a flow passage between an inner surface of the sleeve and an outer surface of the torque probe. The flow passage is in fluid communication with a flow passage inlet of the sleeve and with a flow passage outlet of the sleeve spaced apart along the sleeve axis from the flow passage inlet. A cooling airflow is configured to flow into the flow passage via the flow passage inlet, through the flow passage along the outer surface of the torque probe to cool the torque probe, and out of the flow passage via the flow passage outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Hervé Turcotte, Gabriel Naccache, Adam Logan
  • Patent number: 11486405
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a fluid conveying parameter, a fluid conveying device, particularly for determining a volumetric flow, comprising the steps of Determining excitation information for mechanical excitation of at least one fluid conveying element of the fluid conveying device in at least one spatial direction by at least one first sensor means, Providing operating information, comprising at least a value of an operating variable of the fluid conveying device by means of a providing means, Analyzing the information provided and determined, Determining a fluid conveying parameter, particularly a volumetric flow, of the fluid conveying device based on the analyzed information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ZIEHL-ABEGG SE
    Inventors: Matthias Carsten Kammerer, Bjoern Wenger, Raphael Simon Obst
  • Patent number: 11434774
    Abstract: Borescope plugs are described. The borescope plugs include a borescope plug base having a first side configured to support a shank and a second side having a centroid defined as the center of the borescope plug base, a first mounting aperture formed in the second side, and a second mounting aperture formed in the second side. The first and second mounting apertures are configured to each receive a fastener to mount the borescope plug base to a case, and an offset line drawn through the center of the first mounting aperture and through the center of the second mounting aperture does not pass through the centroid or does not include a point defined by the centroid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lisa P. O'Neill, Amarnath Ramlogan
  • Patent number: 11311711
    Abstract: A method of controlling a blood pump including executing a control command to temporarily displace an impeller of the blood pump within a pump housing from a first axial position relative to the pump housing to a second axial position a distance away from the first axial position using a vector control method, and causing the impeller to move from the second axial position to a third axial position, the third axial position including a positive and a negative displacement of the impeller relative to the first axial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HeartWare, Inc.
    Inventors: Fernando Casas, Carlos Reyes, Justin Wolman, Thomas R. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11286864
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for active inlet turbine control. The systems and methods may include receiving a plurality of signals, determining a temperature gradient across an inlet of a gas turbine engine, and transmitting an activation signal to a modulating valve. Each of the plurality of signals may correspond to a temperature measured by one of a plurality of sensors located proximate the inlet of the gas turbine engine. The temperature gradient across the inlet of the gas turbine engine may be determined based on the plurality of signals. The activation signal may be operative to open or close the modulating valve based on the temperature gradient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc.
    Inventor: Lisa Batsch-Smith
  • Patent number: 11175460
    Abstract: The invention describes an optical rotary transmitter with at least two housing parts, which are mounted so as to be rotatable relative to one another about an axis of rotation. An interior space is enclosed together with the at least two housing parts to be fluid impermeable manner by a membrane which completely encloses the interior space along one portion along the axis of rotation in a circumferential direction about the axis of rotation. The membrane is arranged so that at least portions of the surface of the membrane facing away from the interior space are accessible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SPINNER GMBH
    Inventors: Rupert Huber, Reinhold Ringel, Thomas Hannes Timo Huber
  • Patent number: 11111813
    Abstract: A method for inspecting a gas turbine engine using a maintenance tool includes assembling a plurality of rail segments of a rail system of the maintenance tool within a core air flowpath of the gas turbine engine. The gas turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section together defining at least in part the core air flowpath. The method also includes moving a maintenance head of the maintenance tool along the plurality of rail segments of the rail system to perform maintenance operations within the core air flowpath of the gas turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mehmet M. Dede, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., Wayne Ray Grady, Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11085686
    Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting and correcting improper operation of a compressor in a refrigeration system and/or an HVAC system include a component level detection and prevention and a system level detection and prevention. The system level detection and prevention can be a backup or a confirmation of the component level detection and prevention. The component level detection and prevention can detect and prevent improper compressor operation within a predetermined time so that the compressor's operation period in an improper direction can be minimized, thereby minimizing wear and damage to the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Thermo King Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Wayne Schumacher, Russell L. Sanders, Michael James Vanous, Marcelo Andrade Dias
  • Patent number: 11067002
    Abstract: A maintenance tool for gas turbine engine includes a rail system having a plurality of rail segments insertable through one or more inspection holes of the gas turbine engine for assembly within a core air flowpath of the gas turbine engine. The maintenance tool additionally includes a maintenance head movable along the plurality of rail segments of the rail system for performing maintenance operations within the core air flowpath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mehmet M. Dede, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., David Scott Diwinsky, Wayne Ray Grady, Marc Metz, Gary Lee Ward
  • Patent number: 11041441
    Abstract: A method of controlling at least a part of a start-up or re-light process of a gas turbine engine, the method comprising: controlling rotation of a low pressure compressor using a first electrical machine to increase angular velocity of the low pressure compressor; and controlling rotation of a high pressure compressor using a second electrical machine to restrict angular velocity of the high pressure compressor while the angular velocity of the low pressure compressor is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen M. Husband, Ahmed My Razak
  • Patent number: 11041502
    Abstract: A method of assembling a fan wheel includes forming a first wheel portion including a first plurality of impeller blades and a first connector, forming a second wheel portion including a second plurality of impeller blades and a second connector, affixing an end of each of the first plurality of impeller blades to a first surface of a support ring such that the first connector is affixed to the second connector, and affixing an end of each of the second plurality of impeller blades to a second surface of a support ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark Patrick Rau, Mehmet N. Sarimurat, Ryan K. Dygert
  • Patent number: 10995628
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for controlling a control valve (20) of a turbomachine operating at an engine speed at a cruise value (Vc) and oscillating around the cruise value (Vc) of same, the method being implemented by a calculation unit (40), and being characterised in that it comprises a step of determining a position control for the control valve (20), filtered of the oscillations of the engine speed around the cruise value (Vc).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Florian Mache, Arnaud Rodhain
  • Patent number: 10938390
    Abstract: A system can include a housing that defines an interior space; a shaft disposed at least in part in the interior space of the housing where the shaft includes a longitudinal axis, a curved surface and an end surface; a submersible electric motor operatively coupled to the shaft where the submersible electric motor includes a cable connector; two proximity sensors where each of the proximity sensors includes a sensor aperture disposed in the interior space of the housing; and circuitry operatively coupled to the proximity sensors that determines position values of the shaft with respect to time based at least in part on output of the proximity sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alejandro Camacho Cardenas, Peter Benjamin Johnson, Leo Steenson, Dudi Abdullah Rendusara, Andrew William Meredith
  • Patent number: 10920567
    Abstract: Method and system for implementing health monitoring of downhole tool without disassembly is presented in this disclosure. Investigative equipment can be installed in an exterior housing of the downhole tool so that the investigative equipment is in communication with an interior of the downhole tool. The tool can be positioned in a functional test system so that the tool is at least partially enclosed within the functional test system, and efficiency of the tool can be determined by operating the functional test system. The investigative equipment can be utilized to perform diagnostics on a condition of an internal component on the interior of the tool, and the health of the tool can be predicted based on the determined efficiency and the diagnostics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Venkataraman Sankaran, Reena A. Chanpura
  • Patent number: 10921109
    Abstract: A sensor simultaneously determines a maximum rub depth and running clearance of a plurality of blade tips in a jet engine. The sensor includes an inductive component (e.g. inductor) and a resistive component comprising resistor portions each indicative of a depth into a layer of abradable material near the blade tips. When the blade tips move in proximity to the inductor, eddy currents in the blades generates a magnetic field that interact with the magnetic field generated by the inductor, which appears as an AC component in the current. When the blade tips abrade the abradable material, the resistor portions are severed and the DC current changes due to a change in resistance at the resistive component. An amplitude of the AC component indicates a running clearance as the blades move in proximity to the inductor. The frequency of the AC component indicates the rotational speed of the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc., Rolls Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin M. Iwrey, Kerry A. Wiegand
  • Patent number: 10914180
    Abstract: A shroud segment (100) for disposition on a blade of a turbomachine is provided, in particular a gas turbine, the shroud segment having a stiffening structure raised above a shroud segment surface (15), the stiffening structure including at least three interconnected ribs (3, 5, 7), and a first end portion of the ribs (3, 5, 7) being connected to an upstream sealing tip (11) of the shroud segment (100), and a second end portion of these ribs (3, 5, 7) being connected to a downstream sealing tip (13) of the shroud segment (100). The angles (W1, W2, W3) between the direction of the axis of rotation (a) of the blade and the longitudinal orientations (21, 23, 25) of the ribs (3, 5, 7), as viewed in the direction of flow (9) through the turbomachine, are between zero degrees and eighty degrees. The present invention also relates to a blade (200) of a turbomachine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Martin Pernleitner, Klaus Wittig, Lutz Friedrich
  • Patent number: 10900493
    Abstract: A luminous fan includes a fan frame, a main circuit board, a light guide element and a light-guiding impeller. The main circuit board is disposed on a bracket of the fan frame and includes a first light-emitting element. The light guide element is located over the main circuit board, and includes a light input surface and light output surface. A light guide post is disposed on the light input surface. A reflective structure is formed on the light output surface. The light-guiding impeller is pivotally coupled to the bracket. The first light-emitting element emits a first light beam. After the first light beam is transmitted to the reflective structure through the light guide post, the first light beam is reflected by the at least one reflective structure and diffused toward a middle region of the light guide element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Wei-Chiang Huang, Wei-Ping Chan
  • Patent number: 10852215
    Abstract: A method for monitoring an aircraft engine vane wheel (22), which includes: acquiring at least one time signal relative to moments when the vane wheel blades (23) pass in front of a sensor (21); determining a common flight phase of the aircraft; for each flight in a series of flights of the aircraft, correlating at least part of each time signal with a predetermined flight phase; and for each blade (23), each flight, and each predetermined flight phase, measuring the mean position (24C), the so-called “balance position”, of the top of the blade. The invention also relates to a device for implementing such a method. One advantage of the invention is providing a diagnosis of the blades using a small number of sensors and low computing power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Geoffroy Nicq, Valerio Gerez
  • Patent number: 10815904
    Abstract: The subject matter of the present disclosure is directed to a turbine engine having an adaptive prognostic health management control system that passively monitors stall margin reductions and applies corrective trims to a power management schedule of the engine to recover operability over time whilst maintaining a sufficient level of stall margin over the life cycle of the engine. The control system can adjust the power management schedule as needed to sustain a target stall margin, which allows for a more optimized and gradual performance to operability trade-off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stefan Joseph Cafaro, James Ryan Reepmeyer, Gagan Adibhatla
  • Patent number: 10814966
    Abstract: A shroud for an aircraft having a noise reducing material on or in an inner surface of the shroud adjacent to one or more tips of the propeller. The noise reducing material is preferably an electrospun nanomaterial, particularly a ridged composite acoustic nanofibre. The interior surface of the shroud may be provided with a plurality of sound deflectors configured to dissipate sound by reflection and refraction, and absorb sound into the shroud body. The sound deflectors may be ribs or arrangements of discrete reflector elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: DOTTEREL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Samuel Seamus Rowe, Shuan Taggart Pentecost
  • Patent number: 10808570
    Abstract: In combination a blade clearance sensor and a radial flow separation wall of a gas turbine engine is provided. The blade clearance sensor is embedded in the radial flow separation wall. The radial flow separation wall comprising: a splitter hoop located radially outward from blades in a first flow path of the gas turbine engine, the splitter hoop being about concentric to a blade path of the blades; and one or more guide vane bases attached to a guide vane located radially outward from the splitter hoop in a second flow path, each of the one or more guide vane bases being securely attached to a radially outward surface of the splitter hoop, wherein the blade clearance sensor is configured to detect a blade clearance between the blades and the splitter hoop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eli Cole Warren, Kevin A. Ford
  • Patent number: 10794360
    Abstract: Method of reducing loads acting on a wind turbine yaw system in a wind turbine comprising a nacelle (2), a rotor which comprises at least one rotor blade (3) with a pitch control system and further comprising a yaw system that comprises the steps of detecting a yaw misalignment (?), enabling a yaw maneuver and performing a pitch control in order to reduce a yaw moment (Mz) acting on the wind turbine once the yaw misalignment (?) is detected and prior to enabling the yaw maneuver. Thus, when a yaw movement to reduce the yaw misalignment is commanded, the yaw moment (Mz) due to aerodynamic forces has been reduced by means of the pitch control and undesired yaw movements are prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: ACCIONA WINDPOWER, S.A.
    Inventors: Teresa Arlaban Gabeiras, Edurne Miranda Suescun, Alberto Garcia Barace, Oscar Luquin Hermoso de Mendoza, Alfonso Ruiz Aldama, Diego Otamendi Claramunt, Alejandro Gonzalez Murua, Jose Miguel Garcia Sayes, Miguel Nunez Polo
  • Patent number: 10781793
    Abstract: A method for outputting control instructions to at least one first wind power installation or at least one first wind farm using an evaluation device or for outputting an event message relating to an operating state of the at least one first wind power installation or the at least one first wind farm using the evaluation device is provided. Data is received by the evaluation device from at least one further wind power installation or from at least one further wind farm and the control instructions or the event messages are generated by evaluating the data and are output by the evaluation device. An evaluation device and a system having the evaluation device for carrying out the method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Simon Demuth
  • Patent number: 10774681
    Abstract: A housing includes a pressure relief door and a deflector. The pressure relief door includes a first door end disposed at a first hinge axis of the housing and an opposing second door end. The pressure relief door is rotatable between a first door position and a second door position about the first hinge axis and defines a portion of the housing in the first door position. The deflector includes a first deflector end disposed at a second hinge axis of the housing and an opposing second deflector end. The deflector is rotatable between a first deflector position and a second deflector position about the second hinge axis. Rotation of the pressure relief door from the first door position to the second door position effects rotation of the deflector from the first deflector position to the second deflector position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Rohr, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason K. Chen
  • Patent number: 10753287
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for active inlet turbine control. The systems and methods may include receiving a plurality of signals, determining a temperature gradient across an inlet of a gas turbine engine, and transmitting an activation signal to a modulating valve. Each of the plurality of signals may correspond to a temperature measured by one of a plurality of sensors located proximate the inlet of the gas turbine engine. The temperature gradient across the inlet of the gas turbine engine may be determined based on the plurality of signals. The activation signal may be operative to open or close the modulating valve based on the temperature gradient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas, Inc.
    Inventor: Lisa Batsch-Smith
  • Patent number: 10724404
    Abstract: A vane (18) has an airfoil section (19) that extends in a radial direction and an outer shroud (20) that is disposed on the radially outward side of the airfoil section (19), and is supported inside a casing by means of a vane support member (24). The outer shroud (20) has a shroud body (31), radial protrusions (36, 37), and a hook section (32) including the radial protrusions (36, 37) and engaging parts (39, 40). A recessed part (50), which is recessed in an axial direction or in the radial direction, is provided in at least a part of the circumference of the hook section (32). The engaging part (39) has a sealing surface that continues along the entire circumference thereof, the sealing surface coming into contact with the vane support member (24) in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Keita Takamura
  • Patent number: 10619642
    Abstract: A fan frame includes a housing, a shaft tube, a circuit board and a plurality of light-emitting elements. The housing includes a base and a plurality of connection members located between the base and a peripheral wall of the housing. The shaft tube is mounted on the base. The circuit board is mounted in the housing and includes a body having a through-hole. The circuit board is fit around the shaft tube via the through-hole and is integrally formed with a plurality of protruding ribs and at least one outer rib. Each protruding rib is aligned with a respective connection member. Each outer rib is located between two adjacent protruding ribs. The light-emitting elements are mounted on the protruding ribs and the outer rib. A fan including the fan frame is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Chia-Ching Tsai, Hung-Cheng Zhou
  • Patent number: 10618659
    Abstract: The ventilation apparatus (20) according to the invention comprises a fan (30) including a rotary machine (32) and a fan wheel (34), an observation module, a module for connecting the device (20) to a power source (12), the fan wheel (34) being set in rotation by the rotary machine (32) when the apparatus (20) is connected to the power source (12), and rotating freely when the apparatus (20) is disconnected from the power source (12). The device (20) further includes an internal power module electrically connected between the rotary machine (32) and the observation module, the internal power module being able to recover an electric current generated by the rotary machine (32) driven by the fan wheel (34), to power the observation module (62), when the apparatus (20) is disconnected from the power source (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: TECHNOFAN
    Inventors: Guillaume Boulet, Jean-Christophe Lombard, Pascal Toutain
  • Patent number: 10590957
    Abstract: A turbine-engine compressor, in particular for an aircraft turboprop engine or turbojet engine, comprising an annular casing and at least one annular row of variable-pitch blades, each blade comprising a radially external end comprising a pivot mounted in an orifice in the casing and connected by a link to a control ring able to pivot axially about its axis with respect to the casing. Each link comprises a first end fixed to the pivot of the blade and a second end mounted so as to be able to pivot on the control ring. The pivot axes of first and second links on the control ring are offset from each other along the axis of the compressor, the second end of the second link being mounted on the ring by a connecting member, allowing a connection of the sliding or annular linear pivot type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Axel Theux, Pierre-Alain Francis Claude Sebrecht
  • Patent number: 10585463
    Abstract: A luminous fan includes a supporting mechanism, a main circuit board, a light-guiding impeller and an illumination module. The light-guiding impeller is pivotally coupled to a bracket of the supporting mechanism. The illumination module is disposed within a hub of the light-guiding impeller. After a light beam from a light-emitting element of the illumination module is emitted to a lens assembly, the light beam is refracted by a secondary lens of the lens assembly and transmitted to the light-guiding impeller. Consequently, the light-guiding impeller is illuminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Wei-Chiang Huang, Wei-Ping Chan
  • Patent number: 10563534
    Abstract: A blade outer air seal includes a seal arc segment that has radially inner and outer sides, first and second circumferential ends, and first and second axial sides. The seal arc segment includes first and second primary radial supports at which the seal arc segment can be carried in a primary radial position, and first and second secondary radial supports at which the seal arc segment can be carried in a secondary radial position upon release from the first and second primary radial supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Patent number: 10539143
    Abstract: A pump assembly (2) includes an electric drive motor (14) and with at least one impeller (18) which is driven by the motor. The impeller is movable in an axial direction (X) between at least one first and one second position. The impeller in the first axial position is situated in a first flow path through the pump assembly and delivers a fluid through this first flow path. The impeller in the second position is situated in a second flow path through the pump assembly and delivers a fluid through this second flow path. The pump assembly (2) is configured such that a movement of the impeller (18), between the first and the second position at least in one direction, is effected by a hydraulic force which acts on the impeller (18) and is produced by the delivered fluid. A heating installation is provided with such a pump assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: GRUNDFOS HOLDING A/S
    Inventor: Thomas Blad
  • Patent number: 10524385
    Abstract: A fan module used on an electronic device, the electronic device includes a main board and a connector. The fan module includes a tray, a fan mounted on the tray, a supporting frame mounted on the fan, and a printed circuit board mounted on the fan by the supporting frame, the printed circuit board includes a main body and a conducting strip. The main board is perpendicular to the printed circuit board, and the connector is electrically connected to the conducting strip. The assembly of the printed circuit board and the main board is perpendicular to each other, and the supporting frame is compact to have the printed circuit board mounted on the fan, which is greatly reducing the size of the fan module in a depth direction with space saved and low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: NANNING FUGUI PRECISION INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yi-Te Lu
  • Patent number: 10502090
    Abstract: A borescope plug for a gas turbine engine includes a base attachable to a case and defining a base cavity, a shank having a base engagement element at a first end of the shank, and a plug member located at a second end of the shank, the plug member configured to plug a borescope aperture in a borescope vane cluster. The base engagement element fits within the base cavity such that the base moveably retains the base engagement element and wherein the base engagement element can move within the base cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fabian D. Betancourt, Amarnath Ramlogan, Lisa P. O'Neill
  • Patent number: 10489896
    Abstract: A system and method is generally provided for producing a high dynamic range video. The system includes a probe and a computer communicatively coupled to the probe. The probe includes a camera and a light source. Further, the probe produces a plurality of frames. The computer includes at least one processor and at least one memory device. The memory device contains instructions configured to combine the plurality of frames into composite frames. The instructions are further configured to filter out portions of frames captured below a first threshold of light and portions of frames captured above a second threshold of light. The light source modulates a lighting characteristic, and the camera captures a first video with the modulated light source to produce a plurality of frames defining a plurality of lighting characteristics. Further, the computer combines the plurality of frames into a second video including a plurality of composite frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Arthur William Sibbach
  • Patent number: 10472981
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a body having a first outer face meeting a second outer face at an intersection, the body having a plurality of apertures extending from an opening in the first outer face to an opening on the second outer face; and a coating filling at least a portion of the plurality of apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Farris, Christopher W. Strock, Paul M. Lutjen
  • Patent number: 10428668
    Abstract: The invention relates to a guide vane segment for an aircraft gas turbine, comprising at least a radially outer shroud and a radially inner shroud, which extend along a respective circular arc and together form a ring segment, wherein, in the radial direction, between the outer shroud and the inner shroud, a plurality of guide vanes are arranged next to one another in the peripheral direction (UR), the vanes being materially joined with the inner shroud and the outer shroud, in particular joined in one piece. At least two securing ribs are arranged next to one another are formed on the trailing end face for at least one guide vane, wherein an intermediate space delimited by the two securing ribs in the peripheral direction (UR) is formed, this space tapering from radially outside to radially inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Markus Schlemmer, Oliver Thiele, Bernd Kislinger, Wilfried Schuette, Manuel Hein
  • Patent number: 10408129
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor-stator blade interference noise reduction system includes a plurality of rotor blades rotating around a center axis, a plurality of stator blades facing the plurality of rotor blades and being equal in number to the plurality of rotor blades, a plurality of speakers installed approximately along a rotor blade plane defined by the plurality of rotor blades rotating and generating control sound, and an evaluation microphone, in which a distance from the evaluation microphone to one of the plurality of speakers, a distance from the evaluation microphone to another of the plurality of speakers, and a distance from the evaluation microphone to the center axis, are approximately equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Goto, Akihiko Enamito
  • Patent number: 10378371
    Abstract: A vane for a gas turbine engine includes a radially inner platform and a radially outer platform. At least two airfoils extend between the radially inner platform and the radially outer platform. At least two anti-rotation tabs extend axially from the radially outer platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Russell J. Bergman, Thurman Carlo Dabbs
  • Patent number: 10309297
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a detecting surge of a turbocharger in an engine system. In one example, system includes a turbocharger including a compressor coupled to a turbine and a controller and sensor system configured to detect a surge event of the turbocharger based on at least one of a rate of change of a pressure measured by sensors downstream of the compressor and a measured rate of change of turbine speed, store operational data associated with the surge event in memory of the controller, and determine a performance of the turbocharger based at least in part on one or more of a cumulative number of detected surge events, a magnitude of detected surge events, or associated operational data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: GE Global Sourcing LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Waikeet Lock, James Robert Mischler, Maryam Abdollahi, Joseph Audu Ishaku, Richard James Scott, Christian Roland Tollefson
  • Patent number: 10294812
    Abstract: A measuring system for sensing vane positions that comprises a turbine, a target, and a sensor. The turbine includes a plurality of articulating vanes, with each vane being coupled to a sync ring that is configured to position the plurality of articulating vanes in accordance with a degree of rotation by the sync ring. The target is coupled to a first position of the turbine within a first region that is associated with a first vane of the plurality of articulating vanes. The sensor is coupled via a bracket to a second position of the turbine within the first region. The sensor is configured to detect an orientation of the target that corresponds to a vane position of the first vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory Di Vincenzo, Francis P. Marocchini, Bhupindar Singh
  • Patent number: 10267177
    Abstract: A rotor system lock for a gas turbine engine is described which blocks movement of rotating wheel assemblies relative to static vane assemblies in a gas turbine engine in order to block unintended rotation (or windmilling) of the gas turbine engine when it is exposed to high winds while at rest or to ram air during pre-launch flight and thereby avoid damage to components of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc., Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Oran A. Watts, III, Larry A. Junod
  • Patent number: 10174743
    Abstract: A wind turbine including a rotor, a nacelle, a support structure for the nacelle and at least one wind sensing apparatus mounted on the support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: GE RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES WIND B.V.
    Inventors: Marc Canal Vila, Jordi Armet Unzeta
  • Patent number: 10156155
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbine engine having a casing (7) which has an inner wall (3i) forming a wall of an air duct (3) and at least one opening (7r) passing through the casing, leading into the duct (3) and forming a passage for an endoscope. The opening (7r) is closed during operation of the turbine engine by a stopper (8) which has an end-surface portion (8s) in the extension of the inner wall (3i). An indicator of wear to the inner wall of the casing is associated with the stopper (8) or with the inner wall (3i) of the casing, in the proximity of the stopper (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Sylvain Jacques Marie Gourdant, Laurent Jacquet, Philippe Nectoute
  • Patent number: 10113937
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring a gap size of a gap between a seal holder and an adjacent disk in a compressor section of a gas turbine. An imaging device is used to generate at least one image of the gap, wherein a calibration image of the gap is generated when the gas turbine is in a cold state to provide a calibration gap size. An operational image of the gap is also generated when the gas turbine is in operation to provide an operational gap size. In addition, an enclosure that houses the imaging device is attached to an access port formed in the compressor section to provide a view of the gap for the imaging device. Wear is detected in a hook section of the compressor section when the operational gap size is less than the calibration gap size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Arun Meenakshinatha Iyer, Dustin C. Boudin, Clifford Hatcher, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10101020
    Abstract: A uniformly luminous fan shield structure includes a light-transparent cover (10) and a light emitting diode (LED) module (30). The light-transparent cover (10) includes a central area (11) and a ring (12) around the central area (11). The ring (12) includes a groove (121). A side surface of the groove (121) includes light guide structures (125). The LED module (30) is accommodated in the groove (121). The LED module (30) includes LEDs (32), and each LED (32) illuminates toward each light guide structure (125) and the central area (11), so as to achieve uniform luminosity of the light-transparent cover (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: SILVERSTONE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei-Cheng Hung
  • Patent number: 10082038
    Abstract: The invention relates to an axial turbomachine compressor outer casing. The casing comprises a sealing device collaborating with a row of rotor blades. The casing comprises a wall with an annular groove in which the sealing device is housed. The sealing device comprises a segmented outer shroud and a plurality of piezoelectric actuators moving the shroud radially in the groove so as to open or close the functional clearance. The invention also proposes a method for controlling a sealing device for a turbojet engine, the method comprising a step of measuring the altitude and a step of adjusting a clearance according to the altitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Safran Aero Boosters S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Cortequisse, Philippe Minot
  • Patent number: 10082286
    Abstract: A cooling fan having a light-emitting effect comprises a frame body, a light-emitting assembly and a fan blade assembly, wherein the frame body has a base and an upper cover. The light-emitting assembly is mounted on the frame body and includes a circuit board, a plurality of light-emitting elements capable of emitting a light respectively and a light guide plate. The light guide plate includes a plurality of light guide strips which correspond to each of the plurality of light-emitting elements respectively to guide the light, and a light diffusion portion which is connected with the plurality of light guide strips. The light diffusion portion includes a first diffusion portion in a position corresponding to each of the plurality of light guide strips. The fan blade assembly is mounted in the frame body, such that the light passes through the first diffusion portions and then forms a diffused light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: DYNAEON INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taichi Huang
  • Patent number: 10073002
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring aerostructures are provided. In various embodiments, a method for monitoring an aerostructure may include: receiving a signal from a pressure sensor, the pressure sensor located downstream from the aerostructure; performing a time frequency analysis on the signal to calculate a power level over a range of frequencies; monitoring the power level over the range of frequencies; and determining a susceptibility to a flutter condition based on the monitoring the power level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Troy Shannon Prince