公开(公告)号：US11248559B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-15

申请号：US16899650

申请日：2020-06-12

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Michael Robert Notarnicola ,  Joshua Tyler Mook ,  Kevin Michael VandeVoorde ,  Aigbedion Akwara ,  Mohammed El Hacin Sennoun ,  Mary Kathryn Thompson

IPC: F02G1/044 ,  F02G1/05 ,  F02G1/057 ,  F02G1/055 ,  F01K23/08 ,  F02G1/045 ,  F01K25/10 ,  F02G1/043 ,  F02G1/06

Abstract: Systems and methods for converting energy are provided. In one aspect, the system includes a closed cycle engine defining a cold side. The system also includes a bottoming-cycle loop. A pump is operable to move a working fluid along the bottoming-cycle loop. A cold side heat exchanger is positioned along the bottoming-cycle loop in a heat exchange relationship with the cold side of the closed cycle engine. A constant density heat exchanger is positioned along the bottoming-cycle loop downstream of the cold side heat exchanger and upstream of an expansion device. The constant density heat exchanger is operable to hold a volume of the working fluid flowing therethrough at constant density while increasing, via a heat source, the temperature and pressure of the working fluid. The expansion device receives the working fluid at elevated temperature and pressure and extracts thermal energy from the working fluid to produce work.

公开(公告)号：US11174814B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-16

申请号：US16878858

申请日：2020-05-20

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Kevin Michael VandeVoorde ,  Joshua Tyler Mook ,  Michael Thomas Gansler ,  Scott Douglas Waun ,  Aigbedion Akwara ,  Michael Robert Notarnicola ,  Jason Joseph Bellardi ,  Mohammed El Hacin Sennoun ,  Mary Kathryn Thompson ,  Mohamed Osama ,  Victor Luis Marrero Ortiz

IPC: F02G1/055 ,  F02G1/04 ,  F28D9/04 ,  F28F7/02 ,  F28F13/00 ,  F28F13/14 ,  F02G1/053 ,  F02G1/057 ,  F02G1/047 ,  F02G1/05 ,  F02G1/044 ,  F02G1/043 ,  F28D21/00

Abstract: A monolithic engine assembly may include an engine body that includes a regenerator body. The engine body and the regenerator body may respectively define at least a portion of a monolithic body, or the engine body may define at least a portion of a first monolithic body-segment and the regenerator body may define at least a portion of a second monolithic body-segment operably coupled or operably couplable to the first monolithic body-segment. The regenerator body may include a regenerator conduit, and a plurality of fin arrays adjacently disposed within the regenerator conduit and respectively supported by the regenerator conduit in spaced relation to one another. The spaced relation of the plurality of fin arrays may define a gap longitudinally separating adjacent ones of the plurality of fin arrays.

公开(公告)号：US11174786B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-16

申请号：US15352253

申请日：2016-11-15

Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Inventor： Joshua Tyler Mook ,  John Alan Manteiga ,  Christopher Williams

IPC: F02C7/06 ,  F01D25/16 ,  F01D25/24 ,  F02C7/20 ,  F02C3/14 ,  F02C7/18 ,  F04D29/053 ,  F04D29/056 ,  F04D29/32 ,  F04D29/54

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to monolithic superstructures for supporting a rotating shaft coupled to a rotor relative to a stator. An integral superstructure supports the rotating component. The superstructure includes a bearing portion that contacts the shaft. A stator portion, is spaced a critical dimension radially outward, from the rotor. A first annular transfer portion extends axially forward from the bearing to the stator portion. A second annular transfer portion extends axially aft from the stator portion to a mounting flange. The mounting flange connects the superstructure to a frame. The superstructure maintains a critical dimension between the rotor and the stator as the temperature of the superstructure increases. The rotor may be a compressor impeller in a gas turbine engine and the stator may be an aero component that transfers air into a combustor.

公开(公告)号：US11143402B2

公开(公告)日：2021-10-12

申请号：US16398439

申请日：2019-04-30

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Mark Eugene Noe ,  Shawn Michael Pearson ,  Joshua Tyler Mook ,  Brandon ALlanson Reynolds ,  Jonathan David Baldiga

IPC: F23R3/00 ,  F01D5/06 ,  F01D5/22 ,  F01D9/04 ,  F01D9/02 ,  F01D25/24 ,  F02C3/14 ,  F02C7/22

Abstract: Gas turbine engines, as well as outer walls and flow path assemblies of gas turbine engines, are provided. For example, an outer wall of a flow path comprises a combustor portion extending through a combustion section, and a turbine portion extending through at least a first turbine stage of a turbine section. The combustor and turbine portions are integrally formed as a single unitary structure that defines an outer boundary of the flow path. As another example, a flow path assembly comprises a combustor dome positioned a forward end of a combustor; an outer wall extending from the combustor dome through at least a first turbine stage; and an inner wall extending from the combustor dome through at least a combustion section. The combustor dome extends radially from the outer wall to the inner wall and is integrally formed with the outer and inner walls as a single unitary structure.

公开(公告)号：US10969104B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-06

申请号：US16059474

申请日：2018-08-09

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Joshua Tyler Mook ,  Michael Anthony Benjamin ,  David Richard Barnhart ,  Sean James Henderson ,  Ramon Martinez ,  Neerav Atul Patel ,  Mark Richard Shaw

IPC: F23R3/28 ,  F23R3/14 ,  B23P6/00 ,  B23P15/00 ,  F02C7/18

Abstract: An aft heat shield for a fuel nozzle tip includes: an annular shield wall; an annular shield flange extending radially outward from an aft end of the shield wall; an annular baffle flange surrounding the conical section, and disposed such that an axial gap is defined between the shield flange and the baffle flange, the baffle flange including a radially outer rim extending axially forward therefrom; and a plurality of impingement cooling holes passing through the baffle flange and oriented to as to direct air flow towards the shield wall.

公开(公告)号：US10914195B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-09

申请号：US15131164

申请日：2016-04-18

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Joshua Tyler Mook ,  Bugra Han Ertas

IPC: F01D25/22 ,  F16C32/06 ,  F01D5/02 ,  F01D25/16 ,  F04D29/32 ,  F04D29/057 ,  F04D29/051

Abstract: A rotary machine for an aeronautical device includes a thrust generator. The rotary machine additionally includes a rotary component rotatable with the thrust generator. Moreover, the rotary machine of the present disclosure includes a plurality of gas bearings, with the plurality of gas bearings substantially completely supporting the rotary component of the rotary machine.

公开(公告)号：US10859034B1

公开(公告)日：2020-12-08

申请号：US16878787

申请日：2020-05-20

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Joshua Tyler Mook ,  Kevin Michael VandeVoorde ,  Aigbedion Akwara ,  Michael Robert Notarnicola ,  Jason Joseph Bellardi ,  Mohammed El Hacin Sennoun ,  Mohamed Osama

IPC: F02G1/043

Abstract: A monolithic heater body includes a combustor body and an eductor body. The combustor body has an annulus with an outward annular wall and an inward annular wall. The annulus defines a conditioning conduit between the outward annular wall and the inward annular wall, and a combustion chamber circumferentially surrounded by the inward annular wall. A distal portion of the conditioning conduit fluidly communicates with a distal portion of the combustion chamber. The eductor body defines a plurality of eductive pathway couplets circumferentially spaced about a perimeter of the annulus. Respective ones of the eductive pathway couplets have a motive pathway and an eduction pathway respectively oriented oblique to the annulus and fluidly communicating with the conditioning conduit. Respective ones of the plurality of motive pathways are configured to provide a jet of intake air from a corresponding plurality of intake air pathways to the conditioning conduit.

公开(公告)号：US10704600B2

公开(公告)日：2020-07-07

申请号：US15924804

申请日：2018-03-19

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Joshua Tyler Mook ,  Bugra Han Ertas ,  Jason Joseph Bellardi

IPC: F16C33/10 ,  F16C17/02 ,  F01D25/16 ,  F16C32/06 ,  F16C33/04 ,  F16F15/00 ,  F16C17/03 ,  F16C43/02 ,  F16F15/023 ,  F16C27/02

Abstract: A bearing includes a bearing pad for supporting a rotary component and a housing attached to or formed integrally with the bearing pad. The housing includes a flexible column extending towards the bearing pad for providing the bearing pad with an airflow. The column supports the bearing pad from a location inward of an outer periphery of the bearing pad along an axial direction of the bearing. With such a configuration, a resistance of the bearing pad along a radial direction of the bearing is less at the outer periphery than a resistance of the bearing pad along the radial direction proximate the column.

公开(公告)号：US10451282B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-22

申请号：US15107282

申请日：2014-12-23

Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Inventor： Michael Anthony Benjamin ,  Joshua Tyler Mook ,  Sean James Henderson ,  Ramon Martinez

IPC: F23R3/28 ,  F23R3/34 ,  F23R3/14 ,  F23D11/38

Abstract: A fuel nozzle includes an outer body extending parallel to a centerline axis, having a generally cylindrical exterior surface, forward and aft ends, and a plurality of openings through the exterior surface. The fuel nozzle further includes an inner body inside the outer body, cooperating with the outer body to define an annular space, and a main injection ring inside the annular space, the main injection ring including fuel posts extending therefrom. Each fuel post is aligned with one of the openings and separated from the opening by a perimeter gap which communicates with the annular space. There is a circumferential main fuel gallery in the main injection ring, and a plurality of main fuel orifices, wherein each orifice communicates with the main fuel gallery and extends through one of the fuel posts.

公开(公告)号：US10190774B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-29

申请号：US15107263

申请日：2014-12-23

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Joshua Tyler Mook ,  Jason Joseph Bellardi ,  Ting-Yu Tu

IPC: F23R3/14 ,  F23D11/38 ,  F23R3/28 ,  F23R3/34

Abstract: A fuel nozzle apparatus for a gas turbine engine includes: a fuel discharge element having a discharge orifice communicating with a fuel supply connection; a static supporting structure; and a cantilevered flexible support structure interconnecting the supporting structure and the fuel discharge element, the flexible support structure having a first end connected to the static supporting structure, and a second end connected to the fuel discharge element.