Byron A Pritchard, 61324 Beech Rd, Loveland, OH 45140

5285635, Feb 15, 1994

Jun 22, 1993

8/081482

Joseph F. Savelli - West Chester OH
Byron A. Pritchard - Loveland OH

General Electric Company - Cincinnati OH

F02C 314
F23R 346

60 3936

A double annular combustor having concentrically disposed inner and outer annular combustors is provided with inner and outer dome plates. Each dome plate has an inner portion and an outer portion. A cowl structure having an inner portion, an outer portion and a middle portion is also provided. The cowl outer portion is connected to the outer dome plate outer portion, the cowl inner portion is connected to the inner dome plate inner portion, and the cowl middle portion is connected to the outer dome plate inner portion and the inner dome plate outer portion. at an outer end, an inner end, and a middle portion. Additionally, the inner and outer annular combustors may lie in distinct radial planes, whereby the dome plate of the downstream annular combustor includes a section extending upstream to the cowl middle portion.

5321951, Jun 21, 1994

Jul 8, 1993

8/089058

Stephen W. Falls - Cincinnati OH
Eric J. Kress - Loveland OH
Joseph F. Savelli - West Chester OH
James N. Cooper - Hamilton OH
Byron A. Pritchard - Loveland OH

General Electric Company - Cincinnati OH

F23R 360
F02C 722

60748

A carburetor for the combustor of a gas turbine engine wherein a swirler and a venturi cooperate to atomize and mix air and fuel for the combustor, wherein a downstream mounted integrally formed sleeve and splash plate is provided to control the flow of the air/fuel mixture into the combustor. The integral splash plate and sleeve has protuberances formed on its upstream surface to increase the area impinged by cooling air and thereby enhance cooling of the splash plate flange thereof.

5353865, Oct 11, 1994

Mar 30, 1992

7/860397

Eugene F. Adiutori - W. Chester OH
Byron A. Pritchard - Loveland OH
Stephen Aleshin - Cincinnati OH

General Electric Company - Cincinnati OH

F28F 1318

165133

An improved heat transfer assembly includes a textured impingement surface and means for impinging cooling air directly upon the textured surface. A component includes a surface textured to increase convective heat transfer with minimal increase in resistance to conductive heat transfer through the component. The textured surface can comprise an array of closely spaced hemispherically shaped protuberances. A method is disclosed for texturing a surface with discrete laser welds.

2020019, Jun 18, 2020

Dec 14, 2018

16/220431

- Schenectady NY, US
Michael H. Fisher - Cincinnati OH, US
Daniel Maggard - Cincinnati OH, US
Byron Andrew Pritchard - Cincinnati OH, US

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

G08G 5/00
F01D 21/00
B64F 5/60
B64D 45/00
B64F 5/40

Provided is an engine health management system and method for determining health of an engine of an aircraft, that includes a data source interface which transmits data from internal and external data sources, a control module that includes a processor and a memory and receives data via the data source interface, creates evaluation methods for evaluating the data received to determine suitable data and storing the suitable data within the memory, and creates a controlled historical airport information repository to process historical data via the processor and generate airport information reports based on the historical data. The system also includes a central computing system communicatively coupled with the control module and the data source interface, which performs data enhancement techniques including linking environmental counts and accumulations with engine data.

2019036, Dec 5, 2019

Aug 13, 2019

16/539638

- Schenectady NY, US
Byron Andrew Pritchard - Cincinnati OH, US
Shankar Sivaramakrishnan - Niskayuna NY, US
Larry Steven Rosenzweig - Clifton Park NY, US
Mehmet M. Dede - Cincinnati OH, US
Hrishikesh Keshavan - Niskayuna NY, US
Ambarish J. Kulkarni - Niskayuna NY, US
Margeaux Wallace - Niskayuna NY, US

B64F 5/40
B64F 5/60
F01D 5/28
C23C 28/00
G01N 21/84

A control system includes one or more processors configured to determine when to extend a life span of an engine by applying an additional restorative coating to the engine based on one or more monitored parameters of the engine. The monitored parameters include a condition of a previously applied restorative coating. The one or more processors are configured to determine the condition of the previously applied restorative coating based on an optical response of the previously applied restorative coating. The one or more processors also are configured to direct application of the additional restorative coating based on the one or more monitored parameters of the engine.

2019031, Oct 17, 2019

Apr 17, 2018

15/955219

- Schenectady NY, US
Byron Pritchard - Cincinnati OH, US
Hrishikesh Keshavan - Niskayuna NY, US
Mehmet Dede - Cincinnati OH, US
Bernard Patrick Bewlay - Niskayuna NY, US

B05B 1/20
B05D 1/12
B05B 12/00

A coating system includes a support fixture sized to be partially inserted into one or more openings of a component and a spray nozzle segment device comprising a housing configured to receive a slurry. The device is disposed radially outward of a central axis of the component and is shaped to extend circumferentially about at least part of the central axis of the component. The housing comprises plural delivery nozzles configured to spray the slurry onto a surface of the component. The device is operably coupled with the support fixture such that the fixture maintains a position of the device within the component when the support fixture is partially inserted into one or more openings of the component.

2019031, Oct 17, 2019

Apr 17, 2018

15/955161

- Schenectady NY, US
Byron Pritchard - Cincinnati OH, US
Margeaux Wallace - Niskayuna NY, US
Ambarish Kulkarni - Niskayuna NY, US
Mehmet Dede - Cincinnati OH, US
Bernard Patrick Bewlay - Niskayuna NY, US

C23C 14/06
C23C 14/28
C23C 4/10
C23C 4/134

A reactive phase spray formulation coating is configured to be disposed on the thermal barrier coating of an article. The reactive phase spray formulation coating comprises a base material and a binder material. The base material has a compliance that is higher than a compliance of the binder material, the binder material has a cohesive strength that is greater than a cohesive strength of the base material, the binder material has an adhesive strength that is greater than an adhesive strength of the base material, and the binder material has a surface area of at least ten square-meters per gram that is greater than a surface area of the base material. The binder material is configured to improve a cohesive strength level, an adhesive strength level, and a compliance of the formulation coating of the thermal barrier coating relative to the formulation coating not including the binder material.

2019021, Jul 11, 2019

Jan 9, 2018

15/865495

- Schenectady NY, US
Byron Andrew Pritchard - Cincinnati OH, US
Cathleen Ann Hoel - Schenectady NY, US
Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni - Glenville NY, US
Michael Solomon Idelchik - Niskayuna NY, US
Bernard Patrick Bewlay - Niskayuna NY, US

F01D 5/28
F01D 5/00
C23C 28/00
C23C 4/11

A coated component including a slotted ceramic coating with a reactive phase coating disposed thereon for improved resistance to environmental contaminant compositions, along with methods of its formation, is provided. The coated component may include a substrate defining a surface, a ceramic coating disposed on the surface of the substrate, and a reactive phase coating disposed on the layer of environmental contaminant compositions. The ceramic coating includes a plurality of slots disposed in the ceramic coating forming segments of ceramic coating material.