Paul J Norton, 5035 Lexi Ln, Bristol, CT 06010

2013022, Aug 29, 2013

Feb 27, 2012

13/405738

Olivier Jacques Louis LAMICQ - Poway CA, US
Fernando Manuel Ibarra Esparragoza - San Diego CA, US
Paul Francis Norton - San Diego CA, US
Jeremiah Wesley Key - San Marcos CA, US

F01D 5/14
F01D 5/30

416234

A rotor blade for a gas turbine engine has an airfoil, a base integrally joined to the airfoil, and a root integrally joined to the base and mountable in a slot in a rotor hub of the gas turbine engine. The root has a dovetail including at least one contact face that, when mounted, contacts a surface of the slot to retain the rotor blade in the hub. The root includes a neck between the base and the dovetail, and a groove in the neck for redirecting stress in the rotor blade. In certain embodiments, the groove is at a distance from the at least one contact face, has a length less than a length of the dovetail, and/or has an initial non-zero depth at the side of a trailing edge of the airfoil and tapers to a zero depth in the direction of the leading edge of the airfoil.

5487642, Jan 30, 1996

Aug 12, 1994

8/262179

Paul F. Norton - San Diego CA
James E. Shaffer - Maitland FL

Solar Turbines Incorporated - San Diego CA

F04D 2960

4152092

A nozzle guide vane assembly having a preestablished rate of thermal expansion is positioned in a gas turbine engine and being attached to conventional metallic components. The nozzle guide vane assembly includes an outer shroud having a mounting leg with an opening defined therein, a tip shoe ring having a mounting member with an opening defined therein, a nozzle support ring having a plurality of holes therein and a pin positioned in the corresponding opening in the outer shroud, opening in the tip shoe ring and the hole in the nozzle support ring. A rolling joint is provided between metallic components of the gas turbine engine and the nozzle guide vane assembly. The nozzle guide vane assembly is positioned radially about a central axis of the gas turbine engine and axially aligned with a combustor of the gas turbine engine.

5503528, Apr 2, 1996

Dec 27, 1993

8/173765

Boris Glezer - Del Mar CA
Gary L. Boyd - Alpine CA
Paul F. Norton - San Diego CA

Solar Turbines Incorporated - San Diego CA

F01D 508
F01D 528

416 96R

A turbine wheel assembly includes a disk having a plurality of blades therearound. A ceramic ring is mounted to the housing of the turbine wheel assembly. A labyrinth rim seal mounted on the disk cooperates with the ceramic ring to seal the hot gases acting on the blades from the disk. The ceramic ring permits a tighter clearance between the labyrinth rim seal and the ceramic ring.

5747804, May 5, 1998

Sep 13, 1996

8/713560

Ronald L. Williams - Fallbrook CA
Paul R. Norton - Santa Barbara CA

Raytheon Company - Lexington MA

G01J 500

2503381

Apparatus (102, 202, 302) and method for tunneling rate infrared detection devices formed on a single substrate (100). A counter electrode (104, 207) having a plurality of portions extending from the substrate (100) with the counter electrode (104, 207) suspended above the substrate (100) at a distance from a tunneling electrode (116) so that a tunneling current flows through the counter electrode (104, 207) and tunneling electrode (116) in response to an applied bias voltage. The counter electrode (104, 207) and tunneling electrodes (116) form a circuit that produces an output signal. A force applied to the sensor (102, 202, 302) urges the counter electrode (104, 207, 304) to deflect relative to the tunneling electrode (116) to modulate the output signal. The output signal is a control voltage that is applied between the counter electrode (104, 207, 304) and a control electrode (114) to maintain a constant tunneling current. In the preferred embodiment, two cantilever portions (108, 110) extend from the wafer surface (100).

5459995, Oct 24, 1995

Jun 27, 1994

8/265863

Paul F. Norton - San Diego CA
James E. Shaffer - Maitland FL

Solar Turbines Incorporated - San Diego CA

F02C 700

60 3931

A nozzle guide vane assembly having a preestablished rate of thermal expansion is positioned in a gas turbine engine and being attached to conventional metallic components. The nozzle guide vane assembly includes a pair of legs extending radially outwardly from an outer shroud and a pair of mounting legs extending radially inwardly from an inner shroud. Each of the pair of legs and mounting legs have a pair of holes therein. A plurality of members attached to the gas turbine engine have a plurality of bores therein which axially align with corresponding ones of the pair of holes in the legs. A plurality of pins are positioned within the corresponding holes and bores radially positioning the nozzle guide vane assembly about a central axis of the gas turbine engine.

5538380, Jul 23, 1996

Jun 27, 1994

8/265864

Paul F. Norton - San Diego CA
James E. Shaffer - Maitland FL

Solar Turbines Incorporated - San Diego CA

F16B 3716
F16B 3930

411436

A nozzle guide vane assembly has ceramic components therein having a conventional thread thereon including a preestablished pitch and having a preestablished rate of thermal expansion. The nozzle guide vane assembly has a metallic components therein having a preestablished rate of thermal expansion being greater that the rate of thermal expansion of the ceramic components is positioned in a gas turbine engine. The metallic component, a nut, has a thread therein including a plurality of crests being spaced on a pitch equal to that of the ceramic component and has a pair of contacting surfaces extending from the plurality of crests. A notch spirally extends intermediate adjacent ones of the plurality of crests and has a preestablished depth which is at least twice the size of the conventional pitch. Furthermore, the pair of contacting surfaces are in contact with only a portion of the threaded surface of the ceramic components.

6302453, Oct 16, 2001

Nov 10, 2000

9/710709

Paul Norton - Mission Viejo CA

S.P.E.P. Acquisition Corporation - Rancho Dominques CA

E05C 112

29216921

A bi-directional handle and latch assembly mountable to a door or other closure. The latch assembly may be operated by either of a first handle or a second handle. The first handle may operate a latch bolt in the latch assembly by rotating the handle in either the clockwise or the counter-clockwise direction, and operate the latch bolt irrespective of whether or not the second handle is locked. The invention employs a simple construction for ease of manufacture, repair, and replacement of the first handle with other handles with different aesthetic or functional outer designs or configurations.

6174005, Jan 16, 2001

Jun 30, 1999

9/345284

Paul Norton - Mission Viejo CA

Sierra Pacific Engineering and Products - Rancho Dominguez CA

E05C 112

29216921

A bi-directional handle and latch assembly mountable to a door or other closure. The latch assembly may be operated by either of a first handle or a second handle. The first handle may operate a latch bolt in the latch assembly by rotating the handle in either the clockwise or the counter-clockwise direction, and operate the latch bolt irrespective of whether or not the second handle is locked. The invention employs a simple construction for ease of manufacture, repair, and replacement of the first handle with other handles with different aesthetic or functional outer designs or configurations.