Kenneth J Gould

US Patent:

6935118, Aug 30, 2005

Filed:

Dec 19, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/740930

Inventors:

Kenneth Arthur Gould - Middleton MA, US
Stephen Russell Burnham - Danvers MA, US

Assignee:

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

International Classification:

F02K001/06

US Classification:

60771, 23926537, 2989001

Abstract:

A basesheet for use in an aircraft gas turbine engine exhaust nozzle includes a plurality of basesheet segments extending between longitudinally extending spaced apart basesheet leading and trailing edges, respectively, of the basesheet. Right and left hand basesheet side edges, respectively, extend longitudinally between the basesheet leading and trailing edges. Each basesheet segment has a panel body defined between a pair of segment side edges longitudinally extending between segment leading and trailing edges, respectively. Stiffeners having leading and trailing edge ribs at the segment leading and trailing edges of aft and forward ones of the basesheet segments, respectively, extend widthwise across the panel body between the segment side edges. The leading and trailing edge ribs are joined together only at intermediate sections of the stiffeners which are centered between left and right hand expansion sections, respectively, of the stiffener.

US Patent:

7568346, Aug 4, 2009

Filed:

Oct 31, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/554687

Inventors:

Brian Benscoter Roberts - Malden MA, US
Kenneth Arthur Gould - Charlestown MA, US
Jeffrey Carl Mayer - Swampscott MA, US

Assignee:

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

International Classification:

F02K 3/00

US Classification:

60761, 60763

Abstract:

A method facilitates assembling a gas turbine engine with a flameholder. The method comprises coupling at least one turning vane between a radially outer casing and a radially inner casing to form a flameholder, forming at least two slots that extend substantially radially through the outer and inner casings, coupling at least one fuel injector to the flameholder, and coupling the flameholder within the augmenter.

US Patent:

20060021351, Feb 2, 2006

Filed:

Apr 28, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/117602

Inventors:

Kenneth Gould - Middleton MA, US
Stephen Burnham - Danvers MA, US

International Classification:

F02K 1/12

US Classification:

060771000, 239265390

Abstract:

A method for resistance welding first and second sheet metal elements together by placing a copper shunt between and in contact with a first sheet metal element and a third sheet metal element, the third sheet metal element being spaced apart from and connected to the first sheet metal element. Then placing a second sheet metal element in contact with the first sheet metal element along an interface between the first and second sheet metal elements and pressing a first electrode against the second sheet metal element, pressing a second electrode against the first sheet metal element, and passing a welding current between the electrodes through the copper shunt and welding the first and second sheet metal elements together along the interface.