General Electric Company

Bl Technologies, Inc.

Guanghua Wang

Bernard Patrick Bewlay

Nirm Velumylum Nirmalan

Jason Edward Dees

Todd Garrett Wetzel

James DeLancey

Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni

Mehmet Muhittin Dede

Hrishikesh Keshavan

Byron Andrew Pritchard

Mark Allen Cheverton

Michael Solomon Idelchik

Naveenan Thiagarajan

Jeremy Clyde Bailey

Ronald Scott Bunker

Joseph John Shiang

Brandon Stephen Good

Robert David Briggs

Alberto Santamaria-Pang

Anquan Wang

Gyeong Woo Cheon

Bijan Chitsaz

Lucy Joelle Summerville

Anant Achyut Setlur

Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov

Andrew Lee Trimmer

Prabhjot Singh

Bryon Edward Knight

William Stewart

Shawn David Wehe

Mohamed Sakami

Jordi Estevadeordal

Sean Robert Farrell

Jeffrey Joseph Popielarczyk

Robert Michael Zacharias

Marshall Gordon Jones

Venkat Subramaniam Venkataramani

Vivek Venugopal Badami

Daniel Endecott Osgood

Huan Tan

Todd William Danko

Samhita Dasgupta

James Anthony Brewer

Ali Can

John Michael Lizzi

Arpit Jain

Hejie Li

Nilesh Tralshawala

Thomas Charles Adcock

Eric John Ruggiero

Younkoo Jeong

Aditya Kumar

Jason Randolph Allen

James William Sears

Edward Randall Furlong

Margeaux Wallace

Alexander Kyle Duncan

Scott Michael Oppenheimer

Viktor Holovashchenko

Venkata Vijayaraghava Nalladega

Wontae Hwang

Xiaoyue Liu

Scott Francis Johnson

Christopher Dale Mathias

Xingwei Yang

Carlos Bonilla Gonzalez

K M K Genghis Khan

Paul Joseph Martin

Danielle Marie Kalitan

David Benjamin Helmer

Sean Patrick Harper

Jonathan Edward Slepski

Jeremy Vanderover

Bradford Allen Lewandowski

Rodrick Gordon Brown

Stephen Thomas Walls

Ronald W Ferree, Jr

Jeffrey Jay Porubcan

Bin Ma

Daniel Francesco Driscoll

William Robb Stewart

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to autonomously detect thermal anomalies. Disclosed examples include an example apparatus to detect engine anomalies comprising: at least one memory; instructions in the apparatus; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: control a plurality of infrared cameras to capture a baseline image set, the baseline image set including at least two thermal images; generate emissivity data based on the baseline image set; provide the baseline image set and the emissivity data to an artificial intelligence model, the artificial intelligence model to generate a reconstructed image set; determine a difference between the baseline image set and the reconstructed image set; and in response to the difference exceeding a threshold, generate an alert indicating detection of an engine anomaly.

Methods and apparatus to autonomously detect thermal anomalies

Methods, systems, and apparatus are described for maintaining the interior cavities of pipes. In one aspect, a motorized apparatus includes a main body having a length extending along a longitudinal axis of the main body, where the main body comprises a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The motorized apparatus further includes at least one drive assembly coupled to at least one of the first end and the second end of the main body, where the at least one drive assembly comprises driven members that engage with an inner surface of the pipe and move the motorized apparatus through an interior cavity of the pipe. The motorized apparatus further includes a maintenance head movably coupled to the main body that moves along the length of the main body and rotates about the longitudinal axis of the main body, where the maintenance head comprises at least one tool configured to perform an action on the inner surface of the pipe.

Motorized apparatus for pipe inspection and repair

A method of imaging a turbine engine component with a first surface and a second surface that is spaced from the first surface. The turbine engine component includes a plurality of holes with inlets formed in the second surface or interior that are fluidly coupled to outlets formed in the first surface or exterior. The method includes determining at least one fluid frequency, determining at least one sampling frequency, and pulsing fluid through at least a portion of the interior of turbine engine component while imaging the turbine engine component.

Method and system for inspecting cooling holes of a turbine engine component

An atomizing spray nozzle device includes an atomizing zone housing that receives different phases of materials used to form a coating. The atomizing zone housing mixes the different phases of the materials into a two-phase mixture of ceramic-liquid droplets in a carrier gas. The device also includes a plenum housing fluidly coupled with the atomizing housing and extending from the atomizing housing to a delivery end. The plenum housing includes an interior plenum that receives the two-phase mixture of ceramic-liquid droplets in the carrier gas from the atomizing zone housing. The device also includes one or more delivery nozzles fluidly coupled with the plenum chamber. The delivery nozzles provide outlets from which the two-phase mixture of ceramic-liquid droplets in the carrier gas is delivered onto one or more surfaces of a target object as the coating on the target object.

Spray nozzle device for delivering a restorative coating through a hole in a case of a turbine engine

An imaging device includes a plurality of electronic components, a phase change material, and a heat transfer structure. The plurality of electronic components is configured to collect data and have a predetermined temperature parameter. The plurality of electronic components is disposed within the phase change material. The phase change material has a first material phase and a second material phase. The phase change material has a first material phase and a second material phase. The phase change material is configured to absorb heat through changing from the first material phase to the second material phase. The heat transfer structure is disposed within the phase change material. The heat transfer structure is configured to conduct heat within the phase change material. The phase change material and the heat transfer structure are further configured to regulate a temperature of the electronic components below the predetermined temperature parameter.

System and method for disposable imaging system

Improved gimbal systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture and associated methods are disclosed. Examples include a panel including a window, the window to define an aperture for a sensor; a platform to mount the sensor, the platform including a first pinion; a first stepper motor to move the first pinion about a first arched rack; a gimbal body including the first arched rack and a second pinion; and a second stepper motor to move the second pinion about a second arched rack, the second arched rack positioned orthogonally to the first arched rack.

Gimbal systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture and associated methods

An inspection system includes a thermographic sensor configured to capture thermographic data of a component having holes as a fluid is pulsed toward the holes, and one or more processors configured to temporally process the thermographic data to calculate temporal scores and spatial scores for the corresponding holes. The scores can be used to obtain a reference dataset and a test dataset. A performance score can be assigned to the component based on the difference between the datasets.

Cooling hole inspection system

A system for detecting the presence of an anomaly within a component includes a motorized apparatus configured to move around the component. The system also includes an excitation device and a camera mounted to the motorized apparatus. The excitation device is configured to emit an excitation signal toward the component to cause the anomaly within the component to generate a detectable reactionary thermal signal in response to the excitation signal. The camera is configured to capture thermal images of the component. The thermal images include the detectable reactionary thermal signal and indicate the presence of the anomaly within the component. The system further includes a controller communicatively coupled to the excitation device and the camera. The controller is configured to receive and analyze the thermal images to detect the presence of the anomaly within the component. The controller is configured to adjust one or more operating parameters of the system to affect a characteristic of the detectable reactionary signal based on the thermal images.

Thermographic inspection system mounted on motorized apparatus and methods of using same

An infrared imaging device includes a case, a plurality of electronic components, and a heat transfer structure. The plurality of electronic components is configured to collect data and have a predetermined temperature parameter. The plurality of electronic components is disposed within the case. The heat transfer structure is disposed within the case. The heat transfer structure is configured to conduct heat away from the plurality of electronic components. The heat transfer structure is further configured to regulate a temperature of the electronic components below the predetermined temperature parameter.

System and method for monitoring of gas turbine components with infrared system

An optical monitoring system includes a controller configured to determine a predicted status of a component based on an operational time of a rotary machine and an individual model. The controller is also configured to receive a first signal indicative of an infrared spectrum image of the component from one or more cameras. Further, the controller is configured to determine a current status of the component based on the first signal and compare the current status to the predicted status of the component. Additionally, the controller is configured to update the predicted status of the component such that the predicted status matches the current status of the component and update at least one parameter of the individual model of the component based on the comparison.

Monitoring system for a gas turbine engine

An infrared imaging device includes a plurality of electronic components, a phase change material, and a heat transfer structure. The plurality of electronic components is configured to collect data and have a predetermined temperature parameter. The plurality of electronic components is disposed within the phase change material. The phase change material has a first material phase and a second material phase. The phase change material has a first material phase and a second material phase. The phase change material is configured to absorb heat through changing from the first material phase to the second material phase. The heat transfer structure is disposed within the phase change material. The heat transfer structure is configured to conduct heat within the phase change material. The phase change material and the heat transfer structure are further configured to regulate a temperature of the electronic components below the predetermined temperature parameter.

System and method for disposable infrared imaging system

A gas turbine engine includes a core engine having a casing, a cowl disposed annularly around the casing such that a gap is formed between the casing and the cowl, and a thermal monitoring system having at least one camera positioned within the gap, wherein the at least one camera is configured to detect thermal radiation from at least one turbine component within the gap.

Turbine thermal monitoring systems and methods

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