General Electric Company

Ian Arthur Hughes

Patrick Lee Jansen

Ronald James Chila

Wei Tong

Richard Nils Dawson

Aniruddha Dattatraya Gadre

Albert Eugene Steinbach

Murtuza Lokhandwalla

Thomas Wagner

Gary Randall Barnes

Konard Roman Weeber

John Michael Gillivan

James Joseph Gibney, Iii

A drive train for a wind turbine is provided. The wind turbine includes a rotor connected to a low speed shaft, and a low speed shaft connected to a gearbox. The gearbox has a high speed shaft connected to a generator. The drive train includes a bearing interposed between the gearbox and the generator. A gearbox lubrication medium is at least partially contained within the gearbox, and the bearing shares the gearbox lubrication medium with the gearbox.

Compact geared drive train

A synchronous electromagnetic machine is disclosed having: a rotor coupled to a rotor cooling system; a stator around the rotor and separated from the rotor by an annular gap between the rotor and an inner surface of the stator, wherein the stator includes stator cooling passages; a stator ventilation system in fluid communication with the stator cooling passages, and the ventilation system including a cooling fluid driving device such as a stator mounted fan.

Forced air stator ventilation system and stator ventilation method for superconducting synchronous machine

An acoustic blanket is disclosed for an industrial machine including a plurality of flexible panels, wherein each panel includes at least one layer of a fiber glass material, an outer casing of a chemically resistant material and an attachment for connecting the panel to an adjacent panel, and the plurality of flexible panels are each assigned a position in said blanket corresponding to a location on the industrial machine.

Acoustic blanket for machinery and method for attenuating sound

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Ian Arthur Hughes