General Electric Company

General Electric Renovables Espana, S.l.

James William Bray

Evangelos Trifon Laskaris

Kiruba Sivasubramaniam

Manoj Ramprasad Shah

Xianrui Huang

Timothy John Sommerer

Ronghai Qu

Xu She

Rahul Shantilal Chokhawala

Narendra Digamber Joshi

Bruce Alan Knudsen

Robert John Zabala

Suma Memana Narayana Bhat

Adnan Kutubuddin Bohori

Thomas Robert Raber

Somakumar Ramachandrapanicker

Judson Sloan Marte

William Dwight Gerstler

Randy M Vondrell

Kurt David Murrow

Patrick Lee Jansen

Hendrik Pieter Jacobus De Bock

Arvind Kumar Tiwari

Minfeng Xu

Ernst Wolfgang Stautner

Di Zhang

Rui Zhou

James Michael Fogarty

Sergio Paulo Martins Loureiro

Kathleen Melanie Amm

Albert Eugene Steinbach

Bruce Campbell Amm

Jeffrey Anthony Hamel

Michael Parizh

David Thomas Ryan

Samuel Jacob Martin

Kirubaharan Sivasubramaniam

Ajith Kuttannair Kumar

Thomas R Anthony

Bret Dwayne Worden

Jerome Johnson Tiemann

Anant Achyut Setlur

Bharat S Bagepalli

Mark Ernest Vermilyea

Curtis Alan Johnson

Luis Jose Garces

Vasile Bogdan Neculaes

David Allan Torrey

Charles S Korman

James F Fleischer

Kaustubh Ravindra Nagarkar

Yuri Alexeyevich Plotnikov

Paul Shadforth Thompson

Shankar Chandrasekaran

Richard Nils Dawson

Weijun Yin

Anbo Wu

Yongjae Lee

Aniruddha Dattatraya Gadre

Michael John Bowman

Stanton Earl Weaver

Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran

Tao Zhang

Ri-an Zhao

Wei Zhang

William F Banholzer

Siddharth Navinchandra Ashar

Jack Mathew Webster

Waseem A Roshen

Anoop Jassal

Antonio A Mogro-Campero

Sunil Srinivasa Murthy

Laurence Bigio

Alexander Kagan

Joseph John Zierer

William Chester Platt

Aghogho Atemu Obi

Sergio Martins Loureiro

James Pelligrino Alexander

Faisal Razi Ahmad

Aaron Joseph Dulgar-Tulloch

Rammohan Rao Kalluri

Sylvia Marie Decarr

Seog Tae Kim

Oleg Sulima

J Anne Ryan, Legal Representative

Xianrul Huang

Robert Adolf Ackermann

Randy Marinus Vondrell

Kiruba Haran Sivasubramaniam

A superconducting magnet apparatus includes a plurality of superconducting magnet coil sections connected in series and housed within a cryogenically cooled, vacuum container. A power source generates a current. A first lead is electrically connected to the superconducting magnet coil sections. A second lead is enclosed entirely within the vacuum container. The second lead has a first section and a second section, and the first section is electrically connected to the power source. The second section is electrically connected to the first lead, and rigidly connected to a linear displacement device enclosed entirely within the vacuum container. The linear displacement device linearly displaces the second section relative to the first section, so that the first section contacts the second section thereby electrically connecting the first and second sections, or by creating a gap between the first section and second section thereby electrically disconnecting the first section from the second section.

Superconducting magnet apparatus and method of operating same

An aerospace vehicle including: a body, wherein the body is configured to generate heat during operation; a coating disposed over at least a portion of the body, the coating being configured to shift a frequency of at least one wavelength of the heat generated by the body from a first frequency to a second frequency having higher transmissivity relative to a neighboring medium surrounding the body as compared to the first frequency.

Aerospace vehicles with coatings for heat radiation and associated methods

An armature is presented. The armature includes an armature winding having a plurality of coils, wherein each coil of the plurality of coils is spaced apart from adjacent coils and comprise includes a first side portion and a second side portion. The armature further includes a first electrically insulating winding enclosure. Furthermore, the armature includes a second electrically insulating winding enclosure disposed at a radial distance from the first electrically insulating winding enclosure, wherein the armature winding is disposed between the first electrically insulating winding enclosure and the second electrically insulating winding enclosure. Moreover, the armature includes an electrically insulating coil side separator disposed between the first side portion and the second side portion of the plurality of coils of the armature winding. A superconducting generator including the armature and a wind turbine having such superconducting generator are also presented.

Wind turbine having superconducting generator and armature for use in the superconducting generator

A turbine engine comprising a compressor section and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement defining a working air flow path with a heat exchanger in fluid communication the working air flow path, and a nuclear fuel in thermal communication with the heat exchanger and a release valve in fluid communication with the working air flow path.

Nuclear-powered turbine engine

A wind turbine power generating system and method includes a tower, a hub, a plurality of blades connected to the hub, and a rotor connected to the hub. A superconducting generator is coupled to the rotor and includes a plurality of superconductive coils. A nacelle is mounted atop the tower, with the superconducting generator housed within the nacelle. An automatic ramp-down system is configured with the superconducting coils and includes an automatically activated energy dump circuit for current withdrawn from the superconductive coils in a ramp-down process prior to a quench. The energy dump circuit includes one or more heat dissipating loads, wherein each of the heat dissipating loads is mounted in thermal communication with one of the tower or the nacelle that act a thermal heat sink for dispersing heat from the loads.

System and method for auto-ramping and energy dump for a superconducting wind turbine generator

A permanent magnet machine and a rotor assembly for the permanent magnet machine. The permanent magnet machine includes a stator assembly including a stator core including a stator winding to produce electrical currents. The stator assembly extending along a longitudinal axis with an inner surface defining a cavity. The rotor assembly including a rotor core and a rotor shaft. The rotor core is disposed inside the stator cavity and rotates about the longitudinal axis. The rotor assembly including a plurality of permanent magnets for generating a magnetic field which interacts with the stator winding to produce the electrical currents in response to rotation of the rotor assembly. within one or more cavities formed in a sleeve component. The sleeve component is configured to include a plurality of cavities or voids into which the permanent magnets are disposed to retain the permanent magnets therein and form an interior permanent magnet generator.

Permanent magnet machine with segmented sleeve for magnets

A permanent magnet machine and a rotor assembly for the permanent magnet machine. The permanent magnet machine includes a stator assembly including a stator core configured to generate a magnetic field and extending along a longitudinal axis with an inner surface defining a cavity and a rotor assembly including a rotor core and a rotor shaft. The rotor core is disposed inside the stator cavity and configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis. The rotor assembly further including a plurality of permanent magnets for generating a magnetic field which interacts with the stator magnetic field to produce torque. The permanent magnets are disposed within one or more cavities formed in a sleeve component. The sleeve component configured to include a plurality of cavities or voids therein and thus provide minimal weight to the permanent magnet machine. The permanent magnet machine providing increased centrifugal load capacity, increased power density and improved electrical performance.

A var compensator circuit is provided. The var compensator circuit includes a gas tube switch and a reactive impedance. The gas tube switch is configured to be coupled to a transmission line. The transmission line is configured to deliver real power and reactive power to a load at an alternating current (AC) line voltage. The reactive impedance is configured to be coupled to the transmission line at the AC line voltage through the gas tube switch. The reactive impedance is configured to modify the reactive power configured to be delivered to the load.

Gas tube-switched flexible alternating current transmission system

A direct current (DC)-DC converter includes a transformer and a gas tube-switched inverter circuit. The transformer includes a primary winding and a secondary winding. The gas tube-switched inverter circuit includes first and second inverter load terminals and first and second inverter input terminals. The first and second inverter load terminals are coupled to the primary winding. The first and second inverter input terminals are couplable to a DC node. The gas tube-switched inverter circuit further includes a plurality of gas tube switches respectively coupled between the first and second inverter load terminals and the first and second inverter input terminals. The plurality of gas tube switches is configured to operate to generate an alternating current (AC) voltage at the primary winding.

Gas tube-switched high voltage DC power converter

A high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission system includes an alternating current (AC) electrical source and a power converter channel that includes an AC-DC converter electrically coupled to the electrical source and a DC-AC inverter electrically coupled to the AC-DC converter. The AC-DC converter and the DC-AC inverter each include a plurality of legs that includes at least one switching device. The power converter channel further includes a commutating circuit communicatively coupled to one or more switching devices. The commutating circuit is configured to 'switch on' one of the switching devices during a first portion of a cycle of the H-bridge switching circuits and 'switch off' the switching device during a second portion of the cycle of the first and second H-bridge switching circuits.

Method and system for a gas tube-based current source high voltage direct current transmission system

A submersible liquid-vapor generator (LVG) includes an evaporator portion in heat transfer communication with a heat energy source. The LVG also includes a magnetic field apparatus coupled in flow communication with the evaporator portion. The LVG further includes a condenser portion coupled in flow communication with the magnetic field apparatus. The LVG also includes a hybrid working fluid including nanoparticles. The evaporator portion, the magnetic field portion, and the condenser portion at least partially define a hybrid working vapor flow path. The LVG further includes an electrically non-conductive wick structure coupled in flow communication with the evaporator portion and the condenser portion. The wick structure at least partially defines a hybrid working liquid flow path extending between the condenser portion and the evaporator portion.

Submersible power generators and method of operating thereof

A voltage source converter based high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission system includes a voltage source converter (VSC)-based power converter channel. The VSC-based power converter channel includes an AC-DC converter and a DC-AC inverter electrically coupled to the AC-DC converter. The AC-DC converter and a DC-AC inverter include at least one gas tube switching device coupled in electrical anti-parallel with a respective gas tube diode. The VSC-based power converter channel includes a commutating circuit communicatively coupled to one or more of the at least one gas tube switching devices. The commutating circuit is configured to 'switch on' a respective one of the one or more gas tube switching devices during a first portion of an operational cycle and 'switch off' the respective one of the one or more gas tube switching devices during a second portion of the operational cycle.

Method and system for a gas tube switch-based voltage source high voltage direct current transmission system

A contactless power transfer system is provided. The system includes a first coil configured to produce a magnetic field. The system also includes a second coil configured to receive power from the first coil via the magnetic field. The system further includes a field focusing element. The field focusing element includes a plurality of resonators arranged in an array. Each of the plurality of resonators, upon excitation, interfere constructively in a direction of the second coil and interfere destructively in a remaining space to focus the magnetic field onto the second coil and enhance the coupling between the first coil and the second coil.

Contactless power transfer system and method

Method for joining wires using low resistivity joints is provided. More specifically, methods of joining one or more wires having superconductive filaments, such as magnesium diboride filaments, are provided. The wires are joined by a low resistivity joint to form wires of a desired length for applications, such in medical imaging applications.

Methods for making low resistivity joints

A system for measuring nutritional parameters of food items is provided. The system includes a holding cavity. The system further includes a sensor assembly that includes a transmitter antenna and at least one receiver antenna. The transmitter antenna is configured to transmit signals to a food item in the holding cavity. The receiver antenna is configured to receive response signals from the food item. The system includes at least one switch coupled to each antenna. The switch, in a first state, is configured to set the sensor assembly to an electric potential equal to that of the holding cavity. In a second state, the switch is configured to couple the sensor assembly to a power source. The system also includes a processing unit to process the signals received to determine the nutritional parameters of the food item.

System and method for detection of nutritional parameters in food items

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