General Electric Company

Jeffrey David Erno

Jason Anton Byers

Brian Christopher Wheeler

Daniel Jason Erno

Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr

Richard Wade Stickles

Philip Paul Beauchamp

Jacob Andrew Salm

Ruijie Shi

James Ryan Connor

Kena Kimi Yokoyama

Patrick Jose Lazatin

Alexandria Cochrane

A method includes receiving, via a processor, a three-dimensional (3D) computer-aided design (CAD) data associated with a 3D CAD model, receiving, via the processor, a product and manufacturing information (PMI) data associated with the 3D CAD data, and receiving, via the processor, user input. The method also includes deriving, via the processor, a view of the 3D CAD data based on the received PMI data and the received user input.

Systems and methods for generating computer-aided design model views based on product and manufacturing information data

A system includes a processor configured to receive a modification to a first set of data associated with a first set of properties of a computer-aided design (CAD) model and identify a second set of data associated with a second set of properties of the CAD model based on the first set of data. The first and second sets of properties are related. The processor is also configured to modify the second set of data based on the modification to the first set of data.

Systems and methods for managing attributes of computer-aided design models

A system and method for virtually inspecting contact gaps of a blade stage of a turbomachine is disclosed. The system may include a digitizing device for obtaining a three-dimensional model of a shroud of each blade of the blade stage. A computer system may include at least one module configured to perform the following steps: extracting a geometric location data of a hard place plane of each shroud from the three-dimensional model; generating a three-dimensional virtual rendering of the shrouds of the blade stage based on the geometric location data and the known dimensions of the blade stage, the three-dimensional virtual rendering including a rendering of contact gaps between adjacent shrouds; and inspecting the blade stage using the three-dimensional virtual rendering.

Virtual turbomachine blade contact gap inspection

Methods and systems for energy recovery in desalination or other systems are provided to transfer the pressure energy from one fluid to anther fluid. A system for energy recovery with a container comprises two sections separated by one or plurality of flexible impermeable diaphragms and pressures of the two fluids in the two sections are transmitted during the cyclical filling and pumping operations, as well as flow control valves. As one embodiment, two flexible impermeable tubes operable to receive two fluids of different pressures respectively connect to flow control valves. The first fluid and the second fluid are separated by the flexible impermeable diaphragm formed by the flexible tubes. Cyclical inflows of the two fluids transmit the higher pressure of one fluid to the other through the diaphragm and transfer the energy from one fluid to the other.

Methods and systems for energy exchange

A method for designing, and optionally making, an article of manufacture. Customer requirement parameters are defined and related engineering parameters are chosen. A parametric geometrical representation (i.e., a master model) of the article is created in terms of geometric parameters using a computer program. A design analysis methodology is crated and programmed into a computer code and stored on a computer medium such that the engineering parameters and the customer requirement parameters are program inputs and the geometric parameters of the master model are program outputs. Specific values of the inputs are inputted into the computer code. The computer code is run on a digital computer and specific values of the geometric parameters of the master model are outputted.

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Simpsonville, SC, United States of America

Jeffrey David Erno