General Electric Company

General Electric Technology Gmbh

Kori Unhee Macdonald

Don Mark Lipkin

Todd William Danko

Yakov Polishchuk

Scott Michael Oppenheimer

Mark John Zajkowski

Robert Edward Huth

Ramvineeth Nitta

A service apparatus for use in maintaining a machine including a stator and a rotor is provided. The service apparatus includes a carriage assembly configured to couple to the rotor. The service apparatus is selectively transitionable between a stowed position in which the service apparatus is rotatable with the rotor and an extended position in which the service apparatus is extended toward the stator. The service apparatus also includes at least one maintenance device coupled to the carriage assembly. The at least one maintenance device is operable to perform a maintenance operation on a surface of the stator with the service apparatus in the extended position.

Service apparatus for use with rotary machines

A service apparatus for use in maintaining a turbine assembly () includes a carriage () configured to move through a cavity of the turbine assembly (), a motorized system () coupled to the carriage (), and a maintenance device () coupled to the motorized system (). The motorized system () is configured to move the maintenance device () relative to the carriage (). The motorized system () includes a first motor () configured to move the maintenance device () in a first direction () and a second motor () configured to move the maintenance device () in a second direction ().

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Kori Unhee Macdonald