United Technologies Corporation

Raytheon Technologies Corporation

Goodrich Corporation

US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Rtx Corporation

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

Delavan Inc.

Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation

Otis Elevator Company

Rohr, Inc.

Michael A Klecka

Aaron T Nardi

Ying She

Tahany Ibrahim El-Wardany

Thomas P Filburn

Leslie Scotte Steele

Joseph V Mantese

Daniel V Viens

Jeffrey Michael Mendoza

Zissis A Dardas

Nicholas Charles Soldner

Matthew B Kennedy

Victor Champagne

Louis Chiappetta, Jr

Zhigang Wang

Wayde R Schmidt

Christopher W Strock

Richard N Fargo

Wenping Zhao

Daryl J Marvin

Sergei F Burlatsky

Changsheng Guo

Andrzej Ernest Kuczek

Jagadeesh Kumar Tangudu

Abhijit Chakraborty

Frank J Dindl

Justin R Hawkes

Adam Jacob

Enrico Manes

Scott Alan Eastman

Sameh Dardona

John A Sharon

Randolph Carlton Mcgee

Ranadip Acharya

Raja Kountanya

Thomas J Garosshen

Joseph C Rampone

Martin Haas

Xiaodong Luo

Shahram Amini

Krzysztof Barnat

Robert A Barth

William F Werkheiser

John J Gangloff, Jr

Patrick Louis Clavette

Robert E Erickson

Shihemn Chen

Edward Marchitto

Jinkyu Choi

Lee A Hoffman

Robert Guillemette

Randy P Salva

Greg C Ojard

Joseph B Wysocki

Luke A Mishler

Thomas H Lawton

Joe J Liou

Benjamin Bedard

Anais Espinal

Gregory W Levan

Daniel K Seabourn

Matthew Grow

Adam S Meusel

A system for deep rolling a fan blade including a shaft assembly disposed along a first axis; a hub connected to a distal end of the shaft assembly, the hub having an upper hub portion and a lower hub portion extending along a second axis, the second axis forming an angle relative to a first axis; a roller disk joined to the lower portion of the hub, the roller disk configured to contact a fan blade; a fixture supporting the fan blade; the fixture comprising a body supporting a pivot clamp attached to the body with a pivot; a support attached to the body, the support is configured to engage an airfoil portion of the fan blade; a receiver formed in the body for supporting a root of the fan blade; and a shoulder attached to the body configured to support a platform portion of the fan blade.

Surface treatment system design for high fatigue life hollow fan blades

Disclosed herein is a method for making a metal article including repetitively depositing a layer of metal and cold working each metal layer to form the metal article. The method can be used to make a new article or repair an existing article. The metal article includes a customized local grain structure orientation which can vary by region based on design requirements.

Metal additive manufacturing method and article

An end effector for welding composite components includes an end effector housing and a welding member mounted to the end effector housing. The end effector further includes a leading roller mounted to the end effector housing forward of the welding member and at least one follower roller mounted to the end effector housing aft of the welding member. The end effector further includes at least one first cooling air jet positioned to direct a first stream of cooling air toward the at least one follower roller.

End effector, welding system, and method for welding composite components

A hybrid torque bar for a brake assembly may comprise a base portion, a pin extending from a first end of the base portion, and a rail extending between the first end of the base portion and a second end of the base portion opposite the first end. The base portion may be formed using a first manufacturing process. At least one of the pin or the rail may be formed using a second manufacturing process. The second manufacturing process may comprise an additive manufacturing technique.

Hybrid torque bar

A hybrid torque bar for a brake assembly may comprise a base portion, a pin extending from a first end of the base portion, and a rail extending between the first end of the base portion and a second end of the base portion opposite the first end. The base portion may be formed using a first manufacturing process. At least one of the pin or the rail may formed using a second manufacturing process. The second manufacturing process may comprise an additive manufacturing technique.

Material is provided for forming a part using a manufacturing system. The material includes a plurality of discrete particles. Each of the particles includes a metal powder core encapsulated by a non-metal coating. At least the cores of the particles are adapted to be solidified together by the manufacturing system to form the part.

Material and processes for additively manufacturing one or more parts

A robotic deburring process that automatically, accurately, and efficiently removes burrs from a workpiece. The robotic deburring process uses CAM location data to establish deburring trajectory, physics based machining models to predict burr type and size, and force control functions to compensate inaccuracies due of inaccuracies of robots arms.

Automatic process planning for robotic deburring operations

A hybrid torque tube for a brake assembly may comprise a tube portion having a centerline axis, and a conical back-leg portion extending from the tube portion. A stator spline may be formed on a radially outward surface of the tube portion. A foot may be formed on a radially inward surface of the tube portion. The tube portion is formed using a first manufacturing process and at least one of the conical back-leg, stator spline, or foot is formed using additive manufacturing.

Hybrid torque tube

An illustrative example spring includes a curved shape body having a length. The body includes a cavity that extends along at least a majority of the length. The body has a cross-section across the length that is different at a plurality of locations on the body along the length.

Spring useful for elevator safety device

A nozzle assembly for a cold spray deposition system includes a nozzle body with an axial bore. The axial bore defines a converging segment, a diverging segment downstream of the converging segment, and a throat fluidly connected between the converging and diverging segments of the axial bore. A particulate conduit is fixed within the axial bore and extends along the axial bore diverging segment for issuing solid particulate into the diverging segment of the axial bore.

Cold spray nozzles

A method of providing additive manufacturing includes the steps of (a) developing a plurality of layers to result in a final shape product, (b) developing a space filling algorithm to develop a path, (c) estimating a temperature at a location along the path in an existing direction of the path, and (d) comparing the estimated temperature to a desired temperature and altering the existing direction of the path should the estimated temperature differ from the desired temperature by a predetermined amount. An additive manufacturing system is also disclosed.

Path planning for additive manufacturing

An embedded magnetic identification assembly includes a base component formed of a material. Also included is a plurality of elements formed in an array at a surface of the base component, wherein the plurality of elements is formed of a magnetic material.

Magnetic identification assembly and method of identifying a component

A method for manufacturing a gun barrel with a cold spray process. The method includes the use of a mandrel having a tubular body and being made of a material with properties suited to use with gun barrel manufacture and materials and cold spray processes. The gun barrel includes a liner, one or more structural layers and an outer jacket. The mandrel is dissolved in a chemical process during manufacture of the gun barrel.

Cold spray methods for manufacturing gun barrels

One embodiment includes a powder spheroidizing method. The method includes loading a powder into a fluidized bed assembly, fluidizing at least some of the powder in the fluidized bed assembly using an inert gas, and heating the powder while fluidized in the fluidized bed assembly.

Powder spheroidizing via fluidized bed

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Coventry, CT, United States of America

Michael A Klecka