Honeywell International Inc.

Shreyas Iyer

Ravindra Patankar

Donald G Godfrey

Tim Felke

Balwinder Singh Birdi

Tom Phielix

Ben A Wilson

Murali Kadeppagari

Erek Walker

Regina Lockard

Todd Coulam

Sean Byrnes

Sravan Rachamalla

Kristen Van Osten

Raviindra Patankar

Sravan Rachmalla

Electrical generators having one or more conformal support and cooling devices for use in supporting and cooling rotating elements of the generator are disclosed herein. An electrical generator includes a housing, a shaft disposed axially through the housing, a rotor assembly including a plurality of poles that are disposed within the housing and mounted on the shaft, a support wedge disposed between two of the plurality of poles. The conformal support and cooling device includes an internal cooling channel in a helical configuration or a V-shape configuration that extends from a first length-wise end of the support and cooling device to a second length-wise end of the support and cooling device. Additive manufacturing processes are employed to fabricate the conformal support and cooling device.

Conformal cooling devices for rotating generator elements and additive manufacturing processes for fabricating the same

Methods and apparatus are provided for building and executing reconfigurable algorithms in on-board environments which require pre-certification of the compiled code, such as avionics, flight control, and military applications. The code execution architecture includes a library of reusable function modules in the form of pre-compiled code blocks; an algorithm execution utility (AEU) for processing a user-assembled string of code blocks; and a customer interface for selecting code blocks, defining their associated parameters and sequence (execution order), structuring inputs and outputs, and for providing the integrated, machine readable application to the AEU at run time. The various sequences, permutations and combinations of functions and their associated parameters, inputs and outputs are pre-approved or certified a priori; consequently, the on-board reconfiguration and execution of complex algorithms may be performed in real time without the need for recoding, verification, or redeployment of the code base.

Dynamically reconfigurable code execution architecture for building diagnostic algorithms

A system and method are provided for optimizing parameters of a plurality of selected diagnostic and/or prognostic algorithms in a tunable diagnostic algorithm library. A plurality of sensed data sets having an actual diagnostic label associated therewith is supplied to each of the diagnostic algorithms. A value for each parameter of each of the algorithms that are to be optimized is supplied. A computed diagnostic label is generated for each of the sensed data sets using each of the selected algorithms, a fault model, and the values for each parameter, each of the computed diagnostic labels and each of the actual diagnostic labels are supplied to a generic objective function, to thereby calculate an objective function value, and the value of one or more of the parameters is varied using an optimization routine that repeats certain of these steps until the objective function value is minimized.

Diagnostic algorithm parameter optimization

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