General Electric Company

William John Bonneau

Brian Nedward Meyer

Jeffrey Alan Melius

Cyrus David Harbourt

Howard Ross Edmunds

Amy Marlene Ridenour

Andrew Scott Wilkinson

Douglas Carl Hofer

Suma Memana Narayana Bhat

Viswanathan Kanakasabai

Juan Antonio Sabate

Ruxi Wang

Karthik Kumar Bodla

Yash Veer Singh

Vandana Prabhakar Rallabandi

Anton Max Linz

Christopher Todd Moore

Adam Gregory Pautsch

Gary Dwayne Mandrusiak

Brian Matthew Aiken

Brian Eric Lindholm

Christopher James McMenamin

Christopher Lee Tschappatt

Krishna Mainali

Chinmoy Goswami

Srinivas Satya Sai Mallampalli

Rahul Radhakrishna Pillai

Daniel Garcia

Jesil Surendra Pujara

Jason Monclair Pittman

Richard Joseph Glosser, Jr

Byron Patrick Martin

Tamer Fahed Khalaf

Christopher L Tschappatt

At least one thermal module in fluidic communication with the one or more electronic components. The thermal module including a hydraulic motor operable to rotate a motor output shaft. The module further including a fan coupled to the motor output shaft, at least one heat exchanger in fluidic communication with the fan to provide passage therethrough of an air stream in response to rotational movement of the fan, and a conduit carrying a pressurized liquid stream through the hydraulic motor and each of the at least one heat exchanger. The pressurized liquid stream causing the motor output shaft to rotate and wherein heat in one of the air stream or the pressurized liquid stream is passed through each of the at least one heat exchanger and rejected into the other of the air stream or the pressurized liquid stream. A thermal management system including the at least one thermal module is disclosed.

Liquid driven thermal module and thermal management system

A stator-less electric motor for an MRI system is provided. The stator-less electric motor includes a body, a rotor rotatable connected to the body, and at least one coil winding disposed on the rotor. The at least one coil winding is arranged so as to rotate the rotor when energized via an electrical current in the presence of a magnetic field generated by a magnet assembly of the MRI system.

Stator-less electric motor for a magnetic resonance imaging system and methods thereof

A monitoring device for obtaining data from a patient during a respiratory and/or cardiac cycle of the patient. The monitoring device includes a compliant variable capacitor securely attached to the patient. The capacitance of the compliant variable capacitor changes during movement of the patient caused by the respiratory cycle and/or a cardiac cycle. The changing capacitance is used to generate a monitoring signal that includes the frequency, timing and amplitude of either the respiratory or cardiac cycle. The signal from the monitoring device is provided to a medical imaging system such that the medical imaging system can compensate for the motion of the patient during the reparatory/cardiac cycle.

Monitoring device including compliant variable capacitor for respiration and cardiac sensing applications

A method for controlling a pitch control system of a wind turbine includes providing a charged backup battery configured to supply no energy to a DC link when full AC input power is available, wherein the DC link includes a DC link capacitor. The method further includes using energy stored in the DC link capacitor to operate a pitch control system during a loss or dip of AC input power, and maintaining charge on the DC link capacitor using the charged backup battery as voltage across the DC link capacitor drops during the operation of the pitch control system.

Pitch control battery backup methods and system

A method for charging a plurality of batteries wherein each battery includes an anode and a cathode. The method includes electrically coupling n batteries to form a string of batteries, electrically coupling n battery charger assemblies to the n batteries such that each respective battery charger assembly is coupled to an anode and a cathode of a respective battery, and charging the plurality of batteries utilizing the n battery charger assemblies.

Battery charging system and method of operating same

A rotor for a wind turbine generator includes a rotatable hub forming a cavity. A plurality of rotor blades is connected to the hub. A heat sink is at least partially positioned within the cavity and extends along a portion of a corresponding rotor blade. The heat sink includes a bottom surface mounted on a thermal energy generating component of the wind turbine generator. An opposing top planar surface includes a plurality of pins extending therefrom. The pins form an air flow path through the pins to dissipate the generated thermal energy from the thermal energy generating component.

Method and apparatus for gravity induced thermal energy dissipation

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William John Bonneau