General Electric Company

Other

Bnsf Railway Company

Transportation IP Holdings, LLC

National Geno Sciences, Inc.

William Stewart

Todd Garrett Wetzel

Guanghua Wang

Jason Edward Dees

Wayne Steven Morgan

Emily Rosette Clark

Eric Peter Olsen

Jacob Bunkley

Michael Howard

Dickson Waudo

Raven Wylie

David Himmelstein

Marutha Pandian Jagadesan

Aamir Ahmad Halim

Shanmugasundaram Rajasubramanian

Nithin Paul Mathew

Amit Kumar Dash

Bernard Patrick Bewlay

Daniel Endecott Osgood

Brian Gene Brzek

Thomas Earl Dyson

Eric John Ruggiero

James Fredric Wiedenhoefer

Julienne LaChance

Daniel Robinson Getsinger

James Richard Winka

Orekonde Ganesh

A system for enhancing personnel safety on a railroad track is presented. The system can receive data from sensors and/or a PTC system to determine positions of clients/worker and/or vehicles, and further utilize such data to determine if a vehicle is within a certain proximity of the client/worker location. The system can further generate geofences around clients/vehicles to and determine when such geofences intersect one another. Additionally, the present disclosure can assign severity levels and generate alerts with the assigned severity levels, and such severity levels can indicate how close a vehicle is to a particular location. It is an object of the invention to provide a system for generating alerts to notify personnel when they much retreat to a place of safety.

System and method for railroad personnel safety assurance

A shunt extends from a brush received by a brush box of a brush holder. The first end of the shunt can be connected to the brush, and the second end of the shunt can connect to the brush holder. A lever connects to a back plate of the brush holder, and the lever may reversibly and selectively rotate between a first position and a second position; the lever can have a distal portion, and the second position of the lever secures a portion of the shunt between the distal portion of the lever and another component of the brush holder. The secured portion of the shunt can restrict downward movement of the brush in the brush box, while a spring pushes downward on the brush in the brush in the brush box, to thereby fixedly position the brush in the brush box.

Brush holder assembly and method

An optical monitoring system includes a controller configured to determine a predicted status of a component based on an operational time of a rotary machine and an individual model. The controller is also configured to receive a first signal indicative of an infrared spectrum image of the component from one or more cameras. Further, the controller is configured to determine a current status of the component based on the first signal and compare the current status to the predicted status of the component. Additionally, the controller is configured to update the predicted status of the component such that the predicted status matches the current status of the component and update at least one parameter of the individual model of the component based on the comparison.

Monitoring system for a gas turbine engine

An apparatus for cooling an engine component such as a turbine engine airfoil, including a wall bounding an interior extending axially between a leading edge and a trailing edge and radially between a root and a tip. A cooling circuit it located within the interior of the airfoil can include a flow enhancer permitting a volume of fluid, such as air, to pass around the flow enhancer.

Engine component with flow enhancer

An apparatus and method for cooling an engine component, such as an airfoil, for a turbine engine including an outer wall separating a cooling fluid flow from a hot fluid flow. A cooling circuit including a cooling passage having opposing sidewalls can be provided in the engine component. At least one turbulator can be provided between the opposing sidewalls, and can include a conduit having an inlet and an outlet passing through the at least one turbulator.

Engine component with hollow turbulators

Thermal degradation monitoring systems and methods determine at least one operating parameter of equipment that defines prior usage of the equipment, determine at least one thermal characteristic of the equipment using one or more thermal imaging cameras, determine whether both the at least one operating parameter and the at least one thermal characteristic indicate thermal degradation of the equipment, and implement one or more remedial actions on the equipment to change a state of the equipment in response to determining that the at least one operating parameter and the at least one thermal characteristic indicate thermal degradation of the equipment.

Thermal degradation monitoring system and method for monitoring thermal degradation of equipment

A pharmaceutical composition which includes human alpha-interferon, sodium dodecyl sulfate and a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle is described. A method of using the pharmaceutical composition as a topical therapeutic agent in the treatment of condyloma acuminata is also provided.

Method for treating condyloma acuminatum with interferon

A clarifier module is contained within a conventional tank-type liquid clarifier having a rotary rake. The clarifier module has a settling region defined by a plurality of inclined parallel plates and a clear effluent chamber separated from the settling region by a partition. Slots in the partition provide communication between the settling region and the clear effluent chamber which contains a weir. Clear effluent is withdrawn from the chamber at a controlled rate and discharged externally of the clarifier tank.

Liquid clarifying apparatus and methods

A decorative multicolored candle is produced by applying, to the side surface of a candle core, a removable solid member having a melting temperature higher than that of candle wax. The surface of the core and side member are coated successively with a plurality of superimposed different colored coatings of candle wax, and the solid member is removed through a slit cut in the superimposed coatings, thereby forming projections having multicolored free ends. Thereafter, one of more additional different colored coatings of candle wax are applied over the thus treated core. A sufficient amount of the additional coatings are then removed to expose the multicolored free ends of the projections outlined by the exposed colors of the additional coatings.

Method of making decorative candles

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