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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2005
Applicants:
Canan Uslu Hardwicke, Greenville, SC (US);
Melvin Robert Jackson, Corea, ME (US);
Inventors:
Canan Uslu Hardwicke, Greenville, SC (US);
Melvin Robert Jackson, Corea, ME (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Niskyuna, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01L 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A device for measuring at least one property of a material sample is disclosed. The device includes at least one sensor element which is formed by a direct-write technique. The device can be an instrument for measuring strain in the sample, or for measuring other properties or attributes of a sample, such as temperature. A turbine engine disk on which components of property-measuring devices have been direct-written is also described. Methods of forming sensor elements for property-measuring devices are disclosed.