RONALD W KORZUN
Engineering in Clifton Park Center, NY

6786698, Sep 7, 2004

Dec 19, 2002

10/322567

Craig M. Warner - Malta NY
John Cleland Lavash - Niskayuna NY
Ronald Wayne Korzun - Clifton Park NY

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

F01D 522

416191, 416193 A

A turbine bucket is disclosed which includes a dovetail for mounting the bucket within the turbine, a parallelogram-shaped platform connected to the dovetail, a parallelogram-shaped shroud, and an airfoil connected between the platform and the shroud. The platform includes an inner flowpath surface at which a first end of the airfoil intersects with the platform the inner flowpath surface being parallelogram-shaped and formed from a first inclined plane and a second inclined plane that meet at a first common boundary and form a first ridge or valley, boundary bisecting the inner flowpath surface, the shroud including an outer flowpath surface at which the second end of the airfoil intersects the shroud, the outer flowpath surface being parallelogram-shaped and formed from a third inclined plane and a fourth inclined plane that meet at a second common boundary and form a second ridge or valley, second common boundary bisecting the outer flowpath surface.

6761538, Jul 13, 2004

Oct 31, 2002

10/284390

David Orus Fitts - Ballston Spa NY
Ronald Wayne Korzun - Clifton Park NY
John Thomas Murphy - Niskayuna NY

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

F01D 532

416221, 416204

A loading spring segment for radially loading a turbine bucket within a turbine rotor groove includes a substantially circular metal sheet with a gap between opposed edges of the sheet, the sheet defining an arcuate segment in an arcuate length direction of the spring segment; and a plurality of radial slots in the sheet, spaced along the arcuate length direction to thereby create a plurality of individual springs within the arcuate segment.

6722848, Apr 20, 2004

Oct 31, 2002

10/284211

Bernard Arthur Couture - Schenectady NY
David Orus Fitts - Ballston Spa NY
Ronald Wayne Korzun - Clifton Park NY
James David Schuhl - Charlton NY

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

F01D 904

4152092, 4152101, 2988922

Nozzles for a turbine have dovetail-shaped bases for reception in corresponding dovetail-shaped grooves in the carrier halves of a turbine. The nozzles at each of the horizontal joint faces of each carrier half have notches formed along their bases including an abutment face. Key slots are formed in the horizontal joint faces and receive keys bearing against the abutment faces. The keys are peened or screwed into the carrier half at the horizontal joint faces. Radial loading pins engage the end nozzle bases to bias the end nozzles radially inwardly without interfering with the keys retaining the nozzles in the grooves.

7645117, Jan 12, 2010

May 5, 2006

11/381799

Robert James Bracken - Niskayuna NY, US
David Orus Fitts - Ballston Spa NY, US
Sterling Hathaway - Schenectady NY, US
William Edward Adis - Scotia NY, US
Ronald Korzun - Clifton Park NY, US
Larry Duclos - Thorndike ME, US

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

F01D 11/08

4151733, 4151734, 4151737, 415191, 416208, 2988922

A rotary machine includes a rotor, a stationary machine casing extending around the rotor, and a bling assembly extending between the casing and the rotor. The machine also includes at least one rotor tip seal assembly and at least one shaft seal assembly. The seal assemblies have a groove configured to receive at least one seal ring band. A method of assembling a rotary machine is also provided. The method includes fabricating the bling assembly by providing two identical members comprising a mating surface and having a semi-circular profile. The method also includes coupling the two members together at their mating surfaces such that a circular ring is formed and such that the mating surfaces define a horizontal joint. The method further includes machining concentric, circular and annular radially inner and outer and airfoil portions within predetermined radial portions of the bling assembly. The method also includes forming at least one abradable layer over a plurality of seal ring bands and inserting the plurality of seal ring bands into the rotor tip and shaft seal ring grooves.

2006024, Nov 2, 2006

Apr 27, 2005

11/115371

David Fitts - Ballston Spa NY, US
Robert Bracken - Niskayuna NY, US
Sterling Hathaway - Schenectady NY, US
Ronald Korzun - Clifton Park NY, US
Larry Duclos - Unity ME, US
William Adis - Scotia NY, US

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

F01D 9/00

415209200

A method of manufacturing reaction nozzles for a turbine comprising (a) providing a piece of flat plate stock of predetermined size and thickness; and (b) machining the piece of flat plate stock to form a unitary, arcuate reaction nozzle segment including at least two adjacent nozzle airfoils.

6877956, Apr 12, 2005

Dec 23, 2002

10/328053

Clement Gazzillo - Schenectady NY, US
Ronald Wayne Korzun - Clifton Park NY, US

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

F01D005/22

416191, 416195, 2988921

A method and apparatus for fabricating a rotor assembly for a turbine is provided. The method includes forming a cover on each bucket radial tip wherein the cover includes a leading edge side in a direction of rotation, and a trailing edge side in the direction of rotation wherein the leading edge and trailing edges are parallel with respect to each other, and wherein the leading edge and trailing edges are skewed with respect to the axis of rotation. The method includes forming an extension in the cover leading edge side, forming a groove in the cover trailing edge side, and attaching each bucket to the radially outer rim, such that the extension in the cover leading edge side of one cover is in mating engagement with the groove in the cover trailing edge side of an adjoining cover.

2006008, Apr 27, 2006

Oct 21, 2004

10/968959

Robert Bracken - Niskayuna NY, US
David Fitts - Ballston Spa NY, US
Ronald Korzun - Clifton Park NY, US
Mark Kowalczyk - Amsterdam NY, US

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

F04D 29/08

415170100

A reaction turbine stator vane segment comprising an integral grouping of plural vanes, an arcuate tip shroud connected between radially inner tips of the vanes, and an arcuate mounting portion extending across radially outer tips of the vanes, the arcuate tip shroud formed with plural seal components extending radially inwardly from the tip shroud.

2005022, Oct 6, 2005

Mar 31, 2004

10/708909

Ronald Korzun - Clifton Park NY, US
Christopher Sullivan - Ballston Spa NY, US
Robert Bracken - Niskayuna NY, US
David Fitts - Ballston Spa NY, US

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY - Schenectady NY

B63H001/16

41619300A

A method and system of constructing equivalent integral covered blading for a turbine having multiple blades supported by a stator include multiple blade foils; multiple respective cover portions defining a first surface configured to span tips of multiple adjacent blades between tip locations of adjacent blades thereby to form the cover portion portions for adjacent blades and wherein the cover portions associated with each respective adjacent blades include facing sides for adjacent cover portions of adjacent blades; and an overcover coupled to a second surface opposite the first surface of the respective cover portions, the overcover configured to at least one of stiffen deterministic constraints of the tips and seal against leakage through the facing sides for adjacent cover portions.

2004012, Jun 24, 2004

Dec 23, 2002

10/248172

Bernard Couture - Schenectady NY, US
Ronald Korzun - Clifton Park NY, US

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY - Schenectady NY

F01D009/04

415/209200, 415/209400, 029/889220

A method for assembling a turbine, wherein the method includes coupling at least one nozzle assembly including an outer band, an inner band, a nozzle, and a dovetail, to a stator that includes a plurality of dovetail slots and channels defined therein, slidably coupling the at least one nozzle assembly into a respective dovetail slot, and fixedly securing the at least one nozzle assembly to the stator with a load pin that extends between the nozzle assembly and the dovetail slot.

7866949, Jan 11, 2011

Aug 24, 2006

11/466986

Robert James Bracken - Niskayuna NY, US
John Thomas Murphy - Niskayuna NY, US
Clement Gazzillo - Schenectady NY, US
John Cleland Lavash - Niskayuna NY, US
Stephen Roger Swan - Ballston Lake NY, US
Ronald Wayne Korzun - Clifton Park NY, US
Jeffrey Robert Simkins - Rensselaer NY, US

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

F01D 5/16

416198R, 416198 A, 4151995

A method of fabricating a turbine rotor is provided. The method includes fabricating a plurality of substantially cylindrical disks. Fabricating each disk includes fabricating a substantially cylindrical body and extending a bore substantially concentrically through the body. The method also includes coupling at least two of the plurality of disks together to form a rotor having a bore extending axially therethrough.