SCOTT DENTON THOMASON
Pilots at Sugar Cane Ct, Greer, SC

2012015, Jun 21, 2012

Dec 16, 2010

12/969803

Jason Robert Parolini - Greer SC, US
Gregory Keith Bouse - Greer SC, US
Subrahmanyam Thangirala - Schenectady NY, US
Scott Denton Thomason - Greer SC, US
Junyoung Park - Greer SC, US

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY - Schenectady NY

C21D 5/00, C22C 37/00, B22D 13/02

148539, 148545, 148321

A method by which properties of a component () formed of a ductile iron alloy and having thick sections can be promoted with an austempering process. The method entails casting a ductile iron alloy containing iron, carbon, silicon and alloying constituents. The casting is solidified at a rate that inhibits segregation of the alloying constituents to grain boundaries of the casting, and so that the casting contains graphite nodules having a count of greater than 100 nodules per mm. The casting is then austempered by heating to an austenitization temperature to yield a microstructure having a single-phase matrix of austenite that contains carbon, and then quenching the casting to an austempering temperature. The casting is held at the austempering temperature for a duration sufficient to yield a microstructure whose matrix is mostly ausferrite and essentially free of martensite and pearlite.

2012014, Jun 7, 2012

Sep 29, 2011

13/248403

Harvey H. Kaura - Greer SC, US
Scott Denton Thomason - Greer SC, US

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY - Schenectady NY

F16D 1/04

403373

A coupling arrangement is provided for connecting shaft components. The coupling arrangement includes a first shaft component having an end with a recess defined therein, and a second shaft component axially aligned with the first shaft component and seated within the recess. The first shaft component has an outer diameter surface in a region concentric with the recess. A single-piece clamping disk has a matching inner diameter surface and a circumferentially extending groove defined in the inner diameter surface, as well as a radially extending injection channel defined between an outer diameter surface of the clamping disk and the groove.

2013019, Aug 1, 2013

Jan 31, 2012

13/362328

Adam Daniel Minadeo - Greenville SC, US
Scott Denton Thomason - Greer SC, US
Fabian P. Nunez - Clifton Park NY, US

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

F03D 11/00, F03D 11/04

416204 R

A retention assembly for securing a main rotor shaft in a wind turbine relative to a pillow block is provided. A main rotor shaft extends through a pillow block, and a ring groove is defined in an outer circumferential surface of the main rotor shaft axially offset from the pillow block. A snap ring is engaged within the ring groove, wherein the snap ring and ring groove are designed to achieve a design axial load capacity.

7946819, May 24, 2011

Nov 26, 2008

12/323985

Edwin Hidding - Rhede, DE
Christian Becker - Salzbergen, DE
Yvo Blokhuis - Haaksbergen, NL
Scott Thomason - Greer SC, US

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

F03D 11/02, F16D 1/02

416170R, 416204 R

A connection arrangement for connecting drive shafts of a wind turbine including a rotor having a rotor shaft and a hub, and a gearbox having a gearbox input shaft is provided. The connection arrangement includes a first shaft connection means having a recessed portion arranged at the rotor shaft symmetrically to the axis of the rotor shaft, a second shaft connection means having a protruding portion arranged symmetrically to the axis of the gearbox input shaft, wherein the protruding portion of the second shaft connection means engages with the recessed portion of the first shaft connection means, and a fixing means for fixing the protruding portion of the first shaft connection means at the recessed portion of the second shaft connection means. A frictionally engaged connection is provided.