Klaus W Sommerlatte

7150090, Dec 19, 2006

Jul 16, 2004

10/892229

David Norwood Dorsey - Clifton Park NY, US
Klaus Werner Sommerlatte - Guilderland NY, US

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

H02K 15/00
H02K 15/02

29596, 29598

A method to replace a brushless exciter with a static excitation system for a generator including the steps of: measuring a plurality of dimensions of the brushless exciter; determining a rotational mass moment of inertia of a rotation portion of the excitation system design; forming a rotating static excitation system having substantially the same rotational mass moment of inertia as the brushless exciter; removing the brushless exciter from the generator, and attaching the static excitation system to the generator.

8013481, Sep 6, 2011

Mar 27, 2009

12/412619

Klaus Werner Sommerlatte - Guilderland NY, US
Siddharth Navinchandra Ashar - Guilderland NY, US
Alexander Gabriel Beckford - Glenville NY, US
Eric Steven Buskirk - Guilderland NY, US
Benjamin Alber Mancuso - Schenectady NY, US
Anthony Rigosu - Altamont NY, US

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

H02K 5/24
G01D 9/00
G01H 1/10
G01N 29/00
G01M 1/00

310 51, 73471, 73650

A solution is provided for tuning the frequency of a torsional mode of interest of a rotating body (such as a generator rotor torsional mode) by adding a detuner to act as an undamped torsional vibration absorber. The detuner may be coupled to an overhung shaft extending from the rotating body. The detuner may be modular, therefore weight can be added or subtracted easily from the detuner in order to adjust the stiffness and/or inertia of the overhung shaft. This change in stiffness and/or inertia yields a torsional frequency of oscillation in the overhung shaft substantially similar to the natural frequency of the torsional mode of interest of the rotating body, therefore forcing the frequency of the torsional mode of interest of the rotating body above or below its torsional natural frequency.

60206705, Feb 1, 2000

Aug 17, 1998

9/135336

Steven William Jones - Delanson NY
Marcus Edward Harrington - Clifton Park NY
James F. Hopeck - Mechanicville NY
Patrick Brian Douglass - Amsterdam NY
Steven Lester Adams - Clifton Park NY
Klaus Sommerlatte - Guilderland NY
Kena Kimi Yokoyama - Latham NY
Apostolos Karafillis - Cambridge MA

General Electric Co. - Schenectady NY

H02K 346

310270

A connector support block has a recess defined in part by an arcuate surface for limiting deflection of a main lead connector coupled between the main lead terminal and the innermost turn of end coils on a generator. The recess is spanned by a pin displaceable in elliptical openings in flanges defining the recess and about which pin the main lead connector makes a 180. degree. bend. By limiting the deflection of the main lead connector, stresses introduced into the main lead connector at the 180. degree. bend, a 90. degree. bend and the joint between the main lead connector and innermost turn are reduced under cyclic loading whereby increased fatigue life of the main lead connector is provided.