Daniel K Norton

US Patent:

20100024400, Feb 4, 2010

Filed:

Aug 1, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/184274

Inventors:

Ke Liu - Rancho Santa Margarita CA, US
Gregg Anthony Deluga - Playa del Rey CA, US
Dan Hancu - Clifton Park NY, US
Daniel George Norton - Niskayuna NY, US
Frederic Vitse - Knoxville TN, US
Benjamin Hale Winkler - Albany NY, US

Assignee:

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY - Schenectady NY

International Classification:

F01N 3/20

US Classification:

60286, 60301

Abstract:

A system includes an exhaust conduit configured to conduct a stream of exhaust gas, wherein the exhaust conduit comprises a selective catalytic reduction catalyst reactor comprising a first catalyst composition; an fuel source configured to introduce a fuel into the exhaust gas stream within the exhaust conduit upstream of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst reactor; a catalytic partial oxidation reformer in fluid communication with the exhaust gas stream and upstream from the selective catalytic reduction catalyst reactor, wherein the catalytic partial oxidation reformer can introduce a hydrogen-rich syngas co-reductant into the exhaust gas stream, when a temperature of the exhaust fluid is less than a determined threshold temperature.

US Patent:

20100146947, Jun 17, 2010

Filed:

Dec 16, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/335934

Inventors:

Ke Liu - Rancho Santa Margarita CA, US
Gregg Anthony Deluga - Playa del Rey CA, US
Arnaldo Frydman - Houston TX, US
Gregory Ronald Gillette - Houston TX, US
Daniel Hancu - Niskayuna NY, US
Daniel George Norton - Niskayuna NY, US
Frederic Vitse - Knoxville TN, US
Benjamin Hale Winkler - Albany NY, US

Assignee:

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY - Schenectady NY

International Classification:

F01N 3/10

US Classification:

60295, 60299

Abstract:

A system comprising a fuel converter comprising a catalyst composition capable of converting a fuel into a selected one or both of a syngas reductant and a short chain hydrocarbon reductant, wherein the catalyst composition comprises: cracking sites that perform a cracking function when a temperature of an exhaust fluid is greater than a predetermined threshold temperature, wherein the cracking function converts long chain hydrocarbon molecules to short chain hydrocarbon molecules; and partial oxidation sites that perform a catalytic partial oxidation function when the temperature of the exhaust fluid is less than the predetermined threshold temperature, wherein the catalytic partial oxidation function oxidizes the fuel to produce the syngas reductant; and a selective catalytic reduction catalyst reactor in fluid communication with the fuel converter and the exhaust fluid.

US Patent:

49340727, Jun 19, 1990

Filed:

Apr 14, 1989

Appl. No.:

7/339198

Inventors:

Raymond M. Fredericksen - Okemos MI
Daniel T. Barry - Ann Arbor MI
Daniel E. Norton - Clackamas OR

Assignee:

Wolverine World Wide, Inc. - Rockford MI

International Classification:

A43B 1318
A43B 1900

US Classification:

36 29

Abstract:

A special sealed heel bladder defining a space divided into a rear heel chamber positioned in the main heel strike area and a front heel chamber. The rear heel chamber comprises about 60 percent of the total volume. The front heel chamber comprises about 40 percent of the total volume. These chambers are divided by a diagonal interior wall at an angle of 35 degrees to a transverse line or plane and having controlled flow orifice means which regulates rate of flow of a viscous liquid from the rear heel chamber to the front heel chamber upon heel strike. The chambers are filled with a mixture of viscous liquid and a gas, typically air. The volume of viscous liquid is greater than the volume of the front heel chamber and preferably is about 80 to 90 percent of the total volume. The front heel chamber has flexible resilient walls allowing limited expansion capacity caused by temporary resilient bulging of the walls, creating a return biasing force by the walls on the liquid because of a greater pressure momentarily created in the front heel chamber by flow thereinto of a greater amount of liquid than the at-rest volume of the front heel chamber. This resilient biasing force causes effective return flow of liquid back to the rear heel chamber when pressure is released from the rear heel chamber during foot roll and toeoff by the runner.