Vijay K Stokes

42546427, Mar 10, 1981

Jan 2, 1980

6/109052

Vijay K. Stokes - Schenectady NY

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

D06F 2106

68172

A basket for an orbital washer is provided with a bottom wall having a variable slope. The angle of bottom slope varies from a maximum angle to a minimum angle in the circumferential direction about the axis of the basket. The slope variation causes changes in the rate of motion of clothes as the clothes move circumferentially within the basket, which change enhances turbulence of the clothes motion and, thereby, washing of the clothes.

42338271, Nov 18, 1980

Nov 28, 1979

6/098226

Vijay K. Stokes - Schenectady NY

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

D06F 2106

68172

An unsymmetrical basket design is disclosed for an orbital clothes washer. The unsymmetrical design includes a basket bottom having one portion thereof axially lower than another portion with prescribed slopes connecting the upper and lower portions of the basket bottom. In one portion of the basket the inner bottom surface slopes downwardly from the center of the basket to produce turnover in one sense of clothes disposed therein, and in another sloped portion of the basket the inner bottom surface slopes upwardly from the center to facilitate turnover of cloth in a sense opposite the sense of turnover in the one portion, such that mixing of clothes within the basket is enhanced during the orbiting of the basket.

45945250, Jun 10, 1986

Jun 28, 1984

6/625608

Vijay K. Stokes - Schenectady NY

General Electric Company - Fort Wayne IN

H02K 128

310156

A rotatable assembly for a dynamoelectric machine has a pair of sets of opposite tabs formed on a flux ring at least adjacent a pair of opposite end portions thereof, respectively, and a set of magnet material elements is disposed in assembly positions generally about an outer circumference of the flux ring. At least some of the opposite tabs are deformed into engagement with confronting parts of the magnet material elements in their assembly positions, and thereby at least in part, the magnet material elements are retained against displacement from their assembly positions.

47927127, Dec 20, 1988

Nov 16, 1987

7/121210

Vijay K. Stokes - Schenectady NY

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

H02K 2114

310156

A magnet assembly having means for reducing release of magnet material particles from the magnet element includes a body of permanently magnetizable material and a shell at least partially surrounding the body. The shell is disposed and located so as to reduce release of particles shed from the surface portion of the body which is surrounded by the shell, and is preferably attached to the body by an adhesive which bonds the adjacent surfaces of the shell and the body together. A plurality of such magnet assemblies may be fastened to a flux ring in order to provide a rotatable assembly for a dynamoelectric machine in which migration of magnet material particles into the stator-rotor air gap is reduced. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, the magnet assemblies of the present invention are employed in a molded rotor assembly for such a machine.

43333230, Jun 8, 1982

Dec 15, 1980

6/216119

Vijay K. Stokes - Schenectady NY

General Electric Company - Louisville KY

D06F 2106

68171

A fabric washing machine includes a receptacle to receive washing liquid and a fabric article load to be washed in the liquid. The receptacle includes a generally upright outer wall and a generally upright center post spaced radially inward of the outer wall. The outer surface of the center post is textured to minimize slippage between the center post and fabric articles. The outer wall and center post are interconnected by a bottom wall having an upper surface textured to maximize slippage with the fabric articles. The upper surface of the bottom wall is contoured to slope downwardly substantially continuously from the outer wall to the center post and to undulate circumferentially of the receptacle.

44568460, Jun 26, 1984

Dec 29, 1982

6/454129

Vijay K. Stokes - Schenectady NY

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

H02K 1300

310233

The external segments of a commutator for rotating electrical machinery are mechanically interlocked to a molded matrix by a plurality of tang assemblies having protrusions at their ends for engagement deep within the internal matrix, to hold the segments against centrifugal forces. The tang assemblies also have anchoring bars shaped for interlocking engagement with the longitudinal channels located on the inner surfaces of the segments.

61321826, Oct 17, 2000

Dec 31, 1998

9/224163

Roger Neal Johnson - Hagaman NY
Thomas Merlin Jahns - Boxborough MA
Vijay Kumar Stokes - Niskayuna NY
John Leo August - Schenectady NY
Harold Lown - Schenectady NY

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

F04B 1700

417354

A blower unit which, in one embodiment, includes an elongate main mounting member, a stator, a fan subassembly, and a blower housing, is described. In the one embodiment, the elongate main mounting member is the main structural member of the unit. The stator includes a stator core and stator windings, and the stator is secured to the main mounting member. The fan subassembly includes a rotor and a plurality of vanes. The rotor includes a substantially cylindrical iron ring and a magnetic portion having a substantially cylindrical shape. The magnetic portion is secured within the inner diameter of the iron ring and defines a rotor bore. The stator is located in the rotor bore and is concentric with respect to the rotor. The rotor is coupled to the plurality of vanes so that the vanes rotate with the rotor. The fan subassembly also includes bearing assemblies which are spring biased toward, and into rotatable engagement with, the elongate main mounting member.

47243481, Feb 9, 1988

Dec 3, 1984

6/677448

Vijay K. Stokes - Schenectady NY

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

H02K 2100

310152

A magnet assembly having means for reducing release of magnet material particles from the magnet element includes a body of permanently magnetizable material and a shell at least partially surrounding the body. The shell is disposed and located so as to reduce release of particles shed from the surface portion of the body which is surrounded by the shell, and is preferably attached to the body by an adhesive which bonds the adjacent surfaces of the shell and the body together. A plurality of such magnet assemblies may be fastened to a flux ring in order to provide a rotatable assembly for a dynamoelectric machine in which migration of magnet material particles into the stator-rotor air gap is reduced. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, the magnet assemblies of the present invention are employed in a molded rotor assembly for such a machine.