Patents by Inventor Anthony Urbanski

Anthony Urbanski has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of forming a cooling hole by laser drilling
    Patent number: 9696035
    Abstract: A method for making shaped cooling holes in a substrate by pulsing and stopping a laser while moving the laser or substrate. The method produces shaped cooling holes with a bore angled relative to an exit surface of the combustor liner. One end of the bore is an inlet formed in an inlet surface of the combustor liner. The other end of the bore is an outlet formed in the exit surface of the combustor liner. The outlet has a shaped portion that expands in only one dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John Howard Starkweather, William Bennett, John Gibbons, Anthony Urbanski
  • Substrate with Shaped Cooling Holes and Methods of Manufacture
    Publication number: 20130269354
    Abstract: A substrate having one or more shaped effusion cooling holes formed therein. Each shaped cooling hole has a bore angled relative to an exit surface of the combustor liner. One end of the bore is an inlet formed in an inlet surface of the combustor liner. The other end of the bore is an outlet formed in the exit surface of the combustor liner. The outlet has a shaped portion that expands in only one dimension. Also methods for making the shaped cooling holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: John Howard Starkweather, William Bennett, John Gibbons, Anthony Urbanski