Patents by Inventor Francis GEMME

Francis GEMME 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).

  • Patent number: 11668203
    Abstract: A turbine section has: a rotor rotatable about a central axis, the rotor having blades each protruding radially outwardly from a platform relative to the central axis; a stator having vanes each protruding radially outwardly from a shroud; a rim seal between the platform and the shroud, the rim seal having: an axial overlap between the platform and the shroud, and a lip protruding in a direction having a radial component relative to the central axis from one of the platform and the shroud toward the other of the platform and the shroud, the lip axially overlapping the other of the platform and the shroud, the lip having a radial height such that a radial gap remains between the lip and the other of the platform and the shroud when the turbine section is in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventor: Francis Gemme
  • Patent number: 11578602
    Abstract: A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine has an airfoil including leading and trailing edges joined by spaced-apart pressure and suction sides to provide an exterior airfoil surface extending from a platform in a spanwise direction to a tip. The external airfoil surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil described by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Table 1, the Cartesian coordinates provided by an axial coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, a circumferential coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, and a span location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Fariba Ajalli, Panagiota Tsifourdaris, Lorenzo Sanzari, Francis Gemme, Stephane Bigras, William Mindenhall, Masoud Roshan Fekr
  • Patent number: 11578607
    Abstract: An airfoil for a gas turbine engine, which has an airfoil body extending in a spanwise direction and in a chordwise direction, a platform located at an inner end and/or an outer end of the airfoil body, and a fillet at a junction between the airfoil body and the platform. The fillet has a radius distribution at a given chordwise location, the radius distribution varying from the platform to the airfoil body in the spanwise direction. The radius distribution defines a local minimum, the radius of the fillet at the given chordwise location increasing from the local minimum along the spanwise direction toward both of the airfoil and the platform. A local maximum of the radius distribution is offset from the local minimum along the spanwise direction, the radius decreasing from the local maximum along the spanwise direction toward both of the airfoil and the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Daniel Lecuyer, Michael Paolucci, Francis Gemme
  • Patent number: 11578601
    Abstract: A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine has an airfoil including leading and trailing edges joined by spaced-apart pressure and suction sides to provide an external airfoil surface extending from a platform in a spanwise direction to a tip. The external airfoil surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil defined by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Table 1, the Cartesian coordinates provided by an axial coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, a circumferential coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, and a span location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Abdulhalim Twahir, Panagiota Tsifourdaris, Francis Gemme, Stephane Bigras, William Mindenhall
  • Publication number: 20230010337
    Abstract: A turbine section has: a rotor rotatable about a central axis, the rotor having blades each protruding radially outwardly from a platform relative to the central axis; a stator having vanes each protruding radially outwardly from a shroud; a rim seal between the platform and the shroud, the rim seal having: an axial overlap between the platform and the shroud, and a lip protruding in a direction having a radial component relative to the central axis from one of the platform and the shroud toward the other of the platform and the shroud, the lip axially overlapping the other of the platform and the shroud, the lip having a radial height such that a radial gap remains between the lip and the other of the platform and the shroud when the turbine section is in operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventor: Francis GEMME
  • Publication number: 20220186622
    Abstract: An airfoil for a gas turbine engine, which has an airfoil body extending in a spanwise direction and in a chordwise direction, a platform located at an inner end and/or an outer end of the airfoil body, and a fillet at a junction between the airfoil body and the platform. The fillet has a radius distribution at a given chordwise location, the radius distribution varying from the platform to the airfoil body in the spanwise direction. The radius distribution defines a local minimum, the radius of the fillet at the given chordwise location increasing from the local minimum along the spanwise direction toward both of the airfoil and the platform. A local maximum of the radius distribution is offset from the local minimum along the spanwise direction, the radius decreasing from the local maximum along the spanwise direction toward both of the airfoil and the platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel LECUYER, Michael PAOLUCCI, Francis GEMME