Patents by Inventor Gregory Terrence Garay
Gregory Terrence Garay 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).
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Patent number: 11927110Abstract: An apparatus and method relating to a cooling hole of a component of a turbine engine. The cooling hole can extend from an inlet to an outlet to define a connecting passage. The cooling hole can contain a diffusing section. The diffusing section can be defined by an interior surface having variable geometries.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Aaron Ezekiel Smith, Gregory Terrence Garay, Kirk D. Gallier
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Publication number: 20240066590Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to partial integrated core-shell investment casting molds that can be assembled into complete molds. Each section of the partial mold may contain both a portion of a core and portion of a shell. Each section can then be assembled into a mold for casting of a metal part. The partial integrated core-shell investment casting molds and the complete molds may be provided with filament structures corresponding to cooling hole patterns on the surface of the turbine blade or the stator vane, which provides a leaching pathway for the core portion after metal casting. The invention also relates to core filaments that can be used to supplement the leaching pathway, for example in a core tip portion of the mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: James Herbert Deines, Brian David Przeslawski, Michael John McCarren, Gregory Terrence Garay, Douglas Gerard Konitzer, Mark Willard Marusko, Xi Yang, Brian Patrick Peterson
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Patent number: 11885236Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine includes an outer wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side, the outer wall extending axially between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction, and also extending radially between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. At least one cooling conduit can be formed in the interior of the airfoil, and a tip rail can project from the tip in the span-wise direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Tingfan Pang, Gregory Terrence Garay, Steven Robert Brassfield
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Patent number: 11879356Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine. The component includes a body. The body has an exterior surface abutting a flowpath for the flow of a hot combustion gas through the gas turbine engine. Further, the body defines a cooling passageway within the body to supply cool air to the component. The component includes a leading face and a trailing face defining a trench therebetween on the exterior surface. The body defines a plurality of cooling holes extending between the cooling passageway and a plurality of outlets defined in the trench such that the trench is fluidly coupled to the cooling passageway. Additionally, the leading face and trailing face are each tangent to at least one of the plurality of outlets. The trench directs the cool air along a contour of the component.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Kevin Robert Feldmann
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Publication number: 20240011399Abstract: An airfoil includes a body, a cooling passage, a first cooling cavity, a second cooling cavity, a cooling conduit, and a connecting conduit. The body defines an interior and includes a tip rail with an exterior surface extending between a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface. The cooling passage is formed within the interior. The first cooling cavity and the second cooling cavity are spaced from each other within the tip rail. The cooling conduit fluidly couples the cooling passage with the first cooling cavity. The connecting conduit fluidly couples the first cooling cavity to the second cooling cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Thomas Earl Dyson, Nicholas William Rathay, Brendon James Leary, Gregory Terrence Garay, Gustavo Adolfo Ledezma, David Wayne Weber, Aaron Ezekiel Smith
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Publication number: 20230393554Abstract: A method of forming a component that includes identifying an acute angle in an original model that is a virtual model of the component. The acute angle is defined by a first surface and a second surface. The method includes compensating the original model at the acute angle to create a compensated acute angle in a compensated model. The method also includes forming, by additive manufacturing, the component based upon the compensated model, where the formed component is more alike the original model than the compensated model.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, Tingfan Pang, Gregory Terrence Garay, Xi Yang, Daniel Lee Durstock, Steven Robert Brassfield, William Charles Herman
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Patent number: 11813669Abstract: Partial integrated core-shell investment casting molds that can be assembled into complete molds are provided herein. Each section of the partial mold may contain both a portion of a core and portion of a shell. Each section can then be assembled into a mold for casting of a metal part. The partial integrated core-shell investment casting molds and the complete molds may be provided with filament structures corresponding to cooling hole patterns on the surface of the turbine blade or the stator vane, which provides a leaching pathway for the core portion after metal casting. Core filaments that can be used to supplement the leaching pathway, for example in a core tip portion of the mold are also provided herein.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: James Herbert Deines, Brian David Przeslawski, Michael John McCarren, Gregory Terrence Garay, Douglas Gerard Konitzer, Mark Willard Marusko, Xi Yang, Brian Patrick Peterson
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Publication number: 20230358139Abstract: A method of forming a gas turbine engine component, the method including forming a plurality of cooling apertures in a preform structure of the component, the plurality of cooling apertures of the preform structure comprising a first cooling aperture and a second cooling aperture, wherein cross-sectional shapes of the first and second cooling apertures of the preform structure are different from one another, as measured in a same relative plane; and applying a coating to at least a portion of the preform structure to form the component, wherein a cross-sectional shape of the first and second cooling apertures of the component are approximately the same as one another, as measured in the same relative plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, Gregory Terrence Garay, Ryan Christopher Jones, Tingfan Pang
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Patent number: 11782416Abstract: A method of using additive manufacturing to form or print a component based on an original model of a component, where the geometry of the original model is compensated to form a compensated model. The compensated model can be used to form or print the component. The printed component as a final model can then be compared to the original model.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, Tingfan Pang, Gregory Terrence Garay, Xi Yang, Daniel Lee Durstock, Steven Robert Brassfield, William Charles Herman
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Publication number: 20230311199Abstract: An intermediate investment casting mold includes at least a shell and a core. The shell has an outer surface and an inner surface, with the inner surface defining an interior for the shell. The core is located in the interior of the shell and is at least partially spaced from the inner surface of the shell. A void can be defined as the space between the core and the inner surface. The intermediate investment casting mold can include a plurality of anchors.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Evin Nathaniel Barber, Joshua L. Miller, Christophe Jude Day, Brian D. Przeslawski, Tingfan Pang, Gregory Terrence Garay, Xi Yang, Meredith Elissa Dubelman, Daniel Endecott Osgood, Ricardo Caraballo, Thomas Hewitt
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Patent number: 11655718Abstract: An apparatus and method for cooling a blade tip for a turbine engine can include an blade, such as a cooled turbine blade, having a tip rail extending beyond a tip wall enclosing an interior for the blade at the tip. A plurality of film-holes can be provided in the tip rail. A flow of cooling fluid can be provided through the film-holes from the interior of the blade to cool the tip of the blade.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Thomas Earl Dyson, Nicholas William Rathay, Brendon James Leary, Gregory Terrence Garay, Gustavo Adolfo Ledezma, David Wayne Weber, Aaron Ezekiel Smith
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Patent number: 11639664Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine, comprising an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction, outlets on the exterior surface, and a cooling air supply conduit within the interior and having a supply passage.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2022Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Steven Robert Brassfield, Gregory Terrence Garay, Tingfan Pang, Daniel Endecott Osgood
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Patent number: 11585224Abstract: A method of forming a gas turbine engine component, the method including forming a plurality of cooling apertures in a preform structure of the component, the plurality of cooling apertures of the preform structure comprising a first cooling aperture and a second cooling aperture, wherein cross-sectional shapes of the first and second cooling apertures of the preform structure are different from one another, as measured in a same relative plane; and applying a coating to at least a portion of the preform structure to form the component, wherein a cross-sectional shape of the first and second cooling apertures of the component are approximately the same as one another, as measured in the same relative plane.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Gregory Terrence Garay, Tingfan Pang, Daniel Endecott Osgood, Ryan Christopher Jones
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Patent number: 11572801Abstract: The disclosure relates to a component for a turbine engine with a heated airflow and a cooling airflow. The component includes a wall separating the heated airflow from the cooling airflow. The wall can have a heated surface confronting the heated airflow and a cooled surface confronting the cooling airflow. The component can also include a baffle with a set of cooling holes.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Daniel Endicott Osgood, Gregory Terrence Garay, Daniel Lee Durstock, Steven Robert Brassfield, Tingfan Pang
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Patent number: 11566527Abstract: A component, such as for a turbine engine, can include an airfoil with an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. The component can also include at least one cooling passage within the interior.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Tingfan Pang, Helen Ogbazion Gabregiorgish, Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Steven Robert Brassfield, Daniel Endecott Osgood
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Patent number: 11560803Abstract: An engine component for a turbine engine having a working airflow separated into a cooling airflow and a combustion airflow, the engine component comprising a wall defining an interior and having an outer surface over which flows the combustion airflow, the outer surface defining a first side and a second side. The engine component further comprising at least one cooling conduit provided in the interior and having conduit sidewalls and a set of cooling passages formed in the wall and fluidly coupling the at least one cooling conduit to the outer surface, at least one of the cooling passages in the set comprising a primary cooling passage portion and a secondary cooling passage portion. A diffusion slot located in the primary cooling passage portion and an impingement zone fluidly coupled to the diffusion slot.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, Kirk Douglas Gallier, Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Daniel Lee Durstock, Ricardo Caraballo
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Patent number: 11549377Abstract: An apparatus and method regarding an airfoil for a turbine engine, the airfoil comprising an outer wall defining an interior bound by a pressure side and a suction side extending axially between a leading edge and a trailing edge defining a chord-wise direction and extending radially between a root and a tip defining a span-wise direction. The airfoil further comprising at least one cooling passage extending radially within the interior and defining a primary cooling airflow; and at least one cooling hole having an inlet defining a first cross-sectional area, the inlet in communication with the cooling passage, an outlet defining a second cross-sectional area greater than the first cross-sectional area; wherein the primary cooling airflow enters the inlet in a first direction and exits the outlet in a second direction different than the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Gregory Terrence Garay, Zachary Daniel Webster, Kirk D. Gallier
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Publication number: 20220403745Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine, comprising an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction, outlets on the exterior surface, and a cooling air supply conduit within the interior and having a supply passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Steven Robert Brassfield, Gregory Terrence Garay, Tingfan Pang, Daniel Endecott Osgood
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Patent number: 11529672Abstract: A method of forming a cast component and a method of forming a casting mold is described herein. The ceramic core-shell mold includes at least first core portion, a first shell portion, and at least one first cavity between the core portion and the first shell portion. The core-shell mold may be manufactured using an additive manufacturing process and may include an integrated ceramic filter. At least a portion of the ceramic core-shell mold and the wax gate component is coated with a second ceramic material. The wax gate component is then removed to form a second cavity in fluid communication with the first cavity.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Xi Yang, Michael Cole, Michael Brown, Gregory Terrence Garay, Tingfan Pang, Brian David Przeslawski, Douglas Gerard Konitzer
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Publication number: 20220389821Abstract: An engine component for a turbine engine, the engine component comprising a wall bounding an interior; a panel portion defining a portion of the wall, the panel portion comprising: an outer wall; an inner wall spaced from the outer wall to define a wall gap; and a structural segment formed within the wall gap comprising at least one structural element. The apparatus formed from a method including calculating a factor and adjusting a variable until the factor is between a given range.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Gregory Terrence Garay, Daniel Endecott Osgood, Douglas Gerard Konitzer