Patents by Inventor Hubert Smith Roberts, Jr.

Hubert Smith Roberts, Jr. 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for supplying air to turbine engine combustors
    Patent number: 6651439
    Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine that facilitates reducing combustor chamber dump pressure losses to improve combustor and engine performance is described. The combustor includes a diffuser that diffuses airflow directed into the combustor. The diffuser includes an outer wall, an inner wall, and a plurality of splitter vanes between the outer wall and the inner wall. The splitter vanes are spaced radially apart, and each is spaced radially from a respective diffuser wall such that an outer passage, an inner passage, and a central passage are defined by the splitter vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventors: Marwan Al-Roub, Clifford Stephen Creevy, Hubert Smith Roberts, Jr., Anthony Paul Greenwood