Patents by Inventor Lorenzo SANZARI

Lorenzo SANZARI 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: 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: 10934874
    Abstract: An assembly comprising a blade including a blade portion, a root portion and a platform portion between the blade portion and the root portion, the platform portion defining at least one cavity opened laterally. An abutment projects from a wall portion of the cavity at a trailing end of the blade. A seal is received in the cavity and positioned along a periphery of the cavity, the seal having a trailing edge abutting against the abutment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Lorenzo Sanzari, Othmane Leghzaouni
  • Publication number: 20200248576
    Abstract: An assembly comprising a blade including a blade portion, a root portion and a platform portion between the blade portion and the root portion, the platform portion defining at least one cavity opened laterally. An abutment projects from a wall portion of the cavity at a trailing end of the blade. A seal is received in the cavity and positioned along a periphery of the cavity, the seal having a trailing edge abutting against the abutment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Lorenzo SANZARI, Othmane LEGHZAOUNI
  • Publication number: 20200217214
    Abstract: A rim seal between a stator and a rotor in a gas turbine engine is described. The seal includes an axial overlap between platform rims of the stator and the rotor. The axial length of the platform rim of one of the stator and the rotor is accommodated within a radially aligned trench defined in the other of the stator and the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Remy SYNNOTT, John PIETROBON, Franco DI PAOLA, Lorenzo SANZARI
  • Patent number: 10704400
    Abstract: A rotor disc of a gas turbine rotor assembly is provided. The rotor disc may support a plurality of blades attached thereto. The rotor disc may have a plurality of fixing members defined therein through its peripheral surface and circumferentially spaced apart from one another. The fixing members may extend axially from a front end portion to a rear end portion of the disc. Profiled slots may be defined between pairs of adjacent ones of the fixing members and may be configured to receive complementary profiled blade root portions. A plurality of disc lips may project axially forward from a surrounding surface of the disc in the front end portion. A disc lip may be disposed at a tip portion of a fixing member, adjacent a leading edge of the disc to minimize air leakage at a disc/blade interface. A rotor assembly with such rotor disc and a plurality of blades attached thereto is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Lorenzo Sanzari, Sylvain Vignola
  • Patent number: 10633992
    Abstract: A rim seal located between a stator and a rotor in a gas turbine engine includes an axial overlap between platform rims of the stator and the rotor. The axial length of the platform rim of one of the stator and the rotor is accommodated within a radially aligned trench defined in the other of the stator and the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Remy Synnott, John Pietrobon, Franco Di Paola, Lorenzo Sanzari
  • Publication number: 20200123912
    Abstract: A rotor disc of a gas turbine rotor assembly is provided. The rotor disc may support a plurality of blades attached thereto. The rotor disc may have a plurality of fixing members defined therein through its peripheral surface and circumferentially spaced apart from one another. The fixing members may extend axially from a front end portion to a rear end portion of the disc. Profiled slots may be defined between pairs of adjacent ones of the fixing members and may be configured to receive complementary profiled blade root portions. A plurality of disc lips may project axially forward from a surrounding surface of the disc in the front end portion. A disc lip may be disposed at a tip portion of a fixing member, adjacent a leading edge of the disc to minimize air leakage at a disc/blade interface. A rotor assembly with such rotor disc and a plurality of blades attached thereto is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Lorenzo SANZARI, Sylvain VIGNOLA
  • Patent number: 10329915
    Abstract: A power turbine includes a first stage blade having an airfoil with a cold un-coated nominal profile substantially in accordance with at least an intermediate portion of the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table 2. The X and Y values are distances, which when smoothly connected by an appropriate continuing curve, define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z. The profile sections at each distance Z are joined smoothly to one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Krishan Mohan, Panagiota Tsifourdaris, Lorenzo Sanzari, Igal Acher Abenhaim, Anthony Pham
  • Publication number: 20190071974
    Abstract: A power turbine includes a first stage blade having an airfoil with a cold un-coated nominal profile substantially in accordance with at least an intermediate portion of the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table 2. The X and Y values are distances, which when smoothly connected by an appropriate continuing curve, define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z. The profile sections at each distance Z are joined smoothly to one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Krishan MOHAN, Panagiota TSIFOURDARIS, Lorenzo SANZARI, Igal Acher ABENHAIM, Anthony PHAM
  • Publication number: 20180258781
    Abstract: A rim seal between a stator and a rotor in a gas turbine engine is described. The seal includes an axial overlap between platform rims of the stator and the rotor. The axial length of the platform rim of one of the stator and the rotor is accommodated within a radially aligned trench defined in the other of the stator and the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Remy SYNNOTT, John PIETROBON, Franco DI PAOLA, Lorenzo SANZARI