Patents by Inventor Paul Allan HUCKER

Paul Allan HUCKER 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).

  • Combustion chamber and a combustion chamber segment
    Patent number: 10502421
    Abstract: A combustion chamber comprises an upstream ring structure, a downstream ring structure and a plurality of circumferentially arranged combustion chamber segments. Each combustion chamber segment extends the full length of the combustion chamber. Each combustion chamber segment comprises a frame structure and at least an inner wall and the frame structure and the inner wall are integral. An upstream end of each combustion chamber segment is secured to the upstream ring structure and a downstream end of each combustion chamber segment is mounted on the downstream ring structure. The combustion chamber segments are manufactured by additive layer manufacture. The combustion chamber segments have a stiff frame structure which carries the structural loads, the thermal loads, surge loads and flameout loads and the frame structure distributes loads into adjacent components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Stephen Charles Harding, Paul Allan Hucker, Giuseppe Rallo
  • Component for attaching to a wall
    Patent number: 9903589
    Abstract: A tile for attaching to a wall of a gas turbine engine. The tile has a main body. The tile also has a bridging structure that projects outwardly from the main body and has a hole configured to receive an elongate fastener so that the tile can be attached to the wall of the gas turbine engine by passing the elongate fastener through a hole in the wall of the gas turbine engine and the hole in the bridging structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Paul Allan Hucker, Alan Philip Geary, Anthony John Moran, Jonathan Mark Gregory
  • COMBUSTION CHAMBER AND A COMBUSTION CHAMBER SEGMENT
    Publication number: 20160258624
    Abstract: A combustion chamber comprises an upstream ring structure, a downstream ring structure and a plurality of circumferentially arranged combustion chamber segments. Each combustion chamber segment extends the full length of the combustion chamber. Each combustion chamber segment comprises a frame structure and at least an inner wall and the frame structure and the inner wall are integral. An upstream end of each combustion chamber segment is secured to the upstream ring structure and a downstream end of each combustion chamber segment is mounted on the downstream ring structure. The combustion chamber segments are manufactured by additive layer manufacture. The combustion chamber segments have a stiff frame structure which carries the structural loads, the thermal loads, surge loads and flameout loads and the frame structure distributes loads into adjacent components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Stephen Charles HARDING, Paul Allan HUCKER, Giuseppe RALLO
  • COMPONENT FOR ATTACHING TO A WALL
    Publication number: 20150082798
    Abstract: A tile for attaching to a wall of a gas turbine engine. The tile has a main body. The tile also has a bridging structure that projects outwardly from the main body and has a hole configured to receive an elongate fastener so that the tile can be attached to the wall of the gas turbine engine by passing the elongate fastener through a hole in the wall of the gas turbine engine and the hole in the bridging structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Paul Allan HUCKER, Alan Philip GEARY, Anthony John MORAN, Jonathan Mark GREGORY