Patents by Inventor Randall Douglas Gill

Randall Douglas Gill 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: 10544694
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a nozzle for a turbomachine. The nozzle includes an inner side wall, an outer side wall radially spaced apart from the inner side wall, and an airfoil extending radially from the inner side wall to the outer side wall. The airfoil defines a cavity that extends radially through the nozzle. The cavity is at least partially defined by a cavity wall. The cavity wall at least partially defines a pocket in fluid communication with the cavity. A cooling passage is defined by one of the inner side wall or the outer side wall. The cooling passage is in fluid communication with the cavity via the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Allison Ozarslan, Randall Douglas Gill
  • Publication number: 20180163553
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a nozzle for a turbomachine. The nozzle includes an inner side wall, an outer side wall radially spaced apart from the inner side wall, and an airfoil extending radially from the inner side wall to the outer side wall. The airfoil defines a cavity that extends radially through the nozzle. The cavity is at least partially defined by a cavity wall. The cavity wall at least partially defines a pocket in fluid communication with the cavity. A cooling passage is defined by one of the inner side wall or the outer side wall. The cooling passage is in fluid communication with the cavity via the pocket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Allison Ozarslan, Randall Douglas Gill
  • Patent number: 7121787
    Abstract: The trailing edge region of a nozzle airfoil is provided with a cooling configuration wherein post-impingement cooling air flows between radially spaced ribs defining convective cooling channels into a generally radially extending plenum. Cooling air in the plenum is split between film cooling holes for film cooling the pressure side of the trailing edge region and for flow about downstream pins for pin cooling the downstream regions of the opposite sides of the airfoil. The cooling air exiting the pins is directed through convective channels defined by a second set of radially spaced ribs and through exit apertures on the pressure side of the trailing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Curtis John Jacks, Robert Walter Coign, Randall Douglas Gill
  • Patent number: 7001147
    Abstract: A turbine nozzle includes airfoil and sidewall surfaces. The airfoil and sidewall surfaces have profiles substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Tables I–IV for the pressure and suction sides of the airfoil, and the outer and inner sidewall surfaces, respectively. The X, Y and Z values are distances in inches. The X and Y values for the airfoil, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z. The profile sections at the Z distances are joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil shape. The X, Y and Z values of Tables III and IV define the outer and inner sidewall surfaces, respectively, of the gas flowpath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Stewart Phillips, Raymond Allan Wedlake, Randall Douglas Gill