Patents by Inventor Robert Francis Manning

Robert Francis Manning 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).

  • Publication number: 20190024513
    Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine can include a body having an outer wall defining a pressure side and a suction side, and the body can extend axially between a truncated nose and a trailing edge. A shield can be positioned upstream of the nose to define a leading edge for the airfoil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Francis Manning, Mark Broomer, Brian Kenneth Corsetti
  • Patent number: 10167725
    Abstract: An engine component for a turbine engine includes a particle collector having a substrate configured to retain at least some particles from a particle-laden stream passing through a portion of the engine. A fluid bypass around the substrate of the collector enables the particle-laden stream to bypass the substrate if the substrate is filled with particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Jared Peter Buhler, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., William Collins Vining, Corey Bourassa, Gregory Michael Laskowski, David Vickery Parker
  • Publication number: 20180347466
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for separating dust from a dirty air flow within an airfoil assembly for a turbine engine. The air foil assembly can include a pair of vanes defining a nozzle through which a flow of air can move. At least one of the vanes can include an insert located within an interior of the vane and having a set of holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Robert Francis Manning
  • Publication number: 20180328188
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for improving the heat transfer coefficient for an engine component for a turbine engine such as an airfoil. The airfoil can include an outer wall defining an interior. A cooling passage can be formed in the interior defining a flow direction. An insert can be provided in the cooling passage to occupy a volume of the cooling passage to maintain a threshold Mach number for an airflow passing through the cooling passage to improve the heat transfer coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Andrea Terese Marinelli, Robert Francis Manning, Bhanu Mahasamudram Reddy
  • Publication number: 20180291752
    Abstract: An apparatus and method relating to an airfoil for a turbine engine and cooling channels within the airfoil. The airfoil includes 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. Further, the airfoil includes ribs located within the interior and a flow enhancer extending between the ribs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: David Allen Flodman, Robert Francis Manning
  • Publication number: 20180216467
    Abstract: A turbine engine, such as a gas turbine engine for an aircraft, can include a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in axial arrangement. The compressor and turbine sections can include a rotating disk having a plurality of blades and a stationary band having a plurality of stationary vanes. The disk and band are spaced axially defining a buffer cavity. One or more extensions extend into the buffer cavity to prevent ingestion of heated gas into the buffer cavity. Recesses on the underside of the extensions can improve the heat transfer coefficient for the extensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Brian Kenneth Corsetti, Christopher Michael Ceglio, Robert Francis Manning
  • Publication number: 20180171808
    Abstract: An assembly for a turbine engine comprises a circumferential band defining an air flow path, a component having a leading edge and extending from the band into the flow path, and a trough located in a surface of the band along the leading edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Robert Francis Manning, George Joe-Kueng Chan, James Earl Kopriva
  • Patent number: 9976424
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil having an internal cooling circuit. The cooling circuit includes a body cooling passage with at least one turn, and a tip cooling channel that forms a cooling barrier to thermally isolate the turn from at least a portion of the exterior surface of the airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher Lloyd McKenzie, Robert Francis Manning, Bhanu Mahasamudram Reddy
  • Publication number: 20180016944
    Abstract: An assembly for removing entrained particles from a fluid stream passing through a gas turbine engine includes a first particle remover, a second particle remover fluidly coupled which receives a particle-laden stream from the first particle remover, and a venturi having a fluidly coupled to the second particle remover to increase the pressure differential across the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Jared Peter Buhler, Christopher Charles Glynn, Corey Bourassa, Monty Lee Shelton, Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva Correia
  • Patent number: 9810079
    Abstract: A dirt separator assembly for a gas turbine engine comprises a cyclonic accelerator in flow communication with compressor discharge air, the accelerator having a plurality of passages, each passage having an inlet, an outlet and at least one vent located in the passage, a plurality of turning vanes disposed along each of the passages, the passage turning tangentially between the inlet and the outlet, the accelerator passages decreasing from a first cross-sectional area to a second cross-sectional area and said turning vanes inducing helical swirl of compressed cooling air, and, at least one vent located in the accelerator passages for expelling dust separated from the swirling compressed cooling air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva Correia
  • Patent number: 9726024
    Abstract: An airfoil cooling circuit includes an impingement cooling circuit and a serpentine cooling circuit. An airfoil for use in a gas turbine engine having a cooling circuit which includes an impingement cooling circuit and a serpentine cooling circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jared Peter Buhler, Marshall Scott Allen, Daniel Edward Demers, Robert Francis Manning
  • Publication number: 20170128867
    Abstract: A filter system and method use a filter housing that defines an interior chamber and that includes an inlet opening extending into the interior chamber. The outer air flow housing has an outlet conduit through which a flow of air having particles is directed toward the inlet opening of the filter housing along a flow direction toward the interior chamber of the filter housing. The outer air flow housing engages the filter housing such that the filter housing is separated from the outer air flow housing along the flow direction to permit at least some of the air to pass around an exterior of the filter housing and exit the outer air flow housing while the particles in the at least some of the air pass into the interior chamber of the filter housing through the inlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: William Collins Vining, Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Corey Bourassa, Jared Peter Buhler, Hojjat Nasr
  • Publication number: 20170114720
    Abstract: A turbine engine having a bypass fluid conduit coupled to the turbine section includes at least one particle separator located within the bypass fluid conduit to separate particles from a bypass fluid stream prior to the bypass stream reaching the turbine section for cooling. A centrifugal separator for removing particles from a fluid stream includes an angular velocity increaser, a particle outlet, an angular velocity decreaser downstream of the angular velocity increaser, and a bend provided between the angular velocity increaser and the angular velocity decreaser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Timothy Deryck STONE, Gregory Michael LASKOWSKI, Robert PROCTOR, Curtis STOVER, Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva CORREIA, Jared Peter BUHLER, Robert Carl MURRAY, Corey BOURASSA, Jr., Byron Andrew PRITCHARD, Jonathan Russell RATZLAFF
  • Publication number: 20170101896
    Abstract: A centrifugal separator for removing particles from a fluid stream includes an angular velocity increaser configured to increase the angular velocity of a fluid stream, a flow splitter configured to split the fluid stream to form a concentrated-particle stream and a reduced-particle stream, and an exit conduit configured to receive the reduced-particle stream. An inducer assembly for a turbine engine includes an inducer with a flow passage having an inducer inlet and an inducer outlet in fluid communication with a turbine section of the engine, and a particle separator, which includes a particle concentrator that receives a compressed stream from a compressor section of the engine and a flow splitter. A turbine engine includes a cooling air flow circuit which supplies a fluid stream to a turbine section of the engine for cooling, a particle separator located within the cooling air flow circuit, and an inducer forming a portion of the cooling air flow circuit in fluid communication with the particle separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Robert Francis MANNING, Timothy Deryck STONE, Jared Peter BUHLER, Victor Hugo Silva CORREIA, Gregory Michael LASKOWSKI, Robert Carl MURRAY, Jonathan Russell RATZLAFF, Robert PROCTOR, John Howard STARKWEATHER, Curtis Walton STOVER
  • Publication number: 20170051674
    Abstract: An engine component for a gas turbine engine includes a film-cooled recess comprising a contoured portion defining a step. A hot surface facing hot combustion gas and a cooling surface facing a cooling fluid flow are fluidly coupled by a passage through the engine component. The passage further comprises an inlet in the cooling surface and an outlet in the step. The inlet, passage and outlet are oriented such that the cooling fluid flowing through the passage and exiting the outlet diffuses within the contoured portion prevents premature mixing out with the hot fluid flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Francis Manning, Ronald Scott Bunker, Robert Frederick Bergholz, Robert David Briggs
  • Publication number: 20170002664
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil having an internal cooling circuit. The cooling circuit includes a body cooling passage with at least one turn, and a tip cooling channel that forms a cooling barrier to thermally isolate the turn from at least a portion of the exterior surface of the airfoil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher Lloyd McKenzie, Robert Francis Manning, Bhanu Mahasamudram Reddy
  • Publication number: 20160186601
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor apparatus includes: an impeller mounted for rotation about a central longitudinal axis, the impeller including an impeller disk carrying an array of impeller blades around its periphery; a diffuser disposed downstream of the impeller, configured to diffuse and turn airflow discharged from the impeller; an extraction scoop disposed in fluid communication with the impeller and with a plenum disposed adjacent the impeller, and a dirt collector disposed in fluid communication with the plenum and configured to trap dirt therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva Correia, David Vickery Parker
  • Publication number: 20160123154
    Abstract: An engine component for a turbine engine includes a particle collector having a substrate configured to retain at least some particles from a particle-laden stream passing through a portion of the engine. A fluid bypass around the substrate of the collector enables the particle-laden stream to bypass the substrate if the substrate is filled with particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Francis MANNING, Victor Hugo Silva CORREIA, Jared Peter BUHLER, Byron Andrew PRITCHARD, JR., William Collins Vining, Corey BOURASSA, Gregory Michael LASKOWSKI, David Vickery PARKER
  • Publication number: 20160045923
    Abstract: An inertial separator for removing particles from a fluid stream includes a body defining a through passage, with at least one separator inlet and at least one separator outlet, a turn provided in the body between the at least one separator inlet and the at least one separator outlet, and a flow splitter having at least one particle outlet fluidly coupled to the outside of the through passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Victor Hugo Silva CORREIA, Robert Francis MANNING, Jared Peter BUHLER
  • Publication number: 20140348636
    Abstract: An airfoil cooling circuit includes an impingement cooling circuit and a serpentine cooling circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Jared Peter Buhler, Marshall Scott Allen, Daniel Edward Demers, Robert Francis Manning