Patents by Inventor Russell Bond Jones

Russell Bond Jones 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: 8950192
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a turbine section; an annular combustor disposed upstream of the turbine section and configured to discharge a hot gas flow on an outlet side to the turbine section; an outer shell delimiting the combustor and splittable at a parting plane; a plenum enclosing the outer shell; a rotor; a turbine vane carrier encompassing the rotor; a plurality of stator vanes disposed on the vane carrier, and at least two sealing segments forming a ring, each of the at least two sealing segments having an inner edge and a head and a foot section and being movably mounted on the inner edge by the foot section to the outer shell and by the head section to the turbine vane carrier so as to mechanically connect the combustor to the turbine vane carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Remigi Tschuor, Russell Bond Jones, Luis J. Rodriguez, Hartmut Haehnle, Marion Duggan (-Oneil)
  • Patent number: 8430627
    Abstract: A gas turbine exhaust strut installed in an exhaust case of a gas turbine is disclosed which includes a trailing portion configured with an inner surface for mounting to an inner annular member of the exhaust case and an outer surface for mounting to an outer annular member of the exhaust case, a block attached to the trailing portion, an angled piece attached to the block and configured with a surface on a pressure side of the strut angled with respect to a surface of the trailing portion on the pressure side of the strut, and a transition piece attached to the block and configured with a surface on the pressure side of the strut for smoothing the transition between the height of the block on the pressure side of the strut and the height of the trailing portion on the pressure side of the strut. A method of refurbishing an exhaust strut installed in an exhaust case of gas turbine while retaining at least a portion of the strut in the exhaust case is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Jose Luis Ruiz, Russell Bond Jones, Robert Kevin Read, Alexander Ortega
  • Patent number: 8413449
    Abstract: A thermal machine includes a hot gas channel; a shell bounding the hot gas channel; a cooling shirt surrounding the shell; and a cooling channel disposed between the shell and the cooling shirt and configured to convection cool the hot gas channel with a cooling medium, wherein the cooling shirt includes at least one local divergence in the guidance of the cooling medium so as to compensate for non-uniformities in at least one of a thermal load on the shell and a flow of the cooling medium in the cooling channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Hartmut Haehnle, Russell Bond Jones, Gregory Vogel, Remigi Tschuor
  • Patent number: 8272220
    Abstract: A thermal machine including a wall defining a hot gas duct for transferring a hot gas stream and a cooling jacket disposed at a distance from the wall on an outside of the hot gas duct so as to define a cooling duct with an inlet and an outlet. The cooling duct is configured to conduct a cooling medium along an external face of the wall from the inlet to an outlet in a direction counter to a flow of hot gas in the hot gas duct. An impingement cooling plate is disposed at the inlet of the cooling duct and includes cooling baffle holes configured such that cooling medium entering the cooling duct through the cooling baffle holes flows in a direction perpendicular to the wall. The impingement cooling plate is positioned such that an inflow-side edge sealingly abuts the wall of the hot gas duct so as to reduce a transverse flow of the cooling medium through the cooling duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Hartmut Haehnle, Gregory Vogel, Russell Bond Jones, Marion Duggans (-Oneil), Remigi Tschuor
  • Patent number: 7987678
    Abstract: A hot gas duct, such as a combustion casing in a gas turbine engine, includes a duct splitter held within the hot gas duct in at least three, preferably four, locations spaced around a peripheral edge of the duct splitter. At least one, preferably two, of the holding locations each comprise a generally cylindrical mounting that projects through a wall of the hot gas duct to engage an edge portion of the duct splitter by means of a slot formed in a circular face of the mounting. Mutually contacting surfaces of the slot and the duct splitter comprise hard face coatings to combat wear due to vibration and differential thermal expansion and contraction. The mountings have cooling holes that penetrate the mounting, so that coolant can flow through the mountings and into the interior of the hot gas duct to cool the mountings and the hard face coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Orestes J. Maurell, Russell Bond Jones, Marion Duggans, Sejko Kolev
  • Publication number: 20110135451
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a turbine section; an annular combustor disposed upstream of the turbine section and configured to discharge a hot gas flow on an outlet side to the turbine section; an outer shell delimiting the combustor and splittable at a parting plane; a plenum enclosing the outer shell; a rotor; a turbine vane carrier encompassing the rotor; a plurality of stator vanes disposed on the vane carrier, and at least two sealing segments forming a ring, each of the at least two sealing segments having an inner edge and a head and a foot section and being movably mounted on the inner edge by the foot section to the outer shell and by the head section to the turbine vane carrier so as to mechanically connect the combustor to the turbine vane carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Remigi TSCHUOR, Russell Bond JONES, Luis J. RODRIGUEZ, Hartmut HAEHNLE, Marion Oneil DUGGANS
  • Publication number: 20110113790
    Abstract: A thermal machine including a wall defining a hot gas duct for transferring a hot gas stream and a cooling jacket disposed at a distance from the wall on an outside of the hot gas duct so as to define a cooling duct with an inlet and an outlet. The cooling duct is configured to conduct a cooling medium along an external face of the wall from the inlet to an outlet in a direction counter to a flow of hot gas in the hot gas duct. An impingement cooling plate is disposed at the inlet of the cooling duct and includes cooling baffle holes configured such that cooling medium entering the cooling duct through the cooling baffle holes flows in a direction perpendicular to the wall. The impingement cooling plate is positioned such that an inflow-side edge sealingly abuts the wall of the hot gas duct so as to reduce a transverse flow of the cooling medium through the cooling duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Hartmut HAEHNLE, Gregory VOGEL, Russell Bond JONES, Marion DUGGANS (-ONEIL), Remigi TSCHUOR
  • Publication number: 20110113785
    Abstract: A thermal machine is provided, in particular a gas turbine, which includes an annular combustion chamber which is bounded on the outside by an outer shell and an inner shell. The outer shell and the inner shell are each split on a separating plane into an upper half and a lower half, which are mechanically interlocked by welding one to the other on the separating plane. Increased mechanical robustness and a longer life of the combustion chamber are achieved in that an additional mechanical interlock is provided on the separating planes in order to absorb tensile and shear forces acting on the separating planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Remigi TSCHUOR, Russell Bond JONES, Nilze Isabel SEDA-MAURELL, Marion Oneil DUGGANS
  • Publication number: 20110110761
    Abstract: A thermal machine includes a hot gas channel; a shell bounding the hot gas channel; a cooling shirt surrounding the shell; and a cooling channel disposed between the shell and the cooling shirt and configured to convection cool the hot gas channel with a cooling medium, wherein the cooling shirt includes at least one local divergence in the guidance of the cooling medium so as to compensate for non-uniformities in at least one of a thermal load on the shell and a flow of the cooling medium in the cooling channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Hartmut HAEHNLE, Russell Bond JONES, Gregory VOGEL, Remigi TSCHUOR
  • Publication number: 20110103947
    Abstract: A gas turbine exhaust strut installed in an exhaust case of a gas turbine is disclosed which includes a trailing portion configured with an inner surface for mounting to an inner annular member of the exhaust case and an outer surface for mounting to an outer annular member of the exhaust case, a block attached to the trailing portion, an angled piece attached to the block and configured with a surface on a pressure side of the strut angled with respect to a surface of the trailing portion on the pressure side of the strut, and a transition piece attached to the block and configured with a surface on the pressure side of the strut for smoothing the transition between the height of the block on the pressure side of the strut and the height of the trailing portion on the pressure side of the strut. A method of refurbishing an exhaust strut installed in an exhaust case of gas turbine while retaining at least a portion of the strut in the exhaust case is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Jose Luis Ruiz, Russell Bond Jones, Robert Kevin Read, Alexander Ortega
  • Publication number: 20080222874
    Abstract: A hot gas duct, such as a combustion casing in a gas turbine engine, includes a duct splitter held within the hot gas duct in at least three, preferably four, locations spaced around a peripheral edge of the duct splitter. At least one, preferably two, of the holding locations each comprise a generally cylindrical mounting that projects through a wall of the hot gas duct to engage an edge portion of the duct splitter by means of a slot formed in a circular face of the mounting. Mutually contacting surfaces of the slot and the duct splitter comprise hard face coatings to combat wear due to vibration and differential thermal expansion and contraction. The mountings have cooling holes that penetrate the mounting, so that coolant can flow through the mountings and into the interior of the hot gas duct to cool the mountings and the hard face coatings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Orestes J. Maurell, Russell Bond Jones, Marion Duggans, Sejko Kolev