Patents by Inventor Sean Feeny

Sean Feeny 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).

  • Turbine seal guards
    Publication number: 20080118350
    Abstract: The application may further describe a seal guard in a turbine where the turbine include a plurality of circumferentially spaced nozzles, a plurality of circumferentially spaced turbine blades that each include a blade cover, and an opening defined by a trailing edge of the nozzles and a leading edge of the blade covers. The seal guard may include an upstream axial fin positioned at the trailing edge of the nozzles that extends in a downstream direction across at least part of the opening or a downstream axial fin positioned at a leading edge of a blade cover that extends in an upstream direction across at least part of the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Sean Feeny, Michael Montgomery, Mark Bowen, Stephen Swan, David Caruso, Wei-Min Ren, Michael Hamlin, Jeffrey Simkins