Patents by Inventor Stephen J. O'Dell

Stephen J. O'Dell 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).

  • Staged gas turbine combustion chamber with counter swirling arrays of radial vanes having interjacent fuel injection
    Patent number: 5319935
    Abstract: Gas turbine engine combustion chamber has staged combustion to reduce nitrous oxides and includes a first radial flow swirler and a second radial flow swirler located axially of an annular mixing zone with each swirler having vanes for rotating the incoming air in substantially opposite directions relative to each other; first and second fuel injectors are provided with a first fuel injectors located in one of the passages of each of the first and second swirlers and with the second fuel injectors located upstream of the passages of the first and second swirlers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce plc
    Inventors: Ian J. Toon, Stephen J. O'Dell, John H. Currin, Jeffrey D. Willis