Patents by Inventor Steven Robert Brassfield

Steven Robert Brassfield 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: 11053809
    Abstract: A component, such as for a turbine engine, can include an airfoil with an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. The component can also include at least one cooling passage within the interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, David Alan Frey, Kirk D. Gallier, Steven Robert Brassfield
  • Publication number: 20210180459
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for cooling a component for a turbine engine which generates a hot gas flow and provides a cooling fluid flow, the component comprising a body having an outer surface, at least a portion of which is exposed to the hot gas flow to define a hot surface, a cooling cavity located within the body and fluidly coupled to the cooling fluid flow and a pin located within the cooling cavity and defining a cooling hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Xi Yang, Tingfan Pang, Steven Robert Brassfield
  • Patent number: 11021969
    Abstract: An airfoil comprises one or more internal cooling circuits. The cooling circuit can further comprise a near wall cooling mesh, fluidly coupling a supply passage to a mesh plenum. The mesh plenum can be disposed adjacent to the external surface of the airfoil having a plurality of film holes extending between the mesh plenum and the external surface of the airfoil. The mesh plenum can further comprise a cross-sectional area sized to facilitate machining of the film holes without damage to the interior of the airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Matthew Lee Krumanaker, Weston Nolan Dooley, Steven Robert Brassfield
  • Patent number: 10975704
    Abstract: An apparatus and method an engine component for a turbine engine comprising an outer wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and an opposing suction side, with both sides extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction, and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction, at least one cooling passage located within the interior, at least one cooling hole having an inlet fluidly coupled to the cooling passage and an outlet located along the outer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Steven Robert Brassfield
  • Patent number: 10968750
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for cooling a component for a turbine engine which generates a hot gas flow and provides a cooling fluid flow, the component comprising a body having an outer surface, at least a portion of which is exposed to the hot gas flow to define a hot surface, a cooling cavity located within the body and fluidly coupled to the cooling fluid flow and a pin located within the cooling cavity and defining a cooling hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Xi Yang, Tingfan Pang, Steven Robert Brassfield
  • Publication number: 20210079808
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a component for a turbine engine with a heated airflow and a cooling airflow. The component includes a wall separating the heated airflow from the cooling airflow. The wall can have a heated surface confronting the heated airflow and a cooled surface confronting the cooling airflow. The component can also include a baffle with a set of cooling holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Endicott Osgood, Gregory Terrence Garay, Daniel Lee Durstock, Steven Robert Brassfield, Tingfan Pang
  • Publication number: 20210040858
    Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine can include an outer wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. A plurality of outlets and a plurality of scalloped portions can extend along the outer wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Tingfan Pang, Helen Ogbazion Gabregiorgish, Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Steven Robert Brassfield, Daniel Endecott Osgood
  • Publication number: 20210017869
    Abstract: A component, such as for a turbine engine, can include an airfoil with an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. The component can also include at least one cooling passage within the interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, David Alan Frey, Kirk D. Gallier, Steven Robert Brassfield
  • Publication number: 20210003020
    Abstract: An apparatus and method an engine component for a turbine engine comprising an outer wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and an opposing suction side, with both sides extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction, and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction, at least one cooling passage located within the interior, a set of cooling holes having an inlet fluidly coupled to the cooling passage, an outlet located on one of the pressure side or suction side, with a connecting passage fluidly coupling the inlet to the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Gregory Terrence Garay, Tingfan Pang, Helen Ogbazion Gabregiorgish, Zachary Daniel Webster, Steven Robert Brassfield
  • Patent number: 10844728
    Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine can include an outer wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. A plurality of outlets and a plurality of scalloped portions can extend proximate the trailing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Tingfan Pang, Helen Ogbazion Gabregiorgish, Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Steven Robert Brassfield, Daniel Endecott Osgood
  • Publication number: 20200347735
    Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine, comprising an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction, outlets on the exterior surface, and a cooling air supply conduit within the interior and having a supply passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Steven Robert Brassfield, Gregory Terrence Garay, Tingfan Pang, Daniel Endecott Osgood
  • Publication number: 20200332659
    Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine can include an outer wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. A plurality of outlets and a plurality of scalloped portions can extend proximate the trailing edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Tingfan Pang, Helen Ogbazion Gabregiorgish, Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Steven Robert Brassfield, Daniel Endecott Osgood
  • Patent number: 10767492
    Abstract: A component, such as for a turbine engine, can include an airfoil with an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. The component can also include at least one cooling passage within the interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Steven Robert Brassfield, Gregory Terrence Garay, Tingfan Pang, Daniel Endecott Osgood
  • Patent number: 10738621
    Abstract: A turbine airfoil apparatus includes: an airfoil including a concave pressure sidewall and a convex suction sidewall joined together at a leading edge and at a trailing edge; an endwall that projects laterally outwardly from the airfoil at one spanwise end thereof, the endwall having an outer surface facing the airfoil and an opposing inner surface; a plenum defined within the endwall between the inner and outer surfaces wherein the plenum is forked in plan view, with at least two branches, each branch terminating at a closed end, each branch having a throat disposed at its upstream end, wherein each throat has a relatively constricted flow area for increasing flow velocity; and at least one film cooling hole passing through the outer surface and communicating with the plenum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stephen Mark Molter, Mark Edward Stegmiller, Shawn Michael Pearson, Steven Robert Brassfield
  • Patent number: 10697301
    Abstract: A turbine engine can include an airfoil comprising an outer wall bounding an interior, as well as an airfoil cooling circuit located within the interior and including a feed tube separating into at least first and second branches. A flow divider can be included in the airfoil and positioned to confront the feed tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Michael Hoffman, Weston Nolan Dooley, Matthew Lee Krumanaker, Aaron Ezekiel Smith, Steven Robert Brassfield
  • Publication number: 20200190997
    Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine includes an outer wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side, the outer wall extending axially between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction, and also extending radially between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. At least one cooling conduit can be formed in the interior of the airfoil, and a tip rail can project from the tip in the span-wise direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Steven Robert Brassfield, Gregory Terrence Garay, Tingfan Pang
  • Publication number: 20200191000
    Abstract: A component, such as for a turbine engine, can include an airfoil with an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. The component can also include at least one cooling passage within the interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Tingfan Pang, Helen Ogbazion Gabregiorgish, Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Steven Robert Brassfield, Daniel Endecott Osgood
  • Publication number: 20200190987
    Abstract: A component, such as for a turbine engine, can include an airfoil with an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. The component can also include at least one cooling passage within the interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Steven Robert Brassfield, Gregory Terrence Garay, Tingfan Pang, Daniel Endecott Osgood
  • Patent number: 10648342
    Abstract: An apparatus and method an airfoil for a turbine engine, the airfoil comprising 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. The airfoil further includes at least one cooling hole including a diffusing section and fluidly coupling an exterior of the engine component to an exterior of the engine component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Aaron Ezekiel Smith, Steven Robert Brassfield
  • Publication number: 20200072059
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for cooling a component for a turbine engine which generates a hot gas flow and provides a cooling fluid flow, the component comprising a body having an outer surface, at least a portion of which is exposed to the hot gas flow to define a hot surface, a cooling cavity located within the body and fluidly coupled to the cooling fluid flow and a pin located within the cooling cavity and defining a cooling hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Xi Yang, Tingfan Pang, Steven Robert Brassfield