Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Joan Haushalter
  • Reduced shock transonic airfoil
    Patent number: 6682301
    Abstract: A transonic turbine blade. Expansion waves are generated by a lifting surface on the blade. The expansion waves extend downstream, through a shock generated at the trailing edge of an adjacent blade. The invention increases the strength of the shock, thereby attenuating the expansion waves passing through the shock. One stratagem for increasing the shock is to reduce the aerodynamic load of the trailing edge generating the shock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Craig Miller Kuhne