Patents Examined by James P McGlynn
  • Patent number: 10436123
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for closed loop control of a gas turbine. An example apparatus includes a frequency band splitter to separate a combustion pulsation signal into a plurality of frequency bands. The example apparatus includes a plurality of subcontrollers, each subcontroller corresponding to one of the frequency bands. Each subcontroller is to be activated at an amplitude threshold associated with the normal operating set point of the frequency band and to generate a correction value while the corresponding frequency band is operating beyond the amplitude threshold. The example apparatus includes a net correction output calculator to aggregate the correction values to generate an aggregated correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Meyer, Marco Alexander Weingaertner, Martin Erwin Gassner, Stefano Bernero
  • Patent number: 10408451
    Abstract: A heat shield element for a heat shield has a support structure. The heat shield element includes a hot side which can be exposed to hot gas, a cold side opposite the hot side, and peripheral sides connecting the hot side to the cold side. The heat shield element can be fastened to the support structure of the heat shield with the cold side facing the support structure and has a height running vertically to the cold side. The height of the heat shield element increases in a rising direction, the rising portion of the heat shield element running in the rising direction substantially up to at least one peripheral side or up to a projection that extends the hot side over the base surface of the cold side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marco Larson, Marc Tertilt
  • Patent number: 10344980
    Abstract: Provided is a combustor assembly. The combust assembly includes: a plurality of swirlers through which a first fluid that is a part of a fluid discharged from a compressor passes; a base portion, in which the plurality of swirlers are provided, comprising a first through hole formed between one swirler and another swirler from among the plurality of swirlers so that a second fluid that is another part of the fluid discharged from the compressor and different from the first fluid passes through the first through hole; and a deflector provided in the base portion so as to face the first through hole for changing a moving direction of the second fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee Ho Park, Su Hyeong Cho
  • Patent number: 10323574
    Abstract: The invention refers to a combustor arrangement of a gas turbine engine or power plant, having at least one combustion chamber, at least one mixer for admixing a dilution medium or air to the hot gas flow leaving the combustion chamber. The mixer is configured to guide combustion gases in a hot gas flow path extending downstream of the combustion chamber, wherein the mixer includes a plurality of injection pipes pointing inwards from the side walls of the mixer for admixing the dilution medium or air to cool the hot gas flow leaving combustion chamber. The mixer includes at least one dilution air plenum having at least one pressure-controlled compartment which is directly or indirectly connected to at least one injection pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Devis Tonon, Mirko Ruben Bothien, Luis Tay Wo Chong Hilares
  • Patent number: 10317078
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This turbine engine assembly includes a body, a shell and a heat shield panel. The panel is attached to the shell with a tapered cooling cavity between the shell and the panel. The panel defines a cooling aperture configured to direct air out of the cooling cavity to impinge against the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Frank J. Cunha, Stanislav Kostka, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10267159
    Abstract: A turbofan engine has a fan portion in fluid communication with a core stream and a bypass stream of air separated by splitters disposed both upstream and downstream of the fan portion. A fluid passage is defined between the splitters. The turbofan engine has a plurality of surface interruptions on a core side surface of the upstream splitter and a plurality of vortices originating from the surface interruptions, thereby restricting the migration of the core stream into the bypass stream through the fluid passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE NORTH AMERICA TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: Edward C. Rice