Patents Examined by Rene D Ford
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Patent number: 10670272Abstract: A fuel injector guide is provided for a turbine engine combustor. The fuel injector guide includes a tubular base, an annular flange, a plurality of ribs and a flow turbulator. The base extends along an axis between first and second ends. The flange extends radially out from the base at the second end. The ribs are disposed around the base and extend axially out from the flange towards the first end. The flow turbulator is disposed between an adjacent pair of the ribs.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2015Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Frank J. Cunha, Stanislav Kostka
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Patent number: 10669942Abstract: An endcover assembly for a combustor includes an endcover and a fuel nozzle rigidly connected to the endcover. The fuel nozzle includes a plurality of tubes that extends axially through a first plate, a fuel plenum and a second plate where each tube includes an inlet defined upstream of the first plate and an outlet disposed downstream from the second plate. The endcover assembly further includes an inlet flow conditioner having a forward end connected to the endcover and an aft end axially spaced from the forward end. The inlet flow conditioner circumferentially surrounds at least a portion of the fuel nozzle. A support plate is joined to the aft end of the inlet flow conditioner. Each tube of the fuel nozzle extends through a corresponding tube hole defined by the support plate. The fuel nozzle is connected to the support plate.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Lucas John Stoia, Donald Mark Bailey, Elizabeth Leigh Exley, Heath Michael Ostebee, Timothy James Purcell
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Patent number: 10670268Abstract: A liner panel for a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a multiple of heat transfer augmentors which extend from a cold side thereof. At least one of the multiple of heat transfer augmentors includes a first heat transfer augmentation feature with a second heat transfer augmentation feature stacked thereon.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Frank J. Cunha, Stanislav Kostka
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Patent number: 10655859Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section and a combustion section with a scroll, a scroll baffle, a combustor, and a combustor case. The scroll defines an interior scroll flow path. The scroll baffle surrounds the scroll to define a scroll cooling passage. The combustor case surrounds the combustor and the scroll baffle to define a collector space. Moreover, the engine includes a turbine section with a turbine rotor and a turbine rotor blade shroud that includes a shroud cooling passage. The compressor flow path is fluidly connected to the scroll for cooling the scroll. Also, the scroll cooling passage is fluidly connected to the shroud cooling passage for cooling the turbine rotor blade shroud. Furthermore, the shroud cooling passage is fluidly connected to the collector space. Flow from the collector space flows into the combustor, along the interior scroll flow path, toward the turbine rotor.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Jason Smoke, David K. Jan, Mark Matwey
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Patent number: 10634353Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a fuel nozzle for a gas turbine engine, the fuel nozzle defining a radial direction, a longitudinal direction, a circumferential direction, an upstream end, and a downstream end. The fuel nozzle includes an aft body coupled to at least one fuel injector. The aft body defines a forward wall and an aft wall each extended in the radial direction, and a plurality of sidewalls extended in the longitudinal direction. The plurality of sidewalls couples the forward wall and the aft wall. The forward wall defines at least one channel inlet orifice. At least one sidewall defines at least one channel outlet orifice. At least one micro channel cooling circuit is defined between the one or more channel inlet orifices and the one or more channel outlet orifices.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Thomas Bennett, Jared Peter Buhler, Craig Alan Gonyou
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Patent number: 10634049Abstract: A turbofan engine assembly including a compressor, an intermittent internal combustion engine having an inlet in fluid communication with an outlet of the compressor through at least one first passage of an intercooler, a turbine having an inlet in fluid communication with an outlet of the intermittent internal combustion engine, the turbine compounded with the intermittent internal combustion engine, a bypass duct surrounding the intermittent internal combustion engine, compressor and turbine, and a fan configured to propel air through the bypass duct and through an inlet of the compressor, wherein the intercooler is located in the bypass duct, the intercooler having at least one second passage in heat exchange relationship with the at least one first passage, the at least one second passage in fluid communication with the bypass duct.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Andre Julien, Jean Thomassin, Serge Dussault
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Patent number: 10634054Abstract: A ducted heat exchanger system for a gas turbine engine includes an additive manufactured heat exchanger core with a contoured external and/or internal geometry. A method of additively manufacturing a heat exchanger for a gas turbine engine includes additively manufacturing a core of a heat exchanger to set a ratio of local surface area to flow area to control a pressure drop per unit length along the core.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventor: John T Schmitz
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Patent number: 10634356Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle (31) of the present invention comprises a pre-mixing passage (34) which mixes fuel (103) and air (102) to generate an air-fuel mixture; and an injection port (33) which is located downstream of the pre-mixing passage (34) and injects the air-fuel mixture into a combustion chamber (26). The fuel injection port (33) has a slit shape and a width that is less than a dimension that is twice as large as a quenching distance.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Horikawa, Kunio Okada, Seiji Yamashita, Masahide Kazari, Takeo Oda
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Patent number: 10612780Abstract: A combustion chamber arrangement comprises an annular combustion chamber, an outer casing, an inner casing and a stage of outlet guide vanes arranged at the downstream end of the combustion chamber interconnecting the outer casing and the inner casing. The combustion chamber comprises an upstream wall structure, a radially inner cowl is removably secured to a radially inner axially extending flange by fasteners and a radially outer wall structure and a radially outer cowl are removably secured to a radially outer axially extending flange by fasteners. The flange is slidably mounted on the radially inner wall structure. The flange has at least one recess in its radially inner surface and the fasteners are arranged in the recess in the radially inner surface of the flange. The cowl abuts the radially outer surface of the flange and the radially inner wall structure abuts the radially inner surface of the flange.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLCInventor: Thomas G. Mulcaire
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Patent number: 10612465Abstract: A particle separator for a turbomachine includes a first portion including a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The turbomachine includes a first wall and a second wall defining a primary fluid passage. The first wall further defines an auxiliary fluid passage. The first end is coupled to the first wall. The second end extends from the first wall into the at least one primary fluid passage and extends in a direction defined by the fluid flow through the primary fluid passage. The second end and the first wall define a fluid diversion passage coupled in flow communication with the primary fluid passage and the auxiliary fluid passage. The fluid diversion passage is configured to divert fluid from the primary fluid passage to the auxiliary fluid passage in a direction at least partially opposed to the fluid flow through the primary fluid passage.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Satoshi Atsuchi, Erich Alois Krammer, Corey Bourassa, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Mehmet Dede
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Patent number: 10584637Abstract: A method of cooling a gas fueled engine driven intercooled air compressor comprises providing the intercooled air compressor, a gearbox, and the gas fueled engine. The method includes flowing a liquid coolant from a liquid coolant supply to each of the gearbox and an intercooler of the intercooled air compressor. The method comprises recombining the liquid coolant after the gearbox and the intercooler. The method includes directing the recombined liquid coolant via multiple paths to cool the gas fueled engine. The method comprises recombining the liquid coolant after the liquid coolant has passed through the multiple paths.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: POWERPHASE LLCInventors: Robert J. Kraft, Scott Auerbach, Peter A. Sobieski, Sergio Arias-Quintero
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Patent number: 10563585Abstract: A gas turbine engine component includes a heat exchange structure having an upstream end and a downstream end. A diffusing duct is associated with the upstream end. A throttle member controls air flow through the heat exchange structure, wherein the throttle member: (a) has a non-circular cross section; and (b) is mounted to the downstream end of the heat exchange structure or is mounted between the upstream end and the diffusing duct.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Wesley K. Lord, Nathan Snape, Gabriel L. Suciu
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Patent number: 10551064Abstract: An annular wall of a combustion chamber of a turbine engine including: a cold side and a hot side; plural dilution holes to allow circulating air of the cold side to enter the hot side for dilution of an air/fuel mixture; plural cooling orifices to allow the circulating air of the cold side to enter the hot side to form a film of cooling air along the annular wall, the cooling orifices distributed spaced axially from one another and with geometric axes inclined, in an axial direction of flow of combustion gases, by an inclination angle relative to a normal to the annular wall; plural additional cooling orifices arranged directly downstream of the dilution holes and distributed spaced axially from one another, with geometric axes arranged in a plane perpendicular to the axial direction and inclined by an angle of inclination relative to a normal to the annular wall.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINESInventors: Matthieu Francois Rullaud, Bernard Joseph Jean-Pierre Carrere, Hubert Pascal Verdier
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Patent number: 10519863Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a turbine engine case assembly, the turbine engine case assembly including a fan case including an outer frame encircling an axis, the outer frame including an outer frame exterior surface and an outer frame interior surface, at least two mounts disposed on the outer frame exterior surface, wherein the at least two mounts are circumferentially spaced along the outer frame exterior surface, and a compliant attachment device operably coupled to the at least two mounts.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: James T. Roach, Darin S. Lussier
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Patent number: 10507932Abstract: A nacelle may include a pylon and a thrust reverser having an inner fixed structure. A locking mechanism may automatically engage and prevent relative movement between thrust reverser halves. A bumper may be coupled to the inner fixed structure. The locking mechanism may limit deflections between the thrust reverser and the pylon in response to a burst duct. A locking mechanism in the inner fixed structure may include a pressure relief door and an arrestor which hooks onto a retaining bar in a pylon bracket. The locking mechanism may allow the thrust reverser halves to be opened for access to the engine.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: ROHR, INC.Inventors: Michael Sean Pretty, John Moule, Joseph C. Zecca
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Patent number: 10487739Abstract: A gas turbine engine including a compressor section, a turbine section, and a combustion section positioned between the compressor section and the turbine section is provided. The gas turbine engine also includes a cooling system having a tank and one or more fluid lines in fluid communication with the tank. The one or more fluid lines are configured to carry a flow of consumable cooling liquid provide such consumable cooling liquid to one or more components of the compressor section, the turbine section, and/or the combustion section not directly exposed to a core air flowpath defined through the gas turbine engine.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Brandon Wayne Miller, Jeffrey Anthony Hamel
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Patent number: 10488048Abstract: A float assembly according to an example of the present disclosure includes a guide extending in a first direction that has a stand-up and a shelf. A cover is oriented in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction and welded to the stand-up at a weld joint. An undersurface of the cover abuts the shelf, and the abutment begins at a first distance in the second direction from the weld joint and ends at a second distance in the second direction from the weld joint.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventor: Daniel A. Bales
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Patent number: 10473036Abstract: A compressor assembly may include a compressor case disposed about an axis. A bleed valve may be disposed about the compressor case to translate axially and/or rotationally relative to the compressor case. A first seal may be disposed in a forward seal housing of the bleed valve a first radial distance from the axis. A first sealing wall may be fixed relative to the compressor case and configured to engage the first seal. A second seal may be disposed in an aft seal housing of the bleed valve at a second radial distance from the axis. The first radial distance may be substantially equal to the second radial distance. A second sealing wall may be fixed relative to the compressor case and configured to engage the second seal.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventor: Jonathan Little
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Patent number: 10473031Abstract: Systems and methods for preventing fuel leakage in a gas turbine engine are provided. A fuel accumulation system includes a control valve section fluidly coupled to a fuel manifold passage and an accumulator valve section fluidly coupled at a first side to the control valve section. The control valve section is configured to control expansion of a fluid flowing in the fuel manifold passage. The accumulator valve section is configured to receive fluid expanded in the fuel manifold passage via the control valve section.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2013Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Allen Ellsworth, Frederick Ehrwulf Van Alen, Thomas Vander Ng
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Patent number: 10472970Abstract: A component according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a wall and at least one rib that protrudes from the wall and extends to a rib end, the rib end having a curved transition portion near a location where the at least one rib meets the wall.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2014Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Alex J. Simpson, David A. Niezelski